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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-24
BELkNAP.
lRI COURIER

Belknap.-J. M Mccormick and
wife were hosts to the following
guests Saturday and Sunday: Mrs.
Mollie Phillips, Miss Edna Hirst Geo.
and Fred Hirst. Mr.. and Mrs John
First, Mr. and Mrs. Charles Hirst and
Miss Halle Hirst. All returned Suit
day evening to their home in Ottum-
wa with the exception Of Mrs. Phillips
who expects to continue her visit
throughout the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. H. C. Bell were the
quests of Ottumwa friends ThursdaJ.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jacob Conner and
children visited at the George McVey
home in Floris Sunday.
Mrs. Addie Frank of Sterling, ILL.,.
same last Monday night for a visit
with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. A. j..
Combs.
Ira Rankin, who has been attend
Ing college at Mt. pleasant, came home
Thursday evening.
The local M. w. A. camp gave an
Ice cream social Saturday evening.
from which thew cleared s14.
Misses June Gibson. Edith and Helen
Bell and Messrs Rov and Berl Bell
snent Sunday near Dunville with MI
and Mrs. w w. Monroe.
Jacob Conner and wife visited Sun
CAV at Floris with George McVey anu
family.
Miss Callie Cree left last week for a
three weeks sight seeing trip to Den-
yer. Colo.
Miss Sylvia. Myers and brother,
Alva spent Thursday near Bloomfield
4bo Alf,o5 Tyr,,in home
Mrs. J. M. Mccormick and daugh-
Ter. Maude attended the carnival IN
Ottumwa last week
Mr.. and Mrs. Elliott Bachman and
children of Ottumwa visited here Sat
urday and Sunday at the J. B. Nc
Cormick and Henry Pachman homes.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. f. Putnam and
son Eugene, Mrs. Addie Frank and
Mr.. and Mrs. A. ]. Combs spent Sun
day near Drakeville at the George
Johnston home.
Jacob schlotter and Earl Davidson
of Selma and G. F. Davis and son
Ralph of Bloomfield were entertained
last week at the J. M. Mccormick
home
Mr.. and Mrs. A. G. Anderson ct
Bloomfield spent Sunday with Mr.
and Mrs. J. r. Hart.
r. H. Lister left today for Pulaski
on business.
Mrs. o. C. .Rell and Miss Cora Bell
attended the funeral of Mrs. Findley
in Bloomfield.
Misses Ella and Viola Tomey OF
Bloomfield spent Sunday with Mrs Ell
mira Morris and Miss Mamie Gray 81
Drakeville was caller there Saturday
evening while on her way to Ottum
wa.
Mrs. Bessie Reynolds of Bloomfield
spent Friday and Saturday with her
sister, Mrs. Myrtle Post.
Mrs. Orr and son Eugene of Bunch
we're callers Sunday evening at thu
]. w. Miller home.
Will Mccormick of Floris visited
here Monday evening with his broth
pr, j. B. Mccormick
Mrs. Maggie McMains and son Glei
attended the carnival and visited witt
friends a couple of days in Ottumws
last week
Frank and George Waller of Floris
spent Saturday and Sunday night witt
Mrs. Joe Waller.
MTS. CHdiley Alien VI soap CieSf
visited one day last week at thu
Frank Petit home.
Mrs. Maggie Rhoades of Bloomfielt
was an over Sunday visitor at tht
home of her daughter, Mrs. Myrtle
Post.
Misses Merna Myers and Lucil,
Ziegler and Messrs. Elroy Hancocl
and Berl Bell attended the children
day exercises at Drakeyille Sunda.
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Peter Cohagan of OF
tumwa passed through here on thei
way to Drakeville to attend the flu
neral of Mr.. Cohagens aunt. Will,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-24
EAGLES TO HAVE:
GRAND DISPLAY
OPENING OF THEIR CARNIVAL
WILL TAKE PLACE JULY 5
WITH CELEBRATION.

