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Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
BONAPARTE.

Bonaparte, Dec. 5.-The Bonaparte
Poultry association will hold their an
nual exhibit next week in the Rees
hall. The entry list is large and the
quality of the entries assures the exhi-
bit to be one of the best in Southeast
err Iowa.
On Monday evening Camp 1s49, M
W.. A. elected the following officers TO!
the ensuing year: v. C.-Thomas
Beard; w. A, James Holmes; clerk
Gus Nelson; banker, ]. w. Persinger;
escort Carl Miller; Waterman. Jesse
Hornbaker; sentry, Floyd Macklin;
manager, William Ryland.
Mr.. and Mrs. Ency Roberts of Sc
gum, Washington, are the guests Of
relatives in this vicinity.
Clarence Hornbaker is attending the
Stock show in Chicago.
Mrs. Mort Westbrook and little
daughter of Mt. Sterling are visiting al
the George Syfert home.
Mr.. and Mrs. j. S. Moore returned tt
their home in Keokuk.
John Brown and Charles Davis were
Pennington visitors yesterday.
H. II. Meek was Keokuk visitor
Tuesday and Wednesday.
Sidney Parker has gone to Prairi4
City to spend the winter at the HON;
OF his son, Walter Parker.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
WONERSHIP OF
RING, A MYSTERY
MISS SARAH sPIWAK FINDS GOLD
EN- clRcLET IN COAT SHE
is TRYING ON

Whose ring is it? Also, where did
it come from, and how did it get
there? These are questions which
are agitating the minds of the Off
Gals and employees of the Phillips Big
Store. There" was in the pocket of
a cloak. 1t was a plain gold band
ring of considerable worth. The
story is an odd one.
Last week Miss Sarah Spiwak was
trying on cloak in the big store
Miss Violet Palmer, one of the. clerks
was waiting on her at the time Miss
Spiwak slipped her right hand into
one of the pockets of the cloak. She
felt something round. 1t was ring
The coat had only been in stock a
few days when Miss Spiwak found the
ring AS far as the clerks in that de-
partment of the store remember, ii
had never been tried on before. In that
case where did that ring come from
and whose is it? At first Mr.. Phillips
thought that the ring was not of much
value, but he took it to an expert who
pronounced it to be of good quality
The owner of the ring, if she knows
herself and can prove her ownership
will find it at the Phillips Big Store.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
REAL ESTATE TRANSFERS.
Furnished by Lowenberg G. Co.
South Court St.


Scully, j. c., guardian, to ]. K. Sloan
Undivided els part of lot 16 block
2. Smith addition, Ottumwa, $500.
Williams, A. o. to Jeanette G. Will
liams-Lot 5, Boutwell, addition; lots
II and 1S. Dain addition, undivided "
part of lots 10 and IA. Norris suhdi-
vision, Ottumwa; also southeast a of
the southeast n Of section 33 and part
of the southwest of the southwest u
of section 347214, 81.
Dempster, William, to Agnes Demp-
ster-Lots 142- and 49, block 80,
Smiths fifth addition, Ottumwa, ST.
Fullmer, E. L. and wife, to Adella ].
Williams-Lots II and 10, Warren &
Haynes subdivision, Ottumwa, $500
and exchange.
Manning, Calvin ct al, to Geo A.
Observation-Disclosures 2-3 part south
west u of section 26-72-14, $966.67.
Manning, Calvin, guardian, to George
A. mmings-Undivided 1-3, same as
above, $4S3.33.
Berthoche, Eugene, to Abbie G. Ber-
tloche-North " of the northeast Il of
the northeast 4 of section 3-71-14
s1,4o0.
Winter, Peter, ST., to Catherine Kelly
Part of the east u of the southeast
a of section 2S-72-13, $100 and other
considerations.
Dimmitt, Laura. to Samuel Dimmitt
Part of the north Y of the northeast
u of section 33-73-13, $1,O0 and other
considerations.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
CULLEN SIORE
A BOWER OF BEAUTY BRlMFuLL
OF GOOD THINGS

