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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
MARRIAGE LICENSE BUSINESS
DURING MONTH OF MARCH
WAS UP TO AVERAGE.
March IA and is Were the Busiest
Days, Four Certificates Being Issued
On Each of These Days-Lists of
Names and Dates of Issuance.

Thirty-three marriage licenses were
issued at the office Of County Clerk
Edwin Dugan during the past thirty
one days. The month of March was no
record breaker for the love god, yet
the issuing of thirty-three certificates
is considered up to the average. March
Ia and 15 were the busiest days, four
licenses being issued On each of these
days. Following is list of licenses
issued during the month of March:
March Ernest F. Dubbert and
Miss Minerva Fuqua, John F. McCabe
and Miss Emma S. Marcks, Truman
E.. Tuins and Miss Minnie Suechting.
March 4-Clovis Blanchard and Miss
Blanche Rogers, John Benson and Miss
Emeline Dodd.
March Guy K. Arnold and Miss
Bessie O. Bellies.
March Frank M. Hardie and Miss
Daisy Griswold.
March S-Orvin Hook and Miss
Pearl Richards, James F. Redshaw and
Miss Mary A. Hamersly.
March Hilary Greenburg and Miss
Esther Stein, Ray Burnaugh and Miss
Norma Sirles, Albert N. Gillen and
Miss Jennie w. Hall.
March 13-Hugh T. Butlin and Miss
Barhyte, James A. Starkey and Miss
Venise Mae Foster, Thomas ]. Wind
and Miss Winniford A. Conkey.
March IA. H. Stull and Miss
Martha G. Buchanan, Ernest 81 SAM
tee and Miss Margaret V. Scott, James
Chambers and Miss Mary Grace Nc
Donough, George Rhue and Miss Bun
ME Saleman.
March 15-Orval e. Fullmer and
Miss Jennie E. Robson, Frank Engel
and Miss Maggie Latchem, Blaine
McKinsey and Miss Emma Miller,
Thomas L. Hardman and Mrs. Mar
garet Bloomfield.
March 18-Willis Blanchard and
Miss Hattie T. Kitterman, Charles A.
Huffman and Miss Mandie Piper.
March 21-Ernest E. Hoffman and
Miss Virgie MCGEE.
March 23.-William Dougherty and
Miss Hannah Hyde.
March 24-Lafe Yoder and Miss Eva
Dougherty, Ross G. Wilkins and Miss
Anna Helme.,
March 27-Daniel E. Mckinley and.
Miss Nellie Hardy.
March 29-Charles w. Maston and
Miss Edna e. Swinscoe, Hiram M.
Lukens and Miss Alice M. Bush.
March 30-David H. Nelson and
Miss Ella Carlson.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

day evening for work in the first de-
gree, initiating Emmon Spilman.
Mrs. Marley Curry left Friday for
Milton to spend few days with her
sister, Mrs. F. E. Weiney.
Mrs. H. G. Traverse and mother
Mrs. Tinker, returned Friday from
Kirksville, Mo-, where they have been
spending week with Mrs. Traverse's
daughter, Mrs. H. C. McCahan.
Mrs Sam Stevens left Thursday
evening for Ottumwa to spend Sunday
as guest at the home of Mr.. and
Mrs. Cyrus Church.
K. T. Hotchkiss made a business
trip to Cincinnati Friday for the pur-
pose of buying cattle.
Mrs. OFT Banded left Friday for Of
tumwa to visit her father, Mr.. Postoff.
She will be Joined this evening by
Mr.. Bandell who will return with her
the first of the week.
Fred Roberts returned Friday from
Des Moines, where he has been spend
ing several days on business.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
MORE
TRUE BILLS
GRAND JURY FINISHES LABoRs
THIS MORNING AND is Ex-
cUsED UNTIL MAY 8.

