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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
Court Of Honor, fifth; woodmen Of the

Sourt OF Honor, NTH; Woodmen OF the
World, sixth.
Another ballot was then taken
among the representatives of the NJ.
W. A. lodge for the position of their
different camps which resulted as fol
lows: Glenwood camp, No. 1740, first;
Ottumwa camp, No. 3o95, second; and
Woodland camp, No. 103, third.
The following committee on plat
form and arrangements was selected:
w. F. Coles, John Names, C. A. Sallee,
A. w. Hill, John Denefe, P. C. Palmer
and Mrs. G. A. Sallee.
T. F. Norfolk, who was elected at
the meeting held Sunday, May 10, to
act as marshal of the day, selected T.
A. Stoessel and Fred Hahn as assist
ants. 1t was decided that all lodges
in Ottumwa that were not represented
at the meeting yesterday be invited to
send a representative at the next
meeting which will be held by the ex-
ecutive committee next Sunday, May
rs, at 8 o'clock in the M. w. A. hall
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
THE "oHlo.p
Dimensions OF the Newest Acquisition
to the Navy.

San Francisco, May 20 The bat
tleship Ohio, which was chris.
tened Saturday at the Union
Iron works is the newest
pride of the American navy" She is
forty feet longer than the Oregon and
1000 tons greater in displacement. She
is twenty feet longer than the Iowa
and 1000 tons greater in displacement
than that ship. Her largest rifle will
be twelve inches. Her secondary bat
terry will contain sixteen 6-inch rifles.
The Ohio's dimensions are: Length
on the water line, 1888 feet; width, 70
feet 5 inches; mean draught, % feet
inches; maximum draught, rs feet 8
inches; displacement, 1880 tons;
speed, Is knots; maximum horse pow
er, 10000; total coal supply, 1000
tons. She will carry one flag officer,
one commanding officer sixteen ward
room officers, twelve junior officers
and five warrent officers. In
many respects the Ohio will
be the greatest Of all ma.
rine fighting machines. The works Of
the ship will be of the most approved
kind. Her engine-room will resemble
a great workshop, fitted with the finest
tools than can be made. The ship
herself, with her windings and alley
ways, her broad decks and hundreds
of apartments. will be like a small
city behind walls of steel She will
have her telephone system, her light
ing plant and her waterworks. In this
steelgirt city will be nearly 1000 in
candescent lamps and telephone com.
munications between all parts. The
filling of one water-tight compartment
at any time need be no cause for
alarm. The touch Of button in the
central station will close every water
tight door in less time than would
take to give the order Her compile
ment will be about 500 men.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
NEW PESTS.

Judging from the apparently new
types of insect pests which year by
year turn up to annoy the horticul-
turist, farmer and gardener, it would
seem as though the work of creation
was not completed when the garden of
Eden was turned over to Adam and
that the development of new species of
insect pests was going on all the time.
Each plant, tree or flower, when
brought into general cultivation, soon
or or later develops some breed of bug,
bacteria, beetle, aphls, worm or blight
to either paralyze its growth or destroy
its fruitage. The bug professor at the
various colleges is usually regarded as
a sort of crank and useless appendage
by the unthinking public, but the fact
remains that entomology has become
one of the most important of modern
sciences and that mans future welfare
and prosperity are going to hinge large
~ upon his ability to fight bugs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
DEATH OF DIR. lNeLIs.
Aged Physician Who Was Treated in
OttumWa Died in Denver,


ottumWa Died in Denver.
From Mondays DailyI
A letter was received today from
Mrs. Roy Inglis, 1854 Bergen avenue,
Jersey City, N. j., stating that her
husband, DR.. Roy Inglis, died in Den
yer, Col, April %.
DR.. Inglis was taken ill on Bur-
lington passenger train, on April IA,
while enroute to his home in Jersey
City, from Denver, where he was sum-
moned by the serious illness of his
six year old son. Just before the train
reached Ottumwa, DR.. Inglis suffered
from hemorrhage, and when the train
arrived her he was taken to the OF
tumwa hospital. He recovered from
the illness, and left this city, April 21,
for Denver, Col, where his death &C.
CURED April 23.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
LEGAL.
Notice-Proof of viii.

