Twice-a-week plain dealer. (Cresco, Howard County, Iowa) 1895-1913, 1902-06-06
nty Of the state:
Totals ...........Nl IS. G63O15 NUl,
Mckinley Monument Fund.

Gov. Cummins has undertaken to re-
vMe the movement for the collection OF
money to be contributed to the fund
to build 100000 monument to the
memory of President Mckinley, at
Canton, O. The governor has sent q
letter to each county in which he says:
'I cannot bear to think OF Iowa. whose
| people loved Mckinley SO we'll. laggard ri
this noble project. We occupy 80 high ant
commanding a position in all the affairs o.
the nation that We would feel forever dis
graced if we did not contribute OUR fa1l
share In the perpetuation OF the memory
of William Mckinley. I have therefore
undertaken, recognizing the difficulties
which the cdnfusion heretofore existing will
present, to SO organize the state that we car
raise the remainder of money assigned to
us to raise; and l intend to do SO by SEE
lecing one man in each county to whom !
will commit the whole matter IN his county.
giving him full discretion In regard to the
best way of raising 1t. 1t can be done
either by personal solicitations or by the
creation of subcommittee. I do not care
what method is employed, 80 the results are
accomplished.
'Knowing that the enterprise will have
your entire sympathy. and being acquainted
with the energy which you put into any
thing you undertake, l have selected you
to represent your county, and would like
your county to raise 500. would like all
the contributions In your county to be paid
to you, and I have arranged that the treas
urer of state, Hon. G. 8. Gilberteon, shall
act as treasurer of this fund for the state
of Iowa, and you Will please remit to him
with the names of the contributors"
Lived Over a Century.
Iowa's Oldest resident, Noah Brock
away Bacon, died at the residence Of
his son in Des Moines last week, aged
102 years, 5 months and 20 days. He
was born December 10, 1899, in West
nroreland. n. Y. He lived in three CEN
turies. He retained his faculties to
within a few months of his death. On
his last birthday he wrote the last Of
the poems which he had written an
nually to celebrate his birthday ami
versary for local newspaper. He then
said that he did not expect to see many
more birthday celebrations. His rela-
tives held a reunion last December,
however, and this he was able to en-
Joy to the fullest extent. This man
delighted at century old to tell of
the good old days." when there were
io ebSoHi iilootS, ~ StlSS SdIS, 4O
electric power, nor lights nor ma
chinery, when there were no matches
and no sewing machines, no binders
and reapers and threshers; when there
were no automobiles or bicycles, no
pens and pastypewriting machines, no
mowers and no seeders; no linotype
nor cylinder printing press; no fire
arms except flint locks, no steamships,
no nitro glyeerine, no GOTTEN gin nor
wooden mill, no fire engine and no
steel structure, ro elevator. only a
10000 word dictionary, no TYPOGRAPHY,
no photography, no electromagnetic
nor dynamo, no arc light OF incandes-
cent, no X-rays, no telephone and no
telegraphy, no moving pictures, no
ether, chloroform, or cocaine, no anti
septic surgery, no cold storage, no
Bessemer steel no barbed wire, no ar
tesian well. All of these thinge this
man saw come into the world and the
knowledge of men. AT 10 his father
and brothers went into the war Of
1912, and he tried driving stage from
Ithaca to Oswego, n. Y. He learned
the printers trade at Oswego, and
from 1S43 to 1880 fa2nned in Wisconsin.
LEON BROWN.