Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1898-03-08
AUGUSTUS BHAD1E.

AUGUSTUS BEADLE.
Our Personal Recollections OF HIM
Rev. Holmes Sermon.
We write of him as we knew him.
Our acquaintance with the man
began in 1857, when we met him at
Howard Center, then the county
seat. From that day to this our ac-
quaintance strengthened the con-
viction of our first meeting, that he
was one of the extraordinary men and
minds of the age, capable of meeting,
grasping, measuring, and analyzing
the great questions of the day as
they came before the people for
solution. All matters pertaining to
the public welfare of the people had
IN him an earnest advocate and
laborer. Largely interested in landed
interests, and producing large guam
Titles of wheat for market, he early
saw the need of providing means of
better transportation to the markets
than the county then had. Marketing
wheat in McGregor, hauling some
three Thousand bushels, his crop of
one year left him no income from IT'S
price. And what was true in his case.
was likewise true of the people of the
county. This condition inspired him
with the necessity of obtaining for
himself and others, the benefits of a
railroad into and through the county.
When the McGregor Western railway
was projected with the purpose of
being built west from Calmar, thence
up the Little Cedar or the Wapse-
plnecon toward Austin, thence to st.
Paul, he organized and put in oper-
alton the tain of events that caused
1t to be constructed from Calmar
northwesterly through this county.
although his personal intere SITS would
have been as we'll served by the line
west from Calmar, thence up the
valley of the Wapsie or Little Cedar.
But he labored not alone for himself,
but for the public.
With the success of his work in
behalf of the railway, changed in
name from the McGregor Western, to
the Chicago, Milwaukee, and st.
Paul, he with others procured the
real estate upon which Cresco is stu
ated, had the town laid out and
plated. dedicating the streets and
alleys to the public, and afterwards
becoming its sole proprietor. His
llberality in donating lots for school
and church buildings and with liberal
prices and reasonable terms given to
persons intending to improve their
lots, gave wonderful impetus to
the growth and prosperity of Cresco.
In his sales of lots and also of farm
lands throughout the county he had
always dealt justly and literally with
the people. During the period of
wheat failures though himself pressed
for money, we personally know of his
endorsing the interest due upon notes
of those who had been unfortunate.
without the payment of so much as
farthing where dollars were due.
No person ever came to Augustus
Beadle for help, pecuniary or other.
wise, if honest and deserving and
were turned away.
For several years he most faithfully
served the people as post master of
Cresco discharging every duty with
the promptness and fidelity that
We're characteristic of the man.
In everything that would tend to
make men better, and improve ana
elevate humanity, he took promi-
nent part. His mission was TO do
good to all men and faithfully and
zealously was it carried out, in his
peaceful, quiet, and unobtrusive
way. In him was fully exempnfed
the injunction, do unto others as you
would be done by.
His friends were co-extensive with
his acquaintance because of the quail
tiles and attributes of the man to
to which they did reverence. To-
gether:
We've climbed the rugged hill of life,
And shared it's joy and care,
But now the frosts of many years
Are shining in onr hair"