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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-07
CHARLTON.

Charlton, Jan. 31.--Marriage licensed
were granted Wednesday by Clerk
Carpenter to T. G. Johnson and Miss
Fora Budget, and w. o. Mclaughlin
and Lena Neal
Mrs. Edith Beardsley was called to
Grant City, Mo- We inesday by the Ill.
ness of her mother.
The ladies of the Episcopal church
had chicken pie supper last evening"
at the home of Mr.. and Mrs. j. q.
Copeland.
An unsuccessful attempt was made
to burn the frame building just west
of the J. o. Grips lunch counter Tues
day night A gallon of oil had been
used and lighted, but was soon discov-
cred and extinguished. The building Id
located on the leyee.
Farrell Plymate of Des Moines is
spending few days in the city with
relatives.
Miss Hannah Peterson has returned
from a visit In Oakley with her par.
ents.
Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Cackler of Nor.
wood We're in the city Wednesday.
The Sterling Jubilee Singers were
greeted last evening by the largest au-
dience of any of the numbers on the
lecture course. About a hundred more
tickets We're sold than to any other Of
the entertainments.
The Simpson college basket ball
team will play the Charlton team FRI
day evening at the Armory.
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SIS. S.
PURELY VEGETABLE
AND WHY NOT o7ruMwA. Too2

= Davenport Times.--There is reason
to believe that the meetings o. the
state teachers ASSOCIATION ought not
always to be held in Des Moines. 1t
would be much betssr fo, 'ne, r.nk
and file of the teachers of the state
I. have the meetings in different parts
of Iowa so that it would come into
touch with more of the workers in the
common and graded schools. Cedar
Rapids is seeking the next meeting.
1t IL to be hoped Cellar Rapids will
succeed. At some time the meeting
should be held in Davenport. At an.
other time it could % Held in Sioux
City. The state teachers meeting
should be passed around. The super
intendents and principals of the city
schools could attend just about as
we'll one place as another while those
who do not get such large salaries
could afford to go to the meeting when
it was in their part of the state.
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spangled with pink roses. recalled the
May time, when all the world seems
strewn with roses.
Miss Rider in costume of red
yes, just uncompromising unequivo-
cal red-was an object to gladden. the
eyes of all beholders. But, like the
shy Kentucky cardinal or a brilliant
orchid Of the Brazilian forest, she
seemed alike unconscious Of her
beauty or the joy it gave those who
looked at her.
Miss Robertson, In white organdy,
over an under gown of yellow, made
one think of little feecy clouds above
golden sunset.
Miss Tennie Smith, in yellow and
white, looked for all the world like a
brave little buttercup caught out in
late snow.
Miss Winnie Perry, In blue with an
overdress of white, called up memories
of June afternoon, when the soft
clouds float through the azure Sky
tempering the brilliance of the SUM-
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KNOXVILLE AN ELpoRApo.

Knoxville is without doubt the Ell.
dorado of Iowa." says the legislative
visiting committee in reporting on the
state asylum for inebriates. "We found
about $50 inmates with nothing to do
but pass the time away and grow fat
at the expense of the state"
The committee recommended that
$4,000 be appropriated for the pur-
chase of additional land, part of which
should be used as a hog pasture, that
the institution might produce it's own
meats.
! In concluding the report says:
"The superintendent informs us
that it costs about $23 per capita per
month to maintain it in its present
method of procedure About seventy
five per cent of the inmates are able
bodied men and are capable of doing
work enough to pay their way We
would recommend that labor of some
kind be furnished to those who are
able to work We would suggest the
purchase of a tract of land to the
north of the buildings that will afford
a stone quarry. Pulverized rock would
be merchantable for macadamizing
purposes
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HITEMAN.

