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" WMt. H. SEWARD, " Secretary of State."
The gauntlet thrown down by the traitors of the South was accepted-not, however, in the spirit with which insolence meets inso- lence, but with a firm, determined spirit of patriotism and love of country. The duty of the President was plain, under the Constitu- tion and the laws, and above and beyond all, the people, from whom political power is derived, demanded the suppression of the rebellion, and stood ready to sustain the authority of their representatives and execu- tive officers.
Carroll County had at this time about 250 inhabitants. Nearly all the inen were strng- gling farmers, illy able to leave their young families to make their own living in this new prairie region, remote from the centers of comfort and wealth and charity and society. Entirely unused to the stern duties of mili- tary service, it would have been small wonder if Carroll County had failed to contribute its quota of volunteers. The enthusiastic loyalty of the North was, however, nowhere more plainly visible than here, and the scattered settlers responded to their duty nobly. The Board of Supervisors, consisting of but two,
Crockett Ribble and Jacob Cretsinger, met in June, 1861, and passed the following order: " A petition was numerously signed pray- ing to the supervisors to appropriate the sum of $25, or as much as would be necessary, to purchase a flag, drums and fife; and the same was granted and the clerk ordered to issue a warrant for the same."
In April, 1862, the Board decided to allow each family a member of which had gone to the war, $25. This sum was then paid to Jacob Davis, Mrs. S. A. Davis, Jolin Monroe, Amos Rhoades and Cyrus Rhoades. In Octo- ber following the same bounty was paid to R. Haney and James F. McLuen, and in March, 1863, Alva Chambers drew a like amount. In December, 1863, the bounty to enlisted and drafted men was fixed at $100. P. T. Punteney was paid $100 under this provision in February, 1864. During the year Orrin Jerome, William Carter and L. Short became entitled to the bounty and received warrants for the amount.
In June, 1864, the Board equalized the bounties by paying an additional $75 to those who had received but 825, under the first offer. This amount was paid to Alva Cham- bers, R. Haney, C. Babbitt, A. Mohen, C. Wright, George Short, S. Frazier, E. Carney, William Combs, James F. McLuen, W. W. Davis, Alphens Stevens and John Monroe.
In January, 1865, the Board resolved to issue $4,800 in bonds to raise money to pay volunteers under the last call of the Govern- ment. At the same time Mrs. Carter, Mrs. Isaac Higgins, Mrs. Orrin Jerome, Mrs. P. T. Punteney and Mrs. Robert Haney were allowed $50 ont of the relief fund. The bonds were issued, but as the war ended soon after and recruiting ceased, most of the money was given as relief to the families of volunteers.
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of volunteers cannot be obtained, as not all are credited to this county in the official reports. The first volunteers went to Guthrie County and joined a company from that county, and but a few of these were ever eredited to Carroll. Subsequent enlistments were made at Jefferson, Greene County. Among the latter were Edmund Carney, Alva Chambers, William M. Coombs and Coleman P. Wright. These enlisted Septem- ber 7, 1861, in Company H, Tenth Iowa Volunteer Infantry. Carney was wounded slightly in the leg at Champion IFills, Mis- sissippi, May 16, 1863, and transferred to the Invalid Corps February 15, following. Coombs was wounded severely in the arm and head, at the same time and place.
William Carter and Orrin Jerome enlisted in December, 1863, in the Thirty-ninth Infantry, Company E, but were on the 30th
of the same month transferred to the Seventh Cavalry. In this regiment was also Parker T. Punteney, one of the first sheriff's of the county. Carter was killed at Allatoona, Georgia, October 5, 1864. It is said that altogether there were twenty-eight volunteers from Carroll County. The draft was put in force in this county on one occasion, in the fall of 1864, and three men drawn, among whom was T. B. Aldrich, then county super- intendent of schools. This would make a total of thirty-one. If this is true, then more than 10 per cent. of the total population, and about half of the voters of the county, entered the service of the United States. The great bulk of the present population of Carroll County has settled here since the war, and inelndes a large number, certainly over a hundred, who enlisted from other counties or States.
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THE PRESS.
ITHI advancing civiliza- tion, the professions afford an ever broad- ening field for the brightest minds to enter, in quest not only of living, but also of honor. With the exception of the public schools, there is no agency so educational as the local press.
