Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-25
HOFFMAN, N, Druggist
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each subscribers home.
How many of you can remember
how our mothers used to do their cook
ing at the old flre-places when there
were no cook stoves, of the corn pone,
sometimes called corn DODGERS and
the mush and milk suppers she used
to prepare, and in the fall Of the year
when the neighbors came in to spend
the evening, how we got what we call
ed Injuries, the old fashioned pump
kin pie, wild plum preserves, crab
apple butter, hominy, etc. velour
people seemed to enjoy 1t, and we new
er heard anything about weak stom-
achs, dyspepsia, or govt.
Home Made Clothing.
GAS to out clothing-if we were for
tunate enough to own a few sheep, we
sheared the wool off and after cleaning
and carding it into rolls, our mothers
commenced their summer work, spin
ming, running back and forth all day,
turning .4e old wheel and drawing out
the thread, then they colored it, and
sent it to the weavers, and when the
wearers' work wos done, the jeans
and f1annels were brought home. Then
Oul ulOIuSlS WOull SuIIiiSo
out and making up our winter suits,
which we were-all eager and proud to
get. l wonder how our boys and girls
of the present day would enjoy a suit
of that kind? Do you think our young
ladies would be ready now, as they
were then, to have the young men call
for them on horse back, and be lifted
up behind them and canter away for a
pleasure ride? And wouldn't it be q
little amusing to see some OF our old
farmers drive up to our Old Settlers
association today with the old OK
wagon, and his family all dressed as
| in those days, with their flannel and
jeans suits, and with the old sun-bon-
nets and homemade straw hats?
Autos supersede Carts.
"Well--we have been here sixty
years, have seen many changes, the
old ox-carts have given way to the
more modern vehicles In about 1860,
the Des Moines Valley and the Bur
lington railroads came to this, coun.
try, and a few years later built west
In about 1850, when the great Califor.
mia gold fever was the excitement, you
could see teams OF oxen, cows, and
mules and horses of all descriptions
| headed for the west, taking them all
summer to get there Now you can
take the train and travel the same dis
lance in as many days as it took
months then. The fine carriages and
automobiles now take the place of the
saddle horse and the lumber wagon OF
60 years ago.
after all the hardships our old set
tiers had to go through with, do you
think we enjoy life any better now
with all our modern ways, than we die
in the olden times? Wasn't the socia
way then more enjoyable than at the
more time looking after the dollars
than we do for sociability? But few O.
our old settlers of 1916 are left-so
think | had better close before some o
, you younger settlers will think l an
exaggerating little.'
Judge Roberts Address.
The following is the address in par
as delivered by Judge M. A. Roberts
These annual reunions are occa
sions in which feeling Of pleasure AM
sadness are both commingled. Whel
} these old settlers who have know
each other in their experiences Of sick
ness and health, adversely and prosper
ity, and have shared each others joy
and sorrows for the last 80, 40, so o
60 years. meet on occasions like this
the very hand-shake which has grow
SO familiar during all these years
brings with it feeling of sadness an
. of of joy. Sadness at the thought tina
SO many of the old, true and trie
friends and neighbors of former day
have departed, and Joy at the though
that so many remain with us. Thes
/, occasions refresh the memory as to tn
). past, and tend to create hope an
!. cheer as to the future, and, SO, the
, ought to be very useful. They are o.
:. casions on which one may very prope
! ly speak in praise both of the Twin
> and the dead On these occasions tn
speaker is permitted to sit in judgmet
as it were upon the deeds of forme
generations and to commend or crit
It else as he may see fit He is permitte
l. to look at the community where sue
/, a gathering is held as he finds it, an
l. to point out if he can, the causes whic
It have made it what it is
II Laws of Society ImmutabIe.
:, "The laws governing society are {
= positive, immutable, and well define
= as any other law of nature. Ever
y where and in every thing, it is trr
4 that, Whatsoever a man SOVIET
{ that shall he also reap Wherevt
d cardinal virtues have been we'll plan
II ed and carefully nurtured in one ge
Il Grafton, they have produced coed me
III and women in the next.
+ "It is the character of the men al
T. women of country that determine
n it's prosperity. This country was jul
V as rich and fertile in all its natur
lie resources one hundred years ago wht
lie occupied only by the Indian as 1t
n. now Notwithstanding all its natur
rs resources, it was then capable of mai
p tanning perhaps not more than two
ID three thousand people, living in tt
If manner in which those occupying
at then lived, rowing uncivilized peop
re who lived on wild game, fish ana hert
~ The early settlers of this section
Id the country were part of that gre
er advance army of civilization viii