Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-02-28

gerously i'll for the past three weeks
Oh typhoid pneumonia and whose life
has several times been despaired of,
IS reported much better and hopes are
now entertained for his final recovery
tho he is not yet out Of danger.
J. 2. Aiken of Liberty township has
left his farm and moved to Charlton to
reside in the future. He is now To-
Gated with. his family in the east part
of town. Pat has lived in Charlton
\ before and has a great many friends
who are glad to see him back in Char
| iton.
Miss Lille Douglass, teacher in the
| Russell public schools, who has been
Ill at the home of her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. l.. Douglass, Of this city, tor
the past week, has so far recovered as
to be able to be around.
| The city of Charlton came near hay
Ing butter famine the last of last
week and the first of this. For some
reason the farmers who have been
supplying the city with butter failed
to bring in their usual amount on ac-
count of their cows not doing vel
this time of the year and as a conse-
| country butter to be had in town at
ter o'clock Saturday night. A Few
| of the merchants, however, anticlpat-
ing the scarcity of country butter had
ordered some creamery butter and
Monday there were nearly 1,O00pounds
of that kind in town but it was so ex-
pensive that many people could not
buy it and as a result there are many
families in Charlton that are going
without butter of any kind this week
Eggs too have been scarce for the
past week tho there have been almost
enough to supply the regular demand,
still many merchants have been with
out them. At one time there were but
80 dozen eggs to be had at any of the
stores.
The LIST of March is almost here and
moving has already begun. Every
day sees from one to five or six teams
hauling large loads of household
goods and farming implements thru
the square. The roads that have been
rough and bad for the last week are
somewhat better now and moving is
comparatively easy. There is more
moving this year than for many years
previous, mostly among the farmers.
There has been an unusually large
number of farms changed hands this
spring and many new citizens have
moved to the county.
Mrs. T. C. Walker was business
visitor to her old home in Creston on
| Tuesday.
Mrs Jessie M. Thayer, Mrs. W. S.
| Milliken, and Mrs. Alice Howard Kirk,
all of this city, are among the success,
full contestants in the recent education-
al contest of the Chicago Times Her
aid in their Who, When and What
book All the ladies were successful
| in guessing all the names in the book
and have sent in their books with the
pictures pasted in to compete for the
prizes offered in which neatness and
general arrangement are the main
points of merit 1t is to be hoped by
their many Charlton friends that they
will all be successful in securing
| some of the prizes.
Hon. Calvin Manning of OttumWa
was a business visitor in Charlton Oh
Tuesday.
4 Monday night was pay day for Co
Ell" /. N. g., stationed at this place
The quarters drill money was due and
| the boys were made happy by thei,
4 pay being distributed. There was al
most an entire company present and
| the officers took occasion to give the
/ boys2a little talking to about attending
| drill and a better attendance was
promised until after inspection at
least.