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mmtww imrnmwm a riv W- THURSDAY, May 19, 1910. for 4t Infants Tri-Weekly Courier BY THE COURIER PRINTING CO. Founded August 8, 1848. Member of the Lee Newspaper Syndicate. A.

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New telephone, business office 44 new telephone, editorial office 167. Address the Courier Printing Company, Ottumwa, Iowa. Entered as second class matter October 17, 1903, at the postoffice Ottumwa, Iowa, under the Act of Congress of March 3, 1879. THE EARTH AND THE COMET. Owing to the inability of the astronomers to agree as to just what will happen tomorrow night when the earth passes through the tail of the comet the only thing left for the mere layman to do is to absolutely disregard the opinions of the scientific gentlemen as to what is to happen and wait until he has seen the comet do its worst.

The failure of the astronomers to get together in this matter Is rather disconcerting. There doesn't seem to be any regular organization of astronomers. They are all insurgents. Just notice some of the conflicting statements they make: Probably there will be a shower of Asaph Hall of the lsaval observatory at Washington. I don't expect that we will know we are in E.

E. Barnard of Yerkes observatory. I look for light effects in the night from the luminous tail of the comet. E. B.

Frost of Yerkes. The atmosphere will be darkened. Robert H. Wilson of Harvard. A terrific explosion may result from the passage of the earth through the D.

J. McAdam of Washington and Jefferson university. The whole tail could be packed in a suit Percival Lowell of Lowell observatory, Flagstaff, Ariz. May be some explosions in the upper atmosphere when the gaseous molecules of the comet's tail strike the earth's Daniel McHugh of De Paul university. The tail is too riare and diffuse to produce any effect at S.

A. Mitchell of Columbia university. The populations of the earth face the possibility of laughing themselves to death when the incalculable mass of cyanogen' gases sweep down upon Flammarion, French Now that all the astronomers have had their guesses, another gentleman who is "known to yez all," will have the last guess. This is the weather man, who in the perversity of his ways may treat us to a mass of dark clouds that would discourage the most persistent comet, or may send a pouring rain to drive the comet parties to cover seeking shelter. THE NEED OF CLEAN STREETS.

The city council last week in committee of the whole voted against adopting the flusher wagon method of Btreet cleaning in Ottumwa. The members of the council voting for the flusher were Aldermen Bremhorst, Ehrman and Hahn, who had previously been appointed as a committee to investigate the advisability of adopting this system, and who conducted this investigation by corresponding with other cities where the flusher was in use'and by making a trfp to Burlington, where a demonstration was given for their benefit of the practical use of the flusher. The members of the council voting against the flusher method were Aldermen Hartman, Williams, Barrier and Hawkes. Aldermen Spry and Gordon were not present and the to 3 vote cast against the flusher, therefore, is not decisive, as the votes of these two aide-men, if favorable, will give the flusher advocates a majority of 5 to 4 when the matter comes up before the council tonight. From the discussion of this question in the council it is learned that the argument againBt the use of the flusher system is not because of its cost.

Advices from other cities where the flusher is in use make it plain that a saving is effected by the use of this method. It is not because the city has no funds to use for this purpose, for $5,000 was apportioned for itreet cleaning purposes and only 1500 is required as the half payment on the flusher for the first year. The argument seems to be that ishing will clog up the sewers, which does I and Children, The TThwi Yon Have Always Bought has borne the signature of Chas. H. Fletcher, and has been made under his personal supervision for over 30 years.

Allow no one to deceive you in this. Counterfeits, Imitations and Just-as-good" are but Experiments, and endanger the health of against Experiment. The Kind You Have Always Bought Bears the Signature of In Use For Over 30 Years. THK C1NTAUW COMPANY, TT MUWHAY NEW VOWK CITY. not seem logical, to say the least, when flushing with water is the very method adopted whenever the sewers for any reason become clogged.

If flushing would clog them the sewers would never be clean in the rainy season, because the rains washing the streets in the hilly sections of the city throw a larger volume of mud and water into the sewers than an entire battery of flusher wagons would do. There isn't a single argument against the adoption of twenl.eth century methods of street cleaning in Ottumwa and Ottumwa should lose no time in acting favorably on this question. Ottumwa never has had clean streets. A few of the streets in the business district have been cleaned periodically by connecting hose to the flre hydrants and turning a stream of water onto the streets, but this is a cumbersome method that has little to commend it. When street sweepers were operated on the streets at night their operations were confined largely to the downtown streets and the close in and level residence streets because this work being done only at night, there was not time to cover the entire city.

