Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-01-31
, AP. THAYER's LAST TRIP.

! A. p Thayer has made his last tril
| for the Times Republican. LOCKER on
is no longer on earth. Death has over
| taken and overcome the best news.
paper solicitor who ever travelled il
Iowa. Thirty Years is Il long time al
one task and seventy years is a Ions
time to live A. 2. Thaver accom-.
pllshed Doth. To excel in ones chosen
occupation whatever that occupation
may be is mark OF distinction and
nobody will ever question the claim
of the veteran Thayer TO premiership
i'll the elan of newspa per solicitors for
| Iowa
Death is not all misfortune but the
natural and inevitable end of all hui
mainly. Men live and die Mr. Thayer
had lived TO the scriptural limit of
mans Years. Thru all that time he
had been busy. occupied, able physical
ly and mentally. holding a sane mind
in a sound body. Sickness had passed
him by And so coming to the in
evitaole and the closing of the term he
passed quietly. He avoided thus the
period of failing powers which throws
it shadow over the forwa I'd thoughts
Of all active and virile men. 1t is what
most strong men desire. to live fully
and die when strength departs. Thayer
lived all his seventy years. They We're
full years. And living so he was
fortunate beyond most men. not only
in length Of years blu, in their full
ness.
Faithful to the interest he served.
keen of wits. interchangeable in energy
and Scrupulously accurate in all things
however small Mr.. Thayers manner
Of taking money from men in central
Iowa has been painless and beneficial
Thousands of them have been paying
Thayer for years without thought as
to their accounts because they were
doing business with a friend whom
they trusted They have kept on pay
ing Thayer whatever Thayer told them
" pay ulilil IItII SolS. SloNll, COull
take the places of their fathers paying
Thayer when he called. 1t was deemed
more accurate to trust Thayer than to
keep books.
A. p. Thayer began with the Times
Republican when it was almost I'M
known outside of its town of publica-
Of iy,o,1 ,,t 1,nlj-
cies for growth and expansion have
been the result of suggestion from
Thayer born of keen observance upon
the road Sunday noon between the
hours of II and l o'clock for many
years has been set aside to hear. con-
slider and weigh criticism from Thayer.
For thirty years Mr.. Thayer's grip
has been packed on Saturday night
for the trip which would begin Mon
day morning Clean living careful
ness and methodical habits kept him
hale and hearty and efficient to a very
old age. He had earned the right to
retire and could have done so. When
his first illness which finally proved to
be his last came upon him he looked
forward TO quiet simple pleasure in
Florida by winter and az his home on
White Bear lake by summer but Provi-
dence proved kind to him in that he
was saved the humiliation of seeing
the world pass on and thrive without
his assistance Men who have always
been so active, SO persistent and so
faithful in their work have often been
compelled to strain their philosophy in
order to make a success Of retirement
and this test has been saved to A. P.
Thayer.
Everybody liked Mr. Thayer. To
many Of its readers Mr. Thayer was
the Times Repu blican. His personal
ity seemed to speak for the newspaper.
The reader read the paper but he knew
Thayer. His writing Of what he saw
in his travels was one of the depart
ments Of constant interest in this
newspaper His coming was looked for
with pleasure by the constant SUBJ
scriber for Thayer's way Of doing
! business was ightforward. intelIi-
gent and dependable. Dependable. That
is the great lesson in human charac-
ter which Thayer has left to his family
and to his friends and to the Times
Republican newspaper force now asso-
ciated with his son it almost seems as
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among his friends.