Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume], May 30, 1916, Image 8

About Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916

Image provided by: State Historical Society of Iowa

                
IF"*
5.'
1 1
it-
'%v
S» 8
•S
il LOCAL
•rtt
te
4 1
DRAIN TILE
For prtoes and Information wrl'.e
MOREY CUY PRODUCTS 'JO.
OTTUMWA, IOWA.
TRI WEEKLY COURIER
CHANQINQ ADDRESSES.
Subscribers wishing then: address
changed will
the
please give t.e names of
postofflce
to
been sent
which the paper has
as well as
tie
where they desire
postofflce
It to bo changed to.
NEWS ITEMS
Mrs. Marcella McHugh, 80S South
Wlllard street, Is visiting In Agency
orer Decoration day.
w' Mr. and Mrs. Harry Nason, Lorella
street, have returned from Selma after
!sltlng relatives.
Herbert Jeffrey of Mt. Pleasant
•pent the week end with friends in
Ottnmwa.
4 Mr*. Elisabeth Garland, 214 Oak
t^ood avenue has gone to Oskaloosa to
Impend a few days with relatives.
Mr*. Lyle Campbell of Charlton Is
Impending a few days visiting friends in
pDttumwa.
1 Mrs. R. T. Cameron of Oelwein LB
[the guest of her mother, Mrs. L. M.
Carpenter, 1148 North Court street.
Miss Nadine Dlngeman, 719 West
Second street, leaves this evening for
Monroe to spend a few days with .^rela
tives.
Carl Dixon of Des Moines has re
tained after spending a day with his
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Eber Dixon, 146
Sforth
Wlllard street
Mr. and Mrs. W. G. Dingeman, 719
est Second street, spent Sunday in
Mr. and Mrs. R. L. Gardner and
Idreb, 217 East Woodland avenue,
ifrpent Sunday with relatives near
jpodlay.
f-v
Elder Pouts of Fredrick filled the
itoulplt qt the Brethren church Sunday
[•vening and returned home this morn
'lag.
Clarence Johnson of Mt. Pleasant
Was in Ottnmwa today en route to Os
kaloosa on business.
Miss Eva Wilson has returned to her
fcome in Centerville after being a week
end guest of Mr, and Mrs. C. E. Wy
gant.
Mr and Mrs. C. L. Hempel of Oma
ba Neb., are visiting at the J. L.
home, 429 North Market
street
Mr. and Mrs. H. L. Bell and daugh
ter, Hasel, 615 Bast Fourth street,
feave returned, home from a brief visit
with Mrs. Bell's parents, Mr. and Mrs.
jk. P. Garrett, who reside near What
Cheer.
Miss Marie McAdoo of Hamburg
will arrive Tuesday for a month's vis
It at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Carol
Jones, 256 South Ward street.
MiM Ruth Smith, director of music
|n the Centerville schools, has re
turned to her home, 420 Hamilton
to spend the summer vacation.
Ervt,
4'
^Mrs. Lottie Belvel, 322 North Wel
Jff street, and Mrs. Lency Reveal, 626
4-Clmrcfc street, were called to Line
vilie on account of the Illness of their
toot&er, Mrs. B. B. Tadlock.
'Miss Jennie M. Greer,
Murrysville,
Mrs. J. M.
r,*TtL, Is visiting her sister
IfcElroy, 816 North Jefferson street
Miss La Rue Newman has returned
to her home in Selma after visiting
Miss Marie Heckman, 115 West Fourth
"•tree*.
Mrs. Charles Stout of Moulton has
yyone to Washington after visiting her
Prices
:?y
ARE YOUR EAR8 TUNED TO
HEAR THEIR* MESSAGE?
Splendid
12/2c
bath towels
special 10c
Large size 19e bath towels
special 15c
30c size in extra large bath
towels special 25c
12^e and 15c embroidery
special, yard 8'/2c
7e and 8c embroidery
special, yard 44c
Something new In laces
special, yard 10c and 5c
W/gC silk ribbon
special, yard 9c
25c silk ribbon
special, yard 19c
Up to date $1.25 corsets
special $1.00
Up to date $2 corsets
special $1.50
Regular $1.25 ladles' hand
bags special 98c
69c grade In ladies' hand
bag special 48c
In cheaper hand bags we
have them at 9c
100 different styles In purses
—we are sure to please you.