A thick layer of dust on the sidewalks and faces of buildings the next morning left outward evidences of the travels of the dry sweeper. In most of the residence streets the work of cleaning the streets been left to nature. The winds cleaned the streets by blowing the dust through the open windows of our homes and over the lawns and porches until "a kind providence sent a heavy rain to lay the then it became mud. The adoption of the flusher wagon method will give us clean streets in the residence district as well as in the business district. Every part of the city could be coverod at least once a week and the greatest efforts streets where there is the greatest could be directed at cleaning the traffic.

The ftiembers of the council who favor the adoption of the flusher method state that they will not quit the fight even if beaten tonight, but will bring the matter up before the council repeatedly until favorable action is secured. Thert should be no necessity of pressing the fight for cleaner streets to such lengths. The council should favorably at its meeting tonight. It is all tommyrot for a political spellbinder to get up on the stage and rant around about whether a suit of clothes costs a dollar more or a dollar less. His duty is to formulate and construct plans that will enable the workingman to continue to sell his labor.

If he can sell his labor he can buy of the farmer and of the merchant. But the thing that seems hard for the low tariff man to see, is that so far as the workingman is concerned, the selling must come before the buying. He has to sell his product (labor) before he can buy at all. Of course, the low tariff man's plan is good for the rich man, because he has money and does not have to wait till he sells something. The low tariff advocate only looks at the buying end.

His plan works in favor of the wealthy. O. G. Elliott, chief of the drainage division of the department of agriculture is in Iowa with a party of engineers for the purpose of making a survey and reporting on the changos needed in the drainage laws of the state. Surveys of this kind are being made in other states by the department in its endeavors to help the farmers find a solution for their problems.

Mr. Elliott states that Iowa has done more drainage work during the past year than any other state in the union. This work has been done by the drainage districts into which the state is divided, and, there is occasional conflict between the operations of different districts, due to tho fact that each district works independent of the others. It will be the office of the men from Washington to consider methods for avoiding such conflict in order that the best results may be obtained from every dollar expended. The Christian Science Monitor declares that Wales is not lacking in native poets and quotes the following verse from the "Collected Poems and Lyrics" of Elivet Lewis, just, published, as proof Ond Plentyn Anian erbyn hyn Sy mhobman gartre: ni oes lyn Nad yw yn murmur wrth yrw fryn Ber- odlau'r Barrd.

Every fair minded reader must admit that this is some poetry. "Rain tonight and Tuesday colder Tuesday." Isn't that weather man the pleasant little cuss? And the home team coming back tomorrow, too. If the comet is responsible for this brand of weather we have had in April iLim, iiiiiDi IIIII urn ULIJ HID JUP A 4 and May it should he thoroughly ashamed of Itself. No self-reBpecting comet would twiBt the seasons around in such an ungracious manner. Stenographer Kerby is not given the best of recommendations to aid him In seeking another Job.

A stenographer who babbles about his employer's business affairs is not the safest sort of a man to have on the payroll. The Boston Record believes that Col. Bryan's statement that he will never again be a presidential candidate should be accompanied by an affidavit. An Iowa woman found $500 while cleaning up the rubbish in her yard. Take this home and try it on the front Ifiwn.

The present general rainfall over the state is held by a Des Moines authority to be worth $1,000,000 to the Iowa farmers. The farmers will need a fejv more million dollar presents to make up for the loss from late frosts. A PERSISTENT CALLER. "I lunched with Winston Churchill in London," said a journalist, "during his remarkable campaign. This brilliant young cabinet mihister, with his American blood through his mother and his ducal blood through his father, praised American journalists.

"He gave me an example of our perseverance. Not less than forty-seven American correspondents called on him at the board of trade offices for an one week on the American tariff and as none of them had sufficiently good credentials, he refused to see them. "Finally a correspondent came witn a letter from Mr. Lloyd-George' and Mr. Churchill saw him gladly.

'Do you he said to tne young man, 'that I have refused to see forty-seven of your compatriots on this very 'I ought to know the correspondent answered, 'for I'm the whole Bulletin. THE EVENING STORY HIS FAMILY'S PLANS. BY JOANNA SINGLE. Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary Press. With an intent frown, young John Markham listened while old John gave a thousand last directions about the management of the mutual business of Markham Markham.

