Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-08

survived by a daughter. Mrs. Thomas
Hughes of this city and a son. Mr.. j. f.
Walden, whose whereabouts are UNI
known.
Washington.
A. f. Forgey ianitor Of the Mckee
school, has built a miniature house out
of scraps of lumber discarded by the
manual training class. 1t is two stories
high, and on the front porch is doll
in a little rocker. also made by him.
4 stand motor on the lower floor
which is fed thru the chimney, makes
the chair rock. The house will be in
stalled in the kindergarten of the
Heights school. Mr., Forgey has also
| constructed a number of other toys
run by hot air and a sand motor.
which the kindergarten folks enjoy.
Shenandoah.
a son was born to Mr. and Mrs.
Henry Field Monday afternoon. The
twelve pound boy has been named
John Henry Field. He is the ninth
child in the family Less than twen-
ty-four hours after his birth the young
man. clad in overalls, had visited the
seed house across the yard from his
over to visit the firm and the employees
and take grip on their affections,
much like Ruth and Georgia Of Seed
Sense" fame have done before him in
the last few years. He's the incest
one of all" declared the enthusiastic
mother over the telephone at her bed
side.
Mount Pleasant.
4 business change of considerable
interest was completed on New Years
day when Charles A. Whitaker re-
| tired from his work as blacksmith
| and horseshoer after over forty years
! of active work at this place. MI.
| Whitaker has reached the age when
| he feels that someone else can carry
, on the active work of the shop, and
| he will look after his other interests
and take life a little more easy. He
came here when young man and was
| employed and learned his trade with
| the late Mr.. J. O. Higgins, the veteran
| blacksmith, and who later became his
| father in-law. He has occupied the
! same location, but the building was
| destroyed by fire three or four times.
His announcement vas complete
Surprise to his son Ralph and his
cousin. Fred Higgins. to whom he gave
his shop for a New Years present, and
these men will continue the business
| at the old stand. Mr.. Whitaker has
many friends in and around Henry
| county.
Salem.
In the year 1898, there settled In
Baltimore township. in Henry county,
near the village of Lowell, the family
of Robert William Bunker. Mr.. Bunker
was born at Hudson, y. Y. in 1893.
1t stands as a fact in the family rec
ords that he handled the first shovel
of dirt in the construction OF the Erie
canal. and that he remained with the
enterprise until it was completed. He
received as wages less than 40 cents
day. part of which was given as a re-
ward for his abstinence from the use
| Of LIQUOR. Another matter OF family
| history is the fact that the family
name of Bunker" is quite intimately
associated with an important event
! cf the war of the Revolution. Johna-
than Bunker, the grandfather Of R.
w. Bunker during the time OF the
struggle for independence, owned the
land on which the famous battle of
Bunker Hill was fought, and where the
Bunker hill monument now stands OF
this fact the family may we'll be proud
Three of the original Bunker family
are still living-Rachel j., wife of Will
liam Collins of Salem: Sarah Angelina
wife Of Frank Hannah, of Jackson
township, and William Bunker OF Sa-
lem The twenty-frst annual reunion
of the Bunker family was held at the
home of William Bond. in Salem. jan
1, 1917 SiXty-nine persons partooK
of the bounteous dinner so generously
provided. regardless OF the high price
Of living