True bills were returned against w.
B. Murray, Jesse Cornell, J. B. Junkin
and Henry Williams, alias Thompson,
by the Wapello county grand jury be-
fore it's dismissal this morning till May
s. A few indictments were returned
last evening and further report was
made this morning
w. B. Murray is charged with main
tanning nuisance at his saloon at
327 West Main street. The specific
charge is that he has sold intoxicating
liquor contrary to law.
Cornell is charged with having COM
mitted rape upon the person of Their
esa B. Cresap, a weak minded girl of
twelve years of age. The crime is al
legged to have been committed at the
home of Cornell, who is a married
man, living in Eldon. Cornell was ar
raigned yesterday and pleaded mot
guilty"
Two Counts Against Junkin.
Two counts are returned against
Junkin, young colored man who is
charged with robbery. 1t is alleged
that on the night of February %
Junkin at different times and places
robbed Miss Lena Stepp and Miss Alice
Stevens of pocket books containing
money and valuables.
Henry Williams, also a colored man,
is charged with burglary On Febru-
airy 25, it is alleged that Williams took
from the store of j. P. Anderson on
East Main street a revolver and pair
Of trousers.
Witnesses for the plaintiff began
giving testimony this morning in the
Florence Alice Davis VS.. The Modern
Woodmen of America suit The wit
nesses for the defense gave their tes-
timony in this case first.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
WAS A FAIR MONTH.
EXTREMELY BAD WEATHER PRE-
DlcTED FOR MARCH DID NOT
MATERIALIzE.
Average Temperature for Month 45.os
Lowest Temperature Reached Was
IS Degrees and Highest Was ~ -
Temperature Report.

With all the dreadful prediction re-
garding March weather the month was
not such bad one after all. The av-
erage daily temperature for the month
was 45.03 and there were but fourteen
days classified by E. Livingston, vol
untary weather observer, as cloudy.
There have been several cold per-
iods, March IL was the coolest, the
mercury dropping to Is degrees. The
highest temperature recorded was
March 8 when IA was recorded. On
March 81 and again on March 80 the
temperature reached 70. At least one
third of the days of the month has
shown temperature of 60 degrees
and higher.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

It is with the Ben Davis apple as
with the man who keeps his word and
pays his debts promptly-the fine color
and keeping quality Of the apple over
come its very inferior quality, while
the many neannesses Of the man are
condoned because Of the virtues re-
ferred to.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
A Guaranteed Cure for piles.

Itching. Blind, Bleeding or Protrud.
ing Piles. Druggists refund money II
Pazo Ointment fails to cure any case.
no matter Of how long standing, in 6
to Ia days. First application gives
ease and rest. Soc. If your druggist
hasn't it. send SOC in stamps and it
will be forwarded postpaid by Paris
Medicine Co., st. Louis, Mo.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

We passed through a section of farm
ing country in the west lately where it
seemed to be the common practice to
turn the stock out and let them eat at
the haystack at their pleasure. The
impression was unavoidable that these
farmers were dreadfully shiftless,
lazy lot.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

1t is good idea to have the farm
named and the name SO painted on the
barn or elsewhere that travellers can
see it-this II the farm is kept up in
good shape. But if it is down at the
heels better not advertise the owner,
but let the passerby think it is some
tenant farm.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
PRAY FOR CITY
UNIQUE RELIGIOUS MEETINGS
HELD IN BROOKLYN
TODAY.

New York, April 1. - Unique serv-
ices we're held today in more than $50
churches of Brooklyn in the shape Of
union prayer meetings for the welfare
of the city. All the Protestant denom-
nations participated in the union
meetings, while special prayers were
offered in the Catholic churches.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

Honors were easy between the old
lady and the grocerSwhen she unloaded
good sized round stone in her roll of
butter, which the grocer later returned
to her in sack of coffee. There were
no remarks made by either party.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
GOULD DECLINES PLACE.
Men Named for San Domingo Post
Likes Baltimore Better.