I The Fair
:muM 118 East Main 8treet
op?
nilOtifcfcyU
W^WW^
WELL KNOWN OTTUMWA WOMAN
DIES AFTER BRIEF ILLNE88
ALWAYS RE8IDED HERE.
Mrs. Caroline Hofmann Dings, wife,
of J. Fred Dings, 312 West Fourth
street, passed away Sunday morning,
at the age of 40 years.
She was born in Ottumwa August 5,
1876, and passed away after a brief
illness. She was educated in the Ot
tumwa public schools and was mar
ried to J. Fred Dings, April 25, 1900.
She was a member of the Episcopal
church and the P. E. O. society.
She is survived by her husband, J.
Fred Dings, her parents, Mr. and Mrs.
B. Hofmann, three brothers, Frank P.,
of Ottumwa, Ralph of Los Angeles,
Cal., George of Salt Lake City, two
sisters, Mrs. Dora Thompson, Tacoma,
Wash., and Miss Minnie, of Ottumwa,
and her grandfather, D. Schlageter.
The funeral arrangements will not
be made until arrival of relatives from
the west
GREAT EMPIRE
BUILDER IS DEAD
(Continued From Page 1.)
three great competitors to the south,
each of which had received big
bonuses as government aid, whereas
the "Manitoba" or the Great Northern,
as it game to be known, did not have
a dollar of government subsidy or an
acre of grant to forward its progress
from the Minnesota boundary to the
sea.
In this light, Hill's plan was widely
deemed pure folly, but he pressed it to
conclusion by building and populating
as he built. For several years he laid
rails westward at the rate of a mile
a day, and at a cost of $30,000 a mile,
and as he went he left a trail of
embryonic farms by the railside.
With the line to Puget Sound once
laid, he turned empire builder. He in
troduced the live stock industry Into
vast areas of bunch grass plains, and
developed them by importing blooded
stock he sent demonstration trains
through the country with men who
showed the people how to raise more
wheat to the acre he made an outlet
for the grain by establishing a cheap
rate by rail and steamship to Buffalo
where he built great elevators In fact
for upwards of twenty years he left
nothing in his power undone to devel
op the country where he had staked
out his claim as the great common
carrier.
But at the Pacific tide water he was
not satisfied for he saw in the orient
still further opportunities. He organ
ized a fleet of Pacific steamships for
the commercial invasion of Japan and
China. Japan at the time wanted steel
rails but proposed getting them from
England, as the rates were less. It is
related that when John W. Gates, the
steel magnate of Chicago, came to Hill
with the proposition of getting Ameri
can rails to Japan, the latter replied:
"I will make you a rate of $8 a ton
from Chicago or Pittsburgh to Yoko
hama. If that is too much, I will carry
It for the axle grease used on the loco
motives and freight cars and if you
can't stand that, I will carry your
freight for nothing."
At the $8 rate named, the American
manufacturer was enabled to secure
the Japanese contract
The same tactics were adopted in
getting American wheat and flour into
Japan and China, where rice was the
staple food.
His faith in the far east was reward
ed as liberally as that in the north
west- It is estimated that the Pacific
fleet now carries nearly $50,000,000
worth of products to the orient every
year.
While Mr. Hill built up for himself
and his associates an immense fortune,
he also helped to create for the set
tlers along his lines a wealth of over
five billion dollars In real property,
which is represented by the value of
the 400,000 farms and their 65,000,000
acres of improved ?Shd.
Upon his retirement at 69, the
"streak of rust" he had bought thirty
years before, had expanded to more
than 6,000 miles and it was earning
gross profits of more than $66,000,000 a
year, and carrying 15,000,000 tons of
freight annually. He still retained a
hand in the Great Northern's policy as
chairman of the board of directors,
while his son, Louis, who had worked
up from the humblest position of his
father's railroad became president
sister Mrs. "William Culbertson, 801 East
Holt street.
Mrs. H. C. Caughlan has returned
home to Waterloo after visiting Mrs.
