Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-13

| 1850 'iauSuS DTOkOS uepdIteU
Thursday for months outing in Col
ofado and the western states.
MISS Carmine Waugh left Friday
| Tor few days visit with friends al
her old home in Abba.
Harold Householder has returned tc
his home in Charlton after an extend
ed visit with his friend, Mr.. Clarke, OF
Kansas
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Shultz and two
children, of Peoria, ILL.,. arrived Friday
Tor an extended visit with Miss Lille
! Woods and other Charlton friends
Mr.. Shultz is an old Charlton boy but
mas not been in Charlton for ten years
yet he has many old friends here who
VIII be glad to see him once more.
Mrs. 5. G. West and little son have
returned from a weeks visit with rel
atlves and friends in Alton and Ores.
ton.
| The Lucas county delegation to the
state convention at Cedar Rapids re.
turned home Thursday evening, and
although they We're on the wrong side
OF every candidate and went down in
defeat before tie Cummins contingent
tney 90 not seem to be in the least
discouraged. While they did not think
the Des Molnes man was the best man
lor tne republicans to nominate and
worked hard to accomplish his defeat
III the convention, they are not made
out OF the kind of stuff that sulks or
Dolts when things don't go their way in
the party councils, but all feel that
they can well afford to give UP person
al opinions and preferences when the
principles of the great party they rep
resented are at stake. Hence they are
now all actively at work to helm roll
up the largest republican majority ev-
er given any republican candidate for
governor in Lucas county. They all
report most enthusiastic convention
and are loud in their praise of the ex-
cement manner in which the people of
Cedar Rapids entertained them.
Haster George Curtis. the youngest
son of Mr.. and Mrs. ]. H. Curtis, is re
ported dangerously ill of stomach trorl-
bic.
Mrs. Hettie Rosenberg Sanders has
returned to her home in Davenport
after an extended visit with her par
ents. Mr.. and Mrs. E. NJ. Rosenberg,
of this place.
A. X. Becker has accepted position
IN G. P. Connell's barber shop and be-
gan his work Friday.
Mrs M. NJ. Hatcher has returned
from weeks visit in Colorado and
the western states.
The farmers of Lucas county are
happy over the prospects for crops in
this county. Another good rain fell
here Friday amounting to about one
inch OF water Potatoes planted a
week ago are peeping out of the
ground, meadows and pastures are
looking green and fresh, garden truck
Is growing and there is plenty of water
in the wells.
FRITZ Gookn, of Happy Corners
Washington township. was visiting old
friends in Charlton on Friday
Mabel Dain. an old resident of Char
iton, but who for the past few years
has been located at Dennison, Texas.
is spending few days in the city Wis
iting old friends and renewing ac-
quaintances of her school days.
The members of the Swedish Luth-
erai Sunday school and the members
of the summer school together with
teachers and officers went out 10
South Park Thursday morning fully
equipped with swings, hammocks and
all necessary articles to fully enjoy
day in the woods. They took along
well iilled baskets and spread their
dinner on the grass in picnic style.
When they had just got thorugh with
dinner and were preparing to enjoy
the afternoon in out door sports the
ram came up and drove them home.
Ihey all report very pleasant time
despite the rain.
The first of the public entertain
ments given for the profit and lnstruc.
ton of the students of the Lucas coun-
ty normal was given Thursday even
ing in the new high school building by
Miss Carrie V. Lymon, of Orient, who
is teaching in the institute. Miss I.y-
mon is an elocutionist of more than
local reputation and has favored that
people of Charlton with entertain.
ments on previous occasions, always
giving the best of satisfaction. which
accounted for the large audience pres
ent to hear her Thursday evening. She
rendered several selections early in
the evening but the main entertainment
consisted OF rendition of ]. G. Hol.
lands book The Seven Oaks" and
1t was given in an excellent manner.
1t showed Miss Lymon to be a versa
tile and accomplished reader and was
received with applause by the teach
ers and their friends August 16
State Superintendent R. C. Barrett
will deliver one of his popular lectures
on some educational topic for the stu.
dents of the Normal.
The many friends of Roy Gittmeyer,
a former Charlton boy, and graduate
of its public schools. will be pleased
to learn of his good fortune and rapid
advancement in his chosen profession.
that of teaching. He is now located
in Oklahoma and has been employed
as one of the minor teachers in the
state university at Oklahoma.
Bloomfield.
Bloomfield Aug 10.-Alex Cramer
has returned from Ida Grove where he
has been employed all summer. He
is spending few weeks with his fam
lily.
DR.. and Mrs. Duffield of Phoenix,
returned Thursday from Col
orado Springs where they visited Mrs
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