"Confound that d6ctor!" he finished, wincing with a sudden pain, "I know he is right, and that simply must spend the next three months traipsing about Europe, worrying your mother into a frazzle and trying to forget business as much as possible. It's that or But, doctor or ho, I've got to attend to some things myself, so I shall be obliged to take Miss Spencer along. She knows the business almost better than either you or and she's a cheerful person to be with us. I'm sorry about this sudden plan, but you'll have to get a new trust business colleges. Call up his business runs on the same general lines.

He's my best friend, and he is sure to have good girls, and one to spare in the summer. Well, see you later. I'll go home now." Young Markham, who always did things now, went to the 'phone and asked Mr. James Savery for thjs loan of a stenographer for a few one that could spell and mind both her own business and that of her employer. The old man thought a moment and' promised to send one over in the morning.

This was done. Markham Junior then proceeded to other matters, determined that no detail should suffer in the enforced absence of his father. But as he worked he raged, for the night before he had overheard a parental conversation which he could not escape without letting them knew he had heard, which would have troubled them terribly. He wished he didn't know that they were cold-bloodedly worrying about his marrying, though he was but twenty-four, and that they had imagined they could choose a wife for him. They seemed worried lest he be captured by the wiles of "some woman," some girl without money and position, some one not in their own particular social set.

He would show them that he would make his own choice, sincerely hoping the family would like it. But, if they didn't, they to thunder! Which sentiment was more forceful than filial. But it was the limit that they should plan to force old Savery's daughter on was Margaret his mother mentioned, though there were several of the motherless girls. They had been in England with an aunt since childhood and were coming back any time now. Let's see, he that Margie was the flossy-i-opped, tomboyish child he had quarreled with at the seashore one summer when he was twelve and she a bit younger.

The mater said she was sorry the girl was a little frail, she would have preferred a stronger girl but Margaret was had seen her in London last summer. She had been "presented" and was beautifully mannered. The mater had gone on to tell her husband that his old friend Savery was crazy. He had had all his girls taught to earn their own living in case something happened to him. Maude had learned to cook, Elizabeth to dressmake and heaven only knows what he had taught Margaret! She was the youngest, and marriage would save her.

She had hoped to throw the girl in John Junior's way that summer, and here she had to trail all over Europe? She was quite pathetic about it. The young man sat on the veranda that night after he had dutifully seen his parents off. He had promised them anything, and was to be made comfortable in the old house by tho family servants. He hoped the pater would improve in uiiiinii in imi OTTDMliWinffla. per.

Then he -went off-early to bed, his mind still busy with choosing his own wife. Miss Stone, the new stenographer, was waiting next morning. He called her to take some dictation in the inner office, and almost unconsciously, though he was courteous to every one. accorded her the manners he would have used with girls of his own set. She was little and slender, with quantities of plainly arranged, bright brown hair and steady, clear, gray eyes.

She could not have been much past twenty, but she had an air of poise and detachment that was quite remarkable. His quick eye noted that her exquisitely neat black dress was new and cheap, that her small shoes were cheap, but her handkerchief which lay on the desk before her was of very fine linen. She took dictation swiftly and quietly without asking him to repeat, with an alert intelligence that pleased him. And when, later, she brought him the letters to sign, they were faultless. She could spell and she could bring forceful order out of his rather chaotic and headlong sentences.

And neither that first day nor on any other did she seem to regard him personally. She did her work and then went home. It was very simple. Business, always slack in summer, went smoothly enough, but he saw that every detail was brought up to date. Every one busy enough.

The new girl seemed not to mingle with the other girls, but kept to herself. He found that she could not only spell, but that she could exist without gum, cheap finery, and elaborate coiffures. And she made no attempts, subtle or otherwise, at flirting with her young employer. He was used to being ogled by the girls in his employ. This was refreshing, but her indifference piqued him.

He had an irritated feeling that she hardly saw a man. Her fine, steady eyes never lingered approvingly on his consciously handsome self. And she never lingered, never said more than a conventionally pleasant word at coming or going. She never mentioned her private affairs, and when he said she might go early, she pinned on her quiet street hat, took her gloves and parasol and went. He wondered where she lived.

Finally in July he asked for her case he should need her on a holiday or in an emergency. She very readily gave him the name of a business woman's home, and said the matron would always deliver a business message. The heat increased and he put another electric fan in the office in her she had begun to look a little worn and tried. And he wondered if she had any relaxations. He had never seen her outside of the office, except one evening at a high class vaudeville.

