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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-07-27
COLUMBIA

Mrs Laura Dibble and daughter re-
turned from an extended visit in Colo
RADIO last week.
]. H. Matthews departed Tuesday
night for Salem, Mo-, where he goes
as a homeseeker.
G. W. olney and family visited at
Elias Canfields last Sunday.
Mrs. j. s. Swenson and children Wis
tied the parental Cramblit home a few
days last week.
Miss Nellie odenbaugh of Ottum-
wa visited at the home Of w. A. Rob-
erts Tuesday
Harry Stevens and family visited at
the George Bowen home at Chillicothe
over Sunday.
Leora Byrum came home Saturday
from Ottumwa where she has been
attending the summer school.
James Chisman Of Blakesburg Wis
tied at Roy Miller's Friday and Sat
urday.
R. I. Blankinhip and family IF
Lynchburg, Va, visited at the Ellis
Garfield home Tuesday night and
Miss F'reda Lauger of Charlton Wis
tied Tuesday with Chas. A. Johnson
night operator at Dudley.
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with all It's comforts and pleasures and
the movement from the farm to the
city set in. But with modern improve
ments and inventions farm life is again
is becoming pleasant and comfortable
and 1t retains all of its old-time indie
pendence and abundance. There may
not be a reverse Of the movement Of
population from the city to the farms
providing the larger farms can be
broken up into smaller divisions so as
to accommodate more families. II a
movement from the city to the farm
does not develop, at least the move
ment from the farm to the city may
be reduced If not altogether checked.
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MouLToN.

Ruth Lawrence of Cincinnati is Wis
iting Moulton friends.
Mrs. Chamberlain is seriously i'll at
her home on West Broadway
Mrs. Mike MCGOWAN is quite i'll at
her residence In the northern part Of
town.
Lincoln King was down from Udell
Saturday attending the carnival.
DR.. Ray Davis and Gus Eby Of Abba
were visiting home folks Sunday
Mr.. and Mrs. w. B. Davidson of
Unionville Mo-. were In Moulton Sun
day.
Mt. and Mrs. John Taylor of Cen.
terville We're Sunday guests at the S.
]. G, Eby home.
Miss Lucille Burton of Lamar, Mo-,
arrived Sunday for visit with rela.
tives.
Mrs. E.. s. Wahl went to st. Louis
Saturday evening on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. Roy Murphy and Mr..
and Mrs. CLANCY of Bloomfield We're
in Moulton Saturday evening.
Misses Cecil Ware, Eff1e Richard.
Eon and Pearl Kratzer of Bloomfield
attended the carnival the past week.
Harry Sharp and Andy Henderson
went to Ottumwa Sunday evening,
whore they will join the U. S. Carnival
company.
Glen Westwood Of independence,
Mo-, arrived Sunday evening for a
two weeks visit with his uncle, Oscar
Chamberlain.
Elmer Wood and George Lingley
returned from trip to South Dakota
Sunday They visited indian, Aber-
deem and other points.
Buhles Powers came down from
Des Moines Sunday to spend few
weeks with the folks at home Mr.
Powers has been employed in the Of
fee Of the secretary Of Des Moines
college.
Mrs. VIM. Beasley and daughter
Miss Myrtle, Of Montgomery City
Mo-, who have been visiting relatives
and friends here for few days, left
Saturday for Bloomfield, where they
visited over Sunday with relatives.
Rev. d. G. Bevan Of the Methods,
Episcopal church of this city has
been granted vacation and he and
Mrs. Bevan left yesterday for Mont
rose, where they will spend abou,
three weeks with friends.
Ralph M. Davis went to Memphis
Monday on business.
Ed Yates came up from West
Grove Monday on business.
O. G. Took was guest Of Center
vile friends Sunday.
Clay Minear and son of near Udel
came down Monday on business
Taylor Forsythe went to Seymour
Monday to visit with his brothe
Merritt.
1 G. w. Horn, one of Sedan's mer
chants, was in Moulton on business
Monday.
i Sam Henderson and Bedford Woo
of Udell attended the carnival Satur
day.
Mr.. and Mrs. M. s. Edwards return
ed Monday from few days visit a
4 Fort Madison.
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LIGHTNING DOES DAMAGE.
Barn Burned and Six Horses Killed at
Charlton - Partially

