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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
kEosAuQuA.

keosauqua, April 9.-F. A. Pearson
and wife returned to their home in this
piace the first of this week from two
weeks visit in Oklahoma. Their son
Earl, who has been in Oklahoma dur
ing the past year, returned with them.
Ed Daugherty, of Cantril, visited in
TINS place with relatives this week.
Chas. ID. Streeter and wife, of keo-
kuk, nave returned to their home af-
Ter several days visit in this place at
the w. G. Cheney home.
MISS Lizzie Meredith is confined to
her room on account of injuries re-
ceived by a defective sidewalk. Miss
Daisy Heney has taken her place in the
school room until she is able to resume
her duties.
Thos. e. DeHart, who has been con-
fined to his room for some time on ac-
count of a severe attack Of the grip is
reported as being better
Miss Birdie Bayer has returned to
her nome in Pennington, after a sew
eral days visit in this place with
friends.
w. S. Manning and c. K. Miller, Of
this place, have departed for st. Louis
for a several days visit with Mrs.
Maud Manning.
Benjamin Ketchum, of Bonaparte,
was a business visitor in Keosauqua
yesterday.
Attorney w. s. Allen, of Birmingham.
was in Keosauqua yesterday attending
district court.
e. E. Whitney, of this place, is in
Memphis, Mo-, on business.
j. w. Harwood of this place, made
a business trip to Keokuk the first Of
this week.
Mrs P. E. Walker, of this place, is
in Selma visiting with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. A. Mccullough, and also at
the bedside of her brother, Ira McCul-
Tough, who is critically i'll.
The case of the State VS.. Charles
and George Hull has been on trial in
district court all week before Judge
Eichelberger with a jury. The charge
is that of obstructing public highway
In Des Moines township. There are
many witnesses in attendance at this
trial and it is thought that the evidence
will be closed today. The next case
assigned for trial is State VS.. Joseph
stoneking. on charge with assault with
intent to commit rapa r5
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
SHORT TALES CONCERNING PEo.
PIE YOU KNOW.
lAh VICINITY OF OTTUllWA IN BRIEF
sirths, Deaths, Marriages, Movements
OF Your Acquaintance as Chroniclei
by Courier's Staff of Correspondents
Who Know Whereof They Speak.
ALBA.

Abba, April lib. F. Duffey. who
has been agen here for the c. B. & O.
railway for a number of years, has re-
signed and goes to Tabor, where he ac-
cepts the position of auditor of the
Tabor &. Northern railway. Mr.. Duff
fey has made many friends here that
regret to see him go.
The clerk of the district court issued a
marriage license Saturday to Andrew
Gaines. aged 20. of Memphis. Tenn, to
Miss Made Snoddy, aged 1S, of Abba.
The choir gave a sacred concert yes
terday evening at the First Presby-
terrain church that was fine. Since Mr.
Worth has taken charge of the choir
they have been doing good work.
There will be services at the First
Presbyterian church each evening this
week except Saturday evening Rev. A
II. Chittenden, Phi. D., of Charlton. will
Rev. ]. FL. Burma, of Knoxville, will
speak "Wednesday and Thursday even
iags. On Friday evening the pastor
will conduct the presbyteiy service On
next Sabbath morning the Sacrament
of the Lords Supper will be admins
tered.
All the services this week will begin
at O'clock and will last just one hour.
Floyd Wilkins and wife. of Durfee,
"a e siSiliilS iCitttaN ca am Iiiciius Al
town.
William Nichol, who fell from a tele-
phone pole this spring, breaking his
arm and dislocuting his shoulder went
to Chicago to see DR.. Rixley, the
specialist and he says that nothing can
be done for his shoulder and that his
arm will always be stiff.
Albert Wilkin, who just left this
place a short time ago, and who is now
in the hotel business at Eldon, was in
Abba on business Saturday.
T. M. Hooper. Of Charlton, spent Sun
day in Abba.
w. D. Selyr and wife, of Dean, We're
Abba visitors yesterday.
w. r. Bayer, of Oskaloosa, was an
Abba visitor yesterday.
Fl. E. Chase. Jacob Kent and Nathan
Schee, of Des Moines, spent Sunday in
Abba.
J. A. Allison, of Murray. was in town
this morning on business.
j, r. Gentry. A. w. Collard and Geo.
Kalbach, of Oskaloosa, were transact
ing business in town this morning.
Il. Bernstein and c. D. Bromberg, of
Centerville, are in town on business to-
day.
Editor Rogers, of Mt. Pleasant, was
in town this morning, on his way to
Des Moines. He says that the republic
can convention at Mt. Pleasant Satur-
day was controlled by the stand pat
tarS
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
AVERY.

