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

lacking that length of time in making
the date given by Mrs. Prevo. John
and William Vans, Of this city, both
having resided here continuously for
65 years, drew straws for the chair
which fell to the lot of the former.
Eli Hawkins, aged 81 years, was the
Oldest man in the county. At least
one dozen persons reported resi-
dency of sixty years standing. Off
as follows:
INSTRUMENTATION Miner.
Treasurer. c. Goodlander.
Secretary-R. p. Cooper.
New p. e. o. Year Books.
The new p. e. o. year books for
1905 and 1906 are now in the hands of
the officers, ready for distribution. The
program presents a feast of good
things prepared for bi-monthly enjoy
ment from September to June 25.
The booklet is bound In the P. e. O.,
colors, yellow and white and presents
a very neat and tasteful appearance
which testifies to the good taste and
Judgment of the committee in charge.
The arrangement of lists of resident
and nonresident members and those
who have passed away are very at
tractively PRESENTED and a beautiful
feature Is the single page in memoriam
president of P. e. o. The page bears
the emblem of the order underneath
which is inscribed ITO live In the
hearts we leave behind is not to die
The year opens September 4, with a
fraternal evening at the home of Mrs.
Jennie Leach. An excellent literary
program will be given by the off,
| GERS.
On September IS an autumn fete
! will ha hold at the homo Of Mrs LEM
| ME Wallace.
| October will be an evening OF
| preference. Hostess Mrs. Rose Romin-
ger.
October is will be devoted to the
subject, Women Of Today" Hostess
Mrs. Emma Caldwell.
October 31.-"A Halloween Frolic.'
Hostess, Mrs. Della Burgess
| Nov. ia Philanthropic Even
ing" Hostess, Mrs. Pearl Young.
Nov 27.-Sealed program. Hostess
Mrs. Almeda Bence.
Dec. 4.-"Anniversary Afternoon ir
| Honor of Our Mothers Hostess
Mrs. Henrietta Wray; assistant hos.
tesses. Mrs. Mary Stafford. Mrs. Ella
Scarborough, Mrs. Emma Payne, Mrs
Mayme Matthews Mrs. Ella Fortune
Mrs. Matte Sanders
! Dec. 11.-"For Next to Being a Grea
/ Author is the Power of Understanding
4 One" Hostess, Miss Fannie Menden
hall.
Dec. 25.-Christmas greetings. Hos
tess. Mrs Floy Phillips.
Jan. S.-An evening with Emerson
Hostess, Mrs. Anna Beauchamp.
Jan. 22.--Round table talks. Hos
tess, Mrs. Helen Taylor.
Feb. 5.-Sealed program. Hostess
Mrs Eva Lester Johnson.
Feb. 10. Literary lives. Hostess
The Misses Davies
u March 5.-Election of officers. Hos
i tess, Mrs. Minnie Toombs.
March Musical, "Of all the art
great music is the art, to raise tn
soul above all larthlv Storm" Hostess
Mrs. Belle Steckel.
| April 2.-Sealed program. Hostess
Mrs. Fannie Cook.
April 16.-An evening with Shakes
peare. Hostess, Mrs. Emma Payne.
April 13.-fn evening with the chill
dren. Hostess, Mrs. Alma Young.
May A. Convention reports. Hos
less, Mrs. Mary Stafford.
! May 28.-Sealeu program. Hostes:
Mrs. Lelah Herr.
Jan. 11.-Flower program. Hostes.
} Mrs. Nellie Sheaffer.
J June 25.-Annual picnic. Hostess!
Miss Leila Clelland.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-02
ELDoN.

Eldon, Sept. Mrs. p. A. Rogers
left on No last night for Chicago.
Miss Esther Willard is an Ottumwa
visitor today.
w. H. Baker has returned from
visit in Los Angeles, CAL
Miss Dick Tenant, of Oskaloosa, is
the guest of her sister. Mrs. e. J.
Moore.
Miss Mary Brown, of Fredoma, Is
the guest of her brother, w. T. Brown.
Mrs. Elizabeth Smith left on No. 8
today for DrakevilIe.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Terry are OF
tumwa visitor today.
E. K. Daugherty is an ottumwa visi-
tor today.
Mrs. Nick Lutz returned yesterday
from a two weeks visit at MT, Pleas
ant,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-02
ALBA.