A. J. Stump and Mrs. Ltfura Lewis
on East Fourth street.
Alvah Orris of Minneapolis visited
Saturday with his parents, Mr. and
Mrs. Fred E. Orvis, 115 Clay street.
Miss Helen Gardner who is a member
of the faculty of Drake university is
visiting at the home of her parents Mr.
and Mrs. A. T. Gardner, 518 North
Green street. She will soon leave for
Cambridge, Mass., where Bhe will visit
her brother who is a student at Har
vard university and from there she will
spend the summer in New York City
studying illustrating.
MOULTON PIONEER
DIES OF APOPLEXY
Moulton, May 29. —Mrs. Chas. Cole,
wife of the late Chas. Cole, died from
a stroke of apoplexy Sunday morning
at 12:30. Mrs. Cole was a splendid
lady of seventy-four years. She leaves
four children: Engineer Sam Cole, of
thiB city, with whom deceased made
her home Ed Cole, an M. & St. L. en
gineer at Albia Frank Cole of Monti
cello, 111. and Mrs. Charlotte Johnson
of Richland. The funeral was held
this afternoon and the body will be
taken Tuesday morning to New Sharon
for burial.
REV. DAYTALKSTO
THE GRADUATES
EDDYVILLE'8 HIGH SCHOOL STUD­
ENTS HEAR TIMELY 8ERMON
8UNDAY.
Eddyvllle, May 29.—The following
program was given on Sunday morning
who gave his life that the Anthenian
ideals of freedom and culture might
be perpetuated in the face of the op
position of his fellow citizens who
chese to bow down to the voluptuous
Philip of Macedon of a Caesar,
stabbed unto death by his friends upon
the rostra from which he had pre
sented an appeal for many a law in
their behalf of a tinker of Bedford,
cast into prison on a bread and water
diet, dreaming out the immortal alle
gory, "Pilgrim's Progress," of abused
Columbus, lifting a hidden continent
from an unknown sea of the Pilgrim
fathers, daring the perils of the waves
and starvation in the wilderness, that
they might worship God as they pleas
ed of a Washington suffering with his
valiant soldiers in the winter quarters
at Valley Forge, and braving the ice
laden waters of the Delaware, that his
country, which he was destined to
father, might break the chains of
English tryanny and oppression of a
Lincoln, presenting his body a living
sacrifice on the altar of a nation's
freedom. Aye, more! I read of one
said "He saved others, himself he
cannot save." Indeed, it was he who
said,
"Man
Let us consider then what has made
possible these great lights of history.
No normal man ever lived who has
not had a principle of life. It may be
the faulty principle of the bread win
ner, or it may be the righteous princi
ple of the true hero. The path of a
righteous principle leads up hill, and
that of the evil rambles downward. It
Is much easier to follow the way of
least resistence and "ramble down
ward," than it is to overcome ob
stacles and climb upward. Indeed, in
the doing, it is infinitely harder to
serve a righteous principle than a bad
one.
In this dawn of the twentieth cen
tury we face some of the greatest
crises of our national life, involving a
stronger patriotism, thorough prepar
edness against war, the righteous, God
fearing citizenship. The call is clear.
America needs sun crowned heroes who
will meet these crises whatever the cost
may be. If you want the flag to mean
something to you, mean something to
the flag.
We do not go to school to learn what
to think we go to school to learn how
to think, I consistently contend for the
classical in education. The studies or
science, mathematics, Engllshj and the
languages are the real essentials in
educational courses. "But," says the
breadwinner, "These are too difficult,
and possibly will never be used in the
maturer walks of life." It is sure that
they never will, if the choice is to live
by bread alone. God intends for every
one to render his ultimately highest
service. It was the father of transcen
dentalism who said "Hitch your chariot
to a start." Ah, my student friend, you
may never reach the mountain peak,
but if you get to the foothills, you have
done far better than he who stays In
the valley.-
I mean to say, choose the hard
things. Many of you of this class
"Sweet Sixteen" will enter the halls of
higher learning. When you select your
course of study, do not be tempted to
elect the easiest branches. Do not be
tempted to take the play work of the
order. Get down to business. Choose
the sciences, the classics, and the lan
guages. Take Greek. Yes, take it if nec
essary by force. But take It! I have had
a small dose of It myself, and, from a
passing personal experience, I can pre
scribe it as an excelent antitoxin which
makes other studying easy. He who
run three niles can run. one. And he
at the M. E. church at the bacca- Mrs. O. S. Welch, died at her home,
laureate service for the class of 191C: 412 West Second street, Sunday morn
Doxology.
