Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-10
CHARLES r. NOBLE FINDS KINs-- !.
MAN HE HAS NOT SEEN FOR
ALMOST FIFTY YEARS.
HAD GIVEN UP HOPE
Charlton Man, After Hearing Nothing
From kinsman for Thirty-tWo
Years, Advertises in Newspaper and
is Rewarded by Letter from Brother.

Charlton, Sept. 9.-(SpeciaD-A few ,
a Chicago daily paper, which CHANGED
to reach the eyes of those for whom
they were intended, has reunited Chas.
F. Noble of Charlton and his brother,
who have been separated for forty-sev-
en- years and have not, until the past
few days, known of each others exis-
tence since thirty-two years ago. Last
night the Charlton man left for Fish
Creek, Mich, where he will visit his
| brother and the two men will bridge
the long period of separation with
many dear conversation. From now
until the end of their lives they will
hold dear the moment when, after
knowing nothing of each others where
abouts for over thirty years, their
hands shall clasp and they shall again
feel the joys of brotherly love which
have been denied them so long. The
! Charlton man will make all possible
haste to reach Fish Creek, having been
urgently enjoined in letter from his
brother to lose no time in renewing the
relations that began in the knicker--
booker days. We're SO rudely broken al
most half century ago and are now
about to be begun again to brighten
the declining years of the two men,
both of whom are on the down-hill side
of life.
Reads Like a Book.
The story of how the brothers were
reunited is much like story in a
book but that it is a solid fact Chari-
ton people know The boys were rear
ed together Charles f. being the
5 younger but soon after they had grown
to youth they separated each> to make
his own way in the world For some
| years they, kept up a correspondence
but gradually the letters began to pass
more and more slowly between them.
the distance became widened with the
passing years and fifteen years
after they left the family
home they ceased writing to each other
not because of any estrangement but
8 merely because other matters began to
a be of more interest and Importance to
! them, as they thought than the bust
! ness of correspondence. They had no
). diea that they could not find each 9TH
a er when they did not want to write.
n However, after some months had pass
;
n Charles T. Noble wrote to the latter's
), old address and failed to receive an
= answer Another letter was returned
:. to him unanswered and unopened and
q after several fruitless attempts to
again get in communication with his
kinsman, the Charlton man gave UP.
:. Inserts Advertisement.
The matter weighed on his mind,
II. however, and he made other attempts
to learn the whereabouts of his broth,
I'd er. In the meanwhile he had moved
e. from place to place and it may be that
N his brother was making the same eff
X forts to communicate with him an6
ofI finding them fruitless. Finally abou
Mt two months ago, the Charlton man, as q
i'll last resort, inserted in Chicago dali.
enI paper small personal, asking fol
e. information regarding his brother, Civ
NJ ing the name, last place of residence
or and, fortunately, the name of his broth
o. ers daughter, which he happened II
know. This was the part of the ad.
= vertisement that accomplished the pur
pose for which it was intended.
Receives an Answer.
A friend of the advertisers niece
who happened to see the advertise
,ll ment while reading the paper in
lie Michigan town, recognized the nam
lie and called the attention of Miss Nobl
or to it. She Immediately wrote to he
M. uncle. asking him for proofs of the n
ct lationship, which he promptly CAV,
of The other brother had meanwhile bee
he notified and there mmediately came
He Charlton an urgent request for visi
lis Mr.. Noble, overjoyed by his good TO
tune, left last night for his brother
home.