Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-01-01
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| Mrs George Owens visited in Bloom
| field Saturday.
R. l.. Mccormick of Ottumwa spent
Christmas here with friends.
c. V. Ware and wife of Ottumwa
visited here last week with Mr.. Wares
| parents, Isaiah Ware and wife. return.
ing to their home Sunday evening.
Charles Pettet and family of Sher.
man chapel, spent Sunday here at the
parental ]. w. Johnson home.
j. B. Mccormick returned to Cedar
Rapids Monday, having spent the past
few days here with friends.
A. G. Hughes left Saturday morning
for short visit with friends at Bloom
field and Moulton.
Miss Rosa Brown of Wapello coun-
ty, is visiting at the home of A. w.
Martin and wife.
Mrs. Nora Hatton of Bloomfield Wis
tied with Mrs. j. w. Johnson Sunday
G. w. Ware spent Sunday night in
Bloomfield with friends
Word has been received here that
Louie Burkhalter of Kankakee, ILL.,,
got his finger so badly mashed in the
machine shops where he worked that
blood poison set in and he is now in a
critical condition. His brother, Roy,
is also sick with symptoms of typhoid
fever.
Mrs. Diana Myers and Charles
Dodd were married in Bloomfield at the
residence of M. Downing, Sunday ev-
ening, December Z, but wishing to sur
prise their friends kept it a secret un-
til last week, when the word got out
that they were married, All join with
their friends in wishing them much
joy.
Ruth Combs and Duff Rayburn re-
turned home from Ottumwa Saturday
night.
John Johnson visited Saturday with
Charley Pettet and family of Sherman
Chapel.
The Congregational Sunday school
expects to elect officers next Sunday.
Little Irwin Bonar is on the sick
list
Fred Wishard and Mabel Burkhalter
were Bloomfield callers Saturday
night.
A large crowd attended the Christ
mas entertainment at the M. E.
church Christmas eve.
j. B. Lafferty came up from Milton
to spend Christmas here with his
daughter, Mrs. A. e. Patterson, and
children.
Miss Cal A. Cree of Bloomfield
spent Tuesday night here with her
sister, Mrs Clyde Spohr, leaving
Wednesday for Trenton, to visit an
other sister, Mrs. Carl Guile.
Mrs. G. F. Dahl of Packwood, who
is spending the holiday week at the
parental M. F. Patterson home near
Drakeville, visited here Saturday with
Mrs. Madge Patterson.
Louie Ware of Sherman Chapel Wis.
tied Wednesday and Thursday with
his sister, Mrs. Della MINI and at
tended the Christmas tree exercises.
Mr. and Mrs. T. c. Cree and daugh-
ter, Oracle, of Bloomfield, visited here
Sunday afternoon with Mrs. Lou Spohr
and husband.
Miss Tillie Wray expects to leave
today for Fairfield to visit few days
with relatives.
The M. E. Sunday school and
League have elected the following of.
ficers:
The Sunday school:
--1dPCiiltSluClC--l ware.
Assistant uperintendent-Mrs Idel
Bonar.
Secretary-Miss Hattie Thompson.
Treasurer-V. D. Bell.
Organist-Miss Zoe Mcconnell.
The League:
President-Mrs. Mary Worrell.
First vice President-Mrs. Catha
rine Bell.
Second vice president-Miss Ora
Thompson.
Third vice president-Miss Corda
Rankin.
Fourth vice president-v. d. Bell.
Secretary-Miss Corda Rankin.
Organist-Miss Corda Rankin.
School closed here Tuesday for the
holidays and is expected to open again
next Monday.
Mrs. Samuel Mcconnell spent
Christmas at Floris with her daughter
Mrs. James Perdue.