Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-10-20


evening and is still very sick. DR..
Stevens, who is attending him pro-
nounced him a little better this morn
ing.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. D. Conner visited
north of here Sunday at the parental
H. S. Conner home. Mr.. Conner, who
has been very ill for the past three
weeks, is slowly improving.
v. D. Bell. Of the firm of Mum &
Bell. sold his interest in the store
Thursday to Will NJ. Locklnan. An
invoice of the goods was begun Mon
day morning.
Berl Bell, the twelve year old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. o. G. Bell, was oper-
ated on Thursday in Ottumwa for
throat trouble. He was able to be
brought home Saturday and is getting
along as we'll as could be expected.
Mrs. John Thomas and son Marvin,
of Niwot, Colo, came Wednesday ev-
ening for visit with the formers
mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Dodd and with
other relatives and friends. This is
Mrs. Thomas first visit home in the
fifteen years of her married life and
her old friends are glad to greet her
and renew old friendships.
Mrs. John Bonar attended the Sun
day school convention in Bloomfield
last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. w. Rankin left
Wednesday for st. Louis to attend the
fair r q
Mrs. John Wallace and Mrs. S. f.
Mcconnell, of Bloomfield, visited here
Wednesday with Miss May Putnam
and Mrs. Lucy Mcconnell.
John Day, who came in Wednesday
evening from Niwot, Colorado, for a
Drakeville, was a Belknap caller Sat
urday morning.
Misses Myra and Jimmie Bolivar
and Messrs. Caleb Martin and Bert
wishard attended birthday party at
the home of Miss Myrtle Day in OF
tumwa Friday evening.
Misses Hannah and Anna Hughes
attended the Sunday school conven-
ton in Bloomfield Tuesday and We'd
it. They report the suggestions on
primary work by Mrs. Paddock well
worth going much farther to hear and
something that every primary teacher
In the county should have heard. Now
why not make our township conven-
ton a like success by being the best
one yet held?
Mrs. T. c. Cree, of Bloomfield, Wis
tied here Wednesday with her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Orla Burns and family.
| Newt Carver, who has spent the last
sixteen or seventeen years in different
| places in the west, but who is now
| located in Missouri, visited friends al
this place last week.
Rev. H. E. Butler returned Saturday
evening from St. Louis and spent the
night with Mr. and Mrs. V. D. Bell. He
was accompanied to Locust Grove
Sunday morning by Mr.. Bell. Rev
Butler was well pleased with his trip
Misses Myra and Jimmie Bolivar
attended surprise party on Bert
| Wishard at his home near Bloomfield
! last evening.
I Robert o'Neal, of Seymour, visited
here last week with his aunt, Mrs
Maggie Middleton.
John Post, Of Ottumwa, and Jane!
Sunday with Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Post
Mr.. Rhodes and son, Of Bloomfield
| We're callers there Sunday.
Mrs. Sarah Gaines. of Las Angeles
California, who has been spending tn
past two weeks here with friends, il
spending the day near F1oris at thu
W. E. Mum home.
i Mrs. Tom Yates and children visit
ed near Floris last week with Mrs
Yates brother, James Parker ant
wife,
Mrs. Eliza Middleton and Mis-
Linda Middleton, of Bloomfield, spen
Tuesday here at the G. H. Middleton
home
Mr.. and Mrs. ]. T. Mum and Mrs
Sarah Gaines expect to leave Wednes
day morning for Des Moines for
visit at the J. L. Mum home.
4 Mrs. Elmyra Morris and grand
daughter Orpha expect to leave tn
latter part of the week, Mrs. Morri
for. a visit at Moulton with her father
R. L. Guile, and Orpha at Eldon wit
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. E. F
!. Morris.
Several from here went to. Bloomfiel
Saturday to hear the speech of Hor
j. F. Lacey. They report the majo
at his best and that he delivered fin
speech.
Miss Hattie Thompson was bust
ness visitor at Ottumwa Thursday.
} Mrs. Sarah MCGEE and sister. Mrs
]. S. Huffman, of Ottumwa, who ha
been visiting here. left last night fo
st. Louis to see the fair.
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