Abba, Sept. 1.--More people from
Abba attended the state fair this year
than in any previous years of its his
tory.
David Webb and family returned
from Denver a few days ago. Mrs.
Webb is in verv poor health.
S. L. H. Gibson has purchased three
car loads of cattle in this vicinity and
will ship them to his home in Kirk
wood, ILL.,, tomorrow. Mr.. Gibson has
bought cattle about here for the past
thirty years.
Eraden last Sunday morning. son.
Mrs. oswald is in Fairfield this
week in attendance at the bedside of
her father, who is very i'll.
Mrs. Mariah Mills died at the home
Of her daughter, Mrs. u. G. Wright, at
3 o'clock Tuesday morning. The flu
neral was conducted from the Wright
home yesterday afternoon at 2 o'clock,
by Miss L4orena Terrell, Of Oskaloosa
loosa.
Miss Grace Downs and Miss Nora
Forrest returned Tuesday evening from
Lake Geneva, where they attended the
Y. w. G. A. annual conference. Miss
Downs visited her brother Burr Downs
in Chicago and Miss Monta Porter
the third delegate, is still in Chicago
with friends, but is expected home
soon.
Mrs. James Reddish and daughter
OF Centervllle, are guests at the Byers
home in this city.
Daley Mock, Of Kansas, is visiting
relatives and friends in and about AL
bia.
Mr.. and Mrs. P. E. Enix are in KEEL
lerton this week, visiting.
About one hundred tickets to Den
Yer were sold by the Burlington road
this week. The greater percentage
went Wednesday when the special
passed through.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-02
BUTLER.

Butler Sept. HAIRY Burgess, of
Rose Hill, was an over Sunday visitor
at the A. j. Burgess home.
Quite a number from here attend
ed the big circus at Ottumwa Mon
day.
j. I. Burgess is visiting relatives in
Rose Hill this week.
Mrs. Elizabeth Burgess and children
John and Mabel. Of Ottumwa, are
spending few days at the home of
their uncle, A. j. Burgess.
Matt Arganbright is hauling ma
terial for his new house.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-02

and relatives at Farmer City, Ill.
C. S. Hanna expects to leave Mon.
day for a weeks visit with relatives
near Bloomfield.
T. r. Sumner was Batavia bust.
ness caller Tuesday
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-02

Every Knee Pants Suit in the store
is marked down below cost for Sa.
day, Sept. 2 at The Hub
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-09-02

There is no pedagogy like that of
love.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
HOW TUNNEL WAS COOLED.
Boring of It One of Great Engineering
 Feats of Age.

Scientific American.
 The boring of the OK Bow tunnel in Idaho Is one of the great engineering feats of the age. The Payette river at this point makes a loop and by putting a tunnel through 1900 feet the river he'd is left high and dry for two and a quarter miles. It is the intention to mine the river bed for gold. Ordinarily the putting through of this tunnel would be a simple matter, but at 300 feet from the upper end and 250 feet from the lower hot water was struck. The heat at first was from 95 to 105 degrees, increasing as the work pro gressed to 133 degrees at the hottest point. Different fans and blowers were experimented with to cool the air in the tunnel. but without success until William Flick, the superintendent of the work. thought of spraying the walls of the tunnel with water pumped from the river. Very simple pumping apparatus and common garden spray were used with complete success. The tunnel Is 2s feet wide and feet high and the flow of hot water amounted to seventy-flve miners inches The cold water cooled the hot water and it was pumped out with common pumps.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
ADVANCES IN TRADE
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL HOUSES
 ARE SATISFIED,
Territory of Montgomery JObbera Ia Expanding and Freight Bureau Has Been Organfsed-Re- | tail Cash System.

