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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
orpha Bonney were passengers Tues

Orpha Bonney were passengers Tues
dsv for Ottumwa.
Rev. Cooper and daughter Miss Nell
lie Cooper were visitors in OttulnWa
Tuesday and Wednesday.
j. Shames returned Tuesday from
Chicago. where he was, called by the
serious illness of his father.
Mr.. end Mrs. ice Easter and baby OF
Harrisburg township came Monday for
"a visit at the Capt w. A. Duckworth
home.
Tuesday Sept 2sth was the SSth
wedding anniversary of Rev. and Mrs.
J. w. Cheney. It was also the 65th
wedding anniversary of Mr.. and Mrs
Chas Baldwin, of Burlington. who
with his wife. arrived in the city on
Tuesday to spend the day with Rev.
Cheney and family. Mr.. Baldwin is
brother of Mrs. Cheney.
Mrs. Ed Mason left Thursday for
Burlington for a three weeks visit
With her parents. Mr.. and Mrs. James
Long.
A pumpkin pie social will be held at
the home of Mrs. J. c. Strickling by
The Eeastern Stars Tuesday evening,
October 5.
Two weddings occurred at the M. E.
" arsonage Wednesday Rev. Thorne Of
lficating. The first young couple came
prom 1DOuuS-IScHuO. 4ATlie Sdosdds
and Miss Susie Russell. The young
couple were accompanied by the par
ents of the groom. The second cere-
mony was Harry w. Won Segger and
Miss Leila l.. Thompson of Bonaparte
Four young friends accompanied them
from Bonaparte. Their many friends
extend to these four young people
their best wishes for happy life.
Miss Della Norris left Tuesday TO
| Keokuk to visit relatives.
| George Macarthur of Ottunwa ma
been a visitor in Keosauqua the pas
| fewldays.
Mr.. and Mrs. A. M. Lukens of OF
tumWa spent several days in Keosau
qua with their daughter Mrs. B. +
Gushing.
Mrs Emerson Brown who has beer
visiting relatives in Ottumwa tn
Ipast two weeks returned home Satur
day. accompanied by her daughter
i Mrs. Cllas. Brown.
Mrs. W. 6. Thorne has returne
ZONE from Bloomfield after Nisitin
lrelatives and attending the old sol
diers' reunion
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
New Patents For Iowans.

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Washington, d. c., Oct. 5.-Messrs
Davis & Davis, Washington patent at
tcsneys, report the grant to citizens
of this state Of the following patents:
F. E. Boyle, of Centerville, sitter
(two patents.)
F. Cummings of Waterloo, fence wire
releasing device.
]. Dain of Ottumwa, hay stacker
G. B. Frost and D. Morgan of Des
Moines. valve.
G. Gabriel of Hawkeye, veterinary
obstetrical instrument.
@. T. Howard and w. NJ. Stark OF
Muscatine, safety appliance.
w. H. Kogle of Mason City. hot
water heater.
G. A. Lonnecker of Arispe, corn
|planter.
r. Peterson Of Parkersburg, wagon
loading device.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
KEosAUouA.



Keosauqua- and Mrs. H. n.
Eastman left Tuesday for their home
At Plattsville Mo-. after pleasant Wis
it of several weeks with their son c. N.
Eastman and family of this city.
Mrs. W. l.. Disbrow of Ottumwa,
who has been a guest of her parents,
Mrs. j. G.. Regur returned to her home
Monday evening.
Messrs. CSJ. Manning, Wyatt Vance,
is f. Irish and Sam Brownlee went to
Chicago Tuesday where Mr. Manning
has purchased d seven passenger auto
mobile. The return trip will be made
iii the car.
Mrs. ]. NJ. Overman and daughter
Miss Bess Overman are visiting rea-
tives in Carthage, I'll.
Mrs VIM. Donabue left Tuesday fol
Fairfield for short visit with rela,
| tives,
Mrs. William Walker and sister Mis-,
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
Five Years for ,owan.

