Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-08-14

friends at Macon, Mo-, stopped off here
Saturday for an over Sunday visit with
his brother Charley.
Finley Names and family of Soap
Creek visited here Sunday with Frank
Petit and wife.
Lizzie Ware returned home Saturday
evening from two weeks visit with
friends in Ottumwa.
Miss Fan ROUGH of Floris, called
on Mrs. A. W. Martin Tuesday morn
ing, while on her way to Bloomfield
to attend the normal.
Frank Petit who is foreman of the
Rock Island section at Seymour spent
Sunday here with his family.
j. B. Lafferty and son VIM E. came
up Saturday evening from Milton for
a visit at the Mrs. E. A. Patterson
home.
j. w. Bolivar made two trips to Kan
sas City last week, buying up three
carloads of young cattle
Tom Ware and wife of Ottumwa Wis
tied last week at the parental Isaac
Ware home.
Ralph Miller is spending a few days
at the parental j. w. Miller home.
Mrs. S. F. Mcconnell of Bloomfield
visited here Wednesday with Mrs.
Samuel Mcconnell.
Ola Wells and neicc and nephew
Prudie and Penny Wells are visiting
today at the A. w. Rankin home, north
of here.
Laura Spangler of Ottumwa is Wis
iting here with her sister-in-law. Mrs.
Jessie Spangler
Mrs. Emma Reeves and little daugh-
ter of Bloomfield visited here Sunday
with the formers cousin, Mrs. Olivia
Toole
Thomas Putnam is lying very i'll at
his home with little hope of recovery.
A number of people from here had
expected to attend the Sunday scchool
convention at Drakeville last Sunday.
but owing to the rain were unable to
get there.
Annie Coffman left last week for a
years visit with her sister, Mrs. Irena
Minis of Maquoketa.
Ellsworth, Aaron and George Eman-
uel and families of Lick and Perry
townships, and Albert Mum and fam
lily of near Drakeville visited Sunday,
August 8, at the A. W. Rankin home,
north of here.
Mary Coffman visited recently in
Ottumwa with her sister, Mrs. Chas.
Davis, and her aunt, Mrs. r. B. Ed
monds.
There is to be preaching services
at Center school house Sunday Au-
gust II.
friends gathered in at the William
Howk's sixtieth birthday. Mrs. Howk
received several useful and beautiful
presents.
Belknap camp, M. w. A., is to give
an ice cream supper in the Congrega-
tional church yard Saturday evening,
August 90. Proceeds for the benefit
OF the camp. Everyone is cordially in
vited to attend.
Little Lucy Bernice Wage, who died
suddenly Wednesday, July Is, was not
quite year old. Her first birthday
would have been next Sunday, but the
course of her brief earthly existence
was long enough for the little one to
bind herself by the strongest ties to
everyone who knew her. She was an
unusually beautiful child with sweet,
friendly manner which won love in
stantly. To her. parents she came as
ray of sunshine and to her eight
year-old brother she was an idolized
playmate. Always well, always hap
Ply, laughing and bright she was sun
beam in the home and a delight to ev-
cry relative and friend. Never had
babe more admirers, more to love her,
than little Lucy Bernice and the grief
felt at her death could not be greater
If she had lived many years instead of
one. The sorrowing parents have the
beautiful memory of that one happy
year to influence their lives for all
time, and they know that the lovely
little daughter is not lost, ''only gone
away" The little one was i'll but a
few days and passed on in spite of all
that human love could do to keep her
here. She was taken to the old home
in Floris for burial.