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Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-07-31
Exiine.

Exline, July 30.-The Royal coal
mine will be started up in few days
with Joseph Drake as foreman. The
tramway is being repaired and every
thing arranged in working order
Mrs. j. o. aMontieth and little son
Ralph, went to Milton last Saturday
to visit few days with friends.
Miss Jessie Pittman came over from
Cincinnati last Saturday and visited
over Sunday with relatives.
Miss Agnes May of Abba is visiting
relatives here and at Cincinnati.
Mrs. John Mccoy was on the sick
list last week.
Miss Matte Rowley of the northern
part of the township is in very poor
health.
Uncle William Hutchinson, who has
been living here with relatives for
about two years, intends to leave in q
short time for Idaho.
| Miss Helen Benefited of Exline will
leave the latter part of August fol
Broken Bow, Neb, where she has two
sisters, besides other relatives. She
will be absent several months.
Mrs. M. eastman will teach the Elk
| line school this winter with Miss Rosa
Baughman as assistant They are botf
good teachers. Mrs. eastman wa:
4 once candidate for county superintend
ent in this county.
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Sunnyside.

Sunnyside, July 30.-Grandma Win
iger, who has been sufferer for many
years, died July "a, and was buried
July 81, in the Moulton cemetery.
Miss Ada Linsay of Coatsville visit
ed Sunday with her sister Anna Linsay.
l. S. Penney had large fat steer
struck by lightning Sunday night
Columbus Croft and wife and B. H.
Sisson and wife drove to Dean Sun
day evening to see the Charlton river
Lonzo Kimble and wife called on
Anna Fleming Sunday afternoon.
Fay Richison and wife visited at the
Penney home Sunday.
G. A. Yates and wife were in Center
Vile Friday.
Bertha Rinnicker is on the sick list
Frank Harris Sundayed in Moulton
John Mccoy is visiting at the Yates
home.
The Christian people of Orleans viii
hold their annual basket dinner mex
Sunday.
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Laddsdale,

Laddsdale, July 3O.-The people of
this place attended the ball game Sun
day at Eldon.
There will be box social at Mrs.
B. Williams August 4.
Mrs. J. Johnson was shopping in Ell
don Saturday afternoon
Thomas Sconce left his work in the
mine Monday on account of illness.
The game between the Grays ahd
the Bushwhackers was very interest
ing. The score was to 2 in favor Of
the Grays.
Mr.. Hanks of Ottumwa visited G
Myers Sunday.
Mrs. Fosdick and Mrs. Hinkle were
the guests at Mrs. j. G. Sconce's home
Sunday.
Mrs G. Jones was shopping IN Eldor
Saturday evening.
Dave Yoater is visiting his brother
John, at this place.
James Champ was shopping in Eldol
Saturday afternoon.
j. Carey attended the ball game il
Eldon Sunday.
w. B. Williams is much better at thi
time.
Will Davis made business trip t
Ottumwa Saturday evening.
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Birmingham.

Birmingham, July 30.-Mrs. Lloyd
Moore of Long Beach, Cal, departed
for her home Wednesday after an ex-
tended visit with relatives here.
Mrs. Jay Calhoun and Miss Madge
Norris returned home Monday after an
over Sunday visit with friends in OF
tumwa.
Mrs. G. L. Craft and daughter and
Mrs. Carroll Stentz are visiting their
parents Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Goodson.
Misses Marie Cory and Ida Hope
left Wednesday for Colfax Springs
where they will remain several weeks
Mrs. Joel Brown is visiting relatives
at Keosauqua and Cantril this week.
Charley Fry of Knoxville spent Sun
day with his parents.
Miss Stella Goodall of Oklahoma is
here to assist in caring for her moth
er, who has been SO seriously ill.
Miss Nettie Horse has returned from
visit to her aunt at Centerville
| Mrs. Harry Little and two children
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Lebanon.

