Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-21

the past few days has made her home
IN this city. The bereft children have
lost a kind and loving mother and
they have the sympathy of their many
friends.
Frank King of Cripple Creek, Colo,
is here, called by the illness and death
of his mother.
MFs. Enck johnson was called to
Des Moines Saturday by the death of
her mother.
Mrs. Elmer Lott went up to Tacoma
TINS morning for visit with relatives.
| The Charlton river was out of it's
banks again yesterday from the rain
Friday night. This makes the tenth
time this season that it has been
high.
Miss Hide Peterson has returned
from Aloha, where she was called by
the sickness of her mother. Mrs q
Dalin.
VIII Martz. the Oldest son of Mr..
! and MRS. VIM. Martz, died at his home
IN this city Saturday night The fun.
eral will pc held from the family resi-,
aence tomorrow afternoon at half past
two under the auspices of the BARRIERS
OF the city, of which he was one. The
sermon Will be preached by Rev. Chit
tenden of the Presbyterian church, af--
ter when the remains will be laid to
rest in the Charlton cemetery. Mr..
and Mrs. Martz have the heartfelt
sympathy of their many friends in
their hour of trouble.
| Bloomfield.
Bloomfield. Oct. 17.-Mrs. George T.
Sewers. Mrs. j. Angst, Mrs. ]. M.
Smith, Mrs. Frank Ferguson and Mrs.
A. B. Gilbert are attending the Wo-
mans Foreign visionary state conven-
l,tions ofsIowa and Missouri now in ses-
| sion in Ottumwa.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom York and baby,
of Eagle Grove, are visiting at the
home of Mrs. York's parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. WsOwens.
G. K. Darnal and Miss Lucy Woodin,
OF Cantril, were quietly married at the
Methodist parsonage in this city We'd
nesday afternoon at o'clock.
DR.. H. G. Young and Rev. ]. w. Pot.
ter and Mayor T. D. Doke spent Tues
day evening in Ottumwa, where Mayor
Doke took the degree of knights Tenn
plar.
Mr.. and Mrs. K. T. Hotchkiss left
Thursday for Phoenix, Arizona, where
they will spend several months, as
Mrs. Hotchkiss has been in i'll health
for some time and hopes to be bene-
fitted by a change of climate.
Rev. and Mrs. d. A. Wickizer, Mr..
and Mrs. David Saunderson, Mrs. J. C.
Wood and Miss Fronier Saunderson, of
this city, and Miss Kate Jennings of
Drakeville, left Thursday for Omaha,
Neb., to attend the international con-
vention of Christian churches,
Mr.. and Mrs. T. J. Hill and children
have returned from Pulaski, where
they have been visiting for few days
DR.. Lulu M. Gilbert made business
trip to Pulaski Wednesday.
Frank Morris returned Thursday
from Milton, where he attended the
marriage of his sister, Miss Kate
Morris, to- Maurice Baird, of Cantril
Bloomfield, Oct. 20-Mrs.T. j. Wal
ton pleasantly surprised her eldest
son, James I. Walton, by entertaining
friends at dinner at his home on Sat
urday in honor Of his thirty-seventh
birthday. Mr.. Walton received a
VI uSClul plSSGulS lIOlu LID
parents and little daughter, Haze, who
resides with her grandparents. A
number of Mr.. Waltons friends who
reside in the country and were former
neighbors of Mr. Walton, were unable
to be present on account of the high
water, as the heavy rain of Friday
night, which flooded the bottom lands
and raised Fox river out of the banks
A number of typhoid fever patients
living near Sherman and Locust Grove
where such cases have been quite pre-
velent are improving. Misses Mile
and Ivy Taylor, Delmar Bowman, and
Versa and Ida Chatwick, have been
very sick with the fever for the past
twenty or thirty days but are now
out of danger.
Mrs. Ellen B. Herford, of Indanola,
state president of the w. G. T. u, was
in the city Saturday for the purpose
OF organizing chapter of that order
in this city. Mrs. HEREFORD came from
Ottumwa where she attended the in
terstate w. F. M. S. convention, and
while in this city was entertained at
the home of Mrs. w. H. McAchran.
DR.. Lulu M. Gilbert made business
trip to Troy Saturday afternoon.
Messrs Fred and Sam Wallace, &C.