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THE BAY VIEW HISTORICAL CLUB.
The Bay View Historical Club was organized in 1900. The object of the club was primarily for study, and during the intervening years, the members of the club have maintained the reputation early established. The Bay View Read- ing Course has been followed quite closely in each succeeding year, and the members have frequently been granted diplomas of graduation for having completed the reading course, with a satisfactory grade.
The several presidents of the local club, in their order have been : Mrs. Mar- garet Fordham, Mrs. Mary Bennett, Mrs. Elizabeth Wherry, Mrs. Cora Beck- with, Mrs. Helen Ilsley, and the present president, Mrs. Tabitha Fishwild.
The former members of the club are: Mrs. Margaret Anderson, Miss Mary Bates, Miss Blanche Clark, Mrs. Lucy Chamberlain, Mrs. Nettie Cooper, Miss Ida Fishwild, Mrs. Margaret Fordham, Mrs. Margaret Larkey, Mrs. Alicia McConnell, Mrs. Cynthia McDaniel, Mrs. Jennie Niblo, Mrs. Mattie Reed, Mrs. Isabelle Reymore, Mrs. Jennie Schaefer, Mrs. Mary Smith and Mrs. Minnie Wilker.
The membership of the club is limited to fifteen members. The following named ladies constitute the membership for the fall of 1909: Mrs. Mary Ames, Mrs. Cora Beckwith, Mrs. Mary Bennett, Dr. Aileen Corbit, Mrs. Jennie Day, Mrs. Bertha Eye, Mrs. Tabitha Fishwild, Mrs. Helen Ilsley, Mrs. Alice Loomis, Mrs. Helen Madison, Mrs. Hattie Myers, Mrs. Eva Spence, Mrs. Clara Stephen- son, Mrs. Mildred Vaughn, Mrs. Elizabeth Wherry ..
The present officers are: President, Mrs. Tabitha Fishwild; vice-president, Mrs. Jennie Day; secretary and treasurer, Mrs. Hattie Myers; program com- mittee : Mrs. Hattie Myers, Mrs. Mildred Vaughn, Dr. Aileen Corbit.
The club meets regularly each alternate Tuesday evening at the homes of the several members. The club colors are red, white and blue. Several times dur- ing the year, the club gives socials to which the members invite a limited num- ber of guests. The social feature in this club has been secondary to its study and literary programs.
THE HAWTHORNE CLUB.
This is the largest of the social and literary ladies' clubs in town. The Haw- thorne Club was organized in 1899, and has always taken a leading part in the
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social and literary development of the town. Some of its socials have gone beyond the ordinary limits of a purely social function. Its old folks' meetings, its domestic science lectures, and similar features, has broadened the scope of its work.
The several presidents of the club in the order of their service, have been : Mary Calkins Chassell, Amelia Bates Shaffer, Mrs. Frances Sykes Vaughn, Miss Emma Alden, Mrs. Eugenia Hepler, Mrs. Frances Sykes Vaughn, Mrs. Mabel Loomis Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Alice Pattison Wherry, Mrs. Katherine Halsey Richardson.
The Hawthorne Club was admitted to the State Federation of Women's clubs in 1899. and in 1908, it was admitted as a member of the national federa- tion. One of its members has been honored with an office in the state federation, namely. Mrs. Mary Calkins Chassell, as corresponding secretary, which office she filled very acceptably.
The charter members of the organization were: Miss Martha Herrick, Mrs. Mary Calkins Chassell, Mrs. Mabel L. Kirkpatrick, Mrs. Eugenia H. Hepler, Mrs. Frances S. Vaughn, Mrs. Margaret Schamel, Mrs. Alicia McConnell, Mrs. Ida Kettlesen, Miss Emma Alden, Miss Edith Alden, Mrs. Della Smith, Miss Ruth Brown (deceased), Miss Harriet B. Shaffer, Mrs. Amelia Bates Shaffer, Miss Lynn Anderson, Miss Harriet Alden, Mrs. Elizabeth Inglis, Mrs. Harriet Johnson, Mrs. Jennie Niblo, Mrs. Elva Franks, Mrs. Elizabeth Wherry, Mrs. Lucy Tourtellot, Miss Ella O'Hara.
