Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-14
NEWS FROM NEAR By
Daily Doings of Some of Otturnwa's
Close Neighbors.
Personal, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
Everything From Joyous Births to
the Philosophical Observation OF
Sages, Are chronicIed by The cour'
ter's Special Correspondents,

| tSTA special SoFreSponOentR-
Charlton.
| Charlton, May 10-Mrs. Emma Rock
hold and daughter. Ruth, returned to
their home in Burlington Wednesday,
after visit with Mrs. w. E. Lewis.
| The people of Charlton were the
victims of clever swindle this week
1t seems that a couple of men with q
1 wagon containing some apples, which
they claimed to be Roman beauties
but which were in reality Ben Davis
sold them for As cents per peck. Dur
ing the course of the sale they would
enquire if the purchaser did not want
to purchase a nice country ham, that
their father, who raised the apples had
a few, and they were disposing of them
at 12R cents per pound. When the
purchaser got the ham and examined
it they found them to be picnic hams
or shoulders smoked and cured by Ar.
mour and company, and not country
hams at all. Those who were unfor
tunate enough to buy of these ped
dlers, when they made an investiga
ton, discovered that they had paid
cents peck more for the apples and
2k cents per pound more for the shoul
ders than they could have purchased
the same articles from their own mer'
chants, besides not getting what they
thought they were buying.
Miss Ada Lodge has departed for
Chicago, where she expects to enter
an art school and take a thorough
course.
Mr.. and Mrs. Hugh McCalley, of Rus
sell, were calling on old friends and
transacting business in Charlton on
Wednesday.
August Earlandson, an old resident
of Charlton, but now employed in Q
clothing store at Abba, was in town
this week looking after the shipment
of his household goods to Abba.
Rev. P. ]. Borg and wife, of the
Swedish Lutheran church, are in OF
tumwa this week attending meeting
of the missionary society Of that
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. F. Fike and daughter
left Wednesday for few days visit
with friends and relatives in Hopkins
Mo.
Lee Tacker, formerly of this place
but now of Abba, is spending a few
days in this city, the guest of his par.
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. J. B. Tacker.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Moore, are
rejoicing over the arrival of fine
seven-pound girl at their home.
Mrs. Margaret Aldrich, who has been
spending some time with her daughter
Mrs. Ira Noble, of Whitebreast town
| ship returned to her home in Russell
| Wednesday.
The business in the Charlton post
office has been gradually increasing
during the past three years and Post
master L. F. Maple has had his Office
raised from the third to the SECOND
class, and his salary increased 5000 {
year during the past year. All his in
cidental expenses have also been al
lowed and now comes the announce
ment from the postoffice department
that the business warrants the extra
allowance Of two clerks not heretofore
included in the government payroll
i Who the clerks will be or what theil
salary is has not yet been ascertained
but it all goes to show the growth ant
prosperity Of our little city that is rap
idly forging to the front as the bes
county seat town in southern Iowa.
i Court adjourned Wednesday, after ,
two and one-half weeks session, will
Judge Sloan on the bench. Mucl
business of Importance was transacted
and several decisions were HANDED
down that will prove of statewide in
terest. But few cases were continued
until next term, and the docket was al
most cleared of old cases. The Chas
I. Essex damage case VS.. the O., B.
@. Railway company was taken to Os
ceola, Clarke county, on change o
venue, by the company, and six di
vorce cases were disposed of.
The City Guard band will give an
other Of their open air band concert
in the public square this evening.
Charlton, May 1.-THE people o
Charlton were startled and the fir
company called out Friday evening
about $50 by the sound of the fire bell
After long, hard run of about min
blocks the company discovered that
| was false alarm and had been turn
ed in on account of the burning out o
a fiue in the north part of town.
!. Postmaster l.. F. Maple, of thi
place has received his first consign
ment Of the new Pan-American post
age stamps. He has only received tn
. one cent and two cent denomination
as yet and will only sell them on re
quest. They are handsome pieces o
artistic work and will prove valuable
souvenirs.
Mrs. s. H. Mallory is reported a
quite seriously i'll of inflammation,
rheumatism at her home north of tn
city.
The ladies of the first division of tn
. M e. church gave supper in the base
ment of the church Thursday evening
The ladies served an excellent suppe
and were more than pleased with tn
results of the evenings work, it having
proved both financial and social sue
cess. They realized about $50 for tn
. benefit of the church.
! J. S. Butcher, who has been in Shen
andoah for the past few months is il
Charlton once more for an extende,
stay.
J. e. Waugh was in Russell on Fri
day.