Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-16

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into the town. Blakesburg can talk
now to the whole United States and
part of Missouri
Mrs Virginia Thayer has returned
from a trip of the Rockies.
]. G.. Thayer was called to Abba to
attend the funeral of an uncle, Gilbert
Thayer.
N S. Wilson will soon begin the
erection of a new business house on
State street
Aaron Harlan will build new
house this fall
Andrew Pearson is building new
farm house
We have had light frosts, but with
little damage yet.
Henry Fritz and wife visited in st
Louis this week
| Merit Townsend and wife are re-
joicing over the arrival of a son at
their home.
Cyze Thompson and wife say their
new girl baby is a little bit nicer than
any baby in this town.
Lee Cloyd had two cows killed by
| lightning.
Charles ziglar will soon go to Colo
RADIO to join his wife.
Otha Darby resigned his position at
the depot and Miss Horton, late of
Missouri, is night operator now.
Orville Cohagan has gone to Ames to
attend school.
Lloyd Burton. the efficient mayor :,
has leased eleven hundred acres of
land near Ottumwa and will leave
Blakesburg.
Rev. Brown closed his pastoratc
here last Sunday. Mr.. Brown was d
| Jealous worker and a good Christian
4 man.
1 Miss Bertha Asbury of Ottumwa is
4 visiting among friends about Blakes>
burg.
Many farmers are blowing and some
are sowing fall grain
Mrs Oswald returned from Chicago
quite sick.
/ Charles Porter and family moved to
4 Ottumwa this week
| Gertie Peck is going to Kansas to
spend the winter.
Frank Fritz new opera house is now
completed and he will dedicate it with
!. an opening ball.
Nearly every day men come to this
town in search OF farms for homes,
and some are buying. Some old farm
ers want to retire and will sell for $40,
j $50, and $50 per acre.
Soap Creek.
!. Soap Creek, Sept 13.-Fred Songer
and wife, of Belknap, spent Sunday
with Mrs. Songer's mother and attend
ed the basket meeting at Center
1.iZ2ia COffmap and Ran vic
tied relatives in Ottumwa Sunday
Lydia Crist is visiting with her sis
Z ter in Belknap this week.
Nora Sample, of South Ottumwa,
I spent Saturday and Sunday at the
parental home.
: William Bradberry wife and nephew
were Ottumwa callers last Wednes--
day. e
i Grace Mcdonald of Bloomfield, Wis
tied at the home of R. T. Sample Sun
), day and attended the basket meeting
, at Center.
Will John and Ross Morgan, of
South Ottumwa, visited in this vicin-
!, ity Sunday.
c. F. CristWof West Grove. was a
4 caller at the home Of his mother Sun
day.
J. Charley Brsadng and family took
: dinner at thee parental VIM. Houk
home Sunday. n
ALI. Wrankinr and wife, of near Bel.
KNAPP, attended, the basket meeting at
Center last Sunday.
Maud Belle, of South Ottumwa, has
been visiting with her cousins.
J Leonard Songer, of Belllnap, who
) has been quite i'll, is said to be some
! better.
Leonard Smock and family visited
(. at the home of Mrs. Shocks mother
: Sunday.
Mrs. Vim. Moss and two children. OF
!, South Ottumwa. are visiting with Mrs
/ Moss mother, Mrs. John Shepherd
this week.
, Alex Hawkins was taken into the M
4 w. A. Saturday night.
. Mrs. VIM Bell and son, Arthur. Of
t South Ottumwa, are visiting with Mrs
Bells sister, Mrs. Thos. Sample, and
attended the Bloomfield fair this week
Mrs Clyde Adams. of near Drake
!. vile, visited with Dora Houk last Sun
$ day.
Arthur Bell, of South Ottumwa, who
4 has been spending his vacation with
: his uncle, will return home to attend
g school,
O Amador.
d Amador, Sept. 10.-Harry Wellman
e of Ottumwa, visited at Mrs. Parkers
d last week.
|. Word was received here Sunday
/ that Alpha Burton who resides at lola
: Kansas, was fatally injured in a gas
S explosion. His two brothers, Pharis
e and Emmett, left Sunday night for thai
y place. He is the youngest son of S
A. Burton and wife, who resides neal
5. this place.
e Ira Hanning was in the city on bust
ness Saturday.
s. Mr.. and Mrs. Frank LaRue and
daughter, Maude, of Ottumwa, are
t, guests at A. Wilkinson's.
r School is progressing nicely under
the management of Ira Hanning.
r Carl Schwartz and A. Wilkinson
+. We're in town Saturday.
/. Mrs. Ella Williams and Mrs. Rol
Gosney We're guests at w. L. Gang
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