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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-05-08
BIRMINGHAM.

Birmingham-Mrs Fred Spillman
and son Lyall of Winfield Ia, and
Mrs. W. G. Westpathal OF Polar, Wis,
are visiting with their parents Mr.. and
Mrs. G. w. Countrvman.
Miss Kerr died Monday morning at
the home Of her brother Edd V. Kerr
west of town.
Joseph Graham went to Guernsey
county Tuesday. where he will visit
with an older brother.
A band concert will be held by the
Birmingham concert band at the opera
house May 18th.
Mrs. J. w. Huston and daughter
Mrs Clifton Gordon of Detroit are Wis
iting with her mother Mrs. Chas. Qiau-
que.
Miss Estella Nelson went to Fair
field the first of the week where she
expects to spend the summer.
Mrs. Milo Tedrow south of town
went to keokuk where she will enter
the hospital for an operation.
n. J. Bush and wife were Fairfield
shoppers Tuesday.
Cards were received this week an
nouncing the birth of a daughter to
Mr.. and Mrs Thomas Randall in Chi
cago.
Ellis Rail who has been an instructor
| in the Nebraska state Agricultural COZ
| lege at Lincoln is at home for the
summer vacation.
DIR. A. E. Chase was in Keokuk sew
eral days last week on business.
/! Mrs. A. j. Qiauque Of Detroit, Mich.
who has been here for several weeks
visiting with her mother, Mrs. Chas
Qiauque returned home. last week.
I Mrs. Anna Tyner and daughter
Marion of Salem visited at the home Of
her father Azur Barton in town last
week.
1.-The Twentieth annual convention o
| the Woman's Foreign Missionary so
ciety. keokuk district, is to be held a
| Birmingham May II and ~.
| Mr.. and Mrs. George Wilson are the
| parents of a son. born Sunday.
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Bear in mind that Sargent the True
Druggist sells Mona under positive
guarantee to cure dyspepsia, vomiting
of pregnacy. and every stomach i'll, or
money back. You take no risk. SO
cents large box.
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ACKNOWLEDGES POST CARDS.
Recipient of Many Beautiful Notes
Thanks Old Friends for Their

In acknowledgment of the many
beautiful post cards, which she receiv-
ed April %, Mrs. B. F. Shane of Iowa
City. is DESTROYS of thanking her many
friends for so kindly remembering her.
The cards were of different designs
with various notes of congratulations
printed and written thereon. repre-
senting friends in Ottumwa. New
Virginia, Evans Cincinnati, Eldon
Selma, Douds-Deando, Mt. Mosiah
Libertyville, Birmingham, Burlington
Ladora and Mt. Vernon.
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Hoarseness, bronchitis and other
throat troubles are quickly cured by
Foley's Honey and Tar as it soothes
and heals the inhamed throat and
bronchial tubes and the most obstin-
ate cough disappears Insist upon hav-
in; the genuine Foleys Honey and
Tar Clark's Drug Store; Swenson's
Drug Store.
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LOCAL NEWS ITEMS

