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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24

We have very pretty yard, because
there are SO manv flowers and fruit
trees, The north side of the front
yard Is mine, the back yard Is Gracie's
and the other side Of the front yard is
my older sisters.
There are plum and sherry trees In
the yard. There are three rows of roses
across the front yard. There are two
maple trees in the yard and by the
prettiest tree there Is a hammock.
which is in the shade nearly all day.
About the last Of April or the first Of
May we make beds and plant flowers,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24
Avery, Iowa,
HOW TO MAkEs.TH YARDS BEAU
TlEUL.

I am lover of flowers and expect
to make a flower harden and help
beautify the yard. So will tell you
the best can how to make your yards
beautiful. Have it seeded in nice grass,
and beautify 1T with flowers. Set out
vining roses by your house, and when
they are grown up tack straps across
them to hold them up. Then if you
have blue violets in your timber dig
them up carefully and set row on
each side of your walk Plant flow
er bed of pansies and one of mixed
flowers. Plant some sweet peas along
your fence. Plant some tiger lilies,
Then keep the grass moved nice and
to my notion you will have beautiful
yard.
Lola Breckenridge, Aged IS.
Abba, Iowa r, r, D. No. 2,
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Ottumwa, Iowa.
Dear Editor:

Dear Editor:
My sister has written letter and
am going to write one too. We will
have some little chickens soon and our
rhubarb is two inches high. Margaret
and have a little garden spot of our
own, We have strawberry patch. /
raised two gallons of potatoes last
year. Margaret did not help to hoe
them. did it all myself.
Your friend,
Neil Baker,
a f%-iS;;. Route No. 8.
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HOW TO MAKE THE YARD BEAU
TlFUL.

The way to make the yard beautiful
is to have very many nice flowers. The
yards look very beautiful with roses,
pansies, violets, four o'clocks,, touch
me-nctes, asters, sweet peas, morning
glories, nasturtiums and many other
kinds Of flowers. l think flowers are
very beautiful. In our yard we have
all kinds of flowers, and in the sum-
mertime they look very beautiful.
Goldie Ralston, Aged II.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24

do any good. He couldn't bulge the
Hawks mountains.
At last the crow curled up his toes
and dropped into the lake and never
came up again.
And that is why all the big noun
tains are on the east and all the little
mountains are on the west.
M. H. H. in little Folks" (
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astors to plant. I am going to make
beds for all of them except my sweet
peas which will plant In a trench or
row. l love flowers as they are
sweet and pure. love to gather them
when in bloom for boquets to put on
the table. They are nice for the sick.
Lois Hentz, Aged 8.
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Belknan. Iow,a.

Dear Editor: am a little girl II
years old. / live on farm five miles
north Of Belknap. go to the Living
ston school. My school was out In
January. For pets have eight little
chickens a. cat and a calf. My cats
name Is Nellie and my calls name Is
Mig. My papa takes the Courier and
! like to read the letters and stories
from the little girls and boys. / have
one sister and no brothers. / have,
one little nephew.
Your friend,
Zelda Mum. aged II.
r. F. ID. No. /, box 81.
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Your friend,
Opal Wilson, aged II.

Ottumwa, Iowa.
Dear Editor: am going to write
my nrst letter to the Junior. My papa
IaKes the Courier. I love to read the
letters from the little ones. / only
wish to Join them, ] am 8 years old,
! nave four sisters, two brothers, two
nieces, and four nephews. I 60 to
sunday school at Ormanville. Our
pastors name Is Rev. Jones, of OF
tumwa. l have seven dolls Their
names are Blanch, Rachel, Dorothy,
huth, Elsa, Hazel. and Winona, /
have pet dog. His name is Shep. We
nave a good time together. will
close for this time, remaining as ever,
Your friend,
Oracle Hawkins. !
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such as marigolds phlox, sweet peas,
peoples, pansies, carnations, pinks,
verhenias ragged sailors and many
other flowers which are very beauti-
fui; and in June and July the yard is
very beautiful.
Jennie Rupe, aged IL.
OttumMa, Ia. r. F. d. No. Z.
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OttunlWa, Iowa.
Dear Editor: AS / have never
written to the Courier Junior I will
try my luck tonight i take much
pleasure In reading the Junior page.
80 to the Irving school, sixth grade.
Wy teachers name Is Miss Josie
Empie. She is an excellent teacher,
MY fayorite studies are arithmetic and
physiology. also study reading,
spelling, language, geography, music
craving and penmanship. I wish the
Junior success. AS / am afraid my
letter is taking to much space, / will
close. I still remain
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24
ROLL OF HONOR.