During the summer of 1907, the ladies of the club seeing the demand for literary entertainments for the winter evenings, very nobly undertook the labor and responsibility of securing a lecture course for the winter season of 1907- 1908. This venture proved a success beyond the hopes of the club. The follow- ing year, 1908-1909, another lecture course was secured with satisfactory re- sults. For the winter of 1909-1910, a lecture course of pronounced excellence has been undertaken, and to show their faith in the judgment of the lecture course committee, the people have purchased tickets and supported the course without personal solicitation. The lecture course committee for the season of 1909-1910, is composed of the following ladies: Miss Frances Franks, Miss Zella Biglow, Mrs. Katherine Richardson, Miss Edith Alden.
The membership in the club is limited to thirty, the present members being as follows : Miss Harriet Alden, Mrs. Elizabeth Alden, Miss Edith Alden, Miss Emma Alden, Miss Zella Biglow, Mrs. Cora Butler, Mrs. Mary Brown, Mrs. Mary Calkins Chassell, Mrs. Aileen B. Corbit, M. D., Mrs Ivah Chamberlain, Miss Frances Franks, Mrs. Edith Lamerton Hanson, Miss Elsie Haynor, Mrs. Ida Kettlesen, Mrs. Mattie J. Arns, Mrs. Stella Mallicoat, Mrs. Isabelle Paul, Mrs. Ida Pealer, Mrs. Katherine Richardson, Miss Harriet Shaffer, Mrs. Maud Stoffel, Miss Dora Thomsen. Miss Jennie Tourtellot, Mrs. Lucy Tourtellot, Mrs. Frances Vaughn, Mrs. Ida Waite, Mrs. Nettie Wherry, Mrs. Alice Wherry, Mrs. Elizabeth Wherry, Mrs. Lena Wilcox.
The club officers for 1909-1910, are: President, Mrs. Katherine Richardson; first vice-president, Mrs. Stella Mallicoat; second vice-president, Miss Harriet Alden; recording secretary. Mrs. Ida Pealer; corresponding secretary, Miss Frances Franks; treasurer. Miss Emma Alden; historian, Mrs. Alice Wherry ;
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librarian, Miss Jennie Tourtellot; social committee : Dr. Aileen B. Corbit, chair- man, Miss Jennie Tourtellot, Mrs. Iva Chamberlain, Miss Dora Thomsen, Miss Elsie Haynor; program committee: Mrs. Ida Kettlesen, Miss Harriet Alden, Mrs. Maud Stoffel.
The club meets on alternate Wednesday evenings, beginning in October and closing in May. The study for the present winter season includes Shakespeare and Domestic Science. The club colors are blue and yellow; the flower, carnation.
THE WYOMING CORNET BAND.
A cornet band, either in a state of efficiency or in a formative condition, has existed in Wyoming since its early history. Of these earliest organiza- tions, no record has been kept. Along about 1877, Wyoming had a very large band with bright uniforms and a band wagon of great proportions and gorge- ous coloring. These bands have always had a membership from among our finest youths and young men and their music has always been enjoyed by our people.
About 1885, the Ben Paul Post, G. A. R., became interested in the matter of a cornet band, the membership to be composed of sons of veterans. The result was the formation of a band that did good service for a number of years, and the most of the horns and equipments belonged to the band as an organization, and as one member might drop out, a new member would be obtained, and the result was that Wyoming had the benefit of splendid band music for a number of years following 1885.
Those who were present at the semi-contennial celebration in Wyoming in 1905, will recall the stirring and spirited music furnished by the Wyoming Band during that historic period. The membership of that splendid organization was as follows: Tuba, Glen Bottomstone; baritone, S. C. Brainard; first trom- bone, Ross Stephenson; fourth alto, Lee Paul; third alto, Dr. W. W. Bronson; second alto, Meinhardt Thomsen ; first alto, Fred Day ; leader and B flat cornet, John Smith ; first clarinet, W. E. Hernon; tenor drum, Clarence Reade; bass drum, George Atkins. With the removal of members, and other causes, this band, like the ones preceding it. was soon out of practice, and the band became disorganized.
