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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
CUPID BUSY IN
WAPELLO COUNTY
NEARLY FIVE HUNDRED MAR.
RAGE LICENSES ISSUED
DURING YEAR 1909.
MELlCK MARRlEs MANY
Justice Of Peace United the Most
couples-Dr. T. w. Jessery 10
second-Dame Divorce
Lands 40 Victims.

Dan Cupid. the little God of love and
marriage, was busy parsonage in
Wapello county during the year 1908.
Due to his great energy. nearly 500
couples were caught in his net and
brought to the county clerks office
Wnere either Clerk George Phillips OF
Deputy Clerk James Gee issued the
necessary papers to marry IT. be more
explicit 4sS licenses were issued dur
Ing the year or an average of over 40
permits month. That cupid worked
steadily throughout the year was
shown by the month of December
when the number of permits issued
gave many Wapello county young
men Christmas presents. The closing
month exceeded every one Of the YEAR
June, the month of Brides was sec
ond In the list
The Oldest Couple.
10 an Ottumwa man and Highland
Center woman, goes the distinction OF
being the Oldest couple to secure a
marriage license during the year. At
that they were very young and 1t
county believe in the old age adage
the early bird catches the worm" The
ages of Peter Olsen and his ]. lp mate
when they secured the permit were So
and SO years respectively.
The Youngest Pair.
IL was necessary for the youngest
couple to secure the consent of their
parents to enter the holy bonds of
matrimony as they were under the
age limit of twenty-one and eighteen
years The youngest counle to secure a
license in the county during the year
We're John c. Heinan of Des Moines,
hoy1sh looking man, aged eighteen
years and Mary e. Test Of Ottumwa,
a maiden of sixteen summers
Melick WEEDS Most
What looked at first like nip and
tuck contest between Justice of the
Peace G. B. Melick and DIR. T. w. JEFF
frey, pastor of the First Methodist
Episcopal church, for the distinction Of
uniting the most couples, developed in
the last few months in a runaway race
for Justice Melick, who united sixty
SIX couples. DR.. Jeffrey married thirty
eight couples.
Divorces Were Few.
While Dan Cupid was busy plying
his vocation his deadliest enemy Dame
Divorce was also busy with wapello
county married people and she man
aged to induce forty-ee couples to
the belief that welded life was fail
ure. Others We're innocuIated with the
divorce germ but the Judge on the
bench doctored them of the habit and
they We're compelled to remain mar
r1ed. Forty eight divorces for the year
is very small for a county as large as
Wapello and goes to show that this
great evil is not as popular in this part
of the woods as elsewhere. Cruel and
1nhuman treatment was the grounds
on which the greatest number of di-
yorces were secured, although drunk
enness and desertion We're other popu-
lar causes.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
Census Bureau Gipes Interesting
Facts About Fires and Losses

fire departments of this country are
not economically administered. The
low per capita cost of maintenance
abroad is the result of stricter build.
ing regulations, more nearly fireprooi
buildings, and greater precautions to
prevent the occurrence of fires. The
foreign municipalities also make no
payment for water for fire purposes,
an expense incurred by about two.
fifths of the departments In the large
cities of this country.
In those cities from which complete
reports We're made there were S8,255
fire alarms during 1907 and 7S,507
fires, of which 52,343 resulted in
losses. In other words, only 1913 per
cent of the alarms were for fires
which occasioned loss. Similarly, disre-
garding those cities with incomplete
reports, the total loss through fires
was $48,676,730, on which insurance
was paid amounting to $42,655,725,
leaving a net loss Of s6,O21, 0O5, or 12.4
per cent.
The total fire loss per capita was
1928 and the net loss per capita $0.28.
or the total loss reported separa
ton of the total on buildings and the
total on their contents was returned
for S4S,306,OS1, showing that $1S,9s5,.
427, or 1913 per cent, was on buildings
and $29,342,654. or COT per cent. was
on contents.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04

Washington, D. c., Dec. 80. The
number Of city employees of the fire de-
partments in 1853 cities treated Of in
the forthcoming U. S. census bulletin
No. los, relative to the statistics of
cities of 10000 and more estimated
population in 1907, was 29,055, or near
ly threefourths of the number of en-
ployes of the police departments in the
same cities.
An Increase in Appropriations.
The appropriations for 1906 and 1907
as given in the bulletin include the an
ticipated expenditures for outlays and
for maintenance. The appropriations
for 1907 amounted to $38,529,636, an
increase of $3,64S,S56, or 1O.5 per
cent over the previous year The per
capita appropriation for the 1853 cities
reporting was S1.65.
The per capita cost of maintenance
of fire departments in foreign cities is,
according to the bulletin, much lower
than in cities of the United States.
computations recently made by the
United State Geological Survey plac-
ing the per capita expense in Berlin at
$0.26, London at $019, ST. Petersburg
at $0.22, Paris at $0.21, Milan at SOFT
and Stockholm at 1929 The bulletin
cautions that the inference should not
be drawn from these data that the
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
kIRkVILLE.