.
NARY ELIZABETH WELLMAN.
MILRB SCOTT,
RERYL DANIELS.
JENNIE PREVO,
NAE CHAMP,
ZULU M. TAYLOR.
GEORGE ROLAND.
FLORENCE PATTERSON.
EMMA DAVIS.
JESSIE SCOTT.
RHODA DAVIS.
AGNES AsKLOF.
ADDIE CHENEY
EDITH VAWTER. y
ARTHUR SWANSON.
AIDA GAME.
BERYL DANIELS.
CHLOA MULHOLLEN.
EMMA DAVIS.
DOLPHIE LAIN,
JULIA WARREN
MABEL SPRAY.
ANNA CARNES.
ELSIE TERRILL.
MARY ENTLER.
BRUCE MELLIS.
MARY BELL.
ANSELM HEM.
NORMA DANIELS.
DALE zENTZ.
BEATRICE LYNCH.
MYRTLE MILLS.
MAE THOMPSON.
ERIE. WILSON,.
BLANCHE MILLER.
HELEN DEACON.
LLOYD KEPHART.
ANNIE VINCENT.
EDNA LEWIS.
MYRTLE ANDERSON.
MAY tSHAFFER.
LIZZIE HILLERY.
ELIZABETH REEFS.
JOHN BELGARD.
CLEO DULIN.
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Years old. I live on farm two miles
east of ottumwa. go to the Oak
Ridge school. My teachers name Is
read In the second reader and study
arithmetic and spelling. have a,
guinea pig and pony for NV pets. I
will close for this time
Paul Rubo.
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Abba, Iowa

Dear Editor: I am little boy 7
years old. thought ! would write
you letter, For pets ! have dog
and cat and banty chickens. l
have one little sister, four years old
and one little brother two years old.
will close. Your friend,
Frank Ross.
r. 3. D. No. 5.
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lI1uUSUdlSI IOWA.
Dear Editor. AS have never writ
ten before ! will do so now. I am a
little girl three years old. live In
Laddsdale. I have little brother. /
year old. His name is Charlie. I VIII
close. Yours truly,
Minnie De, Ford.
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Derby, Iowa,
Dear Editor: AS have never writ
ten before l thought would write.
am little boy z years old, My
brother is writing too. We have four
Ducks and five turkeys, and some
chickens. My papa has gone to a sale.
I so to the Pleasant Ridge school. We
have SIX horses, and have one little
calf and four little pigs. Well will
close. Your little friend,
Rex Gartin, aged 7.
r. p. p, No, 3,
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Ottumwa. Iowa.

OttumWa, IoWa-
Dear Editor: AS have never writ
ten before / will write now I live on
a farm six miles from Ottumwa. I go
10 Center school. Our school is out
now, but IT will commence again this
month. MY teachers name Is Miss
Helen Barnes. have one sister and
no brothers. always read the stor-
les and letters in the Junior am
down to my grandma's for I want to
surprise. papa and mamma, I will
close, wishing the Junior success.
Ethelyn Lewis, aged 10.
r.. Il. D. No a -.
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Birmingham. Iowa

Birmingham, Iowa.
Dear Editor: am a little girl &
years old and live on a farm one.
mile frnrl Birmingham. My papa
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Laddsdale. Iowa

Laddsdale, Iowa.
Dear Editor: AS have never writ
ten before l will do so now. / am a
girl 10 years of age. My school was
out March Q. / have four brothers
and two sisters. My oldest sister is
married and has two children. / live
In Laddsdale. I am in the seventh
grade. My studies are physiology.
geography grammar, spelling and
history. will close.
Yours truly,
Minnie Carey.
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Edna Lewis.

