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The buildings are conveniently lo- of section 10, for a town site, seven cated on the SE} Sec. 25 and consist miles north and three west of Man- of a large high barn 56x200 feet, built son. This place was called Hanson, upon a wall 8 feet high, a horse barn in honor of Mr. Hanson, who as a pio- 35x56 feet, cribs that hold 70,000 bush- neer owner and occupant, had im- els of corn, 1200 feet of cattle-sheds ar- ranged in the form of an 'enclosure,
proved and cultivated it for so many years, but about the first of December an elevated tank that holds 1,150 bar- following, owing to the similarity of rels of water and supplies the various that name to Manson, it was changed feed yards with a good supply of, pure to Palmer. The site of the town was water, a steam feed mill that grinds surveyed and platted by Fred A. Mal- 1,000 bushels of ear corn a day, a 16,000 colm, of Rolfe. The postoffice was bu. elevator and several other build- opened at the hotel with Miss Minnie ings. The supply of water is from an Hanson as postmistress, on January 3, artesian well sunk in 1880, to a depth 1900. At that date a number of build- of 1,285 feet, and its quantity is suffi- ings had been erected and several cient for a city of 10,000 inhabitants. firms were doing business. Dr. J. T. The complete system of waterworks Kessing and wife, the latter a phar- connected with it includes more than macist, opened a drug store as the a mile of underground pipes. The first place of business. The second feed yards and other arrangements for was the lumber office of the Wheeler the care of stock are all on a very Lumber Co., under the local manage- large scale. South of the barn are ment of Martin A. Hanson. The first four large yards separated from each building erected was the bank and other by feed racks, 580 feet long con- real estate building of Morris W. structed with heavy cedar posts and Fitz. A little later the hotel of Lar- plank well framed together. This son & Co. was completed, also the rack, which is ten feet wide, has hardware store of Olsen Bros. & Co., a tight bottom two and one-half feet and the blacksmith shop of Joseph above the ground, that provides under- Abrahamsen. At this time most of neath it healthful quarters for 1500 the grading in this county had been hogs. On the south side it is open its completed, but the laying of the track entire length, but on the north it is had not commenced.
sheltered with planking to the ground. THE BLANDEN STOCK FARM. Hay and grain are fed from this rack The largest farm in this county and with ease and economy, The horse
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barn is used only for stabling the had been taught to pose like a statue, work horses and mules that are for hours at a time when on exhibi- in use on the farm. The base- tion, the only movement made being ment of the large barn is divided by an occasional wink of the eye. In alleys with stalls on each side, so that 1881 there was one cow on the farm in hauling from it the team is driven that was 17 years old. In the Ameri- can Herd Book she was listed as Dover from side to side through double doors. When the barn was completed and for Second, and she furnished $17,000 During recent years the tendency has been to raise fat rather than fancy
many years afterward these stalls worth of blooded stock for the market. were filled with 300 head of the finest thoroughbred and high grade Short- horn cattle in this country, their stock.
weight ranging from 100 to 2,700
The first dwelling house erected, pounds and their value from $50 to burned in the spring of 1881, and the $1000 each. Over this basement the present building, a two-story frame barn is floored with plank throughout 30x40 feet, was built that year on the and has room for storing 600 tons of old site, a beautiful situation upon a hay. The arrangements for storing commanding elevation. This is the the hay are novel and labor-saving. The hoisting apparatus is so arranged that a load of hay may be laid in any
home of the superintendent, and the southwest room on the first floor is used as his office. The first superin- part of the mow from a wagon stand- tendent of this farm was H. G. Tyler, ing at either end of the barn, and who in 1881, when the people's party in hauling grain or hay into it, where was organized in this county, became the floor is not used for storage, no its first candidate for the office of difficuty is experienced in turning county treasurer and received 369 of the team and wagon even with the the 826 votes cast for that office. In hayrack. When the barn is full 1887 he was succeeded by Wm. A. the hay is dropped to the basement Berry, the present superintendent, through long wooden tubes that ex- who is a step-son of Gen. Blanden. tend nearly to the top of the barn.