Kirkville.-Miss Gladys McCune OF
Wawatoosa. Wis, who is assistant su
perintendent at the Milwaukee county
hospital, after making short visit al
home, returned on the 26th to her post
of duty.
There have been more Christmas
presents gone through the postofic e
here than ever before, and still they
come and so.
Howard Brown is at home spending
his holiday vacation.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Dana have moved
to their home, which they have pur.
chased in this place. Their son, New
ell, who is attending Simpson college
came to Imogene and brought their
car of household goods down and help
ed them to get to housekeeping. New.
ell Dana is educating himself for the
ministry. He is a talented, consecrat.
ed young man. The citizens gladly
welcome this family back to KirkyilIe.
Mrs. Dana is a sister of B. F. Suits of
Ottumwa.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. Brown came up and
spent Christmas at their fathers
home.
Mrs. Dalmar Foster went to Shan.
non City to family reunion on
Christmas day. He is expected home
today. Mr.. William Foster, his father
has lived in Shannon City for several
years
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
Washington Bureau Of
The Ottumwa Courier
Washington, Dec. %, 1909

Treasury officials are giving much
attention in an informal way to the
question of how the country feels on
the central bank question. Some OF
Their are much interested in show,
ing made by symposium published In
a recent banking magazine, the Bank.
Ing Law Journal, which has set out
to obtain the sentiment of the bankers
themselves on this matter.
This showing is that the bankers
themselves are widely divided on the
central bank but the majority are for
it. Letters were sent out in October
to each national and state bank and
trust company in the United States.
The main point, it was emphasized,
was whether central bank was the
best thing for bankers and the public
at large. This direct question was
asked: do you favor central bank
If not controlled by Wall street or any
monopolistic trust?r
Not all the answers are in. but 5.61a
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
siGouRNEY

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Sigourney-Gilbert Randall arrived
in the city Yesterday from Waterloo
for visit with his brother Oscar.
Mrs. Marshall and daughter Eliza
beth who have been spending several
days at the Rev. Morgan home left
for her home in Hamilton Ill., Wed :
nesday.
Mr. and Mrs. w. H. Needham and
Mrs. ]. H. iShawhan were passengers
for Des Moines Tuesday evening, call
ed there on account Of the death of
Capt c. c. Prouty, brother of Mrs.
Shawhan and brother-in-law Of
Mr.. Needham.
Miss Helen Hedrick of Council
Bluffs is in the city visiting her aunt
Mrs. +. S. Yerger.
Howard Barlow Of Ohio is in the
city visiting his brother w. r. Bar
low.
Don Howard, wife and children of
Osceola are spending the holiday va
cation at the parental Killmer home.
Miss Nell Hoffman after spending
Christmas with her parents left We'd
nesday for Louisiana, Mo, where she
holds a position as bookkeeper.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
Treasury Officials Interested in
Poll Taken on Central Bank

nave been received. OF these So 1-3
per cent answer the question In the
affirmative. 33 2-3 per cent in the neg.
alive and per cent are undecided. or
those in the affirmative Al per cent
are national banks and 50 per cent
state banks and trust companies The
negative replies show SO 2-3 per cent
national banks and 81 1-3 state banks
and trust companies. A large major.
ity of those favoring central bank
pre-suppose that it is to be established
in such way that 1t can be dominated
by no interest or section.
Where preference is expressed for
location, Washington, st. Louis and
Chicago are the chief places men.
toned.
1t might be supposed that the high.
est percentage of Affirmative opinion
would lie in the east But according to
It's showing, it is in the Pacific coast
country.
The showing is of value only as II
portrays the feeling among bankers,
No attempt is made to get the opinion
of the general public.
J. c. welliver.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
Add Million Farms to Nation in
1OYears;Increased Value 9 Million

