Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-07
6hort Tales Concerning People You
Know.
THE VICINITY OF OIIUMWA IN BRIEF
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
OF Your Acquaintance as chronicied
by courier's Staff of Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Speak.
Charlton.

iton was effectually demonstrated Sun
day night or rather Monday morning,
when the house owned by HI. o. Pen
lex and occupied by John R. Grace,
special pension examiner, was permit
ted to be completely destroyed by fire,
for want of adequate protection. The
fire was discovered by workmen in the
railroad yards and was evidently start
ed by defective flue as the fire was
close to the place when discovered.
They blew the whistles and the alarm
was given by the fire bell also. 1t was
just 1 a. m. when the bell began to
ring and the people were slow to re-
spond. The volunteer fire department
responded and set the engine at the
school house cistern the nearest well
with sufficient water to run the engine,
which was five blocks from the fire at
the end of Main street. The fire COM
pany had but 1900 feet of hose and
lacked 800 feet of reaching the fire
which had got beyond control of the
hook and ladder company whose eff
forts were directed to saving the sur
rounding buildings. The house and
contents We're a total loss and Mr..
Grace who was asleep in the house at
the time was not awakened until the
entire house was in flames when the
smoke woke him up, and he had bare
ly time to escape with his life. He
was successful in saving his clothes
and overcoat but everything else was
total loss.
Willard Hicklethorn of Norwood is
reported as much better and hopes are
now entertained for his recovery
which was at first very doubtful.
Young Willard is the boy who was ac-
cidentally shot by his brother while
at breakfast last week. Willard was
sitting by the breakfast table and his
borther was in the other room loading
shot gun to kill chicken. The
gun was accidentally discharged and
but for fortunate occurrence Willard
would have been killed instantly. The
door between the two rooms was
slightly ajar and the charge of shot
went through the door before reaching
him somewhat breaking the force of
the shot. AS it was young Millard's
right side was peppered with shot and
the doctors took twenty-nine shot out
of his side and stomach. For several
rays he was considered in very dan
gerous condition and fears were en-
tertained for his recovery. 1t is now
thought that he will soon be able to
be out again.
Belgian hare raising has been proven
to be more profitable business than
chicken raising by Eugene Ainsmick
citizen of our town. For sometime
he debated the question of raising
chickens but finally decided to enter
the Belgian hare business and now
he is very glad that he did. He re-
sides at the corner of Eighth and Lin.
den avenue, where the Belgian hare
farm is located. He began the bust
ness on September / with four hares
and now has a nice lot of twenyt-four
fine bred hares headed by the famous
pedigreed buck "Wapello." The hares
multiply very fast and sell from SO to
$50 per head. Mr.. Ainswick, since he
began the business has sold several
hares. Besides being a profitable In
vestment for the owner of the farm il
has proved quite an advertisement fol
the city as hares have been shipped tc
st. Joseph, Mo-, Creston and Other
points in the country.
Rev. Zeiner of Dallas preached Sun
day morning and evening at Contra
Christian church in English township
In spite of the extremely cold wealth
er and bad roads a few from Charlton
drove out to hear him and report
themselves as fully repaid by the able
and scholarly address they heard.
Chester Scoville, who has beer
spending the summer with relatives il
Benton township has returned to his
home in West Plains, Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. A. Edwards, of EN-
erson, formerly residents of Charlton
are spending few days in the cit,
visiting Mr.. Edwards mother and re
newing old acquaintance.
j. G. Redingshaper of Union town
ship, who has been so seriously i'll fol
the past few weeks, is reported a.
much better though not yet able t.
be around.
Mrs. Henry Miller. of Benton town
ship, has returned from visit to Rus
sell, where she went to participate il
the celebration of the silver weddin!
of Mr. and Mrs Coe. 1t was in tn.
nature of surprise and Mrs. Mile
reports it complete success and ;
most enjoyable time BY, the forty odc
guests present, who left many beauti
full and useful presents as tokens o
the high esteem in which this popula
old couple of Washington township ar
held by neighbors and friends.
Leslie Smythe, student at the Still
school of osteopathy, of Huntsville, Mo
has returned to his studies in that in
stitution after weeks vacation spen
with. his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. j. j
Symthe, of this place.
Rev. Henry Buell., of Chicago
preached two very scholarly and in
structive sermons at the Presbyterian
church of this place Sunday mornin
and evening. The congregation her
has been without a pastorFfor the pas
few weeks and Rev. Buell's talks wer
in the nature of trial sermons. He i
a pleasing man personally, deep SIT
dent of the bible and a plain, fuen
talker and his two sermons mad
quite good impression on the larg
audiences present who hope that tn
congregation may see fit to extend hin
call to the passionate of this churc
in the near future.
Samuel Hunter, a fireman on tn
20" road, who has been recent
transferred from Ottumwa to Charito