Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-14
4. ,. MOSS,
125-127 West Main.

returned home this morning after a
visit with her mother, Mrs. Rachel
Jay, of 1872 East Maple avenue.
The death of Mrs. Patsy Powell, of
1872 West Mill street, occurred at 8
o'clock yesterday afternoon at her
home. The deceased was IS years of
age. -
Mrs. e. F. Schnel and sons, former
ly of Stronghurst, were in the city
last evening enroute to Williamsburg,
where they will make their future
home.
! Mr., and Mrs. Sam Ekman, formerly
Iof Avery. were in the city today
visiting friends, and left over the
Rock Island for Pittsburg, Kansas,
where they will make their future
home.
James Peck, of this city, reports the
purchase yesterday of an oddity in
horse flesh, weighing 1,400 pounds
and standing fifteen hands high. This
| is an unusual weight for horse of
| this height.
| Master Willie Ingram, of Chillico-
the, Mo-, who has been in the city WIS.,
lifting at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. G.
| r. Ingram, of 119 Ponemah street, re-
turned to his home this morning on
The Milwaukee.
DR.. j. L. Sawyers says positively
there is not single case of smallpox
in Centerville and with proper pre-
cautions there will be none. He says
that Mystic has forty-one cases and
l &C., 4 }t1x To-, f<
antine. Moravia's cases are doing
we'll and that city will soon be releas-
ed from quarantine from the fact that
it took proper methods to control it
Centeryille Citizen.
F. B. Heaton, of Dudley, writes
this paper that he has not yet found
his son, Johnnie Heaton. He former
| ly lived in Keokuk and went from here
to Ottumwa The boy later went on
| the river to look for his father and the
| two have not come together for sew
eral months and the father has not
had any information from the child.
| He is anxious about him and would
Hike to learn his whereabouts. He
supposes the boy is some place along
the Mississippi river.--Keokuk Gate
City.
The Rochester Democrat Chronicle
says that 1.-THE low-priced" want ad sis
a wonderful agency for bringing peo-
pie together and showing how they
can be of mutual service to each 9TH
en-" and clinches this sentiment with
the further comment that Thousands
OF people read the want ads of live
paper with as much interest and at
tention as they give to the news OF
the day." The Democrat Chronicle
has such faith in these sentiments
that It keeps them posted steadily be.
fore the eyes Of its readers.
From Thursdays Daily.
Miss Mary Moss, of Hedrick, was
the guest OF Ottumwa friends yester
Iday.
Mr. and Mrs. j. III. Rowland of East
Main street, are the happy parents O!
ten pound boy, which arrived last
Tuesday.
Mrs. w. B. Coombs. of Blakesburg
arrived this morning for a visit will
Mrs. R. T. Cameron, corner OF ASH
and Jay streets.
MISS lila Ill5uoH, wiz ltCSHlly uu
dcrwent surgical operation at TIL,
Ottumwa hospital, returned to he
home on West Main street this after
noon.
Mrs. Victor Kendall. accompanied
by her sister, Mrs. Emma Rush. LEI
today for Munterville, where the,
We're summoned by the serious lines
of their mother.
as follows: James e. Hudson to Mis-
Mary E. Mullinix Charles Moss to Mis-
Luella M. Eakins; VIM. L. Toole t
Miss Alice Mcdonald
Mrs. f. B. Thrall and son, Brown