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DAVIS COUNTY GENEALOGY

Transcriptions of the Ottumwa Iowa Courier

MARCH 1910

TOMMY'S HOME

Dear Editor:

I have not written the Junior before, so I will tell you about my home. I am a little boyy, nine years old and like farm life very much. My papa has a blacksmith shop and I help him about his work some. My school is out now and I am sorry of it for I like to go to school so well. My studies are arithmetic, geography, reading, spelling and language. We gave a program the last day and all had a nice time. My papa takes the Tri-Weekly Courier, and I like to read the stories and letters to the Juniors very much. For pets I have fine goats, the mamma and her four baby goats. I have a harness for the mamma goat and can hitch her to my little wagon and driver her well. I also have a little per dog I like very much its name is Topsy.

Tommie Pottorff, Age 9, Route 4, Bloomfield

OUR NEIGHBORHOOD (VICTORY)

Sunday school commenced at the Bare schoolhouse a week ago last Sunday.

The new church at Victory is being built rapidly. The Misses Ruth Haines and Fae Latta and Mrs Lee Latta visited at C R Allen's Monday. The Leaque at Victory was well attended Sunday evening. M C P Allen, leader, and Miss Hattie Allen, appointed leader for next Sunday evening. School closed at Victory Friday without any program, but a ciphering contest was held in the afternoon. Miss Belle Elder is a teacher. Ray Akins was a caller at the frank Wilcox home Sunday evening, Will Shepherd and Miss Nellie Williams attended Leaque at Victory Sunday night. Halger and Ivy Baker and Lester August were a the last day of school at Victory. I am a Tri-Weekly junior.

 Hattie Mae Allen, aged 12, Belknap, Iowa.

MAY 1910

NELLIE HAS 6 SISTERS

                Dear Editor:

As I have not written to the Junior before I thought I would write a few lines. I live on a farm three miles west of Drakeville. I go to the Elm Grove school. We live about one hundred yards from the school, so you see I do not have far to go. My teacher’s name is Miss Blanche Irelan. I like her fine. I have six sisters and four brothers. I have one brother in Portland, Ore., and one in Boulder, Colo., one in Ramona, Okla., and one is dead. I have one brother living in Rose Hill, Ia., and Walter Myrtle, Marion, Samuel and Gladys are at home. My papa take the Tri-Weekly Courier and I like the Saturday paper best.

Nellie Kutch, age 11, Bunch, Ia.

MY ONE DOLLAR TRIP

On Saturday my cousin and I were walking around and we were looking around, and my cousin wanted to go into the stores to see what we could buy for a dollar, and we went in one store and we could get a picture and a large dish and several other things and we went down to the other store and we could get a good many different things, so we got us a new dress a piece, and when we started home we met some other girls and they wanted to know when we were going home and when we got in the buggy they got in their buggy. Just when we got started it began to rain and we were good and wet when we got home.

  Yours truly, Bertha Benge, age 13, R.F.D. No 1, Bunch, Iowa.

MOLLY IS BLANCHE’S PONY

Dear Editor: -

I am a little girl 11 years old. I have a pony. Her name is Molly. I like to ride her for she is so gentle. I have a hen with eight little chickens. I did have nine but one died. I also have thirteen little turkeys. I go to school now. School will be out the 26^th of this month. I have one hundred and fifty eight post cards. I would like to exchange postcards with any of the Juniors. 

Blanche Sullivan, R. NO. 7, Bloomfield, Ia.

MY ONE DOLLAR JOURNEY

Dear Junior:-

Once upon a time my brother and I wanted to go to my uncle’s and we had one dollar apiece so we went in a covered wagon and we started in the morning and we got 10 cents worth of crackers and 10 cents worth of cheese and that left us 80 cents a piece that night. We got 25 cents forth of corn and 25 cents worth of hay for our horses. That left us 55 cents apiece. The next morning we got up and ate our breakfast, fed our horses and started out. We came to a town, bought our dinners. That left us 30 cents apiece. We got there that night. The next morning we went to town. We got 5 cents worth of candy. That left us 25 cents apiece. Then we rode on the street cars for 5 cents and we went to the country in an automobile for the rest. We got to see a whole lot for one dollar. 

 Yours truly, Bert Bullock, Bloomfield, Iowa.

ORA ONLY TWO YEARS OLD

Dear Editor:

I have one postcard from the Courier Junior. I am a boy only 2 years old and I have two little ducks and one little calf and its name is Ready. I have no mother. My birthday is the 1^st of April. 

Ora Snow, Belknap, Ia.

LEAH LIVES ON A FARM

Dear Juniors:

As I have never written to the Junior Page I thought I would write. I have three sisters and one brother. Their names are Katie, Pearl, Lila and Guy. We go to school at Redbrush. My studies are reading, spelling, arithmetic, geography. My teacher’s name is Mr. Graves. We live on a farm of one hundred and sixty acres. My papa takes the Tri-Weekly Courier and I like to read the Junior page. 

 Leah Rominger, age 10, R. No. 6 Bloomfield, Ia.

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