Hymn 91.
Apostle's creed.
Invocation and response from choir.
Anthem—Send Out Thy Light.
Scripture reading.
Face—Miss
Solo—Fact to
Shields.
Hymn No. 702.
Sermon by Rev. E. W. Day, subject,
"Crises."
Girls' trio—June Lafferty, Joe Thay
er, Dorothy Shields.
Hymn.
Benediction.
Rev. Day's sermon in part follows:
Text, "Man shall not live by bread
alone," Matthew 4:4.
tors of heroes. When mankind seems
to be the most prosperous, it is least
prosperous when granaries are full,
patriotism is poverty stricken when
commercial credit is the surest, moral
credit is bankrupted, and when every
man is guaranteed a fat stomach, his
soul starves to death. For human life
is not so constituted that it can be
nurtured by full granaries, bank ac
counts, and plenty of bread. Humanity
starves on these substances. True,
they feed the animal in man, and up to
a certain point are necessary for the
I have perused some history and
never have I found the mention of a
hero whose great mission was bread
winning. I have searched in the hall
of fame and never have I gazed upon a
picture within its walls under which
was the glowing phrase, "He was a
great bread winner." I have seen and
read of marble and granite slabs and
monuments raised above the dust of
heroes, and upon none of them have I
read an epitaph like this, "He died
with a full stomach." But thumbing
the musty memory book of history, I
read of a silver tongued Demosthenes
._ „rQ„ Class of 1916 of the Eddyville high
nailed to a cruel cross of whom it was i8chooI.
shall not live by bread
alone."
A bread diet never made possible
these heroes of history. Judged as
mere bread winners they were all fail
ures. Many had not even where to
lay their heads.
OTTUMWA COURIER, TUESDAY, MAY 30, 1916
OF GIRL'S DEATH
LUCILE WELCH PA88E8 AWAY AT
HER HOME AFTER A WEEK'S
ILLNESS.
Lucile Welch, daughter of Mr. and
ing at 10:30 o'clock. Death resulted
from central pneumonia. The news of
her death came as a great shock to her
many friends and acquaintances, aa
she had been sick only a week and
ithe seriousness of her condition was
Dorothy not generally known. She was a mem
ber of the 1916 class of the Ottumwa
high school and would have been one
of the graduates at the June com
mencement exercises.
The crises of history are the crea- school and has been actively connect
ed with the First Presbyterian church
and Sunday school. She was well
known and popular in the local high
school, being a member of several of
the societies of the school.
sustenance of life. However, they school, Helen Archer, Helen Rowe.
have very little to do with the real
man himself. It is a gigantic miscon
ception of life to look at its from the
angle of bread winning. Some take
this view, holding that all political
questions relate to bread and butter,
and that education's mission is to pro
duce bread winners.
The deceased was born in Mahaska
county April 4, 1896, and was 20 years
old at the time of her death. She
moved with her parents and sister
Gladys, who survive her to this city
five years ago. Since coming here she
has attended the Adams and high
The body was viewed between the
hours of 12 and 1 o'clock this noon by
a large number of high school stud
ents, the senior class attending in a
body. The funeral services were held
at 3 o'clock, conducted by Rev. C. Dut
ton Jacobs of the First Presbyterian
church. The pall bearers were mem
bers of the senior class of the high
Marie Worrell, Marie Millet, Gladys
Avery and Marvel Somers. Interment
took place in the Ottumwa cemetery.
who can even imperfectly master that
dreaded difficulty, the Greek verb, can
master any intellectual problem within
the sphere of scholarship. The only
regret to a successful education Is un
dying, unadulterated work.
