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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-03-20
SOUTH oTTUMwA NEWS.
,TFrom Fridays Daily.l

[From Fridays Daily.]
A. Jay Stump, of 116 North Willard
|%street, returned home yesterday from
Hot Springs, Arkansas, where he has
been for several weeks for the benefit
Tof his health, which is much improv-
led.
Word has been received from Blakes-
burg. bringing the sad news of the
death of Oren Udell, who died at 3
a. M, Thursday, at the home of his
parents, DR.. and Mrs. Udall. He was
4 student at Drake university and was
educating himself for the ministry.
Oren had many friends in South OF
tunwa who will be panied TO hear of
his death.
From Saturdays Daily.
c. c. Church is planning to build 4
new residence in the Dain addition
this spring.
John .A%lderdice, %janitor of the Irv-
ing school, has been off duty this week
on account of sickness.
Owen Hoskins and wife, of Batavia,
arrived Friday afternoon for Il. few
days visit at the home of Miss Mary
Sampson, on Chester venue
From Mondays Daily.
G. D. Putnam, of Agency, was a
guest of relatives and friends on Davis
street, Sunday.
Nj. and Mrs. j. +. Hull have return
ed home afterNa visit with relatives
and friends at Blakesburg.
Mrs. Rose Wheaton and baby, Of
Agency, returned home last evening,
after a visit at the home of Miss Grace
Findlay, 214 North Moore street.
Many shoe houses in Ottumwa do
more advertising than the South Side
shoe store; but non attempt to sell
good shoes as low. Here you contin-
ually get the of the best for the
least.
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Weekly Courier


Will please give the nanie of the Post Office to
which the paper has been sent as we'll as the
Post Office where they desire it to be
changed to.
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From Mondays Daily.

-artt9
After a terrific battle with the po-
lice last night, Con Stafford, a former
resident of Ottumwa. and a young man
who bears an exceedingly bad reputa-
ton among the police, was landed in
Jail with blood streaming from q dozen
cuts in his Uranium and mi of his
fingers nearly severed from his hand,
as q result OF lis own bulldog Ienacity.
Stafford was arrested on the charge
of drunkenness, but it subsequently
developed that there is a good cause
for believing that he and Grub Sherrod
together with a third party, who has not
yet been unprecedented, held up i. A.
Abbott, of Hillsboro, and robbed him
of a certificate of deposit for $500, i
silver watch and rs. cents in money,
Stafford was fearfully beaten, but he
rather seemed to enjoy it. He bears
the reputation of being a young des-
perado, and the police say he was not
hit a lick amiss, unless some police
man struck at him and missed him.
The third man said to be concerned
in the robbery case last evening where.
by a Hillsboro man lost a certificate oil
deposit, a watch, some small change
and Il knife, is under arrest and gives
his name as William Roy, a young
man we'll known about town. Roy,
Sherrod and Stafford will be given a
hearing tomorrow afternoon at 8
o'clock.
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Wood wanted on subscription ae-
count at the Courier Office.
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The
Last Week

OF our great clearing sale
and we propose TO make
this fhe banner week, as
we will put on the. racks
the following:
Mems hand welted 3d.
Shoes for $2.45
Women's finest So. O0Shoes
for. 1.95
Misses Finest $1.75 Shoes
for 1.20
Children's, finest $3.50. 1.
Shoes for. .95
Better buy what you want
this week as we positively put
the shoes back in stock next
week at the regular prices.
manhattan SHOE HOUSE.
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From MONDAYS daily

From Mondays daily.
Mrs. Nick Reed, of Eldon, is visiting
atgthe home of Mrs. J. w. Healy, 5Sa
West Fourth street.
William Anderson, of Fruitland, No,
returned home last evening on Burlipe.
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Isulk Garden Seeds

at Walter Gephart's, Holman block.
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MI. and Mrs. j. Z. Hull have return
ed home after a visit with relatives
and friends at Blakesburg.
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Owen Hoskins and wife, of Batavia
arrived Friday afternoon for Il. few
days visit at the home of Miss Mary
Sampson, on Chester avenue.
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Ffom Fridays Daily.
Miss Ophie Derby passed thru the
city today enroute to her home in
BlakesDurg, after making a visit with
her brother in Spencer, Neb. s
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Mondays Daily.

G. d. Putnam, of Agency, was
guest of relatives and friends on Davi,
street, Sunday.
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Miss Anna 0'Leary and Master En-
erson Mcdonald went to Chillicothe
this afternoon for a few days visit
with friends.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25
Flax and Flax Fiber.

