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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-11-14

wharves and lighthouses and fourteen
foot channels on the big rivers.
The middle west does not begrudge
the money spent to make harbors AT
Wiscasset and Seattle, but it wants to
phis and St. Louis and Keokuk and
Chicago and Duluth and every other
river and lake town, want to be sea-
ports.
When that time comes-and unless
all signs fail it will not be long IN
coming-the railroads will not be
poorer, but America will be a good
deal richer Wheat will not rot in
piles waiting for overtaxed factories
to build freight cars and engines.
The waterway Improvement project
has been gaining great strength in the
past few months Heretofore plans
for the canalization of the great rivers
were considered visionary, and discus
sion of the question was confined al
most solely to river localities. But u
late the country is beginning to real
lie that there is project that wiz
prove Of vast benefit to the entire
country, certainly to the entire mid
die west and the cry for river i'm
provement has extended far and wide
The fact that the president has an
nounced his intention Of devoting
space to this subject in his forth
coming message to congress, too, has
given national aspect to a question
which formerly was considered Of lit
tie more than local interest. Out OF
it all it is expected will be evolved
some plans for giving us back our
rivers.
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PULASKI.

Pulaski-Mr and Mrs. LATE Heath
Of st. Louis are visiting Mrs. Heath's
mother, Mrs. ]. J. Plank and other
relatives.
Rev. James is conducting revival
meeting at the Methodist Episcopal
church.
Mrs. Fannie Fier and daughter Iyey
Of Oklahoma are visiting relatives
this week.
Mrs. Carrie Boyd visited in Bloom
field last week.
Mrs. Anna Grages and sister. Mrs.
England made business trip to
Bloomfield Thursday
Mrs. Eva Hunt OF Moulton is Wis.
iting her uncle Joe Hurts this week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Lyman Meredith
spent Sunday with her parents, Mr..
and Mrs Isaac Hastings, near Floris.
Mr. and Mrs. James Milligan of
Bloomfield spent Sunday at the S.
Brink hons
w ard Mrs. Ia Higaee nf Bloom.
efild visited W. her parents. Mr..
and Mrs Andy Power the last Of the
week.
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MUNTERVILLE.

Munterville.-Mr. and Mrs. Charles
Locke. entertained at dinner large
number Of relatives and friends Sun
day,
Misses Regina and Emma Johnson
of Ottumwa visited with their parents
Sunday, accompanied by Messrs. Col
line and Holgren.
Mr. and Mrs E. W. Johnson were
Ottumwa callers Monday
Mr.. and Mrs. W. r. Smith entertain
ed a large number Of friends at din
ner Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Peterson Of Hines
visited with relatives here Sunday.
Rev and Mrs. e. T. Linden and
daughter Gertie, were Biakesburg call
ers Monday.
Alfred Anderson of ottumwa called
on relatives here Saturday and Sun
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Kimblade and
daughter. Mary spent Sunday with Mr..
and Mrs. Charles Burnstedt.
A social will be given at White Oak
school house Friday evening Novem-
Der Is. A cordial invitation is extend
ed to all.
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CHARLTON.