Hiteman, Feb. 2.--Mrs. William JEFF
ferries of Abba and Mrs. McMerdy Of
Sandusky Ohio, made a short visit
with relatives here last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. d. G. White spent last
Saturday in Abba. It ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Dawson of Abba spent
last Sunday at the parental Richard
Pawell home
David Reese Of Rutledge made a brief
visit here last week.
The Ladies' Aid society Of the Com
gregational church met with Mrs. Ann
Phillips this week
Mrs. Otto Miller of Avery Is In this
vicinity visiting relatives.
Miss Tfllie Featheringham Of HyneS
spent Sunday at home.
DR.. S. r. Gray of Abba made a pro-
fessional call here Tuesday
Miss Rilla Amsbury of Lockman Is at
home this week and on the sick list.
Mrs. Will Featheringham was shop
ping in Abba Thursday.
Mrs. Charles Rounds of Buxton spenV
Sunday at home this week.
Miss Ola Lewis of Abba arrived this
afternoon for a short visit with her
aunt, Mrs. ID. C. White
The Congregational church choir Is
at work practicing an the cantata "The
Prince of Judah" which will be given
in the near future
Arthur Welsh and Harry Thompson
made a brief visit in Ottumwa last
week.
Daniels Matthews spent last Sunday
in Buxton.
p. III. Waterman made a business trip
to Ottumwa last week.
Mr.. and Mrs. owen Pritchard spent AZ
few days in Cedar last week.
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pIsINFEcT THE NEW HOME.

Before occupying a house from
which another family has moved away,
all the hooms should be thoroughly
fumigated and disinfected," stys State
Health Commissioner Dixon in a re-
cent report The commissioner adds:
"The season Of the year is approach,
ing when on all sides we shall see
people moving from one home to an,
other. The householder decides to
change his residence and rents a
house from which another family is
just moving. OF course floors are
scrubbed, cellars are cleared of the
rubbish left By the tenant, back yards
are cleaned up, and we take it for
granted that the housekeeper of the
incoming family works to make the
new home at the very beginning clean
and neat.
"The cleaning that 1 have mention.
ed, however, is not sufficient. Soap
and water are splendid things, but I'M
fortunately they will not kill germs of
disease that may Turk in the new hons
and bring the hearse to the door soon
after the moving van has driven
away.
tHow do you know that there has
not been consumptive living in the
house into which you are moving?
The afflicted one may have been in a
mild stage of the disease, but never.
theless he may have left behind the
germs that will result in bringing
down one of your family with this
disease. which every year carries off
so many thousands of people.
81 am convinced that hundreds and
hundreds of cases Of tuberculosis and
other infectious and contagious dis
cases could be avoided every day by
the precaution of proper disinfection
We are all anxious to do everything
possible for the health of our children
but too often we fail to take some
simple precaution. and disease stalks
in through the bars that we have left
down."
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RECLAIMING LANDS.


There is a mistaken notion, says the
Burlington Hawkeye, among some peo-
pie that ''the government gives money
for the reclamation of grid lands by
1t is not gift or bonus,
but loan of money from the federal
treasury to promote irrigation. Nor
can it properly be called loan. The
government builds dams and reser-
voirs and irrigating works, adds the
cost to the price of the land and is re-
imbursed by the sale of the land. 1t
costs the government practically moth
ing; adds greatly to the total wealth
of the nation, promotes development
of vast agricultural resources and is
in every way wise and beneficent
public policy. With this explanation
there certainly can be little fault find
ing There is, in it, also, much to
commend.
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DID YOU EVER STOP TO THINK?
Sioux City News.-Did you ever stop

Sioux City News-Did you ever stop
to think?
Don't do it again. The man who
gets there is the man who thinks
while he runs.
Think before you speak," Is an an
Gent maxim that has saved many a
man from ruin and disgrace, 1t is
true, but the maxim does not say any
thing about stopping.
The name of Stuyvesant Fish has
gone down in history as the man who
reorganized the entire system Of the
Illinois railroad in the space Of a few
hours. He accomplished, single-hand-
ed in one day, what other men had at
tempted in vain after weeks of minute
deliberation.
Stuyvesant Fish did his thinking on
the run. Problems by the score con-
fronted him-the same problems that
made the other men stop and think
Fish did not have to stop. He had
taken advantage Of his opportunities
to such a degree that he had COM
plete grasp of the situation as 1t con-
fronted him; and he had trained his
mind to such degree that he was
able to think on the Jump.
If you are not success in your field
of activity did you ever attempt to
solve the reason? Are you accusing
yourself for your failure or lack of
distinct success by the threadbare re-
Election that you didn't get in right; I"
that you never "had chance" that
you have no pull?"
Did 1t ever occur to you that your
thinker needs oiling? Let yourself
out another notch and see what hap
pens. You may discover that you're
a wonder. Other men have.
Oil up!
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ARE COURT RECORDS PUBLIC?

