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

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Bloomfield.
Bloomfield. April AT a meeting
of the lvanhoe club held Monday af-
ternoon at the home of Mrs. T. P.
Bence, the club directed to join the
Iowa State Federation of Woman's
Clubs and elected the following Off
GERS: President, Mrs. Flora e. McAch-
rian; secretary, Mrs. Emma Caldwell;
treasurer, Mrs NJ. Brenneman. At
the close of the business session the
club resumed the reading of Elizabeth
at the close of which the club adjourn
ed to meet next Monday at the home
of Mrs. B. F. Carroll
The Bloomfield school board held
the annual meeting for the election
of principal and assistant principal of
the public school on Monday evening.
Prof G. W. Rumseyer was elected
principal and Wilbur York assistant
principal. Parsons & Sons, archi-
tects, of Des Moines, We're present
and the board discussed plans for the
erection of the new high school build
ing voted on at the last election.
At a meeting of the Masonic lodge
held on Saturday evening the second
degree of that order was conferred
upon Phillip Palmer and Eldridge
Pinnell.
AT the last meeting of Bloomfield
chapter, No. 25. R. A. NJ, the past
master degree was conferred upon J.
Wesley Potter and ]. Wray Young.
The Clionian club had the pleasure
of meeting Tuesday evening at the
home of Miss Mayme McGowen. The
lesson of the evening consisted of the
following program:
Review of the Last Days of Pom
pei. Miss Mary Davies.
Personal "reminiscences of a visit to
Pompei, Miss Stella Steckle
Paper on Roman Architecture, Mrs.
W. A. Herman, of the Twentieth Cen
fury club.
The P. E. o. Sisterhood meeting in
regular session at the home of Miss
Mabel Palmer, at the close of the
business session was entertained
with the following program:
Description of the Dismal Swamp,
Mrs. w. A. Herman.
Description of the Mammoth Cave,
Mrs. Flora McAchrian.
Oral description of personal travels
thru Colorado, Pixies Peak and the
Garden of the Gods, Miss Abbie
Brown.
i Reading on Patriotic Airs, Mrs.
Ellsworth Rominger.
The city council met for organiza-
ton on Monday evening and elected
the following officers: City clerk,
| Charley Mendenhall; street commits
sioner, John Livingston; health physi-
clan, DR.. H. G. Young; night police,
Cyrus Turner.
| The Iowa Federation of Women s
clubs will hold convention at Coun-
Gil Bluffs the first week in May. Mrs.
B. F. Carroll will attend as delegate
representing the Twentieth Century
club of this place.
Judge H. c. Traverse has recently
issued lay sermon on 1.-THE Begin
ming of Life Miracle" which is at
tracing the attention of those friends
who were SO fortunate as to receive
copy, and is exciting the curiosity of
those not thus complimented. The
text consists of the following quota
ton from Emerson: THE learned
and studious of that have no monop.
oily of wisdom. Their violence of di.
rection in some degree disqualifies
them to think truly We owe many
valuable observations to people who
are not very acute or profound and
who say the things without effort
which we want and have long been
hunting in vain" The sermon opens
with the queries: Can life on the
earth be accounted for without an in
telligent creator, even on the assump-
ton that the matter composing our
world has existed in some form, from
all eternity? Is life the result of evo.
luton, or was its beginning on our
planet the result of a creative act? Is
it possible to do without God when
we undertake to account for the orr
gin of life?" These questions the
writer proceeds to answer by giving
the reader a learned discourse on the
subject. based upon the authority OF