Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-09-09


j. D. Reno home Sunday.
Miss Cora Frazier, of Eldon. COM
menccd the fall term of school at
Iampa Monday.
Misses Lola and Sadie Anderson, OF
Creston, and Mrs Anna Webb, OF Pack
wood, visited Mrs. May Reno Wednes-
day.
Mr. and Mrs. G. w. Giltner were in
Ottumwa on business Saturday.
Misses May Warder, Ona Carter,
Flora Carson and Allie Kreigh were
calling on friends in Yampa Sunday.
Ben Reno, OF Davis. county, visited
his father, F. NJ Reno, and attended
the Eldon fair last week
S. A. Beall made business trip to
Ottumwa Saturday
Miss Cora Gay returned to her home
in Missouri last week after an extend
ed visit in this vicinity and near
Agency.
Walter Napziger and Scott Hilton
and Misses Ada Napziger and Nellie
Miller attended the camp meeting at
Birmingham Sunday.
e. N. Steiner was in Ottumwa Satur-
bay attending the republican county
| convention.
G. B. Morrison left for Illinois on
business Monday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Rifle visited
| friends in Hedrick Sunday.
| Miss Lizzie Carman, OF Agency, is
visiting friends in Yampa this week.
| Abba.
Abba, Sept S.-Alfred H. ,Haddon,
| of ,<>1y, ILL =,
first person from this county to be
sent to the state hospital at Mt. Pleas
ant for dipomania. He was before the
commissioners of insanity Saturday
but upon being examined and the evil
dence of insanity being insufficient he
was taken before the district court,
which tribunal found him to be prop
er subject for treatment at the state
hospital at Mt. Pleasant for dipsoma-
MIA and to that institution he was COM
mitted Saturday afternoon.
Gilbert Thayer. aged 79 years 10
months and days, died at the home
of his daughter Mrs. Benjamin F. By
erley. Saturday night, September &, at
| II o'clock, of old age. Funeral ser.
vices were held at the Ben F. Byerley
nome this afternoon, at 2 o'clock, Rev.
W. V. Written, of the Episcopal
church, officiating. The services were
in charge of the Masonic lodge here,
! deceased having been member of
that order.
A license was issued Saturday for
the marriage OF Harry G. Lytle, aged
"a years, of Hickory, to Miss Mary
Madison, aged 20 years, of Hooking.
| No band concert was given Satur-
day evening. as mark of respect to
Otto L. Meissner, member of the
band, whose wife was buried Saturday
afternoon.
The public schools of Abba opened
1 their fall term this morning.
Harry e. Blanchard, of Des Moines,
a former Abba boy, is sojourning in
Europe. In letter from London, En-
gland, recently received from him by a
friend here, he stated he would visit
Paris and other European capitals be-
fore returning to America the latter
part of September.
| Daniel T. Pheney went to st. Paul
Saturday, where he joined the advance
of the King sDodo' company for a
tour of the Pacific coast.
Mr.. and Mrs: John B. Lloyd, of
Shoals, Ind, are visiting relatives and
friends in Abba.
Mrs. Mary Try Duncan and son,
George Ury, of1Chicago, are visiting at
the home of Mrs. Duncan's parents,
/ Mr.. and Mrs. John M. Wilson.
! Lee Rove ACCOMPANIED bv his sis
ter, Mrs. Thayer, of Blakesburg, re-
/ turned home yesterday from months
visit at San Francisco, Cal, and other
Pacific coast points and points in Col
! Grade.
A large crowd of Albians went to OF
tumwa Saturday night and witnessed
the Last Days of Pompeii" at Cald-
wells park by the Pain big company.
Mr.. and Mrs. al Decker, of Foster
spent Sunday in Abba.
/ Mr.. and Mrs. A. R. Barnes, of Mo
ravia, Surdayed in Abba.
/ DR.. and Mrs. Allen Jenkins, of Bus
sey, visited relatives and friends here
yesterday.