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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
CHARLTON.

Lloyd Penick returned last evening
from q several days business trip to
ST. Joseph, Mo.
Mrs. Lynn Grail Of Ottumwa, former
5ly Of this city, has returned home after
d few days visit with old friends here
Hall Buzard of Cedar township has
gone to Fairfield where he will attend
school at.Parsons college.
Mr.. and Mrs. Archibald Shore have
returned from their trip to Blunt, SD
Isaac Downward has been enjoying q
vacation from his duties as rural route
mail carrier and has been viewing the
sights at the Keokuk dam.
Mrs. George Williamson and son
George have returned from visit in
Grant City, Mo-, with her sister, Mrs.
Laura Miller.
Miss Pearl Gilbert Of Kansas City re-
turned to her duties there yesterday
after a visit near Russell with her par
ents. ~
Mr.. and Mrs. Chas, Horn Of Indian
apolis. Ind are visiting in Charlton
with Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Cook.
Mrs. Marie Meyer Of Des Moines is
visiting in this city with her parents,
Miss Birdie Clark has returned from
an extended visit with relatives. and
friends in wyoming and Nebraska.
4 Mrs. Sarah Edwards and Mrs. Esther
Williams Of Washington are visiting
west of this city with their brother,
Abraham Edwards and family
Mrs. g. w. Pfaff Of Westover, s. D.,
formerly OF this city, Is here for visit
with old friends.
Mrs. A. C. Sutton and son Ralph OF
Albany, Mo, came yesterday for q
visit at the M. l. Sutton home in north
Charlton.
Miss FLORENCE Maple Of the postoffice
force has gone to Denver. Colo, on a
short pleasure trip.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. u. Leroy and chill
dren Of Fearing Neb., who have been
visiting their daughter, Mrs. Guy Res
sler, have gone to OskalooFa to visit
relatives. Mrs Ressler accompanied
them to that place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
WEST POINT.

Mrs. Emma Danbe visited with her
daughter, Miss Viola, at Fort Madi.
son during the week
Miss Wayne Jensen has been visit.
ing friends In Fort Madison.
Miss Therese Geers, is visiting her
sister, Mrs. William Kiener at Fort
Madison.
John Snaadt returned to Winfield
Wednesday after a few days visit
with his parents here.
Mrs. Henry Wilson spent Wednes.
| day with her parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
William Forley, at Burlington.
Miss Kathryn schierbrock returned
Monday from q six weeks visit at La
Crosse, Wis, and Lansing, la.
Mr.. and Mrs. Barney Geers have
returned from visit with H. A. Geers
and family at Orange, 8. D.
Miss Jeanette Shepherd left Tues
day morning for Fairfield where she
viii enter Parsons college.
Henry Weiss and family Of Moline,
ILL.,, are visiting at the Julius Greene
homo.
Gerhard Snaadt spent sunday Win
his daughter, Mrs. John Herbner, at
Keokuk. Mrs. Snaadt, who has been
visiting there, accompanied him home.
Misses Bernadine and Katherine
|Budke and Mary and Elizabeth Peter
schmidt of Fort Madison visited Thurs
day with Helen Peterschmidt. Miss
Helen, who has been seriously i'll for
five weeks, is improving and was able
to he taken to her parents home Wed
nesday.
Joseph Goody returned Thursday
from visit with his daughter at
Grand Forks, N. D.
All Lehman was visitor to Hills,
boro Monday.
Mrs. James Cameron OF Keokuk and
Mrs. L. "A. Brentana Of Evansville,
Ind, visited their sister, Mrs. DR..
Wirsig, Thursday.
Mrs. Gerhard Harmeyer has return
ed from visit with her sister, Mrs.
Fred Poepsel at Fort Madison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ed Weishaar were
visitors to Keokuk Sunday.
William Goeble visited his sister,
Mrs. Anna Rokhar at Keokuk Friday.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
DOUBLE MURDER
and SUICIDE
INSANITY ONLY EXPLANATION
OFFERED FOR oEED.oF Aus-
BAND AND FATHER

