Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-12-18

Perry Chief-Reporter: That this
country is lodged to death is the opin-
ion of the Ames Times. Perry is well
lodged-in fact, we doubt if ever
society was organized or even project
ed that it did not make a bee line to
form one of it's chapters in this city
about the first thing. We are well
lodged, being lodged to about the
limit-but no harm has resulted.
Jefferson Bee: The strawberries are
not the only crop which has duplicated
itself in Greene county this year Frank
Newton brought into this office one
day last week a few heads of very nice
looking oats. which We're self sowed
from his first crop and came up con-
trary to all expectation and in spite of
the laws, Fuleso and regulations ad-
hered to by Iowa oats as 4 class. The
second crop is quite ripe and Mr.. New
ton tells us that if he had cit his first
crop and then plowed and reseeded
| the ground he is not sure but the Sec
ond yield would have been as good as
the first. IA
Waverly Independent: We have a
democratic ticket straight since 1856.
lon Thanksgiving morning he was hail
ed with, We'll, neighbor, what have
you to be thankful for this morning.
| Well" he answered, 81 am enjoying
| life and am thankful because l am
thankful and because Theodore Roose-
/ welt is President of the United States
and because my country has quite an
army of young men as good as he"
Odebolt Chronicle: Teaquist Bros.
have on their farm in Wheeler town.
ship COW which has two we'll devel.
oped horns growing out of her back
One horn grows out on each side OF
the backbone, above the udder, and
both lie fiat. The COW is seven-eighths
shorthorn and is fine animal
Francisco Reyes Guzman of Havana
Cuba-It is costing the republic of Gu
ba nearly $40,000,0O0 year to be in
dependent of the United States, and
the sooner it is annexed the better il
/ will be for all interests in the island.
am native of Cuba, understand the
conditions there perfectly and am
thoroughly in touch with the people
of the island. / know that there are
only about $4,000 white men on the
1 island who do not favor annexation
i Business conditions in the island are
! going from bad to worse. | have moi
4 been in Cuba since July but | heal
regularly from home and know that
the situation is distressing. The Plat
amendment amounted to annexation
and why should there be any delay il
making the island part of this coun
i try?
Harlan Republican: The men VIII
!, have the contract to lay the rails OF
! the Great Western have occasion t
"cuss" the saloons. Since beginnin,
the work this side of Fort Dodge the,
I have shipped 800 men from Mime
apoils and have picked up 800 or 40
through the country, but out of tn
whole lot they have difficulty in keep
ing enough at work to man their trac
laying machine, which requires tn
services of only about $50. In CONVEX
sation with man at depot Monda,
: we were told that the cause of the dc
), lay in the vicinity Of Carroll was no
bad weather, or lack of material bu
the whole force was on drunk an
! that nothing could be done. Their
was talk of putting in side track
about midway between Carroll an
Halbur for the boarding cars, that tn
men might be housed in the countr
and kept away from town entirely.
Waverly Independent: This offic
: enjoyed call last Thursday Afternoon
from Mrs. Ann l.. Harrington, of Jei
ferson township, near the Blackhawl
county line. More than half a centur,
! ago she was an ambitious girl in Ney
I Hampshire. She had read and hear
3 the stories of the beautiful prairies 0
Iowa. Our then very young state wa
praised Whenever Iowa was mentioned
In 1852, with her folks, Mrs. Earring
! ton left the old Granite state, their OF
: jective point being Iowa, the gem Q