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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1905-04-19
Hrion

Miss Sylvia Evans spent Sunday at
home.
Robert Beutel was transacting bust
ness in Arion Saturday.
Oliver and DR.. PETIT were Arion and
Denison visitors Saturday.
Mr.. Falkner of Buck Grove was in
our city on business Saturday.
Miss Iva Mitchell of Sioux City is
visiting her sister Mrs. Henry Dodge.
The Lutheran people had preaching
services in the Baptist church on Sun
day p. m.
Mr.. and Mrs. Bert Slocumb and Miss
Leila were visiting Arion friends on
Wednesday.
Mrs. E. P. Wigg will depart for
Quasqueton, Ia. on Wednesday for a
visit with her mother.
F.O. Ivens was down Friday and
met with the city dads to discuss the
water works.
E. G. Chamberlain and family were
down through our village on Sunday
testing the new automobile of G. L..
Voss.
Mr.. Wilson has we understand secur-
ed the Mitchell house and will move
there this week, we are glad to know
that this family are to remain here.
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Goodrich

Broder Boysen shipped car of hogs
Saturday.
Miss Elsie Beaman was the guest of
Miss E la Fink Sunday.
Miss Bertha Newcom is in our neigh
borhood as music teacher.
Mrs. Albert Whey went to Denison
to do some shopping Wednesday.
Miss Cora Smell visited at her uncle
Edwins q few days during her vacation.
Mrs VIM. Case visited at hsr dsuph-
ters, Mrs. Amanda Dunbar last week.
Mss. A. D. Whey and Miss Sadie
Newton visited at B. Beaman's Thurs.
day.
Rev. Stone and mother has been
visiting his people in Goodrich this
week.
L. F. Norris was down to Denison
Tuesday in interest of the soldiers
relief
The agent for the Illinois Portrait
company has been delivering some
fine pictures the past week in this
neighborhood.
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l. G. Ruby was an Omaha visitor
Friday.
Tom Burns of Vail was seen on our
streets Sunday.
Mr.. and Mrs. VIM. Flint are visiting
friends at Gray, Iowa.
F. Chamberlin and family visited
Denison friends Sunday.
Miss Elsie Wilson of Manning visit
ed over Sunday with Manning friends.
Miss Stella Rhodenbaugh of Man
ming is the guests of Chas. Demster
and family.
The little son of Mr. and Mrs. jain
who has been very sick is reported TO
be improving.
Mrs. Parks Sunders and two sons of
Sioux City are visiting at the home of
Mrs. G. W. Saunders.
DR.. Draper and wife returned We'd
nesday morning, and are now pleasen-
" located in the w. McCl acken resid-
ence.
Rev. Josh Stevens who has been in
critical condition for some time is
able TO be about again and attend to
his duties as pastor.
G. 81. Baker is now very busy max
ing the proper arrangements to COM
mence serving rural route number 2
as mail carrier on May 1st. 81. Cooper
has been assigned to route number
instead of serving and 3 triweekly
as he has done in the past.
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w est Side.

August Schluter visited Denison
friends Monday.
w. W. Cozad made a business trip TO
D ;n,son Monday.
Will Daniels of Denison was in town
on business Saturday.
FF. Brown was transacting business
in Denison last Thursday.
M. G. Sherwood of Vail spent Sun
day with S. G. Blackman.
F. c. Black of Scranton visited
among friends here Sunday.
Mr.. Chas. Shives and daughter of
Vail visited over Sunday at the home
of j. w. Dewitt.
M. J. Campbell has improved the
appearance and comfort of his resid-
ence by the addition of new porch.
j. II. Peters is charging the base
ment of his residence and making
other changes preparatory to putting
in hot water heating plant.
The household goods of Peter Sheri.
dan arrived here Thursday and were
taken to the rooms over the jew
elry store and now Mr.. and Mrs. Sher.
idan are pleasantly located.
The school board met in special
session Friday evening and elected
Robert D. Barr of Castana, Iowa. al
principal. They decided to add
another year to the high school course
| The Race Track association has q
force Of men and teams at work this
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Buck Grove