Avery April III. w. Richter was
at Des Moines few days last week
Mrs. Mary McFee of Charlton, is the
guest of her sister, Mrs Nina Good
win.
Abba, visited several days with her
mother and sisters last week.
Born, to ]. w. Richter and wife,
March 20, a ten and a half pound son.
j. q. Evans and wife went to Chicago
Monday evening on No. 4.
Mrs. Matte Guthrie and children
Carl and Babel are visiting at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Guthrie, Of
Abba.
Mrs. Will Evans was an Abba visitor
Thursday.
Mrs. ]. L. Amsbury and children were
guests of Hiteman relatives last week.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

Sunday morning at 10 o'clock, of con-
sumption, and the funeral services
were held there today Mr. Alfrey
formerly worked in a barber shop in
Bonaparte and has many friends here
who sincerely regret his death.
Miss Irene Smith of Keosauqua, visit
ed in Bonaparte over Sunday.
Rev. Jones, the new pastor at the
Methodist Episcopal church here, ar
rived from Fairfield Saturday evening
and delivered his first sermon to the
people Sunday evening.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
MAPLE GROVE.

Maple Grove, April 11.-Owing to the
rainy weather and bad roads, mail car
rier on route No. 2 was unable to make
the trip Friday.
Mrs Charles Hicks is quite sick at
present.
D. S. Kingery was Moravia visitor
Friday. -
J. M. Tadlock and J. Ioveall deliver
ed hogs in Unienville Thursday
G. H. Long spent Thursday and Fri
day with his father. a F t&
:. Mrs. F. M. Dodd. who has been quite
sick Is improving.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
kIRkVILLE.

Next Wednesday, April 13, Mr.
Menss will be at my store for the ex-
press purpose of showing you the
Acorn Stoves and Ranges the way
they are constructed and why this we'll
known make of stoves is the best. Mr..
Meniss is direct from the factory, being
an expert in stove construction. l ex-
tend an invitation to you to call ana
see this demonstration. VIM. A. Myers.
Kirkvile.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
Homeseekers, Rates

On the first and third Tuesdays of
each month the iowa Central railway
sells special homeseekers' round trip
c::.-:irsion tickets to points In the north.
west, west southwest. south and south.
east. at one fare rlus 50.
Return limit twenty-one days from
date of sale and stopovers permitted,
On same dates special one-way rates
in effect fo. benefit of settlers.
Call on agents for full particulars
or address. A. B. Cults, G. P. G T. A.,
Minneapolis. MINI.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
MANY new MEMBERS
PACKING HOUSE MUTUAL AID AS.
ISOLATION HELD MEETING
WEDNESDAY NIGHT.
Number of Hogs Killed At Morrel
Packing Plant Less Than Last
Week - Major T. P. spiIman Re.
turns From Extended Trip.