Montgomery's wholesale and retail trade expansion has kept apace with all other advances in the business world of the city during the past eleven months.
 Not only has the trade increased but during the year much was done toward organizing the forces to make the trade assume even bigger pro- portions in the years to come.
 Montgomery is already the second greatest wholesale grocery point in the South, being second only to New Or leans. It's travelling men during the past year, even invaded the territory of the stricken Crescent City and in vaded 1t with as much success as the armies of Oyama went into Manchuria.
 movement that augurs much good for the city was begun during the year by local merchants and manu- lecturers, who formed the Montgom- cry Freight Bureau to take up the ad- justment of freight discriminations against the city by the railroads. All ready some good has been done by this organization and 1t is expected that when it becomes fully organized good results of a potent nature will be seen immediately.
 In spite of the fever scare, low cot ton and bad weather, the year among wholesalers and retailers was one Of great prosperity. Collections were not so good as during the year previous but this is ascribed to the fact that many farmers held their cotton for better prices and the merchants are willing to aid In this good work.
 The year would have bean almost a banner year with retailers had it not been for the fever scare almost para lyzing trade in midsummer. The re- tailers believe that the people were holding their money for fear of fever and as they are confident that the health authorities will be able to sue cessfully combat the invasion of the stegomyia, they believe that the money will be forthcoming during the late fall and winter and that next year will be one of the greatest ever known to the city.
 Retailers say that the credit sys- tenn is rapidly fading away from Montgomery. More and more cash purchases are being made and as the city becomes more and more the big city, they believe that this old buga- boo of the Southern merchant win die. An encouraging feature of the re- tail trade Is the immense amount of farm implements and wire for fences that Is being bought. It shows that tne farmers arc learning how to be- come farmers in reality and that with their increased facilities for buying the retailers taeilkies for selling will increasa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01

ries.- The main lines which enter the city are the Louisville and Nashville. the Atlantic Coast Line, the Western of Alabama, the Central of Georgia, the seaboard Ar Line and the Mobile and Ohio. Beyond these other. feeders to the commerce of, Montgomery are the Montgomery and iPrattville branch, the Taliassee and Montgomery branch, the Geneva branch and the Luverne branch.
 It Is fine market, a rich market for the manufacturer that these lines touch and penetrate. In manufacturing Montgomery has practically no compe- tition In Middle Alabama. Manufactur- ed goods have to be shipped into this section from other cities. With its low rates with It's splendid railroad system Montgomery is easily in the bestposi- ton to get the best of trade in manu- factured articles as well as articles of other kinds in Middle Alabama.
 There comes up too. the question of fuel. Montgomery Is less than hum dred miles from the rich coal fields of the mineral district. The Montgomery manufacturer can get his coal deliver ed at his engine room fresh from the Alabama mines for charge of one dol lar ton. That is no small thing to consider. Right in the heart of the market, practically without competition, the Montgomery factory gets its coal delivered for a dollar ton.
 Cheapest Electric Power.
 But other power Is 1sed to turn the wheels of a factory. Electricity IS each year widening and widening its field of endeavor. It Is strongly declared that Montgomery has the cheapest electrici- ty of any city in the South. There is strong competition in the selling of electric power in Montgomery and the consumer is the man who has profited by 1t. A great dam Is thrown across the Tallapoosa River thirty miles above Montgomery. A fraction of the power developed by this dam in the form oi electricity furnishes the city with 8 large part of It's electrical power and il is further declared that the Tallassee dam is sufficient to give power in elec- tricity to city twenty times as large as Montgomery.
 When one turns all these things over in his mind he does not marvel that the city Is becoming a city of factories. nol that the vested interests of its factories have increased something near twenty per cent. in the last twelve months.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01

by over 100000 bales any crop ever
 raised in the United States, The larg-
 est crop prior to that of i904-05 was
 11,256.0oo bales. 1SsS-ss.
 Prospects for Good Prices.
 The prospect for a paying price ,g for
 needs great deal more American cot ton than has been raised this year and the mills here and abroad have no very considerable amount on hand. The Baltimore Sun, one of the most con servative of papers. says on this point;
 There are indications that the Southern cotton planters will secure a fair price for their product this year. The governments crop report does not point to such a large yield as last year,
 ss crop the mhey pGs te selves. The drought in Texas may af- feet the crop in the Lone Star State to some extent Rnmors of poss'oIe@ @ m | pool for the staple. Another alleged cause of the advance in the price is the publication of officials figures show ing q very. large increase in the ex- ports of American cotton cloth. For l the first six months of 1904 the ex- ports from the United States were 129,- 100000 yards. For the corresponding period of 1905 the exports were 38S.- ] 000, 900 yards.
 1 Uncle Sam finds a market for his ! cotton goods in Europe and in Asia. The Southern manufacturers have been sin ngularly fortunate in developing. a | trade with China. To what extent they may suffer by the Chinese boycott on | American goods Is problematical The ] Chinese can get cotton cloth from Great | Britain if they are determined to dis- | crjminate against the American pro duet. But even if Uncle Sam loses this , trade temporarily there will conf | to be demand for raw cotton. Hepce l the planters of the South will not suf- | fer by reason of the boycott, whatever | the effect may be on the manufactur- | CTS. .., | Last month the Cotton Spinners As Y sociation of Great Britain decided that l hereafter it would be as independent as possible of the American planters l and would seek to secure larger part | of its supply of the raw material rom | other sources. This threat has been made before, but to no end. Until new I fields for the cultivation of cotton are | developed, John Bull must get great deal of the staple from the south or | limit his manufactures. He cannot ar l ford to do the latter, and so he must pay the American price for, the Ameri- ] can product. This year the planters seem to be more determined than ever to hold their cotton until they can realize a profit on 1t. With the aidSor | the bankers in the South they claim 1 that there will be no necessity for them ! to sell at & aacrlhce
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
SECOND MULE MARKET
A LINE OF INDUSTRY THAT CON-
 TINUEs TO GROW.
Nearly 2.OO0 More Animals Were Sold In Montgomery The Past Year
 Than In The Year Be-

