Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-22

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here attended the party given at the
Allen home, southeast of here Tuesday
evening.
E. L. Peterson and family visited at
| Charley Anderson's last Sunday.
Mystic.
Mystic, July 22.-The heaviest of all
the heavy rains of the season fell here
Thursday night. Considerable dam
age was done in this city by water
| flooding the stores.
w. N. Newman visited in Milan, Mo-,
| last week.
j. w. Calvert visited in Wisconsin
last week. returning home Thursday.
J. P. Thornton and wife returned
Friday from an extended visit in Illi-
nois.
Mrs. Chas. Pearson is visiting rela-
tives in Abba.
Cash Sexton died at his home here
Friday, at the age of "a years.
Miss Emma Cate cisited in sOttum-
wa over Sunday.
| H. G. Street represented the United
Mine Workers of Mystic at the ma
tional convention at Indianapolis last
week.
!. Surveyors for the Iowa & st. Louis
railroad have been working east and
west of Mystic for the past week.
d. B. Forsythe contemplates making
trip to San Francisco in about two
weeks. @
Ross De Lapp and wife are back to
Mystic after brief residence in Ari,
IONA.
Mrs. Katreen Beer died at her home
north of Mystic July 16, at the age of
6S years.
Miss Anna Anderson of Abba visited
relatives here during the past week.
Floris.
1 /. Floris, July 22-John Johnson ship.
ped his threshing machine to Hol.
| brook, Nebraska, Monday evening
where he expects to thresh this sea.
son. Will ROUGH from here went with
him.
Miss Maud Hart of Centervile Wis.
tied over Thursday with her uncle
/ Thomas Cheetham.
John Plank of Bloomfield was bus
mess caller here last week.
Rev. C. W. Heady from New Hart
ford is visiting relatives and friends
here.
On Thursday the remains of the lit
tie child of Mr. and Mrs. Lou Woge
of Cedar Rapids were shipped here
for interment The funeral was
preached by Rev. E. A. Hastings at
4 the Christian church Interment was
made at the l. o. o. F. cemetery.
Il Many people are going to the river
10 fho oh T. Il
out of its banks and doing some dam
age to the crops along the creek.
!. Murray.
! Murray, July 22.-Rev. Bott and
family, A. H. Sells and family, Mrs
4 White and daughter Lulu, and Mrs. J
IS. Ulm, passed very pleasant day
with the family of G. A. Bot, west OF
. town Thursday.
! Mrs. Mamie Klein is visiting hel
sister near Union.
Il Robert Harlem, who has been fol
4 several months in Omaha, Neb., arriy
ed home Friday
Mesdames Russell and Halter were
guests at the Jacob Haller home south
!, of Murray Thursday.
i Mr. Morris, south of town, is in
Missouri seeking for home.
4 Mr.. and Mrs William Catcher and
| little Eunice, who have spent the
greater part of the summer in MUIR
Tray, expect to leave today for theil
home in Chicago. They have many
warm friends among the acquaint
Iances made while here.
i M. F. Grigg returned from Chicago
Friday.
j Mesdames T. ]. Halter, Russell, OF
Kennesau, Kansas, J. S. Ulm of Hum
eston, G. E. Bot, Anna White and
Rev. Bott and Miss Lulu White were
entertained for tea at the A. II. Sells
home Friday evening.
Mrs. ]. S. Ulm will return to he1
home in Humeston Wednesday, after
a weeks stay with her parents here
4 Miss Nola Garrett of Des MQines is
Visiting her many friends here this
week.
j Charles Hoing is able to be out
again.
| Mrs. Rae Russell and son, Harry
Twill depart for their home in Kenne
sau, Kansas next week.
i Joe Huffman will attend the summe,
school in Osceola next week.
j A committee was appointed to ar
range the program for the union
T; young peoples meeting which will be