Los Angeles herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1900-1911, 1908-02-23
GRAND OLD
MANIC HEERED
BY IOWANS
GOVERNOR B0lES ADDRESSES
$1,000 At REVIEW
EAsTLAkE PARK A BIG CITY OF
HAWKEYEs
Los Angeles Woman Gets Prize for
Essay = Judge stutsman of
Santa Ana Elected
President

Iowans, present and past, at their
annual reunion in Eastlake park yes
terday cheered their grand old man,
former Governor Horace Boies, and
showed pronounced enthusiasm at ref
erence to Roosevelt's order dispatching
the fleet to the Pacific coast.
Threatening clouds following the rain
OF the day before kept the crowds down
to probably $4,000, yet the big park at
night looked as though an army of in
vasion and pillage had tramped over
1t. 1t was an all-day basket picnic for
constantly moving throng, and
lawns, shrubbery, trees and the lakes
showed by debris, discarded lunch re-
ceptacles and matted grass how large
is the Hawkeye colony in Southern Cal
ifornia
,statisticians have figured the total as
about 10000 In and near Los Angeles
and adjoining counties. At least half
attend the reunion. Santa Barbara,
Ventura, San Bernardino and San Di-
ego counties also had many carloads
at yesterdays festivities.
County Reunions
Each county selected some tree with
plenty of greensward around it., signs
bearing the name of that particular
county were fastened to the tree, and
each sign became the lodestone for
scores and hundreds of former resi-
dents of that county.
Hundreds of neighbors and friends
were reunited under the trees old
memories were rekindled, friendships
renewed, and untold benefits were de-
rived from this annual fraternal GUS
tom.
The election of officers resulted In
Judge A. H. Stutsman of Santa Ana
being chosen president, to succeed Col.
]. j. Steadman of Hollywood editor of
the California Cultivator. Col Stead
man was chairman of the exercises and
introduced each speaker in happy vein.
The thousands crowding around the
fag-canopied open space where the
speakers stand had been set were
stilled as President Stearman stepped
to one side so that good vi W could
be had of venerable Horace Boies, past
so. white-haired and the only Democrat
who was ever elected governor of Iowa.
Cheer Governor BoIes
II take off my hat to one of our best
low citizens" said Col. Steadman. II
take off my hat to an honest Democrat.
He has been sick, but God has spared
a noble man-honest, honorable Horace
Boies."
Amid tremendous cheering Governor
Boies arose, feebly l aned on his cane,
and with fire and enthusiasm in his
eyes said:
Fellow Iowans: st hope 1t will al
ways be my privilege to meet men and
women who once lived in Iowa, the
best stat in the Union.
II want to say to you, too, that
! hope you will all come back to that no.
BILE state to live. l want you to go
back to the best state that God AL
mighty has planted on the universe.
''It is well to come to this land of
sunshine and flowers to spend g few
months each winter. I too TX to come
to glorious California.
But when the sprinL time comes,
the pastures and meadows take on
green and the birds nest, I want to go
back to the old state and stay with the
birds until the winter comes again."
Collector of the Port of San Francisco
John p. Irish, a silver tongued son of
Iowa, was unable to be present, but he
sent this message:
iowa was the first great common
wealth to rise west of the Mississippi
river. Her pioneers were men and
women of stout-hearted and virtuous
stock. They builded state that in
war and peace has adorned our nation
al history.
1.-THE sons and daughters of Iowa
have carried everywhere the industry,
thrift, economy and personal and civic
virtues which was their inheritance
from the pioneers.
1--WE are in California, exiles to a
glorious land. The charm and bounties
of nature here lure the worlds enter
prise and love of beauty. But the peo-
pie came not in search of softer life,
but to show what their sturdy qualities
can do in developing the most varied
and valuable natural resources in the
world
wherever I know them and note
their progress 1 see a vision of plenty.
prosperity and Righteousness, and
find always a love unquenched for the
old state that trained them to meet
the great issues of life wherever their
lot may be-"
Announcements were then made of
the two prize winning essays on why
l Am Proud of Iowa." the first prize
going to Mrs. Jessie NJ. Potter of Los
Angeles and the second to T. G. Harri-
man of Long Beach. A special prize
was awarded Master Harold H. Story
of San Dimas. who is only IA years.
and he was forced to step on the plat
form and bow.
Mrs. Potter's prize essay is as fol-
lows:
I'm the perfect harmony of nature it
took ages of omnipotence and Omnis-
cience to prepare Iowa for the uses of
mankind.
ia woman--must sound her praises
in six hundred words. Absurdly impos-
sible.
ages there were in the laying of the
rock; other countless ages in which the
great coal bin of Central Iowa was
filled with billions of tons of fuel for
fireside and factory of the dim future;
yet other ages for forming the hills
and valleys. fair for the eye of man to
look upon; then followed the long,
cold, hard Iowa winters, when glaciers
kneaded the fresh roc. floor of the
northland with the pulverized limestone
of old tropical Iowa, and thus exceed
ing fine did the mills of the gods grind
the most magnificent soil of all crea-
ton, the one ideal soil for plant
growth; a soil yet later enriched by
succeeding ages of life activities. that
has made of Iowa the worlds garden
spot. producing the food stuffs for a
hungry world.
Fortune in Soil
"Of greater value than the combined
mines of the precious metals OF the
world is Iowa soil. over Iowa prairie
and woodland natures prodigality and
Hawkeye diligence have inscribed ev-