Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-02
SlGOURNEY.

Sigourney, Sept. 1. Wade Kirk
the citizens transacting legal business
and looking up court matters last
Monday.
Many Sigourney people went to Os-
kaloosa last Monday to see Ringing
Bros. show and a few went on to Des
Moines to see the state fair before
coming home again.
Willis Van Tuy1 of English river
township was here on business Mon
day. Mr.. Van Tuyl is preparing for a
trip throughout the north and will
leave Iowa this week for Portal, Can
ada. He intends to investigate land
and crops throughout the different
parts of Canada and the northern
states and will be gone about six
weeks
G. H. Boland of Webster and Thos
Virgins Of White Pigeon were in the
city Monday.
Mrs. J. w. Roop of Hedrick and
Mrs. Samuel Bell of Fairfield visited
Monday and Tuesday at the E. e.
Phelps home.
J. A. Spears and wife of Pulaski,
were III tuS City MOlludy.
Ben F. Campbell of Steady Run
township was here on business mat
tiers the first of the week.
County Treasurer Shanafelt and
son Everett, left for Des Mines on
Monday morning and returned home
| Tuesday evening.
Gilbert Randall Of Oskaloosa was
visiting old friends the first of the
week
Prof. Owen Carroll left for Cedar
Rapids on Monday morning to be gone
a week visiting friends. After return.
ing here he expects to have one more
week to spend among his friends. be-
fore returning to his school work in
Texas. The yellow fever threatening
that country may be the cause of his
prolonging his stay here.
Charles Goodman leaves for Des
Moines this week, where he expects to
enter business college for further in
Already graduate of the business de
partment he will now enter tho short
hand course.
Mrs. Melville returned from Wash
ington, Ia, last Saturday night.
Rev. Wolhouse and family have de
cided to locate at Watertown, Ill.
where Mr.. Woolhouse has a call to a
charge They will leave here Wednos
day for the new location.
4 James Lesan is on the sick list.
Ella Adams leaves Wednesday fol
Ames, where she goes to resume heI
work in the domestic science course
Mr.. and Mrs Hubert Utterback 81
Des Mines were transacting business
here Tuesday and visiting Old friends
in town.
Levi Stone and family left for the
west Tuesday evening. They expect
to visit many places Of interest
| James Stafford of Thornburg was
brought here on the charge of inc
briacy and taken to the asylum by
Deputy Sheriff Long, Tuesday mora
ing
Sig Sanders died at the Klitz HON,
in North Sigourney Tuesday Mr.
Sanders. has been in poro health fol
several years and the family moved tc
California in the hopes Of benefittins
his health. They returned here sew
eral months ago.
The fierce blowing Of the mil
whistle giving the fire alarm was
quick to call the people from the:i
work at about $50 o'clock Tuesday
evening. The fire was at the home O.
| Wesley Snider in southwest Sigour
ney. Quick assistance soon stop
ped the destruction and saved a home
for these people. But little damage
was done to the house and furniture
i Clara Sanders of Des Moines is il
the city called here by the serious i'll
ness of her father and was at his bed
4 side when he died.
Bessie Seymour will teach school il
German township this coming year a
school house No. 5.