!, state te Of Iowa. Wapello county, IS. In
10 all Whom IL May Concern:
Notice is hereby given. that an instru.
ment In writing, purporting to be the last
Will and testament of Lizzie Miller, de.
ceased, was this day produced opened
and read by the undersigned, and that /
have fixed Monday, the 10Th day of Au-
gust, l9Ol, as the day for hearing proof
In relation thereto
Witness my official signature with the
ISeal.] seal OF said court hereto affixed.
this 18th day of May, 1901
II. w. MICHAEL,
Clerk District Court
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
POSITIONS SELECTED.
M. w. A. Will Head Line of March In
Lodge Memorial Day Exercises.

From Mondays Daily.
A meeting of the executive commit
tee OF the various lodges in the city
who will participate in the lodge mem
orial day services was held yesterday
afternoon at o'clock in the M. w. A.
hall. The meeting was called to or
der by the president. w. A. McIntire,
with Joseph Parks as secretary. A
ballot for position in the line of march
was taken by the members present
representing the following lodges,
and which resulted as follows Mod
ern Woodmen Of America. first; For
esters OF America, second; Ancient
Order Of United Workmen, third;
knights of the .Maccabees, fourth;
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
To Preserve Order.

Atlanta, Ga, May Ex-Governor
Chandler has ordered two companies
of the state militia to report at Ander-
sonville, Ga, for duty on May 80. This
is done to preserve order at the fam.
GUS Confederate prison and burial
place of federal dead, the negroes for
years having made the federal Decora.
ton day an occasion for drunkenness
and disorder.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
RATHER FIGHT THAN MARRY.
Prospective Bridegroom Runs Away
and Joins the Army,

Frankfort, Ind, May 2O.-David Golf
and Miss Mollie Austin were to have
been married Thursday night. The
guests We're assembled and the offici-
ating clergyman was on hand, but the
groom did not arrive. At a late hour
the guests were dismissed. Miss Aus
tin was Frustrated. Nothing was
heard of the groom until Miss Austin
received telephone message from In
dianapolis stating that her lover had
enlisted in theregular army and would
leave at once for the Philippines.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
DEATH OF AN OLD RESIDENT.

William Cosman Passed Away Satur.
day Evening-FuneraI Today.
From Mondays Daily.
The death of William Cosman, aged
sixty years, one of the old residents of
this county, occurred at o'clock Sat
urday evening at his home on Pennsyl-
yania avenue. The funeral services
were held this morning from St.Mary's
Catholic church, the services being
conducted by Rev. H. B. Kelly, pas
tor of the church. The remains were
inferred in Calvary cemetery.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
HIOLEs.

A lady friend asks how to get moles
out of the cellar and how to keep them
from burrowing under and spelling the
lawn. We have never had any experi-
ence with these little pests getting into
the cellars. So far as their work on
the lawn is concerned, there are several
methods of handling them. There is q
special trap made which may be OBJ
tanned at ary hardware store. Then
they may be poisoned by placing ar
senic or strychnine on pieces of potato
or apple in their runways, or if one will
take the trouble to note just where they
are working they may sometimes be
detected digging under the sod, when
1t is an easy matter to kill them. Most
OF their work is done at night, how
ever, and the trap and poison are the.
surest methods Of getting rid of them.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
ELDoN MAN DIES.
Was Stricken With Heart Trouble Sat
urdaY at Midniuht

Eldon, May 20. Especial. )-Satur-
day at midnight occurred the death of
S. Mungerson from heart disease.
When he went to bed in the evening
he took medicine to ease the pain
with which he was suffering. Some
time later his wife was aroused by his
labored breathing and called Drs.
Sawyers and Jay but death ensued in
short time. He leaves a wife and
six children. The funeral will be held
from the residence at 2 o'clock Tues
day afternoon.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

One would think that creamery man.
ayers would know enough by this time
SO that they would quit making con-
signments of their butter to irresponsi-
BILE commission men, and yet losses Of
this sort are occurring all the time with
men who ought to know better. The
strife to secure half cent above mar
ket quotations promised by these fake
houses results in losing the whole con-
slgnment.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
SUCCESSFUL FORESTRY.