Wyoming now has another cornet band organization which has already reached a state of efficiency seldom acquired by a young band in so short a time. The band was organized December 1, 1908. The present members are: Cornet (leader) Harold Wilcox; cornet, Frank Preston; cornet, Louie Koch; cornet, Kenneth Babcock; cornet, Ernest Anderson; clarinet, Peter C. Jansen ; clarinet, Earl Sherman ; alto, Fred Day ; alto, Marshall Field; alto, Allison Fish- wild; alto, Eugene McMurrin; alto, Myron Smith; tenor, Herman Erickson; trombone, August Wolf; baritone, Eddie Holub; tuba, Clayton Fields; tenor drum, Fred Hopkins; bass drum, George Atkins.
The officers are: President, Eddie Holub; secretary and treasurer, Peter C. Jansen. The boys have bright new uniforms, and on several public occasions have made the day enjoyable with their lively music. The band stand erected at the intersection of Main and Washington streets in 1905, at the time of the semi-centennial celebration, has been found a very convenient and useful loca- cation for Saturday evening concerts during the summer.
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THE WYOMING CIVIC LEAGUE.
For some time prior to its organization, the business men of Wyoming had felt the need of an organized effort in behalf of the civic improvement and devel- opment of the town, and this feeling continued to increase until its culmination in the call for a mass meeting of the citizens of Wyoming and others interested in the welfare of the town, in the town council room on March 8, 1905. Mayor J. S. Brownell was chosen chairman of the meeting, and H. N. Fordham, sec- retary. After a discussion favorable to organization had been concluded, a com- mittee consisting of R. Fishwild, H. W. Kettlesen and H. N. Fordham, was ap- pointed to draft articles of organization and to report at an adjourned meet- ing to be held March 14, 1905. At this meeting the constitution and by-laws were presented, and the constitution adopted. The object of the association as stated in the constitution was: The cultivation of the social and material interests centering in Wyoming; first, by encouraging a high state of moral character in private and in business life; second, by the employment of all legiti- mate means to build up and sustain the industrial and commercial prestige of the community.
The first officers of the association were: President, J. S. Brownell; first vice-president, J. W. Waite; second vice-president, H. N. Fordham; recording secretary, R. M. Corbit; corresponding secretary, G. W. Evans; treasurer, H. W. Kettlesen.
The present officers of the league are: President, J. S. Brownell; first vice- president, E. M. Babcock; second vice-president, J. C. Kettlesen ; recording and corresponding secretary, R. M. Corbit ; treasurer, W. W. Bronson. Committees : Finance, W. G. Krouse; press, W. I. Chamberlain; civic improvement, A. M. Loomis; commerce and industrial promotion, W. S. Garrison.
The civic league has undertaken a number of very substantial improvements and also inaugurated a number of events which has added to the pleasure and historic renown of Wyoming. The first event, and which is treated more at length on another page, was the celebration of the semi-centennial anniversary of the settlement of Wyoming. In the minutes of the secretary's record of the meeting of March 22, 1905, the motion of R. M. Corbit, that "It is the sense of this organization that the fiftieth anniversary of Wyoming be celebrated this year," was carried, and from that date until the final consummation of the event, frequent meetings were held, and the celebration will go down in the his- tory of the county as the most successful event of the kind ever attempted. There were other achievements of the league, but this one event alone is suffi- cient to mention as making it worthy of having been organized.
The league is doing good work, and is in readiness to attempt what is most needed at any time.
THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF SETTLEMENT.
