Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-05-02

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people who seemed to be excited. ran
down stairs and just In time to see one
lJohnson strike man named Vance IN
the breast with huge. ugly looklna
knife. Johnson ran to the back end OF
the store and Vance, clutchtng his
breast, tottered past me out onto the
sidewalk and to the curbing upon
ionly, rose up and reeled back dead The
| testimony in that case was so confi1ct-
ling that believe Johnson was acquit-
i, ted. was not called as witness on
THAT case Had been I would have
sworn that Vance did not have g
scythe blade in his hand with winch
he struck at johnson as many others
lswore that he did have.
So with these two horrible incidents
lin mind am more charitable toward
witnesses on the stand who swear to
exactly opposite things, or to an an.
lsence of knowledge upon matters tnd'
lappear to others as absurd evidence
We cannot all see alike do believe ~
The last page or SO deals with aea Az
80 strongly that 1t reminds me OF the
tombstone dealer Mr.. Root. who liveo
on Second east Of Markell gentle
/ In the last installment of these
"reminiscences I was chagrined to hnii
THAT / had left out sentence that
should have gone in just after the
words there were no funeral corteges.
leaving tt that way made 1t appear
THAT there were no persons attended 4
funeral, which was the farthest from
the fact. I intended to write it; there
were no funeral corteges made up OF
hired mourners and honorary pail
bearers as there are today when snow
lis OF more importance than heartfelt
lgrief This omission am confident was
lmy own. am more than pleased with
the clean work of your linotypist and
proof reader-they make me heady
very.
To get away from gloom I must re-
late an incident in the practice of Dr.
G. 6. Lewis A young woman out in the
country had fish bone lodged IN her
throat. After exhausting every ex-
pedient known to him to remove 1t ne
desperately directed that she get IN
bed and with the bed clothing about
her to get up on her hands and Feet
her head to hang low. He grabbed the
big fire shovel that stood by the 1amh
swing struck her on the highest part
OF her anatomy a vigorous blow with
the flat side OF that shovel, producing
a terrible grunt and yell mixed with
the fish bone all in one mess. The Wom-
an was saved and relieved from stran-
gulation but Doc had to fly out OF
reach Of things that were projected
member Of the family; but it gained
for him all the practice in that neigh
borhood, which proved very lucrative
/ wonder If that lady is yet altve-if SO
she has never forgotten that bump, III
bet. Wonder If Docs wife Is yet living
Hers and my wife's wedding ann1ver-
sary Is the same day-of course Doc
second wife, at or near Libertyville
Iowa, and married my first wife al
Lisbon. ILL.,, on the same day, Sept. 10
1868, and my first wife is my last also
so, with such preconcerted and con-
sumrnated action we would like &c
know II eh esurvives him.
| Oh by the way, 1t Is real pleasure
to have called to my mind one Of the
pioneer conductors on the, B. & M. +
r., T. b. Mcdonald, who used to scan
my pass during the years 1871 to 1886
tanyhow, II not longer. He threatened &c
lick me once because said In the
Courier that he pushed his old train
along 50 fast that we took snooze be.
tween two telegraph poles: the last
Iowa. Then there was that man whom
everybody liked, the oldest railroad
axent in Ottumwa, VIM. Armstrong
who, like myself, was always calico
Billie. Dave Hodge, who married jenny
Louden-ls Dave still running the Bal
|lingall?
You remember the Boyd family wht
lived in log house on the side OF the
hill, between JEFFERSON and next street
east-just below the Temple residence
(old man Temple was merchant
tailor); we'll, OF all the unprOmisins
troupe Of boys that Boyd family stood
up head, yet the most Insignificant one
of them all was the tousled red headed
one Green D. r., but he came out q
was the editor Of the Democrat when
1T was located in the pre-revised Ennis
building third floor when join
Pumroy's drug store occupied the first
! floor, Green was smart as whip and
before the advent OF Gen. Hedrick was
the wittiest writer Ottumwa ever pro.
duced. After the Boyds disappeared
the Headley family occupied their va.
Gated premises. Young Bert Headle!
accepted the position Of devil in the
Courier office while Andy Karnes was
foreman. There was boy that
thought 80 much OF that with my
wife's approval we named our second
boy for him. Poor Bert was killed II
battle as gallant member OF bat.
| terry. HIS DrOIner Lewis migrated ~
Kansas and he, too, being a printer
with Courier texture, located and fol
years published the Herald at Gaylord
Smith county. He and his boys arr
now publishing the daily and weekly
Courier at Ponca City, Oklahoma.
noticed in your Expansion edition
that a certain lady named Chanler es-
|tablished the first private school in OF.
Itumwa. Isn't this erroneous? Did moi
John Snodgrass and his wife do tina,
act? OF course I do not question The
lveracity OF your history, but, some
thow feel piqued that anyone SHOULD
TRY to snatch the Snodgrass laurels--
land maybe no one is, for it is likely
that am mistaken, but don't exactly
Isee how 1 can be. for the step taken by
Mr.. Snodg-ass came mighty near pre-
Icipitating a rebellion, as it was char
lacterized as an attemp. to establish
Iaristocracy in Ottumwa, because oni!
a very few could afford to patronize 9
! select school, Yet they made 1t toler
ably fair venture. It seems to me thai
1.-THE next venture OF this kind was by
the Souires family who bought m,
fathers residence. corner Marion an,
1 Fourth, remodeled the building and
lopened select school therein. The