Abba, Iowa.
Dear Editor: My brother takes the
Courier and likes it very well. have
seen so MANY letters in the Courier
Junior that ! thought / would write
one. 1 live on a farm. For pets I have
a dog and cat. We have sixteen lit
tie chickens now. Well as my letter
is getting long I will close.
Your friend,
Emma Forsythe, aged 10,
p II n M S
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Your little friend,
Johnny Wilson.

Dahlonega, Iowa.
Dear Editor: I have never written
to you before. I am a little girl 10
Years old. My father has taken the
Courier for long time I read the
letters which are in the Junior. / have
one sister, but haven't any brothers.
Ny sister is 10 years old. 20 to the
Dahlonega school My teachers name
is Katheryn Garvin. have gone
to school all this term of school SO far
without being tardy or absent. guess
! will close for this time. / remain
Yours truly,
Lena M. Long.
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takes the Courier and read the stories
ana letters and thought would like
to see my own letter in print. For
pets have dog and Kitten ] have
three brothers. Their names are Leo.
Harold and Charley. have two dolls.
Their names are Josephine and Ruth.
! have lots of fun with them. ! take
music lessons, / like to take them. I
like the Courier Junior. think the
letters and stories make 1t more In
teresting.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-04-24
r. F.. d. No. 4.

Abba, Iowa.
years old. l live on farm near AL
bia. ! love to go to school and to
travel In 1903 I was in Utah with
my papa buying horses. / was all
through the mountains. In 1904 I was
at the st. Louis fair. In 1905 l was in
California and bathed in the ocean
and picked UP lots of shells. will go
with my papa again this summer to
the mountains. Goodbye,
Goldie O. Chisman.
r. r. D. No. 4.
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Foris, Iowa.

FIorls, Iowa.
Dear Editor:
AS / see the Juniors are to have q
flower contest ! thought l would tell
you about my flower garden which
am going to plant this spring. / have
pansies, sweet peas, nasturtiuma and
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Yours Very truly,
Arthur Swanson,
r. F. D. No. 1. Box 70.

Avery, Iowa.
Dear Editor: have received my
flower seeds and they are just the
kind of flowers I like best I thank
you very much for them see an
other contest on, SO I will write again,
wrote long story about birds, but
will write a short story this time.
will close for this time.
Edna Tewis
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Ottumwa. Iowa.

Ottun1wa, Iowa.
Dear Editor: I am little girl
Years old This Is the first time / have
written to the Courier Junior. our
school is out now I want to Let the
little girls know that have been sew
Ing doll clothes today. have a net
dog. Her name is Bell. like to read
the letters and stories. / am living
with my uncle and aunt. Well will
close for this time.
Yours truly,
Ellen Richard.
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JUNIOR LETTERS.

Dudley, Iowa.
\ Dcar Editor: tho,. sht ! would
write another letter to the Courier
Junior as I have not written for a
long time. I am twelve years old, and
live on a farm three miles south of
Dudley. I go to school at No. g. My
teachers name is Miss Ella Harlan. I
am glad that spring has come, when
so many beautiful flowers are peeping
out of the ground. Among them are
lilies, bluebells. hairbe,ls and volets,
etc. like flowers and gather lots of
them along the roadway coming home
from school to decorate the house
with. Mamma has some very nice
house plants / like to read the Cou-
rier Junior. AS my letter is getting
long l will close,
Yours very truly,
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Peru, Kansas.
Dear Editor: II am fssiittle boy 8
years old. I Hive In Indian TerfHorsy,..
! used to live way back in IowH,7and
| thought would like to have my let
ter put In the Courier I have white
pony and hve cats and one dog. | saw
two prairie chickens one day and i see
lots of eagles. There Is no school
here, but am studying my primer at
home. can't write yet, so my sister
is writinr this letter for me. I will
close for this time.
Your little friend,
johnny Wilson
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Hazel Hanshaw.

Peru, Kansas
8 years old. like to read the letters
In the Courier. am not going to
school, but would like to- There is
lake one mile and half from here.
Papa and my brother kill lots OF ducks
there. This is the first letter / have
written for the Courier. l will close
for this time. Your friend,
Laura Wilson
Ottumwa, Iowa.
Dear Editor: am a little boy s
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Selma. Iowa.

