Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-25
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Bloomfield, Dec. 23-John B. Tester
and sister, Mrs. Carrie Bryant, attend.
ed the funeral of r. M. Nelson at Bel
KNAPP Sunday.
The students of the Southern Iowa
sanormal gave masquerade in the col,
.lege chapel Saturday evening. About
$50 persons We're present including
invited guests. Refreshments were
II served and several musical numbers
j were rendered. The costumes of the
niasqueraders were varied and many
of them unique and beautiful. Photog.
raphers We're summoned and the mer-
~ crowd had their pictures taken. The
evening was a most enjoyable one for
Ehhe students and their friends.
Mrs M. ]. Campbell, who resides
1.-Two and a half miles south of town,
Ecelebrated her eighty-first birthday
tDecember %. She is quite vigorous
for one of her age and can easily walk
Sfrom her home in the country to town
And back.
Eva Lester, who has been in Des
Moines for some time studying music,
returned home Saturday evening to
spend the holidays with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Lester.
James Shelley of Webster county,
who bought the Parker and Baldridge
= farms west of town some time ago,
will move to this county about the
first of March.
r. Guy Hardy, son of Mr. and Mrs.
B. Hardy, Is home from Indianapolis,
Ind, where he has been attending law
( school, to spend the holidays. Guy
expresses himself as well pleased with
the "Hoosier" state.
Miss Mabel RUSSELL who has been
attending school at Marshall, Mo-,
came home Saturday evening to spend
the holidays with her parents, Mr.. and
Mrs. Will Russell.
f. R. Fleagle of New London was in
town Monday on business.
Miss Bertha Miller, who is teaching
school at Brighton, came home Satur-
day for the holidays.
Miss Clemmer Deupree came home
Saturday night from Des Moines,
where she has been attending school
for several months.
Mabel Barnhart of Pueblo Colo,
and Musa Rawlings from Colorado
Springs, Colo, are home to spend the
the holidays with their parents, Mr..
and Mrs. w. w. Rawlings.
John Owens and his mother, Mrs.
Wood Owens, attended the funeral of
r. M. Nelson Of Belknap Sunday.
Andrew Herbert and Mary Haney
were married Saturday evening at the
NJ Downing officiating. These young
people are from near Savannah and
will go to housekeeping on the Thorn.
as Herbert farm near that place.
Willard McVey and Edith Mcmillan
were married at IL o'clock noon Sun
day at the home of the brides par
ents in West Grove township.
James Whistler and family will re-
move this week to Brighton, where
Mr.. Whistler will engage in the bust
ness of blacksmithing. He has been
in the employ of w. w Reeves of this
place for the past four years.
o. G.. Collins and sister of Stiles
made business trip to Bloomfield
Saturday.
Judge Eichelberger, who will hold
court here in January, came here Sun
day night.
Justice Of the Peace J. T. Morrison
of Marion township was In bloomfield
Saturday on business.
J. M. Mccormick, a stock shipper of
Belknap, transacted business at the
county treasurers Office Saturday
The students of the Southern Iowa
normal will begin the publication OF
a monthly magazine the first of the
year. This is an enterprise which
merits the commentator and encour
agement of the citizens of Bloomfield
and Davis county.
Two more rural free delivery mail
routes have been established in this
county One will run south from town
and the other north. Cyrus Turner
and Ray Cramer will be the new car
riers They will perhaps begin carry
ing mail about the first of February.
See Geo. w. Curl at the South Side
Restaurant before buying your Christ
mas Candies. Bloomfield, Iowa.
sgourney.