Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1911-06-20

wake up next morning in Chicago,
fresh as a daisy; but we old timers
icrept out in that then young city as
wilted as dish rags and not so nearly
clean.
Whoa there! Back up! Here comes
the Daily Courier of 18th inst. with
that soulstirring editorial headed
llS6l-1911. What does this mean-te-
lepathy? Our minds must have been
running neck and neck, for that edi-
torial must have been written at the
same time that was writing the fore
going, and 1t so nearly accords with
what l might have said, that is, so far
as the sentiment goes, that shall not
pursue the subject further but would
be content to have 1t reproduced right
! at this juncture.
Johnnie Scully, the gallant soldier
and volunteer fireman. Is he yet liv-
ing? l note the ad in the Courier Of
Peach. Wonder If he is related to Joe
Peach, who was fifer in the Beth
regiment. Joe was peach, and don't
you forget it. Then l see the name of
Pickett, which reminds one of the
carpenter by that name who was a
wonder in always wearing 4 clean
white shirt, even when at work; then
there was old Jack Hall, another car
Ipenter. I saw him in the ranks march
ing at the G.. A. R. national encamp-
iiment in Washington, D. c., about ten
years ago. He saw me and yelled,
Hello, Bflly!" AS l was outside the
taut wire cable stretched the whole
length of Pennsylvania avenue, I
couldn't get over quick enough to rush
out and shake his paw. Not that there
lis any connection at all, but do you
remember alphabet w. H. p Norris?
lSaw him some years ago and at the
same time Joe Fulton, both of them
in the humane police force of Kansas
City, but Norris was in the great fire.
mems parade that day, covered with
a big brass helmet and waving black
plume. The Runnels family, all de-
vout Catholics and good people, used
ito live on the southwest corner of
Fourth and Market Andy Dummler-
good old Andy-living yet? There was
John Booz, a painter, whose son was
shot and killed by his boon companion
and boyhood friend. John decorated
the old court room while was county
auditor. The idea was to make the
center of the ceiling represent the
sun and It's rayt to extend to the
farthest edge of that ceiling. Bill AS
bury can better describe the effect
than can write 1t. Lotspeich de-
clared 1t looked like frost-bitten
poppy. I see that SAINT Kirkpatrick
has been among you remember him
we'll. About three miles out on the Ed
dyville road lived the Bizers-O Oliver,
4 recall quite pleasantly; then there
were the Wilsons-one of whom was
living in the Harrow house when we
left John Brisco -know him? He was
in temperament closely allied to Pete
ing something. He was in the real es-
the doctors have lively and kindly
recollection of DR.. J. M. Williamson
think I have his initials correct. He
was an efficient physician and singu-
larly quiet gentleman Along on Sec
ond street. near Court, the Shicks
run a bakery. Across the street a lit
tie east, Dan Abrahams had a livery
barn. Dan was man about my
height and build, swarthy complexion
and almost effeminate in the punctil-
ious care of his wardrobe and COM
plexion. I saw him one day swallow
a handful of baking soda, saying ""I've
Just eaten a lot of strawberries and
they're fussing with my vest!" He and
his family, think, moved to Chi
cago Along on Second also lived the
Millisacks- old man, Jacob, was
devotee of spiritualism. My father
bought an open front Franklin stove
that Millisack declared the spirits re-
vealed to him as the ne plus ultra.
That stove didn't prove the success
that was anticipated when the ther-
mometer run down 20 degrees below.
How about the Minnicks? That was
a family of kindly people.1t seems to
me that / met one of them-Dr. Min
nick and his wife, as I know I met
Hank Nuenamaker's son, in Ellsworth,
Kas., several years ago. l don't know
lust why it should occur to me right
now, but perhaps writing the word
Kansas was the cause to bring up the
memory of poor young Sherman
Bailey who lost his life by drowning
in a wreck of the Santa Fe railroad
near Ellinwood, Barton Co., Kansas.
He was engaged in the stationery and
news. business in the post Office lobby
at the time he, with others Of Ottum-
wa, went to the wheat fields OF CEN
trail Kansas to look at and maybe en-
ter vacant government land, and
when near the place above spoken Of,
the train was wrecked by cloud
burst that washed out the track.