Bloomfield Wells Dead at cantriI
Cantril, Oct. 5-Bloomfeld Wells,
an old and respected farmer living
three miles southeast of Cantril, died
at the home of his son, Fletcher
Wells, living three miles from Leb.
anon. He went to the home of his son
about a week ago for a visit. There
he was taken sick on Wednesday
The funeral service was held today
at 2 p. M
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
FREE RECIPE BOOK.
Courier Readers Can Get Book Ere

Courier Readers Can Get Book Free
by Request.
The culinary and medicinal value
Of lemons are so many and
varied and SO little known by
many housekeepers that the Cal.
ifornia Fruit Growers Exchange
Of Los Angeles, California, has
prepared a 30 page booklet giving re,
cipes and formulas for the use of lem
ons in the home.
This valuable little booklet will be
sent to any one on request by ad,
dressing the California Fruit Growers
Exchange Los Angeles, California,
and mentioning that the notoce was
in the Courier.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07

second ass'i--Perry Fryberger: secy--
Miss Miriam Young; treas.--Amos
sSteckel; chorister-Mrs. Emma Cald-
well; assistant chorister--Walter
Davis; organ.st--Misa Haz l Bence !;
assistant organist---John Teed. Classes
were re-arranged and new teachers
appointed.
The Royal Neishbors expect to IN
itiate number Of candidates at the
rext meeting.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07

be a thirty-fve plate affair and the
guests will be limited to the political
leaders present today in Knoxville.
Senator Cummins will follow Can
non with a speech here tomorrow.
Knoxville and all it's returning sons
and daughters will be out in force to
hear both speeches, as great political
significance is attached to these two
speaking engagements.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
California Educator Dead.

Oakland, Cal, Oct 5.-Irving
stringham, acting president Of the
university of California. who was to
have welcomed President Taft on be-
half of the university, died this morn
ing at the hospital. The cause Of
death was not made public.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
Or. and Mrs. stewards Day.

Fort Madison, Oct. 5.-Rev. DR.. and
Mrs George d. Stewart quietly cele-
brated their forty-ffth wedding ami
versary yesterday at the home, No.
SS3 Third street, with family dinner.
Dr. Stewart came to Lee county in
1859 and was married in Fort Madi-
son
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
poyIe-Rurns Case Settled.

Council Bluffs, Oct. 5.-The famous
million dollar Doyle-Burns mining suit
which has been in the courts of this
state for several years, has been set
tied. The terms are not dtvulged.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
Wreck In MIchiuan.

Lapeer, Mich, Oct. 5.-Two Mich
igan Central freight trains collided
head-on near here today. Engineer
Tucker of the south bound train was
killed and Engineer Wisemiller of
the northbound train was seriously in
jured. The wreck is attributed to a
disobeydance of orders.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
Newspaper Man Dead.

New York, Oct. s.. John R. ODon-
nell, successfully night editor and
news editor of the New York Herald
for many years and one of the most
widely known newspaper men in this
city is dead, aged so.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
Football PLAYER pylna.

louisville, Pa, Oct. 1.-Robert Mll-
Iington, manager and half back of the
Pottsville high school football team is
dying at the hospital as the result of
injuries sustained in a game Saturday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07

Peoria, H., Oct. 5.--The balloon
Peoria, one OF the st. Louis rae
ers, landed eleven miles north
east OF Cairo, III, early this morn
ing, according to private dis
patch received here today.
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'UNCLEJOE' IS
At KNOXVILLE
FOR A SPEECH.
SPEAKER MET BY POLITICAL
LEADERS WHO WILL BANQUET
HIM TONIGHT; FIFTEEN THOU
SAND IN ATTENDANCE.

Knoxville, Oct. Especial -
Uncle Joe" Cannon, speaker of the
house Of representatives, who is
scheduled to make speech here this
afternoon on Congress, it's Rules and
Its Work" arrived this morning at IL
o'clock and was Immediately the cen
ter of a crowd Of fifteen thousand
people here to take in the old home
week celebration. Speaker Cannon
was scheduled to make an open air
speech, but he said he was too old a
man to make open air speeches and
the opera house was secured for his
speech. Cannon is expected to make a
political speech, although he would
give out no advance information as
to what he would have to say.
Political Leaders Present.
Speaker Cannon's Iowa visit was
made the occasion of conference Of
the regulars Congressman Hull
former Congressman Lacey and Con
gresham Smith Tonight there viii
be dinner at the Parsons hotel, witt
Cannon as the guest of honor. 1t vii
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07

DENNIS SWEENEY, COAL MINER
LIVING NEAR DIES MONIES, PER
PETRATEs CRIME; oskALoosA
BOY KILLED.