| . g.
In going the rounds of Ottumwa the
greatest shopping center in Iowa, one
|, is most favorable impressed with the
metropolitan air of Ottumwa's great
dry goods store, S. G. Cullen & Co.
1t is also a well-known fact that they
enjoy the mistaken confidence OF
every patron that frequents this large
establishment and to win the conf
dence of all the people has been the
untiring study and effort Of this firm
since it's inception in business eighteen
years ago. To say the least they have
been awarded the crown of success
and today they stand ready and will
ing to defend their enviable reputa
ton and the record they have attained
by unceasing faithfulness to public
trust.
A busy store indeed with its broad
aisles filled with Christmas shoppers
and its spacious shelves and long coun
tiers ladened to the fullest capacity
with useful and beautiful Christmas
goods. To visit Cullen's store is tc
visit one of the foremost retail stores
in the middle west. Cullen's are firm
believers in and users of judicious
and truthful advertising and are con
slant patrons of the Courier columns
They have good things for sale. They
are dependable merchandisers. 1t is
well worth your while to visit the
Cullen store.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
LETTER FROM THE WEST.
To the Editor:

10 the Editor:
Spokane. Wash. Nov rs, 1906
Dear Sir.-I told you would write
you letter from the west and will do
so now; l arrived here Nov. by the
way of st. Paul, over the Northern Pa
cific railway 10 houre late. l left ST.
Paul Oct. 81 on the second section Of
No. 3, Pacific Express. We left Mime
apolis with a heavily loaded train of
passengers for the coast We were
headed with two locomotives, two bag
gage cars two smoking cars, four tour
list cars, four Pullman sleeping cars
and two dining cars. All the seats
and berths in the tourist and Pullman
cars were taken up. The train start
ed out very slow with No. / only 30
minutes ahead of us, which was well
packed before it left ST. Paul. The
heavy travelling was on account of the
cheap rate to the coast, and this was
the last day for this rate A good many
like myself waited until the last day.
Well, understand that heavy immi.
grafton from the east and middle
states has been going on for some
time to the coast and some of the in.
land towns like Spokane. Well, !
must say that we had very pleasant
trip. The weather was fine and the
farmers in the great Red River valley
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scHMITz DREW ss57.5o WEEKLY.
Brother of Mayor of Frisco Interested
in Crib.

San Francisco, Dec. 5.-The grand
jury yesterday took up the subject of
the municipal crib at $40 Jackson
street, and important testimony was
given by Paul Heudried, former mana
ger of the place, but now of Seattle,
which connects Herbert Schmitz,
brother of the mayor, directly with a
share in the ownership of that infam-
Gus den.
Heudried went on to give in much
detail the method of running this great
dive He said that no books were
kept. He collected the money from
the girls as they left the building and
he turned over this coin to Joe Michel
in bag every night and Michel took
it to bank There were 1T girls
who paid $50 week for their rooms
and 16 who paid $50 a week for infer
ior rooms. These girls all had to pay
81 per week for electric lights.
The bar paid all the expenses of the
place so that the total revenue from
the girls Of $3.50 a week was clear
profit, which was divided between the
four partners. Thus Herbert Schmitz
drew down $95750 per week from this
Infamous den until the fire swept it
out of existence.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
AVERY.

Avery, Dec. 5-Mr. and Mrs. J. w.
Richter Miss Faye Moore, and A. ].
Ware attended the Eisteddfod at Abba
Thanksgiving evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Ellsworth were
called to Boone last Thursday by the
serious illness of his mother.
Mrs. Anna Grant spent Sunday at
Hynes.
Mrs. P. H. Haynes and son, Patrick,
and daughter, Delta, spent Thanksgiv-
ing in Des Moines.
Mrs. Jennie Bridges will entertain
the Birthday club at her home Friday
evening.
Roy Clapp and wife we erAlbia Wis
itors recently.
Mrs. ]. w. Richter and son, Harold
and Mrs. Frank Allen and Mrs. S.
Moore We're Hiteman visitors Wednes-
day, calling on Mrs. Gertie Kreiger and
Mrs. j. L. Amsbury.
Albert Grant has returned to Bur-
lington, where he will finish his course
in bookkeeping.
Rev. w. J. Hamilton is holding a
series of revival meetings at the Meth
odist Episcopal church.
Miss Jennie Robinson of Foster was
an over Sunday visitor with friends in
Avery.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
RCD CROSS ELECTS OFFICERS
Sec. w. H. Taft Chosen President TO,
Ensuing Year.

