Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-19

-, mean well, and that fraternity ana
fellowship are there TO stay.
Henry Granner and August Boeke
forty-six years ago torsook their
friends and kinfolk in Westphalia,
Germany, and emIgrated 10 Hubbard.
Hardin county, Iowa. They then were
two boys i years OF age. They came
together as boyhoOd Cnums, largely
for the reason that none OF their re-
spective relatives would venture with
them 10 undertake so long a voyage TO
a far country. Many OF their relatives
came after them in later years and
located in the same vicinity. The
two pioneers still are friends as sincere
as Marx Hanna and William Mckin-
ley. The tribe of Boeke now is near
" as numerous as was the tribe OF
benjamin Of old. and OF Granners there
be not few. These bold German lads
long since acquired fortunes great be-
yond the day Q: youth.
One hears much now and then these
days about successful farmers who ex-
tract wealth from 240 and 32o-acre
farms. probably because there are
many OF them, but here IS an instance
OF man who has lived on and tarmed
a forty acre tract Of Hardin county
soil for more than forty five years. J.
W. Cassel IS the man, and he lives two
and one half miles south OF Hubbard
In the past eight years he has paid OH
a $1,000 mortgage and made &l,Ipe
worth OF improvements. He has re-
fused $500 an acre for his forty, his
wife insists that they are satisfied with
their home and that they would not
know what TO do with so much money
If they had il. All Of which constitutes
another shining example Of content
ment in well being and well doing.
4 patriarch the forest OF life is tSyl-
vegter Lyman. of Hubbard, whose farm
four miles south OF the town, ap-
preach a lordly manor Of feuda!
times. At 50 years Of age Mr.. Lyman
walks as briskly as the average man
a 80, and ne appears as keen mentally
as man of so. He has been resi-
dent OF Hardin county sixty 1--WE years.
Most Of the members Of his family
have passed on at ripe years, but the
twilight gone Of this patriarch pioneer
has fingered for the average length OF
a mans life, and still he has hope and
ambition. His grandfather lacked
few days Of III years when he shed his
mortal coil, and Mr.. Lyman's ambition
is 10 live as long as mis- ancestor. Z.
W. Strother. also OF Hubbard; a. H.
UaiCUiu, ". j. iioir. Dr. Ring, siTs.
Smith. Of Eldora- are others who are
Nearing the century mark with Mr.. Ly-
man, tho no one of them quite APP
proaches him in physical strength at
this time.
Fccentricities Of character are many
and varied, but this is the narrative OF
a man Of unusual bent. r. II. Bergfeid,
Of Radcliffe, has lived up to peculiar
rule. He will not rent his property TO
a man who drinks. He will not lend
money to a man who drinks intoxicat-
ing liquors, that is, If he knows II. He
says he has in his safe $4,000 az what
he calls whisky notes. They are worth
less pieces Of paper uttered by men
whose love OF liquor has deadened their
sense of honor and responsibility.
Bergfeld was born and reared in the
city OF Chicago, and in early life was
a trusted employe Of J. V. Farweu &
Co. He came to Radcliffe in 1881 and
is a retired merchant who makes char
acter reading a study.