Chariton.-District court is still in
session, but there are but few import
ant cases Jay J.. Smith, one of the
prominent citizens of Charlton, who
was indicted on the charge Of perjury,
has been acquitted. T. g. Wilson and
G: e. Ranstead, who represented Des
Moines nursery, are being tried on the
charge of obtaining money under false
Iretenses.
Mrs. Mary Kimball of. Abba re-
turned home yesterday after few
days visit with her cousin, Mrs George
Poucher
Mrs. Ida Purinton of York. Neb., re-
turned home yesterday. after weeks
visit with her mother, Mrs Mile
BEEN, and numerous friends.
Mrs. D. S. Wright of this city and
daughter, Mrs. H. II. Allen, of Sheri-
dan, Wyoming, went to Russell yes
terday to spend the week with rela-
tives adm friends.
Mrs. w. T. Garrett of Marysville,
Mo-, returned home yesterday, after a
pleasant visit with her daughters, Mrs.
rett.
Mrs. Josephine Hanson of Red Oak
who had been visiting her parents and
old friends in this city, returned home
Yesterday
Miss Esther Arvidson is spending
the week with friends in Osceola.
Mr.. and Mrs ]. H Darby of Green
field, returned home yesterday after a
few days visit with his brother, w. j.
Darby and wife
Miss Mae Moore of Abba visited
over Sunday in Charlton, guest of
Mrs Gussie Buchanan.
County Clerk Carpenter has issued
marriage licenses to Harvey G. Lynn
and Bertha Asel Rouse and to +. l..
Wheeler and Tessie Tull
Mr.. and Mrs. M. Riley of Burlington
returned home yesterday, after a few
days visit with their daughter, Mrs.
%. p Smoot
The Misses Grace and Mabel Gitin-
ger have returned from a few days
visi. with relatives In Osceola.
Mrs. H. j. Huddleston of Rome ar
rived yesterday for visit with her
PARENTS, Mr. and Mrs. H. HI. Churchill
Mrs. ]. P. Hardin returned yesterday
from visit with relatives and friends
In Des Moines.
Miss Ethel Law left last evening 70,
a visit with relatives in Des Moines
and Pocahontas.
Mrs. Clara Lowell Of Lacona return.
ed home yesterday, after visit Of
several days with her mother. Mrs. j.
W. vickroy. Her sister-in-law. Mrs
Joseph Whitcomb, accompanied her
home.
p. c. McClelland and family left
last evening for Milo, where he will be
employed In a store and where they
expect to reside in the future.
Mrs H. S. Smith Of Waseca. MINI.
who had been visiting in Charlton
with her parents, Mr. and Mrs. A.. o
| Owens, returned home last evening
Her sister, Mrs. B. B. Connors. accom-.
| panied her home.
Elmer Glenny and little daughter
Gladys, Of Duluth, MINI, returned
home last evening, after brief visi
with her sister, Mrs F. G. Stanley.
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FUNERAL OF MERLE WHITcoMB.
Remains of Little Girl Who Was
Burned to Death
Inferred

Chariton.-Funeral services were
held over the remains of Merle Whit
comb Sunday The heart broken
parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Allan Whit
comb, have, the sympathy of the COM
munity in their great grief.
Merle, who was three years old, met
with the frightful accident Friday aft
ernoon which resulted in her death a
few hours later. About 3 o'clock she
was playing near the barn at the
Whitcomb home, 8 miles from Chart
ton, with some matches and set fire to
her dress. She ran screaming towards
the house, and her mother heard her
and ran to her, but before she could
reach her the clothing was all burned
from the child's body and the little one
was so badly burned that she died
at aobut 6 o'clock although a physi-
clan had been speedily summoned and
did all in his power to save her.
Mrs. Paris White Dead.
Mrs. Paris White, one Of Lucas
spected women. died at her home near
this CITY on Friday evening at 10
o'clock after an extended illness with
Bright's disease She had many
friends who mourn her demise and
who will extend sincere sympathy to
the sorrowing children. who survive
her
OCh5f InaFIIon news.
Victor H. Pickenbrock of Des Moines
and Miss Mollie Shriver Of Corydon
were united in marriage at the Metho-
dist Episcopal parsonage in this city
on Saturday morning at II o'clock The
ceremony was performed by Rev. EY-
| ans. The happy couple left the same
evening for Des Moines. where the
groom is engaged In the real estat.
business and where they will reside.
l NV nj tr
| Russell Saturday to attend surprise
birthday party rendered her brother
| Harve Foster.
Mrs Arthur Dalin visited in OF
tumwa Saturday with her sister-inlaw
Mrs. Hilma Anderson
Miss Elizabeth Wadsworth of Indi
| anola. a former teacher in the public
schools Of this place, visited her old
| friends here last Saturday.
Miss .Marcella McGugart of Ottum-
wa arrived Saturday for a visit with
her sister, Mrs. Will Foulkes of Eng
| lish township.
Mrs. A. r. Gladson has returned
from a few days visit with her par
ents in Melrose.
Mrs. A. E. Humeston of Cochran
Colorado, who had been visiting In
| Gray, returned home Saturday even
| ing
Mrs. c. o. Lindstrom of Lincoln
township, returned Saturday evening
from two weeks visit with relatives
in Fairfield
Miss Pearl Hickey OF Abba is a
| guest at the home Of her uncle, J. 3
Teas.
| Miss Belle Ragsdale Of Des Moines
returned home Saturday after ter
days visit with her aunt, Mrs. M.
Houston, and old friends, here, where
| she formerly resided
Mrs. Dennis Myers is visiting in Des
Moines with her daughter Mrs. Mabe
| Means.
Henry Miller and son, Harold OF
! Chanute Kansas, who had been visit.
| Ing in Warren township with Mr. Mil
ler's parents, Mr. and Mrs. LATE Miller
returned home Saturday.
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voices unanimously attuned declares
that the winter of A907-190S will not
amount to shucks.
III M e..

