Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-12
Short Tales Concerning People You
Know.
THE VICINITY OF OTTUMWa In BRIEF
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
OF Your Acquaintanoes as chronioled
~ courier's Staff of Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Speak.
Charlton.

Charlton, NOV. S!--Ihe. highest price,
ever paid for land in Lucas county
was received by Alb. Curtis, on Thurs
day, when he sold his forty acre farm
in Benton township to man from Ta-
ma county for $4,000, being S125 per
acre. The purchaser intends TO move
to Lucas county and make it his flu
ture home. The farm was one of the
best in Lucas county, being but recent
ly set out n young orchards and made
fruits containing many modern i'm
provements Mr. Curtis has formerly
refused $110 per acre for it but when
he was offered s125 he decided to let
it go.
The football game between the reg
ular Charlton team and a team picked
from the members of Company II, Fiji
tieth regiment, |. n. g., stationed at
this place, which was played Thursday
afternoon at Spring Lake addition,
was very one sided affair.The final
half resulting in a victory for the reg
ular team by score of 26 to 0. The
first half of the game was very inter
esting and closely contested, neither
side scoring but in the last half the
company team seemed to go all to
pieces or the Charlton team braced up
and went through the line at will. The
company team expects to play militia
ry teams and make better showing.
E. P. Badger has taken his store,
provisions, traps, ETC., 70 the river bot
tom with him and is costly installed
in a log hut or cabin on Charlton river
near the New York bridge where he
win spend the winter in his annual
pursuit of any kind of wild animal
that wears fur.
j. D. Reeves, an old Charlton boy,
but now located at. Des Moine1 is
spending few days with his mother
and renewing old acquaintance in
our city.
Lyman Whitcomb, formerly a resi-
dent of Charlton, but now of Russell
was in town on Wednesday.
J. d. Davis, who has been running
the city electric light plant until re,
Gently, has departed for Oakley.
The banquet and ball given by the
members of the X. P. lodge assisted
by the Rathbone sisters on Wednes
day evening was most decided sue
cess in every particular. Over 40C
people were fed at the banquet and
nearly SIS was cleared besides having
a most enjoyable and social time.
John Holmes, of Lincoln township
has returned from Chicago where he
has been to receive medical attend
ance and his many friends will be GLAD
to note that he is much improved anC
feeling better in every way.
T. d. Gore, formerly of this place
but now engaged in business in Chica
go. is spending few days in Chart
ton transacting business and renew
ing old acquaintance.
The one year old on Of Mr.. and Mrs
Frank Funk, of this place, died at the
home on Thursday after but a days
illness of diphtheria. Some weeks
ago three of the children were confin
co to the house with this disease bu
all had apparently recovered and the
house had been fumigated but or
Thursday morning the little boy was
taken sick and died within ten hours
Mrs. Fred Yengel has been slight
ly indisposed this week and unable
to leave the house.
Mrs. Sarah Gill died at the home O
Mrs. Whitlock in Des Moines on Mon
day. She was the sister of Mrs. S. s
Arnold of this place and the remain.
We're brought to Charlton and buried
from the house of Mrs. Arnold OF
Wednesday. The funeral was c1h
Quoted by Rev. Written of the Ell is
copal church Mrs. Gill visited il
Charlton all last summer and made
many friends who will mourn he
death
The school board of the independ
ent district of Charlton held their reg
ular meeting on Wednesday evening
Nothing of interest was done and tn
evening was spent in routine bushes
large number OF bills being allowed
There was some talk of the crowded
condition of the schools but nothing
was done in regard to securing NOR
room.
The funeral services of Mrs. Ma
Torreson, who died Tuesday at tn
home of Mr.. and Mrs. David Murphy
her parents, were conducted from tn
family residence on Thursday. Mrs
Torreson has been making her HON
with her parents who recently move
froli Ottumwa.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. J. A. Bonr
Nov. 6, son.
charlton, Nov. Corn gathering i
in full blast in Lucas county just nov
and the farmers are having all tn
work they can ask for. The crop
much larger than was at first expected