But come up higher with me, my
friend into the realm of morality. Yes,
come up higher. We will soon have the
bread winner eliminated. You are now
in a realm governed by laws which are
universal and eternal. The crisis lies in
the fact that some would make moral
ity a contingent science, changing with
the development of civilization. The
world needs men today who will meet
this crisis unflinchingly.
Moral law never changes. What was
wrong 1,000 years ago is wrong today,
and what is wrong today was wrong
(1 000 years ago Most of the
^at
crises of your life will be moral crises.
To successfully meet these it may re
quire separation from friends, injury
from enemies, the destruction of your
wealth, and even the sacrifice of your
very life. History has no place for the
moral compromiser. No man has ever
successfully carried water on both
shoulders. Righteousness has nothing to
do with unrighteousness.
See to it then, young friends, that
you meet these crises with a clear
vision and a good conscience, upheld by
the sort of courage which, if needs be,
will make the last ultimate sacrifice.
May you ever ring morally true.
baker's dough and feed yourself upon
the bread of life. Then, and then only,
will the highest service open unto you.
You will reach the zenith of efficiency
for the state. Education will be tangible
to the actual problems of life, and
moral conduct will spring from a heart
that loves truth rather than evil light
rather than darkness.
You
YOUNG MAN VICTIM
OF TYPlloiD FEVER
Charlton, May 29. —Walter Sams,
son of Mr. and Mrs. Ira Sams died at
the home of his parents in Cedar town
ship on Friday evening, May 26, 1916.
at seven o'clock after an illness of
seven weeks with measles and typhoid
fever. Funeral services, conducted by
Rev. Geo. J. Dornford, were held at
the Bethel church on Sunday forenoon
at eleven o'clock, after which the re
mains were laid to rest In the Bethel
cemetery. Deceased would have been
nineteen years old today. He was
born in Warren county on May 29,
1897. When but an infant he went with
his parents to Marion county where
they resided two years and then mov
ed to Charlton. About fourteen years
ago they moved to the farm in Cedar
township which place has since been
their home. At the time he was taken
111 he was employed at a garage In
Russell. He was a young man of ex
emplary habits and character and was
highly esteemed by all who taiew him.
His death In young manhoA, when
life seemed full of promise, A greatly
deplored, and the grief stricKen par
ents and brother. Raymond, who sur
vive, will have the deep sympathy of
the entire community.
I would not be true to my calling
should I refrain from pointing you to
the higher life. I beg you therefore, George Welch and others
above all, meet the great spiritual crisis 4 30—Social hour. Old friends meet
of your life. Break away from the I
stand within the golden
threshold of the twentieth century.
Thus far your life's work has been well
done. You are. saying farewell to the
class room back to which you will look
with many a happy recollection. You
are facing fields of effort. Some will en
ter the halls of higher learning. Others
will assume Immediately responsibil
ities which may prove those connected
with their life calling. Whatever you
choose to persue, see to It that you do
not live soully on bread bill o' fares.
Aim at the ideal of service. Render unto
God and unto your fellow men the best
that Is in you. The great army which
shall protect our national security in
the future as it has in the past will al
ways be composed of the ever increas
ing army of youths that continually
file out of our educational institutions,
saturated as it is with the idea of serv
ice. Such an army is equal to any task,
whether physical, mental, moral or
sipirtual. Maintaining such a standard,
our nation shall ever be the* herald- of
world peace, the land of the free, the
home of the brave and the pride of her
children.
in
Opportunities for YOU
COURIER WANT ADS
•f ..V'V.
READ THEM
A1
/V
«, in*
v£'
1v
FORMER TROY ACADEMY STUD­
ENTS TO MEET AT CELEBRA­
TION THIS WEEK.
Troy, May 29. —The home coming
and reunion of the former teachers
and students of Troy academy and the
dedication of the new school building
will be held here June 1 and 2. The
following program will be rendered:
Thursday, June 1, 1916.
house.
Opening session—
1:30—Music.
l':35—Invocation, Rev,
hart.
40—Address of welcome, E. E. Gar
rett.
1:55—Response, V. L. WiUjon.
2:10—History of Troy Academy,
John H. Landes.
2:25—Addresses by the teachers.
