Missouri Valley times. [volume] (Missouri Valley, Iowa) 1874-1931, 1899-01-12
AMBITIOUS YOUNG Nun
SHOULD START FARMING
Governor Shaw Says the Boy on the
Farm Will Get Money Quicker
Than the Town Lad.
AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY MEETS
Members Gather in Dcs Moincs aud
Listen to an Interesting Pros
gram Fair Secretaries
and Veterinarians.

Des Moincs, Jan. 1.-THE State As
ricultural society opened its annual
meeting in this city Monday. The
meeting was held in the afternoon.
About forty members gathered at the
agricultural rooms in the state house.
1t is expected that the contest between
Secretary Phil Fowler and G. ID. Nc
Fall, of Oskaloosa, for secretary, ill.,
GLIDING the director contests,and the
excellent program, will draw many
more members during the week.
G. ID. Reed, of Coon Rapids, will adj
dress the society today on Soil
Physics" and Professor Pammel, OF
Ames college, on bacteria iii agricul-
will tell OF his forest trees. j. X.
dress; Henry Stivers, of Lacclle, the
cr. will talk of the agricultural paper;
"Amcs College," State Veterinarian
Gibson, Of Denison, on diseases of do
nestle animals, and Mrs. William Lar
Mrs. Henry Wallace, of Des Moines,
Dairyman, will speak of household
economics and the social side of farm
life, respectively.
The Iowa fair secretaries Will meet
at the Slavery tonight.
The Iowa State Veterinary assoca-
ton met this morning for business.
The paper of Judge n. Nj. Hubbard,
of Cedar Rapids, presented Monday,
al, i,,ta of "a
afternoon. ''Notcs of My Expert
cnces as a Farmcr," was the subject.
Judge Hubbard was not present, but
his paper was read by Secretary Fow-
Ter.
j. S. 1rgg, of Rockford. opened the
program with a paper on Cain and
Abel, the First Farmers" In discuss
ing Mr.. Trigg's paper, Governor Shaw
said that the farmer thinks and is
taught to think that the farmer is
looked down upon; that he occupies Il
mental position. That is great mis-
take, said the governor. Business men
in town don't think it is SO, and it is
not SO. He said that for young men
who arc ambitious to get money he
would advise the farm for start. He
said that il two boys were taken, one
put on the farm and one in Il position
i'm town, the one OH the farm would
have $500 first.
Dan Shcchan, of Usage, in the con-
tinuancc of the discussion took eY-
ception to some things the governor
said. Mr.. Shcehan said there was not
room for so many boys on the farm
because of machinery and that the
farm boys were needed for other
things.
An interesting paper on Chemistry
and Some of Its Relations to Agricul-
turc' was read by Prof. j. b. Wcems.
He told of the elements composing the
carth's crust and said that the study
of these had created a new depart
ment, that of agricultural chemistry.
Statutes Kate Shelley.
Boone, Jan. 1l.-Thrilling stories
are not the only kind told of the furi-
GUS dash of the Northwestern fast
mail on its initial trip from Chicago to
Omaha, for one of pathos and scnti-
ment is now being related among the
trainmt.n
1t is of Conductor Free Paine, who
TOOK the train at Boone. AS his fierce
ly roaring train flew over Honey creek,
near the Dcs Moincs river, he stood Mt
the door of Il ear and waved his lam
term toward Il farm house on Il nearby
hill. and the memories of other days
came back to him as he saw the am
swcring light i'm that house disappcar-
ing in the distance
1t WAS the home of Nate Shelley.
Nearly !; score of years ago. one
dark and stormy night, a flood car
ried away the bridge over Honey
creek. Kate Shelley, then little
school girl of Is years, looked out
from her home upon the storm, and
SAW the creek, now a roaring river,
and no bridge. Knowing that twenty
miles to the west Il passenger train
was bearing down upon the torrent
filled abyss, she Mt once started to-
ward the little station of Scranton to
give warning. With only lantern,
she arrived at the trestle bridge cross
ing the Des NIones river. and ere the
light could be of any service to her it
was blown out. SO, on her hands and
knees, i'm the storm and wind, she
crossed the bridge over the rushing
river, and arrived at Scranton Just in
time to intercept the train.
Free Paine was the conductor of
that train, and as once again he was
speeding across the country on wild
night ride he saluted the little girl.
now Il woman, who saved his life at
Honey creek nearly twenty years ago.
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