BY w. G. Holman.-~D ost thou 10 ye
life . says franklin. Then do not
squander time, for that is the stuff
life is made Of
Are you a time-waster-a spend
thrift of mornings, a squanderer If
afternoons-a dissipator of golden
hours and diamond minutes? Do you
come to wo-k late in the morning and
knock off work early in the after
noon? Do you dawdle away Saturday
morning because Saturday Is only a
hal fday? Do you come down to the
office with your boIlers cold-do you
have to sit around an hour or two be-
fore you can get ur steam enough TO
start to work?
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sIeouRNEY PAVING COMPLETED
Progressive keokuk County Town Has
Splendid Streets-Want New
Court House Now

So0IS fICuS0 NOW.
Sigourney.-The paving contractor
finished the work on the streets Satur-
DAY morning and the paved streets
are now all open for travel All the
business portion of the city now has
good brick paving and 1t makes the
streets look fine This is something OF
which the city of Sigourney may we'll
reel Proud and 1t is ODE hoped that In
the near future the voters of Keokuk
county will say that the county shall
have new court house. A. new court
mouse the county has needed for years,
and no doubt the board of supervis
CTS VIII be ready to submit the propo-
sition to the voters of the county
whenever they feel satisfied that the
proposition will carry.
The Woodmen of the World will
nave an open meeting this evening in
their lodge hall, when a program will
be rendered and an address will be
given by Manager j. W. Geiger of Ce-
dar Rapids. A nice time is anticipated
and they extend an invitation to their
friends.
Principal ]. R. Mcvicker of the Ke-
ota schools was visitor in Sigour-
nev Saturday
DR.. F. A. Blake has located in Sig
Quincy
Congressman Daniel w. Hamilton
was an Oskaloosa visitor one day this
week.
Mrs. G. G. Berry left for Delham,
Texas. Friday, where he has a good
position with the United States Elk
press company.
H. S. McVieker. who is principal of
the Fremont schools, was a caller in
Sieourncy Saturday.
DR.. end Mrs. j. D. Beatty and son.
Lynn. Of Troy, Mo-, arrived in Sigour-
ney Friday for an extended visit with
the w. L. Beatty family
MIR. and Mrs. G. G. Heninger were
over Sunday visitors with Mr. Henin-
gers father near Martinsburg
Mary Meas was at Iowa City last
week visiting with old friends and also
to see the big foot ball game between
Wisconsin and Iowa.
Mrs. L. H. ,Holcomb and Mrs. NJ r.
Lusch and son, Andy left for Prince
ton and Kewanee, ILL.,, Friday, for a
visit with a brother and sister
Mrs. Mile Strain was q visitor at
OSkalOoSa SATURDAY.
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EDDYv,lLLE.

EddyviIle-os kaloosa played Abba
In football game on the Eddyville
baseball grounds south of town Sun.
day. The score was 16 to 0, in favor OF
Abba.
John r. Sipes left Friday for a few
Gays visit with his sister, Mrs. S. Z.
Martin and other relatives. at Wood
burn. He was accompanied by his
Cousin, Chet johnson Of Cleveland.
MIR. and Mrs. Ed Byrum and two
children, Eddie and Lloyd, Of ottum-
wa, were over Sunday guests with
Mrs. Byrums sister, Mrs. Clyde Sum-
ners, Of South Second street.
Mrs. Mile Coon left Monday for
Ottumwa and will spend the winter
with her daughter Mrs. Ada Starkey,
and son, Walter Coon.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alvia MaLoy. who have
been visiting here for the past eight
weeks. left for their home at Mega, o.,
Tuesday. They were accompanied as
far as Ottumwa by their daughter-in-
law, Mrs. Dan MaLoy.
night cap social will be given by
the .. 7. p. U. at the Baptist church
on Third street Friday night. An
other social will be given in Pelay
Saturday night by the Sunday school
at that place.
Miss Grace McElroy is studying Ia
be a nurse at DR.. Abpott's hospital in
Oskaloosa. She spent Sunday at the
home of her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William McElroy, of South Fifth
street.
Miss Anna Briggs returned home on
Monday after spending two weeks
with her friend. Mrs Bellmon.
Mrs. Mollie Moss and son of OF
tumwa were over Sunday visitors nj
the home Of Mrs. Moss's mother. Mrs
Blake.
Among the Ottumwa bhusiness call-
ers Monday were Jay Free, Quincy
| Myers and Archie Gray.
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WATERWAY IMPROVEMENT.

