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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-28
HEGGEM FUNERAL WEDNESDAY.
Body Of Greeneastie Township Farmer
"a Re Buried At Stavanuer

The funeral of Thor Y Heggem. the
GreencastIe township farmer who died
Sunday night. will be held from the
home Of Mr.. Heggem's daughter. Mrs
Nelson Rinden. three miles north OF
Gilman, at 1880 Wednesday afternoon.
From the Savanger church. an hour
later. services will also be held. sand in
terlrent will follow In the Stavanger
cemetery.
Mr. Heggem's death occurred at the
Rinden home and followed period
Of failing health. Gastritis was the
immediate cause Of death, and the pa
tents condition had been considered
serious for month
Mr.. Heggem was born in 1852, and
was son OF Thor and Rachel Raw
nos Heggem. who came to this county
in 1860, settling in LeGrand township.
on farm OF forty acres. To this first
homestead in the new country. the elder
Heggem added until he owned ninety
five acres at the time Of his death, in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-28
,owA,s JUNIOR SENATOR TO PUT
IN FULL TIME ON MEMORIAL
TO MAKE FOUR OTHER
ADDRESSES DURING DAY
Three engagements in Story County
f! Prsesde Address At soldsrs' Homo
/, in Aftsrneon-iewa Falls at Nisht-
Look For BIG Crowd 1t Home For
Afternoon Address.

William S. Kenyon, Iowa'S junior
senator, is to put in a busy Memorial
Day Aside from his address at the
soldiers home here during the after.
noon, he will make four others during
the day. Three precede the address
here and will be given-in Story county.
Begins Day at Cambridge.
Senator Kenyon will begin his days
work at Cambridge. probably about s
o'clock. AT 10 o'clock he is scheduled
TO deliver an address at Maxwell, and
at l in the afternoon Is due at Ne
vada. He is to reach this city at 3:11,
will be taken to the soldiers home in
an automobile, and there will give the
principal address of the afternoon eXer-
cises His time here is limited, for he
is due at Iowa Falls for an evening
address, and will leave here at 5: 30.
AS the senator is making anywhere
from ten to fifteen addresses a day
during his campaign, Memorial Day
will, after all, be sort of day of rest
for him.
Expect Big Crowd at Homo.
It is expected that Senator Kenyon
will prove a big drawing card at the
soldiers home, and that one of the
largest crowds ever on TIC hc-:e
grounds will be present at the gath
ering.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-28


1876. His widow died In October. 1889.
Thor =. Heggem was reared. on his
fathers farm, and received his educa.
ton in the schools OF this county. He
began working on the farm when
very small lad, and had always fol-
lowed farming when he grew to
young manhood he bought eighty acres
and started in life for himself Being q
hard worker and good manager. he ac-
cumulated rapidly aud. at the time Of
his death owned one of the choice
farms OF the township, of 24O acres.
under excellent improvements. He was
also the owner of valuable land in Cal.
ifornia, Oregon. and Nebraska. Mr..
Heggem was member Of the Friends
church.
Mr.. Heggem was married in 1875 to
Regina Shelley. also a native Of Nor
way. the daughter Of Paul and johann
ma Shelley. Mrs. Heggem died about
twenty Ave years ago. To Mr.. and
Mrs. Heggem two children were born,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-28