She was with an elderly woman, and he hardly nized her in a rose-wreathed hat and beautifully simple pale summer dress. He reflected how wonderful it was for bright, sweet young girls to clothe and protect themselves by their own work, and on $12 a week or pitifully less. Ought he, in decency, to raise her salary? One Saturday noon late in August, the heat was so extreme that he said eyery one might go except Miss Carroll, who had some circulars to get out. But Miss Stone said if he didn't mind she would stay and. read and write a office was cooler than her room.

He acquiesced and from his chair in the inner office he sat looking out at her. She wrote some letters leisurely on some very good note paper. Then from a drawer she took a little green book, leaned back in the big chair quietly. From his own writing to his mother, he would look up occasionally at the girl, serene and dignified, perfectly remote and detached, with the breeze stirring the gold-brown of her hair. Finally she rdse and went home.

Miss Carroll followed. Passing out a few moments later, he saw that she had left her book on the desk. It was Stephen "Marpessa, and John Markham's young college taste this was the acme of discrimination in reading. She knew what waB what, that girl. As he opened the drawer to put the book away, he saw other worn little Browning, a small volume of Lamb's "Elia," Chesterton's chance choice, such books as that! He was quite excited about it.

Then he went home. This was the evening when, out on the veranda, alone, he discovered that he was in lbve with her. He was very glad she was a stenographer, too. That would show her, his parents, the world, and himself, that it was just the girl herself that he wanted. But he did not sleep much that night, for he was far from certain that she would listen to him, that she would marry him, or even give him a chance to woo her! He couM not compromise her by taking her to places or by calling on her.

Neither would she allow it. Any other man might have a chance, but not her employer. Well, he would say some-, thing at the first chance. He knew he would have to the chance himself, and he did so. He walked over to her desk the next afternoon, when the others were working elsewhere and it was almost time to go home, an dtoll her he wish to go home, and told her he sonal matter, and when and where could he Bee her? His manner was obviously respectful, and she accepted it thus, but she looked at him with careful coolness.

"You cannot possibly have anything to say to me, Mr. Markham, that you cannot say here and now. What is it. please? I am quite at your service." She gave him a little Impersonal smile, while he fumed with rage. "Very well," he said in a low tone, "This should be said in your home, but as you bid me speak here, I shall do so.

I have loved you from the minute I saw you and I want to win your love. I want you to marry me." This was direct and no woman could mistake the sincerity of it. "With your parents' full! consent?" she asked slowly, flushing, and her voice very low. "With their vflthout it With or without the consentVol of your parents, if you have any. I'm willing to ask them if you say so.

Give me a chance, Margaret?" "You might ask my father, Mr. James Savery," Bhe said demurely, "whether he I have had enough business experience." "But you, you! I want your answer She rose, dropping the little "Marpessa' 'to the floor. He stooped to pick it up, and from the open flyleaf this name looked tip at him, Margaret Stone Savery." she said softly. "Anything my you wish would be quite all right." Then she managed to slip past him and put on her hat, but he followed her out and went down the street with her to her father's office. THE SILENT WITNESS.

BY TEMPLE BAILEY. Copyright, 1910, by Associated Literary Press. No one knew just where the white kitten belonged. The chances were that she came from one of the low gray cottages along the line of the beach. She could generally be found on sandy hillocks at the remote end of the peninsula, where she dug sunny nests for herself and basked lazily watching the sandpipers between half-closed eyes.

There were traces of distinguished ancestors in the length of her hair, the bushiness of her tail and the blueness of her eyes. Now and then she drifted down close to the'water's edge and played with the foam, of which she seemed al The man laughed lazily. "If you After that they talked sweet nothings over her head, but finally they disagreed. The loud voices startled the kitten and she sprang from her resting place and flew down the sands. But they did not notice her.

The girl's face was as white as her dress. "I can't give all of my time to you, Richard," she said, "not until after our engagement is announced." "Then anounce it," he demanded. "Why is it necessary to keep it secret, Elizabeth?" "I have told you and told you," she stated, "that until mother returns from abroad and ratifies it I must not let the world know." "I am so afraid of losing you," he said, "that perhaps I am unreasonable. But you danced so often with Radcliff last night that my heart was heavy as I watched you." "Oh, Radcliff!" She threw out her hands in a gesture of scorn. "As if any woman would look at him twice when you are around, Richard." His began hotel, went.

face cleared at that and they their walk back toward the talking peacefully as they The white kitten trailed along the beach, and, at length, rushing on ahead of them, she landed on a ledge hollowed out by the waves. There was a hole in the ledge where a bird had made a nest. Elizabeth stopped and examined it. "It's like a little mail box," she said. "Some day 1 am going to leave a letter for you here, Richard." "Every day I shall look for it," he declared ardently.