Journalism itself has passed through several stages of develop- ment, and has but recently found its trne position. A paper of the style of those published thirty years ago would have but few admirers. Local news was then not thought worthy of printing, and the country papers were filled with learned disquisitions on national politics and foreign wars. Now these things are wisely left to the more widely circulated city papers, which by fast mail trains are distributed throughout the West within twenty-four hours of publica- tion. Carroll County takes several thousand papers each week from Chicago, Des Moines, 47
Omaha and other cities, and also supports seven local papers. These are all edited with more than average ability, and all have a good eirenlation.
CARROLL HERALD.
O. II. Manning began printing at Jefferson a paper called the Carroll Enterprise, in 1868. Some of the citizens of Carroll elnbbed together, bought a press, and employed J. F. H. Sugg to publish the Western Herald, which rendered nseless the further existence of the Enterprise. In a year or two the out- fit of the Herald was sold to O. II. Manning. E. R. Hastings became editor and publisher September 28, 1870, and March 29, 1871, the name was changed by dropping " West- ern." In 1874 O. R. Gray became a partner in the enterprise, the two purchasing the office from Mr. Manning. The firm of Hast- ings & Gray continued until April 4, 1877, when Mr. Hastings bought his partner's in- terest and became sole proprietor. At the beginning of 1882 Mr. Hastings leased a half interest to E. A. Adams, and the paper
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was published under the firm name of llast- ings & Adams until August 15, 1883. On the 1st of January following Paul M. Mac- Jean purchased the entire concern, at the same time leasing a half interest baek to Mr. Hastings. The firm of Hastings & Maclean continued two and a half years. The first named retired at the end of June, 1886, and died in the autumn following. John B. Hungerford bought a half interest of Mr. Maclean at the time of Mr. Hastings' retire- ment. Under the management of Maclean & Hungerford the Herald is increasing in popularity and influence. It has always been devoted to the interests of the Republican party. It is in size a seven-column quarto. Previous to 1876 it was a folio, or four-page paper. It is issued on Wednesdays, at 82 a year, and has a cirenlation of 1,300.
CARROLL SENTINEL.
The Sentinel was established at Glidden in the spring of 1877, by Ed. Tabor, of Lake City, now eity editor of the Sioux City Jour- nul. He was succeeded in the ownership of the Sentinel by Russell & Wattles, and they by I. S. Russell. The latter moved the office to Carroll in 1880, and published it here with not strict regularity for about a year. Then II. C. Ford brought some material from West Side, bought out Mr. Russell, and began to build up a prosperous paper. In April, 1884, the establishment passed into the hands of Hon. Michael Miller, its present editor and proprietor. The paper was originally a six-column folio, independent in polities, but is now a seven-column quarto, and since Mr. Miller took charge [it has been Democratic. In the middle of July, 1886, the office was moved into its present location, in a brick building owned by Mr. Miller. It is 22 x 100 feet, the front twenty feet being eut off for the postoffice, which has been recently moved
in. The remainder is in one large room, ex- ceedingly convenient for newspaper work. Steam power, the only one used by a paper in the county, was introduced in the autumn of 1886.
CARROLL DEMOCRAT.
The Carroll Democrat was established in 1874, in the interests of the Democratie party, by II. L. MeMann, A. L. Bowman, J. C. Kelly and one other. Mr. MeMann was editor. They published a very good paper for perhaps a year, but the owners could not agree on some very important matters, and the office was closed. The material was sold at sheriff's sale, and passed into the hands of the Herald and Der Demokrat. The latter, although having a similar name, had no con- nection with the English Democrat.
CARROLL DEMOKRAT.
This is a German weekly, with polities in- dicated by its name. Its first muunber ap- peared May 22, 1874. Its size was then a six-column folio. Two years later it was made a quarto, its present size. The first proprietors were Bowman & Burkhardt. F. F. Florencourt bought Mr. Bowman's in- terest in June, 1874, and the firm was then for six months Burkhardt & Floreneonrt. Then the paper passed into the hands of a new firm, Burkhardt & Schirk. II. W. Hage- mann purchased Schirk's interest in 1876, and two years later that of Mr. Burkhardt, becoming sole proprietor. In March, 1879. the paper and material passed under the con- trol of the Demokrat Printing Association, by which the Demokrat has been since regu- larly published. The present officers of the association are: P. M. Guthrie, President and Treasurer, and B. J. Kniest. Secretary and Manager. F. F. Florencourt is editor. The Demokrat is exclusively a German paper, but in 1880 three columns were printed in
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Englishi, an experiment which was discon- tinned after one year. It is published on Fridays, at $2 a year, and is read by nearly all of the large German population of Carroll County.