From Fridays Daily.
Lees lice killer at Sargents.
Neasham sells the best watches. 4
Mr.. and Mrs. J. ]. McGiven OF Ma
rengo have returned home.
Mrs. Carey wyken of Highland Cen
Ter has returned home
Mrs. M. e. Brown of Keosauqua was
m the city yesterday.
Zenoleum kills insects on stock.
Eargent's.
Mrs. A. o. Weyheandt returned to
Eldon last evening.
Mrs. S. A. Moore was in the city on
business from Eldon yesterday.
Mrs. John Johnson and daughter OF
clifhand visited in the city yesterday.
Flecks German condition powders.
Sargent's.
oliver Brown of Rutledge visited in
the city yesterday.
Mrs. T. B. Steltzler of Maxwell
visited fflenuS Ill otCuiAl"a S0''0Aue's'
Mrs. /. R. Gee has returned home
to Rutledge after a business visit in
the city.
Mrs. s. H. Swearengen of Hedrick
was visitor in Ottumwa yesterday.
Mrs. S. j. White and Miss Nellie
White of Fremont visited in the city
yesterday.
Mrs. NJ. Curry of Parnell has re
burned home.
Mrs s. A. Alternately has returned
home to Kirlville.
Mrs Helen Rector of Chillicothe
was in OttumwG today.
w. A. Wilson of Birmingham was in
the city today en- route to Powersville,
Mo.
Dog medicines of all kinds. sar-
gents.
Mrs. G. S. Wilson of Birmingham
visited in the city short time today
en- route to Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. Lamb have returned
home to Hedrick after short visit
in the city.
Miss Anna Lahart of Abba return
ed home this afternoon.
Mrs. Dave Price has returned home
to Eldon.
Mrs. F. A. Waddell Of Klrkville Wis
tied in the city today.
Mrs. Ed Sprague of Rutledge was a
business caller in Ottumwa yesterday
Mrs. B. Cowles of Charlton was in
the city this afternoon.
Mrs. Andrew Lanes of Dudley was
business visitor in the city today.
Be sure your prescription bears
Eargent's label.
Mrs. Henry Bell and daughter re-
turned home to Charlton last evening
after a visit with Mrs. T. e. Flynn,
1430 East Main street. They were &C
companied home for short visit by
Mrs. Lyman.
Mrs. E. w. Bishop and Mrs w. A.
Walker returned home to Selma last
svening.
MIS-. bSI rOIDSS dIlu MIS-. W. II.
Watts of Lilburn visited in the city
yesterday.
Mrs. Frank Robson and Mrs. H.
Hupton of Abba, who have been visit
ing Mrs. ] T. Morgan, 419 West Sec
ond street, returned home last even
Ing.
Mrs. Alice Murphy Of Rutledge and
Mrs. F. L. Bingham Of Los Angeles,
Cal, who were visiting Mrs. J. c.
Bunk 626 East Fourth street, return
ed to Rutledge last evening.
sloan's liniment, Csc, SOC and $10O
Sargent's.
Mrs. H. F. Wilson of Charlton, who
has been visiting Mrs. G. G. Monroe
316 Pennsylvania avenue, returned
home this morning.
Mrs. j. H. Keys and Mrs, S. A
Hebrew Of Abba returned home las
evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. Horner Harrison Of
Abba We're business visitors in the
city yesterday. (
Mrs. S. A. Galtrey and son Rober
OF Eldon were business visitors in tht
city this morning.
Mrs. w. B. Grant of Selma returned
home this morning after visit will
Mrs. S. S. Ross, 1899 Hayne street.
Miss Grace Double has returne,
home to Frederick.
Mrs. L. w. Friday of Hynes has re
T.
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Tri- w eekly Courier
CHANGING ADDRESS

CHANGING ADDRESSES
Subscribers wishing their address
changed will please give thu name Of
the Postoffice to which the paper has
been sent as well as the Postoftice
where they desire 1t to be changed to
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Do You Read the
ROOSEVELT HUNTING ARTICLES
THE SABBATH SCHOOL LESSON.
THE JUNIOR PAGE.
THE FARM PAGE.
THE MARKET REPORT.

All these are features in the Tri-
Weekly Courier. One hundred and
fifty six papers for less than one cent
a paper-and every paper good one.
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IL JuuSe ulau JouH anu EuNo u
Judge of Melrose attended. the recital
at st. Joseph's academy last even
ing.
Mrs. F. R. Wheatley Of Centerville
returned home this morning after a
visit with Mrs. A. l.. Carnes, SCI
Spring street.
Miss Blanche Waggoner of Moulton,
after "a visit with her brother, Jesse
Waggoner, 353 Clay street, left for
her home this morning.
B. F. Rains of Fairfield was a Wa
bash passenger this morning enroute
to Mexico, Mo.
Dr. Clara Cronk of Bloomfield is a
professional visitor in Ottumwa today.
Mrs. c. E. Double of Dudley was a
business visitor in the city today.
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self to be informed on this subject, be-
cause l never render Judgment on
any question before | can study it my
self
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For sale at half price, 100 boys and
children's suits, at the Hub.
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Clothing Stock
MUST GO
OUR LOCATION WILL BE VACATED
IN A SHORT TIME.

