Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-05-05
short Tales Concerning People You
Know.
THE VICINITY OF OTTUMWA in BRIEF
Births, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
( OF Your acquaintances as chTonicled
BY Cour;er's Staff Of Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Sneak
Charlton.

I A
Charlton, May Mrs Mile Stan
ley and daughter Ella, departed yester-
day for an extended visit with rela-
] tives and friends in California. They
expect to be absent most OF the sum-
ner.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. S. Chappell, of Be
linda, were in the city Sunday on bus
mess.
Sam Snodgrass prosperous farmer
OF Benton township was in the city as
business caller Saturday.
Miss Lottle Lowney of Oakley. visit
ed with friends in the city the last OF
the week.
Mrs. T. p. Stanton has returned from
q few days visit with friends in Corn
Ing.
Tom Sellers of Cedar township, was
in the city Saturday.
c. Lewis OF Bethlehem was in the
! city Saturday.
Mr.. and Mrs. David Bond of Rus
sell. were over Sunday visitors at the
E home OF Mr.. and Mrs. Wiley House
holder.
Henry Bell of Ottumwa was in the
city Saturday greeting his old friends.
Rev. Palmer returned Saturday from
Creston where he has been having his
eyes treated.
The Inland coal mine was closed
down Saturday. They will resume
work again in about four months, when
{ it Is reported that they will have the
railroad completed. Then market
can be found for all thee GAL they can
mine.
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. D. Beaman, of Lu.
cas-, spent Sunday in the city visiting
with relatives.
Mrs. Pearl Warthen of Indianola
was a Sunday guest at the home o.
Mr.. and Mrs. Taylor.
James Whitney an old and respect
ed resident of this city. died Sunda.
morning in the eighty-third year OF hi
life.T Funeral services will be hell
Tuesday morning and interment viii
{ be made in the Charlton cemetery.
The Alumni association met Satur
day afternoon in the high school build
ing and elected officers for the ensu
ing year. Various committees were
appointed for the annual banque
\ which will be held on the evening o
May 20 at which time the members
of the graduating class of this yea
will be received.
Bloomfield.
Bloomfield, May 4.-Word has beer
received here of the serious illness o
p. R. Longfellow at Mountain Home
Idaho, where he now resides. MI
Longfellow grew to manhood in Davi
county and is a graduate of the South
ern Iowa normal. Several years ag
e he took up his residence in the west
engaging in newspaper work in Cole
RADIO and later engaging in the same OF
4. cupation at Mountain Home, being a
4 the present time editor of the Elmor
Il Republican at that place. He is know
Il as. a forceful and entertaining writer
and his friends in this county will b
panied to hear that he is not eXpecte
to live. as he has been for some tim
struggling against the ravages of col
sumption.
Mrs. 7. P. Bence and Mrs. j. "
Potter left Saturday for Centervi1l
) to attend a meeting of the Foreig
Missionary society of the Methods
Episcopal church, having been selecte
as delegates from the church at thi
place They will return home thi
evening
H. G. Leach, A. D. Gibbons, DR.. D. T
Allender and Cliff Leach attended TIL
dedicatory ceremonies of the world
fair at ST. Louis April 80. They ha