Selma, Iowa.
Dear Editor: will write, as / have
never -written before. I am girl 10
years old. live at old Iowa Mill,
one mile above Selma. ] have two
sisters and three brothers. / go to the
Big -Four school. My teachers name
is Mr.. Birdine. For pets / have two
dolls and a kitty. AS my letter Is
getting long ! will close, wishing the
Courier success,
Hazel Eanshau1
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Derby. Iowa

DVrDyI IUWd'
Dear Editor: As have never
written before I will now try to write.
am little boy 10 years old. / so
to the Pleasant Ridge school, hut will
not go any this summer until I help
papa get the crop in. I have three
sisters and two brothers. Theif
names are Peco, Katie and Lily and
Dewey and Rex, have two pets IA
colt and a dog. call them Nell and
Morg. like to work with horsesi /
call the horses work Bird and Mbrg,
will close my letter. =,
Your friend,
Charley Gartin. aged IL.
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IOId OVERWHELMINGLY, ASeU Id.
Abba, Iowa, r. F. D. No. 2.
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Eddyville, Iowa.
Dear Editor: / will write, as have
never written before. We have pony
and 1T Is white and brown. and we
nave pet lamb. am II years old.
have two brothers and one sister,
We live on farm one mile and a
half from town, and / go to school.
My teachers name is Mrs. Boyd. /
am in the second room,
Maude Oldham,
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Dear Editor:
l have never written before. used
to live In Ottumwa. like the noun
tains very much. Butte has a good
many silver and copper and few
gold mines.
go to the Grant school and am in
the cixth grade. was 13 years old
the 9th Of February.
will close for this time.
Yours truly.
Isabel Rodgers,
324 Kemper ave-, Butte, Mont.
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TOUT LTICfIU,
Charley Gartin. aged IL.
r. r. D. No. 3.

unionville, Iowa.
Dear Editor: AS ! have seen 40
many nice letters on the children's
page thought would like to write
too. have been goin gto school, but
our school Is out now, Our teachers
name was Nellie Grant. I am living
on farm seven miles from Union
Vile. AS my letter Is getting long ]
will close for this time.
Yours truly,
Alfred Robb aged H.
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HOW TO MAKE YARDS BEAUTI.
Full.

22s N. Market ST., ottumwa, Ia.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
GILLETTE'S TALE
BLASTS HIS HOPE
Alleged Slayer Of Billy Brown
Proves a Very Poor
Witness.

JoVSnal Special Service.
Herkimer, N. Y, Nov. 29.-Chester
Gillette, whose life the state is seek
ing as forfeit for the murder of
Billy Brown, his cast-off sweetheart,
before the end of the gruelling cross
examination to which he was subjected
after he had taken the witness stand
in his own behalf had convicted himself
over and over again out of his own
mouth ", E 1921:
It is not in human probability that
a man on the jury. believed one word
the defendant uttered Never was
man more hopelessly trapped BY his
own statements than Chester Gillette.
Man nor woman, who listened to him,
had a word of kindness or charity for
him when his heartless story had been
finished. -.
With the brazen- effrontery of one
IN whom there is no conception of NOR
al responsibility, Gillette sat in the
witness chair for nearly five hours.
Half of that time he was being led in
his tale by Albert M. Mills, Junior
counsel for the defense, during the re-
mainder he was being layed by the
district attorney.
Confessed in Jail?
District Attorney Ward demanded of
him if it was not true that he had told
turkeys in the county jail that he had
killed ''Billy' Brown. Gillette said It
was not. Yet, while the attofneys for
the defense believed that this interro-
cation was simply a trick designed to
IMPRESS ln!}t the ne lnry with the DEFENDANTS
Gillette did make such confession
will be offered by the state in rebuttal.
Time and again Gillette contradicted
himself. Asked if he had not thought
Gillette admitted that he had. He
owned that he regarded it as his duty.
Asked if he had ever talked Of mar
riage to the girl, he denied that he
had. Then asked if he were going to
marry her, he replied in the affirma-
tive. ...
Ignorant Of Road; Had Map.
Gillette said that he had found his
way to Eagle Bay by accident, but i'm.
mediately afterward identified as his
property map of the region on which
the road be said he traversed was
marked plainly.
He denied that he had inferred that
the girl harbored thought of mar
rage from the letters in which she de-
scribed her new dress and bed clothing
which she was preparing. He didn' t
remember certain important extracts
from letters the girl is alleged to have
written to him and which were intro
duced in evidence, after his profession
of Ignorance of the statements.
From beginning to end. his story was
shattered by the severe vollev of cues
tions fred at him by the district at
torney.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
COFFEE SLAVES
Thousands of Persons Dom It Know Why
They Are Miserable. {.