Council Bluffs, Sept 14.--Insanity Is
the only explanation offered today by
officials for the double murder and
suicide yesterday at the home Of Mar
tin Thompson, prominent and
southeast Of this city. The bodies OF
Thompson, his wife and his. eight year
old son Raymond we're found with
their threats cut.
A hammer evidently had been used
to crush the heads OF the mother and
son while they slept and blood tracks
in several rooms indicated that the
murderer had walked about the house
after killing the two and before com.
hitting suicide. 4
The following letter. written in
Danish, and addressed to two daugh-
ters. Charastana and Dora, one OF
whom is teacher in the schools OF
Hancock, Iowa, and the other visiting
friends In Council Bluffs, was trans.
lated and made public, but is declared
to cast no light upon the motive for
the crime.
Dear children hope you will ex-
cuse your papa for what has been
done, but can't stand it any longer;
but you are left alone and pray that
you will pray to God that he help you
and hope you will be good children,
and if you get married try and have a
nice home. and hope that some one
will help you. From your papa.
Heartily farewell. children, and a
lovely future
The bodies were all lying side by
side on the kitchen floor. The knife
with which their throats were cut lay
by the side OF the man. The beds were
soaked with blood, indicating that the
murders were committed while the
victims slept, the bodies being after
ward taken to the kitchen. All were
in their night clothes.
The crime was committed Thursday
right, as the family Is known to have
been alive Thursday afternoon.
Dora Thompson, who has been visit.
ing friends In Council Bluffs Tor a
few days, was Frustrated by the news
Of the tragedy. She could offer no ex-
PLANTATION of her fathers awful deed.
The family was we'll known In Council
Bluffs where they were highly es-
reemed. Thompson was known as q
successful and prosperous farmer. He
was 45 years Of age and his wife ~.
The gruesome discovery was made
by peddler named L. e. Roe Of Car
son, Iowa, who stopped at the Thomp-
son and saw through the kitchen win
dow the three bodies bathed in blood
and hastonod tn give the alarm
The coroner Is investigating.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
IOWA FARM LAND
BRINGS BIG PRICE

Council Bluffs, Sept, a. Land
sales I'M Iowa, indexing the present
value OF the soil for farming and
stock raising, show an increase In
values over last year and indicate
steady advance despite the heavy
immigration to Canada from Iowa
the past four years. Sales made In
shelby county,, one tier OF counties
rAmoyed from the Missouri river and
regarded as of the same value as other
sections OF the state, show the fol-
lowing values:
Two hundred and eleven acre farm,
three miles east OF Shelby, $3.50 an
acre; sold to Mr.. Trude OF Nicola, Ia
II. o., Cooper farm Of LOB acres.
three miles from Shelby, sold TOR $3.50
an acre to Charles Cushing OF Harlin.
one hundred and nineteen acres,
one mile west Of Shelby, sold Tor VS.
900 to j. H. Waterman OF Logan, la.
Two hundred and thirty-six acres.
three and one-han miles from Shelby,
sold for $50, 900 to Derby & Meitzen OF
Avoca, Ia.
one hundred and sixty-five acres
two and one-half miles from Shelby
sold for 321,s1 to Frank Linn OF
Shelby county. :.
Two hundred and forty acres. six
miles northeast of Shelby, sold for
AZ 900 to r. G., Pennison. Of Defiance
Iowa.
The brick Pomeroy place, or old
fair grounds tract, consisting Of 240
acres. was sold to Arthur Pryor OF
shelby for 5000 an acre. The farm Is
u, Itch state of cultivation and has
Improvement Of the value OF Sl0,0oo:
M. Pryor will beautify the place and
viii transfer It into model stock
farm, Mr.. Pryor's son, Ralph. owns
16f, acres across the road from this
tract. and the two constitute the finest
farms IN the community.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17

VETERINARIANS SUIT STILL ~.
ING HEARD IN DISTRICT COUNT
WON'T FINISH TODAY.

