Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-14
EDDYVILLE.

Eddyville, Oct. 13.-Married. at 10: go
Wednesday morning, October II, in
the Office of Justice M. L. Kirk, in OF
| tumwa, Miss Bessie Chitwood and Ed
ward Washington. both of this place.
Justice Kirk, officiating. The bride is
Chitwood of Mill street. and she has
passed her life here. The groom was
formerly of Chillicothe, but came here
last spring.
Miss Pearl Gosney, of ottumwa. is
spending a week with her sister, Mrs.
Henry Martin.
Frederick and Eddyville base ball
teams played ball on Thompson's
park Sunday afternoon. There was
ten innings played and the score was
10 to 9 in favor of Eddyville.
Fred Reese of Hilton, was here and
at Pekay Tuesday, looking after the
interests of the Whitebreast Coal Co.
Mrs. Eva Lewis and daughter,
Henrietta, who have spent the sum-
mer at the B. B. Beamer home, de-
parted Wednesday for King City, Mo.
Sunday was G. E. Stephenson's
birthday, and Frank Oldham's birthday
came two days later. or on Tuesday
so their wives planned an enjoyable
stag party for them, which was carried
out at the Oldham home, and took
Mr.. Oldham completely by surprise.
MI. Stephenson had been instructed to
call for his wife on the way hon 9
from the store and was also much
surprised when he found crowd of
about twenty people waiting for him.
che evening was spent in rather
novel way. story telling contest
consumed considerable time. The first
prize in the contest was won by Rev.
Hampstead and the second went to
Rev Right. Following this, a spirit
ed debate took place, the question UNI
der discussion being: Resolved, that
the watermelon crop is more beneficial
to humanity than Barnum's circus.
The affirmative was upheld by o. E.
Seifert, Rev. Hampstead and G. L.
Phillips. On the negative side were
Attorney Gillies, Rev. Right and G.
was in favor of the negative. The
room was darkened and ghost en-
tered and dispensed refreshments. Ed
Shields sang a solo, G. L. Phillips en-
tertained the crowd with cornet solo,
and Miss Gertrude Oldham presided at
the piano. The only ladies in attend
ance We're Mesdames G. e. Stephen
son, Frank and r. ]. Oldham and A. L.
Carson and Miss Gertrude Oldham, all
of whom We're masked. The men in
attendance were Geo. L. Gillies, Ed
Shields, A. L. Carson l. A. Worm
houdt. Clyde Riggs, Walter Lafferty,
Roy Lafferty, Fred Miller, c. W.
Hampstead, Frank Epperson, G. L..
Phillips, j. J. jaeger, o. H. Seifert, c..
L. Funk, Fred Crosson, w. S. Right,
F. w. FATS, S. L. Lennon. T. A. Off,
r. J. oldham Frank Hudson.
The w. j. jaeger farm, known as
the McDole farm, located on Grays
Creek, has been sold to 0. T..
belong, of Bluff Creek. The
farm consisted Of 120 acres and the
consideration was $50 per acre. or
total of $4,000 Mr.. DeLong will move
TO his farm March 1 next
Henry Martin has been sick this
week.
w. w. belong was a passenger to
Des Moines Wednesday.
Walter Pyatt, who has been serving
as petit juror on the August term
of the Wapello county court, returned
home Tuesday, having completed his
duties.
Mrs. Frank Cassatt went to Des
Moines Tuesday night to meet her
son and daughter, Mr.. and Mrs. Jay
D. Cassatt, of Chicago. who are en-
route to California. She returned on
Wednesday afternoon.
from a weeks business trip to South
Dakota, where he has a claim. Harley
Allison, of Ottunlwa, accompanied
Him, the latter's wife meanwhile re-
mained here Clifford Decker carried
the mail on the Pekay-Lost Creek
star route, during Mr.. Allison's abb
sence.
G. L. Mooney, of Bluff Creek, return
ed Monday night from a visit with his