Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-05
Short Tales Concerning People You
Know.
sHE VICINITY OF OTTUAWA IN BRIEF
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
Of Your Acquaintance as Chronieied
BY Curriers' Staff of Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Speak.
Charlton.

Charlton. Dec. 5.-The twenty-fourth
annual banquet of the volunteer fire
department Of Charlton held in the
Armory Tuesday evening was decid-
ed success in every particular The
new departure of dispensing with the
lottery and dance after the supper met
with almost universal approval and
will do much toward adding to the
popularity of these annual affairs The
supper was as usual one of the finest
and most elaborate spreads ever set
before Charlton public. The women
who worked so hard to make it sue
cess are deserving of all the praise
that can be heaped up them. Fully
four hundred people were fed in the
quickest and most satisfactory shape
ever recorded and all were loud in
their praise of the good things afford
ed by the banquet board. In place of
the usual drawing and dance after the
supper a very interesting and we'll
rendered musical and literary program
was given. Evey person on the pro-
gram having to respond to encores
from the well pleased audience. While
all did finely the comic songs of Fred
Stafford and daughter, the sketch by
T. o. StuaIt's son and daughter, the
Ladies' Quartette, and the recitation
by Miss Dawson were especially
worthy of mention. The fire boys will
.ealize something over 500 from the
banquet and the citizens in general
are looking forward to another good
time on December 3, 1902.
About $50 Tuesday evening the
residents of Charlton noticed bright
s,1y To ho q
though a big fire was burning, Wednes
day mornig it was discovered that suci
was the case The large barn on the
place owned by M. jerome Of Charlton
and occupied by the Mumford boys IL
White Breast township burned VIII
all ita rntents One of the boys hat
been cut watering the stock when hi
noticed the fire coming from the hal
NOW Of the barn which was one o
the largest in the county. 1t was tot
far gone when discovered to attemp
to save it and they confined themselve
to rescuing the stock, all OF Whlcl
was saved The contents of the barn
however, consisting of fifty tons Q
hay, one hundred and fifty bushels Q
corn and some harness, wagons an
implements were total loss. The Ell
tire loss Will amount W heuIlS 2l,VV'
only part of which was insured. Ho1
the fire originated is a mystery.
A peculiar and what might hav
proven serious accident occurre
Wednesday morning in the publ
square when AL Russell, who wa
on horseback, ran down DT. j. 4
Brown on bicycle, and threw him I
the ground. The doctor was comm
down the west side of the square 0
his wheel and Russell was riding on
of the large French stations whe
Brown turned to the right and Russo
came across the street and run int
him. The doctor was hurled from h
wheel but fortunately was not seriou
" injured
The Charlton branch of the Equ'
Suffrage society held its weekly NEE
ing Tuesday afternoon at the home
Mary Noble. There was not a lars
number present and after the reguli
lesson had been studied the time W;
taken up in discussing plans for Il
furtherance of the work in LUG
county. The Lucas county socie
was especially active in the campais
Cor the constitutional amendment ty