LeMars Globe-Post
Monday, September 5, 1910

ROOSEVELT HAS COME AND GONE
A Large Throng Saw and Heard the Ex-President
Makes A Five Minute Talk From Rear Coach and Speeds On His Way

On a fair estimate, from fifteen hundred to two thousand people gathered at
the Main street railroad crossing 12:25 to see and hear Theodore Roosevelt.
We have heard the number estimated all the way from 600 to 4000, but from
our own experience in estimating crowds, we are satisfied the above is not
far from the truth. To us, the size of the crowd was disappointing. It is
only once in a lifetime that the shadow of a president or an ex-president is
to be seen and heard in a city of this size. Here was a man whom Europe
flocked to honor, whom crowned heads had honored and to whom long bearded
servants were not above listening. We surely looked for one fifth of the
25,000 residents of the county to be there.

The Roosevelt special pulled in almost exactly on time. The reception
committee named by the mayor, had met Mr. Roosevelt at Sioux City and for 25
miles had basked in the sunshine of his presence, but they were not needed
to introduce the speaker. His appearance at the rear door of his coach was
greeted with a shout that showed how well cartoonist and photographer have
done their work. We would have known him just the same if we had met him in
the jungles of Africa. The first thing we all saw was the teeth, and it
must be confessed the cartoonist hasn't much overdone the Colonel's ivories.
There was the firm set mouth, shadowed, but not obscured by a scrubby
mustache; an aggressive lower jaw, pointed rather than broad, but with a
standing invitation to fight; straight up, high head with stubby fighting
hair; face tanned with open air living, eyeglasses with the ever present
black cord, the well set up, athletic figure; they were all there just as we
all expected to see them. A man of distinguished bearing and undeniably a
scrapper.

Continued speaking had brought a slight hoarseness. With many speeches yet
ahead, Mr. Roosevelt is compelled to treasure his voice and the word was
passed along to make the stop five minutes. He broke at once into his short
address. There was nothing new or startling in it, just a repetition of the
homely platitudes on civic virtues that he has been giving the people.
After throwing a bouquet to the people of Iowa and to his audience he told
them that he believed in the future of our country because he believed in
their virtue and intelligence of the average American man and woman. While
in the Civil War it was necessary to have generals and organizers, we had
had to have that average soldier of a high character, so in citizenship, no
welfare of the country depends upon the average citizen. We need the
workaday, rather humdrum qualities that make the good husband, good father
and a good neighbor. If we are right in that we are right in citizenship.

The engineer rang his bell, the train moved, and with a parting word to the
boys and girls Mr. Roosevelt was off standing on the platform and waving his
hand to the cheering crowd.

While Mr. Roosevelt needed no introduction someone might have been kind
enough to have told us that slight figure, with a brown mustache, standing
on one side, was Gifford Pinchot and to point out the other notables and to
tell us that big, fat, statesmanlike fellow in front was only one of the
reporters, of whom there were half a dozen on the train.

Senator Dolliver came up this far, then stopped off to take the train to his
home in Fort Dodge. After the Roosevelt special left, he made a brief
speech to the crowd. Dolliver is one of the best speakers of the country,
with a happy faculty of stringing up words, but he wouldn't get far at a
beauty show. But this was no beauty show.

BODY BADLY BURNED BY LIGHTED CIGAR
Akron Man Will Reover Trhough Successful Skin Grafting

Charles Neal of Akron, Iowa, was removed to his home yesterday, from the
Samaritan Hospital, after a successful operation in which a large amount of
skin was grafted on his body. Several days ago, while at his home, in
Akron, he placed a lighted cigar in his pocket, while under the impression
that it was not lighted. His clothes took fire, and he was badly burned.

His mother came to Sioux City when the operation was performed. While
alighting from the streetcar, her ring caught on the handle of the car and
her hand was badly injured. The wound has healed and both patients have
gone to their home. -Sioux City Tribune

LE MARS BALL TEAM HOME FROM DAKOTA TOWN
Met The Best Teams In The State And Played Close Games

The LeMars baseball team returned Friday night from a five days baseball
tour in South Dakota in which they met some of the fastest teams in the
state. The boys did not play up to their usual stride on the trip, although
their defeats were determined by close scores.

They were defeated by the Akron team on Friday having accepted the
management to play them a return game on their return home. Haas pitched a
good game for the team allowing a three hits, but the game was lost 5 to 3.
LeMars scored their three runs in the third inning. Batteries for LeMars:
Haas and Diehl; for Akron, Millette and Mann.

At Dell Rapids on Thursday the team was blanked, 3 to 0. Batteries for
LeMars, Lotz and Roseberry; Dell Rapids, Gardener and Freese.

The Garretson team defeated LeMars on Wednesday in a great game of ball, to
2 to 1. Batteries: LeMars, Millette and Diehl; Garretson, Peterson and
Prill.

The team broke even at Sioux Falls, winning the first 3 to 2 and losing the
second, 1 to 0.

CELEBRATE GOLDEN WEDDING ANNIVERSARY
Mr. and Mrs. J. Van Dalfsen Married Fifty Years

Fifty years ago last Thursday, September 1st, 1910, Mr. and Mrs. J. Van
Dalfsen, residing in Young & Corkery's addition, were married at Genemuiden,
Overrijissel, Holland.

The golden wedding event in the history of their lives was celebrated at
their pleasant home and number of their relatives, friends and neighbors of
the aged pair availed themselves of the opportunity of being present during
the day to extend congratulations.

Mr. and Mrs. Van Dalfsen have four children living, two sons and two
daughters. They are Lambert VanDalfsen of Lyndon, Washington; Andrew, of
this city; Mrs. Epke Vanderberg of Sioux Center; and Mrs. VanderPlaats of
Edgerton, Minn., besides eighteen grandchildren.

In 1883 Mr. and Mrs. VanDalfsen immigrated to America, first locating at
Orange City, and soon afterwards coming to LeMars. They have lived here
since, a period of twenty-six years. Mr. and Mrs. VanDalfsen are enjoying
reasonably good health, considering their years, and it is the wish of the
people of LeMars and vicinity that they may enjoy many more happy wedding
anniversaries.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS WILL OPEN TOMORROW
Supt. Palmer Will Continue At Head With Large Corps of Teachers

In preparation for the opening of the LeMars Public Schools tomorrow, the
large number of teachers from a distance, who have not already arrived for
work will arrive today. The school board has elected a full corps and the
following teachers have assignments in the various grades and buildings.

HIGH SCHOOL

Carl M. Blair, principal and history

Miss Jessie Cunning, mathematics

Miss Marie Duggan, English

Miss Josephine Lynch, German and Latin

Miss Clara Farmer, English and history

Miss Eleanor Peterson, science

Grover A. Blunt, manual training

G.J. Dinkeloo, music

GRADES - CENTRAL

Mrs. Abbie Leighton, room 10

Miss Elsie Barkdoll, room 9

Miss Tooney, room 8

Miss Nora Robey, room 7, principal

Miss Ruth Colt, room 2
Miss Mary Strickland, room 2

Miss Ethel Lyon, room 1

GRADES - CLARK

Miss Mattie Koenig, room 6, principal

Miss Nellie Williams, room 5

Miss Irene B. Kirke, room 4

Miss Cora Crouch, room 3

Miss Katheryn Boehmke, room 2

Miss Fern Raymond, room 1

GRADES - FRANKLIN

Miss Melvina Harvey, room 7, principal

Miss Lyda Farrell, room 6

Miss Josephine Winslow, room 5

Miss Edna Richey, room 4.