Washington, D. c., Dec. 5.-The
American National Red Cross in an
nual session yesterday elected the fol
lowing officers for the ensuing year:
President, William H. Taft, secre.
tary of war; treasurer, Charles Hal
lam Keep, assistant secretary of the
treasury; counsellor, James B. Mercy.
nolds, assistant attorney general; Sc
cretary, Charles L. Magee.
Board Of consultation-Brig- Gen
Robert M. O'Reilly, surgeon general
United States army; Surgeon General
P. M. Rixey, United States navy; Sur.
geon General Walter Wyman, United
States public health and marine hospi
tai service.
Chairman Of central committee
Maj. George W. Davis, U. S. A., re
tired
Executive committee-Robert Bacon
assistant secretary of state; Brig.-Gen
Robert M. o. Reilly, medical director;
John G. Wise, U. S. N; James R. Gar
field and Miss Mabel T. Boardman.
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loWAN SIGNED AN AFFIDAVIT.
States in Land Fraud Trial He Was
Ignorant as to Contents.


Omaha, Neb., Dec. 5.-The incident
of Mondays session of the land
fraud trial in the United States district
court was an attempt by the defense
to discredit a government witness by
introducing, during his cross examina-
ton, an affidavit signed by him which
contradicted the testimony he had just
given.
The witness was William H. Camp
bell of Missouri Valley, Ia. In his gen
eral testimony the witness told practi-
cally the same story that has been re-
peatedly by the soldiers who had been
solicited to file on lands by the Hulls
at the Iowa end of the land, and Hunt
ington, Hoylt and Comstock at the
Gordon end of the line the same gen.
eral procedure of making visit to the
lands, the expense free and all filing
fees paid for by Huntington or Hoyt,
were gone over in tiresome detail.
During the cross-examination the
witness was asked to identify an aft
! davit as his own in which he declared
he did not enter the land in good faith
and with the intention of living on it.
Campbell admitted signing the affida-
Wit, but said:
''The affidavit was presented to me
already typewriter. did not read it
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06

at this time. The fine resident part
of the city is located on the south side,
and lots uD on the hill in the little
pine timber are selling now at from
ST. 900 to $1,000, ten to fifteen blocks
from the business part. The north side
is more level and property is little
cheaper on that side, but real estate
has increased more than double in
value here in the last two Or three
years, and the population has grown
from $4,000 in 1900 to $4,000 in 1906.
New additions have been plated out
all over in the last two or three years,
new street car lines have been built
and that has helped to increase the
value Of property all over, and the
same is true Of the farmland along the
interlrban lines The price is now
above value for farm products, but it
is bought up in small tracts for fruit
and garden trucks. There is nothing
that brings farm land up as much as
a new interurban line will, but the
Iowa farmers and good many of the
or we would have few more of them
in a good agricultural state like Iowa.
When land and town property will in
crease out here it would surely do the
same in Iowa. and close to a city like
Ottumwa. Spokane will be a great
railroad center in short time The
new Milw aukee will come through
here, the Spokane & Inland railroad
will soon be, finished and that will con
meet with the Canadian Pacific and the
800 Inc" SO in a short time Spokane
will have four lines from st. Paul and
the east, and it has now railroads
south and north besides the Northern
Pacific and the Great Northern, which
have their main lines through this city
will write You little more later on
and let you know more about the con.
ditions Of the city and the surrounding
country.
Yours truly,
John P. Applequist.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
OPEN SWITCH
IS DISCOVERED
SERIOUS ACCIDENT is AvERTED
AT AeENcY-.MAY HAVE BEEN
WORK OF MIscREANTs

Agency, Dec. 5.-(SpeciaD-A par
tally open switch, which had it not
been discovered might have resulted
in a. serious accident was found III
the Burlington yards here this morn
ing. The switch is situated west Ct
the station. Whether it had been left
partially open through the careless
ness of some trainman, or whether
it was the work of some miscreant
can not be ascertained.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
DuNNE TO RUN FOR MAYOR

Chicago. Dec. 5-John P. Tansey,
chairman of the democratic county
central committee, announces the
Mayor Dunno is a candidate for the
democratic nomination for mayor and
that ex-Mayor Carter Fl. Harrison will
accept the nomination if it is offered
to him in April
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06

chosen chairman Of the conference, If
he does not decline,
The delegates are uniformly OBJ
posed to calling a constitutional con
yention because of the danger of OPEN
ing up the whole document to amend
ment.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
CHARLTON.