On account of giving up our pres
ent location, we want to close out
every bit of our clothing stock and in
tend to by giving you such unusual
bargains that you, as an economical
buyer, can't and won't turn them
down. Just where we will locate is a
question at this time. but there is no
question Of closing out our entire
stock or as much as possible. We
haven't the biggest stock in the
world but will be more truthful and
say our stock is plenty big enough
and good enough to make it easy for
you to select any clothing you may
need. The stock claims Suits, Hats.
Shirts, Collars, Ties, etc, and is com.
plete enough to satiJfy the closest
purchaser.
Now don't let such chances slip by
you will be down town tomorrow and
we want you to give us call, whether
it be to buy or to just talk it over.
Caldwell 4 Mccartney
1o5 SOUTH COURT STREET
J Three Doors Below Second Street.
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turned home after visit with her
mother, Mrs. William Glib, who re
sides north of the city.
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Knoxville to Pave Streets.

Knoxville. May Especial AT
the May meeting of the city council
a petition for paving was presented by
most of the property owners along the
proposed line. 1t asks the paving of
the square from the northwest corner
of the Commercial hotel corner,
thence westto the northwest corner Of
to the depots. The city thinks now
that the water and gas mains being all
completed, it is able to put in the paw
ing. The council has set the date Of
Nav il on which date all parties for
and against the proposed Improvement
will be heard. The city Of Knoxville
has also taken over the management
Ladies' Aid Society which has been
having turbulent time OF it for the
past year or more.
Other News.
The may term of the district court
has opened at this place with Judge
Nichols on the bench. The docket en-
braces 10 criminal, 1874 civil and Sc
probate cases.
YAMPA.
Yampa-,Mrs. Scott Hilton returned
home Wednesday after visiting friends
in Libertyvile for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. E. N. Sterner were
business callers in Ottumwa Friday.
Mrs. Maggie Smith made business
trip to Martinsburg Friday.
w. j. McClassion and sister Mrs
Elrnore were visiting friends in Eldon
Monday.
Jessie Ancrom and John Hanniwalt
Of Agency are repairing James Dan
iel's house and barn.
Mrs. e. Burnaugh and Miss Maggie
Smith were business callers in Bata-
via Tuesday.
Harry Smith returned home Friday
after a weeks visit with friends ir
Martinsburg.
Miss Nettie Beck, after closing 6
term of school in this place left fol
Council Bluffs Saturday to commence
a spring term of school at that place
Monday. 4
James Timmons and daughter Miss
Nettie Timmons of Bladensburg were
callers at this place Mnoday.
John Wiley of Conpetins visited
here Monday.
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100 boys and children's suits 70.
sale at half price at the Hub
Rev. |. w. WiIliamson's Lette

Rev. |. w. Williamson, Huntington,
w. Va, writes: This is to certifyl that
l used Foley's Kidney Remedy for ner-
vous exhaustion and kidney trouble
and am free to say that it will do all
that YOU claim for it." Foley's Kidney
Remedy has restored health and
strength to thousands of weak, run
down people. Contains no harmful
drugs and is pleasant to take. Clark s
Drug Store: Swenson's Drug Store.
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Some great clothing bargains tomor
row, Saturday, at the Hub.
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GERMAN ENVOY is GUEST
OF CLUB AT MILWAUKEE,

CONTINUED From Page ~
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afternoon. Thursday will be given up
to business sessions and the installa-
tinn of tho NOW
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-05-30
BONNER, WHERE THE NEW LINE STRIKES MORT;

