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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-14
Funeral of centenarian.

West Grove, Feb. 12.-Miss Polly
Moss Of Udell was buried Friday morn
ing in the West Grove cemetery. Miss
Moss was supposed to be 100 years old.
The record Of her birth was lost by
fire years ago.
There was wreck on the Wabash
railroad Saturday evening near Carbon:
which caused all trains to be late. Nos.
6 did not get In from Ottumwa until
Sunday morning at 3 o'clock No. got
here at 3: IS a. m.
went to Bloomfield Saturday and did
not get home until Sunday morning at
1886 o'clock on account Of the wreck on
the Wabash.
Sherman Johnson of Monterey pass
ed through West Grove for Bloomfield.
Gardener Smith was business CALI
er at Bloomfield Saturday.
Elder d. w. Hastings of F1orie pass
ed through West Grove Saturday even
ing on his way to Orleans to hold
series of meetings.
e. B. Losey, who has been quite sick
with pneumonia, is better at this time.
Miss Zell Balm is spending a few
days at the Southern home.
The local freight train on the c., b.
& O. was nine hours late Saturday, tho
engine breaking down at Fort Madison.
The carpenters working on the Wa
bash depot have almost completed the
work. They will get it done this week
West Grove may well be proud of the
duepot at this place, as it is much bets
ter than the old one.
William Bunngarten Of Bloomfield
the promoter of the new bank was IT.
town Thursday attending the bank
Injecting.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-14

bered as long and well as my scrape
with Shields it Is plain / shall not
soon be forgotten.
Shields Has Prominent Career.
General Shields in his later career
proved that he was brave and able
man. In many respects his career was
most remarkable. He volunteered his
services III the Mexican war and was
promoted rapidly. Both at Cerro
Gorda and Chapultepec he was severe
ly wounded. For his bravery at Cerro
Gordo he was brevetted major general.
President Polk then appointed him the
first territorial governor of Oregon,
but Illinois elected him to the United
States senate in 1S49, where he served
full term of six years. Then he re.
moved to Minnesota, and when that
territory became state he was elect.
ed to the United States senate for the
first short term of two years.
Later General Shields settled at Car.
rollton, Mo, and served two terms in
the state legislature. But for the
third time he was sent to the United
States senate, being appointed to serve
out the unexpired term of Senator
Lewis V. Bogey, who died early In
1879. Shields sat in the senate two
months through that appointment
Then he came to this city, where he
died less than three months after leav.
ing the senate.
During the civil war the challenger
of Lincoln also proved his military
spirit. He went to Washington in 1862
and was apnOintad Inv hic old aDor1 a
brigadier general. Shields had the
distinction of defeating Stonewall Jack
son at Winchester, Va, though he had
received a wound in the leg the day
before.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-14

that caused him more regret than any
other incident connected with his pub
lie life. This was brought about in
directly because Of Lincoln's attitude
regarding state finances. though there
was more romantic side to 1t.
In 1912 Lincoln was engaged to
Mary Todd, whose particular chunl
was Julia Jayne, afterwards the wife
of Lyman Trumbull James Shields,
a young Irishman, was the state au-
ditor. Mary Todd and other Spring
field bellies seemed to take delight in
ridiculing Shields for private reasons.
Miss Todd had some talent as a sar-
castle writer.
Cause Of Offence.
There appeared In the Sangamon
Journal, Springfield newspaper, a
series Of articles, presumably humor.
Gus, in which Shields was made the
butt of ridicule. The first article
criticised him in good natured way
for his management Of state finances.
The succeeding articles held him up
to public ridicule on account Of his
social ambitions. Lincoln wrote the
first, and the two girls wrote the other
articles, but when Shields demanded
of the editor the name of the author
Lincoln CALAMITY stood for" all.
Shields Demands Retraction.
Shields demanded retraction. Lin
coin considered his letter offensive
and requested him to withdraw the
letter and state his cause more mildly
This Shields refused to do. He chal.
lenged Lincoln to fight him Lincoln
had been strongly opposed to dueling
but under the circumstances he felt
compelled to accept the challenge. AS
weapons he named cavalry broad
swords of the largest size. A point in
Missouri opposite the town of Alton
was designated as the place. The
two prospective combatants and their
friends accordingly met there, broad
swords and all, but at the eleventh
hour some mutual friends interviewed
and the affair was settled with honor
and without actual fighting.
Lincoln Was Confident.
1t appears that the friends OF
Shields boasted nightly of his fightins
prowess and his ferocity. Lincoln said
to William H. Herndon, his law pant
ner, afterwards: 81 did not intend &c
hurt Shields unless ! did so in self
defense. If it had been necessary
could have split him from the crown
Of his head to the end of his back
bone" Considering the length of the
Lincoln arm as compared to that Of
Shields, who was built otherwise, this
does not seem to have been vain
| boast.
This duel" kept popping up fol
many years afterwards. In 1858 Lin
coin said to Herndon, IF all the good
things have ever done are remem.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-14
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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-14

