Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-02-21

for few days stay.
Charles Ray Parker. of near Lib
ertyville, spent few days last week
with friends near here.
Mrs. Harry Breckenridge has been
seriously Ill for the past week.
Bloomfield.
Bloomfield, Feb. 21,-The home of
Mr.. and Mrs. H. c. Leach presented
a good old fashioned scene on Monday
evening when the P. E. o. Sisterhood
gave colonial tea, the ladies being
attired in colonial costumes. Three
prizes were distributed, Mrs. w. j. Steck-
lie, receiving the prize for the prettiest
costume and Mrs. D. H. Payne was
awarded second prize.
X. T. Hotchkiss spent Wednesday
in Milton attending the Craven stock
sale
James Smith spent Wednesday in
Pulaski on business.
Rev. j. W. Potter left Tuesday for
Belknap, where he is assisting Rev.
Barber in conducting protracted
meeting.
c. G. Hotchkiss was able to appear
on the street on Wednesday, having
sustained an accident last week which
might have proved fatal, as he fell
down the elevator shaft in the Hotch-
kiss grainery, distance of fifteen
feet. No bones were broken, how
ever, and aside from a few severe
bruises Mr.. Hotchkiss escaped unin.
jured.
Mrs. Jennie Wilder has returned
from Sterling, KAN, where she has
spent the past four months visiting
old friends with whom she became ac-
quainted during the fourteen years
which she spent in that city prior to
her removal to this place.
Sneak" Montgomery, occasionally
called Sam, who was tried a short
time ago in Burlington on the charge
of having stolen personal property,
was arrested on Tuesday on the
charge of perjury, and placed in the
county jail.
S. T. Wallace is spending short
time in st. Louis on business.
William league and George Miller
spent Wednesday in Ottumwa, where
they underwent an examination for
increase of pension.
Mrs. Mary A. Everett died at $50
a. M at the home of her daughter,
Mrs. J. F. Rawlings. at the age of SO
years, her death resulting from pneu-
| monia. The funeral services will &C.
cur Thursday at the residence of
| County Recorder j. F. Rawlings, at 3
o'clock p. M, conducted by Rev. H. R.
| Trickett.
Mrs. N. F. Randolph, of Marshall
No. is visiting at the home of County
Recorder j., F. Rawlings, where she
was called to the bedside of her moth
err, Mrs. Mary A. Everett.
Brighton
Brighton, Feb. 21--Miss Matte
Tracy served o'clock tea to the P, B..
| o. ladies Monday. Mrs. Dora Downs,
Mrs. Eugene Prier and Mrs. Tracy
were invited guests. Mrs. Ing
ham was taken into membership by a
remit from the Monroe chapter anc
the ladies will meet with her March s,
the next regular meeting.
| R. l.. Emery and wife, of Washing
| ton were here over Sunday.
Monday evening, Mrs. r. M. War
ner came down here from Richlard to
meet her son, LaRoach and Mr.. War
ner's sister, Mrs Rollet. of Liberty
Vile.
| Last week, Miss Made Frazier re-
ceived word that her sister. Mrs. Har-
riet Mooney was sick at Boone, and
Tuesday she went to Boone in re-
| Spouse to a second message that her
sister was not expected to live.
Charley Risk was over from Fair
field on business Saturday.
The county republican central COM
mittee was organized at Washington
Saturday by the selection of j. M.
Lyttle as chairman; W. A. McCloin,
secretary and j. 7. Mathews, treas,
urer
The United States army transport,
| Fitzpatrick, on which Miller Eek, or
4 Pleasant Plain, is chief electrician,
sailed from Manila for home, Febru-
airy II.
w. A. Branager. of Burlington, the
B. & w. traffic man, was here Satur-
1 day,
James Lockwood was up from Way
land over Sunday.
| Rank Meenich has bought the prop
erty owned by his mother and moved
Tuesday
| H. w. Shuster has bought the John
Joyce place. Mr.. Joyce has bought
fifteen acres near Agency and will
move there March /.
Special meetings are in progress at
the M. e. church.
Mrs. Mary Norton and little Her