Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-08-22
WEATHER AUsPIcIoUs;
ATTENDANCE NOT BIG
Extremely Busy Season for Farmers
Attributed a. Cause for Falling Oft
Of crowd-cumminss, Parker, and
Mo.crip Give Addrsssss-Prssidsnt
Wheeler Tells Of county's Progress.


this, the thirty-ninth annual reunion
and picnic day Of the Marshall Coun-
" Old Settlers Association. The re-
union was held at Riverview park.
The attendance, while not up to
some former years, was of very good
PROPORTIONS President Wheeler at
tributed the falling off in the attend
ance to the extremely busy season OF
the farmers. and the fact that SO man?
were now engaged in threshing
Headed by the Marshaltown band
the officers and members Of the asso-
citation left the court house square al
$50 Rev. Frank NJ. Wheeler OF Mar
ion township, for seven years president
Of the association, called the assembly
TO order at the park. and Rev. Z. n.
Morris. pastor of Central Church OF
Christ. delivered the invocation. A Sc
lection by the band preceded the intro
duction Of B. F. Cummings, who had
been invited to deliver the address OF
welcome.
Cummings Euiosizes County.
Nj Cummings, claiming to be an
"old settler" more from circumstances
than from choice, who has known nc
home other than Marshall county
eulosized the state Of Iowa, and espe-
cially Marshall county. This IS the
day set apart for the annual round
up Of the old settlers OF Marshall
county," he said, when ell the old
stock is brought in, the brands exam
med, pedigrees compared, past per-
formances remembered, and when the
new additions to the herd are rounded
up and properly branded.
II call this gathering today an as-
creation Of good citizens" said Mr..
Cummings, because If a man can stay
in one community long enough to be-
come an old settler he has to be a
pretty good citizen: otherwise he finds
It convenient to move on, or the COM
munity in some way suggests TO MN,
that he can do better somewhere else.
In his tribute to Iowa Mr.. Cummings
said: Iowa today leads the nation In
progressive thought, moral as well as
political. We have the best average
schools. the smallest percentage OF IL
literacy; we raise the best horses. cat
tie and hogs, and the Iowa hen makea
the most noise and has more to snow
for it than any other hen. And start
ing with the good original stock. ano
continually breeding up, we are now
raising the best people in the world
We are breeding up In human i've
stock as we'll as along other lines; we
are in the van guard In the political
world. and our banners are inscribed
with the thought that a man can be
statesman and still be an honest
man"
Mr.. Cummings called attention to the
great wealth Of the state and to the
wealth Of Marshall county. and to the
very few really poor people III Iowa
kept all her money" he said. wed
never realize what hard times meant
| More of our money goes into perma-
nent investment in the way OF life In
surance than that Of any other state
f., in proportion to it's population, and this
money by developing the great insur'
ancc companies develops the great
railroads and other enterprises that re-
o1ire large amounts Of capital. we
send more money to the west and the
north and the south to buy homes fol
our young people than any other state
and il it wasn't for our retired farmers
with the money from the prairies Of
I
Of California would still be talking
! Spanish"
Mr.. Cummings closed with a predic
ton. II expect to see the time in the
near future when we will have roads
that are good every day In the veal
no matter what the weather man does
I expect to see the time, II it is no
already here. when we will have sucl
community and such environment
that a person will get homesick t
come back even before he starts on
visit
Parker on "The Pioneer"
Judge J. NJ. Parker gave the re
spouse to the address Of welcome.
THE Pioneer was the theme
Judge ParkeTs discourse. ~
all our people," he said, in opening hi
address. 1.-The pioneer is the most ire
and independent. No one understoo
better fair play and benevolence tina
he. He loved his neighbor as him
self. The rich and the poor stood o
the same level. He believed in tn
proposition that all men are create
equal. He revered all that was hig
and good He abhored all that wa
low and degrading. He never was
trimmer: when he was right he stoo
for the right without doubt or hest
tation. II his principles were assaile
and it was necessary for him to figf
for them he fought and never aske
for quarter.
"He made history" said Jude
Parker, "but he left 1t to others
write 1t. His was to lay the founds
ton of states and prepare for common
wealth. His was to organize societ
and to prepare for constitutions. H
was to organize but little regulation
He was truly law unto himself, b,
few laws were required to govern h
coming in or his coming out"
The pioneer was q man OF peace ar
with wholesome respect for the Ia,
said tho speaker. and he kept apa
from the courts as much as he coul
HE set UP and put in operation" COY
tinued Judge Parker, "the few Law
necessary to regulate the simple Al
wholesome society in which he 1--we
His courts spent little time in settlir
disputes for breach Of contracts, fal
pretense, lying and deceit. misrepr
sentation and over-charges. The spid
drew her web in peace across the do