The fiber of the flax plant has been
known from time immemorial and val.
ued for it's uses in textile manufacture
The bad rich man of the olden time was
clothed in purple and fine linen and the
most beautiful work ever wrought b.
human hands in textile fabrics has bee
done with linen fiber. The process c
extracting the fiber from the stalk ha
always been tedious and expensive
one, the fiber being united to and in
closed by gummy bark which until re.
Gently has defied every effort made to
secure its decortication rapidly and
cheaply. The process Of separation has
always been by rotting or retting, as the
term is, the placing of the pulled stalks
in pools of stagnant water, some waters
supposed to have special fitness for this
work. After a period of six weeks or
two months natural decomposition will
effect separation of the fiber from the
woody matter. Much hand work being
necessary and cheap labor being indis-
pensable, it has come that this industry
has never gained foothold in this coun.
try, but has been confined to Ireland
Belgium and some other localities where
the water was supposed to possess some
special virtue for this work, where elm
ate was mild and moist and where labor
ponlA ho oh OF he
The cost Of thus producing the fiber ha,
OF necessity made all linen products
much higher in price than those of it.
compe .itor, cotton. 1t may be here not
cd tina, linen fabric possesses qualities o;
durability, beauty and utility which
those made of cotton fiber can never at
tain to. The three states of Minnesota
and the two Dakotas produce more fax
than any other section of the earth
Until within a year the flax straw there
produced has never been utilized, but
has been burned to be rid of it. A new
process, now in successful operation,
separates quickly, mechanically a n d
chemically, the fiber in this threshed
straw and prepares it in the shape OF
pure lint for use just as raw cotton is.
1t can be so prepared and laid down at
the textile mills of the east for the low
price of one and onehalf cents pound,
as compared with cotton at eight cents.
This means revolution in textile man
ufactures in this country; it means a
new source of wealth for these flax pro
ducing states; it means cheaper linen
fabrics for all the people. This discov-
cry bids fair to do as much for the coun-
try as the discovery that cotton seed
could be made into olive oil and the
choicest of butter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25
Weeds in the Towns.

We were in a western town not Ions
since where weeds were running the
municipality. 1t was pretty COCO
town of its kind, but mayweed, jimson
wild hemp, ragweed, sweet clover, bur
dock, wild barley, dandelion, dog fennel
fox-tail and pursley growing luxuriantl,
by roadside, on vacant lot and in back
yard, obscured the view of pretty lawns
and door yards, and marked the town
and its people as lacking in public spir-
it. The town had raised the sum of 500
to blow in on 4th of July celebration
but did not have cent to devote to
moving down the weeds. Town people
go for the farmers sometimes for allow.
ing the weeds to grow by the wayside
and around the farm home and positive
ly, the worst sinners we know of in this
matter live in towns, where a good ex.
ample should be set.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25
During last May an infant child of

During last May an infant child of
our neighbor was suffering from chol-
era infantum. The doctors had given
up all hopes of recovery. | took a bot
tie of Chamberlain's Collie, Cholera
and Diarrhoea Remedy to the house,
telling them felt sure it would do
good If used according to directions.
In two days time the child had fully
recovered. The child is now vigorous
and healthy. l have recommended
this remedy frequently and have
never known ii to fail. -MRS, CURTIS
BAKER, Bookwalter, Ohio. Sold by
Wangler Bros.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25


the estate was q small cottage and TIRES
acres OF land lying on the outskirts Of 4
country village. The problem Of sup.
porting herself and little daughter con.
fronted her when the probate court got
things settled up. She could sew fairly
we'll, was a good nurse, could not take
boarders very well because her house
was too small, might get get place as
housekeeper, perhaps; but none Of these
things suited her. She decided to see
what she could do with poultry. So she
started with twenty-five pure blooded
Plymouth Rock fowls. This number
she increased to 125 laying hens. Two
acres of the lot have been fenced in and
proper houses built for the birds. She
operates an incubator and with fair sue
cess is able to market from two to three
hundred broilers each. spring. By keep
ing only pure bred fowls, she is able tc
sell number Of eggs for setting to her
nelghbors each year at an average of fif
ty cents dozen. She keeps Jerse,
COW which she hires pastured fou'
months in the year. From the COW ano.
the hens she receives $500 and finds tn.
work does not take nearly all of he
time, and she thoroughly enjoys il
The other acre is devoted to II
small garden and small fruit whic.
brings her in quite little spendinl
money. She is doing lots better thar.
that other widow you know who is put
ting in all her time trying to catch an
other man.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

