The Rice belt journal. (Welsh, Calcasieu Parish, La.) 1900-19??, 1908-11-06
Iowa Items.

! The election passed of quietly.
| DR.. Pyatt has been sick for the past
week but Is . little better at this
time.
l Mr.. Fred Denison and family are
visiting friends on the Choupique.
/ Rev. II. c. Ledyard and wife drove
to Lake Charles Tuesday.
| II. |. LOngenbach, has a handsome
Russian dog that arrived from Kansas
City, Mo. last Friday. 1t is six weeks
old, snow white, with long frizzy hair,
and is beauty.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. M. Brsden,a and Mr..
G. N. Pickeral OF Lake Charles at.
tended the funeral services Monday
OF the late I. N. Jones.
Mrs. H. l. Longenbach arrived
home from an extended visit in
Miami Co. Kansas, and in Kansas
City Mo.
Mrs. G. G. Tisdale reached Iowa,
Monday noon, lin response to tele.
gram informing her of the death OF
her father Mr.. Jones.
S. r. Smith, an aged pioneer of
this section was buried last FRIDAY.
Mr.. Smith had been in failing health
for several years, and since the death
| of his wife he went down rapidly until
the end came. He leaves behind a
good name which is better than riches.
The depot at Iowa was broken into
Tuesday night. Tickets were scatter.
ed around but nothing of value taken.
Jimmie Henderson. and Robert Irwin
made flying trip to the junction as
soon as the burglary was discovered,
and there found negro and white
man, whom they are holding in|
custody as suspects.
The Ladies Aid of the Methodist
Episcopal church are making active
preparations for their Bazaar to be
held in the Odd Fellows hall Thanks.
given day and evening. Many usefr
and ornamental articles will be on
sale. Among them a handsome silk
and velvet souviner quilt containing
over two hundred names worked 10
silk, of residents Of Iowa and the
surrounding country. Dinner will be
served also supper in the evening.
The entire community was shocked
on last Saturday morning to hear of
the death of MIR. I. N. Jones, or as he
was Familiarity called grandpa Jones.
He had not been we'll, but Saturday
morning he ate a hearty breakfast,
and decided to go on the morning
mail train to the junction, get off
there, and 60 across the rice field
few rods to where the boys were
bailing straw, on reaching the junction
he went to the car door, but fell, J. B.
Walker of Lake Charles hurried to
him at once, others quickly followed.
Among them DR.. Guilty, and every
effort was made to revive him. with
out avail, his death being due to
heat disease. Isaac Newton Jones
was born in York Co. Penn. July "a.
1881 and in Cincinnati, Ohio. Nov.
%. 1862. he was married to Miss Mary
| Billingsley. They removed to the
state of Iowa where they lived until
about twenty years ago, when they
settled in Louisiana. Mr.. Jones was
quiet, and a man who was always
busy. Notwithstanding his seventy
seven years, he would mount horse
and ride off like man of forty five.
When the final call came it found him
on duty, and the response Here"
was given quickly and without linger-
ing pain. Surely it was beautiful
passing over into the sGreat Beyond.
The surviving members of the family
are three sons two daughters fifteen
grand children and the ebereaved
wife who for almost forty six years
has walked with him through sheen
and through shadow, sharing his lot
whether it was prosperity or adverity.
The children are A. T. Jones. J. r.
Jones, W. D. Jones and Mrs. L. L.
Funk of Iowa, La. and Mrs. G. G..
Tisdale of Crowder, Oklahoma. A
good father who was always ready to
| help them has passed away, and al
though he cannot return they can go
to him. W. D. Jones and his mother
will abide in their home, the little
cottage among the roses and cape
jasmine, and some glad day in the