Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-01-13

bad taste to exhibit Or publish a list
vt Wedding presents.
What Ottumwa needs now Is re-
organization of it's street car system,
consolidation Of the lines, and to DO
run by electric motors. Then make
two trips where one is now made, and
the patronage would be doubled.
Calvin Manning represented the
Wtpello County Agricultural society
at the annual meeting of directors OF
the state agricultural sociery held at
Des Moines yesterday.
Some of the very thirsty who reside
in nearby small towns are becom-
ing extensive customers of essence of
lemon, filling up and getting booty on
that article, as put up in small bottles
and sold by grocers generally. This
particular lemon essence Is said to be
made of poor quality of alcohol, and
few bottles will razzle- dazzle anyone.
One merchant disposed of twenty bot
ties during dance before he sus-
pected the object for which it was be-
ing purchased.
January 11.-You cannot say that o.
tumwa is not lucky-the sleighing out
side of town isn't worth cent.
The thermometer at 7 O'Clock this
morning just touched zero for the first
time this winter. This is what we
would call just neat winter weather.
Mystic on the line of the c. M. &
St. P. Ry. in Appanoose county, is
booming. It has completed new
church and is building a $1,000 school
house.
When the G. B. & @. and C. R. l. &
p. get into their new depot the loaf
ers who toast their shins at the stove
in the gentlemens waiting room at the
old ramshackle now called depot,
will have to find some other place to
loaf and squirt tobacco juice. A de-
pot police will see that none but pat
rons of the road occupy the waiting
rooms.
Some one who isn't very busy, has
figured it all out and says that dane
ing eighteen waltzes is equal to four
teen miles of straight work. And If
you'd ask girl who can waltz four
hours at the rate of five miles an hour
without break, to take a straight
walk of two miles for her health, and
she should do it, she would be laid up
at home for week.
January 1.-THE passenger traffic
OH the railroads nowadays is unusually
light.
The air was balmy this afternoon
ard the corner loafers were out in all
their glory
We understand that chicken thieves
are operating in South Ottumwa at
wholesale and hauling them into town
in wagon. Some fellow will fool
alcng at that business until he gets
chance to ride into town feet foremost
and fiat on his back.
The Or. Jekyll and Mr.. Hyde"
troupe drew only fair house last
night. The acting was fairly good.
Marshalltown has toboggan slide.
Ottumwa has plenty of hillsides and
don't need to go to any such unnec-
essary expense They are free for all.
A few of the business men-very
few-are trying to remove the snow
aud ice from the front of their bust
ness houses. The prevailing opinion
seems to be that it's no use, it'll just
snow again.
The police court and justice shops
will have to go into bankruptcy pretty
soon, if they don't get more business
than they are now getting. The police
and constables are watching and
waiting" for something to do.
DR.. Williams this morning extracted
the bullet from Andrew Sweeney's
jaw that was shot into it three weeks
ago tonight. The ball was mashed
fat and broken into pieces. Andrew
felt better after the bullet was out.
Two Des Moines boys left there yes
terday morning, by way of the river,