advent of railroads the subsequent ana
natural improvements will come to
rescue the land from its preseat bar
rem condition. Even now the Great
Northern railroad and the Canadian
Pacific line are preparing to construct
lines which Will throw open for devel-
opment heretofore inaccessible acres
which have remained idle silce the
advent of civilization for the want of
railroad transportation facilities
East, northeast and north of Mis-
soula a condition of undevelopment
exists for want of railroad facilities,
much the same as those obtaining in
the Flathead country. Following the
Big Blacl1foot river for distance of
10 miles eastery one finds a counrr,
we'll wooded and, though the clearings
are rugged and apparently unprolaa-
tive as a Wlole under the refining and
developing Influence of irrigation and
settlement by means of railroad in
vasion, the large tracts should become
productive and immensely valuable.
Even now, bottom lands which have
been cultivated and carried on under
a Well devised irrigation plan, are held
highly valuable, so much So that it
became necessary recentlv cor rail-
road company to resort to the assist
ance of an injunction from the district
court to pass its survey over the land
owned by rancher living only a few
miles northeast of Bonner. This
ranchers had developed his property
and Is now reaping the reward of his
diligence, industry and progress there
fore cared not to have his lands
despoiled by the onward march of an
invading rai'roRd. To this rancher his
property was the more valuable be-
ransn re bad nrrture1 it from Its
primitive state ard he saw not any
blessings to be derived from the prox-
unity of a railroad nearer than the
oaai which passes below his place at
Bonner.
In resisting the advance Of the
Puget Sound surveyors, the Bonner
rancher overlook d the fact that the
very thing that he did not desire was
the thing mot to be desired and
coveted by his neigS bo~s to the east
and north, For following along and
adiacent t. tie lipe IF the present
stage road =, between the Fessenden
ranch and the Rlackfoot landing are
in 7unaera lie un cultivated and unim-
proved ranch and timber claims
awaiting only the coming of railroads
tn render them amone the most nrof-
liable and productive in Montana
Country roads and county highways
N this yi5i7i.v arr, at present, ahso-
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by the Fig Blackfoot company in this
district and is about half way between
Bonner and Potomac. Two and a ha'f
miles farther down the river, through
q country of great promise, agricul-
tl1rally spea. king. is the Blackfoot land
ing, a place which notes the foot of
the famous Camas prairie, valley
which, while not fully developed as
yet, has become famed far and wide
as a land of great agricultural posi-
bilities. And what a country it is, to
be sure With every possible advan-
tage in the way of watering facilities,
the valley is, without doubt one of
the best producing distr cts in western
Montana and, with the solution of the
transportation problem, should add
still further to its farming advance
ment. The Camas creek, a stream
down the channel of which at all
times of the year flows an abundance
of the purest water, Wlic1 is rep1en-
ished bountifully by the thawing
SHOWS far up in the m untains. These
beneficial mite to the greater power
of the principal sire am, the Blackfoot
river, and together, the combination
is productive of wonderful general
result.
The Camas prairie is an immense
flat, the soil Of which is deep, black
humus, having a sub-soil of porous
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RUGGED PEAKS OF THE SWAN RANGE

ponderous labor OF building noun
tains, nature has here left broad and
expansive valley which has all the ele-
ments and principal agents necessary
for the production of good Vegetables,
hay and grain: soil, water and sun
shine. The soil of the Sunset country
is all that can be desired-rch in all
the elements necessary for and essen
tlal to the vigorous growth OF timber
and everything else produced from the
mother earth for commercial purposes.
The soil of this country, undulating
to some extent, is not only rich on
its surface, but downward to a depth
of twenty and even thirty feet in
many places and is inexhaustible in
it's productive nature and in stilnulat-
ing properties,
Continuing through the Sunset val
ley and looking toward the north the
eye encounters the rich and produce
tive Nine Mile Prairie stretching out
far across the Blackfoot river up the
valley as far as can be seen by the
naked eye to the north. over in that
region more attention is paid to the
tHi7ti6 " G@ttlle .iial " any otllef lllle
Of agricultural pursuit, and from the
Nine Mile prairie come some splendid
specimens Of beef cattle. Of course
many hundreds Of acres are cultivated
and yield forth an abundant crop OF
either hay or small grain yearly, but
the livestock raised in that territory
is worthy the palm. The Nine Mile
and the Sunset praires are divided by
the Blackfoot river and draw on that
The Daily Missoulian. [volume] (Missoula, Mont.) 1904-1961, 1909-05-30