The suit for $1,000 brought BY w.
McKenna against George Evans tor
the tiling OF the latter's farm north Of
the city, has been In hearing for the
past few days and the testimony CON.
tinues to be given. The defendant was
on the stand all day yesterday and UNI
til this morning and the prospect 10
good for the testimony to continue
throughout today and until Monday.
A decree Of divorce was granted
Lena Horn from her husband, Jesse
B. Horn, in which the permanent ALI
mony was, fixed at 5000. The custody
of their minor child. Erma Horn, was
awarded the mother.
The assignment Of criminal caseA
has been made for the term a. fol-.
lows:
Monday, Sept. 23, 1912.
State Of Iowa vs.. Daniel p. Ratclin.
State OF Iowa We. James F. Travis.
State OF Iowa vs.. M. Brennan.
State Of Iowa VS.. Fred Maloney.
State of Iowa VI. William Cook.
State OF Iowa vs. Alfred NJ. Marts.
All OF the cases except that Of A.
fred Martz are brought under the
liquor laws and the later is deset>
ton charge.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
DoUDs ANDo.

Mrs. Ell Heckart was an Ottumwa
visitor Thursday. 5sssl i,
Frank Horn was business caller In
Keosauqua Thursday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIII Stewart were Of
tumwa visitors last week.
Mrs Rose Smith was called to the
bedside OF her son at Drakesville.
Mrs John Wear and daughter Rosa
Of Ottumwa visited relatives In LeandO
over Sunday.
The horse sale at Douds Saturday
wass largely attended.
Mrs. AL Carter Of Mystic visited rel
atives at this place over Sunday.
George Thomas returned home on
Tuesday after years stay in Colo
RADIO.
Will Thomas and son George started
wednesday for Bloomfield where they
will attend the fair.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
hILLsHoRo.

O.. E. Tade spent Monday in Fort
Madison.
Mr.. and Mrs. Zane OF Pennington
visited at the Frank Ransom home the
first Of the week.
Mrs. 3. G. Nelson returned Saturday
from Peoria, Ill.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
CENTERVILLE HOTEL
TO BE ENLARGED

centerville, Sept. IA rebuilt and
much enlarged hotel is assured for
Centerville. The Continental is to have
twenty-seven room addition, con.
tract for which will be let September
II. Il Is to be built across the alley
from the main building, and be con
nected by an overhead passageway. II
will be three stories In height and
well supplied with sample rooms. The
ontire main building will be remod,
slsd and redecorated. IS
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
LOCAL POULTRY RAlsERs CARRY
OFF PREMIUMS At DAVIS
COUNTY FAIR.
MADE CLEAN SWEEP
Rsinhard, Heindei and Boise Winners
The Former Took Twenty-Five
First PrIxes-lntersst Shows
lncrease.

del and G. F. Boise, three of Wapello
county's poultry fanciers, made a
clean sweep OF the prizes in the poul
try department at the Davis county
fair which was held the past week al
Bloomfield. The fair this year proved
. bigger success. both financially and
In attendance. than ever before and
there were more entries in the differ
ent departments.
The rivalry for the prizes in the
poultry department was at q fever
heat. and the outcome was in doubt
until the final minute. The local
poultry fanciers feel elated over their
victory and they have every reason to
be 30. 1t is doubtful If ever In the
history of the fair that one county
made a clean sweep in the poultry
department. The hundreds of visitors
that were at the fair watched the out.
come in the poultry department with
much interest as every bird that was
entered was of the highest breed.
Made Bic Sweep.
F. L. Reinhard & Son made the big.
gest sweep of all, winning more
prizes than all the rest combined. They
were credited with twenty-nine first
prizes, tWenty-one seconds and four
first pens, as well as the first prize
for the best display. The poultry de
partment Of the Davis county fair has
grown from few entries to one of
the largest departments of the fair.
The visitors take more interest in this
department than ever before as poul-
try raising is becoming one of the
leading industries on the farm.
The Premium List.
The following is list Of the prizes
carried off by the Wapello county poul-
try raisers:
F. L. Reinhard & Son won the fox
lowing prizes:
Barred Rocks-F'irst and second
cock; first and second hen; first and
second cockerel, first and second pull.
let and first pen. 4
Rhode Island Reds-First and second
cock, first and second hen, first and
second cockerel, first and second pull
let, and first pen.
Buff Plymouth Rocks-First and sec
ond cock, first and second hen, FIRST
and second cockerel, frst and second
pullet, and first pen.
Indian Runner Dvcks-First and sec.
ond old drake, frst and second old
duck, first and second young drake,
first and second young duck.
Embden Geese First on gander,
first and second goose. first young
goose, first young gander.
Buff Cochins First cock, first hen,
first pullet. first and second cockerel,
and first pen.
Black Langshangs-First hen, first
and second cock.
Red Comb Brown Leghorns
cockerel, first and second pullet.
! Single Comb Brown First
pullet. first hen.
Black Minorcas First cock, first
hen.
SINCE Comb Orpington-Second
cock, second hen, and second pen.
Buff Cochin, BantyS Second cock,
and second hen.
The prizes won by George Heindel
are as follows:
Single Comb Buff Orpingtons First
cock, second hen, second pullet, first
cockerell, and first pen.
G. r. Boise won the following prizes:
White Wyandottes- First cock, first
hen, first and second cockerell, first
pullet, and frst pen.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
THE M'CULLOUGH
FUNERAL SUNDAY