Lebanon.
Lebanon, July 3O.-T. ]. Muir of
Keosauqua was in town Wednesday.
Mrs. Koonts and son Fletcher were
in Milton Friday.
Quarterly meeting was held at the
NJ E. church Saturday and Sunday.
Elder Cooper was here. There were
eight received in the church.
Frank Morris of Bloomfield spent
Sunday with his father, G. E. Morris.
Miss Estella Humphrey went to Mil
ton Monday.
Ola Evans of Troy spent Saturday
with Lewis Conner.
Ned Harrison and r. G.. Conner
we're in Cantril Monday.
Glen Brooks and wife and Arthur
Vinson of Eldon are visiting friends
here.
Irish Bend.
Irish Bend, July 3O.-Mrs. Hereford
and daughter are visiting relatives at
Kirkville. Mo.
Plowman Bros. lost four acres of po-
tatoes and one acre of pickles by the
recent high water.
/ Mr.. and Mrs Robert Kerr of Mem
DlllS, NlO dlS NloltiuG lSloliNSo IL ehis'
vicinity for few days.
4 ]. e. Sheafer and son intend to take
a trip to Dakota.
Splendid weather for the harvest
4 the past few days and all the farmers
surely made hay while the sun shone.
C. Breckinridge has force of men
repairing bridges damaged and made
4 dangerous by the high water
Samuel Shafer, Harvey Stout and
Walter Crandall are working for Sam
uel Roush during haying.
Jeffie Baird and family of Illinois
are visiting relatives here.
M. Lee and w. R. Strait passed
4 through here enroute to Keosauqua
Monday.
Milton.
+ Milton. July 3O.-Married in For
1 Madison, July 16, Harry Hill OF thi
place and Miss Iva Irene Holmes o
: Streator, Illinois. Mr.. Hill is assistan
: postmaster here.
Mrs. u. G. Rice attended the MARI
age of her sister Miss Jessie Trimble
2 of Ottumwa, recently.
e Charles Walls of Kansas has Dough
s the McClain farm of I'll acres east c
/ town.
d Miss Buelah Casady is visiting Mr.
l. R. j. Ingersol in Promise City.
e A. A. Mustard is building barn fc
l. William Burrows.
e Mrs. Mary Moore is visiting rel'
3 tives here.
A. B. Hale shipped three cars {
/, hogs and G. E. Norvell one of horse
It last week
Ben Trimble visited his sister Mr.
,fI u. G.. Rice, recently.
Mrs. Hardwood has returned to hi
r home in Bloomfield, after visiting wit
r, her daughter, Mrs. J. R. Haney.
Miss Lillian Johnson is visiting re
t. atives. in Bloomfield
n j. F. Salmon was doing business
Cantril last week.
sr The services at the high school pal
is are well attended. Rev. George
Troub of the Presbyterian churt
st preached last Sunday.
f. P. Huddleston was in Bloomfie
it. recently.
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Amador.

Amador, July 30.-J. H. Valley, mail
carrier on Route No. 2, was off &C duty
several days last week. His place was
filled by Roy Foust, the sub carrier.
M. l.. Haning spent few days last
week with his friend, Russell Wellman
of Ottumwa.
Ira Haning will teach the winter
term of school at Wellman.
Clear Crosse has the whooping cough.
F. L. Baker and wife and son visited
at Mt. Zion Sunday.
M. l.. Haning and Bertha Bachman
dined at e. Haning's Saturday.
The little child of w. l.. Carey and
wife is quite ill.
Mrs. ]. w. Wellman visited Mrs
Carey Monday.
| M L. Haning, who is attending med,
ical school in st. Louis, is home for a
brief visit.
Mrs. Turner of Blakesburg visited
the family of John Phillips Sunday.
Mrs. w. S. Wellman and daughter
Maude visited Mrs. Cloyd Monday.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bailey will entertain a
party of friends Friday evening at
their home east of town
/ Mac Riddle, VINO mas Deen staying al
| A. Wilkinson's returned to his home in
Blakesburg Saturday.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. Will Smith of brakes
vile were over Sunday guests at the
J. A. Day home on Sheridan avenue.
Carl Schwartz was in town Tuesday
Mr.. and Mrs. John Lafold visited
Mrs. Kent Tuesday.
Mint Nichols and wife of Nebraska
are visiting relatives here.
Mrs. e. Day returned recently from
visit in Kansas.
Mrs. John Day and daughter Achs;
: visited one day recently at the o. Da.
home in the city.
John Phillips and daughter Mimi,
were in the city Tuesday.
Mrs. Wyatt returned Sunday from
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Foster.