Baltimore, April William B.
Gould of this city, who was appointed
by the President to be deputy collector
of customs in San Domingo announced
today that he has declined the place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

A buyer Of hogs and cattle Of twenty
years ago told us recently that he al
ways planned to make at least $50 a
car on all the stock which he bought Of
the farmers Then they were almost
totally ignorant of the real state of the
market and readily accepted the price
which he offered. He says that those
good old days are gone, never to return.
Now the farmer is just as well posted
as he is and, more, knows just exactly
what it will cost him to ship his own
stock, and his $50 car has gone a-glim-
mering
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

Grade sires on stock farm are as
bad as any mortgage. They represent
the very poorest and most improbable
work in stock raising. The money put
into good sires is always returned, with
big interest.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

Many farm institutes in the west are
interesting the farm boys of their coun-
ties by offering liberal premiums for
the best corn grown by the boys, to be-
exhibited at the institutes to be held
next winter. This is most worthy and
sensible thing to do. 1t is always easier
to interest the boys in any line of pro-
gressive agriculture than it is the old
men.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
FERRIS WHEEL BREAKS.

Two Girls Thrown From Car At Car
nivaI in California Town.
- +* = " = = 50
Kern City, CAL, April 1. - Mol =
lie MatIack aged IA and Irma
= Cook aged Is were dashed to the
i ground from car on a Ferris =
= wheel being operated by car
: nivaI company. The MatIack girl :
= was fatally Injured and her COM
panion seriously.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
How's This7

We offer One Hundred Dollars Re
ward for any case of Catarrh that
cannot be cured by Halls Catarrh
least discovered the long lost secret of
Cure. F. ]. Cheney & Co., Toledo, o.
We, the undersigned. have known F.
], Cheneysfor the last Is years, and be-
lieve him perfectly honorable in all
business transactions. and financially
able to carry out any obligations made
by his firm.
walding, Kinnan & Marvin,
Wholesale Druggists, Toledo, o.
Halls Catarrh Cure is taken inter-
nally, acting directly upon the blood
and mucous surfaces of the system.
Testimonials sent free. Price, 75c per
bottle. Sold by all Druggists.
Take Halls Family Pills for consti-
patton.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

A catch crop Of soy beans or cowpeas
sown with the last cultivation of the
corn crop Is not success, the growth
Of these crops seriously interfering
with the development and maturing of
the corn.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

Many tree should be spared for
Its beauty alone, just as we put up
with a good many people who have
nothing to commend them save their
good looks.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

We heard man say recently that he
always preferred to drive horse which
needed the whip. We could not agree
with him. While we will not say that
horse never needs the whip, it has,
for us at least, got to be an emergency
situation which ever justifies the use Of
one. Boys and horses are licked alto
gether too much.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
A Fair Month.

There were nine days registered as
clear, eight as fair, making good
report for the majority of the days Of
the month The total precipitation for
the month was 1888 inches and the pre-
vailing direction of the wind was from
the northeast.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

We are asked how we would pro-
coed to raise bumper crop Of corn,
assuming that the season Of 1905 is a
favorable one for the development Of
the crop. We would want piece Of
land which had not grown corn for
four years, which had been in clover
the two years Immediately preceding
which was plowed last September, the
last crop Of clover being turned under;
we would put ten loads of manure on it
per acre with manure spreader, get
as near as possible three kernels in
each hill of the most carefully selected
seed. keep drag and cultivator at work
on the field five. six, seven or eight
times, remove all barren stalks and not
let weed grow. This is good for
eighty bushels per acre. Just try it
and see.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

A reader In Nebraska wishes to know
what variety of grass to select for the
purpose Of seeding down hog pasture
In which are trees which partially
shade the ground. In any Of the states
east of Nebraska there would be no
doubt what kind of grass would finally
take possession Of such tract, for, no
matter what seed might be sown, the
blue grass would soon occupy the field,
but we doubt If the blue grass has yet
become domesticated so far west.
What would be better than even blue
grass would be alfalfa, which in most
parts Of that state does remarkably
well. He suggests bronze grass, but we
are inclined to think the best thing to
do would be to put the soil in the best
condition and SOW to alfalfa, which
makes the very best hog pasture in the
world.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