CARROLL NEWS.
This was the name of a five-column folio Democratic paper, published for about six months in 1880 and 1881 by B. J. Kniest.
MANNING MONITOR.
The first paper at Manning, the Monitor, was established by S. L. Wilson, November 16, 1881, and by him published for over two years. Seth Smith bought it in March, 1884, and two months later sold to C. S. Lawrence. It is an eight-column folio, Republican in politics, and is published at $1 a year.
MANNING NEWS.
The News was first brought before the waiting world in January, 1882, by The. Palmer, of Irving. May 20, 1886, the paper and material were bought by W. J. Morrow, who is now editor and proprietor. It is a seven-column folio, Democratic in politics, and is issued on Thursdays, at $1 a year.
About 400 papers are mailed at home, and the total circulation in Carroll, Crawford, Shelby and Audubon counties is 850.
GLIDDEN PAPERS.
As stated before, the Carroll Sentinel was established at Glidden. About a year before the Sentinel was removed, J. C. Holmes started the Newsboy, a six-column folio, neutral as to politics. This ran perhaps two years. In November, 1885, G. W. Baer began the publication of the Success, which belied its name, for it was forced to suspend July 9, 1886. It was a six-column quarto, Republican in politics, and published at the rate of $1.50 per year. Glidden is now with- ont a local paper.
COON RAPIDS ENTERPRISE.
The Enterprise was founded in January, 1882, by Ed. Stowell, who sold to Henry Brothers, May 25, 1883. In February, 1885, S. D. Henry became sole proprietor. The Enterprise is appropriately named, and has a large list of satisfied subscribers. It is Republican in politics, and is published on Fridays, at $1.50 a year. It is in size a six- column quarto.
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THE BAR.
OAH TITUS was the pio- neer lawyer of the coun- ty, living at Carrollton in an early day. There was then not enough legal business to take the entire time of even one man, and it cannot be said that there was ever much of a "bar" at Carrollton, though several practiced law or were entitled to practice.
The oldest resident attorney of Carroll is James E. Griffith, dating from its first year, 1868. Orlando Il. Manning, who studied law with Messrs. Russell & Head, at Jeffer- son, came to Carroll in the same year, and practiced continuously until successful poli- ties absorbed his time. Ile served two terms in the lower branch of the General Assembly, and in 1881 was elected Lieutenant Governor. Ile was very prominent in all county affairs when a resident here, and will fill an impor-
tant place in the history of Carroll County when the same shall be written by future historians. In 1883 he removed to Council Bluff's, and at the present time he is a resi- dent of Topeka, Kansas. William II. H. Tibbils was here a couple of years, and in 1873 went West. E. M. Betzer located here in 1870, and has practiced law when not em- ployed in some one of the county offices. H. W. Macomber has been here for many years, and his son, F. L. Macomber, is also now a praetieing attorney. F. M. Cole was one of the early attorneys. He retired from business in 1873, owing to sickness, and died soon after. George W. Paine came in 1872, from Brooklyn, New York, and has been prominent in legal and business matters since. He has been an attorney since 1849. He does a large loan business. James N. and F. M. Powers located here in 1880, and were in partnership until the former was elected county elerk. Ile is a graduate of the State University, elass of 1879. J. W. Scott came here about ten years ago, and for
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the past two years has given up legal practice and devoted himself to farming. Joseph M. Drees studied law with O. H. Manning, and has now been in praetiee about six years. A lawyer named Cochran was for a time a mem- ber of the county bar. George W. Bowen located here in 1878, and is yet in practice. George R. Cloud has been here since 1882. M. W. Beach eame here from Glidden in 1883. J. C. Engelman was first here in 1878. He has moved around considerably; located at Manning in 1884, and in the antumn of 1886, having been elected county attorney, removed to Carroll. Charles Lee Murray came here in 1879 from Marion, and after a stay of a year and a half, emigrated to Montana. Ed. Conlin was admitted to the bar in 1885. Thomas F. Barbee, H. S. Fisher and John Brown have been in practice several years.
The present resident practitioners of Car- roll are James E. Griffith, E. M. Betzer, George W. Paine, H. W. Macomber, F. L. Macomber, M. W. Beach, James N. Powers, F. M. Powers, Thomas F. Barbee, II. S. Fisher, John Brown, George W. Bowen, George R. Cloud, Ed. Conlin, J. C. Engel- man and Joseph M. Drees.
