Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-08-21
.OTTUMWAN HAS
DREAM COME TRUE
BROTHERS UNITED AFTER BEING
SEPARATED FOR THIRTY.
THREE YEARS.
ADDRESS. APPEARED.
Wonderful Ailuslon Comes to Sixth
Street Resident Which Proves to X
be Means Of Bringing About
Reunion.
Do dreams come true?

Do dreams come true?
! j. R. Hayes, 118 East Sixth street
says they do and he has had an ex
perience that places him in the posi-
ton to speak with authority. HI
dreamed of his brother whom he haC
not seen or heard from for thirty
three years and the reunion Of the pail
has been since effected. "
He dreamed his brother e. T. Hayes
was working in railroad. Office al
Terra Haute, Ind, and that his i'd
dress was 1411 South Tenth street. He
wrote upon awakening with the result
that the brother, Tom, his wife and
daughter Pearl, are now here visiting
Richard and his brother Tom were
together thirty-three years ago when
Richard was married. They finally
drifted apart, Richard going west. He
lived in-yarious parts of the west and
some seven years ago came to Ottum.
| wa. Tom remained In Cedar Rapids
where he was in the milling business
until 1883 when he and his family went
to Merom, Ind. From the time they
separated in Cedar Rapids the where
ahouts we're unknown to each other.
Tom lived in Merom until 1891, when
he went to Terra Haute where he has
lived ever since, and where he is en-
ployed in the Office of the Southeast
crn railroad.
The Dream. ~t-
Richard Hayes had often thought Of
his brother Tom and wondered where
he was located, but to find him seemed
impossible since 1t had been almost
two score years since they had sep
arated. Some time ago Mr.. Hayes
dreamed he was travelling and was
passing through Terra Haute, Ind,
where it seemed to him in his dream,
that he knew his brother Tom lived.
He was making hurried connection
it seemed and as he had only short
time In Terra Haute he was unable to
look the family up at their home 80
called on his brother Tom at the rail
read Office. He talked to his brother
a minute and on leaving told him Of
he would like to have had time to visit
the family, but was pressed for time.
He therefore, asked for his brothers
address, telling him he would write,
In his mysterious dream the brother
told Richard that he lived at 1411
South Tenth street., whereupon Rich
ard Immediately awoke from the spell.
He arose and wrote down the ad.
dress that had appeared to him In the
dream, fearing he would forget it. In
the morning when he went down to
breakfast he told his family of the
dream Whereupon they laughed at his
seriousness. He said that he intended
spending penny for the purpose of
finding out whether or not there was
anything to the illusion. He wrote a
J "1!al. to the address, 1411 East Tenth
street, Terra Haute, Ind, sending his
own address and rather doubtfully
asked the receiver of the postal to
answer. Great was his surprise, as
was likewise that of Tom on getting
postal from his brother. A cores
pondence Immediately followed in
which Richard related to his brother
Tom. the dream that had come to him
Brothers Reunited.
Tom, with his wife and daughter
Pearl, arrived here last Saturday and
the brothers are now enjoying a ra.
union after a separation of thirty-three
years. Tom does, as appeared in the
dream, work in the Office of the South
eastern railroad Office and has resided
at 1411 South Tenth street for the past
seven years.