Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1900-07-26
Daily Doings of Some of Ottumwas
Close Neighbors.
personal, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
Everything From Joyous Births to
the Philosophical Observation of
Sages, Are chronicied by The cour.
iers Special Correspondents.
CHARLTON

~Sou, july G4.-MlSS Belle Larl-
mer, of Creston, visited over Sunday
with Mrs. J. E. Bentley and other rel
atives and friends in Charlton.
John Noble, who is working at Rus
sell, spent Sunday with his family at
this place.
At a business meeting of the G. B..
society Of the Christian church Sunday
the following officers were elected for
the coming term: President, Fred C.
Woods; vice president, E. H. Best;
corresponding and recording secreta-
ry, Miss Laura Copeland; treasurer,
Miss Nellie Strand. The committees
for this term of six months were also
appointed and consist of good, earnest
workers. With the above set of off
GERS and the good committees appoint
ed, the society expects greater results
from their labors than at any previous
term.
There is strong talk of holding
street fair the first week in September
and the business men and citizens in
general seem to take kindly to the
idea. With the success that surround
ing towns have had with their street
fairs and the excellent advertisement
1t gives a town, there should be no
question about the desirability of such
a venture, and all that is necessary
now to make it an assured success is
for some enterprising citizen or bus
mess man to push the matter and call
meeting of the citizens to make fur
Their arrangements.
Mary Condit, formerly teacher Of
penmanship and drawing in our pub
lie schools, stopped over Sunday in
Charlton with her friends, Mr.. and
Mrs. j. L. Brown. while on her way
home to Indianola from Chicago, where
she has been studying art.
Will Shannon, of Derby, formerly
Charlton boy, spent Sunday in the
city with his brother, James D. Shan.
non.
Miss Lulu Calhoun stopped over
Sunday with her friend, Mrs. H. B.
Stewart, while on her way from her
home in Mt. Ayr to Denver, where she
will spend the summer.
The railroad mems meeting held
here Sunday under the auspices of the
Burlington Route Y. M. G. A. club,
proved very interesting and entertain
ing. The railroad men filled the pull
pit of the First Baptist church in the
morning, and at 8 o'clock p. m. they
held conservation meeting at the
M. q. church. At p. m. they gave a
street song service, and at 8 D. m they
conducted gospel train at the M. e.
church There were men in attend
ance from Burlington, Ottumwa, Cres-
ton, Pacific Junction, Galesburg and
Beardstown, and e. q. Hamilton, rail
way secretary Of the International Y.
M. G. A., led the services, all of which
were attended by large and interested
audiences. The management of the
Burlington Route is certainly to be
congratulated upon fostering and en-
couraging such noble mission among
Its employees.
Rev. Sanderson, of the Christian
church of this place, has been granted
a three weeks leave of absence, and
there will be no preaching at the
church during that time.
Miss Laura Bumper has returned
from a weeks visit with relatives and
friends at Grant City, Mo.
Ed. Culbertson, formerly clerk in
his brothers store, is now helping his
father in the State Savings bank.
Quite little excitement was created
on the northwest corner of the square
Sunday night about $50 o'clock, by a
party of young people who made them
selves quite conspicuous by their loud
talk and foul mouthed vulgarity. It
seems that couple of the young girls
OF Charlton and a strange girl from
Humeston had agreed to meet several
boys, but contrary to expectations all
the boys appeared at once in different
buggies. Then the trouble began. The
girls wanted to go with one party of
boys and the others objected. Hot
words were exchanged and fist fight
narrowly averted. The girl from
Humeston then accused one of the
boys with having her ring and demand
ed its return at once. He claimed not
to have it, which brought on more
trouble. The boys and girls both con-
tinued to call each other foul names
and INDUCED in more vulgarity than
the city ordinance allows. By this
time quite a large crowd of spectators
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