During the electrical storm Tuesday
night. the barn on the Penick farm
in English township was struck by
and burned down. Six horses,
three belonging to Will Penick and
three to Harve Query, who lives on
the place, were burned, beside the
harness and three hundred bushels Of
corn. Insurance on the barn only.
The house Of Bert Lewis was
struck during the storm Tuesday
night, which demolished the flue.
The Homesteaders gave social
last evening to number of their
friends and members.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Dixon Of Rus
sell were In our city yesterday.
Dave McMains Of Derby was in our
city yesterday on business.
Chas. Carr of Melrose, was busi.
ness caller in our city yesterday.
Theodore Schmitz Of New York was
a business caller here Wednesday.
l.. F. Maple made business trip
to Belinda Wednesday,.
The Episcopal church held social
last evening on the lawn of the par
sonage.
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THE OLD TIME HARVEST.

Fremont Tribune. Harvest is by
no means the jubilee that it was twen-
ty-flve or thirty years ago. In those
days of the "self rake" there were SO
many men required that it gave the
work an air Of a picnic. Now the
farmer bitches up four horses to his
binder and sweeps through his field
with an eight foot swath. depositing
the machine made bundles in wind
row, where two men put them in
shocks. Then the old Mccormick,
with its long arm, surmounted with a
rake that revolved in mighty circle
like gigantic octopus grabbing for
its victims, deposited the bundles in
the stubble behind it. Five men fol-
lowed to bind the sheaves. The bands
were made from wisp of wheat
picked from the bundle. The wisp
was seized by the left hand near the
heads, then the right hand parted 1t
in the middle and with foreflnger ex-
tended twist of the wrist gave a half
hitch to the band SO the heads were
tied together and the band made dou-
BILE the length Of the straw, was put
about the sheaf, drawn tightly, the
two butt ends brought together. and a
tuck with the thumb completed the
bundle. Each man had station"
that is the circuit of the field was d.
vided into five segments. The owner
usually did the driving and as he
paid the men $3.50 a day he gave
them merry chase. The men had an
inducement to work lively. for If they
finished their station before the reap
er came around they were permitted
to sit down and breathe and mop their
brows with their bandanas. 1t was
extremely hard work and severe on
the hands Usually there were wild
rose briars in the, grain and these
filled the flesh with thorns and tor
tured the toiler. The complement Of
men also consisted of a boy. He was
the water carrier. Mounted on an old
mare or a pony, he toted water for
the men. In those days there were re,
1uired eight men and boy for a full
gang. That made harvest time a per
iod of sociability. albeit Of hard
work. Now the gang Is reduced to
three men, to say nothing Of the boy.
| The old harvest jubilee is gone for
ever and there are those who give a
sigh of regret for the vanished hands
and sound of the voices that are
still.
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Western Cow Boys VS.. Seymour.

Seymour.-The ball game between
the Western COW boys and the sey-
mour team drew a large crowd and
was holly contested game They
played twelve innings resulting in a
score Of to ! in favor of Seymour.
There were three OUTLAW" horses
brought to the grounds to test the skill
Of nc -o,'gh riders. They rode them il
with ease. In the evening Albert Fer
guson, owner of the widest OF the
horses, with the assistance OF the
rough rider. mounted and rode the
horse around the public square num-
Der of times. furnishing amusement for
a large crowd Of spectators. Another
feature of the evenings entertainment
was hundred yard dash, the contest
ants being Seymour's athlete Edgar
Dyball and one Of the COW boys, who
boosted loudly Of former triumphs.
Dyball left him way behind.
Bernard Brown came from Chilli
Gothic Sunday and will be accompanied
home Wednesday by his wife who has
been visiting here since the Fourth.
Walter Miller, wife and son Elvis VI
Sewal also Kenneth and jesse Miller
of near Genoa visited at the home of
DR.. Banning Sunday.
L. G. Benson Of Waterloo came In
Friday for a short visit with his fam
lily.
G. F. Williams OF Kansas City was
q business visitor Friday.
Carrie Quick Of Sewal returned
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sIeoURNEY ROUTE SIX.

sigourney Route Six-Ernest Stroll
man of near Webster was caller in
this vicinity Saturday afternoon.
G. H. Robertson and wife visited
Monday evening with Harry Ford and
family.
Frank Seibel and Carl Ford Of Sig
Quincy We're In this vicinity Thursday
Wallace Power of Manhattan was a
business visitor here Friday.
ALI. Cooley and family were enter
tanned Sunday at the w. M. Cox home
Frank Tremmel and Dean Bowers
drove to Sirourney Monday afternoon
Mr.. and Mrs. Harry Ford and daugh-
ter Charlotte were over Sunday visit
tors in Sigourney at the G. II. Robert
son home.
Robert Day of near Hedrick and Mr.
and Mrs. j. N. Coy and daughter
Myrtle visited Sunday with ]. w. Coz
and family.
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OBITUARY.
Robert Il. TIndaII.

