Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-07
LITTLE BITS OF NEWS
Short Tales Concerning People You
Know.
THE VICINITY OF 0ITUMWA IN BRIEF
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
of Your acquaintance as chTonle'ed
by Courier's Staff of Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Speak.

by courier's Staff of Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Speak.
Charlton. Oct. 6.-Messrs. Ed, Spen-
GER Wright Newsome, Joe Parkins and
Sohn Stearns. all of Union township,
left Saturday evening for Washington,
D. c.. where they will attend the g.
A. D. encampment. Messrs. Parklns
and Newsome will visit relatives at
Pittsburg, Pa. while they are gone.
Miss Lille Douglass, one of the
teachers in the Russell schools, spent
Sunday with her parents in this city.
Prof. G. ]. Dahl will give phonoco-
opgraph entertainment at the Swedish
Lutheran church this evening and to-
morrow evening also, the proceeds oil
which will go to the building fund OF
the church to be applied on the new
church which they will erect in the
spring.
R. j. Beiley has resigned his posi-
tlon with the Burlington and, together
with his family and household effects,
left Saturday for South Dakota, where
he will engage in farming.
Miss Lou Shields came from Bloom
field Saturday for a visit with friends
in this city.
The funeral services of the late VIM.
futile Were held from the Baptist
church this morning at O'Clock, con
Quoted by the pastor Rev. Palmer, at
ter which the remains were laid to rest
IN the Charlton cemetery.
Miss Florence Bassett, OF Pleasant
Vile is a guest at the home of A. B.
Ayeriil
Glen Jennings spent Sunday with his
parents in Russell.
The jury in the cases OF j. D. Hard
in, IT.. by his next friend, ]. p. Hardin
against the city OF Charlton, and j. P.
Hardin against the city brought in a
verdict Saturday morning in favor OF
the plaintiff. They allowed damages
to the amount of $50 in the first case
anad S19S in the other case for Mr.
Hardin's time and expense.
During the present season the rain,
fall has been excessively heavy, but it
seemed to be just what we needed to
make good the deficit of last summer
During the past two weeks the farmers
have begun to get little discouraged,
and the cry of too much rain is heard
While the prospect for one of the big
gest corn crops in the country has
been gotten out of the way of the
frost. except some OF the late corn
yet the farmers fear that the corn will
lnildew in the shock should the fall
rains continue to be as heavy in the
future as they have been in the past
week. Complaints are being made OF
the hay sprouting in the stacks, SOM
= vet to be cut, while other that has beer
kept for seed rotting on the ground
Was there ever year when there
was SO much grain and so little saved;
However. as behind the clouds the sun
is still shining, perhaps the damage
will not be as great as feared.
Abba.
Abba, Oct. G.-Mr. and Mrs. Moses
Edwards, l. E. Jones. Mrs. L. B. Ed
wards and Miss Celeste Edwards de-
parted Saturday night for Washing
ton, D. c., where they will attend the
national encampment Of the Grand Ar
my of the Republic. They expect to be
gone about ten days or two weeks.
Mrs Margaret Tomlinson of Eldon
who is visiting her son, |. H. Tomlin-
son, was taken qnite seriously i'll Sat
mday night, but is now much improv
ed
A license was issued Saturday TO:
the marriage of Bert Pence, aged "a
years. of Moravia to Miss Eta Repp
aged % years of Franklin township.
Harry A. Griffin, agent for the Bur
lington and Iowa Central railway com
panies at Maxon, is confined to his
hOm,, in Albia Inv Illness
George L. Tomlinson. & newspaper
man of Mt. Pleasant, is visiting at the
home of his brother, |. H. Tomlin,
son.
Mrs. John r. Price spent Sunda,
with her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Petel
WEIGH, and other relatives at Hite
man.
Mr.. and Mrs. Geo. l.. Robb went Il
Washington, D. c.. Saturday evening
to attend the national encampment o
the Grand Army of the Republic.
Rev. Denny, secretary for the low;
state board OF Missions. of the Chris
tian church, occupied the pulpit at thu
Christian church here last night g
Miss Edith Lewis, who has beef
spending the summer at the home o
her uncle and aunt, Mr. and Mrs
George w. McCombs, departed las
night for Detroit, Mich. where she will
visit awhile before returning to he
home in Canada.
Coroner Enos T. Pauline is slowl,
conyalescing from a recent severe ill
ness of several weeks duration
Rev. Gage of Fairfield preached a
the morning and evening services a
the First Presbyterian church yester
day.
Mrs. Thomas Donovan departed las
night for her home in Boston, Mass
after few months visit with he
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Petty
and other relatives.
North English.
North English, Oct. IL. R. Sim
mons is at home from York, N. D., 70
short time. He will move his fan
lily there in the near future.
Mrs. J. NJ. Geiger came home Frida
morning from visit with friends a
Springville. She also attended tn
I.