Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-12-17

mon from the pulpit of the S. d. A.
church Tuesday night. The attend
ance was good.
Dr. E. l.. Bay OF this place and G. A.
Norwood, who reside in the neighbor-
hood across the river, have been at
CenteTville the past few days in attend
ance at a law suit which the doctor is
bringing against the officials of Mon
roe county for services rendered the
coal miners at Coalfield during the first
siege of smallpox year ago last Win
ter, the officials having refused to pay
him the amount stipulated. The doc
tor maintains that he was to receive
$25 per day for his services. He eX-
poets to be absent several days.
About twenty Of the friends of MI.
and Mrs. Fred Heard came in on the
young couple in their new home on
First street Monday night and gave
them a surprise which proved very
successful After they had recovered
from the shock attendant upon the sur
prise, refreshments consisting OF
peaches, cake and oysters were serv-
ed, and an enjoyable time was the out
come.
| John Denning, young man resid-
1854
attending high school here, had a
short runaway Wednesday evening"
He was driving down the school house
hill when his team took fright at an
other vehicle, which was endeavorine
: to pass him, and ran away, collidins
with a telephone pole, breaking the
tongue and neckyoke of his buggy, and
also damaging the harness. he es
: capped uninjured.
: John E. Davis, of Oskaloosa, was {
Tuesday visitor with his brother, H
S. Davis, and wife, on First street.
: Charles Bradshaw, now of hansa!
/ City, spent Sunday in town. MI
Bradshaw was one of the foremen wht
superintendent the construction OF tn
new Iowa Central bridge here, and al
; terward ran a pumping engine at tn
new C. & N. w. bridge couple o
miles up the river.
, Will Homer has returned after few
weeks visit with friends in Pella.
}, Miss Gertrude Oldham, daughter Q
| Mr.. and Mrs. Frank Oldham, is u
4 again after couple of days illness.
Y Oscar Hazelroot, manager OF tn
e Western Supply company's store a
e Pekay, has been under the Weathe
g for few days.
d Things sold reasonably well at tn
S w. E. Barnes sale west of town Wee
o lnesday Mr. Barnes will move froI
e the Eli DeTar farm at the expiratio
n of his lease, but has not secured II
$. cation as yet.
n Rev. Clark Bateman, pastor of til
Christian church here, but who reside
N in Des Moines, delivered a sermo
s from the Christian church Sunday
h Nh and Mrs. Theodore OFT are tt
,r proud parents of young son, BOZ
n Wednesday.
= Uncle" Joe Williams is quite poo
s ly with heart trouble.
v. DR.. F. NJ. McCrea reports sever
e cases of scarlet fever and smallpox
" Pekay, a mining town four miles mort
at of this place.
20 The remains OF Aunt" Susan Wal
ID er, the widow woman, who died he
I'd recently. were inferred in Highlar
,e cemetery Sunday.
of The telephone line running to Du
n ley is now in working order with eng
81 or ten farmers on the line.
n. The carpenters were putting the
OF namental work on the steeple of tt
new M. E. church building Thursd;
of afternoon.
~ Mrs. Maggie Watkins, of Fir
~ street street, expects to depart abo
- THE first of the year to take cour
~ in nursing in the sanitarium at b;
10 tie Creek. Michigan. She will be
or companied by Miss Laura Beamer.