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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
THE DANGER OF, THE ROAD.

The news columns the past few
weeks have been flied with accounts
of fatal automobile accidents. The
Indianapolis speedway's opening races
resulted in the death of seven persons
and the injury Of many more, and agi-
tation against automobile racing was
taken up with vigor by the press. But
foolish as seems the sacrifice of lives
on the race courses to satisfy the de-
sire Of the manufacturers for speed
records and the speed lust Of the dare
devil drivers, the danger of automobile
races on the tracks Is not as grave as
the danger from automobile speeding
on the roads by reckless drivers.
AS one paper points out automobile
races might be prohibited, but the use
of automobiles cannot be prevented.
They are here to stay and the only
thing to be done is to make the best
Of the new conditions created by their
use. There are speed laws every
where now, but the daily recurrence
Of accidents to drivers and occupants
Of cars, to say nothing Of the injury
Of innocent pedestrians, is proof that
the speed limits are not properly regu-
lated, or that the penalty for breaking
these laws is not sufficiently severe to
restrain the RESTLESS automobilist.
Automobile drivers should be made
to understand that speed laws are not
designed altogether TO save them from
accidents If only the driver suffered
from accidents, due to exceeding the
speed limits, there would be little
sympathy given him. But the reck-
less driver imperlls not only his own
life, but the lives of pedestrians, the
drivers of other automobiles and driv-
ers and occupants of carriages, and
usually in such cases the innocent by
stander is the one who suffers the
worst injury.
We might do better to center our eff
forts in working to lessen accidents on
the road and leave it to the automo-
bilists, who take their own chances on
the track, to make automobile racing
safer for the contestants.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
o RlTUkRY
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Elizabeth w. saxlas.

Elizabeth w. Patti was born Nov
ember g. 1912 in Pawtucket. Rhode
Island; was married to Stephen Sayles
Sept 4, 1881; died at the home of her
granddaughter Mrs. L4innie Rothen-
stein Aug. s, 1909, age 90 years, 8
months and II days. The deceased was
the mother of eleven children. eight of
whom are still living Mrs. e. N.
Curkendall and Stephen Sayles of
Bloomfield, William Sayles, Mrs. Har-
riet Truitt, Mrs. Martha Housley and
Mrs. Emma Williams of Drakeville,
Pardon Sayles of Peyton, Col; Hora-
Ito Sayles of Council Bluffs, all were
present except Pardon and Horatio
Sayles. The deceased always kept
house until last winter. when she sold
off her household goods and went to
live among her children. Funeral serv-
ices We're held at the NJ e. church
Aug. at 2:30, conducted by Rev.
Huff after which the remains were
laid to rest beside those of her COM
panions. who died in March 1881. Be-
sides her own children, Mrs. Sayles
leaves number of grandchildren and
great-great-ch children. Contributed.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26

Walter Wellman's third annual fail
ure to reach the north pole via the
balloon route is attracting more or
less notice and a great amount OF adj
vice is being volunteered by newspa-
per writer's. Most of these writer's
believe that Mr.. Wellman might as
well quit trying to drive an airship
into such unknown dangers until the
science Of aviation is perfected TO
such state that airships may safely
be driven where there are no dangers.
1t would be a great honor for Mr.
Wellman if he should be the first to
reach the pole, whether he should
know what to do with the pole after
he had reached it or not, but 1T would
be as great an honor to reach the
cherished goal by surface line, and
the chances of success are greater.
Dumping the bumps over the arctic
ice fields in gas bag has not looked
feasible to Wellman's critics from the
first Perhaps after his third failure
he may have. come to reach this view
himself.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
MT. ZION.

Mt Zion-Miss Amanda johnson of
Keosauqua visited recently at the
Perry Patrick home.
j. Arnold made a business trip to
Missouri the first of the week.
Mr.. and Mrs. Porter Of Plttsburg,
Pa, spent few days last week at the
John Watts home. They will visit with
friends in Oklahoma before returning
home.
Mr. and Mrs Perry Patrick and
Miss Maude Perry took Sunday dinner
with I. Campbell and family of Keo-
sauqua.
>r'le death of the late C. s. NOEL
'ainnsy was a sad shock to his congre-
cation here. This was his thirteenth
year here and he was dearly be-
loved by all. A large number attend
ed the funeral at Fairfield Sunday aft
ernoon.
Mrs. Sarah Perrine and Mrs. Fresh
water are visiting at the L. v. Sherod
home
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
HoPEW ELL.