Charlton, Dec. 4.-Miss Freda An
derson returned home last evening from
a visit in Red Oak.
F. NJ. French of Red Oak was in the
city yesterday holding a bankruptcy
court in the James Boyland case.
A. L. Swift of Everett was in the city
yesterday on business.
Mr.. and Mrs. o. T. Hollingshead of
Beatrice, Neb. visited in the city Mon
day while enroute to Allerton.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
IOWA PosTMAsTERs NAMED
Burns at keosauqua and Hall at Co.
Iunbus junction Among Them

Washington, Dec. 5.-Among the
postmasters nominated yesterday
were ]. w. Burns at Keosauqua Ia,
and w. P. Hall at Columbus Junction,
Ia. Other Iowa nominations were as
follows: R. P. Oldham at Greenfield;
M. Peterson of Pomeroy; Minnie A.
Phoenix, Ruthyen; G. A. Haverly,
Ames-
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OPPOSE A CONVENTION.
Delegates in Des Moines Do Not Want
to Proceed That NAV

Des Moines, Dec. 5.-(SpeciaD -
More than thirty delegates to the sena-,
torial conference were here this morn
ing and the meeting convened at the
state house at 2 O'Clock. Governor
Cummins delivered the welcoming adj
dress. Governor Larrabee will be
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before signing it. The paper was
brought to me by young man at Mis-
souri, Valley. / do not know his name"
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If You Have Any
Poultry TO Sell

Bring it in next week. They will de-
mand the best market price at any
other time this year and remember
that we are in the market and always
paying the best of prices. If you have
nothing to sell come in anyway and let
us sell you some Of our Jersey Cream
Flour at S1.10 sack orthe Royal in
toweling sack at $1.15, and try box
of Crackers, a box S125.
lbs. hand picked Beans ..25c
3 lbs. choice Prunes .25c
s abrs of White Laundry Soap. .25c
We have various other things to of
fer you. But as space don't permit
we'll De glad to have you call in and
see for yourself that we mean strictly
business and treat you honestly. Give
us call
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06
Five Dollars In Gold
FOR
THREE EARS OF CORN

The Citizens Savings Bank is again
anxious to see who raises the oest
corn in Wapello county. Five dollars
in gold will be given as prize to the
person bringing in the best three ears
OF corn to our bank before Deem
Der H.
Competent judges will make the
award.
We invite you to do your banking
here.
Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-12-06

St. Louis Produce Market.
st. Louis, Dec 5.-Wheat-May.
775s.
Corn-May, AZ.
Oats-May. 34% @35.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-08-30
A CHINESE POTTERY ToWN.
Chingtechen. VIII re Everything Belongs
to Ea:thenware Industry.

For mt least 800 years the town Ching
techcn, liz China. has been devoted 10
the making Of pottery, Walter Clcnnell,
British consul. describes the place. He
saws that everything ia Chingtechcn be-
longs to the porcelain and eartheuWare
industry.
The houses are for the most part built
Of fragments OF fire clay that We're at
one time part either of old kilus or of
the fire clay covers in which the porce-
lain is stacked during firing. The river
bank is for miles covered with a deep
stratum Of broken chinaWare and chips
of fire clay. and the greater part of the
town ard several square miles of the
surrounding country are built over or
composed of similar deposit.
Chingtcchen is unlike anything else in
China. The forms. the color. the mate
rialS used in the buildings, the atmos-
phcrc are reminiscent of the poorer parts
of civilized Industrial center. There
are lOf large pottery kilns in town.
The greater part are in use only for a
short season in the summer. During
this busy season the population of Ching
tcchen rises to about 100000 souls, but
of thu total nearly half are laborers
drawn from Il wide area of country, who
come for the season, live in rows of bar
racklike sheds and do not bring their
families with them.
Visitors to Chiugtechen pass along
street after street where every shop is
occupied by men, women and children
all engaged in the designing, moulding,
painting or distributing Of pottery. Pot
ters sheds, where the clay is mixed and
moulded on the wheel, are iunumerabIe
The river bank is crowded for three
miles 10y juukS either landing material
and fuel or shipping the finished prod
uct.- Shanghai Times.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-08-30
TO Make Good Corn Drag.

