Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-04-04

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Walter Schoech was in Ottumwa
Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. B. Kosman spent Sun
day with Mr.. and Mrs. Joe BOSNIAN.
Sam Walker, Will Kindell and Will
Burton spent Sunday with Dave Bur
ton.
Belknap.
| Belknap, April 3.-S. A. Wells and
daughter, Ola, returned home Tuesday
from visit with relatives in Ottum-
wa. Sadie Wells came home with
them, returning to her home Sunday
evening.
Mrs. j. w. Bolivar and daughter Cor
da were Ottumwa visitors last week.
Mabel Miller and Lizzie Ware were
both quite i'll last week
1 D. H. Bell is having eighty rods of
hedge fence dug up and replaced by
wire one.
Mrs. A. NJ. Easton was a Drakeville
visitor Tuesday.
Mrs. Catherine Dunn, of Bloomfield,
is visiting here with her daughter, Mrs.
A. M. Easton.
Henry Yanke and wife and daughter
Hazel, j. M. Eberline and wife and
daughter Leila, Otis Pickett and wife,
of this place, and the Misses Lizzie
Mcconnell and Aria and Bertha Nc
Intire, Of Sherman Chapel, formed a
pleasant party at the w. Pickett home
Wednesday evening. the occasion be-
ing Mr.. Puckett's thirty-second birth
day.
Rev. and Mrs. G. w. Barber and son
Harry, of Drakeville, spent Thursday
4 srxI,l l.o, Sci .l-
and son left via Ottumwa Friday NOR
ming for Bonaparte to visit relatives.
I Maude Easton was quite i'll last
week.
/ number of Joel McGee's relatives
Thursday, it being his SEVENTEEN
birthday. Those present were Mrs.
Charley Burkhalter and son Paul, Mrs.
j. S. Huffman and daughter Edith,
Mrs. G. w. Owens and son Clarence,
of Ottumwa. Fred Ware and wife and
Mrs. Catherine Dunn of Bloomfield.
Samuel Mcconnell land wife. VIM.
i. Spohr and wife, j. w. Bolivar and
wife, A. M. Easton and wife, T. G. Da-
Wis and wife and Mr.. Cameron, of this
place.
i G. d. Rhine and wife, of Sherman
Chapel visited here at the parental /.
Ware home Friday.
4 l. Ware was a Sherman Chapel Wis
itor Saturday
Gail Patterson is visiting north of
Drakeville at the M. F. Patterson
home
Mrs. Nellie Thompson and mother
in-law left Saturday night for their
home at Kansas City, after a two
weeks visit here with friends.
A. w. Rankin and daughter, Mrs.
Jessie Spangler and children left Sat
urday evening for few days visit
with relatives in Ottumwa.
Robert Mccormick came home last
week from Floris where he has spent
. the past few days.
The Belknap Independent school
board met the township board ySatur-
day at the Center school house. A
satisfactory settlement was made; ow-
ing to the higher assessment of prop
erty here Belknap is to receive 40 per
cent of the taxes levied in 1900.
]. B. Lafferty, of Alexis, H., visited
here Sunday with his daughter, Mrs.
Madge Patterson.
Mrs. Charley Skinner is on the sick
list.
Mrs. Eva Thompson, of Ottumwa,
returned home Sunday after a weeks
visit here with relatives and friends
Jimmie Dunn, of Bloomfield, visited
here Sunday evening at the A. M. Eas.
ton home.
/, Miss yirgie Beadie, of Bloomfield
; visited Thursday with Mrs. O. C. Bell.
Mrs. Almyra Morris and daughter
Allie and granddaughter Orpha re.
turned home Saturday from Moulton
! where Mrs. Morris and Orpha spent
j, the winter at the home of the for.
mer's father R. L.Guile.
J. Mabel Burkhalter is here visiting
; relatives.
| Section forman w. Pickett. of the
/ Rock Island. has received orders to
take on five hands.
Henry Yanke and family left this
morning for Fifield where Mr.. Yanke
will take charge of an extra gang or
the Wabash main line. Mike Doyle
who formerly was section foreman at
| Carbon, will take Mr.. YANKEES place
/ here as foreman.
Mrs. Jeff Galloway. of Eldon. visited
here the latter part of the week with
J her daughter. Mrs. Sherman Dillon.
Eta Mum is visiting friends in OF
: tumwa
Mrs. Walter Mum and children are
visiting relatives near Sherman Chap
, ell. Mr. Mum spent Sunday there
with them.
The news of the suicide of August
} Bachman. of Pulaski. was a shock tc
his friends here. MIS-. Bachman is q
? relative of Mrs. Thomas Caldwell and
l family. All have the sympathy oil
their many friends here.
l Mr.. Camerop was a Bloomfield visit