Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-04-28
Morris williams
HORSE SALES AND REAL ESTATE
AUCTION EVERY FRIDAY.
PRIVATE SALES DAILY.
THE BIG SPECIAL THIS WEEK

THE BIG SPECIAL THIS WEEK.
Next Thursday and Friday. April
80 and May l, we will hold Our An
nual Road Horse Sale and 1t will be a
SUCCESS and you can spell 1t in
capital letters.
Thursday will be the day we sell the
fancy horses. including. high actors.
speed horses, matched pairs, stylish
single drivers, ponies, family horses
and an extra choice consignment of
trained saddle horses. Uncle George
Myers from Lucerne. Mo-, sends me
word that he will be here with a load
of High School, saddle horses. These
fancy horses will be shown in harness
and under saddle on specially pre-
pared speedway and arrangements for
room will be made to accommodate any
who wish to drive in and watch them
This will be by far the best sale of
this class Of horses we have ever held.
Some of these specimens of high
class horse flesh would be aptly de-
scribed in Merry Widow" language
as perfect dreams"
But speaking of dreams l want to
tell you of the Dream of Heaven"
had the other night I was there my
self. q had quit the horse business)
1t was different from anything / had
ever read or been taught in Sunday
-
streets of gold with angels swarmine
in around the throne, it consisted OF
an immense picture gallery-streets
without number, running endless ano
into eternity, lined on either side with
life sized and perfect paintings. each
representing every act, good or bad ir
| the life of some poor mortal in the flesh
| A kindly old gentleman. who tended
the entrance told me that each act OF
every human raintnd on tha walls
of these Million Mile streets, put there
as soon as the acts were done--witf
| your name in laree type printed above
all prepared and ready for the in
| spection of yourself and friends wher
| you came Millions and millions Of
people were passing in review inspect
| ing each picture in turn-and I re-
marked to the old gentleman, that
suspected 1t would be quite relief tt
some people when the panoramic view
of their lives had been finished anc
they could comment on their neigh.
boris acts. But he said no such gooc
luck as that. 1t is not arranged that way
Here, with group of your friends
| you might see yourself natural as life
"swiping" melon from your neighbor!
patch, while on, a million miles from
there, thousand years later, yol
might run onto yourself pressing thu
hand of your neighbours wife-not al
torture all the time The panoramic
review of your lifes acts are scattered
along these endless streets and yo'
may suddenly come upon one through
out an eternity of time and it put
me to thinking Of home people, ant
said I will go back to Ottumwa ant
see how many want to come up. 81
called about me all the citizens o
Ottumwa and asked them how man.
would like to go to the heaven of m.
dreams and I listened long and loud
but no one volunteered to go. Every
body looked at everybody else, but n:
one spoke up, until suddenly from tn
South Side came a great cry and din
and 1 recognized the voice-it wa
Fleener, crying for bids in the open
ing of THE GREATEST SALE Oh
ROAD HORSES ever held in Iowa
and this Weakened me up and I rea
lized I was still on earth--still in tn
horse business and that l must dis
miss these dreams and prepare for GU
big two-dav special that comes Thurs
day and Friday, this week-but afte
the sale is over, you might interview
yourself a little on how you would lik
such heaven as I saw in my vision.
MORRIS WILLIAMS,
Ottunwa Iowa.