Webster City freeman. [volume] (Webster City, Hamilton County, Iowa) 1884-1946, 1917-10-09
iowa AUTHORS
PUBLISH A BOOK
Natives of Hawkeye State Contrib
ute to Unique Volume
Red Cross Benefit.

Announcement is made by the
Iowa Press and Authors club OF
forthcoming publication, Prairie
Cold" which promises to establish
once and for all Iowa's claim to ma
tional recognition in literary cir
cles.
The book numbers among its con-
tributors such we'll known folks as
Emerson Hough, Hamlin Garland,
Rupert Hughes, Ellis Parker Butler
Octave Thanet (Alice French), Hon
ore Willsie, Edwin L. Sabin, Lafay-
cite Young, Randall Parrish, Flea
nor Hoyt Brainerd, Oney Fred Sweet
and Allan Updegraff.
Then there will be illustrations
by Iowa's own "Ding" Of cartoon
fame, and by the well known Frank
Wing and c. L. Bartholomew
| ("Bart") and Orson Lowell.
"Prairie Gold'' is the idea OF
woman, Mrs. Alice G. Weitz, presi-
dent of the Iowa Press and Authors
club. At "a meeting last spring Mrs.
| Weitz proposed publishing book
to be written and illustrated by ma
tive Iowans and sold for the bene-
fit of the Red Cross. Committees
were set to work at once to secure
contributions and to make necessary
arrangements for publication. Iowa
authors, who left their native haunt
years ago and are now nationally
famous for their works, as we'll as
those now residents of the state,
were approached with the idea.
They responded heartily and fur
| nished their manuscripts gratis. Not
a cent is being expended for the ma
terial in the book.
Besides stories, sketches and po-
ems by those named above, "Prai-
RE Gold" includes contributions
from:
Cynthia Westover Alden.
Addie B. Ellington.
Johnson Brigham.
Irving N. Brant.
S. H. M. Byers.
Elizabeth Cooper.
Rose A. Grow. K q IA
Arthur Dawson Ficke.
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Esse v. Hathaway.
Carrie Moss Hawley.
Laura L. Hinkley.
Ethel Hueston.
Ida M. Huntington.
Tacitus Hussey.
J. Edward Kirbye.
Helen Cowles LeCron.
Verne Marshall.
Frank Luther Mott.
r. O'Grady.
Calista Halsey Patchin.
Reuben F. Place.
Virginia H. Reichard.
Virginia Roderick.
Julia Ellen Rogers.
/ bertha M. II. SudmUduSu.
Jessie Wellborn Smith.
Lewis Worthington Smith.
Emile Blackmore Stapp.
Marie G. Stapp.
Minnie Stichter.
Detley Fredrik Tillisch.
Nellie Gregg Tomlinson.
Margaret COulson Walker.
Henry c. Wallace.
James B. Weaver.
Alice G. Weitz.
| selling campaign will be con-
| Quoted in Iowa through the local
Red Cross chapters and other or
CARNATIONS. Arrangements have
been made with the publishers of
Prairie Cold" Reilly & Britton.
of Chicago, by which books will be
furnished to Red Cross chapters at
a very liberal discount. BY selling
them at the retail price these chap
tiers will be able to add quite sum
to their local treasures. Core
| sp0ndence regarding this phase OF
1t should be addressed to Mrs. F.
w. Weitz, 400 Forty-second street,
Des Moines.
| The publishers are doing their
part in granting double the usual
royalty on books. Every cent of this
will be turned over promptly by the
Iowa Press and Authors club to the
Red Cross.
| Prairie Gold" will be handsome
ly bound in cloth with cover de-
sign in gold. The design will carry
out the symbolism suggested in the
title, by means Of grains of corn.
The book will comprise 352 pages.
Prairie Gold" not only marks an
enoch in T0wa's literary history hut