Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1908-01-25
KNOXVILLE.

an injury which he sustained in a
railroad wreck last November.
Chas. Hill, who has been drilling for
coal and iron in Georgia and Ten
nessee has returned to this CITY aft
er an absence Of about eight months,
He has prospered in South Africa,
Canada and Mexico.
l. M. Peck was caller in Indian
ola Monday on business.
Chas. Banks, who has been attend
ing the Iowa Agricultural college at
Ames, is home for short vacation.
Miss Cora Wallace spent a day or
two with relatives in Pleasantville
last week
Walter johnson and Joe Amsberry
of Bussey were Knoxville visitors
Saturday
George Tin and wife returned home
Saturday after three weeks visit
with relatives in Kansas.
F. l.. Buchacker and fa~iI-- of Cox
fax spent Saturday with I. M. Peck
of this city.
Roger sweeney of Des Moines Wis
tied her and at Flagler and returned
home Saturday
Sheriff Wilson and family spent
Saturday night and Sunday at their
old home in Pleasantville.
Mrs w. A. Lyman visited with the
F. l.. Bussey family in Bussey Satur-
day. Mrs. Bussey is in very poor
health.
Rev. ]. H. Burma was in Bussey
last Friday to preach the funeral SER
mon of Mrs. Virginia Yeater, one of
the old settlers of Marion county.
J. w. Slaynan and wife of Sigour-
ney spent the first part of the week
visiting relatives in and near Knox
Vile.
W. o. Sexton and wife of Bozeman,
Montana, spent week at the home
Of the S. A. Fergeson family. They
started on their return trip Saturday.
Mrs. Sexton is sister of Mrs. Fer
gason.
Jacob Yeater of La Plata, Mo, was
in town the other day, having been
called to Bussey on account of the
death of his mother.
Chester Metz, who has attended two
terms of school at the Iowa Agri-
cultural college, has temporarily sus-
pended his studies at that place and
is now engaged in teaching school.
He was elected teacher at Highland
near Newburn and took up his duties
lats Monday.
H. G. Crouch shipped car load OF
hogs to st. Louis last Tuesday.
Theo Parsons is very sick, being
confined to his bed all the time and
keeping nurse in constant attend
ance.
Mrs. Paul Bellamy has been very
Ill since Monday evening with grip
and nervous prostration ,verging
very near to pneumonia.
Sell Caulkins and William Perry
are erecting new sawmill at a point
near the English Creek bridge.
e. e. Rue and children started
last Thursday for their home in Chat.
tanooga, Okla, accompanied by his
niece, Miss Velta James.
Mrs. Geo. w. Irwin Of Ringgold
county has been here for the purpose
of attending the marriage of her
father j. X. BEEN and Mrs. Sarah
Manhardt, which occurred last We'd
nesday. Her daughter Fay accompan-
led her.
T. J.. Simmons of Tracy last Tues
day traded his undivided one-half in
terest in the Commercial Hotel of this
city for a 200 acre farm in Cass coun.
ty, Ill. 1t is within one-half mile of a
town of 5000 population.
j. D. Anderson, night watch in this
city, was recently appointed overseer
Of the poor Several old soldiers were
looking for the job, among them
Isaiah Ball and few others. They
will contest it under the Soldiers
Preference Act. 1t Is said that the
papers will be served Immediately.
Mrs. H. ]. Bonnifeld has been
ill with the grip for the past two
weeks. At the last report she was
very much improved but not out OF
danger.
Frank D. Jackson and wife of Los
Angeles, Cal. will return to Des
Moines in the near future. Mr.. Jack
son is a well known pharmacist of
this city. Mrs. Jackson is daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Henry Ashton.
The sBaker-Trisler company of Des
Moines has completed arrangements
to install circulating library of cur
rent fiction. Any person can secure
books who signs his name and adj
dress and pays at the rate of ten
cents a day for the time they have
it withdrawn. The minimum charge
10 uVe CSuIb. IL his Doen a very great
success in Des Moines and is looked
forward to with interest by the people
OF Knoxville and vicinity.
There has been much comment and
talk of bridge over the Des Moines
river at Rosseau, but not until this
year has contract ever been let. 1t
will be built some time between now
and Jan. Is, 1909. The contract was
let Tuesday to the Iowa Bridge com
pany of Des Moines and calls for a
three-span, steel bridge, the price be.
ing $16,875.00. Mr.. Like. a member
of the board of supervisors strongly
opposed it. This year his term Of of.
flee was up and Allei Anderson took
his place.
The first regular examination of the
year will be held at the Office of the
county superintendent Jan. 20, 80 and
81. Anybody whose eighteenth birth.
day occurs before the first day of next
July may be admitted to this examin.
alton.
Mrs. Adam Koenig was a visitor at
Des Monies Wednesday.
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