Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-06-24
DAVID, JAY WRITES
Of HEALTH RESORT
WELL KNOWN ADAMS TOWNSHIP
REslDENT TELLS OF STAY
lNExcELsIoR SPRINGS.

A letter from DAVID Jay VI
burg. who Is spending three weeks ~
EYcelsfor Springs, Mo-, for his health
will he found Of interest to the nun
dreds OF friends Of this Well Known
farmer OF Adams township who mas
heen one of the prime movers IN up
to.date and progressive farming move
ments. as we'll as leader in his com
munity. The letter follows %
Editor Courier, -...... ,s., h
Ottumwa, Iowa.
Dear Sir: ,,,
No doubt many Of my friends back
home will wonder at my being IN a
sanitarium in quest Of health, put sucn
is the case.
nv wife and I came here June 4,
and the next day was assigned mere
for twenty-one days by my physician:
was placed upon very rlgld dleI
md NV nurse sees that the order IS
very strictly carried out. l have. plenty
TO eat. and the food Is well cooked.
have a pleasant room and tlme rs
swiftly flying by; can scarcely realize
that this is my fifteenth day mere. Inc
doctor told me this morning tnat was
improving nicely and would be OUT OF
here on time. know that l am 1eeilns
much better than when I came mere.
The waters of this place have maze
Il famous as health resort Tnere
ava fourteen different kinds, or
varieties of water here, coming from
veins OF varying depths from shailoW
springs to the deepest we'll, Whlcn
measures 1850 feet. One well Whlcn
II 1000 feet deep sends forth three
different kinds of water p1ped OUT
from three different veins at three
different depths. The spring OF S1loam'
which Is undoubtedly named from tne
rod of the same name in the Ne"
Testament comes from the hill near
hv md runs into a we'll or reservoir
eight feet deep. This runs thirty-five
hsrrels a dav and is used great deal
these hot days A man sits near ana
pumps the water into drinking cups
which is eagerly taken by the thirsty
crowd. There is nice park mere Wlth
good shade from the spreading elms. |
There are plenty of seats and o1ten a
crowd OF five hundred people SIT |,
quietly quenching their thirst there or
deriving benefits from the curative
virtues of the waters, whatever that
may be. There are many other nice
places OF which will not speak at
this time.
This is town OF 5000 permanent
inhab itants with as many more COM
Inn and going every day. This Is surely T
q city Of hotels and rooming houses,
with mlny beautiful private resi-
dencss. But they lack the spirit OF |
The commercial retail associations and !
boosters for good roads that we nave
Ia good old Wapello county. The
country Is billy and stony around here.
The roads are kept smooth near town,
but they are stony and very narrow
Ind very hard on an automobile. How
ever. there are many Of them used
here: many Of the big cars come down
every day from Kansas City, dis
lance Of thirty.five miles. In talking
with gentleman the other day In,
regard to the roads not being I'M
proved around here, he said that
In touring from New
York to the Pacific coast never came
through Missouri thought from that
that they must come along the Blue
Grass road across Iowa, passing
through Ottumwa and Blakesburg on
their way OF the Pacific coast.
Just one more word: I hope the
boosters OF Ottumwa and the farmers
Of the county are preparing to make
the Farmers Institute the best one
ever held in Wapello county. Those
farmer boys that are raising corn to
exhibit next fall are probably watch
ing their corn growing by leaps and
bounds these hot June days. Hope to
be able to be back again with my old
Wapello county friends and neighbors
IN the grand old state Of Iowa, the
best state In the union.
Yours truly,
David Jay.
Excelsior Springs, Mo.
Time ~ 1918