Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-11-28
Short Tales Concerning People You
Know.
THE VICINITY OF OTIUMWa IN BRIEF
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
\ OF Your Acquaintance as Chronicled
by courier's Staff of Correspondents
+ Who Know Whereof They Speak.
Charlton.

Charlton, Nov. 26.-J. G. Seward is
confined to his bed with paralytic
stroke, which he sustained Sunday
morning and which has deprived him
of the use of his entire left side. Mr.
Seward was twice elected county
clerk of Lucas county and is now a
prominent candidate for the Office of
chief clerk of the house of the next
Us usual Sunday morning and started
the fires, afterwards lying down on the
sofa for little rest. The children
called him when breakfast was ready
and he answered them but went back
TO sleep When they called him the
second time he threw his right leg off
the sofa. but when he attempted to
get up he found his left side helpless.
A physician was at once summoned,
but at present he is not much better.
Attorney G. c.. McIntire, the Ottum-
wa attorney, who was stricken with
paralysis at the home of his sister-in-
law, Miss Julia Chickering, some
weeks ago, still lies in a very serious
condition, with no perceptible i'm
provement and his recovery becomes
daily more doubtful.
The Gartin school in Benton town
ship taught by Miss Minnie Myers has
+ resumed it's regular sessions again
after short vacation caused by a
smallpox scare last week. One of the
Ryan children attending the school
came to school one day and became
very i'll with breaking-out resemb-
ling smallpox. He was sent home
when it was discovered that three
more of the same family were afflicted
with similar disease. 1t was thought
best to close the school until an inves
tigation could be made. Physicians
who were called to attend sthe Ryan
danger to the school as the disease
was only a light form of chicken-poz
and the regular sessions We're accord
ingly resumed, though some of the
pupils did not come back.
Word has been received from Abba
that Mr.. and Mrs. Lee Tacker. forme,
residents of Charlton, are the prouG
parents of fine ten-pound boy.
Mrs. r. T. finder, formerly resi-
dent Of this place but now located al
Iconium, has returned to her home af
ter a few. days visit with old friends
and relatives in Charlton.
Miss Lille Douglass. teacher in the
Russell public schools, was an over
Sunday visitor with her parents, MI
and Mrs. l.. Douglass of this place.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Shore have mov
ed onto the old abel Savage farm i,
English township This is the farm
of Mrs. Shores birth and childhood.
Mrs. M. X. Stewart has returned
from a weeks visit with relatives ant
friends in Osceola
2. G. Carter, formerly a resident o
this place, but now on the road for ;
Cedar Rapids furniture house, spen
Sunday in Charlton with his mother
and visited his many old friends.
Lester iTinIand of Humeston spep
Sunday with his sister, Mrs. G.. A. Alb
raham, of this place.
Laura Tickle has returned to he
work in Charlton after a weeks vlsi
with her mother at her home in La
coma.
The board of directors of the indie
pendent school district of Charlton lla
Just completed some necessary. re
pairs in the new high school building
including some new steam radiators
which makes the building one of th'
best heated. school houses in the state
Little Evan Aumick, youngest son o
MIR. and Mrs. Eugene Aumck OF THU
place is reported as being seriously il
at his home in the east part of town.
Mrs. G. t. Brant is enjoying Yer.
pleasant visit from her sister, Mrs
Mary Lo2ep
Mrs. J. n, Milliner has returned from
a weeks trip with her husband on tn
road, in southern Iowa and northern
+ Missouri.
Miss Rena Criswell, who recently re
signed her position as saleslady in Ed
Stories store, began teaching the win
I ter term of school at Cedar Grove
school No. 5, in Cedar township.
Mrs, Stout Custer and daughter, Al
ice, have returned from weeks WISH
with relatives and friends in Washing
ton.
Harvey Savale spent Monday on the
farm with his sister, Mrs. Bert Shore
in English township.
Leslie. Saddler has returned to his
home in Humeston. after an over Sun
day visit with relatives and friends il
Charlton.
Charlton. Nov. 27-One man is lait
UP with broken leg, another with {
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