Asa home for the large force of The work of hauiing hay for the large teamsters, millers and other work- number of cattle sheltered in this men on this large farm, another build- barn is no small chore, yet these are ing has been provided, called the but a portion of the stock on the farm. "barracks, " that has a general sitting In 1899 there were 800 head of fat and reading room for them on the cattle and 500 head of stock hogs first floor and lodging rooms on the (Poland-China) on the farm over win- second. Newspapers and writing ma- · ter. During the year 1880 as many as terial are liberally provided and the 60 thoroughbred bulls were sold to the occupants pass the long winter even- farmers in that vicinity, a fact that ings here with pleasure and profit.
tells of the excellent character of the The rules of the place, though not stock and the public service rendered harsh, are imperative and are observed the farmers in this new section of with clock-like regularity. In the country by the establishment in it of early days ten thousand acres of wild so fine a herd. One of the many fine prairie grass were available for pas- animals on this farm was the 2d Duke turage at a mere trifle, and the cost of of Moscow, bred in Kentucky, five making hay was only sixty cents a years old in 1879 and weighed 2700 ton. The rule in regard to pasturage pounds. This animal won many pre- read as follows: "To each two hun- miums at state and county fairs and dred head of cattle put one pony and
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a boy. When turned out in the spring by furnishing on a large scale, a mod- the lot should be properly branded, el of the conveniences needed for boy, pony and all. It is well to their successful management. salt the whole outfit three times each "Gen. Blanden is neither a tinker, a week." tailor
The home on this farm, with its numerous buildings and busy scenes of activity, has the air of a small town, especially at those seasons of on the farm many teams of the neigh-
Nor a boy who wabbles at the plow; But a banker, a real granger,
And a tiptop judge of a cow."
SIGNS OF PROGRESS.
Although the history of this town- the year when grain and hay are har ship does not begin so early as some of vested or stock is marketed. The the others, it covers the period of pro- stock on this farm annually consumes gress in harvesting machines. In 1869 about 1,500 tons of hay and 75,000 the hay in this township was cut with bushels of grain. In addition to those a scythe, and in 1870 and 1871 the
crops of wheat and small grain were boring farmers are seen here weighing cut with cradles, with the exception and unloading corn and oats, attract- that in the latter year the crop of Wm. ed thither by the liberal prices offered Brownlee was cut with with a Mc- for the delivery of the grain. The ar- Cormick hand raking machine. In tesian well which was sunk 200 feet 1872 Peter Peterson of Calhoun county through solid rock, cost $5,000, and cut considerable hay for the farmers the other improvements on the farm in the south part of the township with $15,000.
On completion of the C. R. I. & P. Buckeye dropper. In 1894 the per- R. R. a private switch and
stock fected thresher with feeder, blower yards was provided for the use of and weighing apparatus was intro- the farm.
duced.
Gen. Blanden volunteered under Lincoln's call in 1862, remained in
TORNADO OF APRIL 21, 1878.
On the evening of Easter Sabbath, active service until the war closed April 21, 1878, a storm of unprecedent- and was promoted in regular order ed violence, coming up the Maple Riv- until given command of his regiment, er valley to the vicinity of Storm Lake, the 95th Illinois. In Dec. 1864 he where two persons were killed, and was given command of the 2d Brigade, then changing its course southeast to 3d Division of the Army of the Ten- a point in Calhoun county five miles nessee, and remained its commanding south of Fonda, passed thence north -. officer from that date through its long east across Williams township, the campaign after Hood, until its dis- southeast corner of Colfax and sections bandment. He was mustered out 18, 8 and 4 of Bellville. Its destruct- with his regiment in Aug. 1865 when ive path was about eighty rods wide "the war was over" Brevet Brigadier in the last named townships.
General.
