Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-02-27
5NEIGHBORHOOD NEWS. {
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
Charlton.

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Charlton.
Charlton, Feb. 26.-The jury in the
futile VS.. Berry case in Justice Longs
court failed to agree upon Verdlct.
and was discharged Tuesday morn
ing after having been out all night.
They stood five for futile and one for
Berry when the last vote was taken.
The case which had occupied the en-
tire day Monday was a suit for 500
claimed to be due Tuttlc for digging a
well on the place of Harmon Erickson.
Mr.. Berry is a water witch and was
employed to locate the wells while
while Mr.. Tuttle is employed in dig
ging wells. futile claimed Berry hlr-
ed him to dig this well and Berry
claims he had nothing to do with the
digging but was only to locate the
well and that futile quit work before
he had gone far enough to find wheth-
er there was any water or not. Both
parties employed attorneys and the
costs in the case where $3.50 was the
original amount involved will be ma
ny times this amount as it will have
to be tried over again.
Mrs. Joe DiXon,of Washington town.
ship, was brought before the insanity
commission on Tuesday and examined
as to her sanity. The board decided
that she was temporarily insane and
needed rest and that she was not
sufficiently deranged to allow of send
ing her to the hospital, and accord.
ingly ordered her sent to the county
farm where she will be confined and
allowed the needed rest. This is the
third time Mrs. Dixon has been off
mentally. The first time she was not
violent but Eighty and ran away from
home bareheaded on cold nights. She
was taken to Mt. Pleasant and dis
charged as cured. In few years she
was again acting queerly and at times
became violent toward her husband
Again she was sent to Mt. Pleasant
and was released upon the request of
], her husband She seemed to be get
ting along all right until about six
weeks ago when she again became vi
olent and unmanageable She would
become angry and throw kettles, pots,
knives, wood or anything she could
lay her hands upon at her husband,
abuse and whip the children brutally
for trivial offenses and her husband
again applied for admission to the hos
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that a. few months rest and confine-
menr will make her all right again.
81 Hiram Moon one of the oldest and
most highly respected as well as best
knoWns residents of Lucas county, is
lying in very serious condition at his
home On Seventh and Court avenue
as result of a paralytic stroke sus-
tanned on Monday. Mr. Moon is IS
years old and has been poorly for
years and it is greatly feared that he
will not be able to survive the shock
of his physical system. Mr.. Moore
has been resident of Lucas county
for fifty years, living on a farm i'll Ce
dar township until some years age
when he moved to Charlton and has
been living here since Several years
ago he lost his wife and Immediately
after sustained a serious sick spell
from which he never fully recovered
He has many friends in and around
Charlton who hope for his speedy re
covery.
Quite an exciting, though not seri
Gus mixup occurred on the east side
of the square Monday afternoon, caus
ed by some ones careless driving bul
just where it was impossible to tell as
1T occurred SO quickly. E. d. Robinson
was driving his, fractions mule team
toaas lumber wagon when Dr. Throck
morton came along in light buggy
and in passing each other their vehi
c1es became tangled up and both par
ties We're badly shaken up. The doc
tors buggy and harness were some
what broken, but Mr.. Robinson came
out without a scratch, though it looked
for awhile as though it would be Sc
rious accident for both
The regular teachers meeting of the
teachers of the Charlton public
schools on Monday was especially in
> teresting and instructive. Besides
the regular teachers there were some
visitors present and after the regular
routine business of the meeting was
finished they were entertained and in
structed by two very scholarly and en-
Pertaining papers read by Miss Maggie
BEEN and Miss Jessie McKlveen. Miss
Beem's paper bore directly upon the
teachers work and was entitled The
Teachers Preparation Before Comins
TO Class" 1t pointed out in very in
teresting manner the Importance AM
advantage of a thorough preparation
by the teacher before coming to clas
and was well received Miss McKlveel
who has recently returned from an ey
tended tour of England, and the cent
nent, read very entertaining pape
on London, giving a very concise ant
graphic description of the worlds me
tropolis as she saw it, much to the en-
lightenment of the teachers present
Miss Blanche Brooks has returned
from her old home in Bussey, where
she went to attend the wedding Of {
sister last week. IS
Miss Margaret Gay has returned tt
her home in Charlton after a pleas
ant visit with her sister, Mrs j.. s
Young, at their country home in War
rem township.
John Wilson has resigned his posi-
ton in the Burlington freight house
at this place which he has held for the
past five years and expects to enter
other employment soon.
Robert Nolan has purchased lane
near Kirksville, Mo-, and expects tt
! move his family there to make theil
future home, next week. Mr. Charles
Schultz will move onto Mr. Nolan's
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