After that the kitten stood guard often over letters which ca'me to the strange hiding place. Some of the letters were in pale gray envelopes and addressed in a feminine hand, others were big and square with a masculine scrawl. One day a strange man left a letter and when Elizabeth opened it she gasped, 'How did he know?" "What is it?" Richard demanded. "How did Radcliff know that we mailed our letters here?" "You must have told Richard said. "You have been with him often enough lately." "Oh, jealousy!" Her eyes blazed.

"Will you never that he is only an old 'friend? Why I have known him from a boy." "Why should he write you letters?" "It's just some foolishness." She tore open the envelope and gasped, "What does he say?" her lover manded. But she would not tell him, and, jealousy getting the better of him he insisted that she should. The quar ms.stea rel that followed made the white kit ten cringe and then fly down the beach toward the gray cottages. Late opening to the mail box. The man who wind took it again, down the beach.

terB Once it went sailing over the tops the waves, like some strange bird, only to be brought back for the kitten's plaything. Once it went sailing over the tops of The next morning the kitten was nn V. beach, and seeing her, came toward her. "Radcliff," she looked up startled. "I thought it was Richard." "Did you get my note yesterday?" he asked.

"Perhaps I should not have wrlttten, nor have put it here. But I had seen you two people exchanging notes and it seemed interesting to see what would happen." She looked at him reproachfully. "Your joke has made me very unhappy," she stated. "You know how jealous Richard is. He wanted to see the note and made so much out of a trifle that I would not let to punish him.

I told him that he must write to me and apologize. I thought, of course, he would, but he didn't." In the days that followed, the kitten and the girl sat often together on the sands. Both of the men had left, and the girl was very lonely. Now and then she played with the kitten, but usually she' sat looking listlessly out to sea. The kitten played, however, racing up and down the sands, chasing the waves, leaping after every stray thing that fluttered in the wind.

One day there came flying down the beach a bit of yellowed paper. The kitten pursued it, leaping high in the air after it as It was carried aloft by the strong breeze. She flattened herself on top of it when she had gained possession. The girl laughed at her antics, and, growing interested, caught up the bit of paper crushing it into a ball to throw toward the eager animal. As she did it, a ine ITSU.

XUC FEIIX WUW "wiv I LIT? iviiicu AAI AIIU IUUACU gowns, so that when the kitten lay she had been a silent witness to the on her lap they seemed merged one whole story, the petty quarrel, the into the other. tragedy of parting and of loneliness "She is a beauty," the girl said one which had followed. To her the letday in late summer. "I am going to ter had been a plaything to the girl steal her and take her home with jt meant life. me, Richard." The girl flung her arms out with eager auiiuui.

ouo uiu 0f oHcrck anH nlflVOd VVlt.h mAn mflannllfiA ooraorl me iua.ui, ul wuiwi ouo With eager haste she opened it and most a part, with her snowy fur and a find out to whom she belongs, I'll shall write to him tonight," she said, buy her for you and save the sin of "and tomorrow, oh waves, you shall ofrAoHno1 UmltiM, rvi stealing. The kitten blinked and yawned lilt? JUllBU UIIUAOU auu jonncu, fclie SptJU lUWHrU UltS liUlWl it 11U UIC She had always lived by the sea and kitten was forgotten. But the kitten a sue iuvcu iu one um iiuu uuun was luiiiciii. rur iicr uicic wits uitover her head, they were planning to sand, the sea and the wild song of carry her to the city where she would the waves and of the wind. nnl nrOiro be shut in from the wind and wave.

writing caught her eye. It was a familiar masculine scrawl, read idrawn from the hole two weeks beher light movements. There were two persons who came f0re often to that end of the peninsula and who played with the white kit ten. The girl who came wore white the letter that the kitten had "Why," girl murmured, "he did write and he begged my pardon." The kitten sat and looked at her. gesture toward the sea.

