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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-10-10
What | Saw at the Fair.

We drove sixteen miles over the
country last Wednesday to the What
Cheer fair. Papa, Mamma, Grandma,
my sister and l. l had very good
time. Papa and l were in Darkey
show. There was an old man Da1key,
with long whiskers, and little fat
one that they called Sam They did
some dancing and singing. 1t was
good. | saw some nice school work
and quilts and fancy work in the big
floral hall. Papa and l went to see
the poultry. We saw nest of eight
little Buff Cochins and they took first
premium. They were very cute I
saw two races. The people said there
were six thousand people on the fair
grounds that day. saw little pony
that was hitched to little cart; there
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NEWS ITEM.

Last spring one night it rained so
steadily that the creek overfowed it's
banks, causing a flood The water
came very near getting into our house
and did get into other houses. Five
of our horses were washed away, but
were not drowned.
The books of school No. 5, Green
township, are to be changed before
January /, 1906
Yesterday evening my papa started
for Arkansas to explore the land.
One night last summer we had an
electrical storm here A large barn
full OF hay, and other things was
struck by lightning and burned.
-, Bertha Leonard, age IL,
R. r. No. 6, Ottumwa, Iowa.
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cLAUD's ERRAND.

One time there was little boy call
ed Claud. He was only ten years old
and not very big boy. But his
mamma called him her little man be-
cause he was so good to help her. His
papa had been very sick for several
years with consumption and they had
mvoed out west from all their friends
so his papa might get well.
One Saturday evening his papa was
not so well and he wanted some medi-
cine from town ten miles away.
His mamma thought she could ride to
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NEWS ITEM.

Dear Editor:
The entertainment given at the
Hawkeye school house was quite a
success and large crowd attended.
There We're many interesting dia-
logues given, besides many pieces,
The platform was decorated very
nicely.
The children all brought branches
of evergreen and bouquets and. the
teacher decorated and arranged them
in different ways to make them pretty.
Small groups of children dressed in
white sang pretty songs and spoke
pretty pieces.
After the entertainment was over
they had a box supper which was also
success. There were loads of boxes
and all were sold at good price.
After the entertainment was over
and all the peopl had eaten their sup
per, they all started for home, telling
the teacher they had well earned a
dimes worth of fun.
Cecilia Clark,
Russell, Ia, r. F. D. No. 1.
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NEWS ITEM.

Died Sunday night. Sept. II, Mabel
Dahlgren, aged 8 years, youngest child
of Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Dahlgren. The
many friend sympathize with them in
their great bereavement.
Born, Monday morning, Sept. II, to
Mr.. and Mrs. Emery Murphy, a son.
Mrs. Clyde Darnsife of Ottumwa was
called here by the death of her niece,
Mable Dahlgren.
Miss Ethel Alexander of Kansas is
teaching Big Four school. She also
taught the spring term at the same
place.
Miss Clara Hayden returned Monday
to Iowa City to resume her studies in
the medical department of the state
university
The Pleasant View district No. is
without a teacher on account of the
demand being greater than the supply.
James Gonterman's sale will be
held tomorrow. He is going to move
to Kansas City on account of his wife's
health.
James Stribling's sale was held last
Saturday. He is making preparations
to leave this week for Washington.
Miss Nettie Beck is teaching a fall
term near Stockport. Miss Loreda
Hayden is teaching in Davis county
near Ash Grove.
James Stribling and David Allbaugh
met with quite a serious accident as
they were driving from Eldon. Their
horse became frightened, running
away. and backing the buggy UP and
upsetting the occupants in the ditch,
breaking five Of Mr.. Stribling's ribs
and injuring his shoulder quite SER
iously.
Faith Hayden, age u,
Eldon, Iowa.
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counties are in the majority. The
big yields are in evidence in all dis
tricts. The really good farmers have
produced big crops.
There are more good farmers now
than ever before. Lots of our intelli-
gent people have been taking notice
and learning how to grow good corn.
Our able instructors at Ames have
been talking at Institutes and have
sent out boys by the score to grow
corn.
Farmers Listen Well.
The people have listened with rare
patience and fortitude to lectures by
John Cownie, Henry Wallace and some
others, and it is base SANDER to say
that the people have not profited by
the Instruction of these Jealous preach
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cLAUD' ERRANp.