A suit unique in the Iowa courts has
been filed by the Mt. Pleasant News
against Ed. De Garmoe, clerk of the
Henry county district court, in which
no damages are asked, but in which
the court is petitioned to order the
clerk to permit reporters of the News
to examine any and all petitions filed
in the courts of that county. The suit
arose from the refusal of the clerk to
give the News access to the papers
filed last Friday in the Beckwith di-
vorce case.
The proceeding is an action in man
damus wherein the News alleges that
the clerk of the court is concealing, il
legally, public records which are by
law open to the inspection of not only
the News, but any citizen, and that a
discrimination in favor of parties to
this particular suit is being shown, in
an endeavor to keep from the public
the particulars of bill as recited in
the petition.
Behind the fling of the suit is the
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cLEws ON ROOSEVELT,

"a great deal is being made of the
administrators attitude towards rail.
roads and large corporations, says
Henry Clews, the New York banker in
his weekly stock market review, "but
as matter of fact, Mr.. Roosevelt's
aggressive policy in these matters has
had less effect upon the market values
than is supposed.
"The attack upon the Northern Sc
curities company; the move for abol-
ishment of railroad rebates; the beef
trust, and Standard Oil Investigations,
all had little or no effect upon the
market when natural conditions and
speculative forces were arrayed on the
bull side. 1t so happens that natural
forces and speculative operations for
the last few weeks have been arrayed
on the bear side; consequently, the
declines have, in quarters antagonistic
to the President, been attributed to the
latter's aggressive attitude. This is
done, no doubt, for the purpose of dis
screditing the President and throwing
upon him the onus of present stock
market conditions, for which he is In
fact, in no great degree responsible.
Mr. Roosevelt is probably intent upon
securing reforms in railroad and large
corporate management, and is known
to be distinctly in favor of restraining
monopolistic. tendencies. 1t can be pos
itively stated, however, that he does
not contemplate any new legislation
during this session of congress and
that his plans are not as radical as
represented. OF course, it is probable
that agitation on these subjects of a
political character may be temporarily
disturbing to stock market values, es-
pecially when it interferes with the
plans of some of our great financial
magnates.
"In the end, however, Mr. Roose-
velt's attitude is likely to be beneficial
to the very corporations which are now
apparently antagonistic to him Meth
er they nor their stockholders can suf-
fer except temporarily from the stand
that the President takes for sound
management and fair dealing with
men, His intention also of curbing the
excuses of some organizations is I'M
doubtedly desirable for the peoples
welfare and eventually will prove bene-
fetal, for the building up within a ma
ton n series of powers, such as those
exercised by few men controlling our
great corporations, threatens the sta
bility of the republic and breeds social
ism at an alarming pace"
.By curbing new forces and bringing
them within the pale of the law. the
President is averting disasters which
would sink into Significance when
compared with the temporary unpleas-
antness of such readiustments as are
now beng effected Mr.. Roosevelt has
the power of public opinion behind
him, without which he could !, effect
nothing. and the antagonism of concen-
trated wealth would be more likely to
precipitate than avert trouble in Wall
street"
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W3Nkt
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slpELIeHTe.
Tommy's Excuse

Tommy Mulligan, of the seventh
grade, was absent from the classroom
for one entire day. 1T would appear
that he had played truant, for UNI
known to Tommy his teacher had
spied him trudging homeward with
pockets bullying suspiciously, when
she, too, was homeward bound that
afternoon.
But Tommy brought a note of ex-
cuse the next morning. which, Of
course, would prove that he had been
detained at hone legitimately. The
writing was hardly that of feminine
hand, and the note appeared to haye
been written laboriously and with
much blotting; furthermore, the pen.
manship seemed to be strangely
familiar to his teacher. The note read
as follows:
sDear teacher-Please excuse Tony
for not coming to school yestiddy, he
cudnot come. I tore my pants
Mrs. Mulligan."
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THE PROPOSED BOARD OF CON.
TROLL,

