Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-01-28
Short Tales CONCERNING People You
Know.
THE VICINITY OF 0TTUMNA IN BRIEF
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
OF Your Acquaintance as chronic'ed
by Courier's Staff of Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Speak.
Charlton.

for the producer, but not so satIsfac-
tory to the consumer just as present.
Almost everything in the line OF feed
and provisions are much higher than
for many years previous Hay is now
selling for $t2 q ton loose or 55c
bale when baled. corn brings 64c
While oats are held at 43c Potatoes
command a ready sale at $l.l0 per
bushel while home grown apples arc
slow sale at zoe per peck and New
York stock still slower at 50c. Ralama-
zoo celery is out Of the market but
fine California is selling at l0c per
bunch. PaTsnips are drag on the
market at 21sc per pound. Owing to
keen competition among 'the stock .
buyers hogs and cattle command near
~ Chicsgo prices. the top on hogs
reaching $3.50, while the best cattle /
sci! at s499. EGGS are more plentiful
and sell readily at zoe per dozen. while |
butter is almost minus quantity and |
commands a price from 1Sc to zoe per
poand. The farmers realize that the
ECices Of all their products are higher
than they ere liable to be for some !
time sna are taking advantage of the
good roads and fine weather to market
all the stuff they can spare from the
farm.
w. M. Householder narrowly escap-
ed q aer.ous runaway on Wednesday.
He vas driving his well bred horse
Allie to sleigh when the shaft broke
IND came down against her legs pre-
venting her stopping until some boys
ran out and caught the sleigh, keeping
1t of her feet wien he stopped her,
The h,aaa Coal Co of this place is
making great Roadway with its new
shaft, three and half miles northeast
of town. The shaft is now completed,
the cages in and twelve men are en-
ployed regularly getting out the black
diamonds. Eight men work in the
shaft while three are above ground.
The coal which is Of a fine quality and
commands ready sale is called the
81 O." coal to distinguish it from 9th
ers on the market. AT present they
are only taking out what coal can be
sold around Charlton but even then it
Is hard work to keep all the haulers
supplied so great is the demand. The
grading around the shaft has been
done for the railroad and this week
Il party of surveyors sent by the pres
ident of the company in Illinois is at
work surveying route for the propos.
ed cut off from the Burlington tracks
to the mines There will be nothing
done toward building the track &c
town this winter but it is expected tc
open up work in earnest as soon as
the weather will permit and by th>
time snow flies next winter it is noped
that a track will be laid to the minf
and a substantial town to be called
Haven, after VIM. Haven, of Ottum
wa general manager of the company
will be completed and ready for active
work of mining on a large scale.
The two children of Mr.. and Mrs
S. L. Morrison. of Lincoln township
who have been confined to the house
with light attacks of smallpox for the
past few weeks, have so far recovered
as to be able to be around again. Thu
house has been thoroughly fumieated
Several farmers and citizens of Lu
cas- county are selling out their inter
ests here and preparing TO depart fo
Canada in the spring to take advan
tage Of the homestead laws OF tina
country.
S. G. Galloway, the only person il
Charlton who is afflicted with thu
smallpox, is reported as IN quite sc
rious condition and grave fears are en-
tertained for his recovery. This j
tine only serious case of smallpox S
far reported in Lucas county, the re
mainder being very light
j. G. Hanah, an old resident of thi
place but now located in Des Moines
was here Tuesday.
August Johnson, of Pleasant tow
ship, has sold his Lucas county farr
and purchased land in Nebraska wher
he expects to move his family in
short time.
Mrs. Frank Tindell, who has bee
so seriously i'll of typhoid fever fo
the past few months at the home {
her mother, Mrs. Whipple, of Cre'
ton, is reported as entirely recovere
and able to return to her home i
Charlton.
Mrs. S. B. Ralston has departed fc
ST. Joseph Mo-, where she will ente
the hospital and undergo a surgics
operation for the removal of a tumo
Mr.. and Mrs. James Epperson, {
Bur Oak, Kansas, is visiting at tn
home OF her mother. Mrs. Sydne
Wells, of Cedar township.
Mrs Anna Mauk. of Tabor, is spen
ing few days in the city, the gnest {
her parents Mr. and Mrs. e ID. Ba
ger
Mrs. Il II. Barton, of Lincoln tow
ship. is laid up with a broken ankl
the result Of a fall Wednesday afte
noon she stepped out on the il
ground when her foot slipped and 81
fell with her whole weight on the foe
sprainire the ligaments very had
and breaking one bone of the ankle.
i. c. Moger. formerly a resident
this plpcc, and for years superinten
ent of the county farm. but now locs
ed in Marshal1town. YVES calling
: old friends in Charlton on Wednegda
Miss Dora Iiebarger, Of Washir
ton township. has resigned her DO
ton as domestic at the county fal
and returned 10 her home.
Mrs .av"H HIcCQnkey, Of Street,
Ill., il. spo~2inr a few days visiting h
81 Inotho" ?Fn" =. l. Simmons, and
pawine cid ar~nairtances in Charlie
tho ho1,n Of hor girlhood.
Mrs Grace Brooch is able to
around tho house again after VIC
serious sick spell of two weeks du