Hopewell-N. ]. Sammons and fam
lily spent Monday at the Frank Sam
pie home.
Abb Walker and Rev. Luscomb spent
Monday in the vicinity of Ash Grove.
Emmett Walker delivered hogs in
Ottumwa recently.
Mrs. Margaret Hunter is still quite
Jesse Helmick and family were
Sunday guests Of relatives near Or
manville.
Abb and Rosa Walker and Emmett
Walker and family spent Sunday north
lof Blakesburg at the Willard UpI
home.
j.. w. Johnston and G. F. worrelI are
shingling Henry Abbeggs barn.
l.. r. Garrison and l.. Samples were
in town Monday.
J. Hunter made business trip to
the county seat Monday.
DR.. Eggleston called at the Jacob
Walker home Monday evening.
Rev. Luscomb contemplates the
erection of tent between Hopewell
and Ormanville and conducting a
series of meetings in the near future.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
HE HAD THEM.

Cleveland Leader-Wicked Mr.. Box
in his Ladies Home Journal tells this
naughty, naughty story: Two capri
cious young ladies planned to have
some fun when certain young man
called to spend the evening. They
thought 1t would be great sport to
initiate everything he did. When the
young man entered the parlor he blew
his nose, which each of the girls
promptly initiated. Thinking it pc
culiar incident, the young man pro-
ceeded to stroke his hair. Both girls
followed. Then he Strengthened his
collar. They did the same, and few
dimples and smiles began to appear
in spite of them. Now it was the
young mans turn. He was positive
of his ground and calmly stopped down
and turned up his trousers.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
DEATHS AT WEST POINT.
Mrs. Theodore Wonderland and Reuben
kile Answer Last Sum.

kile Answer Last Sum.
mons.
West Point Aug. 24.-Mrs. Theodore
Wonderland died at her home at $50
a. m. Monday, Avg. %. 1909, aged 81
years, months and 81 days
Deceased was born in West Point
where she has lived all her life. She
was q member Of st. Mary's Catholic
church and of the Rosary society.
Besides her husband she Is survived
by four children, Albert ArnG%h, Colet-
ia and Theodore, Jr She is also sur
vived by her mother, Mrs. Elizabeth
Schultz OF West Point, two sisters
Sister M. Rose, a Sister OF Mercy at
Pontiac ILL.,. and Mrs Hartman Boed-
ing of South Dakota, two brothers
Schultz of South Dakota.
Funeral services will be held Thurs
day morning at st. Mary's church in
West Point, Rev. Jacoby officiating
Burial in the Catholic cemetery.
Reuben kile.
Reuben Kile died at his home Satur-
day. Aug. 81 1909, at o'clock of par
alysis.
Deceased was born in Lancaster
county. Pennsylvania and has been 6
respected citizen of Lee county since
1852. He was rs years, :. months anG
90 days old. He is survived by sever
children as follows: James, Kate OIL
Venice, ILL.,, Mrs. Andrew Shelledy Of
Henry county, IInoch and David o.
Phoenix, Ariz.
Funeral services were held from the
residence Monday at 1880 D. M, Rev
B. X. Brockert officiating. Interment ir
the city cemetery.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
POLITICAL ORGAN DIES.

The National Democrat of Wash
ington. D. c., has suspended publica-
ton. 1t was established about six
months ago by Lorenzo G. Warfeld
and Col. William G. Liller as the or
gan Of the National Democratic
League, an organization promoted by
Representative Sulzer of New York
and Colonel Liller.
At first the publication received
considerable encouragement from
Democratic senators and representa-.
tives but later interest among the
congressman waned and the paper
had to be discontinued for lack of sup
port.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
AN APPEAL.