1t was near Thanksgiving when
Claud was sent down town to buy
some cinnamon, mace, cloves and half
pound of raisins for mince meat For
rear OF forgetting his errand, he prom
ised to repeat it all the way.
AS he was running along repeating
he stumbled and fell While rubbing
his bruises he completely forgot what
he was to buy. He thought while
and then commenced repeating, "Tar,
pitch, turpentine and half a yard of
sacking."
How would that taste in mince
meat? Florence Brawley,
Age l2 years.
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were two girls in it. saw some nice
fruit. saw some nice flowers and
some large squashes and potatoes. We
saw some nice country on our way to
the fair. We saw some old coal
mines where they used to dig coal. 1t
was dark when we got home, tired but
well pleased with our visit.
Josephine Smith,
r. F. D. No. 2,
KeSwick, Iowa.
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ing states, then Iowa should quit corn
growing and go to grass.
But we've got the crop this year.
In the joint discussion between various
pessimists and optimists the corn
stalk will put in the final word. And
that will settle it.
"Mr. Cownie Is a very able man. but
ne is in error in saying that corn is
necessarily immature when it shows
looseness on me cob after being par
tally dried indoors or in the sunshine.
That looseness results from drying
the kernels and causing shrinkage be-
fore the cob is thoroughly dried. All
corn becomes loose to some extent af-
ter partial drying then it becomes
firm again"
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SAGE IS JUBILANT
CONDITION OF THE CORN CROP
OF IOWA is THE
REASON.

The condition of Iowa's corn crop
has made John Il. Sage Of the state
weather and crop bureau feel quite
complacent, in fact, rather jubilant.
In answer to an inquiry recently, he
said:
Corn is practically beyond the dan
ger line. AS compared with last year,
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ROLL OF HONOR.

MARY ELIZABETH wELLMAN.
MILRE SCOTT,
BERYL DANIELS,
JENNIE PREvO,
MAE CHAMP.
ZULU M. TAYLOR.
GEORGE ROLAND.
FLORENCE PATTERSON.
EMMA DAVIS.
JESSIE SCOTT.
tRHODA DAVIS.
AGNES ASKLOF.
aADDIE CHENEY
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Courier Junior very much. like the
continued story especially. have no
pets except chicken, Grandma gave
me. 1t Is a pure Plymouth Rock.
Florence Brawley, age IL.
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Milton, Iowa. Sept. "a, 1905.

Milton, Iowa, Sept. "a, 1906.
Dear Miss Editor:-I have been
love to read it. I thought I would
write again. I go to school every day.
I love my teacher. Her name Is Lulu
Smith. She lives In Keosauqua. Papa
and Mamma and have been visiting
at my grandma and grandpa's at Lib
ersyville. We had a nice time. My
papa and C.andpa Cupp take The
Courier and they think it fine paper.
have three pet chickens. + am go
ong to sell them and put the money in
my bank. would like to correct a
mistake in my other letter. said I had
IL dollies ;tead of $12. MY mamma
and papa have come to visit me today
so ! will close for this time, so good
bye Margaret Coleman.
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There must be something very SER
ious troubling the woman who Isn't
fond of getting out on dress parade at
least once week.
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South ottunnwa. Sent 81.

South Ottumwa, Sept II.
Dear Editor: have just come in
from playing with some of my friends
and thought ] would write to you.
When came home from school there
were four girls at our house all about
my age. We all went out in the woods
and made play houses We found
nice green spot, surrounded by trees
In which we made our, play house. 1t
took our suppers and spread them out
on the ground. The boys put up a
swing for us In a big elm tree. The
branches extended out over the creek
and after supper we all gathered
hazelnuts. I wish you could have been
with us. 1t was a nice evening and
we had fine time. Well as 1t is now
9 o'clock haven't time to write any
more. Will close for this time
From your friend,
Hazel Elliott, age II.
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Ottumwa, Iowa, Sent. "a. 1903.

