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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
LOOK FOR SITE.
Eastern Capitalists May Start Packs
ina House at Dnh,Ioua

ing House at Dubuque.
Dubuque. Feb. ia representative
Of Chicago and New York capitalists
interested in the packing business will
arrive in this city during the present
week to look over the ground and meet
with the members of the Retailers as
ISOLATION.
The capitalists have been in cores
pondence with Secretary Patterson for
the past ten days. An effort was made
to keep the present matter secret I'M
til definite plans We're made. Secre-
tary Patterson admitted the represent
tatives will be in the city to view the
ground and sound the sentiment
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
ALBA MAY WIN.
Expects to Land the Next Meeting Of
the Eisteddfod Association.

Abba, Feb. / 1s (SpeciaD Abba ex-
holding the next saengerfest by the
directors of the Eisteddfod association,
who will meet at Hiteman next Satur-
day evening to decide upon the place
and time for the event and the prizes
to be contested for. The last meeting
was at Abba and its success was so
pronounced that the music lovers in
this city expect to land the prize
again.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

The average monthly wages paid the
farm hand in this country during the
year 1902, where he had his board, was
$16.40. In 1879 it was $1O.43. This in
cludes the colored labor of the south.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
DR.. NlBERT SHA[LENBERGER.

The REGULAR AND RELIABLE
CHICAGO SPECIALIST.
who has visited adjacent towns sin e
1891. will be at Ottumwa, Ballingall
Hotel, Wednesday, February "a, 1904
zone DAY only and return once every
- days Office hours. s a. m. to 6
FAIRFIELD, Leggett House, Tues
day. February 30, 1904.
TUSCALOOSA, Lacey Hotel, Thurs
day, February a25. 19O4.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

Anyhow we would plan to have q
good family garden this year even if
we raised one acre less corn or one less
hog. Good farming includes a good
garden.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

FROM THE OFFICE TO THE FARM.
A reader writes us from New Jersey
this way: He Is a railroad man receiv-
ing a salary Of $65 per month. His
wife was raised on a farm. They are
tired of the grind of corporation serv-
ice and the narrow limitations of their
lives. They have bought 100 acre
farm in New Jersey, with improve
ments on it Of more value than they
paid for the farm. They propose to
take up the raising Of poultry, small
fruits, and keep cows, and our friend
wishes to know how best to go to work
to build up the fertility Of the soil,
which is at very low ebb. If we had
the job, 1t would be clover, possibly al
falfa if it would do well; by all means
a silo; as many cows as could be kept
of the strictly dairy types. 1t will be
q work Of five years at least to put
such wornout soil into fairly produc-
tive shape, and probably some COM
mercial fertilizers will have to be used
to help in the work. He further wants
to know if 1t is likely he can succeed.
Certainly he can. His 800 or 400 hens
which he should keep will almost Sc
cure him living, and, so far as enjoy
ing life is concerned, he will find it far
preferable to working for railroad.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

F. w. Bean was the guest of T. ]
Morrison Sunday.
G. A. Burkhart and wife, Wilt,
Tomlin and Miss Lucy West were call
ers at the S. Hoover home Sunday.
Messrs Glen Bobb and Hubert Kin,
singer called at the VIM. Brown HON,
Sunday evening.
Mrs. Kirk visited over Sunday a
the Dan James home.
Frank Hopkins was business calle
at this place Sunday evening.
oliver Prever and wife and Mrs. VIM
Brown made flying trip to Bloom.
field Friday.
Dick Reynolds was looking aftel
business affairs here Friday.
Albert Brown called on his sister
Mrs. Lovic Kinsinger, of Bunch Mon
day.
The cold weather and rough road.
prevented Rev. Garner from filing hi!
appointment at Pleasant Hill Sunday
Ephraim Chatterton is visiting hi.
sister, Mrs. Charlie Brown and Mis-.
Lennie Chatterton at this place.
The Lyceum at this place is still il
progress with large crowds in at
tendance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

