Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-01-25
IN THEIR N[N'QUAR1[RS
Officers Of the Soldiers Home
Occupy New Administration
Building.
Extensive Work In Progress at
Institution Now Practically
Completed.
Steward Cook Presented With a
Cook Presented With a
Valuable Watch by Veteran
Comrades.

/
Comrades.
There are perhaps few people in Mar
shalltown who realize or appreciate
/ the amount of work that has been done
/ at the Soldiers Home during rhs mas,
few months in completing the buildings
begun last fall In the winter time the
city visitors to the Home are compare
4 lively few to what they are during the
summer season, when scarcely da,
passes but what tho grounds are
thronged with sight saers, picknickers
etc. The work has nov practically been
completed and the buildings are occu-
pied. The new headquarters BUILDING
IS the main addition to the buildings al,
the Home altho the fact must rot be
lost sight Of that the old peoples build
ing has been enlarged to just twice its
7 former size, and there is also build
Ling, standing west Of the woman's
building, that is to b. home for the
female help employed n the ms tuition
The new administration or headauar-
] tiers building is a beauty and today wa
/ formally taken possession of by Com
/ mandant Horton, Adtjt WarfeI and the
/ Clerical force of the Home. The Off
ces of the officials in the main building
! have been deserted and the Office room
| has been transformed into sleeping
apartments, thus relieving the crowded
condition of the wards 10 some extent.
! The postoffice, library and reading
! room is yet to be transferred To- ihe
/ new building, but it m.iil be in d few
Gays, or as soon as IN boxes can be
| placed in the new pcstnaice
/ In the new building CoInmandant
Horton occupies as a private office the
| hrs, floor on. the north S d. While Adjt.
! Warfel will have the room on the south
side. In the basement on the south
/ side will be located the postoffice and
on the north side the reading, writing
| and library room. on the second floor
are furnished sleeping apartments for
Mr. George F A. Miller comanandan.
| Horizons clerk; Mr.. Floyd Senp.e. the
\ stenographer Postmaster f l.. Lunt,
j. w. Reesl, inspector Of clothing and
other stores, and Steward y. w. Cook
| Rooms for the board Of control mem
! 'bers to occupy when on their visits to
1.-THE institution are also located on this
floor. These rooms Will also be used as
reception rooms for any official COM
pany that the Home may have at
various times
The offices affordediin the new build
| ing are Very pleasant and coInmodious
and great Improvement over the ole
condition. The most, appreciated I'm,
4 Pavement, however is probably IN
4 crease in room afforded the members
| themselves in the way 81 Sleeping
apartments, gained by using the former
office rooms in the main buildns
Another marked Improvement n tbs
lgnew building is tte vault that has beei,
Iconstructed Tor keeping of pension pa
pers and vouchers and the books Of the
nstitWion. Heretofore strange as ii
may seem. the HONG has had no cafe
place to keep these important docu-
ments and in case of a fire all would
have been DESTROYED. This has been a
great source of worry to the officers
and if a fire had occurred. the Home
would have been. liable to just csnsure
by the government, as the pension rec
ords and vouchers could not have been
replaced
"A WATCH FOR STEWARD COOK.
The 600 or more veterans of the Iowa
Soldier5 Home appreciate the efforts
made in their behalf and realizing that
Steward Nate Cook has contributed to
their welfare and comfort in no small
inea sure, steps We're taken to give him
a testimonial OF their appreciation,
After the dinner hour on Thursday the
members of the institution to the num-
Der of several hundred assembled in the
corridors of the main building and Mr..
Cook Was Summoned. To his great
surprise and pleasure Mr.. Cook was
presented with a handsome gold watch,
one of the best procurable The time
piece is a y. W. Raymond Elgin, full
jeweled and of pretty design. and MIR.
Cook is extremely proud Of the present
and of the eornradeship il re preserts.
The watch Is engraved With the follow
Ing: TO Nate w. Cook. Steward Iowa
Soldiers Home. and ia the finest gift
ever presented to any one at the insti-
tuition. The presentation speech was
made by Capt. John Smith and the
words he spoke We're in Verse from the
pen of Comrade yolkerts. as Follows:
Under-estima,ion and appreciation
For faithful performance oil difficult
tasks.
The worlds always ready to censure the
brainy
Because they are salaried too high for
masks
But let us reason, and not treat with
treason.
Results wrought by labor of the
board of control;
Undoubtedly better. sometimes slower.
in matters
Than the work of commissioners that
formerly ruled.
Therefore 70 the board, in respect, we
uphold
Our regards. estimation and arprecia-
ton:
In future. like past. nicely using their
brains,
The work worth fully the considera-
Then nearer our mind is our social and
kind
Col. G G. Horton, our noble commando
Who, like others, that draw but in a