building lots for sale here at reason
able prices and on reasonable terms.
Ottumwa needs advertising and
needs it badly There are people liv.
ing within less than fifty miles of this
town that think Ottumwa is little
place on the Des Moines river where
they have a packing house and kill a
few hogs and where man named
Dain makes hay machinery. Lots Of
them have never heard of machine
called box car loader. They don't
know anything about the mining ma
chinery that is made here and shipped
all over the world They don't know
that some of the best hams and
bacons in the United States are pack.
ed here and that thousands Ct
hogs are killed here every week, be.
sides lots of other stock. They don't
know anything about several smaller
factories that employ several men.
Advertise, let people know what we
have here; what we are doing and
what we need.
city, like merchant or any other
business man, has to advertise or be-
come a back number think the solu-
ton Of the whole problem consists of
one word and that is, Advertise"
A Reader.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-14
Martyred Presidents Day
Recalls Duel With ShieLds''
One Incident of Lincoln's Life of Which
He Was Ashamed, Concerned Man
Well Known TO Ottumwans.
From Tuesdays Daily

From Tuesdays Daily.
Strange as it may seem one of the
few incidents in the life of the immor.
tai Lincoln, whose birthday the ma
ton at large is celebrating today, OF
which he was heartily ashamed was
intertwined with man well known
today appears in the title of one Of
the local fraternal organizations.
Dincoln,s duel with Shields" as
the incident was termed though there
never was duel chung to him through
life. Nevertheless few of the young,
er generation ever heard of the oc.
currence. But for the interference OF
mutual friends, Abraham Lincoln
would have fought duel with Gener.
al James Shields, who later passed
away in this city while visiting here
with relatives. The quarrel between
the two men arose over some ar1i
cles which appeared in an Illinois
paper for which Lincoln had assumed
responsibility.
Recalling the incident of Lincoln
duel with Shields, brings back the
memory not only of the matchless
president but also of his quondom op.
ponent, man who served with bril-.
liancy in two wars and who was Uni
ted States senator from three differ.
ent states.
General James Shields in addition
to his other honors was the only officer
Of the army of the north who eyer
defeated Stonewail" Jackson. After
his public life he lived in semi retire
ment at his home in Carrollton, Mo. at
the time III his death he was visiting
in Ottumwa with his niece, Miss Mary
Shields, who later became Mrs. j. j
Smith, and her aunt, Mrs. Mary Tai
ly, staying at the ST. Joseph's con
vent, which Mrs. Tally was very
largely instrumental in founding.
The death of General Shields was
very sudden On the evening that
1t occurred he ate hearty supper
and went to the convent to call on
his relatives. While there he was
taken suddenly i'll and passed away
within twenty minutes.
The remains were taken to Carroll
ton, Mo-, where the interment was
made The pail bearers at the fun
eral were Ottumwa men.
The widow of General Shields ant
his son Daniel, lawyer are still liy
ing, residing in ST. Louis, Mo.
A constant reminder of this fam
Gus warrior and statesman remains
in the title of the local council of tbs
knights of Columbus, which bears
his name.
LincoIn's "DueI With Shields"
1t was what President Lincoln wrote
in a letter to his close friend, Josbus
+. Speed called his duel with Shields
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-02-14

bered as long and well as my scrape
with Shields it Is plain shall not
soon ha pnrCotfop
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29

Every colored business, their
employment, etc., should be rep
resented in our Exposition or 4th
of July number. The people
who advertise are they who do
the business. What need a man
care if he spends $40 and makes
81 clear. That's what he does
by buying and selling. Adver'
Using pays.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29
Excellent Time
At Twins the 20

A large crowd of young people
attended the entertainment and
dance given at Twins park this
week by Co. H, 9th Inf. Illinois
National Guards. There was
fishing, bowling and a free for
all base ball game by both sexes
and it is not easy to ascertain
which were the better players as
the girls rival the men in this
chief masculine sport.
Many enjoyed the dance also.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29
Time Table of Springfield Consolidated
Railway Co.

