Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-08-25

is good blacksmith, having
been in that trade for 20 years.
Zachariah Price runs restaurant
and boarding house and is doing
a good home baking business.
Mrs Ross has confectionery and
boarding house. She is doing
we'll. They are race people.
Mr.. VIM. Bailey is undoubtedly
demonstrating what our race can
do if they would go on the farm.
He is a successful farmer and
stock raiser, having farmed in
Warren county many years. This.
year he and his sons have over
400 acres of good farm land rent
ed and pay S4.OO per acre cash
rent. He has nearly 200 acres of
good corn and some good stock.
Last fall he made public sale
and sold about IS head of horses
and many cattle and hogs, pre-
paratory to coming to Iowa and
buying some of the grand old
Iowa farm land, but as he could
not be suited he decided to
stay, at least another year in
Illinois. He is fine man to
meet-all business, typical of
successful farmer. Miss Jessie
Skinner has opened neat little
grocery store in the suburbs of
the town. She use to be travel
ing evangelist for the Baptist
Association. Mr.. r. L. Wallace
is one of the leading citizens.
He is janitor of the court house
and has been there many years.
His honesty and punctuality has
made him one of the permanent
fixtures at the court house. He
entertained ye editor while there.
Time will not permit us to write
more of this town.
Galesburg, Ill.
We arrived in the city of Gales
burg Sunday morning, there to
behold the annual chautauqua in
full blast. On that day the fore
most American citizen and educa-
tor, Prof. Booker T. Washington
of Tuskegee, Ala, was the prin-
pal attraction, and it was the
greatest day and the largest
crowd that ever attended the
chautauqua park. People stood
and sit crowded for two hours be-
fore the world wide apostle of in
dustrial education came upon the
platform, then the vast crowd
cheered; words Of ours are made
quate to express the cordial re-
ception that this great leader of
our race received. To us it was
a pleasure, as it is to all true
race men. His speech was we'll
received, and in the evening he
in company with with Atty. S.
Lang Williams of Chicago, ILL.,,
and ye editor, John L. Thomp-
son of Des Moines he visited the
two colored churches, the Metho-
dist and Baptist, where he spoke,
giving as he always does good
and wholesome advice. ..
There are $500 colored people
here, many are doing well, es-
pecially the older settlers. Rich
ard Worthington, Sr. is perhaps
the best off financially. He owns
valuable tract of S acres near
the north part of the city. His
son Richard hauls the U. 8. |
mail to the trains; he also owns a
nice home. At one time he at
tended the Tuskegee institute.
Mr.. John Duke is employed as a
shipping clerk in large leather
house and has been for many |
years. Mr.. Lewis c. Carter is |
also clerk in grocery store
and has been for more than 2Ol
years. He is strong race man.
J. H. Washington is one of the
most successful men at his trade
we have yet met, a printer; he
works on the Republican Regis
ter for many years and has been
constantly promoted until about
about two months ago he was
made general makeup man and
head man in the stereotype room
and raise in salary. His work
has been complimented, especial
ly by the people, on the nice
paper he gets out. He is very
pleasant man to meet. This city
is the present home of Mrs, J. E