DR.. Bonney left Wednesday for
Nebraska.
DR.. Evans of Arion was in town on
Business Friday.
Mr.. Robert Bradshaw was an Arion
visitor Wednesday.
Mr.. Will White returned from
Sioux City Wednesday.
Miss Laura Moffitt was on the sick
| list few days last week.
| John Haworth of Dow City visited in
this vicinity Wednesday.
| Miss Millie Bicknell visited las t
week with Miss Ethel Town.
Mrs. Geo. Igo and Mrs. Wiugrove
drove to Denison Wednesday.
The Misses Lucy snd Ella Kane
were Denison callers Saturday.
| Mr.. Hill of Denison. transacted bust
ness in this vicinity last Tuesday.
Miss Alice Kepford who has been i'll
for some time is slowly recovering.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Tranter transact
ed business in Denison Thursday.
Mr. John Griffin has been quite i'll
for several days. but is better now.
| Miss Ollie Town OF Denison visited at
her brothers Howard and family.
Salem Town Of Denison visited at
the home of his son Howard for few
DAYS last week.
| Mrs. Jess Bennett and children Of
Nebraska are expected next week. to
visit for few days.
Mr.. Peter Eggers of Denison is
making our town his temporary head
quarters for few days.
Mr.. and Mrs. James OMeara and
Leo visited in Shelby co. last Sunday
aJ the home of Mrs. Pat O'Meare.
Fred Gigax came down from Schles-
wig Saturday in his automobile. he
took his son Frank home with him.
Miss Mae HAYES is expected home
ON Quint Y. Ill. having completed the
CUISINE So course she took at that place.
The news reached US from Platt
D. that young son was born to Mr.
and Mrs. Geo. Fothering ham last Sun
day.
Mrs. Emma Green and children
drove over north of Denison Saturday,
and spent Sunday with her sister, Mrs
Late Biggs.
Mr.. Sylvester Thew, with his nursery
man arrived here Wednesday with
his trees and shubbery and was kept
busy delivering the stock for few
Gays.
The twelve year old daughter OF
Henry Buman living north of TOW q
died Friday of complication OF dis
eases. The parents have the sympathy
of the community in this great loss.
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De1oit

John Rohwer was up from Denison
on business Monday.
Miss Myrtle Golf was up from Logan
to visit her brother, I. A. Golf.
Reduction sale at
16.4t j. A. HALBERG'S
Silas Wedlock and wife were Deni-
son visitors yesterday afternoon.
DR.. Darling of Vail made a profess
sional visit here Tuesday afternoon.
Oscar Ainsworth was up from Deni-
son Tuesday afternoon calling on
friends.
Williams Worley has started livery
business In j L. Miller's old barn. Mr..
Miller having sold out his business.
Reduction prices in Try goods,
hosiery, summer goods. laces embroid-
cries, and shoes, at.
l6-4t J. A. HALBERG'S
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FSpInWALL.

Mrs. Will is on tie sick list at this
writing.
Adam Wiese is now duly installed
post master.
W. T. Ralph visited his parents in
Carroll last Sunday.
Rev. McNertney of Manila was in
town last Friday making arrangements
to give his moving picture exhibition
here Wednesday evening the 18th.
Fred Rooster was seen on our streets
Sunday.
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week getting the track in shape to be
used when the work is completed
West Side can boast of having the best
if not the only good race track in the
county.
w. w. Cozad has had the interior
OF his store building painted, added
shelving and counters and is now I'M
packing and arranging fresh stock
OF groceries and furnishing goods,
such as are used in every day wear.
He will no doubt succeed in this
community.
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CORRIDOR IN
FORESTRY

sturdy, independent and rather slug
gIsh race. They fish for three months
in the year, make on the average
1,500 in a season and live the remain
ing part of the year on the proceeds of
their catch. In the early spring, when
the fishing season is at it's height, AS
toria resembles a mining camp. Ev-
erything booms and money is plenty.
The fishermen pay their bills, and the
merchants settle their obligations with
the wholesale fraternity. When the
season closes the Finlander mends his
nets and puts them carefully away, de-
posits what money he has not spent in
the bank and proceeds to lead a life of
undisturbed leisure in his curious
house standing on piles on the tide
water lands near the river.
The Finnish salmon fisherman uses a
heavy. clumsy craft about twenty five
feet long, with a nine foot boom.
Sometimes he owns his boat, but Of
tener he hires it from the canning
company. The boat is equipped with a
spritsail, which by an ingenious con-
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7rick, Who viii Enter the Field Of Politics