and complete. development cannot be
realized until the country is opened up
by the advent of railroads, and a we'll
devised plan Of irrigation. AS mat
ter Of fact railroads and irrigation are
the greatest of all developing factors
in the north and northwest country
Agricultural perfection is brought
about in this country by a perfect
system of irrigation. We are told that
hushandry was rst%aught, held hon
orable and extensively followed in
Egypt. For centuries that country
was, properly speaking, the granary of
the whole world. So great was it's
productiveness that it not only sup
piled a dense population, but was able
to accumulate vast stores to overcome
famine brought on by plague, and also
supplied foreign nations with fruits
and cereals. A grand, good country
SURELY The great fertility of the Nile
valley and it's vicinity was not the re-
suit as has generally been supposed
of the periodical overflow of the river
The waters of the overflow covered
but a small section of the land tribu-
tary to the river and could not have
been of any great value to lands out
side that district. The productive de-
velopment of the land was due to
mans ingenuity displayed in the
grandest system of irrigation ever de-
vised,
From ancient writings, recently dis
covered, and from recent examinations
of the conditions of the Nile above
Cairo ry scientists ard explorers, the
conclusion has been reached that the
six cataracts from Assonan to near
Kartoum In the river Nile We're not
the work of NJ tura, but of ancient and
scientific engineering for the purpose
of irrigation and of navg alton. 1t was
. system Of engineering at once bold
in it's conception and colossal in its
execution. That it had been most
successful in it's results is self evident
for thu remains of irrigation canals
still stretching ever many degrees of
longitude on both sides of tire Nile
as we'll as by ancient records of
flonrishing communities where now
only barren wastes are to be found,
inhahited by rowing bands of Arabs.
These cana were by no means con-
fred to the valle~ of the Nile proper.
hut reached to the Very confines of
the Great Desert. 4
Irritation has brought about a state
of agri cultural perfection in number
loss valleys in the west which, but for
this scheme of watering lands, would
he nothing more than barren wastes.
Numbered among these reclaimed dis
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PUSHING NOR77VARL FROM NZSSOUZA INTO 4 NEW REGION

My world" recently exclaimed an
English tourist travelling through
Montana in the interest of book he
was writing devoted to the study of
woods of the world THE blooming
country is SO large, don't you know?'
He had started out overland with 2
fast team and a light RIG, leaving
Missoua early in the morning and
covering nearly so miles UP the Black
foot river by nightfall. The English
man evidently had no thought other
than that the country was built on
the tight lines of his own snug father
land. where one scarcely can get
started on a journey before the sea
coast brings him to an abrupt stop.
1t is a large country-this Montana
and it is not only large in the mat
ter Of area but it is gloriously great
in possibilities and resources. What
is there that any other country has
that Montana has not? The state
ranks among the first in the United
States in the matter of mining and
agricultural products, besides having
vast tracts of the best and finest
standing timber in the world. Mon
tana produces the worlds best sap
phires, it's mountains are pregnant
with the choicest of minerals and coal
and its valleys supply the world with
the fanciest of fruits and grains.
Everywhere are to be found streams
of the purest water accessible for any
purpose whatsoever The lands, Gull
tivated and nurtured by irrigating and
dry farming processes, produce amply
and of the very best quality whether
of cereals vegeta bles or fruits. Tor
decades the state has been known the
world over as a leader among the min
eral producing countries and in this
respect WILL, DOUBTLESS, continue to
hold a prominent position for genera
tions' yet to come.
UndeveIoped.
What is there in northern Montana
still to be DEVELOPER" is a question
recently asked by an eastern arrival
in Missoula of a native son" whose
intimate knowledge of Montana it's
climate and general conditions was
manifest in his every mannerisnl.
making him fully qualified to answer
the pertinent query of the fastener.
There is everything that has not
been developed, and that means about
nine tenths of the territory" was his
reply And what he said contained a
mighty truth for little of the country
north northeast and northwest of
Missoula has been fully exploited or
developed AS matter of fact much
of the territory is still in the embryo
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stream for water with which to irri-
gate the expansive acreage of both
flats, The Sunset valley stretches for
miles to the east where it terminates
abruptly AT the foot of towering moun-
tains.
About mile Immediately north of
the Sunset postoffice is "a highland
territory to which a ploW has never
been set and on which no water has
ever been introduced by artificial
means, For q portion of the earlier sea
son of each year this upland is plenti-
fully supplied with grasses and other
Verdant groWths, but owing to the
quickly drying nature of the soil, soon
loses its value as a grazing land
Hundreds of acres, contained in this
upland portion of the valley, is thus
rendered waste except during the per-
iod mentioned, In the surrounding
hills are many stream of ever-fl flowing
water ready to lend their aid toward
making this arid hill productive and
of immense commercial value.
Passing over the hin and just be-
You'd a small. low-lying range of hills
the BlaclSfoot river is crossed by the
county bridge, and Clearwater post
office and what there is of settle
ment is reached. Here the Clearwater
river empties into the Blackfoot the
latter river entering the Clearwater
country from the east, while the
Clearwater stream is supplied from
the mountain streams north.
Clearwater postoffice is located in
the very heart of a large tract of tim
berland owned and in the cutting pro-
cess by the Big Blackfoot company
This tract extends several miles on
the west and east sides of the Clear