Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-01-07

Thanksgiving observance in Marshall
). William Battin, was read at recent
rs. Jennie Williams. That the general
owing how the first Thanksgiving was
Y below.
City Bank now stands, gave dinner to
a host Of friends.
cat the Lacey home were Father La
cey. Mr.. and Mrs. Lacey, Mr. and Mrs,
Beardsley, Mr.. and Mrs DR.. Statler,
and Fred Wells, I'd. Statler and Joe
Kennedy were somewhere near at hand
at dinner time.
"The Lutheran minister and wife
dined with the Utz family.
The Loree families died together
that day. Mr.. and Mrs. Yeomans, Mr..
and Mrs. Walters and other members
of the Hoffman family were at Father
and Mother Hofflnan's to dinner
The Plat Smith family were at their
parents home.
1.-THE Plat Smith family were at
their parents home.
SAINT Howard, r. H Barnhart, Char
lie Carlton and N. P. Gregg played
checkers in the Office. E. Hoes, Lou
Butler, s. L. Somland, the | Dewey
brothers, 10 Sundry, Nash, Curtis, the
Straights and some more drove into
the country and took dogs and guns
along. David Parrett kept open store.
Louis Armbruster made shoes. Han
negans hauled wood.
Mr.. and Mrs. William johnson had
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to dinner with them. There were two
small boys in each family; nice, orderly
boys they were, and it was clever to
have them together. Tom WATSON and
Theodore Johnston are here now, but
they are gray-haired. How funny!
Ed Chaplin hauled wood that day to
the wives of soldiers who were needy,
and thus he thanked the Lord in q
practical way.
Moses Stern was here then. 1 do
not happen to know where he dlned but
he was welcome at every board.
The Bowman families and their
employees gathered together at John
Bowman's. Mr.. and Mrs. Pratt had
Solomon Brooks and wife and DR.. P. H,
Taylor with them to dinner The Web
sters and Canfelds dined with relatives
out Of town. Joe Smith, now Of Ell
dora. and wife had Mr.. Sharon and
some soldiers wives to dinner with
them. Joe was a shoemaker when the
United States congress passed a law
taxing trades. Joe declared he would
not pay for the privilege of sitting on
a bench and driving shoe pegs. So
when the law came in force he took
off his leather apron and said: old
shoe bench, good bye Joe has be-
come wealthy since then. So has Louis
Armbruster. Compton and Bailey
formed company Of their own that
day, as did T. E. McCracken and j.
Geitchey William Battin and family
had to dinner H. Delos and wife and
some friends from the country. Mrs.
Holcomb and sister (now Mrs. French)
spent the day with their sister, Mrs.
Messenger, north Of the river.
There were others whose homes
were here, who were not away in the
army, Of whom remember George
Walters and family, now of Vienna
township; w. H. Whaley and Abel
Meach and families. now Of Timber
Greek township; Alva Arson, David
Tinmas, the Thorns and Hartwell, and
Drums and SCOTS, and Snyders and
Beckwiths, and Heigles and Collies and
Turner's and Rats and Colvin, Tafts
and the Hedjo family, but how they
disposed of themselves on that day !
cannot at this late date remember.
Neither can I tell how the Utz boys
(Theo., Lud and WilD and Hank An
sons boys (Ada and Sturgis), and
others Of their size, disposed OF them
whole raft Of the boys about the wolf
dens, which were then near where
Mr.. Ketchum and Mr.. Cunningham
now live, between Fourth and Fifth
avenue. He guessed they seen a wolf
go into it's hole and they were going to
dig it out.
1.-THE boys here then were mostly
good boys, and we may thank the Lord
on this Thanksgiving day that we have
SO many of that kind now.
What I have written may need
some correcting. Had consulted old
records I might have found names
Of persons who lived here then which
1 have omitted, or had gone to the
cemetery (Which at the time I write
was merely a brushy commonly might
have been reminded Of names per-
haps have forgotten of persons who
were here at that time, but / have
given them as my memory recalls
them as the citizens of Marshalltown
and not in the army, on Thanksgiving
day in the year 1862. II have got
any part Of this wrong. please pass 1t
by as dream, for most Of US don't
reoollect the occurrences Of thirty-fouz
years ago. Ba64es born Since that are
now sending children to the pubic
schools"