Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1912-05-30

tive of Keokuk. He attended the pub
| lie schools there and has had consider
able business experience. Until enter
| ing the baking business some few
years ago he was agent for the Stan
dard Oil Co., serving four years IN
Keokuk and ten years as Ottumwa
agent. He was candidate for clerk in
1910 Mr. Lynch IS a prominent lodge
man, being affiliated with the /. 0. ..
F., Masons, Woodmen, Maccabees,
Elks and Sons of Veterans. He Is mar
ried and has four children. Mr.. Lynch
is president of the Ottumwa city coun-
Gil, and represents the third ward In
that body.
Another candidate for the nomina.
ton for clerk is Arthur B. Young, or
South Ottumwa. Mr.. Young was born
in Keokuk township, July 70.
1876. He attended the district
schools and later graduated from
commercial college in Chicago. ne
has followed farming most of his ll1e'
although for short time he con-
Quoted a grocery store. He has been
a republican all his life. Mr.. Young is
married man and has one child l1v-
ing. He is member Of the Wilson
PRESBYTERIAN church of Richland town
ship. He moved to South Ottumwa last
year.
The office Of clerk of athe district
court is being sought by Edwin Dun
gan at the hands of the republicans of
the county this fall. He is native OF
Pennsylvania and a resident Of Wa
pello county for thirty-two years. Mr..
DUNCAN held the clerkship for one
term, 1e05-19O6. Mr.. DUNCAN has Sc
cured good education and asks for
election for second term on his rec
ords of the first term and his reputa-
ton as citizen of Wapello county.
Sheriff.
H. W. Michael Is the unopposed re-
publican candidate for the once OF
sheriff OF Wapello county. He has
lived in Wapello county for the en-
tire forty-fve years OF his life and Is
one of the county's best known farm
ers. Mr.. Michael was clerk OF the
district court for two terms. 1901 to
1905. He received his education IN
the schools Of the county. For sever
al years Mr.. Michaels conducted a
restaurant in the city. He has been
an active participant in the business
circles Of Ottumwa.
Recorder.
J. C. Poulton. the republican candi-
date for recorder, was born in Fair
field, jefferson county, and lived there
until coming to Ottumwa twenty-seven
years ago. Mr.. Poulton was educated
| in the public schools of Jefferson
county. He has been staunch re-
publican since he cast his first vote
The friends Of Mr.. Poulton are asked
to supply his name on the republican
ticket next Monday as his name was
not filed in ample time to be printed
on the ticket. Mr.. Poulton has beer
engaged In the barber trade since
| coming to Ottumwa and at present
owns two shops in the city. He is
member of several fraternal orders
being affiliated with the Moose Ode
Fellows, Rebekah lodge, Knights O.
Pythias. Woodmen of the World ant
American Yeomen.
County Attorney.
/ Adelbert Christy is a candidate be
fore the June primaries for the repub
lican nomination for county attorney
Mr.. Christy was born on farm nea
Floris in Davis county in 1873. Hi!
early life was spent on the farm. HI
received his first schooling In tn
rural schools. He attended tn
southern Iowa normal at Bloomfield
Iowa, taught for q time in the rura
schools of that county, and later at
tended Drake university at De
Moines. He entered the freshman
class of the college OF law of tn
state university Of Iowa in the fall o
1903 and graduated In the class o
1906. He was admitted to the bar II
June. of the same year. He is nov
serving his fourth year as city sole
tor of Eldon. Mr.. Christy has ser'
ed as a member of the county centra