Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1903-08-25


Mrs. Anna Smith.
1S5S-Robert Glover
Mrs. d. p Commons.
William King.
William Fritz.
1S59-Jacob Arnold.
1S60-Joseph Heacock, Willard.
Mrs. E. Dorothy, Ottumwa.
1S62-Fielding Barnes.
Wright Barnes.
1863-Mrs. Margaret Reading.
Mrs. Melissa King.
1s64-A. ]. G. Bailey, Abba.
1861. H. Miller.
Herman Snow.
Mrs. j. o. Dorothy.
Mrs. A. G.. West.
Luther Carey. Ottumwa.
1S67-S. P. Poston.
1857. w. Peoples.
The speech of Hon. Thomas P.
Smith of Harlan, was largely descrip-
tive of the early pioneer times as a
boy saw them. His address was in
part as follows:
Il am with childhood friends this
| afternoon. If you have never gone
from your old home into the world
| W q Now PltbSC W VIII youI way
strangers, to begin there to fight the
battles of life among those who have
no interest in you or your life, you
cannot understand my feelings as l
return to you this afternoon. We re-
member the old friends, we see the
faces grown older and the form grown
weaker, and we are reminded of the
incidents and facts of our boyhood
days and linger over the stories those
who have grown old tell of the times
when they knew us as children.
What is there in country that
has no history, nothing that can make
you aspire to higher things and to
emulate great deeds? Show me a
country that has no history to which
it's present generation can point with
| pride and l will show you country
that is dead as to the possibilities of
the future.
I'VE all have in our lives memorial
days which we hold in mind and which
to us are like milestones guiding us
along through the years and through
our lives. 1t is to these that we point
with pride and by which we locate
less important incidents and circum-
stances of our lives.
so it is in the life of state or
nation. We have our Xourth of July.
our Thanksgiving and yLr Christmas,
our great civil war. 1t is to these and
to what they stand for that we point
with pride and they are the points
by which we mark the flight of our
time in our nationtl life.
In national life, much as in our
nWp 1iuac i,1dca pf what tho fin.
ture will be much by what the past
ture is but the lengthening of the
| shadows of the past. Each genera
ton must begin where the preceding
one began and as the years fly on
| the rays of influence broaden as do
the dark rays of the frightening shad-
ow What the preceding generation
did the present the present one con-
tinues, and the coming one will take
up Each generation takes up the
work it finds it and places it a little
further along in the future.
1--WE of the younger generation Of
old pioneers find the work which we
are to take up many stages advanced
from the days when the earlier settlers
came into the state and county. In
many ways the work for us is simple
and easy compared with the hardships
and Drivations of our fathers. Yet
many times l am forced to wonder if
we have really made proud the pro-
gress which we boast over those olden
times.
.Their manners and their ways may
have been crude. their schools were
not so far advanced. They may have
done their counting in lumber wagons
instead of rubber tired buggies, but
they enjoyed life just the same and
sometimes doubt whether or not they
did not get more genuine worth and
enjoyment than we do now.
Somehow those times got the best
out of the individual. They got in
touch with life as we do not seem to
do. To live and enjoy life and to be
of value to yourself and to your friends
and your country you must get in touch
with life. and take human interest in
people and things about you. This is
the only way to be happy.
Today's Program.
The event closes today and an ex-
cellent program, the principal feature
of which is an address to the old sol
diers by Congressman John F. Lacey,
has been prepared. The Milwaukee
train this morning was crowded with
visitors from Ottumwa and the at
tendance promises to be larger than
that of yesterday. The program fol-
lows:
9 a. m.-Band Concert.
9:35-Invocation by Rev. Rowe.
9:45-Song by the Methodist Episco-
pal choir.
1O-Address by Hon. H. L. Water
man.
10: 3O-Music by band.
1O:45-Recitation by Marshal Ma
thews.
11-Song by Methodist Episcopal
choir.
11:15-Address by G. N. Udell.
10 m.-Dinner.
p. m.-Band concert.
1:30-Address by Hon. J. B. Sulli-
van of Creston.
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