critics in the town became involved and
was obliged to shut down Realizing
that the depression was only tempo
rary, Mr.. -Frick purchased the property
at sheFid's sale and built hundreds OF
ovens to utilize the output. From this
time on the success of the young oper-
ator was assured. The early and un-
timely collapse of his ventures was
freely prophesfed, but it did not come.
Until 1873 he conducted the business
in his own name and then took in two
partners the Fergusons, under the
firm style of H. c. Frick & Co. -Four
years later it became the H. G. Frick
Coke company. as it is at present.
At this point the Carnegies began to
be identified with the Bradford coke
producer. They had adopted the policy
If owning or operating all material
contributing to their finished product
To this end they became large pur-
chasers Of the stock of the Feorganized
coke company. When Thomas Carne-
gle died Mr.. Frick was chosen to I'LL
his place. His subsequent career with
that mammoth aggregation, the Carne-
gle Steel company, is known to the
world. In his ambition to make that
amazing corporation what it is today
he has probably labored more assidu-
ously than any workman ever employ
ed by the company.
The most critical and exacting period
in the life of Henry Clay F'rick was
during the memorable occurrences at
Homestead in 1892. It fell to his lot to
be the corporations spokesman, and as
such he was exposed to all the antago-
nism that menaced the aggregation.
He was shot and stabbed by the crazed
anarchist Alexander BERGMAN. but
succeeded in keeping the man at bay
until help arrived.
Mr.. Prick is known to his intimates
as a rather reserved but most suave
and agreeable companion. His domes-
tic life is reputed to be a model Of dig
nified and unostentatious existence. He
is averse to any effort which is likely
to direct public attention to the affairs
of his household and has always shown
great ingenuity in avoiding those wis
make the attempt to penetrate the Sc
clusion Of his charming home.
EZRA WILKINS
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timber exhibit. For its construction
two miles of logs five and six feet in
diameter and hfty-two feet in length,
eight miles of poles and tons of shakes
and shingles were required. The rustic
facade of this huge structure. broken
here and there by a rough window or
an ornamental balustrade, is consider
ably less classical than that of the
Parthenon, but it is not less original
and attractive on that account. Stand
ing in one of the spacious corridors of
this building, supported by its giant FIR
and cedar columns six feet in diameter
and forty feet in height. the visitor
cannot fail to be impressed by the
originality of the scheme.
Columbia court is the great central
plaza of the exposition, and it is sit
Uated between the Agriculture and the
Liberal Arts buildings. Its main fea-
lures are two wide avenues, between
which are spacious sunken gardens.
with numerous fountains and symmet-
rical beds of gorgeous varicolored flow
ers. Passing through this court, one
comes upon a parapet at the head of a
series of terraces of velvety lawn slop-
ing to the edge of the lake. Leading
down from this parapet to an ornate
boat landing is a broad staircase flank
ed by massive balustrades. On each
blooming roses.
Perhaps the nearest approach to a
replica of classic architecture may be
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This Abraham Oyerholt was a very
enterprising citizen. AS early as 1910
he established a distillery at his new
village, and he added large -four mills
subsequently. In the course of a few
years he became the wealthiest man in
the county.
Henry Clay Frick was born in this
village of West Overton, on the old
OverhoIt place, Dec. 10, 1S49. The ear
ly years of his life were spent on the
farm. He attended the district school,
at that time taught by Harry Overholt
a relative, now a resident of Iowa. The
paucity of sensational episodes in the
boyhood of Mr.. Frick has led to the
invention of more than one baseless &C
count of his early struggles with pow
erty and adverse conditions in general
Not only is this imputation of youth
ful perjury contrary to fact, but it is
well known to western Pennsylvanians
that the tricks were in exceedingly
comfortable circumstances
Before Henry was sixteen he went to
live with his uncle. Christian S. Over
holt, president of the First National
bank and the wealthiest merchant in
Mount Pleasant. While there he at
tended the Pennsylvania Classical and
Scientific institute and afterward be-
came q. student at Otterbein university,
United Brethren Institution a Wes-
terville, o. On his return to his uncle's
home at Mount Pleasant he acted as
salesman in one of Mr.. Overholt's
stores. A year later he went to Brad
ford and became bookkeeper in his
erandfather's establishment at that
place.
Young Prick had not been long at
Bradford before he was able to pur-
chase a small interest in some coal
property, and he and the other owners
built fifty coke ovens as an experiment.
At that time the coke industry was at
its very beginning in Bradford. Even
the Connellsville coke field was of linn
tied area. The value Of the product
was only beginning to be appreciated.
With an insight remarkable for his
years, Prick grasped the possibilities of
the industry and from time to time
added largely to his interests. Owing
to reckless management and overpro-
duction one Of the largest coal prop
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leisureIy with the current, becomes en-
tangled in the meshes that form the
trap. Farther up the stream immense
seines half a mile in length interrupt
the course of the fish as he passes over
the bar, and thousands are taken in
this manner. 1t would seem to be i'm
possible for any fish to ind its way
into the upper river, yet at the Cas-
cades, 200 miles from the sea, gigantic
fish wheels operated by the current
scoop up thousands of the refugees.
1t has been ascertained that of all
the eggs laid by salmon over 80 per
cent are eaten by other fish. Artificial
propagation is therefore necessary in
order that the supply of fish be main
tanned. Over 800. 000,0 Chinook salm-
on fry have been planted in the Co
lumbia river and its tributaries since
1895 A short closed season is desig-
mated by law in order that the hatch
cries, which are provided by the gov
eminent. may secure a supply of fish
from which to obtain the spawn
Cold storage and picking plants have
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Oregon building, which win be a hand
some clubhouse Of colonial design, win
occupy a commanding position near
the main entrance. The AIassachu-
sets building viii be the same struc-
ture used at st. Louis. It has been
taken down and shipped to Portland,
where it viii be re-erected. On the
neck Of land which extends into Guilds
lake viii be located the large building
which is to house the extensive govern
ment exhibit. It VIII be an imposing
structure Characteristic of Uncle Sans
generous provision for his great series
of public exhibits.
The Forestry building is a veritable
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5be CLARK Centennial Exposition al Portland
"A AZ EzoSr