H. A. Field, G. W. Cullison, John H.
Landes, C. E. Foster, W. F. Garrett,
agajn
Evening Session
7:30—Music by old students, Hon.
R. W. Anderson, leader.
7 40—Reminiscence of the old scnooi
days. All former students invited to
speak.
Friday, June 2.
9:30—Music by the students.
9 35—Roll call Troy academy 1868,
H. A. Field.
Recollections and memories by tne
teachers and' students.
Letters from absent ones.
12:00—Basket dinner in the grove.
Dedication—
1:30—Music, Troy high school.
1-35—History of Troy Consolidated
School, R. C. Sullivan. .rnff
1 45—Addresses, J. A. Woodruff,
state organizer consolidated schools
Hon. G. W. Cullison, attorney Hon.
Carroll, ex-governor of Iowa B.
W. Garrett, clerk supreme court.
Evening—
00 Home talent play, High
school.
In Memoriam
KM
*'«V:V .. I,V
"'HA I s— v',1 A'
V, *,
Morning—Reception''and registration motorman seeing the fight in the car
of teachers and students at the school
Miss Nancy Davis, daughter of Guil
ford and Polly Davis, was born De
cember 27, 1834 in Sullivan county,
Indiana. She moved with her parents
to Wapello county in 1849 and had
been a resident of Wapello county un
til last October when she went to
make her home with her nephew, J. F.
Miller of Keokuk county, Iowa, at
whose home she died May 24, 1916 at
the age of 81 years, 4 months and 27
days.
Miss Nancy Davis is survived by
three
brothers, William of Saline coun
ty, Mo., JoBeph of Howell county, Mo.,
and J- G. Davis of Benton county. Ark.
also two nieces and a number of nep
hews. The deceased has been a mem
ber of the Presbyterian church of Ot
tumwa for the past forty years.
Her funeral services were held from
the home of her nephew, J. F.
Rev A A. Heath of the Delta M. E.
church was in charge of the senses
Interment took place in the McConmck
cemetery, Wapello county. —Contrib
uted.
CAR DROPS FIFTY FEET.
un nodee May 27.—Jesse Conn, a
farmer living near Humboldt, had his
[Tbroke- the car he w*, driv
ing turned a somersault and dropped
fifty feet at the approach of a bridge
a mile southwest of Humboldt in
Weaver township. Mr. Conn who
was alone in the car, was going at
about fifteen miles an hour. An ex
tension to the bridge had been built
but the approach had not been grad
ftd As there were no danger signals
Mr Conn says he did not nptice the
obstruction until he was upon it
"i
spf yg ^B^sm:
•I 4^
N
V,
,,»-rivH'
A
V*t
?. ns r/
Next Tuesday's Courier Will
Contain the First Install
ment of the BooK
PARSONAGE
This is the name of the book that the Courier will
print as a continued story. This is a story of Iowa
people written by an Iowa girl. It b^ts attracted more
attention than any recent book. We have secured the
privilege of printing this book as a continued story,
and it will appear in the Courier daily beginning next
Saturday.
Subscribe Now So That Yon Will Not Miss the first Chapters
CONDUCTOR HURT
WHILE ON DUTY
JAMES BROWN IS ATTACKED BY
TWO INTOXICATED MEN ON
EAST END STREET CAR.
James Brown, 505 Madison avenue,
employed as a Conductor by the Ottum
wa Railway & Light Co., was badly
beaten by two intoxicated men on a
west bound east end car Saturday
evening at 8:30 o'clock at Vine and
Main streets. Matthew Rowel, the
went to
t!le
George Ear-
-it.
aid
ST'f*'1
E N
OF THE.
of his fel1
men and felled both assailants with
the switch iron, saving Mr. Brown
from further injury.
The fight started when Conductor
Brown asked the two men to stop
disturbing the other passengers on the
car. One of the men had an alarm
clock which he kept ringing much to
the annoyance of the other people on
the car. When Mr. Brown told the
men to be quiet one of them started
to fight but his companion pulled him
into a seat. Before the car had pro
gressed far the man struck Mr. Brown
and both men jumped on him when he
fell to the floor. Motorman Rowel,
seeing the fight when he opened the
door, grabbed the switch iron and
went to the assistance of his fellow
workmen.
