Local Briefs From Ottumwa and Surrounding Areas
A. C. Shouliis of Ottumwa attends funeral for mother Mrs. Catharine Shoulis. Samuel Bonner returns from visit with sister Mrs. Wm. Gifford in Bloomfield. Mr. and Mrs. W. H. Bedell move to Spiers farm south of town. W. G. Parsons leaves for Omaha to resume railway mail clerk work after vacation. Frank Chandler and others visit Dr. J. S. Gaumer home. Minnie South returns from Kirksville visit to Birmingham. Parsons Wesleyan game may close Foreman & Cochran and New Chicago Grocery. Rex and Everett Mulenix visit Ottumwa relatives. Rev. H. J. Hogan assumes South Ottumwa Catholic church charge. Mrs. H. C. Rowntree visits Ottumwa. Mrs. Wm. Gifford of Bloomfield undergoes serious operation. outcome uncertain. Mrs. Bruce Russell visits Omaha. Mrs. Charles Rollinson visits Ottumwa. Mrs. Charles Gilbert returns home after visit.
Evangelist warns against delaying action and calls for repentance
An evangelist delivers a fiery sermon urging immediate conversion citing God’s offer of salvation and warning that delay leads to judgment. The message includes a Bible fragment about Prepare to meet thy God and reports 29 converts from the campaign, plus notices for G A R and W R C night and 1916 insurance assessments.
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Felix
Paul
God
Heaven
Hell
Jesus
Jesus Christ
Christ
Mr. Peacock
Throne of Grace
Birmingham Family Placed Under Typhus Quarantine
The Todd Hootman family of Birmingham is quarantined until December 1 for typhus fever. Rex Hootman, who cared for a sick Mexican in Ft Madison, died from the disease. A nurse and head physician at the hospital also contracted it as officials in Des Moines and federal authorities seek to halt the outbreak.
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Todd Hootman
Birmingham
Rex Hootman
Santa Fe
Ft. Madison
Des Moines
United States
Springfield
Fort Madison
Ila
Princeville
Iowa State Board of Health
C St. Clair Drake
Illinois Board
Coal for Cash Policy and Farm Offer
The notice announces a shift to cash sales for coal due to high prices and credit costs. It urges customers to pay at the office when ordering and caps delivery at ten orders per day at farmer’s price plus delivery. It also advertises a forty acre farm near town at 110 dollars per acre with a small cash amount and easy balance payments.
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C. V. Pool
Fairfield to Hold Community Christmas Event This Year
Fairfield merchants arrange a Community Christmas feature similar to last year. Funds raised will fund substantial gifts for worthy persons with decorations likely reused from the prior event.
Ladies Aid Society Meeting at Presbyterian Church
The regular monthly business meeting of the Ladies' Aid society will be held tomorrow at 3 PM in the pastor's study. All ladies are urged to attend. Mrs. Clarence Hague and Mrs. A S Hague hosted about sixty ladies last evening at their Iowa Avenue home with a pink rose decorated menu and pink candles.
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the Ladies’ Aid Society of the Presbyterian Church
Clarence Hague
A. S. Hague
Iowa Avenue
Four prime lots in Pumphreys addition offer
Four of the finest lots in Pumphreys addition, all above grade with sewer and water mains and sidewalks in and paid for. A $100 stake secures a lot, balance payable as your salary and savings allow. Stakes and price tags on every lot. inspect tomorrow, select a lot, and bring stake and tag to the office. 09 Starr & Jordan.
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Pumphreys
Clothing drive for the needy urged by New Chicago Mission
Urgent appeal asks generous locals to leave clothing at The Fair Store Foreman and Cochran's or A. J. Boyd's for distribution by the New Chicago Mission Superintendent L. E. Kuhns. Children's clothing especially needed. early attention requested.
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Foreman & Cochran's
A. J. Boyd's
New Chicago
L. E. Kuhns
Automobile Painting A SPECIALTY
C B Cleasby & Co advertises automobile painting as a specialty. They offer a 24 by 50 foot heated room suitable for drying paint in cold weather in Libertyville Iowa.
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C. B. Cleasby & Co
Libertyville
Iowa
Town Property for Sale in Local Districts
Several houses and building lots offered in town including 7 room modern homes in college district and Highland Addition with sleeping porches priced at 5000 and 4500. One 4 room modern near paving for 4300, 1 room modern on South 4th St priced 4300. Two lots in Pumphrey Addition at 1600 each, a lot on 8S Second St at 800, and a Highland Addition lot at 7590.
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College District
Highland Addition
South 4Th St
Pumphrey Addition
Burlington St
Second St
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UNC
A. C. Shouliis
Ottumwa
Catharine Shoulis
Samuel Bonner
W. H. Bedell
Blakesburg
G. W. Spiers
Town
W. G. Parsons
Omaha
Neb
Frank Chandler
Wm. Hanna
Danville
J. 5. Gaumer
Minnie South
W. C. Goodson
Kirksville
Messrs
Rex
Everett Mulenix
South Dakota
A. B
John Mulenix
H. J. Hogan
South Ottumwa
H. C. Rowntree
Wm. Gifford
Bloomfield
Bruce Russell
Charles Rollinson
Douds Leande
City
Charles Gilbert
Ctv
Evangelist
Runyon
W R. C
The
Tabernacle
J.S. Gantz
Orpha B. Turner
Jefferson Co. Farmers’ Mutual Insurance Union
Fairfield
He SR
Starr & Jordan
Gaumer Bros
Fairfield Theater
Ethel Grandin
Jane Gail
Matt Moore
Willie Collier, JR
Bugle Call
Armory Hall
Inigett
Fairfield Iowa
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