Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1911-06-30
EpIrOR,s OBSERVATIONS.


Again i take my pen In hand to ie,
thu world know who Is dead anu WIG
IA alive since we last wrote aDou.
them about one year ago. our nrs'
atop was Marshaltown, there NJ
found 4 very few changes !. i. Brown
\ 3e6 II Suitor and W. D. Crawdfor
ara ali working at their respective
nlaces Mr.. Warren Is on the truck
farm garden he has good prosper
fnr yeratabls. Mr. Warren has been
\ sick the past week, Mr. Lin johnson
is In the cement business as con-
tractor having all the work that az
can do he has gang OF men Worklns
for him. Mr.. Cal Wheeler is at worK
In the packing house he VIII soon ~
an the road with the harvester as
engineer of the threshing machine
M Jackson Is still working at the
came place. AL Walker has first
class tonsorial shop doing large
business. Mason City the metropolis
az northern Iowa and one OF the pref
TEST Iowa cities with 10000 people OF
which 20 are of the African descent
with two of the largest cement plants
In the world employing over BOO men
and are now building another SO look
out for the Capital OF Cerro Gordo
county, the colored people who are
irving to be somebody and succeed
ara doing we'll. Our friend and form
or Des Moines citizen John d. Reeler
is succeeding nicely he has moved his
tonsorial shop under the First Ma
tional. Just built of seven stories, here
he has one of the most modern ana
finest chops in northern Iowa ana the
finest that we have yet seen owned
by our race he works all white help
as he cannot get colored. F. w. Jones
has moved his barber shop short
distance from the old stand he has
built new home on lis Bradley st.
Our old friend and former Des Moines
men Thomas Allen and Claud Carr
are doing we'll the former in the ce-
ment business and the latter Is en-
ployed at a cigar and pool hall. Mr..
and Mrs. R. Baerning new man
here has opened up confectionery
and barber shop at 1414 Main he also
keeps boarders doing well. waiter
Davis runs a shining parlor Mr.. u.
] Howard ianitor at the 1st Nat.
Bank building opened up a very nice
shining parlor. Rev. E. ]. Penney is
pastor of the only colored church or
gad4atidn here a Congregational
mission he is doing we'll, Rev. Penney
Ia good christian teacher he has
lovely family their only single
daughter IS teacher in the public
school of Muskogee Oklo. Rob Lewis
is still working at the Boyds Drug
store. Arthur Green is sick. Mrs.
Friedrich Wright and mother are con-
Quoting a confectionery store and
hotel called The American at 500 E.
9Th St doing well.
We next landed in Minneapolis
Mimi, one of the prettiest and most
beautiful cities in America with her
broad well-planned streets, towering
buildings her beautiful lakes and
water falls with the laughing Mime
ila Ia with her great flour mills and
lumber industry surely she makes
her part Of the famous train cities In |
history poetry and beauty here we
find about 5000 colored people scatter
ed through the city. Many are doing
well the five churches are doing as
well as they should because up here
the minister says they wont go to
church too many other attractions.
Rev. T. w. Lewis has charge Of st.
Peters, his first year Rev. !. L.
Warrior is still pastoring. s, Janks
the pastor A. M. E. church while Rev.
M. u. Withers has Zion Baptist has
been here for nine years. Rev. Carter
has Bethesda Baptist. Father Lealty
OF st. Paul is preaching at the Epis-
copal church in the evenings there are
two doctors two lawyers two news
papers, one undertaken, one dentist
one ice cream parlor, two restaurants.
two pool halls, one soloon four barber
shops one feed store one hair dress
ing and manicuring parlor is Miss
Lena Smith.
Mrs. j. L, Neal is still in their
beautiful home on 9Th ave. So, her
daughter Cora just graduated from
the High School domistic science
course her two sons JohnL. is book
keeper in the 500 Ry. offic Paymaster
Supt. and Chas is bookkeeper in
Woodland grain Office. Mrs. Francis
DeLeo the great hair dresser has
sold her parlor also her good will
they own a beautiful home at 2919
Hennepan Ave. Mr. ]. w. Kagar who
is employed by the Railroad company
owns a lovely home at 1925 Grand
ave. Theo Brown, formerly of Des
Moines runs a barber shop and pool
hall. w. ]. Withers runs feed
store. Mrs.fP. Corneal conducts a
ice cream parlor. G. Burk formerly
of our city is a cement contractor
he also has patented some cement
blocks he has his Office at 1919 4th
Ave So.