In large field of sugar beets being
grown in the vicinity of western town
we recently saw twenty or more boys
and girls busy at work thinning and
wedding the crop. One very admirable
thing about this new crop is that it will
furnish employment to large contin-
gent of labor of this class-a class which
does not find it easy to secure employ
ment. All boys and girls Of this age
from ten to fourteen would be better
off every way to be partially employed
during the summer vacation and beet
culture gives the opportunity.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

The farmers Of the west are very gen.
orally showing their teeth to the proposed
trusts being organized by the owners Of
the threshing outfits. 1t matters not
that price for the work agreed upon may
be an entirely reasonable one, the senti-
ment connected with the matter will re-
suit in the use Of the horse power ma.
chimes not in the trusts, or in the buying
of new outfits by little companies Of
farmers. This trust will not work.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25
MANY man throughout the north

Many man throughout the north
west has to face the problem of re.
ducing the stock on his farm to CORE
spond to his supply of forage. While
there should always be a cqlling out
each fall, it will have to be done more
largely than usual this fall. Whatever
is done should be on the line of not at
tempting to winter more stock than can
be we'll fed and cared for. The most
profitless speculation farmer ever goes
into is the attempt to winter ten head Of
stock on food which is sufficient for only
five head.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25
phlladelph,a,s Big Alligator.

The latest arrival at the Philadel-
phia Geological Gardens is an alligator
measuring eight feet in length and
weighing over 1876 pounds. The big
saurian is a native of Santiago. Cuba.
and was consigned to the gardens by
Major Scott. an aid on the staff Of
Governor General Wood. of Cuba.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25
"Old Home Week."

August IL to IL has been selected BY
the governor of New Hampshire for
the observance of "Old Home Week."
The governor will issue a proclama-
ton within . few days invit'~- the
absent sons TO return TO their OLD
homes and make merry.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

Suppose you look up what the chances
are for your securing a telephone line
in your neighborhood, and then there is
that rural mail route which like enough
you can get established if only you and
two or three other progressive men take
hold of the matter. 1t is worth good
deal to be in daily and constant touch
with the busy world by means of tele-
phone and good daily paper.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

Sweet clover, which is spreading all
over the west, is one of the least objec-
tionable Of our weed pests. 1t confines
its work almost wholly to roadsides and
the railway rights OF way, is very fra
grant when in bloom, affords the bees
plenty of choice food, and like other clo-
vers is soil fertilizer.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

A parson always runs great moral risk
whom he gets hold of pair Of bronchoa
to break in or horse that can trot in
side Of three minutes. There are some
things which piety has no business to
encounter. When a parson gets horssy
he might just as we'll quit preaching.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

Ladies Favorite. -Morley's Little Liver
Pills TOR Bilious People are the ladies'
favorite, because they are small { isily
taken, and do their work quie y but
effectually. One dose. Sold o. ly by
agent in every town.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

A woman who was OF statistical turn
of mind kept count for one month and
found that she haf ,oked for a family
of eight 269 eggs, COZ potatoes, made 200
riz biscuits, 10 buildings, 6'cakes,' washed
1,2lS knives and forks. 1850 spoons and
1882 dishes. She was not new woman
but just one of the old-fashioned sort.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

Trees are sometimes cranky just as
men are. A friend Of ours has large
soft maple tree in his yard which invari-
ably sheds its leaves in July, and then
after brief rest puts out another crop
of leaves. 1t would be interesting to
knoy Just why this tree enjoying normal
conditions does this thing.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

The federal courts have recently held
that farmer cannot be forced into bank
ruptcy by his creditors as may a mer-
chant or men in other professions. The
courts seem to wisely recognize the fact
that farmers ability to meet his oblit
cations is more subject to climatic con-
,ditions than is the case with other line.
of business.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

The Oregon bred cayuse, which at
e2.5O head went to the canneries on
the coast and from there to France as
choice canned corn beef, is now being
shipped to the central states and sold to
good people who ieopardize their lives
and their eternal happiness by:trying to
break them in to do tho work Of decent
horses.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

Every farmer, regardless of the moral
phase Of the question, can afford to rest
and let his animals rest one day in sew
en-. From purely physical and Geo.
nomical standpoint it pays to do this
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

A friend of ours has hobby In the
matter of highway improvement. He
claims that if the natural intercourse
which compels the placing Of a culvert
across the road were tile drained the
need of the culvert would be done away
with. While this may be true, provided
the area to be drained by such water
course were very limited, the plan would
utterly fail il conditions we're otherwise.
The drain pipe and the culvert to prop.
erly do the work required Of them must
be equal to taking care OF the maximum
flow Of water in such waterway, which
no ordinary system Of undertaking
could be.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