Any farmer handy with the ordinary
tools on a farm can make a corn drag
attachment for his Cultivator that will
pay for itself many times in one sea-
son, If properly used, says an expert
enccd agriculturist. The common farm
harrow is too heavy and unwieldy for
narrowing corn after 1t is up, except
under the most favorable conditions Of
soil and weather. To make, get oak
one and one-half inches by three. Make
in two sections of thee bars each. Let
each section be long enough to cover
all of space between two rows Brace
same as other harrows No. GO wlro
spikes make very good teeth. Set teeth
little slanting and as close as will
work in your soil without cloggng. At
tach to beams of corn pillow. Arrange
SO that the drag will cover all the
ground when you wish by connecting
the two parts. You can, with this ar
rangement. adjust the drag to suit.
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-08-30
No Medicine So BenefcinI TO Brain
and Nerves.

no neu1clne SO henenCfnl TO brain
and Nerves.
Lying awake nights makes it hard to
keep awake and do things In daytime.
To take "tonics and stlmulants" under
such circumstances is like setting The
house on fire to see IL you can put it
out.
The right kind OF food promotes re-
freshing sleep at night and wide
awake individual during the day.
A lady changed from her old way Of
eating to Grape Nuts, and says:
For about three years had been
great sufferer from Indigestion. After
trying several kinds of medicine the
doctor would ask me to drop off pota-
toes, then meat, and so on. but in few
days that craving, gnawing feeling
would start up, and ! would yomlt ev-
rrything | ate and drank
when | started on Grape Nuts. von-
iting stopped, and the bloating feeling
which was so distressing disappeared
entirely.
MY mother was very much bothered
with diarrhea before commencing the
Grape-Nuts, because her stomach was
so weak she could not digest her food.
Since using Grape-Nuts she is we'll, and
says she don't think she could live with
out it,
1T is n great brain restorer and nerve
builder, for ! can sleep as sound and
undisturbed after supper Of Grape
Nuts as in the old days when | could
not realize what they meant by bad
stomach There Is no medicine so ben
etlclal to nerves and brain as good
nights sleep, such as you can enjoy
after eating GrapeNuts"
Name given by Postum Co, Battle
Creek, Mich.
There's a reason"
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-08-30
The Moth Pest.

Westward the gypsy moth takes It's
way. 1t has caused millions Of dollars
worth Of damage in Massachusetts, has
escaped to New Hampshire and Con-
necticut, and now the invasion Is turn
ing toward New York State. This In
teresting information Is conveyed In
letter Of warning just issued by e. 2.
Felt, State Entomologist.
The brown tail moth Is more recent
Introduction, and, unlike the gypsy
moth, flies readily. 1t Is not only
very destructive leaf feeder, but the
barbed hairs Of the caterpillars cause
a very severe irritation upon the I'M
protected skin.
Two rows of warts down the back OF
the gypsy moth caterpillar make it
easily distinguishable. 1t is about two
inches long and the ten anterior warts
are blue. the twelve posterior red. The
gypsy moth will eat anything in the
tree or shrub line and on the slightest
disturbance leap on passersby and cling
to clothing
Brown tail moths have white spots
on each side and single pair of red
spots near the tail. They prefer wild
cherry, pear, apple, maple, elm and
white oak leaves, and have barbed
horns, which, breaking off or blowing
from the cocoon, produce an into!eroble
irritation, the drown tail itch"
Caterpillars of both species, says Mr..
Felt, may be destroyed by spraying
with an arsenical poisoning, preferably
five pounds Of arsenate of lead to fifty
gallons of water, though the gypsy moth
caterplllars, especially when nearly
full grown, are quite resistant to pois-
on. Eggs Of the gypsy moth may be de-
stroyed by treating the egg masses with
The Manitowoc pilot. [volume] (Manitowoc, Wis.) 1859-1932, 1906-08-30
AWFUL PSORIASIS IS YEARS.
Terrible Scaly Humor in Patches All
Over the Body-Skin Cracked and

Bleeding-Cured, by Cuticura.
IL WAS afflicted with psoriasis for
thirty-i,vc years. 1t was in patches all
over my body. | used three cakes OF
Cuticura Soap, six boxes of Ointment,
and two bottles of Resoivent In thirty
days was completely cured. and |
think permanently, as it was about five
years ago. The psoriasis first made its
appearance in red spots, generally
forming Il circle. leaving in the center
a spot about the size of a silver dol
lar of sound flesh. In Il short time the
affected circle would form heavy dry
scale of white sivery appearance and
would gradually drop off. TO remove
the entire scales by bathing or using
oil to soften them the flesh would be
perfectly raw, and Il light discharge
of bloody substance would ooZe out.
That scaly crust would form again in
twenty-four hours. 1t was worse on
my arms and limbs although it was
in spots all over my body, also on my
scalp. If | let the scales remain too
long without removing by bath or 9th
erwise. the skin would crack and bleed.
| suffered intense itching, worse at
nights after getting warm in bed, or
blood warm by exercise, when it would
be almost unbearable. w. NJ. Chides-
ter. Hutchinson, Kan. April 20, 1903"