Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1903-06-26
EDITORS OBSERVATIONS.

Monday morning soon found us in
Marshalltown. This is a town of about
5000 inhabitants. 1t is beautifully
situated upon the level prairie. There
is about 1926 colored people here. Mr..
|. i. Brown, grand, master Of the, Ma
sonic lodge, resides here. He is en-
ployad to superintend the public Ii
brary. Mr.. Richard Wright and Al
bert Walker are still running their
tonsorial parlor. Mr.. Geo. Sutton, one
Of our young aspiring race men, is do
ing we'll Mr.. G. r. Warren ard l.. H.
Johnson are working in the packing
house. They are good and highly es-
teemed. Mr.. T. H. Cobb is janitor and
doing well. Mr.. H. H. Flippins is
working for the same family that he
was last year. His family were gath
ering their strawberries. The new
subscribers are J. H. Hammond and
Calvin Wheeler. The latter, Mr.
Wheeler, is an engineer, having run a
threshing machine for several years.
He is member of the United Engi-
neers Association Of America. He,
like many others of the Marshalltown
citizens, is Mason in high standing.
Mr.. M. J. Jackson is one of the highly
respected and old citizens. Into the
parlor city, Cedar Rapids, was our.
next stop. beautiful city of about 200
colored people, most of them doing
well. Chief among the best citizens
is Marshall Perkins, who is still run
ming a restaurant and doing a larger
business than ever. Mr.. Ell Marshall
and French Perkins are in the carpet
cleaning and busting. They have an
immense trade, working almost day
and night. Mr.. w. H. Milligan. a sue.
cessful farmer and gardener living
only one and one.half miles from town.
l visited this interesting and beautiful
country home and found Mr.. and Mrs.
Milligan, with their two sons, busily
engaged in gathering their immense !,
strawberry and cherry crops. He has
four acres of strawberries, two acres
Of cherries and a lot of other fruit and
garden vegetables. They had nine
other pickers hired; in that nine only
one colored. Mrs Milligan is the
timekeeper and Mr. Milligan hauls the
berries and cherries to market each
morning. The morning was there he
had taken down forty crates. They
brought him from $1.O0 to $3.50 per
crate Ye editor enjoyed a real good
country dinner, concluding with pure
fresh strawberry shortcake. Oh, if
more of our people would 60 on the
farm and do likewise our race would
soon be better respected. He has an
apairy of thirty stands. Mr.. E. c.
Thomas was re-employed by the pack.
ing company. Simon Terry is still
working at the packing house. He is
state superintendent of the A., M. e
Sunday school. Mr.. o. B. Claire Is still
doing good business at his confectn
cry store on South Third avenue. Rev,
and Mrs. Boyad are doing good church
work in their Zion and are we'll liked
Mrs. Adelaide Perkins will furnish tho
parlor city news hereafter. The new
subscribers were Mrs. Thomas Jack.
son. r. Hicks and o. B. Claire, Mr.
a. G. Glispie has patented a horse
blanket which will soon be on the
market and bids fair to make a snc.
cess. Mr.. Lowell Mr.. H. J. Martin
ana Mr. Chas. Boone are: getting along
nicely, From there we stopped in Gin.
TON ION but as our energetic agent A a
B !. had made all Unavailable subscrip-
tlo IN collections we did not have to call
On our Clinton subscription family
y we did not secure any sne.
cial news of interest. However I +
might say that Clinton holds the han.
ner Of towns in Iowa with more snc.
cessful colored business than any oh.
er town. Mr.. Fred Neal is still in tha
,ce cream and confectionery business
Mr. VIM Allen is running his we'll
k.hown little crown restaurant and his
son SON, VIM, Jr. is in the pantorium bns.
mess for himself and doing well M
hancock ian runs q restaurant and candy