One OF the most interesting and sue
cessful attempts at forestry work we
have come across is that made in 1878
by the Memphis Railroad company in
the vicinity of Pennington, Kan. I'm
der the direction of the president of the
road two sections Of land, or 1880
acres, We're planted with catalpas, the
trees being set out four feet apart each
way, or 2,12o trees to the acre. This
tract of timber has become literally an
impenetraEle forest, the trees shooting
up tall and slim, like tamaracks, and
now Of size sufficiently large to make
ties, telegraph pole and fenceposts. 1t
is estimated by the company that this.
tract will supply the road with all the
timber which it needs for these pur-
poses from now on.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

If your dog is ugly, don't take any
chances on him. Tan his hide, but take
it of from him first.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

A company with ample capital has
bought 5000 acres of land near
Charleston and is going into the cul-.
ture of the tea plant on a large scale.
The question of labor is the one big
problem connected with the enterprise.
The crop has to be picked over several
times during the growing season and
must be done by hand.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The winds which blow do not do one
half the useful work which they might
be made to do.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The small sum Of SIS in the cost of
the sire will often make $50 difference
in the value Of the colt.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

We never could see just why people
will keep flock Of geese where there
is no water for them to keep clean in.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

In the olden time the sower went
forth to SOW, and he sowed by hand,
cut his crop with sickle, thrashed
his grain with the tramp of oxen on
the thrashing floor and winnowed the
chaff from it with the winds of heav-
en-. In few remote parts of the east
these processes are still in vogue.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

A friend of ours put in hard three
hours work to dig out an old willow
stump the origin of which was slip
which he took much pleasure in plant
ing IS years ago.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

a patient and persistent encounter
with hard work and dirt has laid the
foundation for more Of the big fortunes
Of America than any other one thing.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

Further reports on the experiment Of
curing cheese at low temperature
about go degrees-are furnished in a
bulletin from the New York expert
ment station and show that cheese so
cured scored five points higher in flavor
than those cured in higher tempera-
ture.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

It was first the OK team of the pio-
meek settler, then the two horse team,
then ten years ago the three horse
team, and this year we have noted
more four horse teams at work putting
III the crops than ever before. Every
corner is being cut where hired help
may be. dispensed with and horse
made to do the work of man.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

Everybody is busy these April days
raking up and burning the dead leaves.
There is better use to make of them.
Put them around and under the cur
rant and berry bushes, the rosebushes,
wherever mulching will be beneficial.
Leaves make the very best mulch Of
anything to be obtained.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

A farm may be worth only $50 an
acre to sell and still be worth 500 an
acre to keep.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The Rambler roses must be well COW
cred during the winter north Of lati-
tude AZ in order to insure their living
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

We are asked If where hired man
is given permission to keep a horse in
the barn Of the man for whom he
works and the horse gets kicked and
injured by one of his employers
horses he can collect damages from
his employer. This is almost as hard
a proposition to tackle as King Solo
mon had with the women and the
baby. If we accommodated hired
man by keeping horse for him, we
would have it understood that he
should take all risks as to his horse.
In fact, we don't like the horse bust
ness with the hired man, as he then
spends too much time out nights.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The Importance of the thorough
drainage of the public highway is grad
ually becoming apparent to road build
ers all over the country. This is
great point gained. 1t is not SO very
long since this important factor in road
making was largely ignored.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The Vassar college girls, If they are
counted pretty, ethereal and intellec-
tual manage to get away with several
barrels Of potatoes at each meal.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

Raspberries may be safely trans
planted in late May, when the nev
growth has well started. by taking
Them up with good spadeful of earth
attached to the roots. f
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The increase of the box elder bug has
simply kept pace with the increase in
the number Of box elder trees. And so
long as we have the trees we are pretty
sure to have the bugs.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The fat horse is always more easily
sold than the lean one. Fat hides many
defects.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

Because the hired man on the farm
has a sort of cinch this year it is no
sort Of reason why he should go off
and get full Saturday night.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

|; We note no difference whatever in
different breeds of hogs as to their liza
bility to disease. When the cholera is
abroad in the land, it takes the razor
hack just as certainly as it does the
high bred Jersey Red or Poland China.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

A pair Of Norman horses was sold
for IL cents per pound in the COM
munity in which the writer lives a
short time since. The team weighed
5000 pounds.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The Nebraska experiment station re-
ports that cowpeas will from given
area of land produce more and better
milk producing food than any other
crop.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The general use Of corn fodder pre-
vented famine in the hay market the
past winter through much of the west
and northwest.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The sparrows pick up an immense
amount of rubbish for their nests, and
a few people whom we know depend
upon the sparrow to clean up their
yards.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23
CHICAGO, ROCK ISLAND & pAcIrI
TRAINS LEAVING JEFFERSON
STREET UNION STATION,
A j. Packard, AGENT,

