Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-01-03

OttumWa with appropriate cere
monies
31-David H. chodat, respected Cit
izen of Ottumwa. is called by death
June,
THE play, Christopher Jr." is
given by the class of 1906, o. H. s.
The production is an unqualified sue.
cess.
A. N. Boyce, South Side real estate
man, is kidnapped from his home on
Church street, and is left for dead by
the road side near Bloomfield.
2-Contracts for building new pow
er house for Ottumwa Electric & Light
company are let.
Samuel Mick Of Hedrick commits
suicide at Excelsior Springs.
3-Dr. F. F. Stoltz delivers baccalau.
tumwa high school.
Rev. Oscar Dahlberg accepts call to
pastorate of Swedish Mission church.
Ga. Mackley of Mansfield, o., is
drowned in Des Moines river at a
point north of city.
The graduation exercises Of the
class Of 1906 Of Ottumwa high school
are neld at Grand opera house.
THE commencement of the eighth
grade Of the Ottumwa public schools
is held at Grand opera house.
T. D. Foster donates $4,000 toward
the erection of the new gym" at Par.
sons college. Fairfield.
8-Thomas Carman prominent far.
ber is killed one-fourth mile west of
Chillicothe, by Burlington passenger
train.
10-Sunday schools of the city OBJ
serve "Children's day"
11-Pupils Of st. Joseph's academy
give recital
12-Mrs Rachael Commons Jay,
highly respected resident. passes away
at the advanced age of SO years.
Frank H. Hampton, alias Theo-
dore Hampton, paroled defaulter, is
shot and wounded by Constable George
Blount while resisting arrest.
1S-Mrs. John Overman, pioneer of
Wapello county, found dead in bed.
14-Twenty-second annual assembly
of the Iowa Baptist Colored Sunday
school convention opens in the Second
Baptist church.
Mrs. Martha Wright an aged pioneer
of Wapello county, dies at 1:45 o'clock
at the home of her daughter, Mrs. w.
H. Giltner, 1922 West Fourth street.
Rev. Walter Hengen arrives in the
city from Wheaton, ILL.,, to fill the pull.
pit Of the Trinity Episcopal church.
15-Ottumwa observes flag day. The
w. r. G. and D. A. R. hold appropriate
meetings.
17-Ottumwa Hive No. 20. L. o. T.
M. holds annual memorial services.
19-Mrs. John Ramey dies at the
home Of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. c.
Hughes, I'll North Ash street.
| 20-Mrs. Ida M. Phiipot, wife of j
H. Philpot dies at her home, 10 South
Davis street.
23-Kenneth Parsons, 5-year-old son
of Mr.. and Mrs. Edward Parsons, was
accidentally shot with a % caliber
rifle in the hands of one of his play.
MATHS.
24-Four men escape from Wapello
county jail by digging through wall.
25-A. NJ. Boyce, South Side real es'
tate man, again disappears from his
home.
26-Nine months old son of Mr.. and
Mrs. w. H. Stocker, 1913 North Moore
street, dies as a result of injuries re.
ceived by splitting the contents of a
coffee urn over him.
Albert Wachtler, 1924 East Main
street, commits suicide by drinking
carbolic acid.
27-Miss Amy Melcher and Thomas
Frank Gibbons were married in St
Patrick's Catholic church.
2S-Fifty-fifth annual meeting of the
Des Moines Valley Medical associa
ton convenes at the Wapello county
court house.
29--Floyd Leo Tutwiler, infant son
North Moore street, strangles to death
his throat.
July.
miss Villa B. Pangborn and G
G. Manlove of Kansas City, are united
in marriage in Kansas City.
Board of independent school dis
trict holds annual meeting.
3-Mr. and Mrs. L. M. Carpenter
celebrate their fiftieth wedding ami
versary
,4-ottulnwa celebrates 1rdepen
dence Day.
The following accidents occurred:
Ray Esslinger, shot in breast: Mer
rift Kirk, 5 years DID, eye burned will
powder; Homer Palmer hand burned
/ 5-Mrs T. ]. Thompson, pioneer
resident Of Wapello county, passe!
away at her home near Highland Cen
4 ter.
Mrs. Salome Durr. an aged and re
spected resident of this city, passes
away.
4 6-New club house of the Ottumw,
j Country Club is formally opened a
one Of the largest and most represen
tative social gatherings ever held il
this city.
i 8-New McCurdy chapel Of the Yves
End Presbyterian church at Rutledge
is dedicated.
i 1O-W. F. Raber of Enid. Okla, al
rives in the city to assume the man
J, agement of the Ottumwa railway an,
light company, succeeding ]. F. Spring
field, resigned.
i 12-Frank Campbell of Osceola,
prisoner in the county Jail, dies O
! acute alcoholism.
4 Iowa National bank moves into ney
rooms in Ennis building.
4 Mrs. Ellen Rowland passes away a