The Oskaloosa herald. (Oskaloosa, Mahaska County, Iowa) 1885-1919, 1916-04-06
CHIEF MAHASKA
IN DUPLICATE
COUNCIL BLUFFS is TO COPY
OUR STATUE.
SHERRY FRY'S MASTERPIECE
Will Be Reproduced by Mr.. Edmund
son Who Gave Original to oska-
Ioosa-Permission Has Been
Granted in Official Way.

| OskaloOsa city as a municipality
has conferred upon Council Bluffs mu-
nicipality most unusual favor in the
granting of permission by adoption of
resolution on the part of the city
council, for the erection in Council
! Bluffs of a replica of the statue of
Chief Mahaska," now in the Oska-
loosa city park.
So far as is known this is the first
time in the history of the state of
Iowa that one city has thus favored
lanother municipality g4aaa q 'e.ss<. ----r.
The resolution granting the favor
! to the city of Council Bluffs was
adopted by the Oskaloosa Council on
| ly after the written consent of the
donor Of the statue. Mr.. James ID.
| EdmundsOn, and it's sculptor, Mr.
Sherry Fry, had been filed with the
council.
The affair was engineered and
: brought about through the personal
effort Of Mr.. Edgar r. Harlan, cura-
tor of the Historical department of
Iowa, who has been engaged upon the
mission number of weeks and who
obtained the written consent of the
originator of the statue of Chief Ma
haska and the sculptor, Sherry Fry.
Mr.. Harlan has been in Oskalosoa
a number Of times in connection with
the project and appeared before the
council to explain the reason for the
request, embodied in the resolution.
! The wording of the resolution,
adopted unanimously by the Oska-
loosa city council, is as follows:
"WEREAS, The Historical Depart
ment of Iowa and others associated
with said institution, having in mind
the promotion of pride in the tradi-
+ lions of the state of Iowa and each
' of its counties, are endeavOring to
cause the erection of suitable monu-
ments for the establishing and preser-
walton of such traditions at appro-
pirate sites and places within the
state, and
WHEREAS, Said Historical De-
/ partment and others associated with
said institution are DESTROYS Of suit
ably marking the western terminus in
; Iowa of the early travel way across
the state denominated in the early
usage and in the early maps as the
Mormon Trace, by erecting in the City
statue of Mahaska now in the City
of Oskalocsa, and being the property
of said City by the gift of Mr.. James
D. Edmundson, and
! WHEREAS, 1t is represented by
Mr.. Edgar r. Harlan, Curator of the
Historical Department of Iowa, that
Mr. .Edmundson and the sculptor, Mr..
Sherry E. Fry are willing that such
replica shall be made and that the
people in the City of Council Bluffs
are ready and willing to erect in said
city suitable replica of said statue
OF Mahaska,
THEREFORE,, 1T IS RESOLVED
that the City of Oskaloosa by its
Mayor and Council in regular ses-
sion, do hereby tender to said Histor.
ical Department of Iowa and espe-
cially to the City of Council Bluffs the
free use and privilege of reproducing
and erecting a suitable copy or re-
plica of said statue, provided:
| 1.-THE consent and approval in
writing be filed with said Council of
Mr.. James d. Edmundson and Mr.
Sherry E. Fry; and
'2-That said reproduction shall
bear suitable inscription attesting
the fact that the reproduction is of
the original statue in Oskaloosa and
is produced with the consent and ex-
pressed courtesy of said City of Os-
kaloosa, and
"3--That said reproduction shall be
without cost or inconvenience to the
+, City of Oskaloosa and without harm
to said statue.
j mo copy is. to be made except
by the authority of the City of Oska-
loosa, first duly recorded.
! RESOLVED. That this proceeding