Backward, turn backward, oh Time in
your flight.
Give us maid with her own hair in
sight
Give us some handsome and sensible
girls
Not walking masses of pufYs and of
curls.
We are so weary of ringlets and rats,
Pompadour filling UP peach basket
hats,
Narcotics and love locks and switches
and things
Held on by hammock hooks, guy ropes
and strings.
Grandma, come back from the echoless
shore,
Take back your hair please and wear
1t once more.
Why did you leave it en- earth years
ago?
1t looks silly on Ethel and Chloe.
Peoria Herald-Transcript.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
uation that hinges on the state OF one
mans health needs the services of n
doctor
DRESSING FoR THE SEASON,

DRESSING FOR THE SEASON..
| In line with the agitation of Des
Moines commercial club for Goat
less Iowa" comes a protest from DR..
Frederic NJ. Lawrence. writing In
Hampton's Magazine, against the
wearing apparel affected in summer
by masculinity. DR.. Lawrence's sub
ject is the Red Flag Of Summer" He
says, among other things:
Above all, 1t would be best II we
Americans could get over the absurd
tiles OF our summer costumes IN
| clothes. AS matter of plain fact It
may be said that we are dying by the
hundreds every warm season because,
from millionaire to laborer, our hot
weather dress reproduces the summer
clothes of England and northern
France.
| have shivered in Ostend in July
and slept under London blankets in
August, for there the maximum tenn
perature is only so degrees, and the
! minimum much lower. But here,
where we have adopted standard Of
costume appropriate only to much
higher ATTITUDES, we are living In a eli
mate which, except at the seaside, on
the Canadian border, is as hot as that
| of Italy or Spain.
Out here in Iowa where the popula-
ton is more literally endowed with
good sense than in some of the other
sections of our broad land, the M
tives have to great extent solved
the question. When the mercury gets
around the hundred mark the ordin-
airy Iowan begins to shed" his cloth
ing with the utmost defiance Of the
conventions. But the clergyman, the
doctor, the merchant and other digni-
fed personages are not always per-
mitted to discard their conventional
raiment so readily and for their sake
let us hope that DR.. Lawrence's pro
test reaches the ears of the tailors.
those arbitrators of fashion, in whose
hands rest our comfort during the dog
days.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
THE OFFICE BOYS PLIGHT.

There amt much show for chaps
like me
To have steady sweetheart, gee!
| only gets eight dollars per,
An watts dey left to spend on her?
1t costs me five for board an wash,
An carfares put de grand kibosh
On sixty cents; an den blows
A half on movin' picture shows.
I'd like to take her for stroll
Each eyenin' If had a roll;
But ice cream sodas, at ten cents per
Gee! Watts dey left to spend on
1t amt no sport l wants to be,
Plain citizens enough for me;
But to go out each night wild her
Can't do it on eight dollars per!
Boston Herald.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26

An exchange tells of new industry
open to the poultry raiser which prom
ises big returns at practically no out
lay. "An Illinois man." it says, has
trained fifteen ducks to eat potato
bugs; the ducks have been raised on
an exclusive bug diet. He now rents
the ducks at $1.00 day apiece. to eat
potato bugs off the vines, and they so
through potato patch like neigh
borhood scandal. They are quack-
ing success as potato bug exterml-
majors, and neighbors are glad to pay
$3.50 an hour for the use of the HOOK
amongst their potatoes. The owner
thinks he might get a patent on
them" Ducks might be fed into con
dition to make $3.50 an hour at much
less cost than they could be fattened
for the market. 1t would cost MOTH
ing more than little work to
pick off enough potato bugs 70
train their appetite, and once
trained they would gather up their
own feed. Anyone who tries this plan
is requested to write to the potato
bug editor, giving results of his expert
ment.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26

]. Stahl of Davenport and Father Ad.
ans of Houghton. An address was
delivered by Father Foley, editor IT
the Western Catholic, published at
Quincy, on the lawn in front Of the
church. A special excursion train was
run from Keokuk, bringing about 200
people. st. Peters church choir, OF
Keokuk, furnished the music for the
occasion.
st. Boniface parish has grown rapid
ly during the passionate of Father
Troy, who came here one year ago.
He has built and paid for new par
sonage and will have the new church
edice completed by November 1. The
new structure is being built of rocle
face concrete blocks and presents q
very imposing appearance.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
Two Million Bottles.

