Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-18
Short Tales Concerning People You
Know.
Know.
THE VICINITY CT OTTUMWA IN BRIEF
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
OF Your Acquaintance as chronicled
by Courer's Staff of Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Speak.
Charlton.


enjoyable social events of the season |
was the reception given to the jolly
Ten club Tuesday evening by Miss Dot !
Carroll in honor of her friend, Miss
Edith Evans of Ottumwa. The even |.
ing was spent in music and games and
{. most enjoyable lap supper was serv-
ed during the course of which many
witty and entertaining toasts were pre- |
pared and responded to by various I
members of the club. Those consti- !
tIting the club are Canmie Waugh, /
Margaret Coombs, Laura Yocum, Mat |
tie Cripps, Lynn Coles, Dot Carroll, i
Lulu Welch, Ida Seward, Minnie 9o-
cum aud Ethel Dorsey, all of whom
were present but Ethel Dorsey, who is
absent on a visit in the western states.
Ed. Erb was driving w. E. Lewis
grocery wagon on Tuesday, in place OF
Thomas Smith the regular driver,who
was laying off on account of his moth
er's illness.
H. A. Everett, who has been spend
ing a few weeks in Charlton visiting
his parents and old friends, has return
ed to his home in Texas. His wife
will remain for a more extended visit
C. R. Abrahamson of Brookdale is
reported as seriously indisposed and
not able to be around town.
Mrs. S. E. ]. Sawyer, for twenty-five
years high school teacher at Creston,
spent few days the first Of the week
with relatives in Charlton.
Theodore Percifield of Charlton is
assisting William Miller of White
breast township through harvest time.
The Charlton Golf club is in most
flourishing condition just at present,
though the weather is too warm to in
dulge in the pleasures afforded in play
ing the game. The club now consists
of sixty members. They have had the
links laid out in proper style in Spring
Lake addition, by an expert golf man
from Burlington the grass has been
moved on the links, the old Rogers
farm house will soon be put in shape
for use as modern club house, and
as soon as the weather will permit
they will elect their officers and begin
play.
John Burgett and family of Pleasant
township near Olmity, have moved to
Charlton where they expect to make
their future home.
Mrs. Frank Tindel, who has been
visiting her parents in Creston for the
past week has returned to her home
in Charlton.
The petition for underground cross
ings for Charlton has been sent to o
e. Stewart of Ottumwa, who will see
that it gets into the hands of the prop
er authorities, who have power to act
in the matter. The petition, when i
left Charlton, contained something ov
er 500 names.
w. H Dewey, editor of the Charlton
Democrat is spending the week II
Texas looking after land interests.
F. M. Hooper, A. J. Smith and Jane
Edwards, three Charlton boys, starte
Tuesday for Oklahoma, where the,
go in hopes of securing some of tn
land to be given away August 6, II
the Indian reservations.
1t looks now as though Charlton
long experienced dream of a new Goa
mining town near its borders is 500
to be realized. The Inland Coal con
pany, that was organized early in tn
year, with William Haven of Ottumw
as general manager, has received tn
coal right to nearly all the valuabl
coal lands lying about two and one-ha
miles northeast of Charlton and M
Haven was in town this week. Il
had been prospecting on the land ow
ed by James Hall and reported an e
cellent vein of coal He has men be-
who will go to work at once on II
work OF sinking a shaft and If the co
is as fertile as the indications no
seem to show he says machinery W
be put in at once, a side track from tt
c.. B. & @. road at Charlton run out
the mines and the work of mining co
begun at once on large scale. TIL
section is known to the richly unde
lined with coal and the prospects no
seem almost certain for a large sha
to be in operation there by next ia
and the erection of coal town W
be begun in the spring.
RIoonnfield