found in the Oriental Exhibits palace.
The style of this building may be
termed modified Corinthian. It's grand
entrance. however. is decidedly remi-
niscent of the Petit Palais des Beaux
Arts in Paris. The European and Ag-
ricuItural palaces are composite. The
architects of both these structures en-
ployed the best features of all orders
as seemed best for the sake Of conven-
ience, and the result is remarkably
pleasing. The main entrance of the
European building is planned and car
ried out in the popular mission archi-
lecture. and the cornice and other
parts of the Agricultural building may
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ties thus afforded much competition
has arisen over aquatic privileges.
Many new and attractive forms of
amusement win occupy this bridge. and
the visitor in search of novelties may
expect to be provided with more SEN
sations than he can assimilate.
One of the most instructive and in
teresting items will consist of a com
plete exposition of the salmon industry
There viii be on exhibition numerous
specimens of live salmon in tanks. pre-
served salmon in jars, eggs and fry in
all stages of development and a full
and lucid demonstration of Matching
The methods of canning and cold stor-
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trivance is made to serve on occasions
as tent. The feet puts off about
sunset, drifts slowly westward with
the ebb tide, and in the early morn
ing the quarter mile net is slowly
drawn IN. This vast net is a floating
fence twenty-five or thirty feet in
height It is kept upright by floats at
the surface and weights at the bottom.
OF course there are other methods of
capturing salmon In Baker bay, near
the mouth of the Columbia. 400 hsh
traps are set, and these are long nets,
called leaders, extending 500 feet into
the river and supported by small piles
The unsuspecting salmon, swimming
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northwest, and it has resulted in a
combination of interests which controls
the industry. The primitive methods
of taking the fish still obtain. The
progress of the industry has not altered
the personality or habits of the pictur-
esque salmon fisherman or even the
appearance of his craft, with its odd
shaped sail.
The quaint town of Astoria, founded
as a trading post by John Jacob Astor
in 1911, is still the center of the salmon
packing business and the home of the
Finnish fisherman, a. type of American
citizen not found elsewhere in the re-
public. These Finnish Americans are a
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81. p. HE recent declaration
of Henry c. Prick to
lz4%c,s the erect that he had
l< decided to enter the
- Is: political field in the
IN III: near future is prac-
tically a response to
long continued solicitation from influ-
entail friends 1t has long been cur
rent that strong pressure was brought
to induce Mr.. Prick to enter Mr.. Roose-
velts cabinet as secretary of the treas
ury and that the president himself was
one Of those who were most insistent.
It is now announced that Mr.. Frick has
SO arranged his business interests that
he viii be able to devote himself to the
public service, and in order that he
may be entirely unrestricted and free
from entanglinS local alliances he will
take up his residence in New York.
Thirty years ago this spring two
young men were standing one day at
the corner of Sixth avenue and Smith
field street in Pittsburg when a third
young man passed with hasty nod.
who is your friend?" asked one of
the young men Of the other, who seem
ed to know him.
"Oh, that's Frick; thought you knew
him. He's in the coke business at
Bradford. Tricks the best business
man in the trade. Some day-mark
my prediction-he1l do the biggest
coke business in the country
The young man who thus prophesied
is today one of the officials of the H. C.
Prick Coke company. and the individ-
ual OF whom he spoke was Henry Clay
Prick. now the largest coke producer in
the world his concern operating about
10000 acres of coal mines and 10000
coke ovens, with a daily capacity of
% 600 tons. This is industrial distinc-
ton, indeed. hut it may be supple
mented by the fact that its pOssessor
IS the organizer Of the most stupendous
manufacturing enterprise Of modern
times-the Carnegie Steel company.
For more than a quarter of a century
Mr.. Prick has been prominent as man
ufacturer and an employer of many
hundreds of men. The industrial histo-
~ Of western Pennsylvania is dOminat-
ed BY his trade victories and inventive
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age keeping will also be shown. It will
be the combined effort of the govern
ment and the fair management to make
this the most satisfactory exposition of
the states leading industry ever at
tempted. Nothing viii be omitted
which can in any way contribute to
the success of the elaboration. The
salmon packing business has grown to
enormous proportions in the Pacific
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For four generations Mr.. Friek's an
cestors on his mothers side have been
Pennsylvanians. That of Itself makes
him a pretty good American. His IA
Their, John ". Frick was of Swiss de-
scent. His mother, Elizabeth Overholt
Prick, traces her ancestry back to
Abraham -Oberholtzer. who came from
the Palatinate in the drst half Of the
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EXPOSITION.