Company a, Fry iecond Illinois in-
fantry. and sefvd fthruout the war.
His first enlistin@nt expired in 1868.
but he rA-enlisted Immediately and
served until March, 1855.
In 1874 Mr.. A&t came to this
city and entered the nploy Of the Iowa
Central. He had In married just a
short time before, Aug. Is. 1874. In
Chicago. his wife being Miss Alice
Raftis. Mr.. Abbott entered the en-
ploy Of the Iowa Central. as fireman.
and went to work under Amos Drin-
kle, then well-known engineer on the
road. In the winter Of 1875. while
pulling a freight train over "Grinneil
sag" one and one-half miles north OF
Grinnell. the engine became deraiied
and went thru the bridge. Abbott
jumped, alighting on the ice about fiji
teen feet below. and sustaining two
fractures Of the left hip. Mr.. Drtnkle.
who was brother Of Engineer Will
lam Drinkle, who still runs out OF Os-
kaloosa on the Newton branch. was
killed. His widow later became the
present Mrs. William Drinkle.
The accident to Mr.. Abbott laid him
up for many months, and untitled him
for further railroad service. He was
later engaged in construction work,
however. and helped build the. first
telegraph line on the Chicago & North
western into Wisconsin.
Mr.. Abbott is survived by five chill
dren. His wife died March Is. 1909,
very suddenly, as the result Of an at
tack of pneumonia following grip. The
children are Edward B. Abbott. agent
of the Wells Fargo Express Company
in this city; Andrew j. and James Alb
bolt. Mrs. Chris Mitchell. and Miss
Helen Abbott, all Of this city. A broth
er. D n. Abbott, of Columbus, Kan.
also survives.
Mr.. Abbott was a member Of ST.
Mary's church. and the funeral will be
held from the church Wednesday
morning at o'clock. Interment will
he in Riverside.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-28
ALBION MEMORIAL PROGRAM.
Exercises in Honor Of Day Will 6s
Held in Public Park.

Memorial Dav will be observed at
Albion THURSDAY afternoon, when ex-
ercises will be held in the public park.
The assembly has been called for i
o'clock. and at 1880, headed by the
Liscomb band. veterans, sons of vete-
rams. school children. and citizens will
march 10 the cemetery. where, follow
ing the invocation by Rev. S. c. Wad-
ding. the graves Of soldiers VIII De dec
Grated. The assembly will then return
20 the park, where a program WI he
given.
The program at the park will open
with the singing OF America" by a
school chorus and the audience. Rev.
T. p. Potter will give the invocation.
followed by selection by the band
Two recitations will precede the adj
dress by Rev. Mr.. Wadding. A quartet
number will be followed by two recita-
tons and solo by Mrs. Wadding. The
closing address will be given by Rev.
Mr. Potter. and number by the band
will close the exercises.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-28
candy" ABBOTT aEAD.
Old Resident Of the City sueeumbs 70
Few Weeks illness.

Andrew S. Abbott, q resident Of the
city for great many years. and well
known, died at his home, 304 South
Center street. at o'clock Monday aft.
ernoon. Mr.. Abbott had been failing in
health since five years ago, wheh he
suffered an attack Of pneumonfa and
came near dying. He was q sufferer
with rheumatism and kidney disease.
and for the past three weeks had, been
belfast.
Mr. Abbott was veteran Of the
civil war. and was one Of the early en-
ployes of the old Iowa Central. lille
in the service Of the company he was
made a cripple for life as a result Of q
railroad wreck.
Mr. Abbott was q native Of EImira.
y. Y. where he vas born Oct H. 1871,
Az a lad Of II he enlisted, in 1851 n
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-05-28
To the Public:

We wish to announce that we have
opened up an Office at l34 East Main
street, for the purpose Of giving any
one full information in regard to our
franchises We will have competent
man at this office at all times anti will
gladly give you detailed Information as
to all the rates and other policies Of
the company. The office is also equip
ped with telephone. No. 1441, and any
one wishing us to call at their place OF
business in reference to this matter
we will be very glad to, do so. Dowk.
Smith, Reed and Cook.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01
rs il, Conc1ove OF o Downtown Restaurant.
New York Fellowship Farmers
There Is To Be Established Near This City Coz.
ony Where Educated and Congenial Persons
VIII Join the Back-to-ihe-Land Movement
Individually and Comparatively with
View Both to Pleasure and to Profit.

on d theory of "utopan socialism, be-
ing designed 10 regenerate the world while
sIpers eding q competitive industrial sys-
TEN with cooperation. They did not last
very long. \ few attempts at REVEALS
were made in the passing decades, notably
at Ruskin Tenn. in the s0's
The utopian colonies arc mentioned
chiefly because they are different from
the cooperative schemes now being de-
veloped While many OF those interest
ed in the modern idea are socialists,
they do not claim they are manufactur-
ing a panacea for the worlds woes or
establishing model Of the cooperative
commonwealth. Their principal aim is
TO get back TO the land" till II in ac-
cordance with scientific methods, live In
a congenial society and escape as far as
may be the thraldom Of rent and labor
for hire number of Fellowship Farm
ers are commuters who derive their in
come from city work and consider their
colony habitation merely superior place
IN which to live and bring up family.
In the old utopian schemes all prop
erty was held in common and the mem
bers stood to lose everything when the
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01