The fiftieth anniversary of the settlement of the town of Wyoming, was very appropriately observed by the citizens of Wyoming, and their friends on August 6, 7, and 8, 1905. It is an established fact attested by the many hun-
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dreds who were in attendance, that this celebration was the most pleasant, the most successful, and the largest attended of any similar event ever attempted in Jones county. From that date in the fall or winter of 1904, when such an event was suggested by Rev. J. Dillon Bronson, the illustrious son of the founder of the town, and from the time when Mrs. Mary Calkins Chassell, about the same time, and in harmony with Dr. Bronson's suggestion, advocated the carrying out of the idea, and from that historic date of March 22, 1905, when the civic league took the first official action for the celebration of this anniversary, the event was foreshadowed to be one of historic interest and genuine pleasure. This date in August was selected arbitrarily on account of the favorable weather con- ditions likely to exist, and as an after-harvest feature. The celebration was under the auspices of the Wyoming Civic League, as an organization of busi- ness men and citizens. Committees were appointed and the magnitude of the event soon became manifest.
The civic league appointed the following committee for the celebration: Executive : J. S. Brownell, W. W. Bronson, E. M. Babcock, L. M. Barrett. Old Settlers: W. S. Garrison, W. J. Brainard, M. H. Calkins, A. G. Brown. Sons and Daughters of Pioneers: Miss Mary Calkins, H. N. Fordham, Mrs. Mae Johnson Peck.
First Day's Program: W. H. Ilsley, C. F. Hoffman, A. D. Stevens.
Second Day's Program: Committee of Old Settlers and of Sons and Daugh- ters of Pioneers.
Third Day's Program: E. M. Babcock, H. W. Kettlesen, H. N. Fordham, R. M. Corbit.
Music: A. A. Vaughn, W. J. Beckwith, Mrs. B. Tourtellot, Miss Mary Calkins.
Reception : W. O. Shaffer, Mrs. B. H. Chamberlain, Miss Elsie Dellit, W. N. Morse.
Invitations : G. W. Evans, B. H. Chamberlain, Miss Mary Calkins.
Transportation : Chairman, G. W. Evans.
Entertainment : Chairman, A. M. Loomis.
Advertising: D. A. White, John Kettlesen, Frank Pealer.
Finance: S. H. Brainard, E. N. Wilcox, W. N. Morse.
Grounds and Decorations: Chairman, H. W. Kettlesen.
Tent for Exercises : Chairman, J. N. Swordes.
Amusements : Chairman, A. W. Hepler.
Speakers: E. M. Babcock, H. N. Fordham, J. S. Brownell, W. H. Ilsley. With much perseverance and labor, the names of as many as possible of the former residents of Wyoming, were secured and suitable invitations were mailed urging all to be present during the celebration.
When August 6, 1905, had arrived, the town was in readiness to receive her visitors, and in the language of Mayor J. S. Brownell, in his address of welcome, the town was the guest of her visitors.
A commodious and comfortable tent was erected on the east side of the school grounds, and provided with platform and seats for the occasion. Electric lights were also provided in the tent.
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Nearly every mansion and dwelling was decorated in harmony with the event. The Main street of the town presented an appearance long to be re- membered. Under the excellent leadership of H. W. Kettlesen, the decorations were a scene of beauty and a joy forever. Streamers in bright colors, bunting and flags of the red, while and blue, were strung and hung with a pleasing sug- gestion of design. Photographs of the scene are today highly prized. The decorations for the evenings were especially beautiful. From the large sign which spelled "W-E-L-C-O-M-E" suspended across the street, each let- ter being illuminated with electric lights with a sparkling brilliancy, a string of elec- tric lights strung in uniform distances, was suspended from each corner, and with the "Welcome" in the center and these strings of lights leading obliquely to the sides of the streets, and the same view repeated further west on Main street- these and other decorations made the old familiar street shine with a beauty never to be forgotten. The service of the Zinn Electric Light Company, of Oxford Mills, on this occasion was excellent.
The first exercises of the grand celebration were on Sunday morning, August 6th. Each church held regular services with some former pastor as speaker. In the Presbyterian church. Rev. A. P. Cooper; in the United Presbyterian church, Rev. S. M. McConnell; and in the Methodist church, Rev. Dillon Bronson, de- livered the address.