One million additional farms, show
an increase in value of more than So
100000, the products of which are
nearly s5,0oo,Oo0, have been added to
the wealth of the United States during
the first decade of the twentieth cen
fury, according to the Orange Judd
Farmer.
This Chicago publication, in connec-
ton with the American Agricultural
of New York and the New England
Homestead of Springfield, Mass, has
completed farm census two or three
years before the announcement of the
government figures, and claims it Is
Just as accurate.
A total of nearly thirty billions of
dollars Is placed as the value of the
farms, buildings, implements, and
live stock. an increase OF "A per cent
over the 1900 figures, which in turn
showed a gain of % per cent over the
previous decade.
Show Nations Gain.
The following tables show the ma
tons rapid gain, the first being gem
eral summary:
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
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OAK RIDGE.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS.

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Oak Ridge.-A number Of friends
and neighbors very pleasantly surpris-
ed Grandpa Anderson Sunday even.
In in honor of his seventy-flfth birth
day anniversary. A very pleasant time
was enjoyed by all present. Refresh
ments were served. Those who COM
posed the party were: Messrs. and
Mesdames Fred ROUGH, Milt Fleener,
Frank Cox, Clearance Baker and Ruluf
Cooper; Mesdames Herman, Kleinert,
and Kretzer; Misses Hazel Kleinert,
Lucille Baker, and Wilma Cox;
Messrs. Albert ROUGH and Don Cox.
Mr.. and Mrs. Clarence Baker came
home from Farson last week, where
their have been visiting with relatives.
Mr.. and Mrs. Pool and daughters
haXe gone to Primrose to spend
the holidays with relatives
Miss Lizzie Henston is visiting with
Mrs Hettie Cooper
Miss Bessie Robinson, who teaches
school south of town, is spending the
holidays with her parents.
George Hills spent Sunday with his
daughter Mrs. Eva Stevens.
Mrs. Goldie Stops and GROCER
spent Christmas at the George Her
man home.
James Welsh and family spent Sat
urday and Sunday at the parental
Welsh home.
Mrs Nina Hills and children re-
turned home Monday after visiting a
few days with Mrs. Hills parents, Mr..
and Mrs. William Stevens.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
RUSSELL.
. 49, ~%-%%%-><-e.A-AAA

RUSSELL. E. Raines and Earl Mix
sell left Monday morning for Melrose
10 paint the house of Ed McGraw.
Ira Coles of Memphis, Tenn, is
spending the holidays with his parents
Mr.. and Mrs. S. Cole.
George Johnson and Mrs. Roy Allen
left Monday evening for Quincy, Ill.
to visit with their sister and mother
1n-law, Mrs. Newt Allen
Arson Dewey left Monday evening
for Rochester, N. Y
Mr.. Sayler, who had been VISITING
with his friend, Miss Harriet De Lano
left Monday evening for his home al
Des Moines.
Harriet Curtis of Chicago Is spend.
Ing the holidays with her parents. Mr.
and Mrs, w. T. Curtis.
Allan and Edith Boyd spent Monday
in Charlton.
Mrs. Homer Adams of Ottumya re.
turned home Monday evening, accom-.
panied by her grandmother, Mrs. Ouin-
Ian.
The school friends of Mrs. Estella
Pierce gave her post card shower in
AtSifNi " hcl III liiQdy, pCScuUeT 20.
Miss Bessie Westlake is spending
this week with her father, William
Westlake, of Melrose.
The pupils of the school are having
this week for their vacation.
Mr. and Mrs. Jay Colgrove Of Cedar
Rapids are spending the holidays with
Mr.. Colgrove's father, Minor Colgroye,
south Of town.
The sympathy of the community
goes to Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Thomp.
son in the death of their infant child.
Little Belle Thompson received the
doll that was given by the corner drug
store during the holidays,
James Plots is visiting several days
with his brother, Bert Plots, of At
lantic.
Martin Kenton. the day man at the
depot, is sick and Jerry Cadagan is
taking his place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
TAXB0OkS GIVEN
The TREASURER
AUDITORS OFFICE FINISHES UP
VALUATIONS OF PROPERTY
IN WAPELLo COUNTY.
OTTUMWANS PAY MUCH
More Than one-fourth Of Taxes Are
Paid by the Residents Of This
city--Total Reaches
$2s, 1877, 100.