Tor cash payment, and the title TO the
individual holding Immediately passes to
the buyer The purchaser who has title
10 his own land cannot lose ii, even
though the general enterprise should fail.
II is like limited liability company.
and the extent Of ones liability Is the
price of his individual plot. No individual
IS allowed to hold more than three acres.
ami only one vote and one share OF stock
, bclorgs 10 each member regardless OF the
cXte,t of his land holding. Besides own
Ing his own plot Of ground. each member
has the benefits and shares the profits
of the commu',lty holdings and enter
prises Between siJW0 and $1,000 Is re-
CURED to buy land FOR a project OF this
scale within committing reach OF New
. York. An equal sum should be expended
TO improve the property and establish
community enterprises
Reading. Penn. Fellowship Farm wac
started June II. Since land is cheap I'm
that locality. shares are only So down
and s. month for forty-four months
There will be 60 to 100 members in the
group
The new colonies promise In their per-
sonnet as educated, progressive, refined
and congenial a group OF persons AZ ever
. came together Among those enrolled In
the New York group are teachers. law
yers, writer's, artists and city folk of
various occupations, but with some actual
, experience OF farm life. G. H. Poole Is
president. Secretary Edward Wheat is
one OF several practical farmers In the
group. They are not all of the same
! race. religion or politics. but all are in
spired with the same progressive ideals
Somehow the persons we would not want
are not attracted To US, and one OF the
most charming surprises OF this whole
movement is the unusual variety OF
choice souls who come TO add their splen-
did enthusiasm or contribute their ideal
uplifts to ours. The mere onooker
little imagines the spiritual quality that
gathers TO a place like this and mingles
with the soil and It's labor. No wonder,
as We stand on our acres and contem-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01
"C,oos1es" Fellow ship Fa~rrn, Westwood, Mess.

/, enterprise failed. In the new plan there
is individual ownership OF an acre or
more of ground and if the enterprise
fails the owner still has his land and
whatever buildings he has put on II.
The cooperative feature covers only n
tract of land held for common use and
such buildings, tools and improvements
as are required by the community in
general II is apparent that the new
idea caters 10 the individual as we'll as
TO the group. There is no attempt TO
impose ironclad regulations or 10 mould
human nature into a common pattern.
The restrictions upon members are n
minimum necessary TO carry out the
general group plan. and are even less
onerous than those in a country club OF
wealthy membership. There is n rich
club in Pennsylvania which forbids dress
suits on its premises; the Fellowship
Farmers do not even ban bathing suits.
George Elmer Littlefeld, the chief
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01

buying and subdivision OF land at cost,
and assuring social and rising values at
the start-an example OF what any group
OF workers can do. Here has been de-
monstrated that family living in its
own home. with a sure and pleasant oc-
cupation on It's own acre. can get the full
product of its labor. equal to $40 OF more
season. This means security freedom
and fellowship, the basis of ideal achieve.
meBt
Norwood Fellowship Farm was found
'ed ia 1911. four miles from the Westwood
group. II comprises seventy -six acres OF
land, with forty-four holdings FOR indi-
vidual members. II is beautifully sit
uatcd in tho most thriving town Of
Massachusetts. on the ridge overlooking
the Neponset Valley, with Blue Hill Oh
servatory just across. This colony began
with collective operation Of its collective
holdings, and will comparatively earn
dividends sufficient In ten years to pay
for the whole capitalization OF so. oOo
thus refunding all payments OF the MEM
bers and giving an old age pension be-
sides.
Los Angeles Fellowship Farm is
located I'm the wonderful San Gabriel
Valley, eighteen miles east OF Los An
geles. in the town of Puento. 1t has
eighty-three holdings and IL capitalized
for $4,000. On account OF the high cost
or land-much higher than in the East
II was necessary for the members to pay
800 down and 81 a month for forty-fo,ir
months. Founded In 1872 1t started with
its deed and store, community horse and
COW, It's individual allotments and twelve
acre company garden, which is 10 pay It's
whole capitalization In ten years. A hotel
or Inn and an auto truck for delivery OF
produce TO city patrons are it's next &C
quirements. An irrigation project TO cost
about $1,000 is under way. This group
can work their land twelve months in the
year and enjoy the most beautiful scenery
In the world-troplcal In valley, arctic
on the mountains, and sunny, ex-
hilarating climate all through the year
There is no limit to the productiveness Of
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01