Foster.
Foster, July 31.-Mrs. ]. G. Hale OF
Ottumwa is visiting her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Terry.
Mrs. Henry Manor and Mrs. John
Terry were callers in Hilton Monday.
Miss Annie Erickson and Lizzie
Price went to Abba Monday to at
tend county normal.
Mrs. George HuXford was called to
Hamilton last week by the severe SICK
ness of her daughter, Mrs. e. M. Odes.
Dave and Will Lewis moved their
families from Hiteman to Foster last
Monday and will make this place their
| future home.
Frank Manor is a severe sufferer
from, an attack of inflammatory rheu-
matism.
The infant daughter of Mr. and Mrs.
Conner Hughes is very sick with but
little hopes of recovery.
There was a lodge of Foresters in
stituted here Monday night, the lodge
starts out with good membership
and bright prospects.
The postmaster, Cyrus Hickenloop-
err, has resigned the Office and will
move to Boulder, Colo, soon. Allen
4 Decker will succeed Mr.. Hickenlooper
as postmaster.
1 The engineers are setting the grade
stakes for the switch to the Shepherd
mines and the grading of the road and
4 sinking of the shaft will be started in
+ a few DAYS. Ben Fisher moved his
family into the Jesse Pabst house last
Saturday.
Theron Hoadly moved into the house
he recently bought of the coal com
pany.
; John Terry and Henry Manor went
! to Eddyville Tuesday to attend the
funeral of Sylvester Beedle, who was
struck and instantly killed by trair
on the Wabash at Hilton last Sunda!
evening.
7 Agency. M
Agency, July 31.-Miss Roxy Parke
spent Sunday with her friends, tn
;. Misses Maude and Name Reynolds Q
], Agency.
! Miss Fay Shaw Of Hedrick is visit
ing few days with friends and rela
tives at this place.
. H. ], Wertz and family spent Sur
9 day at the home Of George Spears
north of Pekan.
Miss Dot Sampson Of South Ottun
wa, is spending few days at the HON
n of George Shearer.
h Stanton Yeager and Dora Fisher r.
turned from Cedar Falls, last Satu
j. day, where they have been attendin
school. MSS Dora is at present a
n tending the institute in Ottumwa.
The farmers are busily engaged
k threshing in this vicinity.
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Fremont.

Fremont.
Fremont, July 30.-Rev. Newt By
rom, who lives at Obey will move
back here September /.
Mr. Wilson and nephew of near
Beacon came down Monday after a
horse and saddle that had been taken
from the formers barn on Wednesday
evening of last week and belonging
to the nephew. Arthur Lathrop,
whose parents live east of town, was
charged with taking the horse. Mar-
shall Nell Philips located the horse on
Saturday evening and telephoned Os-
kaloosa When they came down they
took Constable Hainer Dinsmore with
them. They secured the horse and
saddle but young Lathrop could not
be found.
The Ladies Aid of the M. E. church
served ice cream and cake Saturday
evening in the lecture room OF the
church.
Geo. Beck and family are still al
Mt. Pleasant, at the bedside OF Burton
Beck, who is yet dangerously ill.
Ed. C. Hill and Chiever Caves, spent
| Sabbath at Bloomfield.
DR.. Mayfeather of independence is
here looking up location.
John R. Dale went to Chicago Sab
bath for a few days.
The farmers in this section viii
about clean up their harvest this weel
and some threshing will be done. This
weather is fine on farms that have
been SO wet.
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Competine.

Competine, July 3O.-John Purdin of
Fremont was here Saturday on bust
ness.
lee Fleener of Hedrick was here
Friday buying horses.
. Messrs o. E. Dickey, H. N. Dickins
and Clyde Dickey went to Missouri
Monday to look at land.
Jim Fuller returned Monday from
the northern part of the state.
The Batavia Telephone company is
putting up it's poles and lines this
week.
E. Beck of Hedrick was here Thurs
day on business.
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Avery.

Avery July 3O-G. w. Moore and
Charles Petit and Misses Mabel
French and Gertrude Amsbury were
guests of Miss Mae Petit of near
Cuba last Sunday
Miss Ida Pearson entertained the
choir at her home Monday evening.
Refreshments were served and the ev-
ening was enjoyed by all present. The
choir is composed of about twenty
voices.
Mrs. G. A. Montgomery was visiting
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Pleasant Grove.