We know Of Eve acre grove OF cotton
wood trees practically gone twenty
years after planting, and all because the
trees were planted too thickly. The
larch, white cedar, willow and poplar
will do fairly we'll when planted thickly.
but no other varieties that we know Of.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

There is no type of cooperation on
the farm from which more solid comfort
cs- be got than where three or four
farmers got together last winter and
filed an ce.house for joint use these
dog days. Try the scheme next winter.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

We have lately taken three year old
strawberry bed and treated it as follows:
we moved it off and then covered it
with three inches of rotten manure, rak-
ing the bed off smooth. We expect that
enough strong strawberry plants will
force their way through this covering to
set the bed for crop next year, while
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

Michigan is taking more kindly to the
growing OF sugar beets than any other
state east Of tho Mississippi river. A
state bounty which is given has given
the business fine start in that state.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

During dry seasons there is much
temptation to pillow up and try to cult.
vate spots of land which are quag holes
IN wet seasons. While it is all right to
subdue these spots and the right thing
to tile drain them, if they cannot be so
tile-drained they should be put into
grass as soon as possible and be so kept.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

: Every two minutes from daylight till
dark one or the other of pair Of wrens
has each day while their young were in
the nest been carrying to the little
birds caterpillar or grub. AS this food
was all collected from the adjacent Or
chard and garden, it is easy to see the
economic value of such pair of birds.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25
five head.

We are asked how best to transplant
an oak tree. The oak is one of our ma
tive trees which it is almost impossible
to transplant The acorn should be
planted and the tree produced in that
way where wanted. The very young
tree, up to two years old, may be safely
moved, provided some Of the roots are
cut off in the spring OF the second year;
but it is time wasted to go into the
woods and try to successfully transplant
a fair sized tree. Possibly by removing
tree during the winter with large
ball OF earth attached, it might be sue
cess, though we have never known of its
being done. The oak, like the black
walnut, sends its tap roots down deep
into the ground aud so is not easily
transplanted.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

Observation leads US to the opinion
that when three inches Of rain fall &C.
ours within one hour and a half as some
times happens, not more than half of it
will find its way into the ground, the
surplus running off into the natural
drainage channels Of the locality. This
explains why the effect OF heavy summer
rains are often transient.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

The failure Of any staple crop in \
country always tends toward diversity
ing the products of the farm in such a
.cosnsry. Thus crop failures are some
times blessings in disguise.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

The sheep gets in its very best work
on the farm when turned cut into the
stubble fields after the grain is harvest
ed. 1t will not only get fine living but
will clean up the weeds in great shape.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

1t will aid In the solution of the corn
fodder problem, which so many men will
DO forced to consider this year, if you
and two Of your good nsighbors will buy
a corn harvester and a stalk shredder
together, for one outfit will easily do thu
work for three average farms
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

The Argentine government has sent
fifty of its bright young men to take
courses Of study in the agricultural
schools of this country. In no country
is better work being done along the line
OF an improved agriculture, and nowhere
are there better schools for the technical
training in this profession than in
America.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25
II You Have Headaches

don't experiment with alleged cures.
Buy Krause's Headache Capsules,
which will cure any headache In half
an hour, no matter what causes II.
Price 25c. Sold by r.. A. Engbretson,
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

One of the most popular red roses for
greenhouse culture is the Meteor. 1t is
free bloomer with US and gives splen-
did satisfaction for summer culture in
the garden.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

A miserable old banana trust doles US
out dozen bananas for quarter when
il the trust did not have hand in the
matter we would get them at cent
'apiecA
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

The interest in the goat industry is
steadily growing. The value of this an
imal as clearer up Of brush lands is on
ly just beginning to be realized. Men
with brush farms should look this goat
business up. A small flock of them
will work wonders on a brush lot.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25
How One Woman Lives.

She is widow aged forty. three years.
and has daughter aged twelve. When
her husband died all there was left Of
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25

France, witch very carefully protects
all its inseotivorous birds, has placed a
ban on the sparrow and fosters its de-
structiou.
Decorah public opinion. (Decorah, Winneshiek County [Iowa]) 1895-1928, 1900-07-25
FARM, ORCHARD, X
4 4 AND GARDEN.
Edited for PUBLIC oPINIoNby
j. S. TRI00 Rockford, Iowa.
Edited for PUBLIC OPINION by
J. S. TRI0O. Rockford, Iowa.

Inc successfuI rotary steam engine
and perpetual motion are two illusions
which mankind will never quit chasing
after.