Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1904-05-19
CHAPTER 3, p. e. o. MEETS.
Bloomfield Members Entertain State
President

Bloomfield Members Entertain State
President.
Bloomfield, May 1s.--At the regular
meeting of Chapter b, P. e. o., held
Monday evening at the home of Miss
Eva Lester private musical was Civ
en-. The state president, Mrs. Effie
Fortune, was introduced by the presi-
dent of the local chapter, Mrs. Jennie
Leach. The chapter then gave the p.
e. Q. yell. after which the folloying
program was given:
Piano duet-Marcho Div Tsiz Anes
.DeQulle
Mrs. Lorenz and Mrs, Palmer.
Piano solo >. Melody by Paderewski
Mrs. Effie Fortune.
Violin solo--Eva Lester.
Piano solo-Serenade -. Moszkowski
Helen Davies.
Piano duet-The Palm Branches
.......J. Faure.
Ruth McAchran and Eva Lester
Vocal solo-Serenade. Sarah A. Black
Mrs. Emma Caldwell ~
P. q. o. Newspaper-Mrs Rose Rom
niger.
On Tuesday evening the P. E. o.'s
We're informally entertained at the
home of Misses Mary, Carrie and
Helen Davies, the affair being compli-
mentary to the state president, Mrs
Fortune. Refreshments were served
and quiet social evening was greatly
enjoyed.
Personal and Otherwise.
Mrs. Clara Elan, of Moulton, spent
Monday with her brother in-law, d.
II. ELAN and family.
MI and Mrs. John Findley, of Des
Moines. are visiting at the home of
Mrs. Findley's grandmother. Mrs Win.
K. Findley, while enroute to Texas,
where they will invest in farm lands.
Mrs. w. H. McAchran is slowly i'm
proving after a two weeks illness
from the grip.
Invitations have been issued to the
marriage of Miss Gussie M. Bruders
to Jas. p. Rains Wednesday afternoon
May %, at the home of Mr. and Mrs.
Bruders in the southwest part of the
city. The ceremony will occur at 4
o'clock.
Miss Jennie Ferguson spent Tues
day in Ottumwa attending the Chris
tan Endeavor convention.
R. Guy Hardy, editor of the Bloom
field Democrat, accompanied by his
sister, Mrs. Fife Roop left Thursday
for st. Louis, to attend the worlds
fair.
Robert Prevo, of Loveland, Colo,
is visiting his parents, Hon. T. J.
Prevo and wife.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. M. Smith left Tues
day for Springdale, Ark, to spend sew
eral weeks with Mr.. and Mrs. 7. j..
Hill, formerly of this city, and Mr.. and
Mrs. Kirk, former residents of Pull
laslli. Shortly after their departure a
dispatch was received stating that Mr..
Smiths brother, Phillip Smith, of Tue
son, Arizona, died Tuesday morning.
AS the remains will be brought to this
vicinity for burial a dispatch was i'm
mediately sent Mr. Smith, who will
probably return.
Messrs D. H. Elan, Delbert Knight,
of Pulaski, B. B. Burchett, M. F.
Broadwell, Frank Evans, Henry
Squires and Mr.. Kaiser left Tuesday
evening for Groton. South Dakota,
where they will spend some time look
ing at farm lands with view to pos
sible investments. The party expect
ed to be joined on the way by E. Rom
niger, who attended the state conven-
ton at Des Moines Tuesday as one of
the republican delegates from this
county.
Roy Elan returned Tuesday from
Des Moines, where he had been spend
ing several days visiting his cousin,
Edgar and Guy Elan.
Mr.. and Mrs d. H. Elan and guests
drove to the county farm Sunday and
were greatly pleased with the prosper
Gus condition of the house and grounds
which have been under the supervision
Of Mr.. and Mrs. A. A. Downing for a
number of years, during which the
inmates have enjoyed all the comforts
of a we'll kept home.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Greenleaf, rural
route No. 4, are the parents of a baby
girl, born Tuesday.
James Stokesberry, Of Stiles. made a
business trip to this place Tuesday,
while enroute home from Bunch,
where he has been building bridge
| across Fox river.
The Masonic hall which has been in
process of erection at Stiles for some
time is almost completed. They are
now putting on the finishing touches.
Worshipful Master Jas. Stokesberry
expects to call meeting of the order
to be held in the new building about
the first Of June.