Pleasant Grove, July 30-Mr. and
Mrs. Hugh Brooks are visiting in this
vicinity.
Miss Emma Mcdonald called ON
Mrs. Alice Brooks one afternoon the
past week.
Dewey Hancock, who has been help.
ing A. Z. Albert harvest has returned
home 80
Wesley-P edan has gone to South Da-
kota to see his son, Joseph, who was
badly hurt while working with a
threshing machine in that state.
Alice Brooks was an Ottumwa caller
Monday. 5sj5
Mrs. Laura Hagerty called on her
aunt, Mrs. Alice Brooks, Saturday at
ternoon.
MI. and Mrs. John Hagerty spent
Sunday with their daughter, Mrs. John
Hale.
J. B. Kendrick and wife were Ottunf
wa callers last Thursday.
Martin Smith and wife were Ottum
wa shoppers Friday
Harvesting has progressed very nice
ly this week, lots of grain having beer
cared form the last few days. 4
Frank Deford OF Laddsdale was ii
this vicinity Saturday
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CAUSE OF EXPLOSION.
An Open Lamp Causes YOUNGSTOWN Dis
aster.

Johnstown, Pa, July 29.-The coro
ner's jury investigating the Rolling
Mill mine disaster on July TO-
filed their verdict yesterday. They find
that the explosion was caused by some
person or persons, to the jury un'
known, taking into room No. 2, sixth
heading, where gas was known to ex
list, an open lamp, using the same il
| direct violation of mine rules and reg
ulations of the Cambria Steel com
| many
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y
Pulaski, July 30.-Mrs. S. U. Kinsin-
ger, who has been visiting here for the
past month. returned to her home in
Haynes Center, Neb., last Tuesday.
Miss Bessie Reed entertained the
high school class. efs1901 at her home
Saturday evening. Tie evening was
spent in games andy music. Refresh
mentsc, consisting of ice cream and
cake, were served. All enjoyed them
selves to the fullest extent. Those
present were Misses Laura Nellie, Jen.
ME Lee, Eula Dunn. Eslie Hayes, Nellie
Gleason, Lillian Jay, Mary Saunders
and Fred Murphy.
Mrs. j. H. Allen Of North Topeka
Kansas, visited old friends here last
week.
Miss Ida Thayer spent a couple O
days in Bloomfield last week.
Mrs. o. Childes and children OF Ster
ling, Illinois, are visiting her brother
G. e. Busey of this place.
Mrs. L. w. Schwartzendrover and lit
tie daughter of Bloomfield, visited il
town over Sunday.
Mrs. Jennie Miligan is visiting he
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Brunk. thi
week.
o. e. Ten Eyck and family left las
week for trip through Colorado.
Miss Ora Hendricks of Cantril visit
| ed relatives here last week.
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San Luis obispo Affected.

San Luis Obispo, Cal, July 29.-Two
distinct earthquake shocks have been
experienced here. The first was the
heaviest and lasted three seconds.
The Washington times., 1902-02-16

One of the great aims of medicine is
the prevention of disease. The immediate
duty of a physician is to alleviate human
suffering; his most striking contribution
to the continued welfare of the race is
the teaching OF prevention of disease
Many of the preventable diseases are
preventable only by the exercise of die.
tary and sanitary precautions of more
or less precise character, as, for exam
pie, typhoid fever, the prevention of
which requires the most rigid supervision
of food, drink, and excreta. Pneumonia of
the acute and ordinary kind need never
occur could one always live in an even
temperature.
Some of the necessary precautions for
the avoidance of disease are at times I'M
obtainable. and too often of a nature
which involves more forethought than the
average person in health Will give
But there is one disease. malignant in
many aspects. which traversed the entire
world. which frequently changed the his
tory of nations and sacrificed millions of
lives. which is entirely. absolutely pre-
ventable without other effort or precau-
ton upon the part of any one than a
temporary inconvenience few times dur
ing life. That disease is smallpox. which
is now prevalent in many sections of the
country
When Smallpox Was Yer, Common.
This disease was once one of the great
scourges Of the world. Up to the begin
ming Of the ninth century it was far more
common than bronchitis is today Scarce
ly anyone escaped an attack OF it, and
the death roll from it was greater than
from any other one cause in history.
In 1877. during an epidemic. 20 per cent
OF the population OF Greenland died OF
smallpox Between 1888 and 1872 &c per
cent Of all deaths in Glasgow were from
this cause. In Sweden, for twenty-eight
years before 1900, there were 900 deaths
yearly per million of population. To get
an idea of what this means, suppose that
the United States were to have $4,000
pes;ons die in one year from one disease
This tremendous total represents what
was in proportion occurring annually in
Sweden. Throughout Europe, in the asy-
The Washington times., 1902-02-16


