Kingsbury County independent. (DeSmet, Kingsbury County, S.D.) 1894-1929, 1907-02-22
200 FORMER IOWANS
BANQUET IN GOTHAM

New York, Feb. 19.-Theodore p.
Shonts, ex-chairman of the Panama
canal commission and Secretary of the
Treasury Shaw were the principal
speakers last night at the second an
nual banquet of the Iowa Society of
New York, held at the Waldorf-Astoria.
Fully 200 were present.
senator Dolliver and Congressman
Frank O. Lowden, now of Illinois, were
unable TO be present. The event was
2 great success. A resolution was
adopted and sent Ia Senator Allison as
follows:
We gratefully acknowledge to you our
profound appreciation of your long n
distinguished service to both state and
nation, and express to you our wishes that
rhere may still be for you many years Of
JOY and pleasure.
The guests OF honor included Sec
rotary Shaw, Senator Dolliver, Hon.
i. +. Shonts, Congressman Lowden,
Senator William A. Clark, of Montana;
Judge John f. Dillon, General John j.
McCook, Walter Alexander, Hon. Sid
hey Foster, George McHenry and Ed
win n. ~Blashford, the artist.
The members of the dinner commit
tee who furnished the most acceptable
program for the annual reunion were
Colonel James h. Peavy, Colonel Henry
l.. Swords, John A. Drake, Edmund A.
Stedman. Henry ID. Tichenor, Robert
Is. Armstrong, Delos w. Cooke, Edward
Owings Towne, Adelbert j. Smith and
c, Arthur Dunlavy. The officers who
also took an active part in the arrange
ments were General Dodge, president:
james 5. Clarkson, first vice president;
John r. Dillon, second vice president:
Theodore p. Shonts, third vice presi-
dent; Coker f. GARRISON, secretary, and
Allan Dawson, secretary.
A partial list of the members who
attended and the cities from which
they hail follows:
Des Moines-Walter f. Andrews, Web
ster BISHOP, James $. C~larkson, Coker F.
Schuyler r. Ingham. William A. Jones,
August Kuhn, Julius Kuhn, George l.. Nc
Gracken, Charles V. 0'Donnell. George f.
Parker, DR.. Harry f.. Plummer, Charles
u. Riegelman, William II. Ryan, Elijah
w. Sells, Colonel II. L. Swords, Warren
+. Thummel, Henry ID. Tichenor, Samuel
Strauss, X. p. Worral and Herman Youn-
ker.
Dubuque-Henry G.. Bates. Orrin s.
Goan, Walter Goan. Walter Large, Will
liam Writ Mills, James r. Sheffield and
Frank O. Udall.
Council Blurs-william C. Beer. Frank
;; Pussy, Ralph w. Clayton, Grenville NJ.
lodge, John i. Granger, William r..
ffS9 in and Adelbert J. Smith,
Peavey and c.. ii. Winnie.
lndependence-H. r. Ballou.
w. Miller.
Dayenport-James d, Campbell and John
#. Dillon.
The representatives of other Iowa
cities were:
III. A. Bennett, Ames: Charles r.. Bissell.
Fairfield: State Senator Edgar T. Brack-
EFT, Mt. Vernon; A. w. Buel, Keokuk;
Jesse w. Clark, Red Oak; George ID. Cook,
Mt. Pleasant; G. A. Dunlavy, Stiles; Geo.
Norton Ellis, president Tabor college; H.
II. Hedrick, Keokuk: r. c. H.rleman, Wa
verify; John w. Jennings, Miliersburg;
James Il. Kooser, Cedar Rapids; Norman
X. Metcalf, Lansing; ". q. Monnet, Keo-
sauqua; Charles III. More, Fort Dodge;
John f. Murray, Monroe; Nelson M. Page,
Fort Dodge; Theo. +. Sanxay, Iowa CITY:
George w. Smith. Mt. Pleasant; Carl
Snyder, Cedar Falls: T.. A. Stedman, Keo-
kuk; Edward o. Towne, Pella; Rev. Jul
Illus A. Ward. Cedar Rapids; Is!dore Well,
Clarinda: George w. Wellman, Ottumwa;
Myron f. Westover, Vinton: Thomas M.
Williams, Abel.
Several well known public men at
tended, among them being w. c..
Brown, vice president of the New
York Central; William T.. Hornaday,
director OF the New York Geological
park; Albert Shaw, editor OF the Re-
view of Reviews; DeIos w. Cooke.
assistant traffic manager of the Erie
railroad; Lee DeForest, the inventor
OF wireless biography, and John S.
Runnell, of Chicago, counsel for the
Pullman company.