After the war he In Williams township the new house engaged in banking at Fort of John Duhin was completely de- Dodge, where he still re- stroyed and its six inmates, which in- sides. His farm is about three miles cluded John Murphy, a neighbor, were north of Manson and the enterprise seriously injured. The house of L. manifested by him in raising fine and Willard and outbuildings of several fat stock has been a general benefit to others in the vicinity were also de- the farmers of this section, by inspir- stroyed.
ing an ambition to raise the best In Colfax township it destroyed all grades of cattle, hogs and horses, and the buildings on the farm of Gad C.
a mower and their small grain with a
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Lowrey, on Sec. 26. The house was were forced in by the awful pressure occupied by Mr. and Mrs. Charles of the air, the roof was lifted and the Trenary and Charles F. Pearce, their west side of the kitchen addition fall- farm hand. Mr. Trenary was injured ing on Mr. Gill rendered him pros- about the head, his wife was carried trate but not unconscious. The build- about ten rods without injury, but ing was then lifted and overturned in Pearce was killed. He was the son of a northwesterly direction. Mrs. Gill, who had grasped a hand of each of her two little girls, aged four and five
Henry Pearce and was in his 21st year. At the farm of George Wallace, on Sec. 13, all the buildings were de- years respectively, maintained her stroyed. The house was lifted, over- hold of them, and while one of them turned and reduced to fragments. was slightly she was so seriously in- When the storm struck it the last rec- jured that she died four days later. ollection of Mrs. Wallace was, that The whirlwind, when it struck these she was trying to keep the hot cook places, was carrying a great mass of stove from injuring her daughter Eva. mud and water that covered every- When she recovered consciousness she thing and gave to the injured victims, and her two daughters were lying in whose blood was oozing from their the public road and Eva's face was wounds, a very pitiable and heart- badly burned. Her own injuries crip- sickening aspect. pled her for life. The buildings of A. O. Long, on Sec.
In Bellville township, the house of 8, two miles distant, were destroyed Samuel H. Gill, on Sec. 18, was on the and three horses were killed; fortu- east or opposite side of the road from nately none of the family were at that of George Wallace. Mr. and home. A vacant house on the farm of Mrs. Gill and their two children were John Lampe, on Sec. 4, was also de- at home, After the heavy fall of rain stroyed. Pieces of siding from Gill's and hail, Mr. Gill standing on the house were carried twelve miles north- porch and looking southwest saw a east. This was the first storm of this whirl descend from a cloud and others kind experienced by the early settlers from its edges join it until, like a long of Northwest Iowa.
black tail to the cloud above, it ex-
On October 15th, following, another tended to the ground beneath. In heavy rain accompanied with a severe the distance at first it did not seem wind storm, visited this section. In larger than a man's hand, but as it Sac county several buildings were de- drew nearer it rapidly grew larger. stroyed that had been rebuilt after He saw it pass over Lowrey's farm the storm of April 21st. The Jack- two miles distant, but as he had nev- son schoolhouse in Williams town- er heard of a tornado in this section ship was completely demolished and he did not think of seeking any other its fragments strewn over the prairie. shelter than that afforded by his The cane-mill of J. F. Jackson was home. As he entered it his wife saw carried some distance and badly the roof lifted from one of the out wrecked. After this event every buildings, the next instant the win- ominous black cloud was watched with dows on the east side of the house dread and distrust.
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XIII.
CEDAR TOWNSHIP.
The rose may bloom for England, The lily for France unfold; Ireland may honor the shamrock, Scotland, her thistle bold: But the shield of this great Republic, The glory of the West Shall bear a stalk of the tasseled corn, Of all our wealth the best. -EDNA D. PROCTOR.
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HE early settlement of Cedar township and Fonda was co- incident with the construction of the first railroad in the county and has already been noted for the years 1868 to 1870 .*
others, who affirmed that there were very few legal voters in the southwest part of the county and the organiza- tion of a new township was inadvisa- ble. At the time set for the consid- eration of these petitions no one ap- peared and no action was taken.
On June 6, 1870, in response to a pe- tition signed by John A. Hay and oth- On August 11, 1869, J. S. Howell and others residing in the southwest part ers for the organization of a new township comprising the territory in of the county, presented a petition to T. 90, R. 34, Cedar township, was es- the board of county supervisors, rep- tablished (including T. 90, R. 33, and 34) and arrangements were made for the first election to be held in Marvin (now called Fonda) on Oct. 11, 1870, by the appointment of H. R. Skinner, R. C. Stewart and B. F. Osburn, judg- es, and Capt. Joseph Mallison and A. W. Creed, clerks. At the time of the election the oath was administered to resenting that there were 150 inhab- itants in townships 90, ranges 33 and 34, (now Colfax and Cedar) and the S} of townships 91, rauges 33 and 34, (now Grant and Dover) that they lived a long distance from any voting place and asking that a civil township em- bracing this territory be established. This petition was met by a remon- these election officers by A. H. Van strance signed by John Dunkerly and *See pp. 248-252.