The mechanical condition Of the soil
has very much to do with it's produc-
tiveness-far more than most farmers
think for. 1t is an easy matter for the
soil to be too wet or too dry, to be too
cold or too warm, to be in such condi-
ton that it will admit too much air or
not enough. 1t matters not how much
fertility the soil may possess, If the
mechanical condition of the soil Is not
right the plant food which it contains
Is not available. A lack Of humus in
the soil, very common condition on
all lands long cropped with grain
crops, always insures an unfavorable
condition of the soil 1t runs and be-
comes mortar bed in a wet time and
bakes and cracks in dry time. The
good farmer will seek to remedy this
common fault by giving the land rest,
renovation and new fertility with clio
yer and by the blowing under of some
green crop and the application Of a
good coat of barn yard fertilizer and
by pasturing the land for a year or
two. Land of q clayey makeup If
plowed when wet is put in a bad me-
chanical condition for the entire sea-
so-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

A wreck of the tender and the beau
dful will be disclosed as spring ad-
vances in all that territory which rare
lily sees the mercury much below zero
along the line Of latitude 40, where
this winter the mercury dropped to 80
below and gave an arctic temperature
for nearly two weeks. The peaches,
European and Japan plums, the roses,
grapes and berry bushes, which usually
winter safely without covering, will be
found greatly injured If not entirely
destroyed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
In much of the western territory

In much Of the western territory
there is now no further excuse
for neglecting the dairy business for
the reason that there is no creamery
near by. The cream separated on the
farm finds a very ready market ut
almost any railway town, where it
will be tested and paid for by the local
agent of some central and distant
creamery, to which it will be shipped
by rail two or three times each week.
Under this plan the dairyman gets his
pay for his cream each time when it is
delivered.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

The prize ear Of corn raised in the
state of Iowa during the year 1904
brought Sill at an auction sale. Many
other ears sold for dollar each.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
" Ant LAST
YEARS " AGE
HiTUMINoUs COAL MINERS RE
MAIN FIRM AND OPERATORS
HOLD CONFERENCE.

Philadelphia, April 1.-The coal op-
orators from the bituminous district of
Pennsylvania are in secret session
here today considering the differences
existing with the miners who threaten
to strike April if last years wage
scale is not renewed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
BREEDING CORN.

The frequent lack of satisfactory re-
suits where one has taken special pains
to select the best corn possible for seed
Is owing to the fact that it is only half
bred-that is, such corn may have been
polienized by most inferior types Of
corn-hence the great advantage Of hav-
ing a corn breeding plot where this
matter Of fertilization can be properly
controlled. Select the best corn Of the
tyre desired. Plant patch removed
FROM other corn. Remove all barren
stalks before they shed their pollen
and detassel every other row, this to
prevent the possibility Of inbreeding
resulting from the corn being fortified
by it's own pollen. This plan repeated
from year to year will soon give pure
bred corn where most Of the product
will be true to the type selected. This
Is all there is Of corn breeding, really
IN exactly similar process which gov
ems the breeding Of pedigreed domes-
dc animals
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

It will pay any township with seven
ty or eighty miles Of highway to care
Tor and only a limited road tax fund
with which to do it to send some bright
young man to the agricultural college
Of the state and pay his expenses for
the purpose Of having him take a
course of study on road building and
drainage to the end that he may take
the position of highway supervisor for
the township. OF course there will be
some men who will claim that no col
lege can teach them how to build good
roads, but until they quit trying to
make water run uphill it will not do to
believe them.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

Every particle Of straw produced on
the farm should find Its way to the
barn yard and be there converted into
@ valuable fertilizer
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
Holiday for Miners.

