Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-01
MEMBERS OF TEAM
NOW FAR SCATTERED
Came From All Walks OF Life and
Many Have Been Successful in
Business-Citixen Unearths Copy
Of Extra" Telling of Victory at
Council Bluffs.
TBy C. b. Wilson.1

ulIlluuliVe eAId u LILO Shch
Star bearing date OF June Is. 1889,
Its "scareheads" announcing q fam
GUS victory. viz: the winning of the
state championship by the local
hose team, the O. B. Chapins. In a
tournament at Council Bluffs. This
remarkable team had won out at
Clinton the year before and third
successive victory at Marshalltown
the following year secured to the
town tho championship belt, long a
treasured exhibit. and still In safe
keeping In one Of the local banks.
According to the statements Of
several old-timers Of Union those
were "the days Of neal sport" They
declare that the spectacle Of eighteen
fleet footed young men in q 30o-yard
dash with two 'couplers." executing
and accomplishing feat requiring
great precision and lightning speed
transcends completely any possible
exhibition In this line In which man
is replaced by machinery. They adj
NIT the increased efficiency. OF the
modern fire fighting system but
when 1t comes to tournaments that
is very different thing.
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The 20. B. Chapins" like all ath-
letic organizations from small towns,
necessarily was composed Of men IN
the different walks OF life. William
Dilley and w. D. Humeston were
partners in blacksmith business:
Steve" Jessup and his brother. I. p,
were farmers; A. p. Mason was the
editor OF the local paper: II. ]. Ben
son was q miller, and A. w. Pear
son physician. Other members Of
the team were Wade Rodwell. Fred
Wood. Will Lawrence. William
Sharp, Reece Cordle, Sherm Wealth
erly, Emmett Swearingen, Will
Hauser, Frank Lockwood, b. r.
Wright. Art Frazier. and s. r. Col
Inns and art" Tiffany was secre-
tary Of tho association. Wood and
Humeston were the '.couplers."
The thirty years that have passed
since the racing days of these men
have worked the usual change OF sit-
uation. Blacksmith Humeston Is still
at his old stand but his former asso-
ciate has passed on to another world.
lawrence. Sharp and Cordle also are
zone. Rodwell Is growing fruit In a
western state and DR.. Pearson is
supposed to be practicing in the same
part Of the world. The two Jessups
live on their respective farms in the
Mormon Ridge" vicinity and Wealth
erly Is a farmer in the same locality,
Swearingen is a real estate man at
Conrad and Hauser lives in Mason
City. A P. Mason IL an auctioneer OF
Union and Lockwood has recently as
stunned the manaeemept Of grain
elevator at Lincoln, Iowa. Benson is
still q miller, and is now located In
Normal, III. Tiffany is engaged in
similar work in Madison. Wis,
Wright is q mason and lives In
Des Moines. Collins lives on his
farm near Written, Iowa, and
Frazier is station agent for the
NJ. 4 ST. l.. at Mdora- Mr.. Humes-
ton remembers that on one occasion
when q hurry up call came for prac-
tice some horses were on the floor
Of his shop undergoing the shoeing
process. The aprons were thrown
OFF, the trial run was made in the
presence Of q big crowd Of epthusi-
astic spectators and the horseshoeing
was completed later in the day.
Forty seconds - a pretty short
time for bunch Of eighteen men to
travel over 300 yards of space under
their own power; especially so when
q line Of hose must be laid and
coupled in the last 100 yards Of the
trip. The old 20. B. Chapins'' of
Union must have been indeed some
team"
Some very commendable work is
being done in the Improvement Of
the cemetery at Albion. Already one
Of the finest and best kept small
town cemeteries In this part Of the
country 1t Is being still further beau
titled by the addition Of well chosen
shrubbery bought with money raised
by popular subscription and planted
by competent local residents who
are Justly proud Of the institution.
This is one Of the, Oldest cemeteries
In the country several Of the makers
dating back to the early SOS. Over
one grave a burr oak tree has grown
to a diameter Of sixteen inches, per-
haps more. Early residents tell
that the grounds were, once covered
with timber and underbrush and 1t
Is said that one man had the bodies
Of his dead taken from q spot that
is now the center Of the area and
removed to apother section because
Of the lonely ana neglected condition
Of the original place Of interment. Il
IL said that the tract originally con-
sisted Of an area Of only one quarter
Of an acre; It contains seven acres
at tho present time.
Tractor farming must be finding
favor in the community lying be-
tween tho towns Of Albion and Lis
comb Judging from a statement
made by a farmer living in that To-
cality. This farmer himself operates
one Of these machines and find
ing it expedient to put In a few hours
Of overtime he turned on his electric
light one evening and kept going
when he looked at his watch It was
II D. m. lie noticed then that he was
not the only night worker IN the
netghborhood for turning his atten-
ton to the matter he found there
were no less than seven other trac-
tors operating within the range Of his
hearing.
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