Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1910-01-14

the session Just closed compared fay
orably with past sessions. The pro
gram and exhibits were good and the
general interest in the institute shows
no abatement. The new oncers are:
President. T. 3. James: vice presi.
dent. c. 4. Frazer secretary. Henry
J. Ross; treasurer Silas Candal, Sr.
County superintendent Of Schools
Miss Della Simons was elected lady
manager. She has supervision Of
women's day.
Dennis Magden, one OF the oldest.
II not the oldest OF the employees on
the Northwestern railway, has retir.
ed on a pension for his services as q
blacksmith for the company, at Clin-
ton. Mr.. Magden has been in the en-
ployment OF either the Northwestern
company. or OF companies which af-
forwards became parts OF the North
western, continuously ever since
1856. This veteran Of the transport
tation industry first found employment
in railroad service as a lad in the
capacity OF water carrier, to con-
struction gangs. who were building
the old Galena G. Chicago railway at
Belvidere, Ill.
A committee from the First Baptist
church Of Marshalltown has returned
from Minneapolis, after investigating
church architecture, and has decided
to build the new Baptist church pat.
termed after the Joyce Methodist
church Of Minneapolis. The church
will be of cement construction, trim.
med with Bedford stone. and will
have tile root, and will cost 100000.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. w. Bates of Shell
dan celebrated the sixty-hrst anniver
sary OF their marriage at the home
OF their daughter, Mrs. d. A. Drury,
OF Nevada. Mr.. Bates. "a, and Mrs.
Bates, 70. were both born in Water.
town. N. Y. They were married there
and came to Iowa in 1871.
r. J. Loveland of Mt. Pleasant has
purchased half interest in the can.
ming company from Charles Van Cor
der, and together they will operate
the plant on q larger scale. Mr.. Love.
land, who is an experienced packer,
win have the active management of
the business.
DR.. Charles Trumbauer of Keota
has purchased the Phi Delta Theta
fraternity chapter house in Iowa City
Of Charles Cochran. The considers.
ton was $4,000. Mr.. Cochran pays
$1,000 additional and secures DIR.
Trumbauer's 100 acre farm.
Miss Nancy Frey OF Sigourney
holds q unique record, having taught
ninety-one terms of school in the
state. She is "A years old and until
month ago. when she suffered a
stroke of paralysis, was teaching
school in Keokuk county.
ri NJ. E. Devoid of Cedar Rapids has
sold his 344 acre farm adjoining the
townsite of Webb to man named
Aschenbach Of Van Cleve, the con-
sideration being 500 per acre Mr..
Devoid paid $50 per acre for the
farm six years ago.
The refusal Of Secretary Moody Of
Muscatine to obey the suspension or.
der from President Gleason Of the
Button Workers organization will
probably cause an eruption in the as
ISOLATION, as the members are highly
incensed.
John Taylor Of Sioux City was
found dead on the floor with bot
tie of wood alcohol beside him. He
had turned on the gas and this COM
pleted the work of the poison. He
leaves a widow and two children.
More laurels were added to the
Des Moines postofice when Postmast-
er Myerly gave out his annual state
ment for the business done during the
year 1909, which shows an increase
Of $s2.S53.02 over the year 1908.
A quarter section, belonging to the
Cornelius Holvers estate in Warren
township. in Story county, was sold
recently to Martin Erickson for $120
per acre. which was : good price, but
not top figures for Story county.
Luke VIM, who was sent to Fl.
Madison last summer to serve a five
year sentence for stabbing Henry
Parchon at Fontanelle last Fourth OF
July, was taken to Bridgewater to see
his mother, who is very sick.
A new mail clerk is to be installed
on the north branch of Creston, known
as the Creston and Cumberland
branch. This makes a clerk on ev.
cry train running on the branch.
William Dear, farmer near Cedar
Rapids, lost twenty cows during the
recent storm, when the animals
sought shelter on the ice Of the Ced-
ar river and broke through.
Ross vontress. county clerk Of Cal.
houn county, was in Pomeroy recently
securing names on his petition to cut
down the number of supervisors from
five to three. He met with good
success there.
DR.. C. B. Jamison, former head OF
the engineering department at Iowa
City, has been appointed consulting
engineer for certain high officials Of
the Chinese empire.
Grieving over the loss Of his wife,
John Birch, q farmer living near Ma
rengo, became insane and was sent
10 the hospital at Mount Pleasant.
AS Rasmus Rasmussen, the Audu-
bon blacksmith, was working about
his planning mill in the shop, he got
The little finger on his left hand too
near the buzz-saw and it was cut OF,