that island. and in November. 1901, small
pox was unknown on the island.
The vaccine used today is no longer
taken from scabs or from sore arms as
formerly. young . sound heifer is test
ed by veterinarian repeatedly until
soundness Is secured and so recorded. She
is then cleaned carefully and vaccinated.
She is kept clean. watched and fed pre-
cisely as human hcing under treatment
in hospital. When the vesicles arc
ripe the heller is cleaned again and the
lymph removed under the same precau
lions as obtain in a hospital for surgical
work. This lymph is. mixed with glycerine
and steriliZed. ss -
1t is tested twice en- subjects whose
state is recorded carefully before being
sold or used for public distribution. When
all these precautions are observed and
the lymph used while fresh it repre-
sents the best human skill employed Tor
the protection from a hidenus disease Of
the highest earthly creation. man, one of
whose chief aims on earth is 10 serve
his fellow man.
The Washington times., 1902-02-16
THE MAN IN THE TOWER.
How Citize of indianapolis Are
Warned of Fire.

Warned of Fire.
II anyone that has a telephone in his
house hears it ring, and en- taking down
the receiver hears voice at the other
end Of the line say This is the man in
the courthouse tower" he shouldn't do
as young woman die some tire ago
when thus called-laughlngly answer, rs
it, and hang up the receiver.
The man in the courthouse tower is no
impostor, and when he calls UP by tel
phone 1t is well for one to listen TO what
he has to say. as he is trying to locate
suspicious looking smoke In ones neigh
borhood and wants enc TO make closer
investigation for him. 1t may be that
upon looking one will find that it is ones
own barn or shed that is burning. 1t
seems that everyone in the city would
know that there is a Waterman in the
courthouse tower looking out for fires,
for he has been there many years, but
evidently there are many persons ignor
ant of the fact
The watch tower is one of the most
novel features of the fire department.
and it is doubtful if anywhere in the
United States there is another city the
size of indianapolis which has such sta
tion in connection with it's fire-fghters.
The idea of having man placed above
the city to look out for fires was carried
out by ex-Chief Webster. who is respon-
sible for a number of other valuable
ideas which are used in the department
at the present time. Ii was in the early
part of his long years as chief that MIR
Webster conceived the idea that it would
save the department much unnecessary
work and loss Of time If there were n
watchman in a tower somewhere in the
centre of the city where it would be easy
FOR him 10 see fires in all parts of town.
What gave rise to this thought Of Chief
Webster's was the fact that the depart
ment, in answering many alarms, had
been going in the wrong direction. The
reason for this was that the people, at
night in one part of the city. would see
the reflection of the blaze of b,sning
house or stable in another part, and. sup
posing that it was not very far away-for
the light from a fire always looks much
closer than it really is-they would send
in an alarm. in answering which the de-
partment would find that ii had been 60
ing the wrong way, and then would have
to turn about and go to the blaze.
All of this delay, of course, occasioned
much loss of property. To remedy this
Chief Webster thought of building a tower
on the fire headquarters, but later he re-
ceived permission from the county com
missioners to put a man in the court
house tower. and on May L. 1888, the first
Waterman was stationed there on a four
days trial The result was so satisfac-
tory that when the four days had expired
it was decided that tthe man in the
courthouse tower should be n fixture,
and from that time to this indianapolis
has never been without a Waterman
whose duty it is to look out for the most
deadly enemy city can have, and that is
fire Fundamentals Journal
The Washington times., 1902-02-16

had sent them to him from India One
of them must have dropped out Of HE
pocket when he lay down. and the soil on
these flats Is so rich that in one night
1t had grown up pretty considerable
distance and takenthe professors shelter
tent with it
Il looked at the speaker for awhile"
said the man who had visited the farm.
land then left the place. wondering il a
sojourn in the Garden OF Freaks tended
to abnormaIIy develop the imagination
The reporter has been unable as yet to
find the man who owned and slept under
the shelter tent on the occasion described
by the sad-faced agriculturist. but there
are numerous papier mache models or
some of the freak products OF the farm on
the flats now on exhibition in the mu
scum OF the Agricultural Department.