At the meeting of the Packing
House Mutual Aid assocition last We'd
nesday night, 100 new members were
received. The association is in a
flourishing condition and the death
benefit for a full rate member is now
nearly $500.
Returns From Trip.
Major T. J. Spilman who has been
enjoying three weeks of his annual va
cation on his plantation at Canton,
Miss, has returned home. Mr.. Spill
man reports that his son T. Holl Spill
man is enjoying the best of health.
Fresh vegetables have been on the
market there for several days.
Killings Decrease.
During the week 1900 hogs were
killed at the Morrell plant, slight de-
crease from last week when $3.50 hogs
were killed.
East End Items.
T. D. Lee expects to leave Monday
night for an extended trip in the east.
He will be gone about six weeks and
will visit at ,Chillicothe, Ohio, Ottawa
and Indianapolis, Ind, and en- route
home will stop few days at st. Louis
Mo.
Night Watchman Frank Jones has
returned from visit in Scott county,
Kansas, where he purchased 100 acres
of valuable land.
Mr.. Shepherd, who works In the
tierce gang, accidentally had his right
wrist thrown out of place Wednesday.
Charles Bullock left Tuesday even
ing to resume his studies at Ames col
lege, after visit with his father, Sup
erintendent B. j. Bullock.
James Caughlin, who is employed in
the cutting room. severely cut one of
the fingers of his left hand Monday.
A letter from Belfast, Ireland and
directed in the care of "Morrell's Ba-
con Packing Factory" was received
by one of the employees yesterday.
Travelling men who visited at the
plant this week were: J. B. Todd, Geo.
W. Cramond, A. F. Paige of Chicago,
ILL.,, Charles j. Devlin, w. S. Fletcher
w. X. Murray, Albert Johnson and w.
M. Carroll of ST. Louis, A. B. Shore
of Milwaukee, Wis, R. w. Loose of
Miles, Ohio.
Mrs. Sarah Phillips of Monument,
Kansas, who was called here by the
death Of her niece, Mrs. T. H. Berry,
has returned home.
Karl B. Pocock of Cleveland, Ohio,
was business visitor at the plant
Tuesday.
d Harry Hill. who works in the killing
department accidentally burned two
of the fingers Of his left hand Wednes-
day.
Afford Larson one of the car re-
pairers, who has been off duty the
past three weeks, sufferer from ap-
pendicitis, returned to work Thurs
day.
Mrs. G. T. Barnum, who resides on
Iowa avenue, is visiting with her
daughter, Mrs. Susie White in Fort
Collins.
John Morrell returned Thursday
from three weeks business trip in
the south.
Miss Lizzie Ware of Belknap is the
guest Of her brother Clyde Ware of
215 Mabel street
w. K. Murray boiler inspector Of
New York, was business visitor at
the plant Thursday.
A. vlasak, chief of the fire depart
ment, lost his check last week but it
was found and returned to him before
he discovered that 1t had been lost
Will Osler and Verne Sleight of the
Ottumwa high school, have been
spending their vacation working at the
packing house.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
GO TO DEs MONIES.

ottumwa Members of Iowa Coal Oper-
ators' Association Left Today.
Five Ottumwa members of the Iowa
Coal Operators association left on the
Rock Island this morning for Des
Moines, where today they will attend a
meeting of that body The local coal
men were H. L. Waterman, L. L. Lod-
wick. John Phillips, Edward Fowler
and w. R. Daum.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
RUSS ELL.

Russell April 11.-Harley Childs,
who has been attending school at Des
Moines the past two months, visited
over Sunday with his mother at this
place.
Mrs. II. w. Elliott came homo satur-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
HAVE YOU CITY PROPERTY FOR
CAIE7

Now is the time to sell 1t. We have Gus
toners every day. List now II you want
to sell or trade. The next two months will
be the most active ins' the year for city
property. RfjH &l e
We can trade you 16O acres Of wapello
county land and take from $1,000 to 81 900
city property on it.
.Have an 50 acre farm. Can take $1,000
city property on this.
Farms in different parts, of the county at
prices ranging from $50 to 500 per acre.
Are you going to Oklahoma? We will be
pleased to show you either farm or city
property.
Low E,RG & CO.
Court Street.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

FARM FOR SALE OR RENT WILL
sell or rent my farm of 16O acres situated
one and one-half miles west of Troy,
Iowa, good house, barn, hen-house, wag-
on-house hog-house, smoke-house, etc.
Three wells and a running spring. Farm
fenced into ten fields with good fences.
Possession. Address, Bloomfield, Iowa, or
call on me at my farm, four miles south
west of Bloomfield Geo. w. Lain.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

FOR sALEt-A MODEL STOCK RANCH
near Akren, Colorado, county seat and
railroad division; 1920 acres with three
room house; three barb wire fences. with
an new pests; big corrai,with solid board
fences; hne windmill, plenty of good wa
ter and three big tanks; so to go acres
under cultivation; title and abstract per-
rect; climate unexcelled price $4,000 cash.
Address a. G.. Stith, Fort Morgan, Colo
RADIO, Lock Box 625.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
ROOT A MERGER LAWYER.

ForFnsr Secretary OF War Engaged as
Special Counsel In Hartman Suit.
New York, April Announcement
has been made Of the engagement of
Elihu Root to represent the Northern
Securities company in its fight to pre-
vent r. H. Hartman from obtaining
control of the Northern Pacific rail
road as the result of distribution of
the Northern Securities assets.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
KANSAS LANDS.

