Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-22
REJOICING At aB|.[Y
Completion Of the Rock Island Ex.
tension Made the Occasion Of
. Banquet
Rock Island Officials and Prominent
Guests Take Part in the
Celebration.

First Trains Over the New Line
Run and Regular Service
1naugurated
sibley, Nov. 22.-The opening OF the
Rock Island extension from Gowrie to.
this place was made the occasion OF q.
celebration by the citizens Of this
town in the form Of banquet and
speech making at the Sibley hotel last
evening. The first regular passenger.
train run over the line from Gowrie
drew into the station yesterday, fol-
lowed few hours afterward by a spe-
cial train bearing officials of the Rock
Island and a number of invited guests
from points along.the line.
General Manager Parker, who was to
have been present and taken part In
the celebration, was unavoida'bly de-
tanned in Texas, but Superintendent
Gilmore, Carroll Wright. c. II. Caswell,
James A. Stewart. Marvin III Dey,
Charles L. Brown, Philip j. Rupp and
James Gibney. of Des Moines, We're
present in behalf of the company, while
Ed Bournt, also of Des Moines, repre-
sented the United States Express Com
pany. Ex-Representative Cornwall, OF
Spencer; H. w. Bissell, of Pocahontas;
Senator James A. Smith, of Usage; O.
b. Harding, of Sioux City. and G. M.
McDougall, of Melvin, were invited
guests, the former being substituted on
the program to respond to the toast,
"How to Buy the Right of Way, as
signed too. w. Dey, who was unable to
be present.
The men who had the entertaining
under way and to whose efforts Is due
the success that crowned the event
We're w. II. Amin. Nate Desky, w. B..
Steven, business men of Sibley; Frank
Locke, president of the Bank OF Sibley,
son Of j. d. Locke, of Des Moines; r..
II. Hunter, an attorney: d. W. Aup-
perle. a pioneer merchant, and Editors
Scott and Webster, of the Gazette and
Tribune, the two weekly papers pub
lishedi in Sibley.
The completion of the line from Cow
RE places Sibley in direct touch with
Des Moines, 173 miles away, opens up q
territory Of marvellous richness and
productiveness. and gives the people OF
northwestern Iowa easy access to the
coal fields of Polk Mahaska and APP
panoose counties, with their abundant
supplies of cheap fuel. Heretofore soft
coal has commanded So to IS per ton,
and being the only fuel that can be OBJ
tanned in this timberless country, con-
sumers We're compelled to pay these
~ ~, IoJu i.
gives to S!bley three lines of road-the
Burlington, Cedar Rapids & Northern
the Chicago. ST. Paul. Minneapolis &
Omaha and the Rock Island. Mail SER
vice will be established on the latter
about November &c. The assistant
1 superintendent OF the railway service
j has gone over the road notifying post
1 masters to make preparations to take
! care of mail carried by the new route
The Rock Island has erected fine
4 depot here. The interior is finished In
! hard pine. Two elevators are under
i way.
/ Sibley is grain center. The country
roundabout produces wheat, oates, bar
Hey and corn in great abundance. The
country is also full OF stock, eighteen
car loads of cattle and hogs having
been shipped from this station within
i the past week.
AT the banquet last evening plate.
We're laid for 100 guests and every plate
was represented by guest. There be
Ing. no saloons in Sibley, recourse va.
4 had to Laurens. twenty-one miles east
Where q bountiful supply of wines ant
liquors was secured and served quietly
s tho 1t Was used so temporarily that NJ
\ one Of the two or three ministers pres
ent suspected it.
w. II. Armin was toastmaster. TIL
4 toasts We're as follows:
;. Why the Business Men Of Sibley In
d vite YOU" d. w. Aupperle.
Why We Came" Marvin II. Dey
engineer Gowrie & Northwestern rail
4 road.
Twenty-eight Years in Northwes
Iowa. w. j. Miller.
sibley's Past and Future G. 6
q Schlegel.
Our Freight Department" C. u
. Caswell, division freight agent.
The Good Die Young" o. j. Clark.
Railroad Legislation," Senator G
w. Lister
The Railroad and the Shipper Eu
gene Walton.
i How to Buy Right Of Way" w. "
/ Cornwall.
"The Growth OF the Rock Island
F. Glover.
Air Brakes and Signal Lights F
z. Scott.
"sidelights of the Legal Depar,
ment. Carroll Wright, attorney G., +
I. & P. railway.
There were present DR.. G. "A. Wilde
G. r. knight, Frank Y. Locke, n. {
Lucas, ]. Fred Mattert. e. B. Town
send C. II. Bull. w. b. Stevens. +
Reynolds, j. r. Brown. B. c.. clarl
George G. schlegel, Nathan Desk,
John Sinclair, G. V. Larned. DIR. T
( Neil, Professor w, P. Johnson, Georg
! Romey. Harris Russell, S. A. Pease, (
Fl. Brod, ii. E. Walton, j. w. Kaye. !.
! +. Glover, f. Walton, j. s. Reynold
Frank Desmond, S. A. Sperror. d
Hill, F. L. Long, DR.. NJ. NJ. Tainor, T
q. Scott. A. W. Harris. r. N. Hunte
e. M. Taylor Charles Hahn, w.
Bruce, o. j. Clark, Senator G. w. Lii
/ ter, John Cogen. Rev. Lecombe E. /
/ Kimball, w. Fl. Webster, 4. A. Wi
: burn, Potter Lain. r. C.. Gerenz, NJ
Evans, Levi Shell, A. Romeay. w. T
j Armin, T. s. Redmond, Clyde Wilbur
I Frank Brand, A. ]. Elton. WI. Mile
: of Sibley, and the guests named frol
I abroad, among whom were c.
: Brown, representing Counselman & &C