ward graduate practical printer and
farmer. and was a minister Of the Gospel
for fourteen years
81 Mr.. LittIeheld could give points TO Rob
,sert owen. who first discovered the nce6
and virtue OF cooperation, and he could
instruct Fourier. the French genius who
q laid out cooperation on universal and
ma hema teal basis Fourierite colonies
were quite the rage in America around the
- COS and SOS. and everybody discussed the
? question whether an ideal ''phalanX
- would consist Of 1.G49 members what TO
p do with the twelve passions Of man and
- how many hours ought 10 be devoted to
love making. The mos. noted Of the COL
onies was Brook Farm. where Emerson.
= Hawthorne, Margaret Fuller and Charles
4. Dana tried out the cooperative theory
as Il was then understood There were
other groups, OF religious type, when
sprang up In, different parts OF the coun-
try. Most Of these enterprises were based
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01

mover and active spirit OF the Fellow
ship Farm plan, descants thusly OF whs (
has been, is and will be done in The new
cooperative way:
THE great landward movement of the
masses OF the people is probably the
sanest healthiest, securest pledge of me
immediate future welfare and indepeu
dence of America since the opening of the
century. Back To the land and the
land back 10 the people are second only
in Importance 10 the worldwide move
ment of socialism. Many times In the
past schemes and efforts to get the land
and the people together In colonies have
been tried. with disastrous results. The
careful study of the causes of failure
reveal five principal rocks OF disaster
Isolation, fanaticism. pure communism.
uncompromising anarchism and unpro-
ptious time.
",The Fellowship Farm plan. with its
settlement near large cities, It's up-to-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01

FTER seventy years VI more OF less
r. ~ profound slumber the cooperative
4 n colony idea has reawakeneu m
this country. Groups OF men and Wome H.
believers in the mission of cooperation
10 help solve the economic and social prob
lens Of our time have been established in
the suburbs of New York Boston. Read
ing, Penn, and Los Angeles. and other
groups are being established elsewhere
One of the colonies at Westwood, Mass
= is six years old and thriving nightly
- The others have been i'm existence for two
years or less. and might be considered stih
In the experimental stage. The New YORK
enterprise was launched quite recently,
and is obtaining a site i'm New Jersey
within committing distance of the metrop-
oils All these groups are organized on
the same general principles and by band
Of enthusiasts who call themselves the
Fellowship Farms Founders Association
The president Of the association is George
Elmer Littlefeld small. rudy faced
snowy haired man. with a poetic tempera-
ment, much energy and q talking style
that is extremely magnetic. He Is the
. founder IF the Wostwood colony is a lIar-
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01

G, date business methods. its combined in
1 human nature and coming at the psyche
logical and economic moment. takes adj
vantage of the impetus landward and or
ganizes those among the workers whose
passion for freedom, fellowship. indie
pendcncc and security Is so intense that
with an innate love of the land and coun-
try life, the proposition OF.
little land; a Jop AT uaud.
/ \ little homo of your own
| sweetheart true 10 share with You.
Az king and queen on throne
is irresistible Appause)
Mr.. Littleheld continues:
'"The plan gets together q group Of
| from twenty 10 one hundred such com
Tades, aud, through cooperative purchase
and experienced superlntendence, places a
J comparatively high class and high priced
farm, near some large city. within the
reach OF men and women whose wages or
salaries are SO meagre as To prohibit their
ownership OF anything, surely not valu-
able real estate. alone and unorHanized
1t surveys, allots holdings. starts home
building and gives general picturesque
and right direction of development to the
colony the first year. From one to three
acres OF land are owned by individual
members. and there Is ten-acre common
tract under expert management "a model
for the individual gardens, intensive cult
urG which should pay for the whole
farm and ultimately give each member Of
! the group his or her personal holding In
fee simple, free. besides u pro rata inter
est in all the business, benefits. etc, of
the association, which markets all prod
ucc through its own store and hotel
The Oldest OF the four Fellowship
farms now established has a goodly sew
enty-fve-acre tract in beautiful West
wood. Mass. fourteen miles from Boston.
| bought comparatively with 81 20 monthly
payments by forty workers who indi-
vidually have acre holdings and collec-
| lively own the other thirty-hve acres,
: buildings and so on. The colony Is now
In It's sixth year-a success In collective
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1912-09-01

