Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-30
Iowa Historical Department to
Be Enriched by Collection Of
Revolutionary Days
o. A. R. TAKES UP THE WORK
Will Make Collection of Relics and
Place Them at Des Moines = Every
Iowa Congressional District to Have
Candidate for Supreme Bench to
Succeed Judge Bishop.
Special to Times-Republicar.

Special to Times Republican.
Des Moines, July So.-lf the proper
arrangements are made the historical
department of Iowa will be enriched
soon with a valuable collection of rel
les of the revolutionary war which
will be added to from time to- time.
The Iowa Daughters of the Revolution
propose to put the collection in the his
torical building. The articles which
will be given are not yet together in
one collection but many of the mem
bers of the society have valuable ar
ticles which are among their family
heirlooms and which they believe
should be preserved in some place
where they will be Of value to the en-
tire state.
The matter has been taken up by
Mrs. Kasson Miller of this city with
Curator Harlan, of the historical de-
part1nent, and it is expected that ar
rangements will be perfected for the
society to place the articles in the
building. The society hopes to make
the first gift a mere nucleus about
which to work to gather many other
valuable articles as the years go by.
An effort is being made to educate
the people OF Iowa to the Importance
of placing their valuable historical ar
ticles in the historical building. There
are said to be hundreds of family heir
looms in the state that are slowed
away in attics and bureau drawers
where they are in danger of being for
gotten yor of being burned up If
placed In the historical building and
properly labeled they are of value to
the entire state, are safe from beng
either lost, forgotten or burned up ana
should be as much or more of pride
as a family heirloom than when locked
UP in the bureau drawer.
The Iowa society of the Daughters
Of the Revolution propose to make IT
their especial business to educate the
people of the state on giving up any
articles that they may have of inter-
est in connection with the revolution
ary war and the years Immediately
preceding and following that event.
An oil painting of Isaiah Meek is to
be presented to the historical depart
ment to be hung in the portrait gallery
of famous Iowa men. Isaiah Meek ran
the first Meek mill at Bonaparte, Ia,
in Van Buren county. His daughter
Mrs. John H. Moore. lives in Keokuk
and she has promised Curator Harlan
to have a suitable portrait painted and
hung in the gallery.
In the early days of Van Buren
county the Meek mills were a famous
industry. They were made possible by
the Bonaparte dam and the Woolen
goods and articles of various kinds
turned out by those mills supplied
great part of the western country.
They were hauled by wagon as far
west as Council Bluffs before the rail-
roads were built. Isaiah Meek was the
pioneer and when he died left quite an
estate.
It is believed that practically every
congressional district in Iowa will have
a candidate for the republican nomina-
ton to the vacancy on the supreme
bench. Some districts may even have
more than one candidate No one has
been suggested thus far from the first
congressional district but M. A. Rob-
erts from the Sixth district next ad-
Joining the Second has been suggested
from that section of the state. Roberts
is a district judge residing in Ottum-
wa. Judge Byron W. Preston, of Oska-
loosa, also in the Sixth congressional
district is being suggested.
In the eighth congressional district
in the southern part of the state 1T is
understood that if anyone is candi-
date it will be Judge H. M. Towner
Information from that district is that
Towner's friends would present his
candidacy and will do so if they see
any indication that the nomination is
likely to come his way. Towner is on
the district bench and resides at Corn
ing.
The Ninth congressional district al
ready has member on the bench,
Judge Deemer, from Red Oak, but may
not be adverse to presenting another
There are able lawyers in Council
Bluffs and some one from that section
may be brought out. Senator Saunders
is considered one of the able lawyers
of the state tho it is not known
whether he or his friends are giving
any consideration to the vacancy or
not.
Congressman Birdsall Judge w. d.
Evans and Judge Franklin c. Platt of
the Third district have been men
toned. Judge A. N. Hobson. of West
Union in the Fourth congressional dis
trict has been mentioned. In the Sec
ond district Col. Clarke has been sug-
gested. No one has been suggested
from the Fifth district and that this
district has no Judge on the supreme
bench now
In the Seventh district Senator Ber-
ry, of Indianola. and all the district
judges of Polk county, are in the field
In the Tenth congressional district