Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-07-25

has returned to the states and isl
spending a few days in Charlton with
his mother, Mrs. Myra Mcfarland.
Mr. and Mrs. s. Oppenheimer of this
place are spending tn week fishing
and batting at Spirit Lake and Lake
Okoboji
May Courts of Quincy, H., is spend
ing a few days in the city visiting rela-
tives and friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. c. Hemelrich have
returned to their home in Charlton af-
ter three weeks visit in the noun
tains of Colorado and the western
states.
Bert, Ida and Anna BEEN have re-
turned from ten days outing at Man
itoba and Colorado Springs.
John C. Eldrer of Lincoln township
is suffering with very serious catarrh
of the hand which will lay him off
from work for a few weeks and may
leave him with a crippled hand.
Chas. Conner, a farmer living in
Warren township was struck by light
ming Monday evening while on a load
of hay and still lives. The lightning
struck him just below the ear and ran
down his spinal column completely
paralyzing him and forcing blood from
his mouth nose, ears and eyes. One
Of the horses hitched to the wagon was
knocked down by the shock but
strange to relate the hay was not set
on fire. Mr.. Conner was picked up
and carried to the house for dead but
physicians were called and by hard
work they succeeded in partly reviv-
ing him and he now lies in semi
conscious condition though but little
hope is entertained for his recovery,
1t is the first case known to our ply
sicians where man who was known
to have been struck by direct bolt
Of lightning and ever survived the
shock,
/ The members of Company H, Fiji
| tieth regiment I. n g., stationed at
this place, departed Monday evening
for Dubuque, where they will spend
the week in encampment with the
Forty-ninth regiment, The boys went
to Abba Monday night where they
! slept on the ground rolled up in their
blankets giving them a touch of camp
life. They then went on to Dubuque
Tuesday morning. The boys of Com.
pany H numbered forty-one enlisted
men and is commanded by as able a
} set of officers as can be found in the
entire, regiment. They have been earn
} estly at work in drill practice for the
| past two weeks and the people Of
. Charlton confidently expect to heal
a good report from Lne boys during
encampment week.
Tuesday was one of the hottest days
of the season and the hottest ever re
. corded in Charlton, the thermometer
= ranging from ITO to 1874, eGualing the
2 record Of Monday which was the hot
test ever recorded. The government
thermometer registered 1922 in the
!. shade both Monday and Tuesday
t Monday hot wind from the south dit
t much damage to the crops but heavy
, local showers on Tuesday will do mucl
, good and place late corn in much bet
| ter condition.
George Barlow, who has been so Sc
t rionsly i'll of lung trouble for the pas
. few months, is reported as much wors,
] and Tuesday evening he was supposed
to be dying.
:. There will be a box supper given a
n the home OF John Pouch in Benton
/. township Thursday evening. The pre-
:. ceeds will go to the new u, B. senir
a airy that is being erected ~ mile
+ east of Charlton.
a Perry Bell, one of the most highl
respected citizens Of Lucas county
died at his home in Pleasant TOWNSHIP
: near Belinda on Monday evening al
g ter but weeks illness. The phys
9 clans pronounced his disease typhoid
: fever but the hot weather brought o.
a case of acute appendicitis from whic
u he died. He has many friends VIII
l. mourn his loss.