The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1901-01-25
SOLDIERS
HOME
Iowa Soldiers are Well
Housed.

A Visit to Marshalltown and
the Home. All are Happy
and COntented.
| On Wednesday of last week the
writer, in company with Mr.. t. j.
Kelly, had occasion to visit Marshall
town and while there met Mr.. Will
RICE, the popular shoe man who is
frequent visitor at Denison. At his So
| licitation we visited the Soldiers
Home. We were met and most cor
daily received by Col. Horton, who
has charge of the Home. The Col.
delegated Guard Martin to show us
over the grounds and through the sew
eral buildings. In Mr.. Martin we
found as most accommodating guide.
He first led to the kitchen which is in
the basement of the main building.
Here we found everything spotlessly
clean, and dinner almost ready. Po-
tatoes steaming by the bushel, boiled
cabbage and other vegetables, meats of
different kinds, stewed apples, hot cof-
fee, etc, all of which looked very ap-
petizing. On a large table we're $500
loaves of white bread, one days bak-
ing, this number of loaves being re-
quired each day.
i In the diningroom long tables reach
ing across the hall we're set. Nice
white clothes covered each table, The
laundry rooms were fitted with the lat
est improved machinery, including dry
ing press. a ringer making thousands
of revolutions a minute, and large en-
gines and washing machines.
The old folks building is compara-
| lively new. The rooms are cozy and
4 very comfortable, there being sitting
a and bed room aud closet, neat fire
place is in one corner, and large rug
is upon the floor. The furniture is
composed Of a dresser, bed, stand,
rockers. chairs and upon the walls
hang the pictures of loved ones In
these rooms the old folks seem perfect-
J ly contented, the wife in rocker knit
ting or mending, the husband reading
and looking after the fires. There are
also number of cottages which are
occupied by old folks. The upper
floors of the main building are occupied
by the old soldiers; at one end of the
, building is the reading room, upon the
5 tables are all the latest magazines,
books and daily and weekly papers.
! At the other end are the billiard and
, card rooms and the barber shop, all
: kept in the best of order. In the hall
: way one finds a register where all visit
I Ors write their names and address
! And then the men are eager to scar
the register in the hopes of finding
: some one from their home
A new building has just been com
pleted to be used by the officers al
u headquarters, which is model ant
! much needed Improvement. Th,
). grounds are kept in the best of condi
:. tion and in the spring time cannot b,
but beautiful. A lake named Dewey
: is at the eastern side. Here Col. Hor
n ton has erected a log cabin to accom-
8 modate any one at the lake. 1t is bull
10 after his own way of thinking and i
/ certainly rustic and comfortable.
= The old soldiers, their wives, an,
2 widows all seemed happy and content
= ed, and why shouldn't they? Every
2 thing is at their disposal, they are al
81 lowed all reasonable privileges an
7 everything possible has been done t
make their home pleasant. The w. r
i / G. has been very instrumental in aic
80 ing In this work; the linen, quilts
% rugs, carpets, curtains, etc., being in
lie large measure the work of that Iowa
a organization. Col. Horton is YER
o. pleasant, kind and generous man, a
f. ways looking after the wants of thos
n under his charge.
While at the Home we met "Uncle
% Billy Brocket, Charlie Lawton and Mi
st Runkle, and they spoke in the highes
1T. terms of the home and the treatmer
to they received, and wished to be remen
bered to their friends.
The people of Iowa are certainly ver
p. generous in thus providing a home fl
nd the boys who wore the blue, the
I'M wives and widows, place where IL
ed last days of their lives may be spent
va quiet and comfort.
I'D
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