Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-03-28
Daily Doings of Some of Ottumwa's
Close Neighbors.
Personal, SOCIAL AND POLITICAL
Everything From Joyous Births to
the Philosophical Observation of
Sages, Are chronicled by The cour.
ler's Special Correspondents.
Charlton.

SndFltOn.
Charlton, March 26.-Fred Barthol.
omew, who has been employed Tor the
past few years in Minneapolis, is
spending few days in the city visit.
ing his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. o. A
Bartholomew.
w. d. Simpson and family have NOV.
ed from their rooms on the square to
a house in the east part of town, where
they will reside in the future.
James Boylan, who has been SO dan
gerously i'll for the past few days. OF
heart trouble, and whose life was sew
eral times despaired of, has so far re-
covered as to be able to be around
once more.
j. M Loving, of Creston, spent Sun
day with his daughter. Mrs E. e.
Lewis, at Eighth and Linden avenue
Mrs. IA. HI. Larimer returned Sunday
from Monett, Mo-. where she had been
attending the funeral OF her mother,
Mrs. ]. d. Carter, formerly of this
place.
Monday was city election day for
Charlton. The day was a damp,
cloudy one, but this did not interfere
with the voting, which was the heavi-
est ever recorded in city election
and almost equal to any ever polled at
a general election. The principal fight
was for mayor, in which L. Manning. a
justice OF the peace was opposing G.
w. Alexander the present incumbent
The vote stood - Alexander 495,
Manning 264. There was no opposi-
lions to the other city officers save al
derman in the First and Second wards.
In the First ward S. Bailey, the pres
ent alderman, was running, as opposed
to the present administration, and re-
ceived SO votes. c.. F. Gartin, eX-sher-
if of the county, was running on the
administration ticket and received 1888
Votes, while B. F. Bates. whose name
Wds on the ticket as an independent
candidate had withdrawn, but not in
the time prescribed by law and his
name had to remain on the ticket tho
he and his friends did all they could to
circulate the fact of his withdrawal.
He received II votes In the second
ward Thos. Gay was opposed to j. H.
Staunton, the present alderman. The
light was very hard in this ward and
brought out the heaviest vote ever re-
corded. 1t resulted-Gay so. Stanton
l99. This makes the city administra-
ton: Mayor, G. w. Alexander: as
SCISSOR. S. B. Swift; treasurer, Jos.
Braden; solicitor, T. M. Stuart; alder
men, First ward. C. E. Fluke and C. F.
Gartin; Second ward, j. C. Copeland
and j. III. Stanton; Third ward, A. ].
Newman and G. H. Palmer.
Mrs. Grace Sullivan. who has been
visiting friends and relatives in Chart.
ton for the past few days, went to ON.
aha Sunday to join her husband, who
is working for Swift and company. of
that place.
Mrs. Ed. Reeves. of Oakley, who has
been so seriously i'll for the past few
weeks is reported as much better and
able to be around the house, tho not
yet able to be out of doors.
Ed. Miller. of Oklahoma. has arrived
in Lucas county and will make his
hone with his brother, Harry, near
Belinda, in Pleasant township, and
will help them farm this season
j. j. Smyth, one of our business
men, is out SIS as the result of an
experience Saturday evening. A
young man came into the store and
made few purchases and rendered a
$40 bill in payment He did not have
the change in the store and went out
to get the bill changed. He returned
the change to the man and he went
away. When the bill got to the bank
1T was discovered to be a cleverly ex-
ecuted piece of work by which a So
bill has been raised to a $40 bill. The
name of the young man was Fry and
he lived in Cleveland No. 4. The
young man claims to be the victim of
an accident, claiming he had received
the bill in good faith as a $40 bill and
passed it in the same good faith He
claims he knows where he got the
bill and will tell his name in due sea-
son and at the right time
B. B. Conner, engineer on the Char.
iton and ST. Joseph branch, has re-
turned from a few days visit with
friends in Ottumwa
Frank and Will Torey have return
1 ed to their home in Ottumwa after a
Sfew days visit with Charlton friends.
John Bennett and Simon Open
heSmer, of this county, departed Mon
dayfor Creston where they will serve
on the jury in the session of the fed
eral court that met there Monday.
There was very interesting and
instructive educational convention
held at the M. E. church on Monday
afternoon and evening. Owing to the
extremely bad weather there was not
a very good crowd present, but those