When County Auditor Charles Nc
Carly and his deputy, James Stevens,
finished the tax books of Wapello
county and delivered them to Treas
ure James Curran and his deputy
Henry Glenn yesterday the biggest
job OF the year was done and the aud
TORS office employees wore smiles of
JOY. The slate was clean for 1909 and
all were ready for the fray that 1910
might bring. The task was not small
one either. when one considers the
volume In dollars and cents that the
auditor and his assistants had to fig
ure since the assessors finished their
labors late In the spring. S2S,ST7,120
represents the actual valuation the as
SCISSORS found. One-fourth of this
amount, or $7.oe4,2S0., is the taxable
valuation and the sum that Is to be
collected by the treasurers office dur
ing the year of 1910.
Ottumwa Shows Well.
Ottumwa's portion Of this large
amount is not small, as one will no.
tice In glance at the figures, for one
tenth of the actual valuation and more
than one-fourth of the taxable valua-
ton will be paid by Ottumwans. OF
tumwa is seen to have $2,S04,715 in
taxes to pay, against the combined
towns of the county with s371,S35 and
1t Is but S125 less than the combined
township taxable valuation.
The auditors report follows.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04

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Hedrick-Mr. and Mrs. Willard
Downey Of sigourney passed through
Itedrlck Tuesday enroute to Richland
Tor @ visit at the D. w. Downey home
Mrs. Chas. Wilkins and daughter
Gladys were Ottumwa visitors Wed
nesday.
Miss Lois Wade Of Richland is the
guest at the A. ]. Anderson home in
this city.
Mrs. Lester Street went to Ollie on
wednesday for a few days visit with
her parents, Mr.. and Mrs. Jim Sewers.
Mrs. George Messersohmitt and
chlldren returned from Sigourney on
Wednesday.
l.. r. Anderson Of Belle PLANE was
the guest of his parents Mr.. and Mrs.
a. aasS J. Anderson between trains We'd
nesday being enroute to Richland
called there by the serious Illness OF
S. r. Tracy.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. Este and sons of
S1gourney were in town Monday on
their return from Wright. where they
were spending Christmas with their
daughter Mrs. Laura Odem.
for Ollie Tuesday.
A, w. Millikin is in Chicago this
week on business. n
Mrs, Winnifred Gordon of Cedar
Rapids is visiting relatives in He'd
rick.
Mr.. and Mrs. G.. T. Duke Rex and
Eva are in Trenton, Mo, visiting Mr..
Dukes parents Mr.. and Mrs. w. L.
Duke.
Mrs. Lloyd Reynolds and Miss Hat
tie Jacobs of Sigourney were Hedrick
visitors between trains Wednesday,
The evening passenger train going
north on the Milwaukee was DELAYED
I'VE hours Wednesday evening on ac-
count Of the wreck at Ottumwa.
DR.. L r.. Filler returned to Clarinda
Sunday night after short visit with
his parents Mr.. and Mrs. A. H. Eller.
Orla Smithart and family of Ollie
We're in Hedrick Wednesday on their
way to Sigourney
James Mason who is attending
school at Anes is SPENDING his yaca :
ton with his parents Mr.. and Mrs. w,
F. Mason.
Mr.. and Mrs. George Martin and
son Lloyd are visitin; relatives in
Bonaparte
Harold, Garnet and velma Dean re-
turned to their home in Oskaloosa aft
er several days visit with relatives
and friends in Hedrick.
Miss Anna Dellinger is visiting her
sister Mrs. A. T. Alderman in Will
liamsburg.
Misses Audrey and Rae Morgan ar
rived home Wednesday from Rich
land.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
S. totals 2s,s4o 2o,b14 1s,os2 a. pct

U. S. totals 1850 2o,514 16. oS244 pct
Alabama Has 25o,ooo.
The number of farms indicated in
the accompanying table is stated in
thousands. For Instance Alabama now
has 100000 farms whereas ten wears
ago the number of farms In that state
was 22S,0oo A farm is unit of three
acres or more.
The value of farms is given below
IN millions of dollars. The value in
cludes the real worth of all the lands
embraced in farms In each state, to-
gether with the real worth of all
buildings. fences, and the permanent
improvements, together with tools
machinery, and all live stock on hand
Show by States.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
Waterloo Man Killed.

Waterloo, Jan. Especial Geo.
Faulkner, aged rs, was found crushed
under Rock Island freight car in the
yards here last night. No one saw the
accident and the circumstances Of bis
death NOT Lnawn.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
Waterloo Manufacturer WEEDS.

