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nessee, while the other panel depicts General
Logan in the act of taking the oath Of office
as United States senator, the oath being ad'
ministered by Vice-President Arthur. Included
in this group are the figures of Cullom, EV-
arts, Conkling, Morton, Miller, Voorhees, and
Thurman. On narrow panels on the north and
south faces of the pedestal are allegor1cal ng-
ures representative of war and peace.
The Grand Army Of the Republic, through
the fundamentally of which General Logan
secured his most enduring memorial-Memo'
rial Day itself-had its origin in the year 1866
when there was conceived the idea OF ma
tional society composed of honorably dls-
charged Union soldiers and sailors whose mot
to should be Fraternity, Charity and Loyalty
Post No, l. located in the city of Decatur, IN
General Logan's own state of Illinois, was ror-
mally mustered in in April OF that year anu
the first national encampment was held IN
indianapolis in the November following Gen
eral Logan was one Of the early commanders
inchief of the new countrywide organization
and il was in less than two years after the
new movement had been started that ne mdue
use of the infant organization to introduce tne
idea of a fixed and permanent Memorial Lay.
General Logan is indeed the best known OIL
all the commanders-in-chief of the great or
SANITATION Of veterans that numbered at one
time nearly 100000 men and his popularity
with his comrades in arms was eloquently at
tested by the fact that he served three terms
in the highest office in the gift OF the mem
bers of the G. A. R.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26
!. The treasury can do nothing but

it. The treasury can do nothing but
keep 1t.
The contractor who laid the first
pavement upon Pennsylvania avenue
from the capitol to the White House
has $4,000 waiting for him. 1t has
been there many years, but the treas.
ury has never been able to find the
rightful payee, as the contractor
failed and his affairs became involved
in litigation which has never been set
tied.
The amounts of this seemingly own
erless fund range from thousands of
dollars down to a few cents. The
smaller amounts are all held for those
who owned government securities at
some time or other and probably have
forgotten to collect their latest inter.
est.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26
100000 In Gold Awaits Claimants

q Tackled in one corner Of the steel
y ribbed vaults of the United States
treasury, $4,000 in gold coin is going
begging. The government canot give
it away; yet none of the rightful own
ers can be induced to take it. 1t
represents unclaimed interest on the
public debt.
Somewhere In hooks and crannies
and out of the way places are the gov
ernment's interest checks for the
money, which never have been cashed.
Some of them never will be presented,
others may be brought around in time,
and some are being held by cautious
investors.
From time to time the treasury at
tempts to call in the checks and the
vagaries of human nature are shown.
One citizen has more than 100000
waiting for him and holds the checks
for 1t. He was recently invited to
cash in and made trip to Washing
ton to tell treasury officials the checks
were his property, he would cash them
when he pleased, or burn them up If
he wished If he does the latter, his
money will be held in the vaults until
congress. perhaps. might DISPOSE Of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26
mr. LOG4y Mk1n0RlA ROOM

