Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-31
ENTERTAIN AT BLOOMFIELD.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. D. Wray Honor Their
Friends-Other interesting News.

bloomfield, Jan. 2S.-Complimentary
to number of friends who will soon
make a change in location. Mr.. and
Mrs O. d. Wray very pleasantly enter
tanned forty friends at a o'clock din
ner Thursday evening. The guests of
honor were Mr.. and Mrs. w. L. Saun-
ders, who will make their future
home in Fort Madison; Mr. and Mrs.
w A. Herman, who go to Portland,
oregon, and Mr.. and Mrs. T.. j. Davis,
who leave soon for Seattle, Washing
ton; Samuel Wray and Misses Helen
Wray, Garnet Taylor and Maud Dab
ney, assisted the hostess in serving.
The after dinner hours We're devoted to
whist, In which first honors were scor-
ed by Mrs. e. B. Johnson and second
honors fell to tho lot of Mrs. Flora
McAchran. The former received a
sterling silver dinner fork and the lat
ter china cup and saucer. The at
fair. was very enjoyable.
The Benco Lectures.
L. P. Bence, district lecturer of the
Grand Lodge of Masons is scheduled
for the following lists and other dates
for holding schools of instruction as
follows:
Abba, Jan. %. 20 and 80.
Centervile, February 4, and 6.
Ottumwa, February Z, 8 and 9.
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New London February IS, 10 and 20
Tho Revival.
The revival services which are be-
ing held at the Methodist Episcopal
church conducted by the pastor, Dr.
G. L. Stafford assisted by Rev. f. B.
Stafford. singer, are well attended each
evening. The meetings opened Mon
day evening with a larger attendance
than usual on the first evening and
the numbers in attendance have con-
tlnually increased On Thursday even
ing Rev. f. B. Stafford delivered a song
sermon alternating one iwth the 9TH
er, is Thine Heart Right" was the
text from which the discourse was
drown. The talk was plain straight
forward and the delivery earnest and
appealing. The subject of the address
W s the heart that is right and the
heart that is not RICH. Dividing the
subject into two parts he described the
heart that is wrong as the fault find
ing heart and the procrastinating
heart. But the heart upon which he
dwelt was the heart that is right The
talk following the statement 1.-THE re-
pentant heart is right" was followed
by the vocal solo, Give Me Thine
Heart !" Other songs appropriate to
the discourse were Jesus at the Door"
Would You Believer" and "The Clean
Heart
Personal and Otherwise.
Mrs. Adolph Souders of Ottumwa is
spending a week with her husband,
who is the official court reporter for
Judge F. W. Eichelberger.
S. L. Berry has traded the Ralph
Sherman farm of 215 acres five miles
east of the city for a stock of mer-
chandise at Grimes. He leaves next
week to take possession of the stock.
" M. Bearden of Grimes, who now
owns the farm will move his family
there in the spring.
The Simeon Waglor farm stock sale
held on Thursday, was well attended.
Sheep sold for $3.50 per head and
the balance of the stock sold equally
we'll. Mr.. Waglor and family leave in
February for Pasadena, Colo, where
the former intends to start a fruit
farm. He has rented his farm here to
Hardy Richardson.
Curl Guile of Trenton. Mr., son-in-
law of t. G. Cree, was brought to this
city Thursday evening for treatment
at the Shelton hospital, having suffer-
ed for some time with catarrhal ap-
pendicitis.
Mrs. Mollie Gibson and daughter,
Nettie, of Milton were business visitors
In the city Friday.
Mrs. Sutton accompanied by her
daughter-in-law, Mrs. James Sutton,
are spending ten days in Prairie City
visiting the latter's cousin, Mrs. Will
son.
John Kline, DR.. Gaumer and Emmon
Spilman attended the annual district
convention of the K. of P. lodge held
in Milton Thursday evening.
Mrs. Florence Skaggs OF Windsor,
Mo-, who has been spending the win
ter with her mother, Mrs. Candice
creeding,l leaves the middle of Febru-