Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-01-04
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members, Misses Helen Wray, Mary
Hinkle and Maud Dabney. A very
pleasant meeting was held in which,
the new members received a cordial
welcome. Following the initiation SER
vices refreshments We're served, and
the social hour that followed was one
of unalloyed pleasure in which piano
solos by Miss Maud Dabney and Miss
Garnet Taylor We're greatly enjoyed.
The presence of many of the visiting
members rendered the social feature of
the meeting particularly agreeable.
Miss Nora Speisberger, of Ottumwa
arrived Monday morning for a short
visit at the home Of her cousin, Miss
Minnie Loeb. 4
Attorney D. H Payne was called to
Pulaski Monday morning by the sud
den death of his son-in-law, DR.. Will
Van Hon. DR.. and Mrs. Van Hon re-
turned on Friday from Mt. Pleasant
where they had been spending a
week with DR.. Van Hons parents. Hel
seemed to be in better health than
usual and on Sunday night, retired In
apparent good health. About mid
night he had chill and in the morn
Ing the physician who had been call
ed pronounced him in dying condi-
ton, caused by hemorrhaee of the
brain. The remains will probably be
taken to Mt. Pleasant for burial.
A quiet little wedding took place
Sunday evening at O'Clock at the
home of Mr.. and Mrs ]. A. w. Cecil,
north Of the city, whose daughter,
Georgian became the wife of John
Cruikshank. The ceremony was per-
formed by Rev. H. j. Everly, only the
immediate relatives of the principals
being present. Mr.. and Mrs. Cruik-
shank will make their home with the
grooms parents, three miles north OF
the city.
The marriage of Miss Elizabeth
Mcconnell to M. ]. Pence too place
| Sunday evening at the home OF the
officiating pastor, Rev. II. ]. EVERY.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pence will make their
home on the Pence farm north OF the
city, where the groom is regarded as
one of the well-to-do farmers OF that
| locality.
Mrs. Henry Curaway accompanied
by her daughter, Mrs. John r. Wal
lace, will leave Thursday for Canton,
Ohio, to visit at the Martin home.
Mrs. Wallace will return at the end
Of ten days, leaving her mother to
continue the visit for couple of
months
| The banquet given Saturday even
ing at the Odd Fellows hall by the
A.. o. u. w. lodge, was very enjoy
able affair in which the members of
the order and their families number
| ing in all about three hundred, We're
| banqueted. In the month of october
the lodge divided the membership into
two equal parts, placing a captain
over each. The work Of the divisions
i was to increase the membership, eacn
A striving to secure the greatest num-
Der before the first of the year, when
the side having secured the greater
number Of candidates was banqueted
by the less successful division. The
%o%D 1,nv ~ rocnY
since the first of October was 102. The
principal address Of the evening was
delivered by Ellsworth Rominger, and
delightful music was furnished by the
/ Philharmonic orchestra. An elegant
banquet was served and the tables
:, which seated 100 were three times
filled.
sad news Of the illness of her daugh-
ter -in-law, Mrs. A M. Swift, of sar
Mr. and Mrs. w. A. sheaffer ane
family left Monday for Unionville
> Mo-, to spend a few days with Mrs
Sheaffer's sister, Mrs. j. Hugh Elson
Miss Henrietta Clayton. of Chicago
Tinnie, are visiting relatives at the
: home Of Mr.. and Mrs. w. II. McAch.
> ran.
Mrs Will Hill was called to Yves
: Grove Monday by the illness of Mrs
SIJ. w. Younge's baby.
q Miss Gertrude stoner is visiting he
parents in West Grove.
The eighteenth birthday anniversar!
of Miss Nellie Bond was celebrated
Saturday evening by dozen friend
who drove to the John Bond farm AM
= surprised Miss Nellie by spending tn
! evening with her. Miss Bond receive,
, a number of pretty presents. Refresh
2 ments were served and the event wa
: a very happy one.
Mrs. Fred Messer returned Tuesda,
9 from Milton, where she spent New
: Years with friends.
9 Miss Jessie Besley, of Montgomer,
: City, Mo-, spent Sunday with he
: brother. M. c. Niblick. Miss Mar,
9 Niblick of Moulton, also spent Sun
:. dav with her brother and family.
= Miss Minnie Evans returned Satur
day from Des Moines where she ha
= been spending several days wit
y friends
y Court opened Monday with Judg
:. Eichelberger on the bench, but the as
y signments for the term have not bee
- completed. T. A. Dunlap was ZIP
= pointed court bailiff, John Dodg'
baiiiff for the grand ujry and AL Pow
er, clerk Of the grand jury.
Mrs. John Dilliner of Cameron, Mo
formerly of this city, is visiting ne
mother, Mrs. Young at the home {
y her sister-in-law, Mrs. Will Young.
q. Claud Atwood, Of Washington,
rs visiting relatives in the city.
i Mrs. Lulu Burchett and daughte
y have returned from Milton where the
~ have been spending a week.
= Miss Carrie McCustion spent Sur
'a day with friends in Milton.
y y BRIGHTON.
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IN Brighton, Jan. blanche Brintol
f. who is attending school at Drake un