Garrison Independent. ~ Newspaper
reports say that Profs Holden and
Curtis Of the state college at Ames,
threaten to resign If the state schools
are placed under the supervision of a
state board of control. The services
of the professors are no doubt of value
to the state but not so much SO that
they cannot be dispensed with. The
legislators will unquestionably consid-
er the board Of control measure on it's
merits without regard to the personal
wishes Of the men in charge of any of
the schools, even at the risk of losing
a few professors.
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THE SOCIAL HOUR.
Her Endorsement.

A brides mother presented her with
a check on Christmas day. With a
feeling Of the utmost Importance she
took it down to the bank in which her
husband had opened an account for
her. The cashier took the check, then
handed it back politely, saying:
will you please indorse 1t, mad
amer"
Endorse it, repeated the bride, puz-
zled?
Eyes, across the back, you know"
replied the man, too busy to notice her
bewilderment.
The bride carried the check to a
desk, laid it face downward, and nib
bled the end of a pen thoughtfully.
Then inspiration came, and she wrote
triumphantly across the back:
For Fanny. from mother, Christ
mas. 1906"
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be the fifth number of the ST. Mary's
lecture course for the season.
Items of Interest

lecture course for the season.
Items of Interest.
John Geyer of Chicago is visiting old
friends at Abba. Mr.. Geyer was at I
one time resident of this place.
A marriage license was granted yes
terday to Herbert darlington, "a, OF
Hiteman, and Jennie Gathercole 10, Of
Cleveland.
Joseph Whitehead of Montana is the
guest Of relatives and friends at Abba.
Mr.. and Mrs. Perry Fullerton expect
to go to Superior, Neb., to make their
future home.
Ralph Atkinson, former resident Of
Hooking, has sold his farm near Dav-
export and has returned to this place.
Pearl Angel is recovering slowly from
pneumonia, with which she has been
suffering. His mother, who came from
near Tracy to nurse him, is herself SER
iously i'll with the same disease.
c. F. Israel has received the contract
to weigh the mail between Abba and
Albert Lea, MINI.
John r. Duncan is not recovering as
rapidly as could be hoped from his re-
cent illness.
Word from New Samaria, Florida,
where the Cramer family are at press
ent, reports Mrs. Cramer as steadily re-
gaining health.
The K. of P.'s gave a dance at their
hall Thursday night. A good crowd was
present to enjoy the pleasure.
James Spencer is very i'll with pneu-
monia.
Miss Kate Bean of Duluth is visiting
her sister, Miss Carrie Anderson.
Samuel VerVeer of Richmond, Va,
was the guest of his brother, e. G. YER
Veer, this week.
N. A. Rice of Chisholm has moved to
North Dakota to make his future home.
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THE LITERARY VALUE OF THE
CASE.