A friend who read what the old
goose did in one year now comes and
tells the story Of how an old hen tur-
key beat the goose, he having sold the
product of one turkey for the past year
for $22.20; but then this has been an
exceptional year for turkeys, they
bringing almost double the usual price
while the old goose did business on a
nominated basis.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

OF the GOO varieties of weeds and
grasses common to the United States.
cattle will eat sc. horses 50. sheep $50,
and the goat will take in the whole
bunch.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

silsge should be fed from the top of
the silo and not dug out from the bot.
tom. One man who tried the latter
method got caught in the hole as the
silage settled down on him, and there
was big funeral.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
Hayesville,

Hayesville, Feb. 11.-Rev Pike is still
conducting revival meetings here.
A number of Mrs. Malevia Utterback' S
friends gathered at her home Friday to
surprise her and celebrate her birthday an
niversary.
Ottumwa visiting relatives.
large number of the people here are
on the sick list
Cap. E. Miller was business caller in
town Tuesday.
Born, last week, to Mr.. and Mrs. Tom
Beall, daughter.
Born to Mr.. and Mrs. Will Utterback a
son.
Geo. A. crabb, of Cedar Rapids, was at
his home home here Saturday.
Goldie and Elmer Jacobs are seriously Ill
with the grip.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

The real value of continental foods
to the stock raiser is still very debata-
BILE matter in farm institutes and agri-
cultural conventions. There seems to
be only one thing about such foods
which is really settled, and that is that
the men who manufacture them make
a lot of money.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

A skunk by some means made his
way into the audience room of coun-
try church one Sunday recently. and it
took the best efforts of all the male
members of the congregation matter
of five hours to get him out without
Decorating the sacred ediice.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

Nature is always compensatory. Here
is the puny twenty-year-old man, with
no beard and weighing only 100 pounds,
who gets salary of $4,000 year as
a horse jockey, while this fine looking,
bewhiskered 200 pound man who has
been through college and theological
seminary works hard to care for a
country school or parish for $1,000 a
year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

The all too common tragedy of the
round between the wealthy farmer and
the ugly bull at the head of hio herd 3
constantly going on. The Bible says.
Put not your trust in princes" but it
is safer to trust prince than a well
hammered bull any time.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
FULL PARDON FOR YOUNGER.
Congressman Bede Asks That once
Noted Outlaw be Set Free.

ST. Paul, Feb. lii Congressman
Bede, has filed a formal application
with the state pardon board for a full
pardon for Cole Younger, the ex7ban-
dit now out on parole. The purpose
of the pardon is to give Younger great
er liberty as he is now prohibited from
exhibiting himself in public exhibi-
tions. Younger is DESTROYS of operat-
ing a show at the st. Louis exposition,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

We want no deep spring blowing for
q corn crop. If the field needs deep
blowing it should be done in August of
the previous year.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

Where men were wise enough to pro-
vide for one, the winter pasture has
been great success in the west this
year. This pasture is simply field Of
blue, grass from which the stock was
removed last July and the grass allow
ed to grow. With only little snow
and moderate winter weather, stock
will live on such pasture in preference
to any stored foods.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

It is getting run
down that is the be-
ginning of sickness.
If l could get a
hold of everyoneatthe
time wiz they first
begin to feel tired, de-
pressed, and without
ambition, l could
soon arrange things
so that there would be
much less sickness in
this world.
Loss of Appetite,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

During the year 1884 the United
States exported 2,721 horses of the val
ne of 1924 ,347. About this time the i'm
portation of the best draft sires Of Eu-
rope was begun, with the result that in
1902 we exported 1O3,920 head Of the
value Of over $1O,OoO,O0O. The best
horses in the world are now raised in
the United States, and the foreign de-
mand for them is constantly increasing.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
Blackhawk.