of Perry Davis Painkiller sold every
year. Think of 1t! And every bottle
is lessening suffering and helping
some human being to health and hap
piness! This wonderful household
remedy stops the pain Of sprains,
burns or bruises. 1t relieves rheuma-
ticm or neuralgia. 1t cures colds,
cramps. collie, diarrhoea. There ought
to be a bottle on your shevles just now
re .dy for the first sign of trouble The
new size bottle is 80 cents and there
is also the SO cent size. Be sure your
DRUGGIST eives you Perry Dapsa,-
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
= a q CURES ECZEMA.
p - - ACNE, TETTER ETC


irritating
inhane
s.
acids
enables
healthy Book Skin Diseases medical advice all
wv ~14's' THR SWIFT SPECIFIC CO.. ATLANTA ca
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26

them, In Russia and the United
States that subject was all the talk.
One would hardly recognize this
world. Now everybody learns to read
and write. There are plenty of free
schools and laws compelling children
to attend. Good old times! Degenerate
days! AS one hears these phrases,
he smiles and passes on.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
HARRlMAN,s HOMECOMING.

Perhaps never in the history Of
this country has so much public inter-
est centered in the homecoming of
one man." according to dispatches
from New York, as that which is be-
Ing evinced concerning Edward H.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26

In Robert w. Chambers case, how
ever. the Chicago Tribune comments,
the really astonishing thing Is that
he is suspected of having made some
of his characters resemble persons IN
real life.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
"BoBv ADAMS RESIGNS.
Resignation to Take Effect Saturday
Night and Glen Anthony to Be
Successor, Says Rumor.

Nighr ana Glen hnthony 10 Be
Successor, Says Rumor.
Des Moines, Aug. 24.-Robert II.
Adams, deputy county auditor, has re.
signed his position In the office ~
County Auditor Frank Leedham, the
resignation to take effect Saturday
night. 1t is rumored that Glen An.
thony, now in the Office of County Re-
corder William McKenna, will be APP
pointed as Mr.. Adams successor All
though Mr.. Adams is not yet prepared
to announce his plans for the future,
it is understood that he intends en-
gaging in business and I'LL make q
further announcement in the course
of the next few DAYS
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26

Hartman began to get better just
as soon as he heard that Roosevelt
could not get any water to drink and
was living on half rations.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26

The Kansas City Star believes that
Harry Thaw is beginning to suspect
that he must have been crazy when he
spent upwards of 100000 to prove
that he was crazy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26

Grace Van Stoddiford is opening
the theatrical advertising season by
starting divorce proceedings.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
PENNINGTON CATHOLICS BUILD
Cornerstone Of st. Boniface Church
Laid-Parlsh Growing Rapidly

! V'USt' sVV'N I'SE6IS IUITC' I -------"
Pennington, Aug. 24.-The corner
stone of the new st. Boniface church
was laid Sunday afternoon by Rev.
Father James Dunnion of st. Francis
de Sales church of Keokuk. The cele-
brating priest was assisted by Father
George Giglinger Of Keokuk, Father
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
PRAISE FOR HOUSEHOLD GIRL.

Are you going to the State fair?
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-10
Sept. 10-17-24
ORDER FOR HEARING PROOF OF