Waterloo, Jan. Especially IF. E.
Cutler, president of the Cutler Hard
ware Co., and the board of trade, and
well known all over the state,wa mar
ried at noon today to Mrs. Laura Pom
eroy.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04

The values today are based on fail
cash worth, as shown by sales In 1905
by the assessment and by the earn.
ing power. Thus Alabamas farms arr
now worth $260,000.000. compared Il
S179,00Q000 ten years ago.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04

chinery, and all live stock as of Jan. 1.
1910. The figures are millions OF dol
lars, that is, north Atlantic farms are
worth SS,S39.O0O, 900.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04

The more detailed statement of the
number of farms points to the rapid
development of the formerly arid west,
gain of 100 per cent in tho last de-
Colorado, Wyoming, Montana, Idaho,
Utah, Arizona, Nevada, California,
Oregon and Washington.
Next in gain are the south central
states of Kentucky, Tennessee. Ala
bama, Mississippi, Louisiana. Arkan
sas Oklahoma, Indian territory, and
Texas.
The figures in the followins table
show the increase by sections:
Pet. inc.
last ten
1910 1900 years
North Atlantic. $4,000 $4,000 G
South Atlantic. 100000 $4,000 o
North Central. 2,534,000 2,186,O0O Is
South Central. 1,935,OOO 1,652,OO II
Western -. 477,000 $4,000 100
Tend Toward alsamation.
In the older states, from Ohio east
ward" says the Orange Judd Farmer,
there has been going on for twenty
years a tendency toward the amalga-
nation of farms distant from market
into larger holdings.
"On the other hand, this section has
witnessed the cutting up into smaller
sizes OF many farms nearer to market.
The latter movement has more than
offset the former. so that there Is
slight Increase in the number of farms
in most of these states during the last
ten years.
The increase in the number of
farms in the states of the old south is
indicative of a movement that prob
ably will be much more extensive in
the next ten years.
1T is substantial evidence of more
diversified agriculture, and reveals the.
cutting up of large plantations into
smaller holdings worked by owners or
tenants.
Value of the Farms.
Taking the United States as a
whole, there are now almost three
times as many farms as in 1870 and
100000 more than so recently as 1890.
Each section and each state Will find
much to be proud of in figures show
ing the number of farms now compar-
ed to a year ago.
The value of farms include land,
buildings, improvements, tools. ma
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-01-04
Of Glare arrived Wednesday for a visit
with her parents Mr.. and Mrs. J. o.

HEDRICk. :
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-28
CANDIDATES ARE
VERY ACTIVE
Second Primary Promises to be Al
most If Not Quite, as Interest
ing as the First.

Judging by the activities of the four
candidates for the office of commits
sioner who are now engaged in a Sec
ond canvass of the city in prepara-
tion for the final election to be held
next Tuesday, the second race prom
ises to be almost as exciting as the
first.
AT present no one seems to be anX-
ious to make bet on the result of the
second primary. So many candidates
were eliminated in the first race that
those who remain to run it off have
but vague idea of who will get the
support of the former candidates.
1t is generally believed that heavy
vote will be polled, Notwithstanding
the fact that the mayorality contest
is out of the way. It will be impossi-
BILE, of course, for the candidates to
make a complete canvass of the city
within the period of six days, and
they will have to trust very largely
to their friends and supporters to do
the greater part of the electioneering
for them.
The Hattiesburg news. (Hattiesburg, Miss.) 1908-1917, 1910-07-28
RIOT AT SUGAR
REFINING CAMP
Two Men Killed and Four Dangerous.
Iy Wounded as Consequence of
Trouble Caused by Strike.
(Bn Associated PreSS.l


New York, July 2S.-Two men were
killed and four were dangerously
wounded in riot brought about by a
strike by sympathizers at the plant
of the American Sugar Refining Com
pany at Williamsburg today. A score
of others were hurt.
Crowds of the strike sympathizers
threw bricks at the strike-breakers
from house tops and when the nom
union men started out with their
trucks to deliver sugar a rush was
made on the wagons. The police on
the trucks fired in the air in an at
tempt to scare the mob off, but when
they were struck with the bricks and
one of the patrolmen fell with a frac-
tured skull they shot into the crowd.
Two men in the mob fell dead at the
first fire and several others were Sc
riously wounded. Several of the po-
licemen who were killed have not yet
been identified. The entire neighbor-
hood became involved in the riot and
the reserves from nine precincts had
to be called out to quell the disturb
ance.