Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-06-25
Hedrfck.

Hedrick. June 24.-Fred Beck. of Ere
mont. visited relatives here Saturday.
Hubert Utterback has returned home
from Des Moines where he has been at
tending Drake university.
Mrs. d. Snakenberg visited her mother,
! Mrs. McFlroy, in Maftinshurg, Saturday.
| B. +. Morgan. of Sigourney, was in town
! between trains Tuesday on his way TO
! Wayland where he had been called by
the sickness of his son.
Fl. G. Jackson, Of Winfield. was in town
/ Tuesday.
! w. w. White, of Beaconsaeld, is visiting
| relatives here
| w. II. Young Miss Maudc IItiisey and
Miss Daisy Lotspeich were passengers for
Ottumwa Tuesday morning.
Miss Winnie Roop, of Sigourney spent
Sunday with her parents in Hedrick
J. @. White. Of Fremont. is visiting his
daughter, Mrs. G. w. Watts.
y. c. Stuot was in Chicago Monday.
Wade Kirkpatrick was in Sigourney Mon
day on business.
Waldo W. Young has returned home
| from Mt. Vernon where he has been at
| tending Cornell college.
| Hubert Utterlack is visiting in Sigour-
ney.
Chester Eller, of Pekin. is visiting his
/ brother. DIR. G. l.. Eller.
! Mrs. T.. L. Phelps, of Sigourney, is Wis
iting her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. ]. w.
| Roop.
| Miss Lora Rock has returned to her
home Mt Morning Sun
| Mr. and Mrs. Wade Lcntner, of Albert
| Lea. Minnesota, are visiting relatives in
| I1edrck.
EddyviIle.
| Eddyville, June 24.-Francs Chambers,
the 1G year old son of Mrs Emma Cham
hers. died at $40 a. M, Friday. June 10,
1903. at the home of his mother in Mucha-
| KNOCK. Francis Is the lad who was in
| coal company, east of town. The accident
| occurred June IL. 1t was ut first thought
| that death would surely result as sixteen
coal cars had passed over him. mangling
| him badly, his injuries consisting of n
| fractured ankle, a broken back, and other
| bruises and scratches, causing paralysis of
/ all the lower part of the body, but he
| chung so tenaciously to life that his friends
| thought he would live, although he would
| always have been hOpeessly crippled. AZ
| ter a little over two weeks of suffering he
| passed away, leaving widowed mother
ana two or three brothers, of whom he
/ had been the support. He was buried in
the Catholic cemetery at this place, the
| funeral taking place Sunday from the res
i idence, and being quite largely attended.
The twenty months old daughter of Mrs.
Joe Casper, one of the Lost Greek wild
ows whose husbands We're killed in the ex-
! plosion, died ats p. m. Sunday, June 81.
I 1908. from complications, and was buried
! Monday at Oskaloosa. The child had been
/ i'll about two weeks.
Il T.. w. England of near Lakonta, has
been on the sick list.
Mrs. Charles Lescault. of Coafield. went
to Ottumwa Thursday and on Saturday 4
surgical operation was performed upon hcl
I. from which she Is improving as well MS
I llp cd olt vb
past danger The operation was performed
by Dr.. Spilman, of Ottumwa, assisted by
DR.. Il. Il. Bay of this place.
Hazel, the little daughter Of John Black
; wood, east of town, has been having al
|'attack of bowel trouble.
Mrs. w. S. Barnett, who has been quite
sick at her home north of town, is improv
! ing nicely.
A son of Grant Dye, of Second street, il
, improving from a spell of sickness.
The 5-year-old son of Mr.. and Mrs. Cyru,
Tatman, from Derby, who have been Wis
iting their daughter, Mrs. Frank Rice, il
| conyalescent from an attack of infiamma
, ton of the bowels, from which he was suf
fering last week
/ Walter Pyatt, who was taken sick Jul,
%, 1902, and was confined to his bed sew
eral months with stomach trouble ha
recovered sufficiently to be out on TIL
streets some but is looking very thin.
Elder J. II. Painter has recovered fror
au attack of naleria.
Clayton Humphrey. coal miner at Los
Creek was caught in the trip in the Goa
mine and was considerably bruised an
scratched up some days ago. The acciden
was similar to that of the Chambers Lac
Y hut did not result SO seriously.
e Mrs II. NJ. Allison, who has just conys
K leseed from a spell Of sickness, was u
]. from Ottumwa for an over Sunday Wis
b at the parental VIM. Allison, ST., home.
The residence of Oscar Thompson, nea
: the old pottery north of town. was broke
]. into Saturday or Sunday while the famil
!. llwere in Oskaloosa and considerabl