/ have just returned from Scott county,
Kansas, and listed big tracts of lands for
sale at bargain, fine level land, rich,
laid with clay sub soil. and plenty of good
water at q depth Of 25 to rs feet. If you
want a stock range here issthe place to go
to. Land is selling now at Afrom So to $40
per acre.
Land-seekers' excursion April 10, round
trip from Ottumwa is S191Os
Write me for more particulars,
JOHN P. APPLEQUIST.
1923 E. Main St., Ottulnwa, la.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
FOR RENT.

FOR RENT-ROoAIs. PRIVATE FAMILY,
w. G. Prosser 5645 Wells avenue, St.
Louis, Mo-, 81 a person, modern, COM
plete; ten minutes ride to fair grounds.
reserve In advance. Reference, c. C..
Prosser, r. r. No. 2 Ottumwa, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

FOR sALE-TEN YOUNG SHORT HORN
bull, ages 10 to IA months: good colors.
Prices reasonable. H. G. Miller, County
Line, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

FOR SALE MEAT MARKET AND
eighty tons of ice. Enquire Henry Deid.
reich, Agency, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

FINEST LAND IN MINNESOTA RED
River Valley Polk county. to trade for
merchandise or income property In Iowa.
Also Nebraska land. A. p. Mcdowell,
Adair, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

FOR SALE-FARM 4so ACRES; $50 FARM
land, remainder pasture; we'll watered
and fenced; good house, granaries and
barns, For particulars. address Box 104,
Hays, Ellis Co., Kansas,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
FIVE GENERATIONS ARE LIVING.

Boy emily Born to Sumner Parents
Has Many Ancestors Living.
Sumner, April 1.-THE birth of a
son to Mr.. and Mrs. Will Kirchman,
south of town, makes five generations
alive in one family. The boy has four
grandparents and the great-grandpar-
ents and the great-great-grandp
on the mothers side are still living.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

WANTED-A GOOD BLACKSMITH, $500
per day, steady place for the right man.
N. L. Downing, Batavia, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
FOB SALE.

FOR sALE--42O ACRE STOCK FARM, AZ
miles frola st. Louis; fine springs and
spring stream: fine meadows; easy terms.
aiso small farms. G. R. Rathbun, De
Soto, Mo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
FOR SALE.

WAKoNDA LAND COMPANY, WAKoN-
da, s. D.. bargains in Clay, Hyde and
Hand county ranch and farm lands. We
have some good FARMS Write us.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

FOR SALE-THREE HIGH GRADE
stations, two Percherons and n Clyde
age coming three years, colors black and
dark bay, smooth and sound. Will sell
on easy terms. Herman Luers, Sigour.
ney, Iowa, r. 4.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

WANTED-FoR UNITED STATES ARMY
able bodied men, between ages of 21 and
35 Of good character and temperate hab-
Its. who can speak, read and write En-
gllsh. Apply ho recruiting officer, post
office building, Ottumwa, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
WANTED.

wANTED--A DRIVING MARE, WEIGHT
about LOCO pof1nds Must be safe for lady
Write price and description to Rey.
Frank SeedS Selma, Iowa.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

At the meeting of the Packing
House Mutual Aid assocition last We'd
nesday night, 100 new members were
received. The association is in a
flourishing condition and the death
benefit for full rate member is now
nearly $500.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

FOR SALE SEED CORN, MAMMOTH
White Pearl, carefully dried and tested,
acknowledged to be the largest and heav-
lest yielder grown in southeastern Iowa
Sample free. Herman Luers, Sigourney,
Iowa, r. 4.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

WANTED-THBEE TEACHERS TO IRA
vel during vacation. Salary S21 per week
and expenses; salary payable weekly and
expenses advanced. Address with stamp,
]. A. Alexandeas Ottumwa, Iowa.
WANTED-TWO TRAVELLING SALES
men; S75 per month and expenses. Los
Angeles Cider Cd, st. Louis, Mo,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
Returns From Trip.

Major T. ]. Spilman who has been
enjoying three weeks of his annual va
cation on his plantation at Canton,
Miss, has returned home. Mr.. Spill
man reports that his son T. Holl Spill
man is enjoying the best of health.
Fresh vegetables have been on the
market there for several days.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12
East End Items.