A carnival queen will be one of the
big features of the grand carnival to
be given by the Fraternal Order of
Eagles in Ottumwa, opening Monday,
July 5 and continuing during the week.
The election of queen is a function in
which the voters are the public and
they decide the contest by their choice
expressed through the medium of the
the summer with her daughter Mrs.
Clark Scott
Mrs. Bertha Myers has returned
from a visit with friends at Ottum-
wa.
DR.. Chas. T. Norman is having his
office raised and room added to it.
Mrs. G. B. Everett left Saturday for
her future home in Des Moines
Miss Maude Frazer of Burlington
left Monday for her home, after a
FL -asant visit with friends.
The ice cream social given by the
Epworth league Saturday night was g
cess.
George Stewart of Boone has ar
rived to be with his father who is
i'll.
Mrs David Metzler is at Pleasanton
Kansas, called there by the dangerous
illness Of a nephew who is suffering
from appendicitis.
Mrs. Harold Davidson and Miss Orr
Herrick of Wapello are guests of theil
friend Mrs. Oscar Steigleder
Mr.. and Mrs. T., G. Woolms visited
at Greary Flat Sunday with thei
son Curtis and family.
Rev. ]. S. Decker is entertaining &
brother from Omaha.
The Misses Carrie and blanche
| n A 4 ~
band concert at league school Satur.
dav night
yernard Scott who was ta,sen sicl
while visiting his grandparents a
Fairfield was brought home last weel
land is one the way to recovery.
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height 0rll0Od News
coRREsPoNDENTs.)

here Mrs. Cohagen was caller at the
G. H. Hughes home.
The baseball game Sunday after
noon between the Belknap and Bloom
| field team resulted in a victory for
Belknap.
The members of the orchestra were
entertained at spread in l. Wares
yard Sunday evening.
| Mrs. Emma Hawkins, daughter Opal
and son Ernest visited Drakeville
friends Sunday afternoon.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-06-24
BUILD NEW CHURCH.

The celebration of the completion
of the new church in Huber district
by the American Sunday School Union
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PAckWoop.

Paekwood Mrs. Anna Rava of
Stockport arrived last week to spend
The oasis., 1909-09-04
NOCALES NOTES.

Gambrinus; Qua mas: Beer; Lunches.
 Wednesday evening Mir, Henry Levin visited Magdalena.
 Tuesday evening the machinery for the Nogales Gas Company ar rived from the East.
 MT. c. F. Holler has been visit ing Hermosillo, Guaymas and Magdalena this week.
 Go to the Railway Eating House at Carbo. All passenger trains stop for meals.
 Monday evening Mir. and Mrs. J. B Gordon returned from a visit at Phoenix.
 Captain J. M. Thomas, the well known mine superintendent, was visitor at Nogales Monday.
 Thursday morning Mir. George P. Jones, and her little son, Master Charles, went to California, where the little boy will be placed in school.
 Wednesday Nogales was visited by MT. Mark Wanless of Hermo- sillo, who was en route to the East on business. He went along Thurs day morning.
 Sunday MT. Angus Cashion, of the Grant Brothers Construction Company, arrived from the south, and was at Nogales' a number of days early in the week.
 1.-The American Lady," the most elegant and stylish shoe made. Sold only at the Red House, Ramon Vasquez.
 Monday evening there was at No gales, returning to Culiacan from a visit in California, MT. W. $. Hunt, the live real estate man of the Sinaloa capital.
 Reverend F. Marrs and wife, from Hermosillo, who had been visiting in Nogales a couple of weeks, returned to the capital city of Sonora Tuesday night.
 Sunday evening Mrs. Edward H Pope came up from Tufanito, on the Rio Yaqui, where MT. Pope is in the engineering department of railway construction, and the lady is visiting friends in the line city
 Monday and Tuesday MT. George D. Gross was in from the Santo Nifo mine, in the Patagonia noun. tains, near Duquesne. He reports the ore body uncovered recently opened up finely.
 For the very latest styles in everything in gentlemen's wearing apparel go to the High Life store of A. P. Carillo & Co.,, at Hermo sillo.
 Last week MT. and Mrs. F. H Stewart went to El Paso, their for mer place of residence, where they will remain until the middle of thu
The oasis., 1909-09-04


