Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1901-09-12

and company in this city for the past
four years as stock bookkeeper and
this change is in the line of promo
ton.
A daughter was born this morning
to Mr.. and Mrs. H. E. Pancost, WHO
reside at 104 South Ward street. Mr..
Pancost is manager for the Ottumw;s
Telephone Co.
w. H. Rupe, a farmer residing o.
Turkey creek, brought four ears of
corn of fine quality to the Courier of
flee this afternoon. The corn will
yield about thirty-five or forty bushels
to the acre.
Miss Mary l.. Sanborn of Alva, Ok
lahoma,. arrived today for a short visit
at the home of her brother, Fred San
born, l35 Ottumwa street, after which
she will leave for Washington, D. c.,
on business trip.
j. H. Buncutter, who travels for ].
H. Merrill & Co., has moved his fam
lily from Ottumwa to Creston. Mr.
Buncutter moves to Creston to be
more centrally located in his territory.
-Creston Gazette.
William Hoffman, alias George Ben
nett, who was arrested few days ago
charged with larceny of a coat. a
watch and an outfit for an agent sell
ing trace fasteners, all of which are
said to belong to Mack Corkins, was
sentenced to thirty days at labor this
morning by Judge Moon in police
court. Hoffman, or Bennett, as he
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thought by the Ottumwa officers to
be the one who violated parole from
the Pontiac, Illinois, reformatory re-
Gently. He may be returned to Pom
tiac after his term here has expired.
William Johnson and John Riley, tie
two men arrested yesterday morning
by Chief Gray for stealing two suits
of clothes from the store of the Dysals
Clothing Co., were sentenced to serve
thirty days each at labor on the rock
pile this morning, when they had been
brought before Judge Moon and the
testimony in the case had been heard.
Johnson, the man who went into the
store and got the clothes, pleaded
guilty to the charge of larceny. He
told Judge Moon that he had gone in
to the store for the purpose of buying
a red handkerchief, but saw the two
suits of clothes and also saw that no
one was looking, so he decided to take
the clothes instead of the handker
chief. He offered no excuse for the
act except that he had been drinking
too much.
Sergeant e. r. Mitchell, Company
c. l. N. g., was elected to the Office
of second lieutenant in that military
organization last evening by vote
of the members of the company, to
succeed Charles Peach, who resigned
a few weeks ago in order to go to Cal
ifornia, where he is a student in the
Stanford University, near Palo Alto.
Since Mr. Peach's resignation there
has been no little speculation as to
his successor. Two sergeants have
been in the field for several weeks.
First Sergeant c. f. Caughlan and
Sergeant Mitchell. Recently Sergeant
S. N. Manro announced himself as a
candidate, but did not press his can
didacy. A spirited, though friendly
campaign was kept up among the
members of the militia, which resulted
last evening in the election of Serge
ant Mitchell
[From Wednesdays Duily.l
Mrs. Jacob Ream left last evening
on Burlington No, 4 for Shelbyville,
ILL.,, to visit her sister, Mrs. NJ. Will
son.
Misses Jessie and Amy Fair, of
Agency, were in the city this morning
enroute to Denver and other western
points.
The death of the infant son of Mr..
and Mrs. Jesse Ross occurred this
morning at Z O'Clock at the family
home two miles east of Kirkville,
Alfred c. Tapp, who died at the hos
pital at Ottumwa last week, was en-