T. D. Lee expects to leave Monday
night for an extended trip in the east.
He will be gone about six weeks and
will visit at ,Chillicothe, Ohio, Ottawa
and Indianapolis, Ind, and en- route
home will stop few days at st. Louis
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

Killings Decrease.
During the week 1900 hogs were
killed at the Morrell plant, slight de-
crease from last week when $3.50 hogs
were killed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier., 1904-04-12

FOR SALE-SEvERAL STANDS OF
bees. Mrs. 7. L. Campbell, Chillicothe,
Iowa.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-25

that are not eaten should then be put in the COM
post heap and thoroughly rotted with the ma
nure, or if this is not done they should be
burned. If this method of cutting the fodder be
followed, the roots and stubs should be plowed
out, piled and burned, to destroy those pupae
that may be in them.
But if we must persist in the slovenly looking
habit of pulling" our fodder then as soon as the
ears are removed let the stalks be pulled up by
the roots, and the whole burned. Plow the land
and SOW a winter crop.
The point at issue is to absolutely destroy all
the lower half of the stalk from the ear to be-
low the ground so that the insects which are there
shall not mature.
Work against this insect can only be carried
on to best advantage when all, or nearly all, of
the farmers in the community agree to follow the
anne plan. Otherwise the moths maturing on
one neglected farm may supply stalk-borers for
an entire community.
One of the principal points to be emphasized
is that by simply changing our habit of harvest
ing-that is by cutting at the ground instead of
pulling, we will to a considerable degree check
the ravages of this pest. The habit of pulling
fodder is wasteful of the fodder, slovenly in ap-
pearance, and gives excellent opportunity for
the increase of insect pests. How many chinch
bugs do you suppose pass the winter among such
old stalks2
FRANKLIN SHERMAN, JR.
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-25
TALKS ON INSECT PESTS.
xv-Ths corn-stalk Borer-Deseroy 1t Now.
Wilson Co., N. @.

tM-=
Messrs. Editors: Every spring we get COM
ANTS of young corn stalks being bored into
5ld destroyed by the corn stalk-borer, a whitish
aterpillar an inch long, with small black specks
q the body.
Like the tobacco fea-beetle which was dis
used last week, the time to fight this pest is
the fall of the year and then we fight to pro-
It the next years crop. The corn stalk-borer
'ses the winter in the pupa state inside the
! stalks. Sometimes they are to be found as
gh on the stalks as the ears and again as low
the surface of the ground. In this pupa stage
eyAare quite helpless and any method by which
e infested stalk is completely destroyed will
troy the insects also.
One method of dealing with them is to cut
he stalk at the ground, as close to the surface
possible. and feed to the cattle. Any stalks
The progressive farmer and the cotton plant., 1904-10-25
CONDUCTED BY b. w. KILGoRE,
DIR. TALKS.
xvIII.-erass and Grain Crops.

Messrs. Editors: / wish to say to all your
readers, that now is the time for every farmer
to-prepare for his grain and grass crop.
/ don't advise you to put In large crops of
grain or grass, but to begin with a small plot
and learn something about growing these crops
and whether your land is suited to them.
But be sure you do not fall out with the crop
you try until you have intelligently tried to make
it. 1t is not always the land, but sometimes the
man, that is the cause of the failure.
I passed along the road one day and asked a
friend who was just over the fence blowing,
what he was doing, and he said he was blowing
in some clover seed. This friend was blowing
with a turn pillow as you would break up land for
corn. / asked him if he thought he would get a
stand of colver by putting it in that way, and
he said, 90 course" he would. This gentleman
was one of the best men in Nash County, and his
land adapted to clover, but his failure was not
in the land, but in the man.
Now, reader, think over your failures with
wheat, oats and the grasses, and see if you did
not fail because you did not know just how to do
the work.
I have often been to picnics and all the good
ladies had cake, but only two or three had the
very best cake that could be made out of the
several ingredients used. The rest had used
many the same thing to make their cakes, but
they did not know how to mix the several parts,
and how to bake it after it was made. One of
@+pe3ghbpEs-s says Ghe Sere-s-SS aw peas on his
pd 1T would ruin it so he could not make one
OPP of anything on it for three years. Now
Aese cake makers think they know all about
making cake, but we know they can't make one
+ for a goodlooking person to eat. And so with
Is farmer: he thinks he knows all that any one
sc knows about farming. Now, Mr.. Reader,
u are just like these people l have mentioned.
u think you know, but you don't, and this is
t-cause f your not having one or two acres
grass and clover, and a few little lots in rye
r the early mixers.
Now the way to learn is for each neighbor-
pod to have a brain cooperation and what all
Use brains conclude is the best.
II. +. FREEMAN,
Wilson Co. N. c.