with flowers. From Dixie the pretty custom
spread to the north and took root in various
communities. However there was no general
celebration and fixed date for the placing
of the floral tributes until in the year 1868
General Logan, then acting as commander-ln-
chief of the Grand Army of the Republic, took
the initiative that secured for us Memorial
Day as we know 1t in this generation. He
issued an order fixing May 80 as the date for
the annual Memorial Day exercises and called
upon every G. A. r. post in the country to
engage in fitting ceremonial and scatter to-
kens of respect over the last resting places OF
their comrades in arms. Later the legisla-
lures of various states took up the project and
made the designated day legal holiday.
When we appreciate the very important
part that General Logan played in the estab-
lishment of one of the most significant holt
days on our calendar it is easy to find signii-
canoe in the circumstance that every year
after his death there has come profusion of
floral offerings to the chapel in the national
cemetery connected with the National Sol
diers' home at Washington, where the warrior
was laid to rest 1t has been a matter of re-
greet with some of his comrades that the IA
nous leader Of the Army of the Tennessee
was not at his death honored with an elabo-
rate monumental tomb such as has been
erected over the remains of other dominant
figures in the war for the Union.
And yet in way it would be difficult to
find a more fitting environment for the found
er of Memorial Day in his last dreamless
sleep. The National Soldiers home at Wash
ington was the forerunner of those homes now
scattered all over the country and including,
of course, the Illinois Soldiers home at DAN
vile, where General Logan, as citizen of ILL.,
nois, Is always especially honored on Memo
rial Day and other ceremonial occasions The
national cemetery connected with the first of
our national soldiers homes is much over
Swallowed in size by its neishboring national
cemetery, Arlington, across the Potomac yet
more than 5000 Federal dead are buried on
the wooded slope where General Logan was
laid to rest. Fortunately there are only about
three hundred unknown occupants of this
silent city and all the graves-including more
than two hundred where Confederate soldiers
are buried-are decorated alike on Memorial
Day by the veterans in blue frcm the neigh
boring soldiers home.
Easily the most interesting of all the re-
minders Of the personality and career Of the
founder Of Memorial Day are the relics and
trophies which for years had place in the Me-
mortal room in the residence of Mrs John A.
Logan at Washington. Here were gathered
thousands Of objects bearing in one way and
another upon the life and public service of the
dashing Civil war leader. 1t is probable that
all thought of transferring this unique collec-
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26
Lawmakers Are Besieged by Women

"a session until its close they-these
women in waiting" as one congress
man facetiously calls them-are to be
seen. Some of them are there for
short while only or, maybe, single
visit, but the majority are as firmly
intrenched as the Rock of Gibraltar
A few are so new and difhdent that
the pages who take In their cards &C
the congressman have to tell them
what to write and where to wait. They
come for a million reasons, real and
imaginary, and every shading of hui
man pathos and comedy is exhibited
in their self-imposed, though none the
less arduous, task of waiting.
There are young girls, slender and
fair, who come in groups, properly
chaperoned, from boarding schools
just to say "good-day' to the member
from their home state. They are
frankly curious and vastly excited
over the novel experience.
There are women with the battle.
Some of them are in rusty black and
make no attempt to conceal the pow
erty that drives them to this lost
hope of winning the sympathy of
man who can get them a government
position or aid the passage of GER
tain bill. They are ION duty" each
day, from noon to adjournment, in the
sitting little room on the house side.
which is merely columned niche to
the left of statuary hall. From it an
inclined rallied walk, not unlike gang
plank, leads up to short hall direct
" opposite the central door of the
EnuSa
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26

G ENATOR REED SMOOT of Utah,
y who is an apostle of the Mormon
church, in spite of all the attacks he
has .weathered since his advent into
public life, cannot get used to the
campaigns waged against his religion.
The protest against placing the like
ness of Brigham Young upon the sill
yer service that is to be presented to
the battleship Utah by the citizens of
the state caused Senator Smoot to
make a call upon the secretary of the
navy recently and explain to him the
facts in the case.
The proposition is to have engraved
upon the silver service likeness of
the pioneer monument that stands at
the head of Main street, Salt Lake
City. This monument was erected at
the very spot where the pioneers of
that state, 142 in number, camped
when they went into that wilderness
to carve out new empire. All Of
them were Mormons and Brigham
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26
SOLlle1PS HQtzE NJ lH/yI,ZLE. III