Blackhawk, Feb. 11..-Wm. Hunt who
died Sunday at the county farm was
buried Monday in the Taylor cemetery.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
NERVOUS DEBILITY

Are you nervous and Respondent; weak
and deblitated; tired mornings; no ambi-
tion-lifeless; memory poor; easily IA
tigued; excitable and irritable; eyes sunken,
red and blurred; pimples on face; dreams;
restless, haggard looking, weak back; de-
post in urine and drains at stool; distrust-
full; want Of confidence; lack of energy and
strength?
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
.OpCHApD~,(,ApDEN

The richer the field is the thicker may
be the corn planted. Barren stalks are
more the result of soil starvation than
decrepit ancestry.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
Awful Loss Of Life,

Awful Loss OF Life.
Follows neglect of throat and lung
diseases, but DR.. Kings New Discovery
cures such troubles or no pay, SOC,
$1.o0. F. B. Clark, druggist.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
Abba.


Abba, Feb. 11.-Thomas Cole is in
Des Moines attending the state meet
ing of the Hardware Dealers associa-
ton.
J. T. Gray. who lives about four
miles south of town is reported to be
quite i'll with the grip.
II. H. Harnick of Oskaloosa was in
Abba on business yesterday.
Charles B. Hanford and his company
presented the Tanning of the Shrew''
last evening at Kings opera house
to large and appreciative audience.
"a scene from the old guard" was the
curtain riser. The company was well
balanced and their costumes and the
scenery were the finest that have been
seen here for years.
State Mine Inspector John Werner
Of Charlton passed through town on
his way to Hooking, where he exam
ined the mines.
s. A. Worley of Frederic is quite sick
with pneumonia.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

Last years crop Of winter wheat in
western Kansas was marvellous one.
In this midwinter time it lies by the
millions Of bushels in great piles at
country depot grounds, wholly exposed
to the weather, awaiting the time, If it
ever comes, when the overtaxed rail-
roads can haul it to market. And this,
too, right in what was known only a
few years ago as the great American
desert.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

It takes the draft horse TO haul of
the mortgage put on the farm by the
$40 trotter.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
EIdon.

Eldon, Feb. 1.-THE infant daugh-
ter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Russell is very
i'll with pneumonia.
H. Bicklin of Burlington was in the
city on business today.
Miss Winifred Penney Of Centerville
is visiting Eldon relatives and friends
Mrs.. W. A. Flowers left last even
ing for st. Louis on business.
Mrs. ]. H. Cremer of Ottunwa is
visiting Eldon relatives.
The Fortnightly club entertained
about fifty friends yesterday afternoon
at the K. of P. hall and a most pleasant
time was had by all.
F. D. Miller of Muscatine was in the
city on business yesterday.
The Eldon Cemetery association will
meet Saturday afternoon at the home
of Mrs. A. J. Shelter.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

Mrs. Craig tombstone south of town.
Karn Sadler was in Keosauqua Sat
urday.
Ruth Humphrey is on the sick list.
Miss Eva Coffman, north of town
who has been in Des Moines taking
music lessons returned home last week
very sick with the measles, which has
now turned into typhoid fever.
Cullen Humphrey was at Milton
Thursday.
N. G. Wells was in Milton Friday.
Miss Estella Humphrey spent few
days last week at the home of Andy
Work near Cantril
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Ellis of Milton
passed through town Wednesday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

While manifesting the utmost conf
dence in the honor Of the men with
whom you do business, it is still best
never to forget that we are all poor
critters and liable to fall into tempta-
ton, and so it is best to do all business
with due regard for all the safeguards
which law and custom suggest. This
applies just as much in making horse
trade with parson as in signing pa
pers for stranger.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

So extended has become the tele-
phone service Of the country that pa
irons should get posted up on the or
binary courtesies pertaining to the serv-
ice. On party line, which most Of the
country lines are, it is discourteous
and unneighborly-bad manners any
way you fix ito listen to what your
neighbors are talking about. This thing
practiced will very soon be found out
and give person bad reputation.
Again, it is equally bad manners to
hold the line for trivial and useless
talk when some one on the line wishes
to use it for business. Your call should
be answered promptly, and decent
regard for the feelings Of the operator
at eertEal should ha nhsarrAd-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
BEEF AND HIGH PRICED LAND.