Ottumwa, Iowa. Sept "a. 1905.
Dear Editor: like to read the
Courier Junior and to see what the
little folks are doing. have no pets.
In the spring our little dog got killed
and now we can find no other to take
his place. hope to see my story and
letter in print. would prefer a doll.
Yours truly,
Blanche Campbell.
1113 North Court street.
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Charlton. Ia, Sept. 81
Dear Editor: I would like to see
my name in print, so guess will
write. have three pets, dog, his
name is Jack, and two cats, their
names are Tommy and Tony. am II
years old and I would like to see my
name in the Courier Junior. / go to
school. Our school began in Charlton
Monday, Sept. 4. I have three broth
ers and one sister. go into the sixth
grade. My teachers name Is Miss
Vanarsdale. I have doll, her name Is
Mildred, and my brothers names are
VIII, Amos and Gus; nv sisters
name, is Iva. This is all. hope to
see my letter In the Courier Junior.
Yours truly,
Sadly, Swanson, Box sos.
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Foris, Ia.

Floris, Ia, Sept 21
Dear Editor: am a girl IL years
of age and weigh 88h. I have no sis
ters and no brothers, but 1 have two
orphan girls who live with me. We
have mail route that goes past our
house. The mail carriers name is
Mr.. Peden. He passes our house about
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10 O'clock in the morning. The
Bloomfield fair has been held, and my
grandfather and cousin, Dave and i
went on Wednesday,, and 1t rained and
they did not fair that day II see
this in print, will write again.
Yours truly,
Cleya. Black.
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Dear Editor: am little boy six
years old. My mamma reads the let
ters to me. / have no pets, but I
have rabbit and it ran away I
have tricycle. and wagon. have
one brother and his name Is Freddie.
He Is four years old. He has hobby
horse. I go to the Irving school, My
teachers name is Miss Hedrick. I am
in the second room.
Dwight Shore.
211 North Davis street.
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Belle Fourche, s. Oak.
like to read the letters. / saw one
of my little friend, Edna Hunters let
tiers. have two sisters. Their
names are Mary and Ruth. Mary is 9
years old, Ruth is 8 years old. I was
little Iowa girl. If see this in print
will write again.
Grace Hanes, age IL.
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Lovilla, Iowa.
Dear Editor: am little boy &
years old go to school at Lovilia.
am in the fourth grade. have a
little sister. years old Her name Ia
Gladys. We have little white rab-
bit. My papa is the drayman here.
I will close. hoping to see this in
print. Yours respt.,
Ira GragR,
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THE PRIZE WINNER.

D. No. 8.
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Dear Editor: Instead Of writing you
a letter. I will write you story.
What I Saw at the Fair"
Yours truly
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Agency, Ia. Sept 25
Dear Miss Editor: l am glad the
children are to have page Of their
own in the Courier My mamma has
been takine the Courier for some time.
/ go to the school in town. We live
rot block from the school house. !
am eight years old. / am in the third
room and In the third class. Our
school began the fifth day in Septem-
Der. l will close for this time
Your friend,
Dorothy Batchelder.
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Highland Park. ottumwa.

11BHIdHu FHrK, -UICumWA. \
Dear Courier: am so glad we have
a Courier Junior and I wish it success
in every way. / have two brothers,
George and Anthony Mamma and
my two brothers and myself spent the
last Of July in Keosauqua with
mammals sister. We were gone about
two weeks and had a jolly good time
but since we came back we have had
good spell of sickness in the family.
First papa and then myself. I was
sick for three long weeks. My name is
Ada Lewis, age IL.
p. S.-As this is my first letter l
hope to see 1t in print.
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Troy Ia Sent 10

Troy. Ia, Sept. 10.
Kind Editor: AS 1 have never
written to a paper before, will try
to write. go to school. / Just live q
quarter of mile from church and
school. My father got killed in the
coal bank at Laddsdale when 1 was 8
months old. have got step father
who is very good to me. I have lit
tie half brother. He has been sick for
three months. I go to the Methodist
church and Sunday school. Our pas
tors name Is Rev. Davis, and my Sun
day school teachers name is Mrs.
Grace Carruthers. I like them both.
Ono of my grandma's, my papa.s
mother is dead. My mothers mother
is living. She lives close and I 60 to
see her often, and like to 60 che
gives me nice presents. Her name is
Mary A.. Powell. I will close and IL
this don't go into the waste basket, ]
will write again.
Mary Ethel Evans. age 49,
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Dear Editor: I enjoy reading the
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Josie Smith.
Keswick. Iowa, r. f. D. No. 2.
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NEWS ITEMS.