The first law firm at Manning was that of Doty, Hughes & Salinger, in the autumn of 1881. It continned but a few months. C. W. Doty remained at Manning for two years, and is now in Nebraska. W. H. Hughes was from Cherokee County here, remained about a twelve-month, and is now in the Ter- ritory of Dakota. B. I. Salinger is the only one of the firm who is still in the practice at Manning. George W. Makepeace came in the antnin of 1881, and was here two years. Emory S. Blazer, from Andnbon County, was also among the first comers. He remained three years, and then removed to Nebraska, where he has sinee died. Albert T. Bennett
came at the same time as the above, and is still in practice, although most of his time is given to the Bank of Manning, of which he is owner. C. M. Failing came from Anita in 1882, but returned a year later.
S. Preston was the first attorney at Coon Rapids, and is still in practice at that point. T. C. Reid located here in 1882, from Sears- borongh, Poweshiek County, and is the present mayor of the town. S. J. L. Sheaffer came also in 1882, from Guthrie Center, and in the antumn of the second year thereafter changed his field of operations to Kansas. L. W. Morgan was in mercantile employment at this place before December, 1882, when he formed a partnership with T. C. Reid, under the name of Reid & Morgan. A. A. Spahr came in 1883, was a partner of Sheaffer, and in 1885 removed to Casey. Guthrie County. E. H. Hurd is the latest addition to the list of attorneys at Coon Rapids, having arrived in the autumn of 1886.
M. W. Beach was the first attorney at Glidden. He read law while holding the office of county superintendent, and after being admitted to practice followed the legal profession here several years, when he removed to Carroll. C. I. Hinman, who was his partner at Glidden for a time, is now engaged in banking and real estate dealing at Esther- ville, Emmett County.
J. C. Engelman, the present county attor- ney, was the first member of the legal pro- fession at Arcadia. F. A. Charles is the present attorney of the place.
MEDICAL PROFESSION.
The first settlers of Carroll County depended for medical assistance upon Dr. James Miller, who was the pioneer physician of Greene County, and lived in the country, north of the present site of Scranton. In
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1865 Dr. Thomas Elwood, now of Glidden, located at Carrollton, and to him belongs the honor of being the first resident practitioner in Carroll County.
The first physician to locate at Carroll was J. W. Hollenbeck, who remained abont a year and a half. A Dr. Davidson was here about the same time, and Dr. Fajans was also one of the first. Dr. Hildebrand, from Phila- delphia, was here six years, and in 1877 removed to Southern Iowa. He died at Sacramento, California, in 1885. J. M. Patty (homeopathie) was here very early, and died at Carroll in 1884. He was from Grant, Sac County, as was H. Smith, who also died here about 1884. Dr. Ricke was an early physi- cian. A. L. Wright came in the spring of 1874, and is the oldest practitioner now at Carroll. A. Naultens, from Ohio, remained here about two years, and is now at Hastings, Nebraska. J. W. Gnstine came in 1876, from Panora, Guthrie County, and died here in the autumn of 1885. The previous two years had been passed in Florida. G. W. Bowers came from Guthrie Center in 1878, practiced four or five years, and died at this place. Dr. Strong (homeopathie) came in 1575; left two years later for the northern part of the State. F. J. Kriebs came in 1886, and is now in Eastern Iowa, having left Carroll in the antumn of 1886. Dr. Schafer came in 1880, and left two years later. L. Q. Spanlding (homeopathie) came in 1883, and in the autumn of 1886 moved to Battle Creek, this State. William Lane came in 1881, from Montonr, this State; remained about two years, and is now at Miller, Dakota. Dr. Fox came about the same time, was for a year or two in partner- ship with Dr. Gustine, then went to Patter- sonville, this State, and is now in New York State. The practicing physicians of Carroll now are Drs. Wright, Emeis. Gockley and
Strunk. The last three are comparatively recent arrivals.
Dr. R. R. Williams, who lived on a farm six miles east of Manning, was the first physician to practice generally in that viein- ity. He removed to town in the autumn of 1881, and is still in practice at that place. Dr. Mckinney was also one of the first, having boarded with Julius Gardner before the town was laid out. He has practiced at Manning ever since, except one year at Aster, Crawford County. G. M. Barber came the same antnmn (1881), from Walnut, Potta- wattamie County, and started a drug store in partnership with James Turner. He is still in practice, and is now sole owner of the store. L. P. Brigham came in 1883, and practiced one year. He has since devoted himself to the insurance and loan business. Dr. Stein came in 1884, from St. Louis, and is yet here, in practice.
