Iowa state bystander. [volume] (Des Moines, Iowa) 1894-1916, 1913-10-17
EDITORS OBSERVATIONS,
By John L. THOMPSON

Mr.. Boone operates pantator-
ium and is doing nicely. Mr.. J. A.
Hurley runs a first class barber shop
and bath room. He is doing we'll. J.
J Miles is operating restaurant. Mr..
Wiley Davis runs a new hotel at 104
E. Roland street. He also has first
class restaurant in his hotel. He is a
fine man and is succeeding well. Mr..
J. S. Paey, the old reliable loctor, is
still here and is thorough race man.
He owns a valuable business block on
W. Coats street. Mr.. E. D. Anderson
is still assistant baggageman at the
depot. J. L. Jones is one of the sue
cessful men here, being janitor at the
school house. He owns valuable prop
erty in Colorado and may some time
locate in our city. His wife is a
teacher in the public schools at Hunts
vile. She was a normal student at
Cedar Falls, Iowa. Mr.. S. E. Boone,
one of the successful business men, is
still working in the postofice and is
certainly an exemplary, we'll liked
man. Ralph Bass runs a rooming
house on Ault street and is doing
well. Mr.. A. c. Black of N. Clark
street is successful business man.
We next wandered into Centralia,
Mo. Here we find the people doing
fairly we'll. Mr.. John Thomas is still
here. Mr.. A. Pierson owns paluable
property. He is working at present
over in Hannibal, but lives here. Mr..
VIM. Burnham owns valuable prop
erty and is doing nicely. They have
new school teacher, a young man
whose name I have forgotten, but he
is we'll qualified and will make an ex-
cellent teacher.
Our next stop was in Mexico. Here
lives about 1000 colored people. Many
owning their own homes and some in
business, doing we'll. One of our most
successful and best known men is
Thomas Bass, who is the famous horse
trainer. He has made speciality OF sad
die horses and high school horses and
shows them at every state fair held
in the middle west. At the Iowa state
fair last August he won more
first and second prizes than any other
exhibitor that came to our fair. He
had nineteen head of horses. Mr..
Bass is to the high school and saddle
horses of the United States as Book
er T. Washington is to the industrial
world. Mr.. Bass owns a beautiful
home and several acres Of ground and
several large barns, where he has
about sixty head of horses. In his
home you will find one whole side. Of
the parlor room taken up with medals,
silver cups and badges given him at
the different state fairs in the United
States, which is a great sight to see.
I wish we had his photograph and
cuts of some of his fine horses so that
we could impress our people with the
success that this man has made. Mr..
VIM. Gibbs and J. G. Hayes are sub
stantial citizens here. Mr.. James
Coleman has opened first class res
taurant and is doing we'll. Mr.. Doug
lass still conducts first class barber
shop. Mr.. Cooper. grand lecturer for
the Masons of Missouri, is his part
ner in the shop. Mr.. James Smith is
employed in the postoffice. He is a
fine young man, doing we'll. Rev. J.
G. Hayes is still at the same place.
His wifi els a milliner, although she
has not operated her shop since it
burned down. They are old settlers
here and highly respected. There are
two colored churches, the M: E. and
Baptist. They both have able minis
tiers and are doing well. There are
two colored stores here, but l have
forgotten the names Of the men who
are running them. They seem to be
DOING fairly well and there is no
doubt would do better if more of our
people would patronize them. There
is also one colored physician, who is
doing we'll. We will next stop at
Dalton, Mo.
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