STATE OF MINNESOTA, County of
Blue Earth. ss.-In Probate Court.
IN THE MATER OF THE ESTATE
OF Archibald D. Crane, Deceased
WHEREAS, An instrument in writing,
purporting to be the last VIII and Tes-
lament of Archibald d. Crane deceased,
late of said County, has been delivered
to this Court:
AND WHEREAS, David Crane has
filed Herewith his petition, representing
among other things. that said Archibald
ID. Crane, died in said County, on the
that said petitioner is the Executor
named in said last Will and Tesla
ment, and praying that the said instru-
ment may be admitted to probate. and
that letters testamentary be issued
thereon to David Crane.
1T is ORDERED, That the proofs of
said instrument and the said petition
bate Office in tie City of Mankato, in
said County, on Saturday the End day
of October, A. d.. 1909. at 10 o'clock in
the forenoon, when all persons inter-
eSted may appear for or contest the
probate of said instrument:
AND IT IS FURTHER ORDERED
That notice of the time and place OF
said hearing be given to all persons
interested, by publishing this order once
prior to said day of hearing, in the
Mankato Free Press a weekly newspaper
printed and published at Mankato i'm
said county.
Dated at Mankato the 18th day of Sep
tember a. D., 1909.
BY the Court,
(Seal) VIM. F. HUGHES.
Judge of Probate
w. R. & c. D. Geddes
ATTORNEYS
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-10
Aug 20-27. Sept. 3-10-17-24.
NOTICE OF MORTGAGE FOREClOS
URE BY ADVERTISEMENT.

and conditions of that certain mort
gage, executed and delivered by George
Lang and Elizabeth Lang, his wife, as
m nl ee' dated July 18th. 1906, and
with power of sale therein contained,
duly recorded in the office of the reg
County Minnesota, on the 18th day Of
July. 1906, at ITO o'clock p M, in
Book 63 of Mortgages, on page lis.
thereafter assigned by said First Ma
tional Bank of st. Cloud, Mimi, to
aasd s ssDtem am iStn 1908 e
recorded in the office of said regis
ter of deeds on the 5th day of August
1909 at nine o'clock a. M, in Book
Il of Assignments and Satisfactions of
fault in the terms of said mortgage the
power of sale therein contained has be-
come operative;
And there is due, and claimed to be
thereby secured. the sum of One Thous-
and Five Hundred Eighteen and S5-100
Dollars, and no action or proceeding at
law or otherwise has been had to re-
cover said amount, or any part there
of.
NOW THEREFORE. Notice is here
by given. that under said power of sale
and the statute in such case made and
provided. the said mortgage will be
foreclosed. and the premises therein de.
of land living and being in the county
of Blue Earth, state of Minnesota, to-
wit. the east half of the east half
(e1s of e1a) of section nineteen Q9)
township one hundred five do5l north,
tanning one hundred sixty acres. more
or less, according to the government
survey thereof, together with all the
The Mankato free press. [volume] (Mankato, Blue Earth County, Minn.) 1879-1924, 1909-09-10
THREE WILLS ARE FILED |
PROVISIONS OF DOCUMENTS LEFT
BY S. G. NELSON.
Estates of the Late A. D. Crane and
That of Lowry Hook to Be
Pr0bated.

The will of the late Samuel G. Mel
son of Vernon Center, who committed
suicide last week, was filed for probate
today. 1t is dated July 10Th last, and
leaves everything to the widow, Lucy
NJ. Nelson, provided she erects a suit
able monument over his remains in the
cemetery to cost $50, otherwise the
| will is to be null and void. The same
fate awaits the will in case she mar.
ries. After her death the estate is to
be equally divided among the -four
children. Wanda L. Nelson is named
as executrix. The estate comprises
$1,000 of personal property and $1,000
! of real estate.
The will of the late Archibold d
Crane of Rapidan, was filed for pro.
bate yesterday afternoon. The estate
comprises 5000 of personal property
and $4,000 of real estate The heirs
are four sons, one daughter and foul
grand daughters. The will is dated
April ID, 1893, and gives the homestead
to the widow and her heirs, and also
| gives to the widow all of the livestock
and produce and machinery on the farm
in lieu of all other claims to the estate
To the granddaughter Myrtle, Winnie
Susan and Lois Mills. is given $50 each
All of the rest of the estate is to be
| equally divided between the children
David, Melvin and Fred Crane anG
Nettie Mills. David Crane and William
Williams, an attorney of st. Paul, are
named as executors. Since the will
was made the wife has died.
The will of the late Lowry Hook has
been filed for probate, and leaves every
thing to the widow, Mrs. Mary E
| Hook. The only other heir would have
been the adopted son, Melville Hook
| Mrs. Hook is named as executrix. The
will is dated Aug. "a, 1907, and the
estate consists of $500 of persona
property and $1,000 of real estate.