Des Moines Oct. Especially =
Dennis Sweeney, a coal miner en-
ployed in the coal mines at New
Saylor, near Des Moines, shot his wife
from whom he was divorced three
weeks ago, then turned the revolver
upon himself this morning. The dead
body Of Sweeney was found In a corn
field near by half an hour later. The
woman cannot live
Oskaloosa Boy Killed.
Oskaloosa, Oct. 5.-(Special) Cor
nelius Vangemeret, aged 10 was
ground to pieces and the horse he was
driving was killed while going
across the Rock Island tracks near
Leighton. His mother with her in
FAINT daughter in her arms escaped by
jumping.
Five Years for Iowan.
Iowa City, Oct ESPECIALLY Levi
Hill was given five years in the peni-
Tertiary at Fl. Madison this morning.
He shot his wife and son last spring.
Both narrowly escaped death. He
pleaded guilty Of attempt to murder
and threw himself on the mercy of
the court in preference to pleading in
sanity as first planned.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1909-10-07
TWO BALLOONS
QUIT The RACE
MISSOURI AND PEORIA QUIT THE
CONTEST STARTING AT
ST. LOUIS.

jefferson City, Mo-, Oct. s.
The balloon Missouri, which left
ST. Louis yesterday afternoon,
landed safely at 8 O'clock this
morning at Hibernia, Mo-, eight
miles east of here.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-01
Guaranty OF Bank Deposits.

The cause is growing Oklahoma,
Nebraska and Texas now have COM
pulsory systems for the protection
of depositors in State banks. In
Texas the State bank can choose be-
tween joining the compulsory sys-
tenn and giving Individual security.
but so far every bank that has acted
has decided upon the guaranty sys-
tenn. In Kansas and South Dakota
voluntary systems have been adopt
ed, while in Colorado, Arkansas and
Indiana the guaranty bill passed one
branch Of the legislature.
Attorney General Wickersham has
delivered an opinion to the effect
that national banks are at liberty to
insure their depositors, and insur-
ance companies are already being
organized for that purpose. The
fight made last year has had its in
fuence, and in spite of Republican
opposition to the plan, the protec-
ton of depositors is coming. The
Republican leaders have taken the
side of the big fnanciers, but even
the big financiers will in the end be
compelled to yield to the just de-
mand Of the depositors for security.
And so another Democratic doctrine
is being vindicated. The Democrat
ic party has something to be proud
of when it can, even in defeat, con-
troll public sentiment and force its
ideas upon a reluctant opposition. -
The COmmoner.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-01
The World Good Enough for a Woman?

The discontented woman, or the
one with a grievance against man,
might incline her ear and listen pro-
fitably to Miss Nora Davis, young
woman of Alabama, who wrote the
novel, wallace Rhodes published
recently by the Harpers. Miss Davis
evidently believes that the women
who have had actual experience
sIngle-handed with the world are the
women who have not found it so un-
fair. The days when woman has
to, as had to-" writes Miss Davis,
"knock about, a frail soldier of for
tune, living by her wits,are the days
when she is achieving without know
ing it, all the rights that my eman-
cipated sex is striving for so elo-
quently. Ones life is ones own;
what more is there? The world is a
good place if woman knows how to
take it. 1t treats her well enough" p"
,-News-Leader.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-01
Beware oil the CrOaker.