Charlton, Sept. IA The funeral
services Of Clement 9, Mccullough
will be held 1T the family residence
on Sunday afternoon at $3.50 o'clock.
Mrs. Mccullough arrived last night
from Louisville, KY, and was accom-
ranied by her sister OF that place.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
APPANOOSE FARMERS
HOLD 4 INSTITUTES

centeryille, Sept. 14.-Four farmers
stitutes are TO be held in Appanoose
ounty. The first will be at Moravia
Santember 10 to 81, the second at
Moulton September rs to Is, the third
at Exline october 8 to S, and the
final one at Centerville October 10 to
u. n this 1t Is expected the best
shown at the other three will come
together IN grand final competition
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
AVIATOR FALLS ON
LIVE WIRE; BURNED

Leetonia, O., Sept. 14.-John st.
Clair, a Boston aviator, fell while max
ing an exhibition flight at carnival
here today and alighted on a naked
electric wire carrying 200 volts. The
wire broke his fall
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-09-17
PEOPLES PULPIT

The Courier will publish In e.,is
column articles con, diluted bJ
its readers. Tho eonnmunlca tIons
should bs typcwrIttsn Or In
plain hand. on one side Of the
paper, and slsneO.
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28

water, and temperatures are neither eA-
cessiVely low nor excessively high.
But when we say that other worlds
are peopled, it does not necessarily
mean that they are inhabited by human
beings like ourselves. Our develop
ment through evolution into such crea-
lures a. we are has been due doubtless
to circumstances more or less acciden-
tai Had the conditions Of our envi-
ronment been different, the species
known to science as Homo sapiens
would be represented today, presuma-
bly, by 4 different type of animal, phys
ically at least.
Shall we imagine, then, that man
kind on the earth represents the high
est type of beings now existing in the
universe? Surely not. It is altogether
probable that creatures much higher in
physically and morally. dwell in some
of those millions of other worlds, which
must today be capable of supporting
animal and plant life. What likelihood
is violated by the assumption that some
of these creatures are so far superior
to ourselves as to be compare bic to
types which we, from our own mundane
viewpoint, would regard as angelicZ
May Talk With Other Worlds.
Before long, beyond a doubt, we shall
talk across the oceans, by the help of
wireless telegraphy- It may be that in
future centuries we shall span the ga
Tactic spaces which separate star from
star, and derive from these angels who
inhabit other orbs-distant by hundreds
of light years from us-knOwledge of
incalculable value.
Said the late Simon Newcomb, one Of
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28

of Vega. There is evidently some ire
mendous destiny ahead of us-in a cos
1nicaI sense, at all events Our fall
through space is bound to bring US up
somewhere within a reasonable length
of time.
We might fall in a straight hne
through all eternity finasmuch as space
can have no bOttOm). but astronomers
are rather inclined to suppose that the
solar system is travelling around some
center. What is that center2 NOBODY
can do more than guess, bat the SCI
cntific surmise points to Alcyone-
which as already explained, is the
principal star in the Pleiades. Alcyone
is about 1000 times as big as our sun,
and may perhaps be the central body
about which the entire universe OF
stars reVOlVes. -
AIycone (as already stated IS ~
light years away from US If the above
mentioned theory be accepted, we COM
pIete the circuit around this center IN
a little over 95.OOO.0OO ordinary years.
as we reckon them. But it is beyond
question that our sun before it has
chance to make much more than
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28

