Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-10-21

home Wednesday from Washington,
u. Z. where they have been attending
the national encampment of the G. A
R.
Mrs. G. L. Meredith is visiting her
parents near Florfs this week.
Married, at the residence of the
brides mother, Mrs. Mary Angspurger,
at high noon, Wednesday October Is,
Miss Bertha Angspurger to Edwin
Johnson, of Mt. Pleasant Quite a
number of invited guests were present
to witness the ceremony. The young
couple left on the :15 train, amid
showers OF rice and with the best wish
es OF their many friends. for Mt. Pleas
ant, where they will make their future
home.
w. o. Meredith Is in Fairfield this
week, looking after his business inter.
ests at that place.
Mrs. Fannie Heath and Mrs. Elmer
Plank, of st. Louis. attended the Angs-
purger and Johnson wedding Wednes-
day
Murray.
Murray, Oct. 20.-J. T. Claver and
wife have returned from Omaha.
j. d. Sparks is quite sick The re-
ception which was to have been given
Friday evening in his honor, was post
poned until he should recover.
Two of Mr.. Wetzel's children have
the fever but are slowly recovering.
The gang on the work train are re-
moving the slack from the old track
and are hauling it west of Murray
on the new track as the grade has
been settled by the numerous rains.
j. E. Wick has moved to the John
Allen home for the winter. Mr.. and
Mrs Allen will spend the colder
months in warmer cline for the bet.
terment of the latter's health.
Auetta Larmor spent few days at
the c. A. Bott home south of Murray
last week.
Mrs. Rachel Cole returns to her home
in Audubon Wednesday on No. 8.
Miss Burd, of Thayer, visited the
school recently.
The surveyors are at work driving
stakes along the east and west road.
There is quite land slide in the first
grade west from Murray along the
railroad one mile.
1 Mesdames Hugh and Frank Conner
visited at Maplewood home Thursday.
Miss Warren is at her Des Moines
home this week.
Ransom Grace and May Arnold
spent Wednesday evening at the Lor.
NOR home.
Mesdames Garfield and Falkner at
tended the missionary convention at
Ottumwa last week.
EddyviIIe.
j Eddyville, Oct 20.-Charley Harper
has been suffering from an liberated
tooth.
Henry Lusher, west of town, has
been a severe sufferer from paralysis
but is improving.
| Mrs Maggie Brunt has been build.
ing an addition to her residence on
Second street.
Dr. Il. L.. Bay reports several cases
Of lung trouble among children.
F. M. Epperson was in Oskaloosa
on business last Tuesday.
4 DR.. F. e. Vance moved from the
brick property on the corner of
4 Church and Vance streets to his own
! property a. block south last Monday
4 L. @. rHomef moved from the Rev., ]
e. Van Wrinkle property, corner OF
/ Fourth and Mill streets, to the prop
erty vacated by Dr. Vance and Mr.
Wilson will soon move from the L. E.
Danforth tenant property on Third
street, to the Van Wrinkle property.
j. E. Hughes of near Lakonta, has
4 returned from Knowles county, Mo.
where he bought so aces of land at
$50 an acre, and may move there.
The following are the newly elected
4 IH,y l..
w. S. Shinn,, superintendent; Miss
Thompson, assistant; Miss Eva Kus-.
sart, secretary; Irwin Terrell, treasur.
er; Miss Lucy Kussart, chorister: AL
ia Muller, organist. The following
are the new officers of the reorganiz-.
ed Epworth League calendar: Mrs.
4 VIII Stuber, president; Miss Grace
Hartman, vice president; Miss Eva
kussart, secretary; Wilbur Hall, treas.
urer. The next meeting will be held
at the home of Miss Clara Hartman
Thursday evening, Oct. 80.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Dunning were in
! Ottumwa Friday on business.
Mrs. Charles Morrison and son,
/ Poulton, of Oskaloosa, visited from
Friday till Monday night with Mrs,
| Morrison's sister, Mrs. w. I'll. Allison,
going from here to Ottumwa to be the
guest of another sister, Mrs. Charles
Poulton, this week.
There was a social dance Saturday
night at the Edgar Roberts home,
south of town.
Rufus Williams was an Ottumwa
business caller recently.
Mrs. John Clark of Fourth street,
has been in poor health.
Mrs. j. A. Collins and son, Master
Bayard, northwest of town, returned