The Evening Missourian. [volume] (Columbia, Mo.) 1917-1920, 1919-03-04
Round About

Round About
At the community dinner given to
E. w. Stephens at the Daniel Boone
Tavern the night of January 2S in
honor of his SEVENTEEN birthday, he
was presented with a scrap book. This
book contains about two hundred let
ters and kilograms of congratulations
from friends from far and near.
Mr.. Stephens is still receiving con-
tributions to his scrap book. One of
the late additions is a poem entitled
Three Score and Ten" written by
Mrs. Woodson Moss. This has been
arranged in illuminated text by Duane
Lyon, the Columbia artist recently re-
turned from overseas service. Mr..
Lyon has made the poem the frontis-
piece and has placed silhouette of
the state capitol at one corner, with a
loving cup at the opposite corner,
symbolizing the toast offered in the
poem. The capitol sketch suggesting
Mr.. stephens service to the state as
chairman of the Capitol Commission.
is done in shades of blue, gray and
gold. The poem follows:
Three Score and Ten.
To E. W. Stephens
Three score and ten is a long. long road.
As it runs thru sun and share,
Many foot hath the pathway trod);
Tho steep the way, he unafraid;
Its end is the uplandS of God.
Three score and ten is long long road,
From the dawn to sunset hour:
TO Fastening pilgrims comes the call
With patience wait for men of power,
On these must the burdens fall.
Three score and ten is long. long road
Your task you have never failed;
The cup of life with friends you've shared
In the dust no flag has trailed.
As steadily on yOu have fared.
Three score and ten is a long. long road:
To you the journey has sped
With cheer of comrades all the way,
of valiant heart and God O'erhead,
To the end of Il perfect day.
LUELLA W. ST. CLAIR MOSS.
81 have known more University
students in the last fifteen years than
any man in Columbia" says Logan
Williams, negro barber at us Broad
way. | never forget a name or face
l can remember and name any STU
dent who has ever been in my shop at
any time since I've been working"
When a student first goes to Logan,
the barber asks his name and where
he is from. Then he tells him about
other University men he has known
from that town. Soon Logan knows
enough of the mans history to talk
with him familiarly the next time he
comes in. And Logan never forgets
a single incident.
During Farmers Week University
graduate who had not been in Co
lumbia for fifteen years passed the
shop. He was surprised to hear his
name called. Turning, he saw Logan
coming toward him with outstretched
hand and his well-known grin.
Logan remembered me and my
whole career as well as if / had been
graduated yesterday instead of fifteen
years ago." the man told his friends.
He was the first white man to
come to Boone County; he planted the
first apple orchard in this county;
he was granted the first divorce in
Boone County.
Such was the record of Ira P Nash,
called by the early settlers of this
county the most eccentric man in
this part of the country.
Nash was a graduate of the Uni
versity of Virginia. physician and
civil engineer He worked for sever
al years under the surveyor-general
of Spain. In this capacity he came
to Boone County in 1904, locating
grants for the Spanish government,
and settled between Easley and Prov
idence on the line where now runs
the Missouri, Kansas & Texas rail
road. Mr. Nash laid out and planned
the town of Nashville, which some
years ago was washed into the Mis-
souri, River.
Nash had some trouble with his
first wife, Nancy, who hanged her