"I bring him back to me. She sped toward the hotel and the was content. For her there was the Three Mysterious Letters. Marshalltown Times-Republican: Albia recently had the honor and delight of entertaining a mysterious order, a secret society so deep, dark and utterly shrouded in such impregnable secrecy that not only its objects but its appellation iB hidden beneath shirt waists of its members. Three mystic characters, standing for who knows what are the only cue.

E. says you, "What does that stand for?" A superior smile, an air of deep mystery is the only answer vouchsafed by her of the inner circle though she may be the wife of your bosom and bound by every human consideration to tell you all she knows. It is one secret women have been able to keep. What the E. is, what its objects and designs, how it works, nothing is known to man except the tantalizing knowledge afforded by those letters which in brazen effrontery proclaim that she knows one thing which she will not tell.

Masculine ingenuity is at a loss. "Price Every Article" is eliminated by orthography. "Pocketbooks Emptied," seems to be a shrewd start but the gets in the way. "Pantaloons and Equality or Death," introduces another word and suggests another initial. It is mysterious, hidden perplexing, perhaps dangerous.

E. the "Pigs In Clover" puzzle of the century. Twenty-three years this order has existed, flourished, and kept its secret. Think of it, continuous concealment by woman for a period of twenty-three years! What horrors must be woven into the oaths, what soul searing and appalling ceremonials must be included in its ritual! What do you imagine P. E.

O. stands for, anyway? What's your idea? Mrs. Belle BJack visited Saturday and Sunday with her son Will of Ottumwa. At the meeting of the Sunday school board of the M. E.

church Thursday night T. P. Bence was elected assistant superintendent to fill the vacancy caused by the moving away of Mr. Fryberger. L.

E. was chosen teacher of Mr. Bence's class and J. M. Krewson chosen to take D.

H. Payne's class during his absence. Mrs. Lute Burchett died at her home in this city Saturday morning of combined heart trouble and pneumonia, age 50 years, 5 months and 20 days. Funeral was held at the residence this afternoon at 2 p.

conducted by Rev. Ferrall. Misses Anna Gaggott and Ina Banta of Pulaski were city visitors Saturday. Bush Whitacre and family of Mystic Rusgell and Mra when the eirl again on tne leage wnen ine gir came. She was alone and when she had looked and found no letter she ottumwa came later moved her gently.

When came imer uiuveu net "uv" Mrs. J. M. Hunt and son Dawson of he had gone there peeped from the puiaskl visited the last of the week Lii. ni.

Tftkn CavAra with her sister Mrs. John Sayers hole the edge of a white envelope. The spring breeze blowing from the ocean beat against bit of sr0wn Plata, the crackling made wJth mu Harley Bingamon. Mr and Mra Dan the flrat ot that night, however, she scuttled ter Mrs. Chas.

Evans Ottumwa. back to the ledge. It was moonlight. They took their grandchildren. ConThe waves seemed crested with silver, stance Hedrick visited the week with their daugh- The white kitten stretched her snowy Mr.

andMrs. were Otlength along the edge, half closing the Ramono home. Altheide visited friends in Saturday. John Grider of Ottumwa visited in htm for a visit. kitten sit up and take notice, bhe Miss Ruth Greenleaf left Sunday for patted the paper with her paw.

It a vlBlt at gave a little and came half out from Qreenleaf and daughter Erdlne who the hiding place. Helped by the kit- have been visiting here also returned ten's eager paw and by the wind, it to Rock Rapids lay fluttering on the ledge. Then the lay fluttering on tne teage. inen iue Rock Rapids, la. Mrs.

Ella pareI1ta cert Thos. Randolph and wife who live north of town. Mr. and Mrs. Ed Songer of Ottumwa visited Sunday with the former's father, Wm.

Songer. north of town. Bloomfleld had their first band con Saturday night. The band is un- the of Walter Johnson. Mrs Dejla Rue were sat down on the sands and cried.

I Mrs. Fred "tucker and son Paul are Presently a man came along the jvlsiting Mr. Tucker's parents M. E. gOW6rs and daughter La ottumwa visitors Saturday.

Tucker and wife of Ottumwa during Rev, trip to the' Northwestern unlveraity at Evanston, 111. Jim Proeser made a business trip to EJddyville Saturday. 4 Sunday with her mother Mrs. Nancy Elder of Pulaski. Mr.

and Mrs. John Higbee of Ottum- v' wa spent Sunday tn this city. Mr. and Mrs. Harry Prosser and John Watts and wife at Ottumwa vis- ited Sunday at the Chas.

