Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-28
Biakes burg.

Blakesburg, Oct. 25.-(Courier's
special service )--Mr. and Mrs. VIM.
Shea We're called to Eddyville Thurs
| day night on message announcing al
| fatal accident to Edward Shea.
schools, came home Thursday to at
tend the funeral of her uncle.
| VIM. Arnold and Jennie Riddle were
married Thursday, Rev. Rowe officia-
ting. The good wishes of this COM
munity go with the happy couple.
Mrs. Ida Draper is visiting in Fred
eric this week.
Mrs. Chas. McAllister, nee Woods,
of Texas,is visiting friends about here.
Mrs. e. Doty and son, Arthur, are
going to Kansas to spend the winter.
Rev. Rowe will occupy the Doty home.
Mrs. l.. NJ Thompson, of Abba. was
calling on friends here this week.
The Bradleys brought twelve car
loads of cattle to their farm near this
town Thursday. They purchased the
cattle in the west. They also shipped
several car loads of fat cattle from
their farm to Chicago this week.
4 VIM. Shea and wife attended the
stock show in Kansas City this week.
Miss Minnie Nelson, who spent the
summer in Dakota, has returned to the
parental home!
Claude Thompson has gone to Des
i Moines to enter school, His parents
accompanied him to the capital city
The farmers are marketing good
many winter apples and the quality is
fine.
:. Eli Tharp has gone to Missouri in
search OF a farm.
/ Blakesburg, Oct. 25.-Land hunters
still visit this town every week.
John Riddle is building an addition
to his mill. He will also put in new
machinery and make it first-class
: grist mill
u Mr.. Roberts, of Adams county, is in
: town, the guest of his brother-in-law
John Riddle.
], Roy Uxtell has returned to Missouri
where he has purchased a furniture
:. store.
Mrs Mandy Coffman fell down stairs
Wednesday and was so badly injured
/ that her physician thinks her injuries
will prove fatal.
| Sigourney.
: Sigourney, Oct 25.-A marriage Ii
cense was issued yesterday to D
Smothers, aged % years, and Rosa
Boomershine, aged Is years.
Il Court was, in session Thursday ani
t Friday with Judge Scott on the bench
r Most of the work was probate bust
ness 1t adjourned until November
. Mr. and Mrs charles White visited
l at Harper Thursday.
Mrs paSie and SON Edgar arc her,
t from Humboldt on q visit
Ralph Coffnan was up from Keott
this week
!. Villa Jones is visiting at Washing
S ton.
Mrs. John Ritzinger was at Ottum
Y wa one day this week.
Anna Stranahan of Washington i
: in this vicinity this week.
f Miss Eta Snider of Delta was il
Sigourney this morning, on her wa.
= to Lucerne, Missouri on a visit
t Mrs. S. r. McWilliams left TO
> South English this morning for Wis
r it over Sunday.
e Mrs. James Coop OF Osborne county
Kansas, has been visiting here for sev
!. eral days with relatives and friends
=. Mrs. Charles Farmer and Miss Me-
r. bel Atwood went to Hedrick thi
+ morning Tor a visit with relatives.
r. Mr.. and Mrs. Milton Rhoads return
d ed this morning to their home at M
$ Pleasant, after short visit at the T
G. Minteer home.
v Mrs. W. H. Lyons of Marion, Ohio
is visiting relatives in this vicinity.
l. Mrs. Theo Mamser is in Clay cour
ty on a visit.
Cap. Miller, Geo. Schwenke and Alb
Miller attended the educational NEE
Of ing at Nassau today.
" Miss Minnie Schwartz was at HON
in Sigourney today, on her way frol
d. North English to Keota for a Wis
e with friends.