GEO. HUGHES.
MRS. D. M.WOODIN
FONDA
MRS. GEO. HUGHES .?
MATTHEW BYRNE.
B. K. HAWKINS.
M. JJ. SILVERS.
VICINITY
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ALEX DUNN.
JOHN CARTLIDGE
F. M. CONROY.
Fonda and Vicinity.
MR. AND MRS. DAVID SPIELMAN
MR. AND MRS. JOHN C. NICHOLS
Fonda and Vicinity.
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Valkenberg, a justice of the peace of of Capt. Mallison as assessor, and Wm. Lizard township. Elijah Chase, Har- Sanborn as supervisor, Messrs. J. F. vey A. Hay and R. C. Stewart were Stevens and Charles G. Perkins were elected township trustees, George San- appointed supervisors in the place of born and George Spragg, justices of Messrs. Bennett and Clark, and the the peace, George Gearhart and E. district of the latter included what is Shreve, constables, Wm. Sanborn, P. now Colfax township. Geo. Sanborn F. Bennett and E. B. Clark, road su- was appointed township clerk and R. pervisors, Sidney E. Wright, township C. Stewart a justice of the peace in clerk, and Capt. Jos. Mallison, assessor. place of Geo. Spragg.
The succession of civil officers has
At this first election the sale of in- toxicating liquors with the result that of the 47 ballots
was voted upon been as follows:
TRUSTEES: R. C. Stewart, 1871; H. cast, 25 were for prohibition and 22 W. Hay, 1871; Elijah Chase, 1871-73; against it.
B. McCartan, 1872; John E. N. Welsh,
The whole number of votes cast at Wm. Richards, Wm. Marshall, Geo. E. this first election was 48, and by Thompson, 1873; David Spielman. the following persons: S. N. Alford, Wm. Bott, 1874, '84-85; O. C. Evans, J. Pelatiah F. Bennett. Charles Breslin, H. Warwick, W. E. Garlock, Joseph Elijah Chase, E. B. Clark, A. G. and C. Stevens, Chas. H. Whitney, 1875-78, A. W. Creed, T. J. Curtis, J.B.Chapin, '80-82, '96-98; J. O. Sullivan, 1876-79; E. Champion, Amos Dart, Charles E. Geo. M. Wood, M. Byrne, Louie Fuchs, Flint, Geo. W. Gearhart, Robert Grif- 1878-82; John Lemp, 1879-80; Patrick fin, Ephraim, Abram O. and Wm. Shea, 1881-83; '98-1900; Patrick Kearns, Erastus Garlock, Harvey W., Joseph 1883-90; A. V. Sargent, 1883-97; Robert and John A. Hay, Geo. W. Hathaway, W. Russell, 1886-91; Wm. J. Busby, Wm. Lawler, John Lemp, Gad C. 1891-96: John H. Stream, 1892-95; S. T. Lowrey, Wm. Marshall, Capt. Joseph Hersom, 1897-1900; S. S. Martin, 1899- Mallison, Edward Mellan, R. T. Mills, 1900.
H. McGiven, B. F. Osburn, J. R. Per-
JUSTICES OF THE PEACE: Geo. San- ry, Henry Pallersells, Wm. Richards, born, 1871-73; R. C. Stewart, Wm. Eden Shreves, Horace K. and Charles Marshall, 1872-74, '78-79, '83-88; Geo. M. M. Skinner, J. F. Stevens, Geo. and Dorton, 1873-79; Geo. Spragg, 1875-76; Wm. Sanborn, David Spielman, R. C. W. G. Buswell, A. B. P. Wood, 1880- Stewart, Knute Tisdale, L. D. Turner, 86; Theo. Dunn, 1880-82; R. Wright, Geo. H. and Sidney E. Wright, Geo. 1887-90, '97-98; J. W. Gray, 1887-88; A. W. and John M. Wood. Others who G. Wood, 1889-92, Wm. A. Henderson, were registered but did not vote were 1889-91; J. B. Sargent, 1891-94; James Wm. and John Abbott, John and Mercer, Capt. Jos. Mallison, 1893-1900; Childs O. Brown, Wm. Carney, John S. S. Martin, 1893-94; Z. C. Bradshaw, Dunkerly, John Kruchten, Nicholas 1895-96; Alex. Dunn, 1895-1900.