There is a general suspension of
mining in the coal fields today. The
United Mine Workers set apart today
as holiday in commemoration of the
adoption of the eight hour day. In
the bituminous region the miners as
a rule remained away from the mines.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

It required probably not less than
500 years to grow the black walnut
tree the stump Of which we removed
from the farm Hast apstns, and notwith.
standing it was cut matter Of fifty
years ago It's roots were still sound, but
the pity Of all was that this monarch
Of the. forest was chopped down and
made into fence rails when it would
have been worth hard on to $500 today,
for It was nearly five feet in diameter.
We know what the early settlers had
to go through, but we can never quite
forgive them for so ruthlessly destroy
Ing these patriarchs Of the past cen
turtles.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04
Decide to Sign Scale.

The soft coal operators late this
afternoon stated that they had practi-
cally agreed to renew the wage scale.
This will prevent the threatening
strike of $4,000 miners.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

We ran across a young man recently
who with his brother six years ago,
when they were just young boys, in
vested in two registered Shropshire
ewes. The boys made careful study
Of the sheep and cared for their little
flock, infusing the newest and best
pure blood into it. Today the boys have
flock Of over 100 pure bred ewes Of
this breed which Is conceded to be one
of the finest herds Of Shropshire sheep
In the west. This Is not long story,
but there is lots Of meat in It
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

A man had 160 acre farm left him
by bis father twenty years ago free
from membranes. Since then he has
been doing what so many do-been
raising grain and selling it from year
I to year until his soil has become worn
and unproductive. In order to get
along he had mortgaged the farm for
all the money it would carry as Sc
curity. A year ago he moved to town
and rented the farm to a tenant for
s. per acre. This tenant put sixteen
good cows on the farm and easily paid
not only his rent, but obtained from
the farm a good living. II he stays
there for five years he will be in good
shape to buy the farm.
The present high prices for mutton
and wool will tempt thousands Of men
to rush into the sheep business, buy
Ing docks to start with at exorbitant
prices, later to find that the ups and
downs Of the sheep market have made
the business improbable and their
docks have to be sacrificed at dollar or
two head, as has SO often happened
In the past. Don't do this. Sheep are
all right; just like any other domestic
animal, sometimes pay and sometimes
don't. The time to go into the sheep
business is just when every other fell
low Is trying as hard as be can to get
out Of II. II you must start, commence
with very few and build up your own
flock. Not every man can properly
care for sheep anyhow-not over one in
ten. II you have level low farm
don't keep sheep at all; If you have a
high and rolling rough farm they are
the best domestic animal you can keep
On Il
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-05
Tried to Mob A Ball Team.

Toledo, o.. Aug. 5.=That somebody
was not killed Friday afternoon when
a gang of toughs attempted to mob
the st. Paul baseball team is a nys-
terry. The affair started when the
players were in a bus going to the
hotel. when a man hit Geier, the St
Paul third baseman, on the ear with a
huge bottle. Pitcher Ferguson saw
the man that threw the missile and
promptly went after him. Then
Catcher Sullivan took a hand in the
fray. For a few moments the air was
filled with rocks and pop bottles and
nearly every man in the bus was hit or
cut in some way. Jack Flournoy was
probably the most seriously hurt, sdf-
fering a severe cut on the chin.
The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-08-05
Racing at Saratoga.

Saratoga, N. Y, Aug. 5.-Western
horses were very much in evidence at
Saratoga. three of the events going to
horses that have been racing on
American Turf association tracks
Probably the best race of the day was
the fifth, conditional affair at a
mile and three sixteenths, which went
to Bob" Smiths Leila, who won after
an exciting drive a head in front of
Hippocrates. The daughter of Knight
of Ellerslie was skillfully piloted by
Larsen. She was off none too we'll
but Larsen took his time and when
the stretch was reached he drew up
to the leaders and the western mare
went to the front and won in the last
jump. 1t is said that Owner Smith
made a killing on the mares victory
Au Revoir was an odds-on favorite in
the handicap. but the western horse
was badly beaten by Lord of the Vale.