 sortment of fall styles in millinery and fine faces and ribbons.
 Mr. H. J. Burns, formerly man. ager for the Western Commercial Company, arrived from Topic Tues day evening. The gentleman is engaged now with the Grant Brothers Construction Company.
 "The American Gentleman" the finest and handsomest shoe for gentlemen's wear, at the Red House, Ramon VasQuez.
 Tuesday night there was at No- gales Mir. and Mrs. George Mason from Hermosillo, who were en route to California and the state of Washington. Mir. Mason has been in charge of the tannery near Hermosillo.
 From Realito, on the Yaqui river, comes a report that John T. Brickwood Jr., is very i'll with typhoid fever. Wednesday evening Colonel Bird of THE OASIS, went to Realito, and if the young man can be moved with safety he will bring him home.
 A delightful winter climate, charming scenery, fine boating, good fishing and hunting, and a fine hotel at which to put up-the Albin-beside the waters of Quay mas bay.
 Con O'Keefe has commenced construction of a handsome brick building upon his property between the cigar factory and the Piskorski building. In the front there will be three stores, each 75x25 feet, and in the rear will be a handsome theatre 95x70 feet, with a seating capacity of about 500. It will be fitted with a handsome and com modious stage. that will give room for any production that would be attempted.
 Last week Mir. Robert Shugart received information of the death of his grandfather, Reverend Joseph Bird, of Johnson City, Texas, which occurred at that place on the fifteenth of August. At the time of his death the reverend gen tleman lacked but four months oi being one hundred and three years, and was engaged actively until a very few days before his demise Mir. Shugart states that at the last count in his knowledge, some three years ago Rev. Bird had one hun dred and forty-six grandchildren and great grandchildren, of whom MT. Shugert is the eldest.
 The two trainloads of mules which arrived from the south this week for the Grant Brothers Con, struction Company, are held at tht line by the United States cattle sanitary authorities on account o discovery among them upon in spection of a number of Texas fevel ticks. The animals were put il pasture a few miles south of Noga les, Sonora, awaiting final disposi tion of the matter by the authori ties at Washington. Wednesda, telegraphic order was received tt admit them after dippting in petro leum. A tank has been built anC they will be dipped.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23
El9fn Butter Prices
AdUance Cent anS Half

Elgin butter advanced a cent and
a haIt today, making the market a
cent higher than it was at this time
d year ago. Demand was firm at the
50 to 34-cent quotation, wholesale,
with indications pointing to steady
market all week.
notwithstanding the strong demand
for turkeys, game continued to bring
hrm prices, and housekeepers found IT
possible TO buy birds and rabbits at
prices much cheaper than those
which were In effect at the opening
Of the season.
The best rabbits retaiIed at IS cents.
with birds bringing the same price.
squirrels brought IS cents. More
turkeys and fewer rabbits and birds
VIII be consumed this Thanksgiving.
say dealers.
Nearby eggs continued to bring SO
and 81 cents wholesale, and are ex-
pected to continue TO sell at those
prices during the week
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23
Celebration of HarUest Time in Sweden
Is IN Form of a Unique Entertainment

making IF trains TO and from the city
Il novel feature was the playing Of
the band composed Of the worIxmen on
the place. They were mostly Germans,
and as each department had its own
foreman with helpers the organization
was quite complete as well a unique.
They played for the dancing, and 10 a
most stirring march they led the gay
party to the last sheaf Of wheat in the
field. It was laid in the pony cart be-
longing 10 the ten-year-old daughter Of
the house, who drove the prettily dec
GRATED pony into the barn, where the
sheaf was placed in the middle of the
clearly swept floor and the hostess paid
a tribute 10 Ceres. a health being drunk
IN mulled cider made on the place and
served By the hostess. After a supper
Of fried chicken. boiled ham, hot Inuf-
ms, rice and tomatoes cooked together
with shrimp, which the cOlored cook
said was ''Jumbalaya," tea, coffee,
Macedonia Of vegetables. salad and
pumpkin pie, the dancing began. After
a few informal dances there was what
the hostess called a Farmers " COIL
lon. because all the figures pertained
10 work on the farm, and the favors
consisted of big straw hats, sunbonnets,
whips milking stools, Tin pals, spades.
rakes hoes, etc. It was all very orig
mai and pretty. Cider frapDe was on
hand for the dancers.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23
MEET TEMPTATIONS
WITH FEARLESSNESS

The world makes Just as MANY
saints as sinners, The man or woman
VINO must be kept away from all
temptations is weak indeed. There
are many such. but the better ones are
those who meet temptations face to
race, night with them like soldiers and
WIN 1t is sheer nonsense to say that
eVll is unattractive. EVIL is generally
most attractive; "with sounds Of
pleasant music. and dancing on the
deck the young things only hear the
hddles playing and see the rose
wreathed masts.
Tell them that the ship is doomed
and making straight for the rocks.
Ihey won't believe you. They Will
only strain their eyes after the CAV
dancers and think how deadly duh II
Is on the religious. righteous boat.
Now, why should goodness be dull
and stupid and preachy?
We may argue and talk, run after
new faiths and false prophets, put for
ward first one view. then another. but
they all come back to the old things
ina that spell goodnsss-kindness, char
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23
Refurnishing Farmhouses
Is Becoming Popular