Robert H. Tindall was born in Knox
county. Tenn, January 80, 1921, and
died at the home of his daughter, Mrs.
jerks Mccartney, July II, 1907, age
SO years, months and II days.
He came with his parents in 184S
to Wapello county, Iowa, where he
grew to manhood. He was married
to Angelina Sloan In 1852 to which
union four children were born, Mar.
garet Ellen. Nan f., and Amelia. For
years they lived on farm close to
Ottumwa and remained there until a
few years ago when they came to Os-
ceola to spend their latter days with
their daughter, Mrs. McCourtney. On
account of his advanced age his vital
ity has been failing for some time,
but only In the last three or four
weeks did he see the end approach
ing, but he met the end, not with
resignation only but in lively hope
of eternal life. During his late illness
he had the privilege of meeting all
of his children and some of his grand
children as well as his only brother
fir m Ottumwa All that his aged
companions and brother could do was
done to ease and make comfortable
his latter days, but death came at
$50 on Wednesday evening.
He united with the M. E. church
at the age I IS, or So years ago, and
has lived consistent Christian life
ever since. Truly Of him can 1t be
said. How 'lest the Righteous When
He Dies" During his sickness he
said he was ready and only walt
ing the time Of his going. He often
spoke OF the kindness Of his folks.
Thus his body is laid away In the
hope Of the resurrection. His, aged
wife, his only brother, A. NJ Tindall
his children, together with 81 grand
children and "a great grand children
remain to mourn his going. May God
wonderfully sustain them all, especi-
ally the wife and daughter with whom
he has lived SO long.
The funeral was conducted on Fri
day afternoon by Rev. J. G. Barton OF
Ottumwa, assisted by A. A. Walburn
Of the M. 2. church. Interment in the
Osceola cemetery.
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Bishop John H. Vincent of the
Methodist church is not a believer in
the evangelistic system in vogue in
many Of the churches Of his denomin-
alton. In Chautauqua address at COT
feyville Kas., he expressed himself. az
standing for genuine evangelistic
effort under discreet direction" and
as against sensational and spasmodic
effort to create an Unbalanced emo
tjonalism and mere temporary devices
for exciting enthusiasm" When the
Rev. BILLY" Sunday in his Chautau-
qua rounds hears Of this we may ex-
pect to hear another view Of the ques-
t;on
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Cures permanently the cases he u..-
dertakes and sends the incurable home
without taking fee from them, This
Is why he continues his visits year
after year. while other doctors have
made a few visits and stopped, Dr..
full specialist in all chronic diseases.
proven by the many cures effected iii
chronic cases which have baffled thu
skill Of all ether physicians. Ills hos-
pital experience and extensive prac-
tice have made him so proficient that
he can name and locate o disease In q
few minutes
Treats all cases OF Catarrh. Nose
Throat and Lung diseases Eye ard
Ear, Stomach. Liver and Kidneys.
Gravel, Rheumatism, Paralysis. Ner-
Blood and Skin diseases. Epilepsy.
Bright's Disease. and Consumption III
early stage, diseases Of the Bladder
and Female Organs, Liquor and Tc.
bacco habit. Stammerins cured ard
sure methods to prevent its recurrence
Neck
PILES. FIsTULAE and RuPTurN
guaranteed cured without detention
to all Surgical cases and all diseases
OF the Eye Ear Nose, and Throat Rsi0
| Grarlllated Lids.
NERVOUS DEBILITY. T-N
Ara you nervous and Respondent:
weak and debilitated; tired mornings:
no amhition-lifeiets; memory poor:
easily fatiguee; excitable and irritable
eyes sunken: red and blurred: pimple1
| on face; dreams; restless, haggard
| looking, weak back; deposit In urine,
and drains at stool; distrustful:s want
of confidence. lack of energy AID
strength? +
DISEASES OF MEN AND PRIVATE
DISEASES A SPECIALITY. "A
Blood Poison, Spermatorrhea. vari-
cocele, Hydrocele, Debility, Nervous
ness, Dizziness, Defective Memory,
etc, which ruins mind and body, posi-
lively cured. !,
WONDERFUL CURES. 4,
Perfected in old cases which tava
been neglected or unskillfully treated
] No experiments or failures. He un-
| dertakes no incurable cases, but cures
thousands given up to die.
Consultation FREQ and Confidential
| Address
DR.. w. E. Shallenberger, 4.
145 oalwooe Blvd, Chicago. AZ
Reference: Drexel state Bank.
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A Chicago cleaner and dyer when
cleaning up at his shop at the close
Of the day found $133 on the floor
that had dropped from some suit Of
clothes that he had been cleaning.
Desiring to return the money, he in
serted an advertisement in an evening
paper requesting the owner to call
for his roll Before o'clock in the
evening forty-three men had called
and made their claims and the honest
cleaner found that instead of owing
someone s133 as he had supposed. he
had aggregate claims Of $1,S74.6S
against him from forty-three men who
were positive the money belonged to
them. Truly honesty Is at premium
in Chicago.
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the various candidates that have been
mentioned for the presidency, and it
is generally known just how they
stand on public questions before the
people. the religious belief Of the
most prominent men in the race has
not been commented upon. The
church affiliation of the candidates
has been given as follows:
Cortelyou, Episcopalian.
Knox, Episcopalian.
Cannon, folks Quakers, but his affll-
iations not pronounced.
Taft. Unitarian, wife and family
Episcopalians.
Fairbanks. Methodist.
La Toilette. Liberal.
Foraker, Methodist; wife Episcopal
liam.
Beveridge, Methodist.
Hughes, Presbyterian. II
Bryan, Presbyterian
Johnson. Swedish Lutheran.
1t will be seen that the Methodists
are in the ascendency with the Pres.
byterians and Episcopalians second
with equal honors. Before all the ia
vorite sons are trotted out to take
their places for the start. however.
there may be changes in the line up.
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FOND DREAM
SHATTERED.