. the land-silt loan without a stone for
J thirty feet down. The cluster Of cities
/ and towns around-Pasadena, Alhambra.
, FL Monte. Sierra Madre and others-offers
! points of social as well as economic In
terest. This is the model farm of the Far
/ West.
! New York Fellowship Farm is now in
/ process of organization. IT will have 100
members on a 100 to 100 acre farm about
an hours ride from Park Row. The terms
for membership for each individual acre
are $50 down and s. monthly for forty
four months. \ small discount is given
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-01

iden is the only club Of six that has
not yet selected a manager. Ferry
has not yet made any decision in
the matter He expects to receive
word soon regarding his scouting po-
sition with the Detroit American lea
que team and If he gets a favorable
answer, will probably give his entire
time to his scout duty.
John Hickey, the former local out
fielder who has also been in the line
up OF all the other clubs in the Four
City circuit at different times, has
been turned over TO the Holyoke club
in the Connecticut league by Cleve-
land, which secured him from Hart
ford at the close OF last season. The
ex-local player was sent to New Or
leans and later to Mobile in The
Southern league by Cleveland without
trial. Hickey did not like the eli
mate in the South and, it is rumor
ed TINT ne has been playing for his
release He was putting up a great
game when he first reported with
New Orleans but later his work fel
off and he was sent back to Cleve
land. Manager O'Neil OF the Holy
oke club is well pleased with the dea
whereof he has secured Hickey.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-01
NORTH BENNINGTON

Mrs. William c. II. Cushman is in
Troy today
Dr. D. A. Gleason spent part of
Tuesday in Sunderland
George Bonner left Monday for
his home in Springfield, Mass.
Ernest b. H. Stanley OF West
SALISBURY was in the village Tues
day.
Morris Finn has been called west
on account OF the death OF his
mother.
Miss Jennie Leggin has returned
from a short visit at her home In
Arlington,
Mrs. Anna c. Monroe of Bennlng
ton has ben the guest of Mrs. Ernest
Whitman OF Upper Main street.
Mr.. and Mrs. Merritt Hewitt and
daughter Marjorie Of Eagle Bridge
are guests OF Mrs. Jennie Percy o.
West street
John b. James is moving from the
Phillips tenement on Mechanic street
to the house recently purchased by
him of Loren $. Bryant on Hawks
avenue.
Mrs. William Hurd has returned
from Bomoseen, VT, where she ha
been caring for her son NJ. II. Hurd
who has been seriously III for severa
weeks. He is out OF danger now an,
gaining slowly.
The Bennington evening banner. (Bennington, Vt.) 19??-1961, 1912-05-01
A Swarm Of Flies

1t sometimes takes a pocket-full of
bugs and things to get a big trout in
terested in what you are trying TO
do, but what a thrill of satisfaction
travels up your spine when you fin
ally strike on the kind of grub
Mr.. Fish has an affinity for.
That is the reason why successful
fishermen carry good variety of
Trout Flies in their book.
That is the reason we have 231
different named patterns and sizes of
English. Scotch and American flies;
enough kinds to satisfy the most fas-
tidious taste of every fisherman and
supply every fussy fish in the brook
with a regular course dinner.
Remember this: Our flies are tied
to our order. They are true to name
They are good quality They look
alive. They are silk flies tied tC
good quality gut and hollow point
hooks, and they sell for the popular
price of 90 cents per dozen