The rebuilding, renovating, and re-
furnishing Of so many Of the deserted
farmhouses throughout New England
have done more than anything else to
endear to the hearts Of the modern
woman the simple colonial finish and
decoration Of our grandsathers.
The mantel. high panel dado. relieved
with the neat dental course, is always
effective, and when the farm gives OF
her yield OF rough stones for the fash
ioning Of one Of those low, wide fire
places, there Is little needed, other than
8 bright. cherry wall paper, to reach
the ceiling with no other finish than a
plain white picture holding. TO complete
an ideal sitting room for the coy family
gatherings. The molding gives a final
finish, and although seldom OF much use
since the small prints and passe-portraft
sketches have rather superseded the
paintings Of the family portraits and
huge steel enEravings IN wide block
frames, yet Il can be reached at any
time by the fine invisible wire. instead
Of driving nails into the wall
The mantel decorations always vary
with the individuality IF the owner, but
high vase at either end of a chaste
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23

could drive the cart. for ] want to go
on nrst by myself" ooh. father
cried Little Thumb 81 can do that
easily. Leave the cart with me. I
VIII take care to be in good line
"Oh. yes, replied the father, Iauehing.
1T is very likely I should trust Won
20 drive. Why, you are much too little
even 20 lead The horse By the bride"
Never mind how small / am" said
the boy; "oniy you go as soon as YOU
like, and, IL mother will harness the
horse, I Will seat myself on his ear
and tell him which way 70 go"
We'll" replied his father. "TH try for
once what you can DC" So he went
off to the forest, and when the hour
10 start arrived the mother harnessed
the horse in the cart. and seated Lit
tie Thumb on his ear.
"Gee upr' shouted the little one
into the ear, and the horse went on
Immediately.
And so he kept on, using the right
words when he wanted the horse to
turn 10 the right or TO the left. and
crying out, Gee, woa," so cIeverIv
that the cart reached the wood as
safely as If his master had driven him.
Just as the horse and cart were turn
ing into a path through the forest
still in establishment, for they heard
the voice of the driver and saw the
horse take the right turning, but no
one was visible.
CONTINUED Tomorrow
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23

design and delicate coloring, together
with few landscape photographs that
ones eye may lingeT on as the heat of
the open fire is enjoyed, is all that Is
needed TO complete the setting neces-
sary for the colonial atmosphere. A
shield, a sword or sporting relics are
not amiss IL grouped to break the line
Of the upper wall, but such decorations
are not necessary, neither do they strike
a discOrdant note.
1t goes without saying that the floor
should be bare for center or irregular
grouping Of smaller rugs. Now that
so many satisfactory preparations are
in the market for the treatment and
finish Of floors, it is an easy matter to
take an old wide boarded. Wide-cracked
floor and with a wood filler paste and
any one Of several kinds of finish and
polish, and with little labor produce a
floor that win vie in beauty with the
majority Of new, hardwood floors.
And what have we In this low stud
oed farmhouse but a room that will al
ways glow with warmth and welcome.
a room wherein the younger. generation
viii love TO Iinger. and II il prove con-
ducive to the exchange OF confidence
and the plighting Of troths-why, simply
another case of history repeating itself.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23
Army of Puzzlers Increases
With Each Additional Contest

THE WOman's Page travellers GER
tainly made a lively journey
there and back" TO judge from
the number of solutions which
met my astonished eyes on Monday
morning. Nor were the hundred first
arrivals far IN the lead of their fellow
tourists Throughout the entire day q
perfect deluge OF answers swept in upon
me, and at last I was moved TO &C
quiesce in the generally expressed die
tum that the puzzle was really very
easy
CHANGING over the lists, IL nine cases
out OF ten, every number has an answer
duly and properly attached. but I'm
bound TO say that I have noticed IN
some cases that the answers supplied
BY the puzzlers do not tally precisely
with those set down by Miss Cuneo.
Throughout the contest all sorts Of
pleasant remarks were made as the
travellers sighted their home town"
and taking all signs into consideration I
-eel safe in saying that the puzzle
though a trifie less difficult than
others. has not failed In the two prime
of all good puzzles-interest
and instructiveness.
FRANCES CARROLL.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23
Care Should Be Exercised
Working ScalLoped Edqes

one cannot be too careful in work
ing scalloped edges, so that they VIII
hoId their shape when Numbered.
There is no better way of doing this
than by running both outlines of the
scallops with fine stitches and then
working a row of chain stitch down
between If the scRIlops are narrow
one row Of chain stitch IS enough 10
MI. In wider scaIlops a second row
will be needed. This preliminary
work does take some little time. hut is
quite necessary and must not he
sighted Running the outlines NOT
only makes them firm, but tends to
make the edges Of the scaIIops more
even.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23
The Bedtime Story.
Published fer mothers who wish youngsters
tucked fOr he night.
LITTLE THUMB.