Keefer and Andrew Norem. The reg-
CLERKS: Geo. Sanborn, 1871; H. W. istration was made by Philip Russell, Hay, A. O. Garlock, Wm. Snell, Capt. clerk of Lizard township. He missed Jos. Mallison, 1875,'86; Patrick Shea, Wm. Lynch, M. Byrne and C. G. Per- R. J. Griffin, T. F. McCartan, James kins, and they were absent at the Mercer, 1879-82, '87-88; T. S. Brown, 1883-84; A. G. Wood, J. B. Sargent, time of the first election.
The first meeting of the trustees 1889-92; J. R. Johnson, 1893-1900.
was held in Mill's hall, Marvin, Jan. ASSESSORS: Capt. Jos. Mallison, 11, 1871. Messrs. Hay and Stewart 1871-72; J. R. Johnson, Wm. Snell J. were present and approved the bonds P. Robinson, Patrick Shea, John Ą
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Hay, G. H. Gottfriedt, 1877-78, '83-86, trict) in a small building that stood 89-90, '95-1900; Fred Lieb, 1879; N. B. on the ground now occupied by the Post, 1880-81; Joseph Hawkins, 1882; J. McKee brick block. The pupils were B. Sargent, 1887-88; D. J. Bailey, 1891- Lizzie and Jennie Bott (Mrs. J. B. '92; John Kennedy, 1893-94.
PRESIDENTS OF THE SCHOOL BOARD:
Bollard), John and Steve Slater, Alice Skinner, Rosa Hay, Mary Wood Gad C. Lowrey, 1871; T. J. Curtis, B. (Adams) and Ed. Ibsen. The school McCartan, A. W. Dart, 1874,'79; M. building for the fall of 1871 was Byrne, 1875, '86; James N. Mallison, located on the corner now occupied M. J. Lynch, S. T. Hersom, Wm. Bott, by the Roberts & Kenning brick block. Fred Lieb, Joseph Hawkins, John Lemp, J. B. Sargent, W. E. Garlock, Wm. Snell, G. H. Gottfreidt, John A. Thompson, 1889, '91-92; Geo. Lufkin, Joseph Hawkins, John Cartlidge, 1894-95; W. E. Post, 1896-98; W. I. Shetterly, 1899-1900.
SECRETARY: A. O. Garlock, 1871-72; B. F. Osburn, Geo. M. Dorton, 1874-75; M. Byrne, 1876-77; M. J. Lynch, S. T. Hersom, 1879, '83-85; Eugene Evans, 1880-82; T. F. McCartan, John Oakley, 1886-87; John J. McCartan, 1888-89; James Mercer, 1890-1900.
TREASURERS OF SCHOOL FUNDS; B. F. Osburn, 1871; Wm. Marshall, Eben M. Busby, B. McCartan, Geo. San- born, G. H. Gottfriedt, C. H. Whit- ney, 1877-78; Wm. Marshall, 1879-81; T. J. Curtis, 1882-86; M. Byrne, 1887-89; Louie Fuchs, 1890-1900.
FIRST SCHOOLS.