Water In the river will pay be-
ter dividends than water in the stock"
This is the conclusion reached by
writer in the World Today magazine
IN discussing the need of waterway
Improvement The rivers themselves
seem anxious to work, he points out.
Not having farm produce to transport
they are transporting farms. He also
ventured the opinion that there is a
good deal of agricultural land of Mis-
souri, aud Illinois, not to mention half
a dozen other states, to be seen in the
gulf of Mexico. In a more serious
vein the World Today writer contin-
ues:
In early days our rivers were thor
oughfares. They continued to, be
thoroughfares until the middle of the
last century. Now they are used most
~ for sewerage and drinking water.
Yet sooner or later nature knows
that human nature will come to its
senses. 1t takes no great genius to
discover that the Ohio, Tennessee, H.
linois, Mississippi, Missouri and the
Arkansas might easily be joined by
canals with the great lakes. They are
raw material ready for a transporta-
tlon system which will make the Nile
look like a strip of litmus paper.
Dig up few sand bars, build few
.Ieyees, and blow up a few dams, and
the rivers will be sobered. Then the
region between the Alleghenies and
the Rockies, the Gulf of Mexico and
the north pole can get its goods u
market without worrying about the
shortage of freight cars.
II 1t is for the interest Of the coun-
try that we should have harbors on
the Pacific and the Atlantic, it Is ju 1T
as necessary that there should be
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THE SUN WAS SHINING.

Marshalltown Times-Republican. -
AS the sun came up this morning the
early mists fell back like curtains lin
gering latest along the river and over
the woods that fringe the river banks.
Underneath the wavering gossamer
as it lifted, glory of purple and
brown autumnal foliage appeared,
splashed with the crimson of the ma
pies. 1t shown and glowed as the sun
rose higher. The frost sparkled on the
meadows and yellow cornflelds
stretched shining away to the horizon
beyond the uplands Spirals of smoke
waYered IazilY into the air from home
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AN ILLINOIS MINISTER PROTESTS

AN ILLINOIS MINISTER PROTESTS
The Rev. James McCrory, pastor Of
the Methodist church at MINER ILL.,,
Is overcome with indignation over the
reported action of the ministers in at
tendance at a recent conference in
Sioux City in praying for good weather
until the corn crop matured. In let
ter which was published under his sig
nature in the Chicago Inter Ocean yes
terday, the Illinois pastor asserts that
these learned ministers had such an
exalted opinion Of their own superior
wisdom that they actually dictated to
God Almighty how he ought to govern
the world which he made" And then
waxing warmer in what he intends
evidently as a crushing bit of irony
the Rev. Mr.. McCrory thunders:
Why do they not go to Greenland
and have God melt the icebergs, and
thus change that climate until it be-
comes as fruitful as Florida? If these
good ministers have such influence in
the supreme courts of heaven that
they can move all heaven and earth to
ripen the corn in their own state, then
It logically follows that we have the
extreme cold and icebergs in the north
and the scorching, parching heat in
the south because these influential
ministers have failed in their duty to
mankind by not informing God of the
needs and sufferings of the people out
side Of the state Of Iowa.
The laws governing the physical uni
verse are fixed, and under the Chris,
tian dispensation. where miracles are
no longer essential, no amount of
prayer will change these laws.
Then after expressing his lack of
wonder that so many men seek other
places rather than the church on the
Sabbath day, "for they do not believe
that they hear from many of the pull
pits" the Illinois minister asks:
What must the reading. intelligent
public Of today think Of large body
OF ministers debating to the God of
creation as to how he ought to govern
the little piece Of land called Iowa?
The little piece of land called
Iowa" Well, the crust of any man
from Illinois, and from cross roads
station like Miner too, referring to
Iowa as little piece Of land"
Perhaps the Rev. Mr., what ever
nls name is, from Illinois, has been
correctly advised as to the actions Of
the Sioux City conference. Perhaps
the ministers prayed God to continue
the warm, sunny weather until the
green corn of northern Iowa should be
fully matured. Why shouldn't they.
Does the Illinois minister disapprove
OF the blessed practice, which is all
too rare, Of bowling the head and lay,
ing bare the heart as the lips speak a
petition for some boon of health or
happiness Or well being from the
bountiful stores of the one Of high?
And 1t might be well to inform Mr..
LuguArious Blue, the MINER doubling
Thomas that the warm, sunny wealth
err did continue to bless the ministers
and farmers of northern Iowa until
the green corn was fully matured.
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coLuMB IA.