the greatest astronomers that ever
lived: The limits Of the universe have
been reached, and science is in posi-
ton to estimate with reasonable accu-
racy its size, shape. and even the num-
Der of stars it contains. The smaller
stars which our powerful modern tele-
scopes have brought into view do not
look small because they are farther
away, by reason of their inferior
size In other words, we are able ac-
tuaIIy to see the boundaries of the uni
verse"
Why are we falling through space
in the direction of Vega2 The answer
is that nobody knows. That such is the
case, however. is beyond a doubt APP
parently, too, we are falling in a
straight line. But, where such enor-
nous measurements are concerned, 1t Is
impossible to say that the seeming
straight line may not prove in the
course of ages to be a curve.
We are bound within the next 5OO,OOO
years to come pretty close to the con-
stellation of the Tyre. at all events
even if our own sun does not become
a satellite with its attendant planets)
El Paso herald. (El Paso, Tex.) 1901-1931, 1912-12-28

= ASHlNIION, D. - Dec 20
M New, Years, 1879 Where are
w we at?"
In a cOsmic sense, we haven't the
slightest idea. But we do know that,
wherever We are, it is more than SOO,-
100000 miles from where we were just
a u months ago
This is the rate at which the earth
on which we live is dropping through
the void Of space. In fact, the sun and
the whole system Of planets to which
we belong, is falling into an indefinite
abyss at the rate of 10 miles a second
Every minute in 1913 we shall fail
SOC miles. Every hour during the u
months We shall drop $4,000 miles into
the bOttomless gulf Every week in
the year we shall fall 5000, 600 miles.
Ten miles a second is about 20 times
the 'muzZle velocity of a rifle bullet
We have been falling at this rate for
an incalculabie length of time already
Where, when, and how viii the journey
end2
This question represents the greatest
problem that science at the present
time is trying to solve We know that
we are moving, apparently in a straight
line, in the direction of the giant sun
Some day We are bound to get there.
is easy to figure the thing out on
scraD 81 naDe7. The orbit n f5e eartl
IN its journey around the sun is of such
size that a railroad train running so
miles an hour, with never a stop,
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and no force Of which we have lnowI-
edge could bring it TO a pause. Appar-
emily. it must have entered our uni
verse from the outside, and in the
course of time will depart t1erefrom-
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Astronomers reckon that a celestial
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would appear that the force which con-
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to some other part Of creation
As for ourselves, in 1913 we shall drop
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small fraction Of the journey, will have
ceased to shine
To our naked eye, stars in the sky
seem to be countless. They are not so,
however, in reality. Astronomers say
that to the most powerful telescopes
about so 100000 stars are visible-iRdi-
vidually. that is. Vast numbers not
thus discernible are revealed by the
Photographic plate, which within recent
years has become the most important
and reliable means of recording the po-
stdons Of stellar bodies.
Great sun Running Wild.
Space being infinite, there must be
unlimited room for other universes. And
it Is only on the superstition Of the
existence of such universes that we are
able to account for a phenomenon like
that of the sOcaQed Runaway star
otherwise known as 1880 Groom
bridge" This huge sun compared to
which our own solar orb is a pigmy) is
moving through OuI heavens at the rate
of 200 miles a second No cOsmic force
Of which we have knowledge could have
set it going at such incOnceivable speed,
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Douglas, Arizona

Is the iOeiest city of its size in the Southwest.
has Improvements under ay than any other city Of ike
population
There not desirable residence to be had the city,
There many Improvements assured for the coming that
w add greatly to the prosperity and population Of the city,
offers splendid opportunities to the capitalist for Investment;
to the business contemplating location and to the
fdctuer
Douglas smells more copper than any other city the United
States
Pump irrigation the Sulphur Springs Oaey Douglas
is probing There half million Of desirable land
the Oay yet open for homesteadng Do you wa Of 2
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