Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-08-20

Mission Sunday afternoon. Rev.Borg
is good talker and always has some
thing interesting and profitable to tell
the people in his sermon. Several
young people from Charlton heard him
Sunday.
The last of the members of Jewell
company No. 10, of the Uniform Rank,
knights of Pythias, who went from
Charlton to the state encampment, re-
turned Saturday morning and report
most excellent time. They remain
ed for the competitive\drills and were
we'll pleased with the showing of the
regiment. Owing to the absence of
one of their commissioned officers, the
Charlton company could not enter the
drills and many of the boys came home
before the competition 1t was learn
ed, however, that they could have en-
tered and as the Charlton company
was counted the best by all who saw
them, they certainly would have cap
tured first prize had they remained and
entered the drill. AS it was they were
successful in capturing fourth prize,
part of the Charlton company and a
part of the Ottumwa company going
together and entering the prize drills
under the name of the Ottumwa COM
pany. Considering that Charlton COM
pany had been organized but a little
over a week and the two companies
had not drilled together until reaching
the encampment it speaks well for
both companies and could the two
companies have entered respectively
the prizes would no doubt have been
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Clarence Blake of the First Nation
al bank force, has returned from bus
mess trip to Ottumwa and was at his
post of duty again on Saturday
Miss Smith Foster of Ropeartee, ILL.,,
is spending few days visiting her
brother, Matt Foster of English town
ship and other Lucas county friends
and relatives.
Mrs. Will Badger of Burlington is in
the city in attendance at the bedside
of her brother, George Barlow, who is
not expected to live.
Mr. and Mrs. J. H. Darrah departed
Saturday night for st. Louis where Mr..
Darrah will transact business and Mrs.
Darrah will visit relatives and friends.
The farmers of this county have dis
covered another cause of happiness.
The early corn, which was tasseled
out before the drouth, was supposed to
have been completely ruined. What
few ears were found in it were only
filled with perhaps twenty-five or thir-
ty grains to the ear and the farmers
were counting on using it for fodder
only. Since the last rains, however,
many farmers report the early corn
to be coming out in fine shape and
where the grains We're few and scat
tering on an ear they now report new
grains forming in the vacant places
and filling up the ear. To just what
extent the new growth will disclose
is not known but reports of this char
acter have come in from all parts of
the county and many farmers now
claim the early corn will turn out al
most an average yield if it only gets
time for the new grains to mature.
Mrs. w. K. Larimer of this place is
enjoying very pleasant visit from
her sister, Mrs. Rhone of Kansas City.
Hardin EXley, formerly resident of
Lucas county, but who for the past
few years has been living in Clarke
county, has decided to return to Lll-
cas- county to make his future home
and is now located on his farm in I'm.
ion township. Hardin is as active as
ever in politics and addressed the
democratic convention here Saturday.
N. G. Penick, Jr., a partner in the
banking firm of Manning & Penick of
this place. and his son. James A. Pen
ick, left Sunday for Keosaukua to at
tend the funeral of Edwin Manning,
senior member of the firm, who died
recently at the ADVANCED age of nine
ty-one years
Frank Tindell, express messenger
on the north branch, has resumed his
duties after a weeks lay off which he
spent with his wife at Cedar Rapids
attending the encampment of Z. R..
K. of P. lodge.