Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-06-30
BLOOMFIELD.

Bloomfield, June 2s.-The annual
picnic of the P. B. o. sisterhood clos
ing the years work of Chapter B, was
held in the Clelland Woodland north
east of the city on Tuesday evening.
The society and guests left the city at
HVe O'Clock and returned in the cool
OF the evening, when the drive home
was much more enjoyable than the ride
out Through the kindness of Mr..
Clelland table had been prepared and
the bountiful basket dinner spread
thereon was greatly enjoyed by the
husbands. children and guests. The
evening was spent in true picnic fash
Ion and every one enjoyed the annual
event.
+. The friends of Miss Mae Smith gave
her a delightful surprise on Tuesday
evening. which was the twenty-second
anniversary of her birth, by gathering
at her home and with the presentation
OF number of pretty presents and
many expressions of good will for flu
ture years of life, made the evening
one to be long remembered by the
hostess. Light refreshments were
served.
Mrs. James stokesberry of Stiles
passed through the city Wednesday en-
route home, after few weeks spent at
Colorado Springs for the bentflt of her
health.
Mrs. w. H. Taylor and daughter,
Mrs. H. G. Young, left Wednesday for
Ottumwa to visit Mrs. w B. Taylor,
who is doing well after undergoing an
operation for appendicitis at the Of
tumwa hospital. They will be joined
by Doctor H. c. Young, who
will attend the meeting of the Des
Moines Valley Medical association.
Miss Maggie Eckerd closed the
spring term of school south of Pulaski
Tuesday with appropriate exercises in
connection with picnic dinner. Mrs.
Eckerd, Miss June Gibson and Mrs.
Frank Eckerd were in attendance and
returned, accompanied by Miss Mag
gle.
X. T, Hotchkiss, representing party
of Stuben farmers, has purchased a
quantity of cement blocks for the foun-
dalton of new pair of scales for
weighing cattle, which will do away
with the drudgery of bringing cattle
here for weighing before shipment.
The money for the foundation and plat
form was subscribed by farmers and
the scales were donated by Mr.. Hotch-
kiss.
: Mrs. J. B. Tilmont of Moravia Joined
her sister, Mrs. G. W. Phillips, here on
Wednesday morning and accompanied
her on a pleasure trip to Illinois.
ss6a returning from a bus
1ness TRIP Il the<east, joined Mrs. Ell
son and children here Tuesday End ac-
companied them to their home in I'm
ionville, Mo-, on Wednesday.
Mrs. Della Wheeler and son of OF
tumwa are visiting Mrs. Wheeler's
father, T. B. Turpin and other relatives
with whom they will spend several
weeks while enroute to Tacoma, Wash
ington, where MI. Wheeler intends To-
eating.
Miss Edyth Thompson of Boston,
Mass, Is visiting at the home of her
cousin, Chas, Shannon and that of 9th
4 r relatives.
Miss Ethel Kelso has returned from
Oberlin, Ohio, where she has been. at
tending the kindergarten training
school and will teach in the H. G. Tay-
lor family this summer.
Carl Shaw, Nelson Stewart and DR..
Roy Swinney have gone to Kansas,
where Messrs. Shaw and Stewart will
work in the harvest fields during the
summer.
DR.. VIM. Duffield of Phoenix, Ariz.,
has arrived to spend couple Of
months with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
J. M. Dufield He is looking fine and
states that his health is much better
than it has been before for several
years. When he returns to the west
he will change his location from Phoe-
nix to Los Angeles, Cal, where he has
engaged Office rooms in the new church
being erected by Bob Burdette.
i. Mrs. George w. Phillips left Wednes-
day for Ottawa, ILL.,, to spend a week
with relatives.
Frank Morse and son left Wednes-
day for Milton, where they spent a few
days with G. E. Morse and family.