Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-21
Short Tales Concerning People You
Know.
THE VICINITY OF OTTUNlWA IN DRlEF
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
OF Your Acquaintance as Chronicled
by Courier's Staff of Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Speak.
Charlton.


Whitebreast and Benton townships
are preparing for the new rural deliv-
cry route which will run through that
part of the county, and which is prom
ised to be in operation by January /,
1902, by the erection of mail boxes at
convenient points along the route.
There has been none put UP on route
No. 8, running south and east, though
ing contracts for the boxes.
Lucas county will have two new rur-
al routes by Jan. /. Route No. runs
south and west. Starting on the
Freedom road it runs to Freedom,
thence west three miles, north two
miles, west one and half miles, north
miles, coming back to town on the
old Norman Trace road. W. E. Badg.
er has been appointed carrier and
26A miles long.
Route No. 8, which is "a miles long
and serves a population of $50 will be
looked after by w. G. Fuller and will
run south on the New York road to
one-half mile inside Wayne county,
thence west one-half mile to the air.
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tons are being circulated for two more
routes, one running east and another
running northwest which, if secured,
will make Lucas county one of the best
supplied rural delivery counties in the
state. Postmaster Maple, who has
been consulted in the matter of laying
out routes, has shown good judgment
in their arrangement by not interior.
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through inland postoffices, hence there
has been no friction in securing the
routes.
Herman Kumm, an employee of the
Burlington road at this place met with
very serious accident on Friday. He
is employed in the coal house, but on
Friday was assisting in unloading a
car of ice when large cake of ice
weighing $50 pounds became loose and
slipped from the hold of the men
above. sliding down the chute and
catching Herman's leg in it's fall. The
lay him up for few weeks. DR.. T. P.
Stanton, the company physician, was
called and reduced the fracture and
/ he is doing nicely.
The farmers and landowners
3dfOuuQ SudIllOu nave again DGSdu
publishing notices warning hunters off
their ground. Last year during the
hunting season there was SO much
stock killed and fences cut by careless
hunters that a similar action was taxi.
en- and signs put up on most of the
farms forbidding trespassing. This
year, however, as the hunting season
opened up the hunters forgot their
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ed the signs and as consequence
more stock was killed and more fences
cut, and the farmers again caused to
be published the warning notices
though it was not so general as last
year. They threaten with prosecution
all people found on their lands with
guns and the hunters must ask per
mission before hunting which insures
none but careful and considerable men
to hunt and is supposed to greatly les
sen the accidental killing of stock and
the wanton destruction of fences SC
prevalent with certain class of so
called sportsmen.
Mrs. e. e. Timmons is reported as
quite seriously i'll of stomach trouble
at her home in the north part of town
A. G.. Johnson, formerly of this
place, but now in business in Derby
was renewing old acquaintance and
transacting business in Charlton on
Saturday.
Rev. B. F Miller of the Methodist
Episcopal church, has returned from
Oakley, where he had been assisting
Rev Guthrie in a series of revival
meetings and occupied lis pulpit as
usual on Sunday morning and even
ing.
J. H. Sanders of Lucas stopped over
between trains here Saturday and Wis
tied old friends while enroute home
from Abba, where he had been work.
ing on the road.
F. r. Crocker of the First National
bank has returned from business trip
to Chicago.
Eva Foster spent last week at the
home of John r. Johnson in Lincoln
township.
Manuel Foster Of English township
has returned from Creston where he
went to have the concluding operation
for the removal of a cataract from his
eye performed. The doctor there sail