Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1910-11-15
PEPPERS LIFE
HAS Been ACTIVE.
DEMOCRATIC coNGRE sMAN
FROM SECOND DISTRICT HAS
HAD VARIED CAREER.
VISITED HERE SUNDAY

VISITED HERE SUNDAY
4 Was Guest Of His Brother 6en-ls
4 Native Of Soap creek-story
4 Of His Advance in
|. Prominence.
The only successful democratic con-
oressional candidate at the election OF
! last week Hon. i. S. Pepper OF Musca-
/ fine visited In Ottumwa YESTERDAY.
| Con oressman-elect Pepper was guest
| IL his brother. Ben S. Peppers, zO1
South SCHUYLER street. and his nephew
onis Penpers. 216 Hamilton street.
While here he received the hearty
! CONCENTRATIONS of his numerous
fr;ends who have watched his cam
( raion in the second congressional as
tr;cf with interest during the past lew
| months Mr.. Pepper is not stransef
~ Ottnmwa. He has visited here often.
! a Native of Soap Creek.
| rongrasman-elect Pepper was born
4 lime 10. 1876, on the old John Peppers
homestead. four miles northwest ol
Dravesville. in Davis County, on SOAP
| Creek" He was the youngest OF ram
Nv ~ nine children. He worked on ms
eather,s farm in the summer and Went
to country school in the winter
nntil ~ years Of age, when ne en-.
tered Southern Iowa Normal school at
| Rloomfield. He taught a few terms OF
ao,ntrv school south of Pulaski ana
| ana dno+ad from Southern Iowa Normal
| in 1897. I've
fall OF 1898 as principal OF A.ans .,
schools, Atalissa, Muscatine coun.y,
and remained in this position TOT tnree
years, when he was elected Prlncip a.
of the Washington ward scnool
| the fall Of 1901 and held TINS postum
for two years. He studied law uuuine
the spare moments during inns .il1o
and was given the position Oh pflva.e
secretary to Judge Wade ana ven =. ~
| washington, D. G., with MI. Waue -
the fall of 1908, and immedlataely en.
tered the George Washington unlve
sity law department, taking Two years
work together in one year. ne re-.
manned with Judge Wade TWO years ~
| Washington and graduated IRON Ing
law school in the summer OF !Soe. ne
was president Of the senior class. ne
| returned to Muscatine In the ran Y
1905 and after being admitted 70 the
bar, entered the well known law nrn
| of Carskadden & Burk Jan. !, slSoo.
| Nominated for County Attorney.
| He was nominated for county attos-
ney by the democrats OF Muscatlns
county in the fall OF 1906. me county
was at that time Overwhelmingly re-
publican. ]. r. Hanly was running 10,
his second term and had been eiecteu
by nearly 1000 majority, but MT: Pep
per won out by $40 majority ana was
reelected in the fall Of 1908 by 97s'
while Taft carried the county by o5O.
Mr.. Pepper was chairman OF the
state democratic convention curing
the summer of 190S,, which was held IN
Des Monies. He has been chairman OF
/; the democratic county central COM
mittee Of Muscatine county Tor 1our
years He was nominated Tor congress
| June Z, 1910, over DR.. j. A. De Armand
of Davenport at the democratic prl-
J mary.
Since the death of Mr.. Burk in 1908,
the firm has been Carskadden & Pep
per and is one Of the leading firms Of
Muscatine.
Mr.. Pepper is baseball fan and one
OF the officers Of the baseball club OF
Muscatine.
He is considered one Of the best cam
paigners in eastern Iowa and has q
great faculty of meeting people and re-
membering names and faces.
, He has two brothers in Iowa, DR.. ].
! i. Pepper, practicfng physician, To-
Gated at Goldfeld, Wright county, and
Ben Peppers, travelling salesman liv-
ing in South Ottumwa.
In the fall Of 1904 when Mr.. Pepper
returned to Washington after the cam
paign, the senior class at the George
Washington university was in the
midst OF a great contest over the cleo
ton Of a. class president. The honor
was being eagerly sought by five can
didates. no one of whom had a major
ity. When Pepper arrived on the scene
the big class Of $50 was divided into
i! warning factions and had had meet
ing without making selection. Pepper
never thought Of being candidate, but
after repeated efforts to elect, the class
turned to Pepper, the big Hawkeye,
as they called him, and elected him
president Of the class. No one was
more surprised than Pepper himself.
Ushered Friends Around.
One time during the time Pepper was
at Washington party of Iowans were
visiting the national capitol and were
being shown around by Pepper. The
party was especially anxious to see
President Roosevelt Pepper told them
he thought he could arrange 1t and so
made an appointment with his friends
| to come to his office on certain morn
ing at 10 O'clock AT the appointed time
| they proceeded to the white house. AS
! rule there would be room full OF
visitors in the outer Office and every
one would have to take his turn, which
sometimes involved long wait. On
this occasion, however, it so happened
no one was waiting and as the Iowans
entered the doorkeeper swung open
the door to the presidents private Of
| fee and ushered the party into the