Cecilia Clark,
Russell, Ia, R. F. D. No. 1
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her. There was SHE REPHoACHED Me.
a deal of talkin' done first and last, but
l remember | didn't do much of it my
self. She would never, ncUer, NEVER mar
ry Mr.. Billings. He was too bosSy. CHAT
was henSD He had too big an idea Of
himself (Hens again.) She would
never. ncCer live with a man who did
not place q higher value on her brains
again, henS) She was grateful she
had found him out i'll time. And then
shades of EbeneZer, if she didn't fal
to and pitch into me! She reproached
me for havin' harbored him she said
that if | had demonstrated with her
when she asked my advice about his
comm she would have been spared all
this. At that l mopped my face and
come home. The last thing heard just
outside my door was that she should
devote her life to bringn' up hens the
way they ought to go.
That was the first and last match
maxim job l ever tackled voluntarily
Next mOrnin l was back into the bust
ness involuntarily.
That man Billings come downstairs
to breakfast deaf, dumb and blind. He
looked as if he'd lost his last friend ex-
cept me. 1 had reason to wish before
many hours that he'd lost me. After
breakfast he wrung my hand loose at
che wrist picked up his grip and start
ed for the train. l have two doors in
my sittin' room close together. One
leads into the hall and one don't. He
opened the one that don't and landed
on the stone floor of my cellar.
1t wasn't very thoughtful of him to
do it, seem there's only one of me
and more than enough of him for two
but l done my best with the frag-
ments. l gathered 'em up and carted
'em upstairs The doctor and ] fitted
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cuse for not dom such "neighborly
kindnesses' as squeezin' into a two
foot space under the barn to kill
woodchuck or climbin' on to the roof
durin' n thunder shower to fix the
lightnin' rod or buryin' batch of
Brown Leghorns.
| didn't object to this last job be-
cause | knew the poor critters longed
to go. They didn't have half a chance
to live or lay, they got such a lot of
scientific care. They want let alone one
minute in the twenty-fOur hours, and if
there's hen under the canopy that's
fond Of solitude and its own society
it's the Brown Leghorn. They'll take
a twenty foot board fence backwards
any day at the swish of a skirt, and
skirts never stopped swishin' around
that henhouse. The poor things got
reduced to pinfeathers and wiShbones.
They made a break for liberty when
ever they see chance, and they see
a good many chances last winter when
Slere was just enough crust on the
.,now to bold them up-and let me
through at every jump. l chased 'em
until got thin as they was and as low
in spirits.
got sO'st 1 couldn't sleep nights
thinkin' of their sufferin', and when
Thanksgivin brought Billings 1 clutched
at him as a drownin' man grabs a
straw. He amt very strawlike in ap-
pearance, bein' six feet one and over
200 pounds, but in him I thought l
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than I've cust loose in wears before,
You see, the Peters place laws
alongside Of mine-houses not more'a
twenty-five feet apart. \ year ago it
was rented to some girls-graduates of
an agricultural lunatic asylum that
does business as the La Plume Agri-
cultural college. Them graduates had
made a scientific study of hens and
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come over and borrowed a few pounds
OF red pepper. She explained that
there was microbes workin' at the roofs
of th" feathers and that pepper bowed
inside would XIII 'em. She didn't make
II pldih which would be killed, but time
dld. About half Of the hens died, and
that old rooster got SO much Of the
hot stuff inside him that he thought
ned been overlook by the day of judg-
llaIiI lie JAihAa so yet lie ain
CE""'N since.
That finished Billings. lie saw the
suherin's Of them hens and demonstrate
ed lie couldn't have done a worse
thing for The hens or himself-or me
as il turned out.
II" began Ihanksgiyin afternoon. l
suppose t' thought he'd got along far
enough t. give advice. 1t was as warm
ass September that day, and they was
settiu OH on an upheavod rock in their
back yard While l wrcstled with Their
heuhouse door, which had dropped OF
its trolley arrangement. lie begun by
mildly sugge,tin' that they'd get c%ga
if they'd just drop The hens awhile
from their calm list and let EN-
scratch for themselves.
Helen stiheued, as l could see out Of
the tail Of my eye. and asked where
he'd made Il study Of hens. lie said
he hadn't studied 'em. He'd made Il
point Of ayoidin' EN- back on his ia
tlnr's Fal.f,, and "a, Dco,e IoJ &, ,r,,g,J
with both him and the hens.
She got SITTER and SITTER. Said she
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been with that youngest hen farmer
awhile. Then he lost it all. Got so he
couldn't tell whether his head set on
bis shoulders or mine or whether his
feet was located under him or over
him. He left his shoes on his pillow
and his white tie in the wash bowl.
He dumped gravy in his coffee and
poured cream on his bread until 1 was
considerin' sendin' for a lunatic asy-
lum with the idea of havin' it patron
lied extensively around that hen farm.
when | woke up to the fact that he
hadn't lost all his head. There was a
corner left, and it was devoted to rails
in hens.
He was a farmers son, and all the
law he had put into his Uranium hadn't
knocked out the previous knowledge
about hens. AS soon as l realized that
fact | tried to organize him into a
Society For the Prevention of Cruelty
to Brown Leghorns. l sneaked him
out to the girls hen lot and told him
what them LeghOrns had to put up
with. l asked him if he ever see hens
before with such loppin', discouraged
lookin' combs.
He looked at 'em thoughtfully and
chewed a straw. Then he allowed that
they did look bit under the weather.
whats the reason?" says he.
"Rcason" says I gloomily. such a
word amt in use around these prem
Uses Them hens have put up with
enough lack of reason to kill em. You
ought to have been here last summer.
First hot day after they fell into this
lunatic poultry scrape they went
around hangin' their bills open, but
they've never tried it since. The girls
thought they had the gaps and acted
accordingly. They caught them swell
term birds and poured so much kero-
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What Turkeys Eat,