Railway 20.
Cars for North Fifth street will
leave Fifth and Monroe every TN
minutes from 6:07 a. m, until 500 p
M; every 10 minutes from 500 p. m
until 1920 p. M; owl cars will leave
at 11:4s p. M, 1907 and 1890 a. m.
Cars for South Fifth street will
leave Fifth and Monroe every TN
Fifth and Monroe every IL minutes
from 600 a. m. until 11:24 p. M; owl
cars leave at HAS p. m, 1900 mid
night and 1924 a. m.
Cars for North Seventh street leave
Fifth and Monroe every IL minutes
from 600 a. m. until 11:24 p. m; owl
cars leave at 11:48 p. m. and 1924
a. m.
Cars for Spring street leave Fifth
and Monroe every IL minutes from
sos a. m. until 40 p. M; owl cars
leave at 11:44 p. m. 1908 and 1880
o. m.
Cars for East Carpenter street leave
Fifth and Monroe every IL minutes
from COS a. m. until 30 p. M; owl
cars leave at 11:44 D. m, 1907 and
80 a. m.
Cars for South Grand avenue leave
Fifth and Monroe every Is minutes
from 6:O7 a. m. until 1922 p. M; owl
cars leave at 11:45 p. M, 1901 and
1890 a. m.
Fifth and Monroe every IL minutes
from 600 a. M, until 1875 p. M; owl
cars leave at 1900 midnight and IL: 80
q. m.
Cars for North Ninth street leave
Fifth and Monroe every IL minutes
from 900 a. m. until 11:36 p. m.
Cars for East Capitol avenue leave
Fifth and Monroe every IL minutes
from 600 a. m. until 1875 p. M; ow
cars leave at 1900 midnight and IL: 81
q. m.
Cars for South Eleventh and Rut.
ledge streets leave Fifth and Wash.
ington every Is minutes from got q
M until 20 p. M; owl cars leave a
1852 p. m. and 1922 a. m.
Cars for West Washington stree
leave Fifth and Monroe every Is min
utes from 90 a. m. until 11:15 p. m.
owl cars leave at liza p. m. and 49,
a. m.
Cars for Governor street leave Fiftl
and Monroe every Is minutes from
GOT a. m. until 11:22 p. M; owl car
leave at 1890 a. m.
Cars for South Eighth street leav
Fifth and Monroe every Is minute
from 6: 90 a. m. until 11:15 p. m.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29

We shall watch the ever pres
emit moocher during the next few
weeks. The concentration OF
the Republicans upon Roy r.
Reece, blocks the moochers'
game, as it were. Let us have
peace.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29

Don't wait to hear what the public
thinks before you express your opin-
ion. Say what you think If you believe
you are right.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29
St. Augustine's Mission.

1420 South Grand Ave, East Ser
vices every Sunday. Sunday School.
p. M; Divine services, 7:45 p. m.
All are invited. Conducted by Rev.
Jefferson.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29

Please don't put the collectors off
BY telling them you want to see the
editor. We employ them because We
have not time for that ourselves,
When the collectors come, pay them.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29

Virgil Motley, one of the
brightest and most promi sing
young men of the city, is solicit
ing and collectingfor The.Forum.
These kind of young men and
women so disposed. are the ones
of the next generation.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29
Lee Monroe,
N. e. Corner Sixth and Ka
nsas, Avenues, Topega, Kansas.

Calhoun Ave.-6 rooms. good cell
lar walks, we'll and cistern; $4,000;
$500 cash, bal. SIS and $40 per month.
South Pasfield ST., blocks south of
Laurel ST. room house, good cement
driveway, cement walks, good barn,
good cellar eemented, with sewer, $3.50;
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29

Do you know that single Crop
wheat in Western Kansas will pay
the purchase price of the land on
which it is grown and profit besides!
have several thousands acres of CHI
dice wheat land in the counties of FL
lis, Trego, Grove, Wallace, Lane, Gree
ley, Kearney and Morton bought ex-'
ceedingly low during hard times WIFI
CHI | now want to close out at once
and which l offer to sell far below or
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29
Buy Kansas
Wheat Lands!
Direct from Owner at Bargain counte
Prices!

binary market prices.
WANT TO DEAL WITH PUR
CHASER DIRECT.
Write me for full particulars no
l can save you money.
The forum. [volume] (Springfield, Ill.) 1904-192?, 1907-06-29

We must not spend so much money
on Excurs ions.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-16
That Tag.

Look at the yellow tag on your
paper. The date on it shows the
time to which your subscription
has been paid. if that date does
not agree with your receipt you
will favor us by reporting to us.
fit shows that you are indebt-
ed, you will favor us by paying
amount due. When friends are
in your home and they see your
paper, YOU do not like for them to
see that YOU owe the editor. espec-
if YOU owe for several years.
We have written to some and
the letters have been destroyed in
wreck or lost or been received.
If
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-16
NATURES CATARRH CURE.
Sensible and Scientific Way to
Cure this DiSagreeabIe Disease.

In no other way can catarrh be
cured rs naturally and quickly as
by the use of Hyomei breathed
through the neat pocket inhaler
that comes with every outfit.
In this way all the air that enters
the nasal passages, the throat or
the lungs, is filled with Hyomei's
healing medication, reaching the
most remote air cells of the respir-
atory organs, and soothing and
healing the irritated mucous mem
brane.
SO strong is w. :. Lloyd's
faith in the power of HyOmei to
cure catarrhal troubles, that with
every dollar outfit he sells, he will
give guarantee to refund the
money unless it cures.
The complete Hyomei outfit
costs but 81 90, extra bottles, if
needed, soc.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-16
Young Woman HypnOtizeS
Bible College Student.

