Evening Republican, Volume 17, Number 121, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 May 1913 — GREAT MEN IN COMMON CLAY [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

GREAT MEN IN COMMON CLAY

Models by 0. A. BEATY

Words by GENE MORGAN

They laud the mountains of the west, those peaks with which the landscape’s blessed, but e’en Pike’s summit seems quite nil when measured with the great Jim Hill. His top is snow-capped, somewhat bare, but mines of value nestle there, not coal or ore of any kind, but lodes of vast financial mind. He put the tracks in "trackless plains’* until scarce any trace remains, of all those wild and wooly scenes except on moving picture screens. Long freight trains labor up the heights which once beheld cruel Indian fights and in the valleys farmers toll, inducing the reluctant soil to give forth wheat in wealth untold where once the bison’s snort was bold. The "prairie schooner** now gives place to motor cars of dlssy pace and where smoke signals once did curl, we hear the telephone's sweet purl. The city where they make the flour is where James J. upholds his tower and warns the eager countryside to store what nature doth provide. All titles haughty doth he scorn, he doesn’t need to blow his horn. This fact is good enough for him: Throughout the state they worship “Yim.” i (Copyright, 1913, by Universal Press Syndicate.)

JIM HILL.