Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1907-08-24
.HITEMAN REBUiLDS.
Wapello Coal Company and All Other
Buildings Going Up
Eaaf NtsIst

Albia-The store buildings Of the
Wapello coal company which were re-
Gently destroyed by fire are being re-
built and within sixty days they will
have finer quarters than before. The
main building is being erected on the
ket will be in "a separate building
across the street. The ware houses
will be built down along the tracks
that the merchandise that Is received
for the company can be unloaded i'm
mediately into the buildings. The
other places that were burned are also
being rebuilt, and all Of the buildings
are on larger scale H. A. Dinsmore
& Co. have their drug store about
completed and expect to move into 1t
within a few days. The postoffice
building is practically completed and
Postmaster Joe Lewis will start to
move into IT tomorrow. Lon Kridle-
baugh has already opened for buM-
ness in his new barber shop. This
fire was quite a serious affair to the
Hitemanites but they are building big
ger and better than ever.
Hon. and Mrs. D. H. Scott have re-
turned from a visit OF several days
at Malvern. They were guests at the
home of Rev and Mrs. E. B. Linn, for
merly Of this city.
John REM of the Abba Telephone
company, is off on visit to the east.
He will take in the jamestown exposi-
ton and Niagara Falls. He will be gone
from the city for two weeks.
Jay Hinton. one Of the prosperous
farmers south of the city left today
for Colorado. He will visit in Den-
yer and radiate from there in taking
in the sights of the state.
Leo Wilson left this morning for
Creston where he will remain for sew
eral days.
Henry Hughes has opened a new
cigar factory in the city. He intends
to manufacture the smokes at his resi-
dence for time and as the business
increases move to rooms up town.
H w. Almack, a young man who was
raised In the west part of this county
and whose parents still reside here, is
in a serious trouble in Omaha. He
Is charged with murder and Is con-
fined in the county Jari awaiting the
action of the grand jury in the matter,
1t Is charged that the young man In
company with two others struck a
Chinaman over the head with club
and while he was unconscious they
robbed him of $103. The other two
boys have not been caught
William Stevens, who recently NOV
| ed to the city from a farm near Ty-
rome, is endeavoring to secure settle
| ment with the city TOT damages WHICH
he alleges he received shortly after ne
| came to town. He was before the
| council at the last meeting and told
! them he had been permanently injured
in one of his shoulders and asked the
council members to take some actor
in the case toward relieving him. HI
states that his shoulder was perma.
nently injured and he never expects t.
have the use of it again. The injury
was alleged to have been received by
| falling over a defective sidewalk.
J. B. Hammond, superintendent o
the Law and Order league Of the state
and whose home is in Des Moines, ha!
been in Abba today looking after bus.
| mess matters.
| The question of whether Abba vii
again have saloons under the provis
| ions of the mulct law will be settlet
Saturday when the petitions that ar
now being circulated will be fled I
is stated that if there are not the re
quisite number of signatures to TIL
/ petition then the matter will be drop
I ped. There is no information coming
from those who are making the canva.
! as to how the matter stands