Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-15
PEOPLE OF FREDoNlA, "kEN-
ruckY SETTLEMENT" OK
FORD, cLEMoNs' CORNERS.
THEY NET ON THE STREET
AND TALKED LIKE YOU DO
What Did They Talk About? Farms
and Farming, Cattle. Hogs and
Sheep. the Coming Railroad, the In.
fIux Of immigration, and the Rise in
Land.

There was a pretty big crowd in
town the Saturday before Christmas
1867, seeking Christmas presents and
buying supplies. Lancaster Bell, Owen
Albright and \. Lounsberry We're in
from Bangor township, J. NJ. Ferguson
and Josiah Cooper had driven to town
from the south side of the Timber
Creek grove
Over in G. w. Ginder's grocery George
Ferguson. whose fine stock had taken
premiums at the county fairs of ga.
'65 and sc. was talking horse with
Jaroleman. of Eden. who. few weeks
before. had paid the enormous price of
$500 for stallion. odd Man Forrey"
father Of Dave Forrey who served in
the Thirteenth Iowa-is in town from
his Timber Creek farm With roll Of
butter for his som law. Doc"
Hickey. the dentist. So is Monohon.
Kentuckian. and his wife. who is cele-
brated as a society leader and an en-
tertainer of Marshalltown's best So
Getty
The Hicksites are in from Marietta
way-Perhaps Doctor HiXson, among
them. Coddngton. Kimberly and D.
Moninger have driven in to help make
the crowd The Hausers and Billiards.
have come from Iowa township. pa >sing
Albion. where they generally "do their
trading to visit the metropolis Of the
county. Cripps. the bee master and
vineyardist. of Albion. has brought in
some of his famous honey. and DR..
Sternberg and some of the students
of the Lutheran college Of Albion are
TO be noticed in the throng. Hunsden,
Of Vienna. meets men Who shake him
by the hand tenderly. men who but two
years ago came home from the civil
VAR and who remember that this aging
man sent a family of sons to the front.
two of whom never returned, Cleaver
and the Beemans are in, and a number
of farmers and their wives and chill
dren have come from the Wolf Creek
neighborhood. just this side Of the
Grulldy line over by Wandaloup post
office Jake" kinzer Of Bangor is
talking with w. W. Weatherly. once
sheriff of the county, now a land agent.
and who was one OF the earliest set
tiers on Mormon Ridge. and helped bury
old Mr.. Dean in Marshall township
fifteen years before when there was no
pine lumber obtainable and they sawed
up the side boards Of Weatherly's wa
gon to finish out the coffin
Weatherly and kinzer are discussing
the new store started in Bangor by
j. c. Smith. Who used to i've in Mar
Shutdown but who moved to Bangor
from Eldo1a They are canvassing the
likelihood of the proposed railroad be-
tween Marshalltown and Eldora If
.],o Jo,p i- l1,a hl-
come one of the best towns in Iowa.
and a stern rival of Marshalltown.
Some of the Germans who have late
~ moved into Minerva have come to
town and George [-antz and Oscar FL
lott are here from up near Clemons'
Corners.
1t is representative crowd. Spencer
Day the cattle fancier. is III from
Green Mountain. He meets his neigh
bors G. w. Voorhees, and the Ho!-
combs Mrs. Holcomb is the finest but
ter maker in the country. so they say,
and her rolls bring the highest prices.
Here and there are the quiet figures
and plain" clothes, the broad iorimned
hats and modest bonnets of the Dun
kers from Fredonia. Most of these are
new settlers who came lately from
Ohio. They number about 100 MEM
bers of the church and have fine
church building erected from stone out
Of the Rock Valley quarries. DR.
HAYNES, who practices in that neigh
borhood but lives east of Fredonia, is
also on the street, as is Rev. Benn,
who breaches in Fredonia and just over
the Tama line in Oxford. County Re-
coraer Cooper meets Sam Cilkinson.
who is back from Nebraska on a visit,
and they talk of Bearings store in
F'redonia. formerly kept by Cooper but
sold by him when he moved to Mar
shalltown.
Elias Hilsabeck, the oldest settler in
Greencastle. who had emigrated from
his Iowa farm to Missouri a few years
before, is telling the difference between
the land he entered in Greencastle in
80 and the farm he tried to live on IN
Missouri. He is back in Marshall
county and means to die here. Lantis,
and Hoes, and Cap" Haskins, the
bachelor warrior of the old Thirteenth
regiment, who lives on his land content
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