The first school in Cedar township was taught at Sunk Grove in the fall and winter of 1869 by Mary Skinner CEDAR SCHOOL BOARD. (daughter of Horace) in the log house The first meeting of the electors of of John Dunkerly on the SW} Sec, the district township of Cedar was 6, and included the children held in Marvin, March 4, 1871, B. F. of Elijah Chase, Horace and Charles Osburn served as chairman and Geo. Skinner, Geo. Spragg and Pelatiah Sanborn as secretary. Messrs. Gad C. Bennett, a neighboring trapper in Lowrey, Capt. Jos. Mallison and B. F. Buena Vista county. Osburn were elected as the first school
In the fall of 1870, when this part directors of the township which then of the county still belonged to Lizard embraced Colfax as sub-district No. township, there were four schools 2. On March 11th a second meeting established namely, at Fonda, Sunk of the electors was held in the store Grove, and the homes of Wm. Lynch of John A. Hay. It was decided to erect only temporary schoolhouses that and A. O. Garlock. The one at Fonda began about the first of Decem- year, their number and location to be ber and was taught by Edward Calli- left to the board of directors; a tax of gan(a son of the director for this dis- ten (10) mills was approved for the
The school at Sunk Grove in 1870 was taught by Robert Griffin in the home of Mrs. Rachel Hartwell, his sister, who as a widow had taken a homestesd on Sec. 6 known as the Burnett property and now owned by Henry Voss. Cyrus, Fannie, George, Harry and James Thompson, Alfreta Converse and Thomas Chase were among the pupils that year. The school at the home of Wm. Lynch (Sec. 2) was taught by Mary Ann Cal- ligan and it was attended by the children of Wm. Lynch, John Keef, and Julius F. Stevens. The next year (1871) this school was transferred to the Woolworth home. The school at the home of A, O. Garlock, a few rods west of his father's, in 1870 was taught by Mrs. L. D. Turner and in- cluded the children in the families of Ephraim Garlock, David Spielman, James Little and Joseph Fells.
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building fund and one (1) mill for the houses at a cost of $525 each in dis- library fund. tricts No. 2, 5 and 7. For their better
On March 20, 1871 the board of di- protection lightning rods were put on rectors met at the home of Gad C. those on sections 3 and 8 at a cost of Lowrey (Sec. 26, Colfax) and organized $23.50 each and a few months later on by the election of Gad C. Lowrey as those in districts No. 2 and 5 at a cost president and A. O. Garlock as secre- of $52.00. It was decided to pay tary. The board then proceeded in a $30.00 a month to all the teachers un- body to Lizard township for the pur- til New Years and $35.00 a month, pose of securing a division of the after that date, to all that were first- assets and liabilities of the school class. funds of that township to which this one had previously belonged.
The settlement of this section pro- Not gressed rapidly in 1872 and the work meeting with success they met the of organizing the sub-districts of Lizard board a second time on April Cedar township was nearly completed 1st in the Miller schoolhouse, but that year. The records of that year found that board unwilling to make are in the handwriting of A. O. Gar- any division of the funds.
lock, cover twenty-two pages and by the board of directors. The new teachers employed in 1872 were Ce- Keef, Mrs. R. P. Thompson, Mrs. Maggie Sanborn, Mrs. Ann R. Curtis, Geo. Hathaway, Geo. M. Dor- ton, (in house of T. J. Curtis), Eliza Hay, Frank Gregg, Miss N. Herrick, Mrs. A. W. Creed and Mrs. R. T. Hartwell in the home of G. A. Wool- worth, now Mrs. J. B. Weaver on Sec. 12,
On April 8th arrangements were show that fifteen meetings were held made for the purchase of the Lockey house for $140, the renting of a room in Marvin and another in the home of cilia G. C. Lowrey, and for the ensuing summer term the following teachers were employed: Ida D. Lowrey, Mary A. Osburn, Mrs. Mary E. Mallison, Mrs. R. J. Griffith and W. W. Rath- bun. John A. Hay was appointed di- rector in place of B. F. Osburn and the latter wasappointed treasurer of the school fund. Two weeks later
In the spring of 1873 arrangements arrangements were made to purchase were made with J. D. Gould for the a building of Levi Garlock for Sec. 25 erection of three school buildings in and the erection of two temporary sub-districts No. 1, 3 and 8 for $635.00 buildings by John A. Hay for sections each, and with A. O. Garlock for one 3 and 8. For the winter of 1871-72 G. in Marvin (Fonda) for $1,400. This C. Lowrey was authorized to arrange proved a year of "hard times;" matters for two schools in his district, Colfax, did not run smoothly. The president and engage the teachers for them. In of the board was unwilling to sign Cedar the teachers employed were J. the contracts after they had been ap- P. Robinson, Marvin, W. W. Rath- proved and he was politely asked to bun (Sec 3), Mrs. Mary E. Mallison resign. The secretary also resigned (Sec. 8), and Mrs. Mary J. Wilbur (Sec. about the same time and as many as 25)
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