Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-03-13
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Short Tales Concerning People You
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THE VICINITY OF OTIUMWA IN BRIEF
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
OF Your Acquaintance as chronicied
by courier's Staff CT Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Speak.
Charlton.

Charlton.
Charlton, March 11.-Rev. j. w. Has
tie of the Christian church preached
two veryintefesting andinstructive ser
mons Sunday. The morning sermon
was to the members of Mr.. Hastie's
own congregation and was on
Hospitality" He showed what true
hospitality was and urged the people
to practice it more frequently. In the
evening he preached one of the strong
est and most convincing sermons to
unbelieverS that was ever delivered in
Charlton. His subject was SIS the
Bible Inspired and Why?" He hand
led the subject in an earnest straight
forward forcible manner Taking up
in turn all the objections of the he
retic and %disposing of them in a man
ner which removed all doubt as to the
inspiration Of the book. Rev. HASTE
is a thorough student of the Bible and
besides quoting scripture a%bundantly
he produced arguments from history
and science and besides being interest
ing it was also very instructive. AS a
result of his two on Sunday
there were four additions to the ong
cation.
One of the hottest school elections
yer held in Charlton came to a close
at s p. m. Monday evening when the
sos votes cast were counted out and
showed the entire old ticket to have
been elected by maiorities ranging
from 81 to 1853. The vote is the larg-
est ever polled in a school election and
almost equal to that usually polled at
a city election. The ticket decided up
OF Saturday might containing the
names of Stanley, Boynton and Krid-
dlebaugh with H. o. Penick for treas
urer did not materialize on account of
the refusal of some of the men to al
low the use of their Another
ticket containing the names of w. H.
Smythe, G.. A. Lockwood and c.. e.
Stewart with H. o. Penick for treasur-
err, however, was out. The big fight
was not on directors but on the Office
of district treasurer, it being a fight
between the two banks for the custody
of the funds of the school district. w.
p. BEEN, the old treasurer, represent
ing the First National bank and II. O..
Penick is the cashier of the Charlton
National bank. The result of the vote
was a S follows: For directors, long
term-W. e. Lewis, $40; Eli Manning,
442; w. H. Smythe, 80; G. A. Lock
wood, SO. For short term-E. H. Best,
423; Chas. e. Stewart, 100. Fol treas
urer, w. P. BEEN, 1923; H. o. Penick,
232.
The condition of Attorney C. G.. Nc
Intire of Ottumwa, who was stricken
with paralysis some months ago while
visiting his sister-in-law. Miss Julia
Chickering, OF this place, remains
about the same and he is in a very
dangerous condition. Some time ago
he had a serious sinking spell from
which he has not fully recovered as
before. While he has rallied from sew
eral serious r%elapses his is
becoming daily more doubtful as his
rallies are slower and not so pro-
nounced as formerly. The physicians
say his recovery is absolutely impossi-
bic and his death is but the matter of
a very few days. He is daily growing
weaker and his sinking spells are be-
coming more frequent.
Rev. B. F. Palmer or the Baptist
church of this place preached a very
instructive and forcible sermon Sun
day evening on "The Prevalent Sin of
Charlton as Seen by a Stranger" Rev.
Palmer has but recently moved here
from keota and during his short resi-
dence here he has been closely OBJ
servant and characterizes profanity as
the prevalent sin. In his sermon Sun
day evening he presented the subject
in a plain matter of fact way without
any resemblance of attempting to be
sensational but simply to point out the
INTER- 1SplpSSnpCS and proat wic1-ol
ness of the sin of swearing. He quot.
ed scripture quite freely and in his for,
chile manner brought it home to the
hearts of his large audience in such a
way that many who heard him were
constrained to forswear this needless
sin and the sermon was productive of
much good. Special music had been
prepared and was well received by
those present.
ID. V. Early, of Oakley, has removed
his family to st. Charles, where he is
engaged in the drug business. Mr..
: Charlton, who regret their departure.
e. A. Trimmer, who held a public
sale of his farming implements at Ma
pie Wild, west of tomn, on Saturday,
expects to move his family in a short
iHe " hllhS'lllS, MO, where ne mas
purchased a large tract of land and
will engage in farming and stock rails
ing.
C. R. Abrahamson, who was strick-
en- with paralysis some days ago at his
home in Brookdale, died Monday morn
ing at $3.50 after a weeks illness. Flu
neral services will be announced later.
Miss Maude Krutsinger has return
ed to Des Moines after a weeks visit
with her parents in Liberty township
near Oakley.
e. H. Best departedsMonday for La
coma where he is engaged in the con-
struction of some new buildings.
Dee Pettijohn and family have mov-
ed onto the Mallory farm in Lincoln