Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1905-09-01
OBSERVATION IN MIS-.
SOURI, TOWNS.

about are usually the parties we NEE
and you must remember that we car
not and do not meet all the people
Arriving in Kirksville, the county sea
of Warren county; this little town i
made famous by being the home o
the DR.. Still College of Osteopath.
and might say that from this all thu
schools of similar nature grew
Kirksville is a town of about 6,00l
people, 1000 colored. Mr.. L. A. En-
banks is one of the substantial ant
pioneer citizens. He owns a first-clas:
tonsorial parlor. Mr.. M. B. Martin il
a reliable man. Mr.. Richardson is s
shoemaker and has been there many
years. Mr.. Coursey's folks are race
| people. Mr. Fl. Johnson is doing well
| Mrs. Bledsoe of our city was here Wis
iting her mother. She at one. time
lived here and still owns property
here.
Our next stop was at Mason City
| where the Western college Is located
1t is the oldest Christian institution
in the west for the education of color.
ed children and is conducted under
the auspice of the Baptists, with that
able veteran educator, Prof. Enos
Larkin Scruggs. as it's president. Ye
editor had the pleasure of spending
| few hours with the president at his
beautiful home overlooking the cam
pus. While they have a beautiful site,
their buildings are all inferior frames.
This Is the greatest need of the col
lege-money to build new modern
buildings with equipment to accomo-
date the over-crowded school. Those
who have the money and are gener-
ously inclined should help this school,
for the location is ideal, comprising
II acres of land overlooking the city.
See their advertisement elsewhere.
Later we will issue a special edition
with this school illustrated. Macon
City has population of about 1000
and about 1000 colored. There are
two colored churches-Baptist and
Methodist. Rev. e. D. Green has
charge of the former and is an able
young man. Mr.. e. G. Stoner operates
a restaurant and seems to have a
good trade. R. l.. Howard is an en-
terprising young man who owns
grocery store and enjoys a good trade.
1t is the only colored grocery. The
Western Messenger, a weekly journal
published under the auspices OF the
Baptist association, is edited by ]. D.
Redd, theological student. There
are four teachers in the public school.
Our next stop was at Moberly. This
is town of about 1900 population
and about 200 colored There are no
colored people in business except
Mr.. r. l.. Scott, who owns black
smith shop and is doing we'll. Mr..
White has a restaurant and DR.. Peay
conducts hack line. He is a physic-
ian and has been there a number OF
years and is a graduate of Maharra
medical cOllge at Nashville, Tenn
There are good opportunities to enter
business in my Judgment. 1t is
railroad town and rather wild. Ex-
cursions carry the people away every
Sunday. There are two colored
churches, the Methodist and the Bap-
tist. Rev. F. Bates has charge of the
latter. Mr.. A. Stapleton is an engin-
eer, having worked for one employer
for number of years. Thus he proves
that honesty, integrity and punc1ual-
ity have won the respect of every
body. AS he was like many of our
race, he had been bit by other colored
men coming through getting money
for some paper in advance, then not
sending the paper. Consequently it
was a little difficult for ye editor to
convince him otherwise. Prof. H. C.
Vaughn is principal of school and he
is a good race man, saving his money
and Investing it judicially. He has a
lovely home of five acres in the city
limits. Mrs. A. B. Brooks is a teacher
in the public schools. She Is a great
church worker and a very useful lady
in this community.
Five hours stop was in Huntsville,
the capital of Warren. Here we finj
the colored people very Industrious
and prosperous. Most of them are
old citizens and own their homes.
While it's principal industry is mining,
yet they are quiet class of people
There are two churches, the M. E. and
the Baptist. The latter is presided
over by Rev. G.. C. Chinn, who is an
able man. There are two school teach
ers, Miss Della e. Henderson and
Prof. Rufus Logan of Columbia, Mo.
The latter is principal of the school.
He is a coming young man, a gradu-
ate from the Lincoln Institute, and
editor and owner of the Professional
World, one of the best newspapers in
Missouri. He is a cousin to Mrs. J.
H. Shepard of this city. Mr.. Routt is
a blacksmith and is quite we'll to 10.
Mr.. Scott Robinson, VIM. Dunn, J. J.
Wiley are some of the representative
men of the town.
Mexico, Mo.
Into Mexico, Mo-, was our next stop.
Here is the home of Thomas Bass,
the greatest horse trainer and rider
Of the high school and saddle horses
in the world. The name and fame Of
Tom Bass is so we'll known that can
not add to it. I spent the night in his
comfortable and we'll arranged home.
His Industrious wife is very interest
ing to talk to, thoroughly race wom-
an. They have only one little lad of
6 years. who has snug little bank
account mostly from money given
him by visitors and friends Their
homestead covers one-half block in
the city and then he owns other prop
erty a few miles from town. He had
30 head of gated educated and high
school saddle horses when I was
there. He had Ii in his barn. His
main barn is over 100 feet long and
very nicely arranged inside. He en-
ploys 3 hands to attend to his horses
He has two large bookcases full OF
gold and silver medals and prize
badges that he has won. His famous
horse that carried off the prizes in
our city was, Columbus, Miss Rex
Those are now sold. Last year Gov
ernor Joe Folk was the prize winner
l n ic cot1 hot L,