The Sunday evening services were held under the tent, all the congrega- tions uniting in the service. The program was as follows : Invocation, Rev. C. F. Hoffman; scripture reading, Rev. W. H. Ilsley; prayer, Rev. L. L. Lockard. Anamosa; male quartette: A. A. Vaughn, John Smith, W. J. Beckwith, R. M. Corbit; address, "The Relation of the Church to the Public Schools," Rev. W. B. Davis; address, "The Relation of the Church to Public Morals," Rev. J. M. Acheson; male quartette; address, "The Relation of the Church to Public Im- provements," Rev. A. K. Baird.
On Monday forenoon, the old settlers program was given in the tent as fol- lows : Chairman, W. J. Brainard; music, Cornet Band; music, Glee Club; ad- dress of welcome, Mayor J. S. Brownell; reading of Wyoming's "Fiftieth Anniversary Poem," by Mrs. Ella T. Haines; addresses and remarks by E. E. Brown, M. O. Felton, T. H. Milner, W. I. Chamberlain, Dr. M. H. Calkins, Captain A. M. Loomis, W. E. Holmes and others.
On Monday afternoon, the program of the sons and daughters of pioneers was given as follows: Chairman, Rev. Dillon Bronson; vocal solo, Mrs. Minta Tasker Henderson, with accompaniment by Miss Jennie Tourtellot on the first musical instrument that came to the town, property of Mrs. M. H. Calkins; address of welcome, H. N. Fordham; response, Mrs. Sadie Franks Rhodes; extracts from letters received, Miss Gertrude Green; "Miss Julia McClure- A Tribute," Mrs. Mabel Loomis Kirkpatrick; "Our Public Schools," by Mrs. Elva Calkins Briggs; "Pioneer Women," by Mrs. Katherine Halsey Richardson; "Wyoming and the Medical Profession," by Dr. J. A. White; "Wyoming and the Merchant," by Dr. B. H. Chamberlain ; "Wyoming and the Ministry," by Miss Erma Babcock; "Wyoming and Banking," by Earll W. Norton; "Wyoming and the Legal Profession," by Park W. Tourtellot; "Wyoming and the Press,"
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by W. E. Holmes; "Old Days and Old Ways," by C. F. McGrew; "Martial Music," East Ridge Band.
At the conclusion of this most interesting of all the programs. the people repaired to the site of the Historic Oak, beneath which, "in August, 1862, a company of brave men had taken a solemn oath to support the constitution of the United States and obey commands that led them to the cannon's mouth." On this spot, Dr. M. H. Calkins gave an address, followed by addresses by Lieutenant A. M. Loomis, Sergeant Jerry Woodyard and Musician Hiram Arnold. These addresses appear elsewhere in this history.
The program in the cemetery was next in order and here under the shadow where the greater number of those who had borne the burden and heat of the pion- eer days were sleeping their last sleep, one of the most touching programs of the celebration, was carried out. The program at this place was as follows: Invo- cation, Rev. Dillon Bronson ; memorial address, "Wyoming's Founder, Jas. A. Bronson," by Rev. L. L. Lockard; Roll of Dead Pioneers, by Miss Edith Alden; Memorial Address, by Rev Perkins Slocum; music, Wyoming Cornet Band; crowning of graves by the grandsons and granddaughters of Wyoming pioneers.
On Monday evening, the ladies clubs of Wyoming held a reception for the old settlers and their sons and daughters in the tent. A large company was present and entered into the informal festivities of the hour. This reception will be long remembered by all for its cordiality. Light refreshments were served. The illuminations and fire works on Main street, made the evening a pleasant one for all.
On Tuesday morning, August 8th, the program at the tent was as follows : Chairman, Rev. W. H. Ilsley ; music, Wyoming Cornet Band; music, Glee Club; Invocation, Rev. S. M. McConnell; music, Band; address, Rev. Dillon Bronson ; music, Glee Club; address, Tom H. Milner ; chorus by the audience.
