Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-31
off duty last Thursday on account Of

off duty last Thursday on account OF
sickness.
James Galpin is building a four
room house on Roemer street.
G. E. Morton of Douglas, travelling
passenger agent for the Rock Island
was visitor at the plant last Thurs
day.
Superintendent Bullock is in receipt
Of some seed corn from his old home
In Canada. Frank Barton will expert.
nent, with it and. see if 1t will grow
in this country. 1t natures in ninety
days. n
Charles Miller Of the cooper shop
badly mashed the thumb of his right
hand on Monday morning.
| Kinsey Jordan formerly of the kill
ing department but now of Sigourney,
was here last Monday visiting with
the employees Of the plant.
Born, to Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Park
inson who reside on North Walnut av-
enue, daughter, Monday morning.
Levi Carter Of the smoke house is
on the sick list and off duty since last
Thursday.
Mrs. G. j. Barnum Of Iowa Ay.
enue who has been visiting her daugh-
ter, Mrs. Susan White of Fort Collins.
Colorado, returned home last Thurs
day.
S. Collingwood, oiler in the engine
room, is off duty, being on the silk
list.
Mrs. Edward Wisecarver of Grin
nell, is visiting at the home of Mr..
and Mrs. Edward McGrath, on North
Ash street.
Mrs. Mary Stevens and her son,
George and daughter Miss Ellen of
Agency, were visitors here on Satur.
day.
Theodore Smith Of the George Nor
ley gang, has been i'll since Friday,
suffering from pleurisy.
Frank G. Cook, Of New York das
here last Tuesday
Nero Gordon Of the engineers
force, has built commodious new
farm on his Roemer street property.
George Eaves Of the switch engine
gang, is off duty this week suffering
from appendicitis and may have to go
to the hospital and be operated on.
Miss Lilah Glew, 1901 East Main
street, who has been sufferer from
scarlet fever Is reported much better
and her many friends hope soon to
see her around as usual
Miss Cary, librarian at Burlington,
and Miss Mary e. Downey, city librar-
ian, inspected the East End branch Of
the Ottumwa Public library last Tues
day.
AL. Jones, who drives one Of the
market wagons of John Morrell & Co.,
Ltd, was slightly hurt last Tuesday at
the new building. He was making a
rull on some timbers when the tug
broke and hit him In the side, bruis-
ing him up considerably, but no bones
will broken and he will soon recover.
G. w. Campbell of Princeton, N. j.,
j. R. Hays Of Eddyville. ]. F. Wolf of
Hedrick, Hi. Pickard Of Cottonwood,
Gothard Swanson Of Byers, Colo. Mrs.
Katie Lick of Lovilia, Roy Campbell Of
Mt. Ayr; louisa Celschof of Des
Moines; E. Erickson of Marshalltown
and Mrs. e. Wisecarver of Grinnell,
were visitors at the plant this week.
Architest John Thomas who has
been in Chicago for the past ten days
returned home Wednesday.
Contractor Charles Rheem who is
running the big cement mixer expert
enced some bad luck last Wednesday.
A platform which supported a big lot
of cement sacks. broke down, but no
one wah hurt and the work was only
delayed few minutes.
G. Anthony of Rock Island was
here on business with A. B. Osler fore
man Of the local room Thursday.
j. H. Morrell was in Chicago on
Thursday evening.
Mr.. Erickson foreman Of the sau-
sage room OF the Britain packing
house in Marshalltown was here on
Wednesday as delegate to the Bap-
fist convention.
E. F. Neal and W. r. Beamer Of
Washington, Iowa, were visitors here
last Wednesday afternoon.
Ben Jennings of the engineers force
has been transferred from the night
gang to the day force and given
charge Of one of the ice machines.
Mark Noble of Durham, Eng, came
Thursday to go to work for William
Neyil in the green meat cellar.
Harry Lambert Of the stock yards
goes to Pierre, So. OAK, to look after
his claims. He leaves Thursday.
Daniel Denefe of the machine shop
badly bruised his left hand with a
hammer last Monday.
Eli Hill has been appointed super
intendent of the High Point Sunday
school in the place M. Moffitt resign
ed.
Mrs. Elizabeth Dietch is very sick
at the home of her son Wesley Gee
who resides on West Hayne street.
Superintendent Bullock is remodel
ing and extending the unloading plat
form on the north side of the stock
yards which will greatly facilitate the
unloading Of hogs in car lots.
Otto johnson of the packing room,
who has been in Rochester, Mimi, in
the St. Mary's hospital, where he was
operated on for appendicitis, has re-
turned tn tha city and will raSume his