Chicago Inter-Ocean - The Thaw
case promises to be one of the most
remarkable ever known up to this
time in The domain OF belles-lettres.
The trial of Warren Hastings, the Vel
verton case, the Parkman- Webster
case, the Tichborne case, the Dreyfus
cast, the Shea case-every one of them
a cause celebre-will pale into insig-
nificance alongside the Thaw case
when regarded from literary point of
view.
Already some of the brightest lights
in the literary armament have been
retained to sparkle, to shine, to blaze
out at intervals during the taking Of
the testimony, and in such manner
as to keep the copy boys supplied with
flashes for each OF the editions. from
Among those who will depict every
change in the interesting face of the
handsome young prisoner at the bar,
and every shade that fits athwart the
lovely countenance of Evelyn, and who
will not spare their genius in describ-
ing what all the Pittsburg people have
on and who will undertake to throw
in anywhere from three to five heart
throbs to every ten line paragraph, are
the following, whose names are house
hold words:
Miss Agonista Dolores, author of
"The Fatal Doughnut; or, The Bakers
Revenge"
Clytemnestra Lachrymose, who has
studied East Side Character and ex.
poets soon to be in the 10 cent maya
zines.
Gladys Pulvermacher McCurdy, a
well known writer on economic sub
jects. and author of the successful nov
ell, ''Did He Slip or Was He Tripped 2"
Winifred Wintergreen, a word paint
er from 'Wayback, and herself beauti-
full enough to be Principal in Sen
sational case.
Mr.. Solterino Magenta, designer of
the color scheme of the charming ro-
nance, New York After Dark; or,
Had He the. Price?"
The Rev. Beeswax Potts, whose
touching pictures Of few life on the
avenues have won him a place in the
Uplift periodicals.
Benny Barnswhiff1e the celebrated
humofist, and the only one of whom
Mark Twain ever was jealous. He will
tighten up now and then what might
otherwise be an all too sonber pic
ture.
The regular horse reporter, the base
ball reporters, at present disengaged,
the woman's page editor. the pressman,
and the carriers will all lend hand
toward making the reports of the Thaw
case something to be remembered
after going to bed.
1t is possible, of course, that the trial
of Mary Queen of Scots, or the trial
of Marie Antcinette, II occurring in our
day, would be fully as remarkable from
the standpoint of belles-lettres as the
Thaw case promises TO be, and yet
there is so much room for reasonable
doubt that we would rather not COM
nit ourselves to this opinion.
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EARTHQUAKES AND MEASLES

The damage done by earthquakes in
the worlds history has been exceed
ingly small. Whooping cough has
been far more deadly to mankind, and
measles is more to be dreaded. Con-
sidering the number Of tremors re-
corded in nearly all parts of the
earth, the proportion of destructive
quakes is very small aud hardly worth
counting in comparison with The havoc
wrought by fires, street accidents and
other everyday casualties which do
not inspire any dread whatever
Washington Post.
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FLoRis.

Floris, Feb. 2.-Mrs. Frank Fridley
of this place is visiting her daughter
Mrs John Withrow who lives near
Moulton.
Miss Daisy Lyons who has been at
Packwood for several months has re-
turned home.
Special services at the Baptist
church are still going on. This is the
fourth week of the meetings. Rev.
Overturf, pastor Of the Baptist church
at Bloomfield has helped in the meet
ings and has rendered good assis-
lance.
A. H. Plank and son Homer who
have been running saw mill at
Dean, for a number Of months are ex-
pected home this week
Miss Effie Pedan term of school
closes Friday of this week.
Miss Erma Plank who is attending
college at Mt. Pleasant, is expected
home Saturday.
Mrs. Nettie Bond is making her
home with her sister Mrs. H. L.
Stevens.
Mrs H. L. Stevens brother Of Chi
cago came this week for a visit with
friends at this place.
Rev. A. v. Kendrick of Keokuk,
spent last Saturday and Sunday here,
and conducted the quarterly meeting
services at the M. E. Church.
Chas. Howard & Co. have sold their
store to L. Shames.
The neighbors and friends of Mr..
Duff1eld who resides near Locust
Grove made the family a farewell
visit Tuesday Of this week. Mr.. Duff
field expects to move to Bloomfield in
few days. The people of his neigh
borhood regret very much to loss this
family.
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In Favor of PoIyqamy,

Among the attraction last season at
one of Readings theaters was a Turk
ish artist and his two wives, who, dur
ing their engagement were CHARTERED
at a certain modest hosiery of con-
venient location. Shortly after the de-
parture Of his unusual guests, the pro-
prietor Of the latter, whose prior activ-
titles had been confined to farm in
lower Berks county, learned that there
was soon to appear at the same play
house. 'sNed Nye and His Six Wild
ows," whereupon he wrote the follow
ing:
"Mr. Nye: We have special accom-
modations here for men with larch
families, and would be pleast to ex-
tend the same to you. Last week we
had Abdul Katir and his two wives"