readily be traced to the same style. The
amusement section of the exposition,
corresp onding with the Pike at St.
Louis and the midways at other fairs,
will at Portland be termed "the Trail -
The Trail will have a most striking
and novel setting. It is situated on a
wide bridge which spans the lake and
connects the peninsula with the main
land. With the excellent water facili-
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Pennsylvania industrial conditions dur
ing the past two decades has forced
upon Mr.. Prick a notoriety which has
not always been agreeable either to
bear or to combat There has been
little agreement among those who
have written of him; he has run the
literary gantlet from shrewd business
man to high priest Of monopoly.
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achievements. Notwithstanding all this,
1t is probable that less has been writ
ten concerning Mr.. Tricks personal do
ings, habits and characteristics than of
any other man Of equal interest in the
world. 1t is also a fact that most of
what has been written has been either
fragmentary or biased designedly. Ev-
cry recurring disturbance Of western
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eighteenth century and settled on the
Delaware river in Bucks county, Pa
Mr. Tricks grandfather removed to
Westrnoreland county in the year 1900
and took up a large tract of land,
which is known to the present day as
the Overholt place Here was estab-
lished the little village of West Over
ton. an adaptation Of the family name.
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! the city Of Portland,
Ore, 1000 miles from
the scene of the latest
and in some respects
most remarkable Of
worlds fairs. a new in
ternationaI exposition
is rapidly assuming
49,
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HE recent declaration
Of Henry c. Frick to
the effect that he had
decided to enter the
political field in the
near future is prac-