Turkeys are the greatest grasshopper
exterminators in the world. When
very young they must be fed bran, but
after that they pick up their own food
For the starchy elements they eat
waste wheat from stubble fields; for
the vegetable part of their diet they de-
YOUR several varieties of weed and
they consume grasshoppers and bugs.
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THE REPUBLICAN is
L issued weekly at $l.25
per year. BY taking
advantage Of the offer made
herein all who pay back sub
scriptions and one year in adj
vance will receive both THE
REPUBLICAN and Tribune Far
mer for $1.25.
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sgt L.l.aiN lHtO = TWO FOOT SPACE To
KILL A WOODCHUyK.
right eye ana forehead was done up.
The rest of his face was held down by
court plasters
OF course ! didn't send Tor Helen.
l thought III miss bcin Il bigger foo,
than l knew l was. but / didn't. Ii
seemed Id left mdouc Just what I'd
ought to DO, and it didn't take me long
to find it out either. | had started for
the well. when she come racin' and
boohooiu' across the back yard from
the henbOuse. She seemed out OF
breath, but she want. She had enough
left 10 stop and tackle me with on the
spot. l learned more in two minutes
about my general disposition ANA tend
encieS than Id learned before in forty
five Years.
Why had l left her darlin' in rough
mems hands when there was she alloy
in him to distraction only a few feet
away? Why was l 50 insensible to
her feClin'S as not even to send her
news Of his condition: And didn't l
realize | was guilty of murder in the
first degree 10 have Il celler door next
my hall door?
This want all, but it's Il fair sized
specimen. She disappeared inside the
door like Il small monsoon, leavin' me
staggered After I'd recovered some
| went in and found her on her knees
in front of the couch kissin' every spot
she could find vacant on that chaps
face. And after she got through with
it each spot looked better than Il whole
face taken together does ordinary. But
it was her language that | couldn't
stand. 1t wasn't exactly on the order
that she'd been usin to me, and |
judged it want exactly what he'd
been used to hearin' from her either,
but l gathered from her remarks that
she was ready to give up hen raisin'
and devote herself to fragments.
About that time l bolted. There is
things that sensible man like me
can't stand up against. l went out on
the back stoop, and there l found |
want the only critter that was maxim
a break for liberty. Helen had left the
hen yard gate open, and every bird
was maxim 4 bee line for parts I'M
known. Then and there | see my fin
iSh. l see I'd be called on to hunt
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By ALICE LOUISE LEE
Copyright. 1905. By Alice Louise Lee.

HEN an3u stands