oGCr AMI HUH PhlCED LAND.
An important question which has not
yet been fully answered is this: Can a
man take land worth 500 per acre and
keep cows Of the best beef types-Poll-
ed Angus, for instance-and by letting
the calves suck the cows make money
by turning these calves into beef? In
other words, can COW be profitably
kept on such farm just to produce
one calf year? There are hundreds
of men who would be glad to know
that this could be done, for they are
weary with the work Of the dairy and
the bother with hired men and would
most gladly convert their dairy farms
into beef producing farms If it can be
done with profit. Taking it for one
year, the COW and her calf will require
the product in grass and grain of at
least three acres Of good land, and at
the end Of The year the owner has got
yearling animal weighing, say, $50
pounds. To be charged against this
animal are the interest of the money in
vested in his dam, the cost of caring
for the animals for year and the rent
al value of the land used by them,
which would figure out about like this:
Interest on value Of dam, 81: two acres
of pasture, $40; one acre of corn and
fodder, SIS; labor, So; winter roughage,'
So; total, $40. Call the average value
of the calf SIS per hundred the
return is $3.50, showing a loss if the
steer IS then sold, but it is possible to
keep and feed him another year and
turn him of us finished 1,4O0 pound
beef animal at $3.50 per hundred
weight, or SIT, and possibly make tri-
fle better showing. AS we look at it, q
man will work on very small margin
Of profit to use his farm in this way;
but, then, it is the easy way, and that
counts for something.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

This is the very latest: A farmers
wife took some nice looking rolls Of
n to town and sold it to the village
storekeeper. After making the rolls she
scooped out the center and filled the
space with water, closed up the hole
and laid the butter where it would
freeze up. Such ingenuity deserved a
better subject. She lost her patron and
her reputation just for the paltry gain
Of half dollar or so.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

Ensilage and alfalfa are working a
great agricultural reformation in this
country, the ensilage in the east and
middle west and the alfalfa in all the
territory west of the Missouri river.
The silo is adding third to the acre
age of the eastern farm, and alfalfa is
doubling and in some cases quadru-
pling the productive capacity Of the
western ones. Get one of these helps.
If you can't grow alfalfa, put in silo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

More farmers than ever before are
studying how best to change their
methods Of farming so as to dispense
with the annoyance Of hired help. Dali
rying is being abandoned, more acres
will be kept in pasture, farms will be
made smaller, and steers will take tho
place of the cows. Toe many men have
learned the tyranny Of hired help by
having the man bred for the season
Jump his job just as harvesting, hay
ing or corn picking time arrived.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
Diseases of Men and Private
Diseases a Speciality.

Blood Poison, sSpermatorrhea, yaricocele,
Hydrocee, DEBILITY, Nervousness, Dizziness,
Defective Memory, etc., which ruins mind
and body positively cured
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

In spite of rapidly multiplying cleo
trio roads and the automobile, displac-
ing, as they do, the horse in some lines,
the fact remains that in spite of these
the good horse has brighter future
before him than ever before. The love
of good horse will never grow less
in this country, and there is no safer
or more certainly profitable business
on the farm today than producing the
right kind of horses. The foreign de-
mand for American horses is growing
rapidly, for the horse can be raised
here cheaper than anywhere else.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

The love Of flowers is common to
nearly all women, and it is natural
taste which men should do all in their
power to crafty. Flowers represent
the sentimental and refined side of our
lives as few other things do. They
form loves offering to the sick, a
wreath for the bride, chaplet for the
tomb. They decorate the home, and
brighten up the home grounds, and
work out their delightful mission with
but little care and effort.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13
WoNpERFUL CURES

Perfected In old cases which have been
neglected or unskillfully treated. No ex-
periments or failures. He undertakes NO
incurable cases, but cure thousands given
up to die.
Consultation Free and Confidential.
Address DR.. WILBERT SHALLENBERGER
145 lakewood Blvd, Chicago
Reference: gDrexel State Bank
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

