Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-02
Southern Io1ua Items

school vacation Out door public
meetings are also conducted two eve-
nings-Tuesday and Friday-each week
for both old and young. Miss Edith
Lyles, daughter of Reverend Ly1es, has
been secured at salary Of $50 per
month to instruct the girls in various
out Of door games and exercises. Sew
eral local men have donated their SER
vices for similar work among the boys.
and both boys and girls are having the
time Of their lives.
Glsnwood.
Frank Allen reports that he has
bought the apples in the Ernest Walk
er orchard Of twenty acres. He estl-
mates that the yield of the orchard
will be near 5000 barrels. This orchard
was sprayed and the fruit promises to
be first class. Mr.. Allen has no FEAR
but that fruit from sprayed orchard
will have scarcely any culls in them.
Fruit from unsprayed orchards will
hardly be saleable. Mr.. Allen has also
purchased the j. L. Waterman orchard
Of Duchess apples. There are 115 trees
and they will yield nearly $40 barrels.
There trees were sprayed and the fruit
is especially fine. He thinks they will
be ready to pick by July TO- MI. Allen
thinks apple raisers ought to take
kindly to the Duchess, since they
come so easily on the market.
Newton.
The people Of Jasper county have
reason to be very proud of the fact
that the agriculture of this county
ranked high in Iowa and the United
States display at the Panama Pacific
exposition at San Francisco. In the
natioral exhibit of grains, Iowa won S4
! medals and 1862 bronze medals. OF
that number nine silver medals and Is
bronze ones were won by Jasper coun-
ty. Now. considering that there are
ninety nine counties in the state, the
showing made by this county was very
good, indeed w. F. Otcheck of Rock
Creek township. was the only one from
the county to enter in the exhibit. so
al 1.-The credit for the honor belongs to
him. Nevertheless every one in the
county ought to feel exceedingly proud
that his display has brought to the
county.
West Point.
What has perhaps been one of the
most pleasant and historical events in
church history in Iowa came to a close
Sunday evening at the Presbyterian
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days celebration of the seventy eighth
anniversary of the church. This church
bears the distinction Of being the old
est Presbyterian church in the state of
Iowa, having been organized julie "a.
1897. The original membership Of the
church were William Patterson and
wife Eleanor, Alexander H. Walker
and wife Isabella, Ambrose Stone and
wife Catherine, David Walker and
wife Nancy, Cyrus Poage and wife'
Mary. OF the original members Cyrus
Poage, who was q surveyor, moved to
Missouri few years later. Isabella
and Nancy Walker died while mem
bers Of the church, William Patterson
and wife moved to Keokuk where they
spent the remainder Of their lives,
David Walker who died in 1876 was
the last one OF the original members
left at West Point.
Princeton.
Mrs. Addie Walker of Princeton, has
treasured possession in a copy of the
Ulster Gazette Of Saturday. Jan. 4,
1900, containing All account OF the FL
neral of George Washington. and of the
proceedings In congress in relation to
the death OF the first president It is
small, four page paper. with heavy
rules turned on the inside pages in
recognition Of the country's bereave-
ment in Washington's death. (Perhaps
the most interesting feature Of the pa
per Is the advertisements. One adver-
tiser offers "a stout, healthy active
negro wench' for sale. Another seeks
to locate a red bull which has strayed
from home. another red heifer John
Tremper displays the fact that he has
"a quantity Of Scholarly peas FOR sale
or to exchange for wheat" Sheriffs
sales galore are announced, apprentices
advertised for. Such paper suggests
contrasts with the present day that
are most interesting. It was given to
Mrs. Walker by q friend, now de-
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