ton would have been long deferred had not
advancing years compelled Mrs. Logan to cur
tail her domestic responsibilities.
General Logan's widow has been for years
the recipient Of pension of several thousand
dollars year-one of the largest annuities
paid by Uncle Sam to any woman except the
widows of presidents-and this income, COM
bined with the revenue from her extensive
literary work, enabled her to maintain for
years a handsome residence on the heights
overlooking Washington and the United States
capitol building, where her late husband had
notable career as United States senator fol-
lowing his service in the army. When, how
ever, the care Of this residence became too
much for Mrs Logan some disposition had to
be made of the great relic collection which
had overfowed the entire house and had oc-
cupied in particular one immense room, which
was in effect memorial museum Included
In the collection it may be explained, are not
only the books formerly owned by General
Logan and many volumes bearing upon him,
as well as countless pictures of the swarthy
warrior, but his swords, battle flags, the gifts
and decorations bestowed by individual admir-
ers and the United States and foreign govern
ments, and even the mounted figure of the
famous war eagle that was so conspicuously
identified with Logan's command during the
most trying periods Of the war.
Easily the most imposing existing memorial
to General Logan is the handsome equestrian
statue in bronze which occupies Iowa circle
or Logan circle, as it is sometimes called, one
Of the miniature parks or plazas at the seat
of government. This statue, which cost $685.
600 was authorized by the congress of the
United States in the year 1889. The national
legislature appropriated $4,000 and the Grand
Army of the Republican the head Of which
General Logan had been when he originated
Memorial Day-donated $4,000.
The Logan statue, which it is believed will
be the forerunner of others that will ultimate
ly be erected in other parts of the country,
was unveiled in the spring Of 1901 in the pres
ence OF most distinguished company and 1t
was on this occasion that the late President
Mckinley in delivering the principal address
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26
New Statesmen Are Economical

IN this new house of representatives
there are number of members who
have come here with a full realization
of the fact that they are one-termers.
They know that according to all hui
man probabilities they will not be re-
turned, and so they propose to make
all they can out of two years in Of
fee. No expensive hotels for them;
ON the contrary, they are figuring how
they can live on their mileage and
clerk hire, and save their salaries
The result is that the superintend-
ent of the house office building has
had hard work to keep members from
putting cots in their offices for sleep
ing there. 1t is said to be fact that
some of these "close" congressman
have insisted that they be given the
right to move their trunks into the
house Office building and sleep there,
though they have not yet proposed do
ing light housekeeping.
Speaking of committee rooms, the
shift caused by the change in the po-
litical complexion of the house has re-
suited in embarrassment to some of
the members who have been in the
habit OF taking their nips regularly
during the day.
Gosh, but I'm dry, and tired, and
need a drink" remarked statesman
as he stood in the corridor the other
day. "But blamed if know where to
get it. Last session l had lots of
friends who kept bottles in their COM
mittee rooms, and suppose there are
just as many now, or more, but
don't know where to locate them"
There seems to be no reason to
doubt that the bottles are just as
plenty in this congress as they ever
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the new crops or from storage. Fresh
apple pie may be had and it is in de-
mand at all times.
While some pies made from the
fresh fruits can be had later and while
the apple is always a standard pie,
the winter pie season begins about
October 1, when people turn again to
mince and pumpkin and cocoanut. Pie
is now more popular than ever and
more largely consumed and there are
great and long-established pie baker
les turning out pies in enormous
numbers.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26
chIoroform for Plants.

Before plant can bloom it must
have q season Of profound rest to
gather up its energies and fit itself
for the crisis. The profounder the
repose the better Also the sleep of
the plant need not be so long If it is
more profound. So the botanist ex-
poses the plant at this stage to the
action of the fumes of ether in a
closed room, and so gains time by
shortening the season of repose. Next,
by exposure to the light of an acety-
lene lamp. the most like sunlight Of
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26
Apple Pie Is Favorite

milk and eggs enter largely, materials
that cost much more in winter than at
other seasons, so that these pies are
then made and sold at loss. In sum-
mer these materials are sufficiently
cheaper to enable the pie baker to
even things up and get some net profit
on these pies, taking the year through.
The great standard all-year-around
pie is apple, for which fresh materials
can be had at all times. eitASr 1scsu
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all lights, the growth of the plant Is
quickened, being made continuous day
and night. The double treatment pro.
duces an early bloom that brings a
high price. On the other hand, cold
storage will retard growth, and SO
plants may be held back when the
market is overstocked.
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26
Pastry Makers Say That More Pies
Are Eaten Now Than Ever Before
Cost More in Winter.

Annually in the winter season there
are sold at wholesale many thousand
pies at less than the cost of produc-
ton, the New York Sun relates. These
are not stale pies or anything of that
sort. but the best freshly made stock.
Such are pies into whose composition
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26
Could Be Redeemed.