CHICAGO. MILWAUKEE 4 ST. PAUL
,, n,,,, Arrive. Depart.
Milwaukee ......... d1:3O q m b2 RI n n,
Chicago, Cedar Rapids, "
Kansas City South Do'' III
west. b2:so a m d1 :s5 a m
Freight trains depart south b7:oO n. m =
dill n m.,. north bI:15 u. M, b1O:25 a. m
aDaily. bExcept Sunday. dExcept Mon.
day.
Freight trains arrive at and depart from
Ottumwa Junction Aoin
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

Based upon purely physical and eco
nomic reasons. it is best to rest, so far
as may be possible, upon the Sabbath
day. Then there are moral reasons
which should not be wholly ignored.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

1t is almost impossible to obtain in
any of the creamery territory of the
country any more Of the nice, old fash
Toned dairy butter made by the nice,
old fashioned dairywoman. Than this
there never was any better butter made
or ever will be-. Here and there q
woman still makes her own butter and
supplies few customers in town, but
such butter is not found on sale at the
grocery. stores.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

1t is interesting to note the principal
products of some of the states. Maine
excels in ice and granite, Iowa in corn
and hogs, Minnesota in lumber and
fruit and hops; Pennsylvania in coal
wheat; the Pacific coast states in
and iron; Ohio gives us officeholders.
Kentucky hemp and tobacco, Wiscon-
Sin beer, Michigan peaches, the Caro-
linas rice and turpentine, Georgia and
Alabama cotton, Alaska gold and saIm-
on. With the exception of tea, cof-
fee and some dyestuffs and sugar,
which we might just as well produce
as not, the American nation is prac-
tically Independent of any other coun-
try in the matter Of supplying all it's
wants.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

The annual battle with the weeds
will soon begin. On whatever crop
light drag may be safely used it will
be found the best all round tool with
which to get the first whack at the
weeds, for they die easy when they die
young.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

Prevailing agricultural and economic
conditions are placing a large amount
of wealth in the hands of the farmers
of the country. Not for many years
have they been so favorably situated.
1t is hardly to be expected that this ia
vorable condition, of things will contin-
ue indefinitely, and it seems to us as
though the wise man would seize the
present opportunity to get square with
the world rather than to be tempted to
increase his line of indebtedness There
is an immense amount of satisfaction
in the feeling that one owes no man
dollar. 1t is hardly within the power
Of hard times to hurt the man who
lives on his own farm and who is out
of debt, in which particular he has the
advantage over men in any other bust
ness or profession.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

It will pay well to grow half aero
Of sugar beets just for the milk cows
and the brood sows; nothing better for
either during the winter.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

We are asked whether pieplant is a
fruit or a vegetable. That depends
whether the question is asked of a
scientist or just a common gardener,
For our use it is fruit.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

We find the best time to trim an
orchard tree to be the last of May or
the first of June, just when the sap is
In full flow. Trimmed then, the wound
very quickly heals over with new
growth Of bark.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

Frequent cultivation not only makes
the care of the garden easy, but won
derfully stimulates the growth Of all
garden products.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

There is good deal connected with
being able to select the good mothers
in the matter of raising farm animals
and still more in having sense enough
to keep them year after year as breed
erS.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

We have one or two inquiries as to
the soy bean. This bean is native Of
Japan, where it is very extensively
grown as q heterogeneous food for the
people, where it helps to balance their
daily ration Of rice. 1t grows with
branching, treelike stalk to height Of
two or three feet and bears a small
pod containing yellow waxy bean,
which will yield from 20 to 80 bushels
per acre. 1t takes about 100 days to
mature the bean from the time Of
planting. 1t is richer in protein, both
foliage and the bean, than any other
crop which can be grown in the tenn
perate zone, and as 1t possesses all the
soil fertilizing qualities Of clover 1t is
a plant which well deserves the atten-
ton Of all farmers and stocsmen. Cut
green and cured as hay, it will furnish
to any farm the source Of protein which
will supplement bran and oilmeal and
enable man to produce on his own
farm a completely balanced ration for
all his stock.
Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-05-23

We finished putting out new straw
berry bed April 24-2oo Clydes, 200
Beder Woods and 400 Warfelds. They
will be cultivated this summer, COW
cred next winter. and next season we
shall have berries to burn. ,