The Royal Monaghan Band - 100
pieces.
How often have We been attracted
Ey such an announcement to spend
an evening counting the musei And
how We have marveled at the mastery
blending Of harmony and the machine
like unanimity of the 100 musicians!
But we shall marvel no more If we
bark to the words of the American
Federation Of Musicians. In fact, we
never had the beginning of marvel
coming to us, for, asserts that august
body, the 100 musicians comprising
the royal something or other foreign
aggregation is sham. A few really
good musicians do the work, while ele-
yator starters. walters, teamsters and
men from other unmusical walks of
life go to complete the band.
The American Federation of Music
ians. it might be stated, has forced
this rude awakening upon us because
the imported bands are not unienized.
They claim that the musicians are
violating the contract labor laws and
they threaten to place complaints be-
fore the commissioner of immigration
that will exclude the foreigners from
tOLo"lA6 LAo UuS1uCSS ucIC. u0 pAO6.
ldent of the Chicago Federation Of
Musicians waxing warm over the i'm
position he asserts is being forced up
on the public says:
Many Of these importations are
men from the laboring world, and have
little, If any, knowledge of music.
Many of the bands posing as being
royal ones are made up of what is
called dummy and noisy members
The dummy members carry the instru-
ments and go through the action of
playing, while in reality the mouth
pieces are plugged and they make no
sound at all. The noisy members are
the time markers, and play some
very small parts in the arrangement
Of the music"
Perhaps all the worthy gentleman
says is true, but just the same we
would rather have remained In bliss
full ignorance that a third of the men
on. the stage were holding plugged
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cHEouEsT.

Observation-Disclosures has been visit
ed by several hard rain storms during
the week and much loss Of small grain
crops and damage to corn fields on
the bottom lands Of Chequest creek
has resulted. A. j. Buckles and sons,
prominent farmers living in the Che
quest valley are perhaps the heaviest
losers.
Mrs. C. c. Rodgers and children of
near Bloomfield visited few days
the first Of the week at the parental
w. II. Harryman home in this place.
Quite good many went to Douds-
Leando Saturday afternoon to see the
high water.
Willard shreaves and family of Troy
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THE MEDICAL ALARMlsTs.

