Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-01-10
REV. YARD LEAVES.
Popular Baptist Minister Of EddyviIIe
Goes to Bio Rock, m.

Goes to Big Rock, III.
Eddyville, Jan. 6.-4Rev. w. r. yard, I
who with his wife spent Sunday and I
Monday with relatives in Washington
county, was here Tuesday till Thurs
day and shipped his household goods |
to Big Rock, His, where they will re-
side. Mr.. Yard returned to Washing
ton county Thursday forenoon. The
able young minister has been con-
nected with the Baptist church here
Tor the past three years, having sup
Piled the Eddyville church for the first
seven months, up to August, 1902, when
he became the regular pastor. Ho|
also held the passionate Of the church
at Prairie Flower In Washington coun-
ty. He and Mrs. Yard have lived here
for the last year and four months and
they have endeared themselves not
only to their associates in church work
but to all who. have made their. ac-
quaintance. At the prayer meeting
Wednesday night the following set Of
resolutions We're adopted:
We, the regularly appointed COM
mittee Of the First Baptist church Of
Eddyville, Iowa, to draft suitable reso-
lutioris upon the going from us Of our
pastor and wife, Rev. and Mrs. Yard,
do respectfully submit the following:
Resolved, That In the resignation Of
Brother. Yard our church has lost a
faithful and efficient pastor. fearless
and eloquent speaker, true to the word
Of God, and a Wise teacher and leader.
That In Mrs. Yard we lose an earn
est, conseerated worker lii the church,
Sunday school and Junior work.
That we cheerfully recommend them
to their new Held Of labor and pray
that the blessing Of God may be with
them In the Salvation Of souls and the
building UP Of the. cause. Of Christ.
Albert Johnson,
L. v. Terrell,
Grant Dye.
MI. and Mrs. Yard. will coon 90
from Washington county to their new
home at Big Rock, Iii. They will then
be located conveniently to the Uni.
versity Of, Chicago, and MT. Yard will
continue his studies In his chosen work
and will also be pastor OF the Big Rock
church, at which n he has already
preached q number OF times. No min
lister has as vet been secured az pastor
OF the Eddyville and Pleasant Corners
churches, but Rev. j. r. Catlin, OF
Pella, will preach here next Sunday
morning and evening, January 8.
Oth6r interesting iter1s.
Mrs. Frank Epperson departed We'd
nesday for Jonesboro ArkaiBas, to
spend a few weeks with her sister,
q
will be Joined by her husband in about
a week.
Mrs. Mary Danner, of Beacon, came
down Wednesday afternoon to spend q
week with her sister, Mrs. Samuel Will
liams.
Miss Neva Peniek of Oskaloosa, was
a guest Monday afternoon Of her
friend, Miss Pearl Palmer.
AT the regular meeting OF the town
totH q
presented asking that an electric light
be put in at the corner of South Third
and Jane streets, near the J.. e. Ellen
wood home. A committee was APP
pointed to investigate the matter. A
few bills were also allowed, but moth
ing of importance was done
Among the recent Oskaloosa callers
from Bluff, Creek were: Elias Davis
on Wednesday, and B. B. Beamer and
son, Leonard on Thursday.
Roy Vance, of Gray's Creek, has
been confined to his room from the eff
fects of having a srnalltumor removed
from his eyelid.
w. w. DeLong was an, ottunwa
business caller Monday afternoon.
Grant Ellis, north of town, fractured
his toe Tuesday bv dropping a lump of
Pekay.
A New Years dinner was held Sun
day at the home Of Mrs. Ida Kirfman,
in the Mrs. Mater property on Seventh
street. The guests were principally her
| children and grand children, and were
as follows John Kirfman and j. r.
Kussart and families, Mr.. and Mrs. II.
r. Fortune, Mr.. and Mrs. G. A. Nor
wood, Albert Johnson, Mrs. Hettie
Kussart and Mrs. M. j. Mater.
Jack Browns little son at White
City. has been quite sick with conges-
ton of the lungs.
4 Attorney G.. L. Gillies was at Abba
Monday on legal business
/ Died, at about o'clock Wednesday
| afternoon, January 4 at the home Of
her parents at Lost Creek, the infant
daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. Jack Semsky
Of pneumonia, after few days illness,
aged six months. The funeral was
held Thursday afternoon at O'Clock
/ and interment was made in the Catho-
! lie cemetery here.
/ Frances, the little Daughter Of Grant
/ Bolibaugh, east Of town, has been quite
4 sick. Several other members OF the
family have also been on the sick list
Miss Fay McNeese has been spend
I Lawless, in Des Moines,
/ Mrs. Emmett Nixon is recovering
from a spell Of sickness.
Frank Kussart visited with his sis
ter. Mrs. G. A. DeTar In Abba Wed
nesday Wednesday,. sd
Mrs. Ben Townsley has been suffer
ing from bilious attack
| A sister of ]. ]. Burrier, east OF town
departed Tuesday night for Marshall
/ Mo-. sss@'i ~ Is
| .Lawson,J. Sipes,s who, has spent the
past three months in Eddyville, Oska-
loosa, .Eldon, Ashland and Agency Wis
itfng relatives and friends. departed
Thursday morning for Wichita, Kan
sas, enroute to the home of his daugh-
/ ter, Mrs. Davis Israel, in Lincoln
county, Oklahoma. Mr.. Sipes is re-
membered by many of his old friends
/ as an interesting Y contribution to thu