Columbia.-Born, Nov 6, to Mr. and
Mrs. Frank Garfield, son.
Edward Stodghill of the Iowa Wes-
leyan university spent few days at
home and returned to the school on
Monday, Nov. 4.
Mrs. Charles Norman OF Dallas and
Mrs. H. Hopkins of Cloud, Ia. visited
at the home of John Arnold Thurs
day
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RattIe.Torn Flags Returned.

Annapolis, Md, Nov. 12.-Twelve Oh
the tattered battle-torn flags carried
through the civil war by Maryland
troops in the confederate army were
formally turned over to the state for
custody today by the governors Of the
Association of the Maryland Line. The
flags were presented by Capt. George
w Booth, president of the society, and
We're received in behalf Of the state
of Maryland by Governor Warfield.
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we're sufferer with rheumatism for the
past few weeks, is able to be about on
crutches.
Mrs. J. H. Olney and Alma called
at the Elias Garfield home Friday en-
route to Chillicothe.
y Abe Stuber, an old and esteemed
resident of this place. has rented his
farm to James Washington of Chilli
Gothic and moved to Eddyville
Miss Edna Gardner was shopping in
Ottumwa Friday.
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At the recent election seven New Jer-
sey towns elected doctors as may
ors. In speech the night before
election one of the physicians mixed
politics and medicine to the extent
that he was quoted something like
this:
We must cut out the cancer OF graft.
We must cure the Ills from which
our fair city has suffered.
We must amputate the hands that
have been stretched greedily Toward
our treasury.
We must find an antidote for the
insidious poison that has permeated
our civic body.
We must reduce the fever
But here a friend plucked at the
orators coattails and reminded him
that he was on political platform
and not in hospital ward
One Of the papers mas ventured the
opinion That If Jerseys body polite is
not healthy now it will be because
she has called In too many doctors.
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Chicago boasts of baby that crept
in three days, walked in six weeks
and in the interval lorded it over the
home by throwing is nursing bottle
at anyone who reused his displeasure.
1t is perhaps well for the peace of
mind of the precocious youngsters
family that he's not twins.
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William Ellis Corey, the steel mag
nate who recently divorced his wife
to marry an actress, has been march.
ed off to the massage parlors by his
new bride because ns Is getting tso
fat. 1t is not recorded in history that
the first wife, who came UP with her
husband from poverty, ever objected
to his avoirdupois,
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A mad dog assaulted a Michigan
man, but buried his teeth in roll f
bills instead of in the flesh. A fat
roll of bills is a preventative of many
illa
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In suit for damages against st.
Joseph street railway company an en-
ploye complains. of the following in
juries:
Compound fracture of the femur.
Crushing and manning of right leg
below the knee.
Amputation Of right leg.
Injury to head.
Bruising of back
Injury affecting hearing.
Bruislng, manning and injuring Of
hip. y.
Pressing and injuring of sciatic
nerve.
Injuring of left arm below the ell
bow.
Injury to general health
Affecting injuriously the nervous
system and hearing.
Injuring plaintiff internally, causing
him to be sick, sore and manned.
General permanent disability AMI
suffering great physical pain.
Mental anguish.
Aside from the few minor defects
noted 1t is to be presumed the plain
tiff is enjoying good bodily health.
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He Practiced Law by Ear.

When Grover Cleveland was prac-
ticing law in Buffalo one of his friends
was a lazy young lawyer who was for
ever Fostering him with questions
about legal points that he could just
as well have looked up for himself
Even Cleveland's patience had an end.
One day as his friend entered he re-
marked
"There are my books. Help your
self to them. You can look up your
own CASE
The lazy lawyer stared at him IN
amazement.
"See here. Grover Cleveland" he
said Indignantly, II want you to I'M
derstand that you and your old books
can go to thunder. You know very
well that l don't read law. l practice
entirely by New York Sun.
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The Troubles We Have.

r. l.. Ditmars. curator Of the New
York zoo, has had his lungs slightly
affected through his effort to eradicate
consumption among the zoo monkeys.
! 'It is but small affection" said
Mr.. Ditmars to reporter. "A month
in the mountains will make me all
right again. am not at all worried
We all have our troubles, you know.
Some of us have the strangest trou-
bles.''
He smiled.
Two deaf mutes were conversing,"
he went on.
Well. said the first mute, philo-
sophically, we all have our troubles
How true that Is said the second.
I have to tie my wifes hand every
night SO she won't talk in her Sleep"
Washington Star.