The two men jumpe'd from the car
and ran away. Both were cut by Mr.
Rowel's blows. Conductor Brown suf
fered a badly discolored left eye, his
left forearm was badly bruised and
the hand was cut. He was unable to
work Sunday or today. Information
was filed at the police station this af
ternoon against the two men that
started the fight.
BATAVIA.
The Jefferson-Wapello Suffrage
league held a meeting Tuesday after
noon and evening in the Batavia M. E.
church.
The contract has been let to Harlin
& Wheaton for the new garage and
work was commened today.
The oil for the streets has arrived
and will be placed this week.
Mrs. Harry Alfred is a patient at the
Ottumwa hospital where she under
went an operatlori for appendicitis.
Miss Nellie Downey returned home
Monday after a two weeks' visit with
her brother at Bethany, Mo.
Mrs. W. J. Porter of Chicago and
Mrs. A. T. Bigelow of Sallx, la., are
visiting at the W. G. Porter home this
week.
Mrs. L. W. Shaw hafe been reported Hi
.the past week.
Mrs. Harold Gobble of Giendale is
visiting her parents Mr. and Mrs.
George Jager this week.
Mrs. F. A. Heilman and sons, William
and Clifford left Wednesday for a visit
at What Cheer, Iowa.
Miss Maude Bennett of Des Moines
is visiting her aunt Mrs. Charles Con
ner.
Miss Katie Wilson west of town was
operated on Tuesday and is reported as
getting along as well as could be ex
pected.
Next Tuesday Is Decoration day. Let
everybody make this day a success in
Batavia.
On Decoration day at 2:-S0 the Ba-
S
TOR IA infants and Children.
The Kind You Have Alwais Bought
,,
E
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
SLAUGHT
is a candidate for representative
on the republican ticket to succeed
himself for a second term, notwith
standing a false report In circulation
to the contrary.
SLAUGHT is not In favor of any
legislation which will increase the
already exorbitant burden of taxa
tion.
SLAUGHT voted in the last legis
lature to repeal the capitol grounds
extension act, atyd many other meas
ures to reduce taxation.
SLAUGHT proved himself a safe,
man in the legislature as the records
show.
SLAUGHT is a tax payer himself..
Vote for Slaught at the primary,
June 5.
POLITICAL ADVERTISEMENT
EDWIN DUNGAN
Candidate for
Clerk District Court
REPUBLICAN TICKET
Primary June S
W. B. Morrison
Eldon, Iowa, R. F. D. No. 1
Democrat Candidate for Member of
Board of Supervisors
June 5, 1916, Primary
Term Beginning Jan. 1,1917
tavia city baseball team will play the
Bladensburg team. No admission will
be charged.
R. M. Stacker, manual trainer of the
Batavia school the past year has taken
up the same work for Parsons college
this summer.
V.
Obituary
Mrs. Addie Root Southwick.
The news of the death of Mrs.
Addie Southwick, at her home in New
York City, was received here Sunday
afternoon by her brother, F. L. Root,
312 North Court street.
Mrs. Southwick formerly lived in Ot
tumwa, but has resided in New York
for many years. She was 61 years of
age. She is survived by three sons,
Harry, Forrest and Everett. Many of
the older residents of Ottumwa will
recall former acquaintance with her.
Mrs. E. F. Dominguez.
The remains of Mrs. E. F. Dorriig.
uez, who died Friday in Denver, Mfiv
ed in the city at 11:15 Sunday niftr
The funeral cortege will leave he
A. Rodgers residence, 431 East Fo,'
street at 8:30 Tuesday morning a.v
requiem high mass will be sung at tht
Sacred Heart Catholic church at 9
o'clock with Rev. James Foley, the
celebrant. The pall bearers will be J.
E. Long, C. B. Charter, J. H. Cadagan,
L. E. Shaw, J. D. Mulroy and.J. B.
McGee. Interment will take place In
Calvary cemetery.
Bears ti ft
Signature
of
OFFICE- OF
N. Friedman
232 East Second, in the Utt Building
Those Owing Accounts Please Make Payments
i, A- «, at This Office