May the saints have pity on town
or a city with a croaker in it! If it
has two, three or a half a dozen
croakers living in it, it is to be COM
miserated that much more. The
croaker comes in two forms dead
or alive. He has moss on the North
side of him, no matter whether the
winter be mild or severe. The moss
indicates nothing especially, except
that it should be removed from the
community at once. The croaker
always views his own town from a
pessimistic point of view. He has
no word of praise for any one or
anything that tends to assist in the
progress Of the community. You
tell a croaker that much is going to
be done toward booming the town
and exploiting it's superior advant-
ages and he will say: "Well, you go
a head advertise it; boom it. I'd
like to see you do it," with shrug
of the shoulders. "You will never
boom this town." The croaker is
generally too lazy to labor under an
impression. He may have made
some money in his life, but he does
not live-he only exists. If he is in
business and is asked to advertise,
he says his goods do not need adver-
tising, and besides he is located on a
prominent corner and everybody sees
his goods as they pass, for they
rarely go in. The croaker never
gives his neighbor or fellowman
credit for anything he accomplishes.
If you go to a local merchat and
show him a plan or suggest to him
an Enterprise which if carried out
would be Of great benefit to all con-
cerned and ask his cooperation and
he says, "Well, who is this? Go and
see the other business men, and il
they go into it | may do SO, too.
Look out for him. He may not be
a croaker, but he has dangerous
SYMPTOMS. He is vaccinated and he
pobabillties are that it will take
unless something is done for him
He needs hypedermic injection Of
"enterprise" "follow your leader
habit. He is the first to expect
benefits that accrue from the united
efforts, energy and enterprises OF
others, but is the last to lend hand
The croaker is pusillanimous insig.
nificant, inconsistent incumbranco
Exchange.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-01
Cost of the Big Ditch.

A quarter of a billion of dollars
will have been appropriated by Con-
gress for the purchase and construc-
ton Of the Isthmian Canal, if the es-
Inmates for the expenditures in canal
construction for the fiscal year be-
ginning July l, 1910, are agreed to
by Congress next winter.
These estimates, amounting to
about $35 ,OOO,O have just been re-
ceived in Washington from the Canal
Zone, and are being reviewed by
Secretary of War Dickinson.
Already there has been appropri-
ated for the purchase of canal rights
from France and Panama and for
construction a total Of S21O, 900, 900.
Secretary Dickinson finds it very
difficult to reduce the estimates. and
Congress itself has learned that a re-
duction of the estimates merely in
vites deficiency appropriation later.
Exchange.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-01
From Our Friends.
Our ostensible friends are often
,11r actl1a1 anapoiac

Our ostensible friends are often
our actual enemies.
Not always, but often.
Were too apt to think a friend is
a good fellow" And by the same
token an enemy is one who isn't
a good fellow.
The world would be better off
without good fellows
Enemies, after all, are usually
those who don't happen to see things
as we do.
As though we had right to ques-
ton the other mans right to think!
And had a right to claim all wis
dom for ourselves!
A great inventor sent for one of
his assistants.
Harry he said, "I'm going to
let you go.
You're too popular" continued
the great man. You'll never amount
to anything"
And then, as the young man stood
before him dumfounded, he added:
"But if you'll go out and make
yourself half doxen first-class en-
emies there may be some hope for
you."
Friends as the term is generally
applied
Are positive hindrance to ad-
vancement and development.
It's our friends who agree that the
boss isn't fair to US
When we're really being better
treated than we deserve.
It's our friends who tell us we
ought to be getting more salary
When we're already getting more
than we're worth.
It's our friends who think we
ought to be living better
When we're now spending every
cent we earn.
It's our friends, generally speak
ing, who cause most Of our dissatis-
faction.
What are we to do about it?
Usually it costs a man lot to find
out who's who
A lot of money and a lot Of self-re-
spect.
You can save both, if you will.
First of all, you want to get new
definition for friend"
The great inventor thought half
dozen frst-class enemies desirable.
Because the thought Of dislike is
mighty likely to spur us on.
We really do cur best-qulte fire.
quently-a as matter of half spite.
Harman Brown, in Baltimore Sun.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-01
The Helpful Life.

When the President of Vassar Col
lege told the graduating class that
they should "try to be helpers Of
men, not destroyers, he sounded
the keynote of the one worthy ca
reer. We have heard much of the
simple life, the strenerous life, the
balanced life and the tranquil life,
but the helpful life is more to be de-
sired than any of them, SAYS the New
York World.
The public necessity for it could
not be expressed in stronger words
than in those used by President
Woodrow Wilson in his baccalaure-
ate address at Princeton in describ-
ing an era in which men kept their
legal obligations as we'll as usual and
yet came near running the country.
piled up wealth and forgot how to
use it honorably, built up business
and came near to debauching
nation.
Men and women who enjoy the ad-
vantages of college training are
themselves at fault if from such be-
ginnings they do not find easy access
to the Only true aristocracy of the
day. The beneficiaries of a culture
denied to most people, they are un-
der the highest obligations to con-
slider the welfare and rights of 9TH
ers. In no other way can the
higher education be anything but
the selfish possession of a class.
Noblesse oblige should appeal as
strongly to those holding rank in the
world of learning as it once did to
nobility of birth.
The helpful life cannot be self-cen-
tered. 1t must take into account
the needs and the aspirations of man
kind, the world-old wrongs, the cry
ing injustices, the unavailing, even
the despairing struggles Of the weak,
the brutalities of the strong and the
follies of the ignorant. To be inter-
ested in humanity, to sympathize
with those who toll to assist when
ever assistance is needed or deserv-
ed, to be kindly, appreciative and of
service in the thousand ways in
which trained minds and true hearts
may promote justice, encourage
merit and support progress these
are the sum Of the helpful life, and
it is the only life that is worth while.
Exchange.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-01
Joan OF Arc and Other HerOineS.

