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Newspaper
Waterloo Evening Courier
Location
Waterloo, Iowa, United States of America
Date
May 29, 1913
Page
10
In Dubuque on May 24 1864 the Northern Iowa Sanitary fair organized to aid soldiers through the U S Sanitary Commission elected Mrs P H Conger as third vice president. She resided later in Waterloo at Park Avenue and Washington Street.
New York May 29 plan dates for a national Memorial Day event centered on unveiling the Maine memorial monument at Central Park entrances. General James Grant Wilson chairs the Maine memorial committee with Rear Admiral Cameron Winslow as grand marshal and the North Atlantic Fleet under Rear Admiral Charles Badger expected to anchor along the Hudson.
In 1864 Black Hawk County faced a draft to fill Lincoln's army quota. A hexagonal walnut draft box built by Henry Nauman held slips drawn by Provost Marshal Curtis to select volunteers and deter substitute payments. The box, kept through the Robert Anderson post era, stands as a memento of Civil War heorio.
Keokuk Iowa May 29 After a brief campaign the local Daughters of the American Revolution chapter raised funds to complete a monument to Chief Keokuk the last great Sac leader in southeastern Iowa Sculptor Nellie Walker famed for sculpture will design the statue It will stand on a bluff overlook facing the Missouri River
Continued list of mourners and buried individuals at Gulvary Catholic Cemetery includes Lewis Balmer R F Wilson William Meera George W Meare John I Brown Charles W Baldwin Charles Pratt George Bisbey James H Vroom M Shoemaker John Dignan John Rush Henry T Reynolds Jacob Edward Farnsworth Levi Miller Frederick Gensirt Edward Neary Henry Goodman Robert Robina g James D Place Henry G Millen Cyrus Blenis Patrick McIaae James Brookins J Coram F H Holman James Shafter Calvin P Fox Daniel Parsons A S King John B Thompson Rufus Ball Erastus Hardin Rudolph Stromgren John Meggison Hiram Fairbrother George B Tillotson B T Reger MacDonald WN 8 Thoroman J H Nelling David Roby George W Hafen T Cowin Nelson Strong Henry A Bailey David Trible William Bartlett John Messinger Henry H Hall John Oliver Lichty Samuel A Kier J B Storm Pr Horton Henry B Myers B V Mosher Gulvary Catholic Cemetery William Brennan Charles Daniels Leonard Hamer George Kale Chris Farley Anthony Biller William J Wilmeroth Martin Cummings Kaspar Lohner Frank Seifert John Tynan Mathew McDermott Joseph Burchinalkt.
Edwin C. Foster, veteran and former Beardstown assessor, recalls Abraham Lincoln as a robust, captivating speaker, rejects claims of Lincoln as awkward, and recalls the Lincoln Douglas campaign excitement in Illinois. Foster, a Civil War veteran, has lived in Waterloo over twenty three years.
Forty years after bones of Chief Keokuk were moved from Kansas, a nine foot bronze statue will be unveiled in October. The piece rests on a large base and marks the start of D A R historical trail markers from this location to the Pacific coast. Funding includes contributions from Howard Elliott, James Davis, Senator W Clyde Jones, and Judge A J McCrary, among others.
A list of veterans buried in city cemeteries with death dates ranging from 1912 to 1948. Names include W. W. Edgington, Daniel R. Weaver, Jacob Rhodes, Fred W. White, Benjamin B. Wildes, Charles Brunn, Isaac C. Munger, George E. McNutt, William Hamilton, Richard Folsom, J. H. Wee, William M. Hattery, and Charles B Miller, along with their unit affiliations and death dates.
The article recounts Memorial Day origins by order of General John A. Logan and notes the day as a national tribute to Union defenders. It honors the sacred nature of the observance, the sacrifices of soldiers, and the reverent mood of citizens remembering the fallen and the living maimed in the great struggle for national life.
Near Mt. Auburn in 1854 a notable figure from this region, Jonathan Jenks known as Joppa Jenks, gained wide acquaintance during the rebellion. Now in his eighties, he remains hale and well, reflecting on his colorful Civil War days and local fame.
Jonathan Jenks a six foot three inch Iowa veteran and musician known as Joppa for his war service as fife major of the Twenty eighth Iowa Infantry died recently. He married, raised seven children across Clarksville Waterloo Mt. Auburn and Erme, and leaves twenty two great grandchildren. He was a popular figure at reunions and Woodmen picnics.
The Bureau of Soils of the U S Department of Agriculture, with the state Department of Agriculture, will resume field work for the Bremer County soil survey this spring. Bremer County covers about 432 square miles with 30 remaining to survey. The project aims to map soil types and crop suitability and should finish in the fall.
A reflective wartime poem honors fallen soldiers and the cost of liberty. It laments suffering in trenches and prisons, praises progress under one flag, and urges citizens to honor the dead by fulfilling present duties and safeguarding peace and justice.
The report will be prepared and published later with a color soil map showing soil types, farm houses, churches, police stations, railroads, roads, and streams in the county. The Bureau of Soils has completed surveys in Cerro Gordo Story and Tawa counties and partial surveys in Dubune Jackson and Jones counties.
An ad promising a novel corns remedy called GETS IT claims faster relief with no fuss no palm and sure results. The copy extols the product as unlike anything tried before and urges readers to trust its effectiveness for stubborn corns.
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