Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-01-29
LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.

LOCAL NEWS ITEMS.
From Fridays Daily.
A marriage license. was issued to-
day to S. j. Glasgow and Mrs. Sarah
Moffler.
Look over the want column and see
If some one is advertising the very
article you want.
Sheriff John Doner, of Abba, was
In the city a short time today en-
route home from Fort Madison, where
he had taken G.. H. Newhouse, under
sentence of three years for stealing
$500 from a relative. Newhouse broke
Jail in Abba, last August, and was
not captured until DECEMBER 20, when
was brought back and at his trial was
sentenced to three years in the peni
Tertiary.
We are inforned that w. j.. Steck
el has about completed arrangements
whereby he VIII run telephone line
from this city to Wet Grove anG
thence across to Bunch. The line
will follow the main highway to the
Grove. We hope he will extend it tc
i Mark, Monterey, and other smal
towns in tho countu.-Davis County
Republican. @
State Pres! dent John P. Reese ant
General Secretary and Treasurer JohI
White have issued the official call fol
the convention of District No. IS
which will bs held in Ottumwa, com
mencing January 81. 1t gives be
sides the CALI the representation o
the several locals comprising the dis
trict. District Thirteen comprise.
all Of Iowa and the northern tier O.
counties in Missouri.
In the Couriers Keb correspond
ence Wednesday it was stated tia
the mines at that place were in opera
ton about half IF the time last weel
and that about Ave tons of coal pc
day were being hoisted. The item!
containing these statements SHOULD
have said that the mines run five ant
one-half days and that five hundred
tons of coal were hoisted each day
The Courier's correspondent objects
to being placed in false light con
corning the statements he makes.
The approaching marriage of Mr.
Orlo c. Harrington and Miss Christie
A. Donelson, both of Dallas Center
Iowa, has been announced. The mar
riage will be solemaized at the brides
home in Dallas Center, at high noon
February 6. Mr.. Harrington has
charge Of the Eldon Coal and Mining
company's store at Eaddsdale, and he
has been with that company for the
last five years. His parents reside in
Des Moines. Miss Donelson removed
to Dallas Center recently, from Lake
county, Illinois. They are both worthy
young people and they will enter in
to the matrimonial state with the best
wishes OF large. number of friends
and acquaintance.
From Saturdays Daily.
Miss Lizzie Johnson, of Chillicothe
was shopping in the city today.
Mrs. 3. A. Mccoy, of Frederic, il
on Miner street.
If you want some article and do no
know where to get it, put an ad il
the want column and see how man.
answers you get
j. J. Tracey and daughter, Mis-.
/. Bee, returned to their home at Wood
bine today after visit with relatives
and friends in the city.
Charles Schick, who resides o,
South Benton street is in receipt of ;
telegram notifying him of the dealt
of his brother, Valentine Schick
A marriage license was issued to
day to William Brown and Miss Saral
Ellen Hamilton. The bride-to-be il
the minor daughter of Mr.. and Mrs
r. B. Hamilton, of this city.
Louis Harrison, the infant son O
Mr.. and Mrs. B. ]. Kirkhart, died this
morning at the family home. 507 Eel
lows street. The funeral was held a
o'clock this afternoon from the res
idence, and was private. The remain.
were inferred in the Ottumwa GENE
terry.
A decree of divorce was signed to
day in the case of Christina johnson
VS. Gust A. Johnson. The plaintiff il
given custody of her children, Cora
Hattie and Phebe Johnson. TIL,
grounds upon which the divorce wa,
granted were those of ill treatment
etc.
Judge Roberts signed an order, OF
dering the release of Carrie A. Elan
ders, wife of Frank Flanders. from tn,
hospital for the insane at Mt. Pleas
ant. Mrs. Flanders insanity is of
very mild degree, it is stated. consist
ing of a belief that she is under al
hypnotic spell.
James Polling. an employe of TIN
Ottumwa Electric Sc Steam CO., me
with an accident this afternoon which
tho not serious, will keep him iron
work for some time. He was work
Ing in the company's power hous