As the result of "A hypnotic en-
hibition at a social and candy pull
ing given by the Society of the
Broadway Christian Church Tues
day night of last week at Lexing-
ton. X. T. Booker. of Scottville.
ILL.,. student of the College of
the Bible. was completely hypno-
tiled and remained semi-uncon-
sciOus for fourteen hours.
The hypnotist was Miss Rey
McGarvey, of that city.
After the candy had all been
pulled the hypnotic exhibition be-
gan. The students were told to
90 in next room. Booker was the
first to enter. saying that he did
not believe in hypnotism. Miss
McGarvy told him to think only
of her. She began by rubbing
his forehead first gently, then
more firmly. He soon remarked
I'm sleepy" and before she had
time to answer he had lapsed into
Inconsistencies.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-16
Some Facts in Trial at Jackson.

Overruled successfully when it
sought to postpone the trial of
former County Judge James Har-
gis: to quash the indictment
against him that another may be
drawn. and then. to have the jury
for the trial into which it was
forced drawn from the wheel. the
prosecution in the feud case made
a bitter fight before Special Judge
William Carnes at Jackson against
the appointment of a special elisor
to perform the duties of the Sher-
if in summOning from among by
ISLANDERS the venire from which the
trail jury will be selected. Attor-
ney Byrd, for the prosecution,
protested against what he said
would be new disgrace to the
Commonwealth, and urged that
the court not only overrule the
motion for the appointment of the
elisor. but that the decision AS to
the selection of the jury from
among bystanders be reconsidered.
The Judge appealed to the Gov
ernor on Wednesday for troops.
AS he feared for his life.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-16

A recent wreck at Nolland,
Kan, where thirty persons were
killed, was caused, it is alleged. by
the carelessness of IA new man
who had been working only three
days" and got his orders mixed.
According to news dispatch. the
operator was "a boy who had been
sent to relieve regular operator
during the holiday" Common
carriers have no moral right to
place the lives of passengers and
train crews in the hands of ire
sponsible boys.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-16
GUARANTEED STOMACH REMEDY.
". S. Lloyd Will Refund Money
If Mona Fails to Cure. ~

You may ask why w. :. Lloyd
is able to guarantee to refund the
money unless Mi-o-na Stomach
Tablets cure when no other remedy
for stomach troubles is sold in
this manner,
The reason for this is that or
binary dyspepsia tablets merely
digest the food, while Mi-o-na
builds up and strengthens the di-
gestive system so that it soon be-
gins to digest the food itself with
out pain or distress. l.
If the stomach is only eSon
a rest by using digestive. the
muscles soon become weak. and
1t is necessary to continue taking
a digestive tablet after every meal.
On the other hand, Milo ma us
ed before eating, strengthens the
stomach so that you will soon be
well enough to give up the use of
medicine.
Mi-o-na costs but 5oc box. and
makes positive and complete cures.
The best proof of its merits is the
guarantee to refund the money. if
does not cure, that w. $. Lloyd
gives with every box.
The Mt. Sterling advocate. (Mt. Sterling, Ky.) 1890-current, 1907-01-16
THE soeR's ICE BOX.
How Provisions Are Preserved in the
High Plains of the Transvaal.

The Beers who live on the high
veldt of the Transvaal have a SIM
pie way of preserving perishabIe
provisions in the summer. on the
high veldt the weather during@the
day is extremely warm, but once
the sun sets a breeze springs up and
in about two hours time the cold Is
intense. This is due to the rarcficd
air.
When the sun has disappeared for
two hours or so the vrouw brings
out her provisions and wraps each
article in a piece of thin sackIng
and hangs it from the roof of the
caves. which run around the outside
Of the building. In the morning
when the cattle in the cattle kraals
proclaim by their lowing that il IS
time to rise she comes ont and takes
the bags in. The butter. if butter
S one Of the articles. is so hard that
rou could not spread it; the! eat,
if it Is bucks head. has ~ the
same texture and appearance as
bucks meat that has been trans
formed into biltong by being dried
in the sun. though it differs from
this in that it can of course be
cooked. which bltong cannot. and
still retains the greater part of It's
juice: the beef or mutton is frozen.
The bags are taken inside and
placed on that side of the house
which is. against the sun" When
the sun vecrs around to this side Of
The house they will he transferred to
the other side. Travellers who call
at one of these farms on some sum-
mer day. when the sun is blazing
down. and there is not breath of
air. marvel how the people keep
their provisions, shut off as they are
from all helpful adjuncts. If they
express their surprise to the vrouw
she takes them to the front of the
house and gravely points out the
large hooks. which she will later on
in the day call into use again.