Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-15
EddyviIle,

| Eddyville. Sept 11.-Born, Wednesday,
| September O. to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Colt,
| near Pekay, son.
Tom Swan, a young man living here and
working at the mines at Pekay, was struck
in the eye Wednesday by a fragment of
| iron from drill, making quite painful
| wound
| A son of Mr.. and Mrs. s. Cashall, of La
konta. is i'll. threatened with an attack of
| typhoid fever.
Frank Hudson and family. who moved
| to Hurdland, Missouri, last March, return
| ed Tuesday night to again reside here
| abouts 1t is also understood that James
| l.. Myrick and family, who moved from
| Bluff Creek to Kirksville, Missouri. last
March, will also soon return, and will re-
| side somewhere in town till their farm is
vacated next March, when they will again
occupy their farm.
| Mr.. and Mrs. Acie Odem, who have been
| staying at Buxton. where Mr.. Odem has
work moved their household goods to that
| place Monday.
| Mr.. and Mrs. r. r. Grattan will move
| from the Mrs. Susan Myrick property, cor
| ner of Fifth and Strawberry streets, and
will live in the John Lafferty tenant prop
| erty on Fourth street, occupied till recent
| ly by Frank Drew.
| Miss Pearl Denning. who has employ
\ ment at Ottumwa, has returned to that
place after visiting over Sunday with her
parents. Mr.. and Mrs. Tom Dennng.
| The following prominent men of Eddy
| vile and vicinity will go to Ottumwa to-
day as delegates to the Wapello county
republican convention: II. ]. Calvin, +. NJ.
Epperson. VIM. Allbaugh, G. Il. Stephen
son, l.. A. Weber, ]. A. Lafferty and ].
4 NJ. Crosson.
Boyce McDole, who has been Mt Wichita,
Kansas. clerking in drug store for some
time, arrived home Thursday night for
visit with his mother and sisters, and with
| other relatives and old friends.
| Henry Criswell who has for several
\ weeks been acting as substitute mail clerk
on the Iowa Central between Abba and
Mason City Junction, arrived home Tues
/ day night.
| Mrs Walter Giltner, after weeks visit
with her parents. Mr. and Mrs. A. III. Noel,
| on NTillers Creek. returned Tuesday to her
home at Ottumwa.
| Miss Minnie Jones has been spending the
week in Oskaloosa visiting relatives and
| attending the Mahaska county fair.
1 Agent II. j. Wing, of the Rock Island,
| sold fifty-two tickets to Ottumwa Thursday
morning. Most of the crowd went down
| down to attend the circus: several went
down as witnesses on the Pea trial. and Il
1 number on business. The following We're
among the number of business visitors to
Ottumwa Wednesday and Thursday: Frank
| Wells Ii. G. True and daughter Miss
| Helen, c. L. Funk, A. w. Riggs, Jacob AL
der, and Mesdames II. j. Wing and L. j.
| Kidd.
The following is the enrolment of the
Eddyville school by rooms, together with
the names of the instructors: High room,
4 81 pupils, Prof. Joseph Parks, principal,
assisted by Miss Florence Wickham, of OF
tumwa; fifth room, 81 pupils. Miss Annie
| Rohde, teacher; fourth room, 43 pupils,
Miss Ida WEIGH, teacher; third room 40
Il
room 45 pupils, Miss ellen Wilson, teach
er; first room. 30 pupils, Mrs Jos. Parks
teacher. Total, 2S2 pupils
Mrs. James b. Wyie and daughter, Miss
i Eppie, leave Saturday night for Grand
Rapids, Michigan. Miss Eppie will enter n
kindergarten training school there. and
| will be gene till next June. Mrs. Wylie
! will remain with her for week or two.
They will visit in Chicago over Sunday.
Miss Chloe Cawley commenced the fall
term of school out at Bluff Creek No. l.,
uear Buxton mine No. II. Monday morning.
The following is a list of number of 9th
/ er Eddyvlle teachers and the schools they
will teach this fall: Misses Matte Rohde,
Bridget Simons, and Ada Middlesworth, in
the graded school at Pekay; Miss Hattie
Gwen at Lost Creek; Miss Ethel Mintonye
at Bridgeport; Miss Maggie Johnson at
| IIines Misses Blanche McDole and Laura
Allen in the vicinity of Lovilia and Miss
| R0Nle Saunders, who recently moved to
Ala, will teach near 1Iere.
4 ]. Il. Dunkle, who has been working at
4 Buxton the past two weeks, came home
Thursday and VIII go TO Ottumwa soon to
assume a clerkship in n clothing store
there.
/ Mrs. Martha Pence returned to her home
at Belknap Tuesday after a visit with her
daughter, Mrs. Walter Hartman.
Wesley Ruggles and family, OF Second
street. returned Tuesday from Buxton
where Mr.. Ruggles has been working. Mr..
Rugges is sufferer from rheumatism.
4 Ed. Waddington, of Chillicothe, was a
guest recently of his aunt, Mrs. George w.
Culbertson, corner Third and Berdan
streets.
Henry Pickerell, Of Bluff Creek, will
soon build new residence.