Watts and Howard Newell homes. J. P. Skinner and wife of South Ottumwa spent Sunday with their son Chas. Mrs.

Will Owens of Belknap visited last week with her brother Pete Horn who Is HI. Miss Mabel Dowell and J. W. Watts both of Ottumwa were married Saturday by Rev. Ferrall.

Miss Bessie Smith left Saturday for her home In Chicago after a short visit with her brother James Smith and other relatives in this city. EDDY VILLI. Ed Vantlne was called to Eldon Saturday night by the serious Illness of his mother. Dr. J.

F. Herrick of Ottumwa was calling on the doctors of BddyvilK Friday. The Sunday school class of William Hankens and the Sunday school class of Rev. Seeds had a picnic Saturday at the Mineral Springs farm. The spent the day fishing.

Geo. Webber of Grinnell spent last Sunday in Eddyvllle with his mother. Louis Bescoe who has been spending the week in Ottumwa with sister Mrs. Martin, returned home on Saturday. Mr.

and Mrs. Martin returned home Saturday. Mr. and Mrs. Martin also came up to spend Sunday at the parental Bescoe home.

Mrs. Bradfleld went to Keokuk Satturday to vist her mother for a short time. Mrs. Stoops of Grinnell is visiting her friend Mrs. Fannie Cassett.

John Waugaman entertained hia Sunday school class at his home Friday evening. Robert Edgar of Lacona, is itlng his niece Mrs. James Wylie east of town and other relatives. Those reported sick this week Mrs. Ben Whitsel, Mrs.

Gott, Mrs. Bloomfleld, H. S. Davis and daughter and Taylor Reed. Carl Mayer who is employed in Oskaloosa visited Sunday with his parents.

Tom Grooms of Albia has been visitinty his sister Mrs. N. A. Thayer Iri Eddyville this week. Mr.

and Mrs. L. Cecil have been enjoying a visit from Mrs. Ed Downs ul Everest. J.

R. Si pes census enumerator ol Pleasant township spent Sunday with his parents, Mr. and Mrs. Jim Sipes. Mrs.

Pearl Mahaffey and children are visiting her parents, Mr. and lArs. Keller at Freemont this week. The Junior class of the high school entertained the members of the senior class Friday evening at the home of Miss Helen Johnson. The house was decorated in the senior colors, blue and orange.

Those present were SuDt. Emma Nye, Miss Carpenter, Jennie Shields, Pearl Fields. Vina Saville, Hazel Waugaman, Emma Anderson, Lela Worrell, Berniee Shlnn, fred Batcher. Frank Gallagher, Robert Powers, Wesley Powell, Jennie Anderson, Edith and Laura Lee, Helen'Johnson, Jeannette Keeran and Ethel MoMalian. Mr.

and Mrs. Harve Bufflngton 6t Tracy have been visiting at the Enoch Johnson home. Mrs. Bulger who died at Ward was brought to, Eddyville Friday. Interment was made in the Catholic cemetery.

A large number of relatives and friends from Albia attended the funeral. Mr. and Mrs. Bulger lived in Eddyville many years ago. Ernie Lyons and wife of Cedar were transacting business in Eddyville recently.

John Fox of Ottumwa was in ville attending the funeral of Bulger. Mrs. Phillips moved from the Parry property to the Free property on Fifth street. A public was held today at the Lyons farm south of town. The fa ily will soon leave for Texas.

The following are one the sick list: Edna Hobson. Mrs. M. A. Beamer, John Mahaffey.

ORMANVILLE. Decoration day will be conducted at the Ormanville M. E. church Sunday, May 29 in the afternoon at 2 o'clock. There will be an interesting program carried out by the North Star school.

After the program R. V. Huff will make a talk which will be interesting for every one. Everybody invited tc attend. Coprrlcht 1909, by C.

E. Zimmerman 56. We guarantee every watch sel and we'are right here to make good ii anything goes wrong with it Keep this in mind In selecting the place to buy your next watch. We will sell you a watch just as cheap as any house la the country. We are carrying Elgin, Waltham, Howard, Illinois, Hamilton and Hampden watches, and can sell, these to you fitted in cases rangtns from $5.00 to $60.00 N.W.Cowles Jeweler v- -1 vl 8 1 1 1 1 4 'M ''a 4r vvrm -Vl1.