The Chicago health board, noting
that many Chicagoans are planning
to spend vacations in the country,
made haste to issue bulletin in
which warning was given that care
should be used in eating and drink
ing. The products of the farms and
gardens are swarming with germs, is
the warning, and typhoid turks invit
ingly behind every hay stack.
The health board is to be congratu-
lated on its thoughtfulness 1t will be
so refreshing to vacation seekers to
know that their lines will be cast Ill
such pleasant places. Of course ii wilt
shatter few odd illusions of those
who have believed that the country
had less to fear from the germ and
microbc family than the city, and it
may induce some of the more timid
to court starvation for fear Of the
evil effects Of a germ diet, but what
matters to the learned gentlemen of
science?
These scary bulletins from the men
Of medicine may serve a good purpose.
but to the normal. healthy man they
are tiresome, Where would be
the Joy Of living If we ate only
what had been denatured, and drank
only what hat been sterilized? Who
would not rather run the risk of be-
ing poisoned with impure food three
times day than to sit at every meal
in front Of things with labels telling
us how much poison they contain?
The Chicago Inter Ocean takes a
humorous view Of the health boards
anxious fears for the public health,
remarking:
Here and there 1t will be possible
to find man who will want to know
the history of every article Of food
laid before him. Was this pork chop
taken from pig that came from a
family Of hogs famous for their clean,
illness of habits? Is this drunsticll
from chicken raised in tiled barn
yard? Was this spinach grown in 9
bed sprayed twice daily with microbe
killer and new-mown hay? Were
these potatoes raised in an antiseptic
field? Was this celery grown without
fertilizer?
1t is possible that now and then
some very particular person will be
particular enough to refuse to eat
anything that sprang out of the dirt
Of the earth or that is subject to de
cay. But the great majority of us are
careless about such matters and we
will go right on eating everything we
take fancy to- digesting it, assimilat
ing it and thanking heaven we arc
able to get 1t.
An the Inter Ocean might have ad
ded. living just as long and getting
c. little more enjoyment out Of life as
we go along by our complacency. il
the face Of the dangers the physicians
warn us Of.
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home Sunday after weeks visit Mt
the home of DR. Maxwell
Mrs. Maxwell and children are Wis
iting in Powersville, Mo-, this week
Charles Donald Of Fairfield, who has
been visiting relatives returned home
Friday. He has been appointed gem
eral land agent for northwest Mis-
SQUIRT and southeast Kansas by the
company in which he is employed.
The knights Of Pythias and the
Pythlan Sisters held their twenty
fourth annual picnic here on Wednes-
day,
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ELoPINe CHICAGO WIFE CAUGHT

Rock Island. H., July 25.-Rock
Island police today intercepted G F..
Landers and Mrs. Fred Frazer. both
Of Chicago. The latter is said to be
the wife of real estate man. The
couple were taken from Rock Island
train on which they were eloping.l
Both had tickets to California. The
woman's husband and mother discov.,
cred the plot. and boarded the same
train. When Landers got on at En-
glewood, the men clashed Efforts to-
persuade Mrs Frazer en- route to re-
turn peacefully were futile, and the
local police were notified. Mrs. Frazer.
is a good looking woman and about
n years old. After stormy time she
returned with her husband and moth.
err, declaring. however, that she would
be gone again inside Of week.
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The officers of the Des Moines army
post have been compelled to call to
their aid the civil law to protect their
gallant soldiers from the snares of
the Des Moines girls. The officers say
that the regiment has experienced
the same difficulties at other stations,
but that never until they met the Sc
ductive smiles Of the Iowa girls has
it been found necessary to call the
police to keep the girls away. The
troopers Of the regiment stationed at
Des Moines must be lady killers.
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young men are so blind to their future
interests that they never admire the
girl at picnic who stays and helps
the old folks clean up the dishes and
repack the baskets as much as they
admire the snippy girl who walks of
as soon as she has all she can eat.
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A Des Moines man objects to en-
ploying girl stenographers in his Of
fee because about the time he gets
q girl broken into the work she mar
ries one OF his frequent callers and the
whole thing has to be gone over
again. If all men were this selfish
Cupid would have a hard time making
good on his lob.
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Merely a Fancy.

A hickory pole and a crooked pin,
A stream that ripples with silvery
din,
A poplar leaning above the stream,
A tolsled heard in a void If dream
A drowsy hum in the fields of clover
A beautiful blue sky bending over
Velvet valley and mist yelled hill
And life all green, and sweet, and
still!
Baltimore American.
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horns. and that another third were
merely noisy members, than to be set
to wondering every time we hear a
band just how many Of the fetchingly
uniformed men are musicians and
how many are elevator starters and
stevedores brought in from their
daily tasks to be chair warmers and
time markers.