American Million Heiress-And
have you really got coronet?
Lord Hardup-Well-ah
leest-I mean-Ive got tho ticket
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26

country boast comparatively few memo
rails to the man who was responsible for the
creation of Memorial Day as we know it. 1t
is not claimed that the idea of Memorial Day
originated with Gen. John A. Logan, but GER
tainly to him belongs the credit for inaugu-
rating Decoration Day in May definite,
fixed annual event of uniform observance in
the great majority of the states of the Union
According to most authorities Decoration
Day in it's primary form had it's inception in
the south, where the presence of unusual
quantities of spring flowers and the sad cir
cumstance of the existence on every hand of
burying grounds for the soldier dead of the
Union and Confederate armies combined to
suggest such an annual strewing of the graves
The Ely miner. [volume] (Ely, Minn.) 1895-1986, 1911-05-26

Far out on the crest of the battle,
Up up toward the death
ITO die for ones country is sweet!'-he remem'
bered
And then, out of breath,
Met the shock and the pain and the terror
Unfinching and knew
In one nstant's unbearable brightness
1t was truei 1t was true!
IS. H. Kemper, in The Reader.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-05-31
BETTER A STRANGER NEAR BY
THAN A BROTHER AFFAIR OFF.

Jennings, La. May 81. 1911.
Editors Democrat:
note you have young cores
pondent from California. 1t might
be well before you leave your
beautiful Iowa home to listen to an
old correspondent from Jennings, a
near by attachment, not over the
hills and far away, but near by and
an easier way. desire to point out
to my many good friends at Man
chester few objections to the
countries bidding for immigration,
California. Canada and the southern
states. California as an agricultur-
al country has only one side, east
She is desert except for artificial
irrigation. Her Irrigation water
costs $1,000 a miners inch required
to irrigate six acres. handicap of
s166.66 per acre. Her main market
5000 miles by rail only. She has no
monopoly Of products. The Gulf
states grow the same and can
reach her market by water and rail
in 500 to 1000 miles. Her fruits can
be duplicated south and of better
flavor. Her greatest agricultural
product. sugar beets, average ten tons
possible 30 per acre; here sugar
cane average 20 tons, possible 40
per acre Cane costs less per acre,
sells at same price per ton. and
cane sugar sells at 10 per cent. more
in the worlds market.
Canada has more serious objections
a long winter, Jack Frost, British
Rule, railroad monopoly and only one
cash crop and. that uncertain and
short life. Frost is the worst en-
envy to life. health and progress.
Why do we leave an abundant
rainfall to go west to desert and
expensive natural and other condi.
lions, or go north to invade the
Dominion Of Jack FIRST, the Union
Jack, or any other Jack, must be a
Jack-or mule. But you say
what better things can the
South offer?" Answer, first a better
more valuable climate giving longel
growing season, the measure of the
farmers prosperity. Also a larger
variety Of products. Greenland
grows moss; further south, whea
and moss; further, wheat, oats
grass: next, wheat. oats, corr
grass and moss; next, wheat, oats
corn, cotton, grass and moss; next
on the gulf, wheat, oats, grass
corn, cotton. sugar cane, rice an
moss. All the necessities for SUI
cess are better and cheaper, trans
portation by water and rail the
cheapest known to nearer by an
!, world wide markets.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-05-31
DELHI.


Mrs. o. A. Holdridge and Miss Dell
Jackson were shopping in Dubuque
last week.
Mrs. May Howard and son For
rest are visiting relatives in Ana
mosa.
Silver Lake Rebekah Lodge initial.
ed two candidates at their last
meeting, Ice cream and cake were
served.
Mr.. and Mrs. e. B. Porter were in
Hopkinton Wednesday.
Mr.. ana Mrs. Bright and children
of Cascade were visiting at Peter
Wolfer last week.
H. P. Bancraft and Roy Powell
were Dyeersville visitors last week.
Mrs. w. F. Neal visited friends at
Oneida and Dundee last week.
Rev. and Mrs. w. s. Skinner attend
ed commencement exercises at Del
aware Thursday evening.
Mr.. and Mrs. R. NJ. Bondurant were
In Manchester Friday.
Mrs. P. F. Wragg and Miss Hattie
Britt visited in Dubuque las. week.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. o. White enter
tanned company Sunday.
Miss Jennie Ferguson and neice
of Hopkinton We're guests at F. E.
Stlmson's Saturday.
Charles Stone purchased a new
Oakland automobile Saturday.
Miss Comstock and her Sunday
School class had picnic at Hartwick
saturdy.
Our school closes this week for
the summer vacation. A program
will be given at the school house on
Wednesday at p. m.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-05-31

