Iowa
Old Press
Iowa City Press Citizen
Iowa City, Johnson co. Iowa
February 4, 1924
News Comment About Iowa
The 100th anniversary of the birth of Edward Corrin was given
official recognition in the Methodist church in Cedar Falls, of
which organization he is a member. The G.A.R. Post occupied
reserved pews. Prayer was offered by Rev. F.X. Miller, the oldest
minister in the Upper Iowa Conference. A special church bulletin
was issued giving a brief sketch of the life of the venerable
guest. Mr. Corrin has been a member of the Methodist church for
95 years, having been baptized into that faith when he was five
years of age.
E.C. Bailey, of Decorah, says that the Delphy Brothers of Harpers
Ferry, Allamakee county, will load a car with fish which will be
shipped alive to New York. The fish will be dipped from their
pond which is supplied by a flowing well where they have been on
feed for several weeks and placed in boxes which will be taken
directly to the car and dumped into tanks of water. Five teams
will be required to haul the fish, the weight of which is
estimated at 50,000 pounds. The contract price is 8 1/4 cents on
board the car.
The Corn Growers association was organized at the meeting held in
Des Moines with the intention of incorporating under the
co-operative marketing law in order to stablize the price of
corn. F.B. Layman of Des MOines, a Calhoun county farm owner, was
elected president; W.F. Maher of Fort Dodge, vice-president; E.C.
Correy of Des Moines, farm owner in Calhoun and Sac counties,
secretary and treasurer. Directors chosen are: J.C. Dunn, Polk
county; J.H. Habenicht, Calhoun county; W.H. Taylor, Iowa county;
W.H. Thompson, Story county; G.H. Richmond, Keokuk county;
Brownie Graham, Poweshiek county; H.B. Gogerty, Hardin county;
H.C. Berven, Ida county; and E.B. Gose, Greene county. The
stabilization plan advocated by A.J. Banks, is the basis for
founding the new organization. It provides for a price of corn
based on cost of production plus profit on investment. February
15th has been set as the date of another meeting when directors
will be named for the remaining counties of the state.
W.G. Smith, of Rock Rapids, Lyon county, says that Harry
Randolph, prominent stockman in that vicinity, shipped a train
load of sheep to the Chicago market the other day. There were 25
cars and around 3,000 animals. The Northwestern railway company
sent Traveling Freight Agent Sullivan to Rock Rapids to see that
the lambs were properly loaded.
Mrs. Jane Rowley, 102 years of age is dead at Center Point, Linn
county. She was a granddaughter of Colonel Ethan Allen, of
revolutionary fame, and a cousin of Clara Barton, founder of the
American Red Cross. She joined the Methodist church 87 years ago
while a girl of 15 at Oswego, New York, her birthplace. Her
recipe for long life was moderation, declaring a full stomach
made a weary brain and a tired body.
Charles Anders, of Clay county, has filed suit against H.V.
Geisinger a neighboring farmer, for $30,000 because of the death
of his 2 year old son Merle from drowning in an artificial lake.
Mr. Anders in his petition says that his farm in Douglass
township, Clay county is across the road from the Geisinger farm,
that the latter dammed a creek running through both farms thereby
creating a pool in the highway into which Merle fell last
December 10. The boy was dead when found. Anders claims that he
notified Geisinger that the pond created by the dammed creek was
unsafe but that Geisinger failed to heed warning. The action is
the first in Iowa under the "attractive nuisance" law
it is said and is attracting wide attention.
[transcribed by S.F., July 2005]