Now here is the unfortunate case Of
the trusted hired man running off with
the fourteen-year-old daughter of his
employer, case which should set some
folks we know of to thinking pretty
hard. This invasion and wrecking Of
a home is one thing to be carefully
guarded against, for girls are often
weak and vain and hired men unscru-
pulous villains. The old man should
always keep weather eye on the hired
man in this line.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-02-13

One of the marked changes in prog
ress among the American people now
IN progress is the leaning toward the
farm, the desire to own piece of land
and to know how to cultivate it. At a
prominent agricultural cellege in the
west twenty years ago there was in an
enrolment ct 600 students but just one
that was taking the straight agricul-
tural course. The rest We're fitting
themselves to be doctors, lawyers, par
sons, teachers and mechanics. AT the
same college this winter short course
in agriculture has drawn there thou
sand young men who want to learn
how to grow corn, judge stock and all
about soil culture, and every one of
into practice that which lie may learn.
The question of the best method to
care for the tnf1rm and needy poor of
even our best communities is q serious
one. The most practical and salts
factory method we have seen tried is
for the county to own good farm,
have it operated by competent and
practical farmer and have on the farm
a commodious home for the people to
be cared for. Such little work as these
people are capable Of doing is readily
put to good use on the farm in many
ways-in the care OF the garden. the
poultry and the stock. The farm con-
ditions and environment are of the best
in sanitary sense, and where such q
farm is managed, as it may be, the
cost Of keeping such people is reduced
to minimum. The committee of the
boards Of supervisors who have such
q farm in charge should be practical
farmers and never politicians. Other.
Stse the plan is likely to be failure.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-01-04
Peter Mclaughlin
Woodford, vi.
Estate of Dayton H. Colvin.
Notice OF Settlement and Application for
Distribution.

GTATE OF VERMONT, Alta session
- District Of Bennington, - of the PROBATE
Court. holden az the Probate once, Ia Ben
uugt,n. sal dlsrC ON the 3jth day OF Dec
a. ID. 1905.
Present John " Carney Judge
j. II. walbddge, admins traitor Of the estate
OF Dayton H. Gown, late OF Benuinl ton,
In said district de- ,,ed presents his admins
trkliun ace uut for eXau nation and allowance,
aud make application tor decree Of distfibu-
ton aud part ION of h. estate of said deceased.
WherrupOn, IL is ordered by said Court that
said application be- referred to a session there.
Of to he held at The Probate ONCE, aforesaid
on the 18th dav OF Jan A ID 1904 for hearing
aud decision thereon; and IL is further ordered,
that notice thereof De givenstO all parties in
terested by publication three weeks succeSsivey
In the Bennington, Evening amer a news
paper published Al Bennington previous % said
time appointed for hearing that they may ap
pear at said time and place, aud show cause II
any they may We. ny said account should
not be allowed. ana such deaTee made.
record whereof IS ordered to be made
A true record.
A true copy Of the original record
Attest, JOHN V. CARNEY, Judge
ATTEST JOHN V. CARNEY, Judge.
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LOST! LOST !!

Two fox-hounds- one female, black
and tan, four white feet. answering to
name of Fan" The other male
yellow ears, white stripe in face, color
white and brown, answers to name of
Lime" Finder will be rewarded by
returning or giving information to
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1904-01-04
kR[IRGTUN,

w. F. Watkins who has been for
several weeks at the rectory, left town
on Wednesday.
Prof Charles A. Adams and family
have returned to their home in Adams
after spending two weeks in town.
Mrs C. w. Phillips returned from
Burlington on Wednesday.
The Ladies Auxiliary met with Mrs
Goewey on Thursday.
Mrs N. H. Dunton left town Monday
for New York, where she will make a
few weeks visit.
Miss Jessie Harrington of Shafts
bury is spending a few days with Miss
Alice Dunton.
A midnight service was held in st
James church Thursday evening.
G. w. Miltimore has returned from
his New York visit.
f. II. Farnham is visiting in Spring
field.
Thomas J. Kierce, trainman on the
Boston and Maine railroad, visited
his mother recently.
On New Years day a party of young
people climbed Red mountain.