Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-06
HE C|1Y'S FATHER
IS LAID % REST
Business Is Suspended While
Funeral of Henry Arson
Was Being Held
SERVICES WERE IMPRESSIVE
Hundreds, Unable to Gain Admission,
Thronged the Streets for Blocks,
Waiting for Conclusion Of Service
Colonel Parker Delivers Eloquent
Grafton.

Oration.
For one hour yesterday the city paid
its respects to the dead. From 2 to 8
O'Clock, business was at a standstill
in the uptown section, while the last
services over the body of Marshall
in progress in the east court room.
! Hundreds attended, but the number
would have been ten times what 1t
was had an audience room sufficiently
large to have accommodated that
number, been available.
No more impressive service; no 9TH
err funeral ever held in this city. has
attracted SO many as did that which
marked the passing of the city's found
er and its pioneer settler. The inn
pressiveness Of the last rites was not
duo to the words uttered over the body
Of the dead, but rather the result OF
ouch a vast assemblage, of all kinds
and classes and ages, who We'd with
each other to pay their last respects to
HIM. who had in II great measure made
Marshalltown possible.
During the hours from 10 to o'clock,
While the body lay in state in the
court house rotunda, hundreds gazed on
the city's benefactor for the last time.
Lcne before the hour set for the be-
ginning Of the services. all the avail
able seats in the court room were taxi
en-, save those that had been, reserved.
Tho Funeral Service.
Immediately in front Of the speak
ers' stand seats were left for the rela-
tiyes, while on each side Of the rostrum
were seated the members of the city
council and honorary and active pail
bears In front Of it rested the casket
the tops Of which was laden with pink
and red roses, yellow and white chrys-
antbemums carnations and Gala lilies.
The service was opened by the
male quartet. composed OF Messrs. H.
e. Miller, Ross Salisbury, Ralph Hix
and Chester Durelle, singing Dudley
Backs arrangement Of Lead Kindly
Light" Rev. A. B. Norris, pastor OF
the First United Evangelical church,
read as the scripture lesson the twelfth
4 chapter of Ecclesiastes, and offered
PRAYER The'quartet sang "One Sweet
lly Solemn Thought" after which Rev.
Mr.. Morris read a brief obituary and
| delivered the funeral sermon. He spoke
for half an hour and drew his lessons
from the text in Ecclestiastes 7:2,
..It is better to go to the house OF
mourning. than to the house of feast
ing From the beneficence, generos-
iy. and public spiritedness Of him for
whom the service was held, the pastor
Grew many lessons.
Following Rev. Morris Col j. M.
Parker. who delivered the grafton, gave
a enthusiastically eloquent address of
fifteen minutes length. He extolled
the manhood, the fixedness Of purpose,
the steadfastness Of endeavor, and the
rugged hardihood of the man for
whom the city mourned. He said In
part:
1T is fitting that one OF his kind be
/ axtol,ed nv words for his deeds. His
lxind Of manhood was Of the kind that
laws the foundations Of societies, OF
states and Of nations More than fifty
Years ago he started for the west. The
forest and the hills rose before him,
hut not as impediments In his path.
Il
overcoming of which he developed
those things in him which led to later
success. Henry Arson represented the
vanguard of progress. He came armed
with q commission ito subdue nature;
TO bring it under law and order. He
saw vision the same as the Hugue-
nots saw, the same as the settlers OF
Jamestown saw, the same as the pill
i {r{o 0f
had nothing, they had nothing. He had
hope, fortified by faith, and an earnest
inward belief in his ability to overcome
obstacles.
"The log cabin was his dwelling
place, his school, his church, his for
tress. know no greater honor to pay
Henry Arson than that he was p1o-
neer. He had the strength of his con-
victions, and however obdurate the
obstacles he met, he never fiinched, he
never faltered. Our country, and we,
! need such men. He has gone to his re-
ward, all hail, good bye to Henry An
son, father OF our city,
Mr.. j. F. Meeker read an appropriate
| poem 'There is No Death" and the
service closed with the quartet song
"Just Beyond" and the benedietion.
Procession to the Grave.
Hundreds, who had not been able to
| gain admission, lined Main street for
blocks waiting for the service to be
over and the funeral procession to
take UP its march. The cortege, head
ed by the Marshalltown band, moved
PROMPTLY, as soon as the relatives had
reached the carriages. After the band
came the patrol and fire departments,
the Trades and Labor Assembly, which
as a body, was unable to attend the
service owing to the lack of room. the
pail bearers and relatives, the latter in
carriages
Many View the Body.
A steady stream of humanity, from
every walk Of life the city contains,
passed thru the court house entrance,
above which mourning and a likeness
of Henry Arson was draped, into the
rotunda to view the body where it lay
in state during those hours given over
to the public. The body rested on its
bier at the foot of the stairway leading
to the second floor Above and about
1t designs, and fragrant bouquets of
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