Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-09-24
A HOMESICK YOUTH
CHARLES BOWMAN OF AGENCY
DISAPPEARS IN OF rUMWA.
CAME FROM THE SOUTH LAST MARCH
Mr.. and Mrs. Warner of Agency, With
Whom He Found Home, Want Him
to Return-Beiieve Homesickness
is Driving Him Back to Tennessee.

Whom He Found Home, Want Him
to Return-Beiieve Homesickness
is Driving Him Back to Tennessee.
WANTED-TO KNOW THE WHERE
abouts of Charles Bowman, 10 years old,
formerly of Tennessee. G. r. Warner,
Agency, Iowa.
On a cold day last March poorly
clad young man came to the back
door of the home of George Warner
at Agency and asked for bite to eat
and hot cup of coffee. Moved by
compassion for the shivering figure
and struck by the honest face Of the
youth, Mrs. Warner asked him into
the house and gave him comfortable
chair by the fire, while she prepared
him something to eat.
The warmth from the fire loosened
his tongue and aided by woman's
tactful curiosity, Mrs. Warner drew
from him the story of his life. He
had been born in Tennessee, in one
of the poorer lowland sections of the
state. The father and mother had
hard time wringing living for a
large family of children from the i'm
poverished farm.
Longed to Make Fortune.
AS the years passed on and the boy
grew in age and he saw the struggle
of his parents growing more and more
hopeless. the longing grew in him to go
out into the world and make fortune
that he might return home in time and
relieve the hopeless struggle there and
brighten the old age of his father and
mother and allow them to live in COM
fort and happiness
He told of how he had heard of the
wonderful riches of the great state of
Iowa and how he determined to come
and see for himself and to win his for
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Finally Heached iowa.
He made his way up the banks of
the Mississippi till he reached Iowa
and then, more by chance than for any
other reason. he started up the Des
Moines valley Chance again and a
good healthy appetite lead him to the
door of Mr.. Warmers home. Through
out his story the lad kent his name and
the exact locality from which he came
TO himself.
The simple story. told in the quaint
negro droIl which had crept into his
voice and manner of speaking from
his long association with colored PEG
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niieu siu ienliu 49,. nis up " %tt ~ go
,hs oone anu ~ So, $50
ne was p'ontp'iy ~
A Willing Worker.
rho ,aa Who now cove bis name as
rha,,as pan,,n.n Won tba GOOD will
~ +ba bnshand as readily as he had
th.t ~ tbe Vic He moved 10 be an
evcellant and willing worker and Mr..
snd Mrs Warner congratulated them
selves that they had for once allowed
themselves to act contrary to the
dictates Of their worldly experience
and offer a home to the stranger.
| The weeks slipped by and they grew
to look upon the young man as one
| of the family. But as the weeks be-
came. months he began to lose his
cheerful countenance and hopeful man
ner, and it was evident that the long
| ing for the Tennessee home was caus
| ing a hard struggle in the young mans
mind His wistful eye, diminished ap-
petite, and moody silence in spite OF
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