Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-03-10
Twenty-Five Years Ago
. From The Courier Files :

March I've understand that farm.
ers who have rolling ground are be-
ginning to SOW spring wheat. In this
case it is the early bird that catches
the worm.
The city council will, no doubt, take
measures at anly early date to macad-
am the streets to the new depot. The
credit of the city demands that this
Improvement should be made.
The bus men and depot hotel run
ners have been assigned to quarters in
the hall adjoining the baggage room.
A neat oak grained sofa has been plac-
ed there for their comfort.
Cal Manning of this city, was cleo
ted vice president of the American
Trotting association for Iowa, at the
recent meeting in Chicago.
Patrick Mulligan, languishing
swain of TO- and Hannah H. Call, a
simpering damsel of 'S4,-both inmates
of the Ramsey county poor house, fled
from that institution yesterday and
journeyed to St. Paul. When the hard
hearted officials interfered, Patrick ex-
planned that he had lost his young at
fections to Miss Call when he first OBJ
served her in the poor house kitchen
peeling potatoes, the deft manner in
which her deft and fairy fingers de-
nuded the fruit of its hide going
straight to his heart.
March S.-Dr. J. N. Armstrong tele-
graphs us from Chicago that he will
be home tonight and ready for busl-
ness at his Office Tomorrow morning.
The opera house project is not dead
by any means, but is being worked up
in good shape When the matter is
more fully developed, we will apprise
our readers of what is going on. The
premature announcement of what is
doing in such cases by newspapers too
often works injury where, perhaps, on
ly good was intended.
The Italian peddler who has been at
the waiting room for number of days
past this morning espied a cut glass
/ bottle of vinegar on the lunch counter
and thought he had struck a good
thing. Motioning to the waitress, he
laid down a nickel and pointed to the
vinegar Anxious to make sale, the
girl poured him out a half pint tum bier
full and after admiring the bead on it
for moment, he bolted it down. 1t
nearly strangled him and brought tears
to his eyes. Doubling himself half up,
with his hand on his stomach, he went
outside to mediate on the ways that
are dark and the tricks that are vain
of the average waiting maid who at
tends the depot lunch counters.
March 9.-It takes a car load Of
coal slack every six days to run the
boiler that heats the new depot. -
1t is just little queer how some
men will boast that they bought liquor
of certain persons and when they come
on the witness stand will swear that
they didn't. Somebody is lying sure.
March 10.-On the first of next
month, the C. B. & @. conductors and
brakemen will bloom out in brand new
uniforms. The new clothes will be a
radical departure from the time-worn
navy blue. The color will be sort
of gray, something similar to that worn
by the United States mail carriers in
this and other cities. The change of
uniform has been under consideration
for some time, and there are many
things in favor of a lighter color, es-
pecially for summer.
1t was generally understood when
the new depot was built that it would
be used as union depot for all the
roads centering at Ottusnwa, but for
some reason best known to the G. M.
& st. P and st. Louis, Wabash and
Western, they still continue to run
their trains to the old station.
The record Of the city clerk shows
that there were twelve deaths during
the month Of February in the city Of
Ottumwa.
March 12-There are two stray cows
in the city pound. The owners had
better get them out before they are
eaten up by costs.
= Marshalltown shippers are paying Is
cents per bushel for potatoes and on
ions and are not anxious to buy them
,, at that price.
The school election excited a good
deal of interest yesterday and 626