Montgomery, the South's second mule market, finds it's market for mules and live stock throughout Ala bama, parts of Georgia, Mississippi, Florida and not few have been sh haoped to the West Indies. Between 5000 and 5000 of the long cared anil mals were sold by Montgomery deal ers In live stock during the past year.
 Live stock dealers thought the re- cord of the year previous remarkable, when something over 1000 mules were sold. During that year they looked for a falling off in the traffic. In 1902 and 1903, Montgomery dealers had found q big market for their anil malls in the English government agents at New Orleans, who were shipping hundreds and hundreds of heads to the Transvaal, where the mules were needed to assist Tommy Atkins beat back the rssolute followers of Dom Paul Kruger. The mules were util- ized for carrying packs. mountain guns and hauling commissary and hospital service wagons and drawing batteries. When peace finally settled over the bloody veldts, the English government ceased to desire the ser vices of so many of the animals. The live stock dealers of Montgomery had every reason to believe that the mar ket would fall of. But it advanced, King Cotton was the cause. Che Sul- ly and his cohorts bulied the market and brought wealth to many Alabama farmers The farmers had needed mules for years but had not the where wtthal to purchase them. When Sully and IS cent cotton brought in the wealth the farmers bought in the mules.
 A prominent live stock dealer said Fl- the continued prosperity in this line during the past year in only one way. He believed that it was the increase In population during the past year in this section that caused the increas de- mand. Man must have mule in Ala bama, if that man intends to success fully till the soil and he believed that the increased demand for mules was caused by the increase of people in Alabama who need mules.
 We ship mules in large numbers to the great section that Is being open ed up around Andalusia, Opp, Florala and Geneva" said he We are now shipping about carload & week and I expect that other dealers are doing just the same sort of business The mules are generally purchased in the middle west but quite a number of home raised stock has been sold and the indications are that next year, this number will be increased
 T am delighted with the prospects for next year. It seems to me that the rural sections of Alabama should not cease to grow and as long as they grow, the mule trade will increase. Then, too, I have confidence in the Southern Cotton Growers Association and believe the farmers will get a l fair price for their crop. If they get this price they will buy more mules. If they buy more mules our business will increase. 1 see no reason why it should not. At any rate I'm satis- fled"
 This particular dealer spoke the sentiments of practically all of them.
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
VaIue of the Cotton.

Taking an average from the high prices which were paid at the opening of the season, the drop, and the advance. it is a safe estimate that the last crop brought $50 per bale. This would make $10,4s2l5o as the value of the cotton handled in Montgomery In the last twelve months. This, however, Is but little more than was received for the 170,i24 bales crop of 1903-04, as the average price received for that was 12 cents.
 twelve months ago 1t was stated in these columns that "it Is estimated by some who have had much experience in the cotton business that receipts here In the current year will exceed those of the past. The damage done by. exces- eive rains is the only item to be now estimated, and if that is not as great as now apprehended. Montgomery may reach the 200, 900 bale mark" It will be seen that the prediction of Septem- ber 1st, 1904, as to outcome here was more than realised.
 So far, but little of the new crop has been received. The first bale came in on the Srd of August. The receipts for August were S.3S5 bales.
 Crop Since the War.
 rrax Af
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01

stock on hand Thursday night. ... .5.s47 Middling. August 31st 1904. .10%.
 Middiing, August 31st. 1905. 1OA.
 The year 1903-04 was the banner year as to receipts up to that time, but a comparison of figures shows 1904-05 to lead 1t by 3s,518 bales
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
should Have Done So at First.

