Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-08-26
RICHL ANDERS
Greet FRIENDS
OPENING DAY DAMNED BRIGHT
AND cLEAR-ciTY BEAuTI-
FULLY DECORATED.
TOWN SETTLED IN 1S41
Thursday Old Soldiers Day. Kendall,
Lacey and Kellogg Speakers
Rev. jeffrey Talks
Friday.
TOWN SETTLED IN 1s41


day, the gath, the first day of the
Home Coming week dawned bright
and fair with nothing to mar the
pleasure of those coming In on every
| train but the dust. Quite a large num-
Der of the old settlers arrived last
| week and every train that arrives
| brings scores of people that left here
thirty and forty years ago and OF
course find the people and the old town
wonderfully changed. There are but
| few families in town If any that are
not entertaining company.
Decorations are in evidence every
where and the citizens have laid their
plans to entertain the home corners in
the best possible manner. The business
houses will be closed during the exer-
cises in order to give every one
chance to hear and see all that is going
on.
| Among those who arrived last week
and the fore part of this week are G.
P. Graham and wife of Des Moines,
Miss Lizzie Witcher OF Sturgis, 8: p;
| Alonzo Haworth of Galesburg; John
Jones, Mrs. Cynthia Shafer and
daughter from Nebraska, Wade Figge,
| Sherman Wade and daughter Mrs.
David Jones from Wyoming; Mrs. M:
e. Wolf of Colorado Springs; Levi
Tracy Of Chillicothe, Mo-; Lorraine
Tracy and son of Baton Rogue, La;
1
Ark; Oliver Trigg and wife Of Dixon,
| Ill; Tom Hill of Chicago; Rufus Kent
and wife, Goodland, Kans.; Mrs. Rach-
| el Kramer and Mrs. Martha Sims or
| Kansas City, Kans.; Henry Wayman,
wife and daughter of Princeton, Mo-;
Mr.. and Mrs Ralph Baker and Mrs.
Neil Smith of Moline, ILL.,, and scores
of others arriving on each train from
far and near. Friends and relatives
were clasplng glad hands and register
| Ing all afternoon Tuesday and early in
| the evening. Crowds of people throng-
| ed the streets and gathered in the
| beautiful park where the exercises
were opened with music by the famous
Mills Bros. orchestra, followed by ?
reminiscent speech by Robert Isreal OF
| Fairfield and formerly a resident here.
REGULATIONS by Miss Katie Emery and
Miss Olive Wayman. John Chacey en-
| tertained the large audience for some
time in his eloquent manner. after
which the exercises closed to be re-
srmed today. The Richland people
have discovered that once in their lives
they have something OF their hands
that requires skill to handle. in the
| way of a crowd.
Tho Program.
| Robert Burton, a lawyer of high
standing in Chicago, but a Richland
| boy. will make the main address today.
| Thursday will be Old Soldiers day.
and Congressman N. e. Kendall will
make the main address to the old vet
Grams. In the evening Major Lacey, of
Oskaloosa, and Captain Kellogg, of
| Washington, will be the principal
| speakers.
Rev. T. w. Jeffrey of ottumwa, one
of the leading ministers of the Meth
odist church, will deliver his famous
Home Coming address on Friday
afternoon. On Saturday afternoon
Hon. D. w. Hamilton, of Sigourney,
will make one of his rousing addresses.
Keokuk county is proud of Mr. Ham
! ilton and he will have large crowd at
| Richland. Other former residents will
make addresses.
Richland Good Town.
Richland is one of the oldest towns
in the state of Iowa and was laid out
by Pryor c.. Woodward on the 18th
/ day of June. 1S41, and surveyed by j.
3. Davis, of Washington county. Soon
thereafter Benjamin Edwards laid out
another town just Oh the grounds now
composing the beautiful farm home of
Martin Mohland. This town was laid
out as rival to Richland. In one re-
spect 1t had the advantage of most
towns for it had two names, one of
which was Newton and the other
Western City. AS it and Richland were
both desiring to be recognized as the
it had another advantage, as will be
subsequently shown, because the chief
officer of the county designed to make
this place a great metropolis.
Among the first settlers of Eichland
We're Eleazer Rales. G. e. Woodward,
John Noyes, r. L. Mark, James Will
liams and James Hoover Hoover built
the first house: Williams was the first
postmaster; Raines was the first
blacksmith; Mark and J. L. Smith,
each had shops and also sold groc ries.
In 1914 the first store was set up by
} Beriah Haworth. The first hotel was by
Dr. w, H. Tingle, in 1916. From then
until the present time more stores
have been added until today Richland
presents a line of merchants second TO
none in the country.
Richland has population of about
500, and is well represented by all pro-
: LESSONS and every kind OF business. 1t
has long been considered a fine trading
point, and is surrounded by as fine q
farming community as can be found
in the state.
Richland practically has three rail-
roads, the Iowa Central running
through the center of lie town. the
90" two miles south and the C. M. St
p about one miles north of the square
BONAPARTE.