Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-29

Stewart enlisted in the thirty ninth
Ohio infantry and was mustered out
after four years of active service. He
settled In Manchester shortly after. At
that time over SO per cent Of the milk
production Of the country was wasted
on account of the inability Of the farm
er to manufacture any considerable
amount Of butter and cheese. Public
creameries We're unknown at that time
and the farm cows were simply q
source of spending money for the
housewife. Mr.. Stewart conceived the
idea of ablishing milk stations thru
out the dairy districts and equipping
them with machinery sufficient to
handle the entire milk supply of the
contributing territory. These stations
We're to be conducted by capable busf-
ness men who should find a market for
the product Accordingly Mr.. Stewart
built the worlds first creamery and
employed a man named Van Dusen as
the first professional buttermaker.
Van Dusen is now over 80 years old
and will be at the st. Louis fair to adj
interest to the Iowa exhibit. Butter
from this first creamery received first
prize at the st. Louis fair in 1878 and
1874 and at the Centennial exposition
at Philadelphia in 1876. 1t received
first prize again at the International
Dairy fair at New York in 1878 and
second prize at the Royal Agricultural
exhibit at London in 1879. Due to this
advertisement creameries We're bulit
thruout the middle west and the sale
of milk soon became one of the most
profitable branches Of farming. At
one time Mr.. Stewart owned six or
the largest creameries In Iowa, but
when he moved to Minneapolis In 1892
he gave up his interest in butter man-
ufacture and devoted his entire time
to travelling and organizing creamer-
les in the western coast states. From
then until the time Of his death In
March, 1903, he lived in Southeast
Minneapolis. His wife and son, N. P.
Stewart of the Fifield Law and Col
lection Agency. still reside here. Many
of the large buttermakers are agitating
the question of erecting a monument
to John Stewart as it was thru his
successful work that the great pos
sibilities Of the butter industry We're
shown to the world. The matter VIII
be discussed with manufacturers OF
other states in which Mr.. Stewart
worked at the worlds fair and will
result in quick and lib
eral response.
During the last United States gov
ernment year, which ended the last of
June. there were fewer petitions in
bankruptcy filed with Clerk Macarthur
of the United States district court than
during the preceding year. Mr.. McAr-
thur will soon file an important deci-
sion in the case of Nose Weinberg, of
Boone, which will state whether or not
there is good evidence that the bank
rupt gave fraudulent notes to his reia-
tives in order to make larger showing
of creditors and cut down the percent
age of the dividends.
Important increases In wages have re
Gently been secured by the railway ma
chinists on the Rock Island, the Great
Western and the Northwestern lines in
this state. These concessions have been
peacefully and quietly and
without a strike or anything portending |
a strike. AT Marshalltown the railway
have been granted an In
CREASE VI y PR CSIlt, AidhihS q "eoS |
scale of. 80 cents per hour. Through
the system committee of the Z. X. l. q |
p the railway machinists have secured
increases of from 10 to II per cent maxi |
ing fiat rate of 33 cents per hour. This
affects Davenport, Cedar Rapids, Val- t
ley Junction. Esterville and Council
Bluffs. The Chicago Great Western ma
chinists have been granted per cent
increase. making a flat scale of 34Ea
cents per hour. This concession affects
Oelwein, Des Moines, Fort Dodge and
Dubuque. On the Northwestern sys-
tenn 9 per cent increase, making 81
cent scale, hassbeen allowed. The ma
at Clinton. Belle Plaine, Boone,
Lake City and Missouri Valley are at
fected. AT Sioux City a fiat rate Of S41x
cents has been allowed.