Secretary Wilson of the Agricultural Department at Washington is in the market for a cotton statistician who knows something about cotton, and he thinks such a man ought to be founi in Texas. If Mir. Wilson had adopted this idea in the beginning instead of filling his office with foreigners and tools of Wall Street gamblers there would never have been such scandals
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01
10000 MORE
 COTTON BALES MOntgOmery'S Receipts Show Big Increase. CLOSE OF THE YEAR During Twelve Months 209,- 643 Bales Came Here. vniue ef the staple Was over s1o.ooo,- ooo--Farmers Are Independent
 and Better Prices are
 Expected.

Another business year begins today. 1t is natural for those who live in the gotten region to date their commercial year from September 1, when the great staple Is fairly making its way to mar ket. Very little cotton reaches Mont Eomery during the month of August, but for several months toe come the weekly receipts here will be heavy.
 The prospect of a very large yield of cotton in the Montgomery territory proper was very fiattering until about one month ago. Since then a number of causes have operated to cut of ex- pectationss and no one now expects re- ceipts for the current year to equal those of the year which expired last night
 The past year was a record breaker here in several ways.
 First, the receipts are 10000 bales < greater than ever before in Montgom- cry
 Second, there was no gap in the mat ter of business between the old crop ana the new crop.
 Cotton business kept up through all the summer months. due to the fact that thousands of bales were not sent to market as soon as ready but were kept back by the planters because of the big reduction in price. As prices went up to satisfactory figures this de- iayed cotton was brought in and sold and many hundreds of thousands of dollars additional being realized by the ho1ders.
 Third. The fact was developed that Alabama and other cotton planters and raiscrs are In more Independent posi- tiou than they have been in forty years. and that by means of this inde- rendence they can secure better prices than when they were compelled to sell 1& soon as their cotton was picked and packed. The prices last fall were hlgh, when suddenly they were run down below. a remunerative rate. The holders by keeping back have realized n good price and indications are that fairly good prices will be maintained for this crop.
 Receipts nnd Shipments.
 The total figures of receipts and NB9spnsents for the past year In Mont romeFy are as follows:
 Dxomsgomery Annual Cotton Statement. Stock on hand Sept. 1, 1904. 1,5s5 Received past week.. 1,160
 reported :. ...s.. 2O4.16s Received previously and
 not reported ....... 4,s20-209, ,643
 Total ............ 211,28S Shipped previously ..... .202, ,S73-205.s91 stock on hand Thursday night. .5.S47
 MiddIing, August 31st, 1904. .10%.
 MIddling, August 31st. 1905. .1OA.
 The year 1S03-04 was the banner year as to receipts up to that time, but a comparison of figures shows 1904-05 to lead 1t by 3S.5i9 bales.
 ha In q 10 reCnpa
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01

Continued on page eleven.)
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01

(usAeIs esed uo panulluoas
The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-09-01

It will be several days before the eX, act 6Rures for the crop of 19o4-05 VIII he known. The fact has long ago oeeg established. however. that 1t will exceed
The statesman., 1905-11-17
HAD TO MAKE SHOWING.
Cause Of Governor TiIImsn's Turning
On His Friend.

vi fllb FIlClAs
Alfred Henry Lewis was discussing
various statesmen and politicians, and
finally mentioned Senator Tillman.
"Tillman is not the hater Of corpor.
stions that many believe him to be"
remarked the author OF THE Presl.
dent" He says may things solely
for effect, and much of his strong Ian.
guage is for the benefit of his constit-
uents, who think that the proper thing
to do.
while he was Governor Of South
Carolina AN attorney who represented
a railway company called on him on a
matter Of business. They had a pleas
ant talk. and the attorney was assured
that he could have what he wanted.
Just as they separated two of TILL
mans constituents from the back
woods. men known as Wool Hats, en-
tered the office. The lawyer did not
see them. but Tillman did.
Changing his demeanor and tone of
fOISst ne gelleu' NO OH iou Gan
have It! Your thieving corporation
will get what 1t is entitled to, and no
more, while | am governor There is
70 use in your coming around whining
or clustering. You will get no ia
yors from me-.
"a day or two later the attorney met
Gov. Tillman and the latter explained
that 1t would have meant political ruin
for him TO be seen on apparently
friendly terms with a railroad lawyer"
New York Times.