Manchester Democrat. [volume] (Manchester, Iowa) 1875-1930, 1912-07-03
H0PkINTON And IT'S BUSINESS MEN
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70 meet this need LenOx mas recently
installed an academic department,
which offers complete preparatory
work with privilege of work in the
schools of commerce and agriculture.
The school OF business is a very
valuable department There is an,
increasing demand for, trained bust
ness men and this school meets the
needs admirably. A. complete course
in stenography, bookkeeping, PEN
and typewriting is offered. ~
One department is not usually found
in a college Of this type is the school
of agriculture. Many of those in at.
tendance in college are from the ru.
raj districts and are those who intend
to follow the soil as "a life's voca-
ton, and this course is for their bene.
fit. There are regular courses In AMI
NAL husbandry and horticulture. A
speciality is being made of a winter
short course Of three months duration
starting the first Of December each
year.
The great demand for well trained
teachers has given Lenox the oppor-
tlnitY to establish complete school
OF education. It offers courses in
psychology and methods Of teaching,
and furnishes the fourteen hours of
this work required for a five years
state teachers certificate. The school
OF music offers both courses in piano
and voice and is one of the popular
departments. The school of express
sion and physical culture combines
these two forms successfully. The
school Of art takes up painting and
drawing, ching both the mechanical
and natural courses.
The activities of the college are
many. Two thriving literary societies
are maintained, the Athenian and
Clayonian, the former being founded
in 1868. Athletics have been very
successful in the college. An excel.
lent gridiron and a quarter mile
track provide excellent facilities for
football and track. The past year
the basket ball and base ball teams
have played with marked success, and
have succeeded in defeating schools
many times their size.
The little college has always main
tanned an enYiable reputation and
draws students from all parts of our
Hawkeye States as, we'll as some OF
the far away states of the Union.
The alumni roll Of the school is ev-
er increasing and many men and
women have gone from beneath its
portals to rise to places 8of promin-
ence and esteem in the great world
of enterprise. Mr.. Cooley, who for
years was superintendent Of schools
Of Chicago and at one time a can
didate for Mayor of that city, was a
Lenox graduate and a Delaware Coun-
ty boy. This is but one Of the
many that are becoming distinguished
and are returning honors and fame
to their Alma Mater.
Hopkinton which has the distinc-
ton of being one of the Oldest towns
in the county and outside OF Manche--
ter the largest, is a thriving little
city of over eight hundred people
situated in South Fork township in
the extreme southeastern part of the
county. 1t is a city that boasts Of
well kept streets, beautiful homes,
electric lights. city water, splendid
schools and an institution of higher
learning, Lanox College, besides over
fifty thriving enterprises that place
the city in the A class of business
towns.
The man who claimed the honors
Of being the first settler was Thorn
as Nicholson who forged out through
The slough grass and boundless prai.
lies and built his log cabin in 1888
near the present site Of Hopkinton.
Death overcame this intrepid pioneer
he following year, and in 1910 his
widow sold her holdings to LIE Roy
Jackson . This man went to Dubuque
and persuaded Henry Carter to re-
turn with him. Into the family of
the latter was born the first white
child in the community. These men
quilt saw mills and business became
% extensive that they saw the future
Of town and consequently plated
out in 1850 the present city of Hop
kihton. An exodus of eastern home
seekers found the place in 1856 ard
added their goodly number to the
Inhabitants. Z, In 1856, Rev. Roberts,
a "Covenanter" preacher, settled in
The place and through his influence
+, large number of like faith were in
duced to settle in the growing vii
!age and on the rich plains surround
ing it,
From the date of it's founding the
city has had a steady growth. 1t
vas incorporated in March, 1874, and
Isaac Smith was the first mayor. The
I'D Davenport and st. Paul Railroad,
now the Chicago, Milwaukee and St.
Paul, reached the town in 1872.
The present city has some large
and we'll organized enterprises which
include five grocery stores, two banks
two dry goods stores, and in fact
nearly every business that an up-to
date town affords.
Hotel Hopkinton is the oldest hos
telry in the town and continues to
be popular and well patronized re-
sort. 8e
The Hotel Philip which was built
one year ago is growing a splendid
trade. The equipment is the very