a POOR peasant was one evening sit
n ting by his hearth IN a homely cot
tage, doing nothing but stirring the fire
while his wife sat spinning near him
At last he said, How sad and sorrow-
Sui il IS TO think that we have no chill
6Ren. The house is so lonely and stiu
while IN our neighbors' homes the
voices of children make everything
cheerful" "Ah, yes" replied the wife
lii j had only a little child not bigger
than my thumb how happy / should be
we should have something 10 love then
with all our hearts"
Now it 50 happened that after few
months the wife's wish was accom-
pIished, for a little baby was born per
feet IN all its limbs but not taller than
a thumb. AM said she, Il have got
what I asked for. and, small as he IS.
We win love him dearly" And because
Of his size they named him Little
Thumb
The parents brought up the child very
carefully. They fed him on the most
nourishing food and spared no care and
attention. Yet he did not increase in
size. but remained always as small as
on the day OF his birth But intellect
shone from his eyes, and he soon
showed by his cleverness and ability
that he would succeed IN whatever he
undertook. Notwithstanding his small
size.
One day when his father was get
ting ready 10 go to the forest and cut
down some trees he said aloud 10
himself: II Wish had some one who
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23

n Sweden they make a ceremony OF
bringing in the last sheaf Of wheat,
signifying that the summer is over
and the harvest ended" With this
In mind, a hostess who is noted for her
originality. issued invitations for a
Harvest Home" party at her place
In the country.
It is now quite the thing not 20 return
to town until the first of Novemb Der,
so the beautiful foliage and the gIories
OF autumn are enjoyed to the fun. At
this party, which was given last year,
too late TO get in the department owing
TO the fact that It must be made Up
several weeks I'm advance, the house
and spacious verandas were literally
covered with gorgeous oak and maple
leaves, as was the lower floor of the
great barn where dancing took place
at eight O'Clock. The hours were from
hve TO ten, which just permitted the
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23

Daily Fashion Talk.

Nuns yelling, serge OF wolfe win work
up admirably in the evolution OF the
attractive and serviceabIe pattern a.
Tered today The simplicity OF the lines
appeals alike to the small woman or the
elghteen-year-OId girl, while the absence
Of ornamentation IS not the least salts
factory feature of the frock In case
It's owner should elect to use # for
street wear on any OF the mild DAYS
which from time 10 time relieve the te-
dunn OF the winter season.
Worn with a set of furs and a fur
turban more becoming street toilette
could scarcely be achieved The mode
OF fastenening adds a pretty touch.
while the introduction OF rat-tan braid
embroidery or soutaching IN the bodice
ornamentstion cuff and stock relieves
the severity Of the line.
This is a Butterick pattern No. 3fss
aid may be had at Woodward & 10th
rops.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23
Sofa PfLLo9Us of Fragrant
Filling Suggest Vacations

A pillow suggestive of vacation DAYS
has a pine cone design done in shades
of brown and green on dark tan If
one has a pillow filed with pine needles
or balsam, accumulated during the
summer, so much the better. and if
not, this fragrant filling can be gotten
at some other time.
The cones are worked in FIVE shades
OF golden brown, shading lighter toward
the tip OF the cone. and each separate
shell or section worked Individually
The end view cone IS shaded lighter
toward the center. ThA clusters Of nee
dies are outlined in shades Of green,
some clusters lighter than others sew
eral shades combined in each The
branches are worked solid in a cOmbi-
nation OF dark brown and green.
The Washington times. [volume] (Washington [D.C.]) 1902-1939, 1909-11-23
HIDDEN CITIES
IS NEW PUZZLE

I. The frame Of a ship.
2. A stoppIe.
3. a support to the body; a mu-
steal instrument.
4. That which precedes a bios
somj a letter of the alphabet; a
plague
3. A perfume.
6. An phbreviation for a liquid
measure; road.
z. An exclamation; compact.
s. A bows name; a military post.
0. A home for animals; wealthy.
10. A preposition; the female of
birds.
IL An abbreviation of a woman's
name; a nurse.
u. Hostility; the preterit of the
verb to see.
-. Kings among beasts.
IA. A slang expression; the name
of the man who gave the first house
boat party.
10. Part of the anatomy. E.
10. A vital organ; a small pond.
II. A form of the verb to be; to
arouse; to stop.
Is. An abbreviation of a military
title; one of the earliest trouble
makers; a letter of the alphabet.