On Tuesday afternoon, there were sports and amusements of all kinds, fol- lowed by a fire drill by the Wyoming Fire Company and fireworks in abundance in the evening. The display of fireworks was the finest ever witnessed in Wyom- ing. At the close of the fireworks, at about half past nine o'clock, the bands ceased their playing; only the electric illuminations remained to charm and please the multitude, when without announcement, the tap of a bass drum was heard, a snare drum or two fell into line, and down the street came a company of business men bearing brooms. Up and down the street, this company marched and counter marched. Mayor Brownell, carried on the shoulders of the crowd, was called upon for a speech, others following, and then upon the scene came a company of ladies, a real broom brigade, headed by a band, and after more marching, a circle was formed and everybody sang "Home, Home, Sweet Home," making a finale to the Semi-Centennial Celebration sufficiently grand and soul stirring, never to be forgotten. Standing in the bright glare of the brilliant illumination, all hearts filled with the magnitude of the event just closed, and with gratitude for the exalted privileges and pleasures enjoyed, the feeling expressed in song, went deeper than sentiment. for it expressed the glad and joyful reality.
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WYOMING AND THE PRESS.
The following history of The Press of Wyoming, was read by W. E. Holmes, a former Wyoming boy, and now city editor of the Cedar Rapids Gazette, at the Semi-Centennial Celebration in Wyoming, August 5, 1905, and gives in a con- cise and readable form, the history of the Press in Wyoming. To this history should be added that W. I. Chamberlain is yet the editor and publisher of The Journal; and that D. A. White continues faithfully and with diligence to look after the welfare of the composing room, the quarter of a century mark of al- most continuous service in this capacity, during which time he had never missed personal supervision of a single copy of The Journal, was passed on October 13, 1909. Such faithfulness and perseverance is entitled to historic reward. Since the above was written Mr. Chamberlain has passed away, after about two weeks' illness, December 10, 1909.
WYOMING AND THE PRESS.
By W. E. Holmes.
Any paper on the subject of "Wyoming and the Press" must necessarily treat first of the history of the Journal, than which no community in Iowa has had a more faithful chronicler of local news. Far more than we unfortunate editors of city news, the publisher of a paper like the Journal must personally share the sorrows as well as the successes of a community like this, and if you who have never tried to write a half dozen columns of local news every week of the year in a place the size of Wyoming, will just trade places with Brother Will Chamberlain for one week you will be ready to vote him a Carnegie medal.
The first paper in Wyoming was established in 1870, by A. L. Smith, who ran it until 1872, when he removed the plant to Anamosa and established the Anamosa Journal. A few weeks later, Rev. Elias Skinner purchased the material and machinery for and founded the Wyoming Journal. It was no get-rich-quick proposition in those days, and Mr. Skinner was probably glad to sell it to N. W. Woodford, who published it for one year, with the result that the property re- verted to Mr. Skinner, publication being suspended for some months. Mr. Skinner asserted that he had lost several thousand dollars in the enterprise, and inasmuch as Mr. Woodford, Sunday-school superintendent though he was, dis- appeared between suns, leaving a large number of mourning creditors, it is to be presumed that he did not find the newspaper business any Eldorado.
Then the late "Gib" Hunt, who recently died a pathetic death in Sioux City, at which time he was proprietor and editor of the Salix Siftings, purchased the Journal plant, in partnership with a man named Howard, whose interest he soon acquired, and changed the name to the Wyoming Times. Hunt closed out the business after one year. In 1875, P. D. Swigart "Phil," who with his sons is now doing a thriving business in newspaper supplies in Chicago, purchased the outfit and reestablished the Journal. In 1880 W. I. Chamberlain and Professor Ely (the latter then being principal of the public schools), succeeded Mr. Swi- gart. Professor Ely soon sold his interest to Mr. Chamberlain, but those of us
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who remember those days will agree that Professor Ely kept things stirred up while he was contributing to the paper.
From the Journal office have graduated such successful newspaper men as W. H. McClure, John Loudermilch and a host of others, whose names many of you will remember better than I do. But in the gallery of those who have been identified with the Journal, no one is deserving of more credit than D. A. White, who for twenty-one long years has been the mechanical head of that now pros- perous institution.
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