The recent honors paid to Joan of
Arc are well-deserved tribute to
one Of the most inspiring aud heroic
figures in history. The nobility of
character of Joan of Arc, her patri-
otism and loftiness of purpose, long
ago ceased to be questions of contro-
Versy. She was spiritually minded,
conscientious to the last degree in
the discharge Of her household
luties, although engrossed with
thoughts reaching far beyond the
:ircle of her daily life. There was
tradition that France would be de-
,ivered from the calamities which
nad fallen upon the nation, because
Of the depravity of a woman, through
the instrumentality of chaste vir-
gin. Joan Of Arc believed she was
the divinely appointed instrument
Tor the deliverance of France. She
Supplied to the French cause tre-
nendous energy and confidence. She
inspired the French soldiers with en-
thusiasm ennobled by religion. Alb
5olutely fearless in battle, ever re-
fuslng to acknowledge defeat, con-
yinced that success in any endeavor
IN life can be achieved by unfinch-
ing perseverance,, under divine guild
ance, Joan of Arc was woman
whom the world now recognizes as
worthy Of all honor, admiration and
reverence.
1t has been the usage almost from
time immemorial to characterize wo-
men as members of the gentle SEX
Joan of Arc had the quality Of gentle
ness to a notable degree. Her voice,
it is said, was of great sweetness.
She had the fine grace and dignity
Of manner and that simple sincerity
Of faith which shrinks from no or
deal, however severe, to execute L
lofty purpose. In everyday life
women of the present generation
display fortitude, a conservation to
noble service, spirit of unselfish-
ness and self-sacrifice, equal in every
way to the high and noble character
lstics of Joan of Arc. They endure
suffering with an equanimity which
puts most men to blush. They sub
nit to disappointments with a resig-
nation that few men emulate.
Ine genLle sex lS IN many respects
the braver sex, the more persever-
ing, the more resolute, the more
helpful sex. 1t has been said, as the
final estimate of Joan Of Arc, that
the greatness Of her career did not
consist so much in her military ach-
ievements as in her pure, true, un-
selfish character, her nobility of pur-
pose, her answering fidelity
Baltimore Sun.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-01
A Towns Trade Territory.

The trade territory of a town is
not all dependent upon the distance
to neighboring trading points. The
trade territory depends upon the en-
terprise Of the merchants and the
residents of the town. If town
does not reach after the trade it will
come only as fast as it has to, and it
will grow as it is forced to. But if
the merchants go after business in
the surrounding country advertising
in every possible way and make good
every word of their advertising, trade
will come from an ever-increasing
radius, the town will gain reputa-
ton for being awake and it will
forge to the front. 1t is the men in
the town and not altogether the men
living within a certain number Of
miles from it that makes the town
good for nothing. Fort Mill, S. c.
Times.
The commonwealth. (Scotland Neck, N.C.) 1896-1929, 1909-07-01
Life 100000 Years Ago.

Scientists have found in cave in
Switzerland bones of men, who lived
100, 900 years ago, when life was III
constant danger from wild beasts. To-
day the danger, as shown by A. w.
Brown, Of Alexander, Me-, is largely
from deadly disease. If it had not
been for DR.. Kings New Discovery,
which cured me, | could not have
lived" !" he writes, suffering as ] did
from a severe lung trouble and stub
born cough" To cure sore lungs,
colds, obstinate coughs, and prevent
pneumonia. its the best medicine on
earth. SOC and Sl.Uo. Guaranteed
by +. T. Whitehead Company. Trial
bottle free.