Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-19
IOWA N CALIFORNIA
MANY FROM HAwkEYE STATE
GO TO ATTEND TWO Elk.
POSITIONS.
D. A. r. PROVIDES TEA AND
REST ROOM AT FRISCO
Sixty. Eighth Anniversary Of lowa's
Admission to Union Recently cels.
br.ted-Letters Written by "sob"
Burdetts Before His Death EuIosize.
Hawkeye State.

Los Angeles, Jan, 19.-One of the
interesting features of the Panama
California exposition at San Diego is
the tea and rest room belonging to the
Daughters of the American Revolution,
which is open to their visitors as we'll
as members. This room is a replica
of one of the rooms of long ago. The
Daughters have worked for many
weeks to weave with their own hands,
rag rugs, draperies, and hemp rope
seats for chairs. One of the members
alone WOve the seats in fourteen chairs
Buff and blue is the color scheme Of
the room. The inches are draped with
handmade counterpanes of homespun,
heirlooms of many members, anu the
rugs will carry out the scheme. The
tea tables, all of them antiques in
mahogany oak and birch, are covered
with linen on which the distaff and
wheel insignia of the D. A. r. is
worked in'cross stitch and are covered
with glass. Chintz in colonial designs
hang at the windows. and antiques of
all ages are ranged around the room
and hung from the walls thru the long
French windows one has a vista of an
old fashioned garden and a riotous
confusion of blooms beside neat walks
and rustic benches. Among the promi-
nent visitors the Daughters expect to
entertain during 1915 will be President
Woodrow Wilson and his staff. For
the day President Wilson will visit the
exposition President G.. Aubrey David
son has included in the program
visit and tea at the d. A. r. tea room.
This honor is given San Diego chapter
because Of Mrs. Wilson's having been
member of the national society. D. A..
r. Secretary William McAdoo and
Mrs. McAdoo were entertained at the
tea-room upon the occasion of their
recent visit to the exposition.
Tourists from Iowa will doubtless
plan to include the two fairs in their
itinerary are Mr.. and Mrs. w. L.
Brown Of Des Moines, Mrs Agnes
Farguar of College Springs, e. Hebron
OF Des Moines, and Mr.. and Mrs.
Howard E. Ware of Marshalltown.
Tho Iowa Anniversary.
The sixty-eighth anniversary of the
admission Of Iowa into the union was
celebrated recently by former Iowans
Of Los Angeles with dinner at Chris
topher's. The dinner was the first
event given by the association since
the organization, representing the 49,
900 former Iowans now living in south
ern California, was incorporated under
the laws Of California. The Iowa as
ISOLATION Is the first of the many state
societies in and about Los Angeles to
follow the example of the federation
OF states In becoming a legal body.
Three superior court judges. and other
prominent professional and business
men constitute the incorporators and
directors, as follows Judge Curtis D.
Williams A. L. Hamilton, Frank H.
r. Willis. ]. G. Spielman, C.. H. Par
Shaw, Col. H. NJ. Bigelow. Col. ]. ].
steadman, c. c. Caves and Ed w.
Hopkins. The officers chosen are:
President Judge Curtis D. Wilbur:
first vice president, Judge Fred H.
Taft; second vice president. c. c.
Caves: treasurer. Frank H. Nichols;
ner a special program was given in
Beach gave two original poems and q
very delightful address on the Home
Coming of Iowa Authors" Miss Rogers
is popular author and lecturer and
told Of her own visit to Iowa for that
reunion. The occasion was largely
memorial to the late Robert J. Burdette
who was one OF the leading spirits Of
the society. Prior to the Iowa re-
union last summer, when DR.. Burdette
was very Ill, he was asked for a mes,
sage to the society," telling why he
came away from Iowa. He finally wrote
it, but 1t was received too late to be
used in connection with the reunion
and was kept for Admission day. the
hope being that he would recover and
be there in person to read 1t. How
ever, fate willed 1t otherwise and 1t
was read for the first time at the Adj
mission day dinner by Secretary Par
sons. 1t is probably the last produce
ton by his CHEEKY pen and is as fol-
lows:
Burdette's Letter.
why did come away from Iowa?
A state that pre-empted a place in my
heart that it will hold forever: the state
wherein was laid the foundations Of my
little fame and tiny fortune: the state
the name of which makes my heart
thrill with gratitude oft as I hear 1t
spoken. The state wherein my boy was
born; where hope taught me to tango
and Joy taught me laugh in ragtime.
Why did / leave such a state? Well, for
the same reason hen crosses q road.
Nobody knows except the hen and she
never tells. Too much monotony in
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voted the republican ticket at 10 o'clock
In the morning Then went right to the
office and wrote up a truthful account
OF the election, and went out and tried
my best to hunt up some news. That
went on for many years. But on the
HEALTH as 4 Sc An !!