Rev Frank McCuskey, son Of Rev
William McCuskey Of this place
with his family arrived in this
country from India, where he and
, his wife had been missionaries for
nine years. Mrs. McCuskey and
four children arrived here Wednes-
day morning but Rev. McCuskey will
remain in the east for short time
before coming here for the summer.
Memorial services will be held on
Tuesday in the forenoon SO that all
who wish may go to Delhi In the
afternoon to attend the dedication
OF the soldiers monument. The pro-
cession will form at $3.50 and pro-
coed to- the cemetery and from
there to the college chapel, where
Rev. s. T. Foster Will deliver the
address,
Miss Cora Ricketts, is expected
home this week from Washington,
where she has been teaching the
past year.
The ladies' missionary society will
meet Wednesday at $3.50 at the
home Of Mrs. w. H. Ltttlefield. The
subiec. is "The Mormons."
The baccalaurate sermon to the
high school graduates was delivered
Sabbath evening in the Presbyterian
church by Rev. ]. w. Parkhill.
Miss Maude Earhart came home
Saturday from State Center, where
she has been teaching the past
year and Miss Nell Earhart came
from New Mexico, where she has
been teaching for two years.
Rev. T. j. Hamilton of the Metho-
dist church gave a very interesting
address on Memorial Sabbath. There
has been no break in the ranks Of
the old soldiers during the past
year.
Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1911-05-31
NOTICE OF RESOLUTION OF NE
CESSiTX


Notice Is hereby given that at a
meeting of the City Council of the
City of Manchester. Iowa, held
on the 18th day Of May, 1911, there
was introduced the resolution here.
matter set forth, which said resolutio
will be considered for passage and
adoption by the city council at a
meeting to be held in the council
chamber at eight o'clock p. m. on
the 26th day of June. 1911, at which
time the owners of the property sub
ject to assessment for the cost of
the street Improvement contemplated
In said resolution may appear and
make objection, II any they have, to
the contemplated improvement and
the passage Of said proposed reso-
luton, which resolution Is as follows:
Be 1t resolved by the City Council
of Manchester, Iowa, That 1t Is deem
ed advisable and necessary to improv
the following streets and parts of
streets, to-wit Union street from
the east curb line of River street to
the cement bridge on said Union
street about 1872 feet east of Buchan-
an street; and Main street from the
west curb line of Brewer street to
the east line of Lot of the Iowa
Land Company's addition. on north
side OF Main street and to the Delhi
road on the south side of said Main
street, in the city of Manchester.
Iowa, by curbing and guttering the
same; and the said street improve
ment is hereby ordered as follows:
Said curb and gutter shall be con-
structed of standard Portland cement
and clean sand and gravel to con-
form to the established grades of
said streets and parts of streets at
the gutter and curb lines thereof.
all of which curbing and gutterine
shall be done in accordance with
plans and specifications to be pre-
pared by the city engineer and APP
proved by the city council.
Be 1t further resolved and ordered,
That contracts be made and entered
into for furnishing labor and material
for such work, as by statute prOvid-
ed, and the cost and expense of said
street improvements be assessed
against the property abutting on the
streets so improved-in accordance
with the Jaw governing such assess
ments; except that the cost and ex-
pense of said street improvements
1T the intersection of streets. and
one-half the cost and expense OF the
same at spaces opposite streets. in
tersecting but not crossing, and at
spaces opposite property owned by
the city of Manchester. Iowa, and
any deficiency where the special as
sessment which may be levied against
any lot or tract of land shall be in
sufficient to pay the cost of improve
ment, shall be paid from the city
Improvement fund.
Dated this 18th day of May, 1911.
S4w4 ED w. HRUBY.
City Clerk of Manchester. Iowa