Los Angeles herald., 1910-02-23

who eulogized Iowa, were the ninety
and nine county reunions Space for
the individual county reunions was
marked off in the large open play
ground south of the Conservatives.
Here the Iowans found friends, rela-
tives and acquaintances, exchanged
greetings and messages from the nome
state and indulged in "reminiscences.
Back of the speakers stand, bullt IN
a grove of eucalyptus growth, came a
rumble of snare drums, the shrlIi notes
of the fife, the groaning of the over
burdened swings and the roaring music
of the merry-go-round.
The bitter cold and storms Wh1ch
have passed across Iowa since Novem-
Der formed the general topic. Coming
at the heels of this was the often ut
tered "I am mighty glad I'm here ana
not back east this winter"
Los Angeles, the home of perpetual
summer, and one of the few places
where picnics and reunions may De
held the year through, is scheduied 10
receive advertising of unlimited Weaith
from the Iowa picnic of yesterday.
Among those who will scatter the
praise of Southern California as a mid
winter picnic ground will be hundreds
of tourist Iowans who were there. They
will write or convey in person that
they met there such former IoWans as
Judge Curtis D. Wilbur, Major John "A.
Donnell formerly district attorney or
Los Angeles county and one-tline
states attorney of seven counties III
Iowa. They will tell of how they met
Calvin HartWen coroner of Los An
geles county; Josiah Utterbach of Pas
adena, formerly a banker at Sigour-
ney, Ia; VIII Beatty, who conducted
photographers shop in the same city,
Frank d. Mcdowell formerly mayor
of Clinton, Ia, who is double to the
late President Cleveland; j. +. Glenn
ents, a Clinton retired chair manu-
facturer; Edward Hopkins, assessor or
Los Angeles county; Don Orriil, VINO
is holder of the second place IN the
Yuma land allotment line; Mayor
George Alexander of Los Angeles, for
mer State Senator w. w. Dodge, At
torney John Beardsley, Rev. c. A. Still
son, T. F. Cooke and others as prom
inent. Mingling with these were At
torney John Lafferty of Oskaloosa, b.
Latter, a Sigourney banker; simon
Shoecraft, a Clinton fuel dealer; b. ID.
Howes, a jeweler from Clinton; Iowa
State Senator D. o. Harrison of Hum
boldt.
The picnic was halliday affair and
was organized into reunion atter the
lunch. Stephen Townsend the retir-
ing president, was chairman. He in
troduced in succession DR.. r. S. Wal
ker Rev. Matt Hughes, former Con-
gressman Daniel Kerr, S. w. Dodge,
D. o. Harrison, DR.. Levi D. Johnson
and Mayor Alexander as the speakers.
Home, Sweet Home" sang by w. L.
Jones of Pasadena, carried memories
and hearts back to Iowa.
Former Senator Dodge, who came
from Burlington, Ia, said: 'The call
of civic duty and state pride demand
of each of us, as former Iowans, to
give our loyal support to every meas
ure, plan and means that has for its
ultimate end the moral, intellectual
and material advancement of this great
commonwealth of California"
Former Congressman Daniel Kerr
spoke in remembrance of the late Hon.
Delos Arnold, honorary president of the
society. DR.. L. D. Johnson spoke in
a similar vein of the late DR.. c. j,
| Cooke. Mayor Alexander gave utter
ance to the declaration that "Iowans
are the best citizens everywhere ex-
cept in Los Angeles, where all are
equal"
The officers for the ensuing year will
| be: Honorary president, stephen H
| Taft of Sawtelle; president, DR.. Ed
ward Henderson; vice president, P. S,
Rishell Secretary, C. H. Parsons, and
| F. H. Nichols, treasurer