E. V. Blatchley fixed his residence at Coon Rapids in 1877 or '78, and in the spring of 1886 removed to Buffalo Gap, Dakota. His son, E. M. Blatchley, came a year or two later, and in June, 1885, moved to Grundy County, Nebraska. J. Garst was here from 1882 to 1885, and is now at Northfield, Minnesota. T. C. McMillan was here from 1882 to 1886, and is now at Fullerton, Nebraska. C. Runyon was his partner for one year, and when he left was headed for Washington, lowa. J. K. Root came in the autumn of 1884, and is still a resident prac- titioner. J. H. Martin came in Angust, 1886, and after two months removed to Omaha, Nebraska. Dr. Stearns came in the autumn of 1886, and Dr. E. A. Innt a year previous. Both are still at Coon Rapids.
Dr. Il. II. Gates has been located at Glid- den for eighteen years. Dr. White, a homoo. path, was here in the early times of the village, and remained three years. Dr.
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Thomas Elwood, who located at Carrollton in 1865 and was the first resident physician of the county, fixed his home at Glidden, in 1872, and is yet here. Drs. Culver and St. John were early physicians, but did not re- main long. Dr. S. C. Dunkle has been here twelve years. Dr. O. II. Hood came to this point in 1884, and in 1886 removed to Nebraska. Dr. L. R. Sales is also a resident physician of Glidden.
The first physician at Arcadia was Dr. Hall, who remained two years and is now in Sac County. Dr. Fischer was at Areadia a short time. Dr. J. B. H. Feenstra located here in 1877, and has practiced continuously sinee. Dr. C. A. Beitenman has been a resi- dent nearly three years. Dr. Baird was here in 1883-'84, and is now in Kansas. Dr. L. S. Stoll has been here thirteen years, as phy- sieian and insurance agent.
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MISCELLANEOUS.
EDUCATIONAL.
ULES SIMON, the great Frenchman, said: "That people which has the best schools is the best people: if it is not so to-day, it will be so to-morrow." The chief glory of Iowa is that, while she is tenth in popula- tion, she is fifth in whole number of public schools and whole number of school- houses. and first in the pro- portion of persons over ten years of age who are able to read, and also first in propor- tion of white male population between the ages of fifteen and twenty years who are able to write.
The first school in the county of Carroll was taught at Carrollton, in the spring of 1856. by Jane L. Hill, but outside of that village there were few schools taught before the era of progress which immediately suc- ceeded the building of the Northwestern Rail-
road. Of the early schools, the less said the better, unless we consider the disadvantages of the country and the poverty of the peo- ple. The citizens improved their schools as rapidly as their own means would permit, and the last two decades have witnessed a steady and perceptible gain in methods and conditions.
The present efficiency of the free-school system is due in no small degree to the in- Huence of the teachers' institutes and associa- tions now held annually. Of course the discussion and exercises of these educational gatherings were at first general in their character; but county normals or teachers' in- stitutes now have a specifie purpose-the better fitting of teachers for the school-room.
Nothing helps more than a good institute to give teachers a proper appreciation of the responsibilities which rest upon them; noth- ing does more to give them an enthusiasm for their work, a love for it, and an earnest desire to find out and use diligently the very best methods for instructing children
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Indeed, as a rule, those teachers who attend in- stitutes are the ones who become most faith- ful, diligent and efficient in the school-room. Mingling with those engaged in the same calling, they receive their sympathies, and the benefit of their experience. They learn, perhaps, to think better of their profession than ever before; come to appreciate fully the nobleness there is in it; and when they go back to their school-room again it is with a determination to be successful in the truest sense, however much labor it may cost them.
An institute is in some sense a short term of school, in which a few points in the com- mon branches, such as are not usually well understood or well tanght by teachers, are seized upon and presented by competent in- structors. The best methods, not those which are simply new, but methods which have been proven by actual trial in the school- room, whether new or old, to be the best, are the ones aimed to be insisted upon by those who conduct exercises in the institute. Great- er accuracy and thoroughness in the teaching of the common branches is evidently needed in many of our schools now; and the insti- tute is an important means for the attainment of this end. It is well, as is often done, to introduce a few general exercises, such as the reading of essays and the delivering of short orations, so that general intellectual culture may be encouraged; for teachers ought not to be one-sided men and women. So much importance is attached to teachers' institutes by our best educators that in several cities teachers are compelled by the school regula- tions to attend the city institute.
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