The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1912-08-21

life, from the struggling, struggling
little town Of few hundred people
to the modern, ambitious city which
we have today.
Not one-tenth Of the same people
are in Denison today who were here
when, in 1874, we came with our par
Some have gone to other places, but
for the most part we have followed
them with aching hearts to the last
resting place, over on the beautiful
and eternal hills. The old men of that
day, all of them, are gone, the middle
aged tread with feeble steps the last
of the tortuous path. The boys we
played with are sedate business men,
the maids are matrons, yes, even the
infants in arms have taken their places
in the working ranks and the sons
and daughters of the boys and girls
of long ago are fitting themselves in
school and college for the careers
which shall be theirs. Surely thirty
not easily broken and its friendships
shall not cease. So long as we shall
live, Denison shall be home" and
when we die it is our fondest hope
that God will let us rest where, be-
side the father and the mother and
the little son, we may be at peace
among the hills of Crawford
At parting time one very naturally
passes much in review and, as it
were, takes inventory of the assets
and the liabilities of his life. We
have given the best years of our life
to Denison, we take but little away.
What we have earned we have spent
right here, for there was never a more
persistent home-trader than we have
been; nevertheless we cannot feel
that Denison is in our debt, we have
been more than repaid by kindness
and friendship and confidence. Dur
ing hours of sorrow We have felt our
selves EMBODIED by the great, big
brotherly arm of Denison's affection,
and during the struggles and through
the hard places we have been sus-
tanned and upheld and cheered and
comforted by host of as loyal
friends as any man has ever had.
We have promised some heart to
heart talks, so in this beginning OF
the end, we are going to take our
old friends right into our confidence.
Our life training has been in the news
paper business. The field for a re-
publican newspaper man in Denlson
is well filled by the present manage
ment of the Review. In the career
of postmaster there is nothing but
routine, no prospect of building up q
business, nothing to look forward TO
except the salary, and. however at
tractive this may be, there comes a
time in a mans life Wien he feels
that he wants business and career
that he can call his very own. Even
though the income be smaller, lie
wishes to feel that he is building
something that is his and that he
alone is responsible for the making
or the marring. The longer man re-
mains in business the better 1t is for
him, the very fact that he has occu-
pied the same stand for many years
and that he has given his customers
good treatment is an asset OF no little
worth. Exactly the opposite is true
in regard to public official. The
fact that he has served a long time
is used as the best possible argument
why he should not serve longer. We
say this, not to find fault, for there
is some truth in the argument Be
that as it may, we have served as
postmaster for nearly eleven years,
the longest that any postmaster has
served the people of Denison. We
take pride in our record. During those
eleven years we have been responsible
for transactions amounting to more
than a million of dollars and neither
the government nor an individual has
lost penny. We took the office al
most when it first became second
class" office. Our first action was to
take a determined stand for adequate
fixtures: these were finally obtained