Most of our troubles come from what
we eat and drink. 49, Il. <sr.sstt
Even bad habits seem to become more
respectable with age. The coffee habit
has an ancient pedigree but it is none
the less disastrous to many. - - i
49, During the five years before@I was
: married, " writes Calf school teach
y er, 81 became slave to coffee. &
II became a nervous wreck and my
stomach was almost ruined. My food
would not digest, 1 suffered great pain
. after eating, and could not sleep an
entire night through. My. whole sys-
TEN seemed to be poisoned.
.g. After my .marriage1 still used cof-
fee and steadily grew worse. Abont s
years ago my father who hadsbeenSat a
ssanltarium where they used Postum
food coffee, spoke 50 often and III such
glowing terms Of it, my husband and /
decided to2trysit. I have been gradu-
ally but surely cured by its use and
never felt SO well in my life. $seS.ss. Z.
Wesstill use Postum, giving It to
our two little boys who always Beg for
II, and We think the days wrongly
begun without it:sfor break asst = -
49, q m able to eat anything like and
- th yale 81 sou1ndly all the night
through. - Name given by Postum Co..
Battle Creek, Mich Read the book,
i. l.rI' Road to We.lI!yilIe. 3, in pkgs.
There's a reason. .
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
Both Phones.


mand at the Bow street police court
today. When the presiding magistrate
explained to the prisoner that papers
containing a mass of evidence in his
case had been received from Germany,
but that there was still further techni-
cal evidence necessary, and asked him
whether he had anything to say, Hau,,
with staring eyes, answered: :.
81 !on' It understand what this is all
about IL .,--u ..- g. -: =. ..~x ;,
The prisoner has apparently lost his
several days he. has been confined in
the prison infirmarv and closely guard
ed. owing to fear that he may commit
suicide.~:'- --z- H.. r'.--
Mr.. Wilson, Hau's lawyer, said:
"There is no chance of preventing his
extra dition. - y .
Hau has not vet claimed the protec.
tion of the. United States, nor has he
produced his naturalization papers.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
WOMEN BATTLE BURGLAR
Fight Until Bloody and Exhausted, but
E Thief Escapes.

!. Hot Springs, Ark, Nov.ss229.- Mrs.
John Simms, wife of a prominent mer-
chant, and Miss Florence McKeenan,
last night fought a negro burglar for,
twenty minutes. Mrs. .Simn1s was
choked ALMOST to death and sbeaten un-
TIL her clothes were covered with
blood. When the two women were
exhausted Mr.. Sinms arrived and the
negro fled: Every policeman, deputy
sheriff and constable IN the city is
Searching for the negro. &.
The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1906-11-29
::CARUso rs CTIEERED
Tenor Hears Only Slight Kissing as He
Faces Audience.
Journal Special Service.

Journal Special Service. 800 f.. Ill., -
New York, Nov. 29.-Before Enrico
Caruso, the most celebrated tenor in
the world, had chance to exhibit his
high-priced voice to one of the great
est audiences ever gathered in the Met
ropolitan operahouse last night, an OBJ
.ject hurled thru the air and landed at
his feet. AS he turned to view it with
the murmur of confusing sound ringing
in his ears, his figure trembled. In his
a-wrought and nerve-wracked con-
dition he did not know what to ex-
pect-an ovelripe lemon or bouquet
Of roses.
AS his eyes lighted on it,. tears Of
gratitude rolled down his cheeks. The
object was a fine cluster Of American
Beauty roses thrown with unerring aim
by an admirer in the crowded topmost
gallery.
An instant later Caruso heard dis
tinctly the cheers of approval and
knew he had been absolved from Of
Tense at least by the lovers Of music.