Sprit of Progress Shown to be Alive!
Progress and public spiritedness still live. The are not dead. and we can prove what we say. And to our mind it is one of the best examples of its spirit that we have over encountered, one that might well serve as an inspiration to other citizens of this community.
Have you noticed the nice coat of gravel that has been spread on the Jones Street running east from the corner of Wyant Dickinson Heath to the bridge at the foot of the hill? If you haven't noticed it is certainly high time you were casting your eagle eye over it. For it is of that strip of graveled road we would speak and its manor of coming into being.
Steve Van Fossen lives as everyone knows in the big house on that street. the street may have been too dusty, it was certainly dusty enough. However that may be, Steve decided it must not continue. Said he to himself, "I have a team, I have the time. I know where I can get the gravel." Now given a team, the time and the gravel, what was to prevent him from putting the three together, and evolving a nicely graveled stretch of road past his house? "Nothing." said Steve. So he hooked the old team up to the wagon and hauled enough gravel to give the road a thorough coat from the corner to the bridge. The labor of graveling the stretch did not cost the city a thin dime.
That is the kind of civic pride and usefulness that we believe in. It is certainly the thing that makes towns beautiful and streets useful. Steve Van Fossen deserves a vote of thanks, publicly from every citizen of Shellsburg. His action should make the rest of us a feel a blush of guilty shame mantling our noble brows when we think of the little things that we neglect and the big thing he has accomplished. They used to say " go to the ant and learn wisdom." We may well paraphrase that and say in Shellsburg. "Go to Steve Van Fossen and learn how to improve our town." This was in the papers. Steve and Ann live in the home they bought from Dr. Mc Corkil.
Jacob Steven A Douglas Van Fossen
Birth: 26 Dec 1860
Death: 9 Jun 1927 in Oakwood Cemetery Shellsburg, Iowa
Sex: M
Father: Benjamin Van Fossen
Mother: Julia Ann Matheney
Spouses & Children
Anna Agnes Elizabeth Hopper (Wife)
Children:
Joseph Leroy Van Fossen
Iona De Elda Van Fossen
Erma Lorena Van Fossen
Progress and public spiritedness still live. The are not dead. and we can prove what we say. And to our mind it is one of the best examples of its spirit that we have over encountered, one that might well serve as an inspiration to other citizens of this community.
Have you noticed the nice coat of gravel that has been spread on the Jones Street running east from the corner of Wyant Dickinson Heath to the bridge at the foot of the hill? If you haven't noticed it is certainly high time you were casting your eagle eye over it. For it is of that strip of graveled road we would speak and its manor of coming into being.
Steve Van Fossen lives as everyone knows in the big house on that street. the street may have been too dusty, it was certainly dusty enough. However that may be, Steve decided it must not continue. Said he to himself, "I have a team, I have the time. I know where I can get the gravel." Now given a team, the time and the gravel, what was to prevent him from putting the three together, and evolving a nicely graveled stretch of road past his house? "Nothing." said Steve. So he hooked the old team up to the wagon and hauled enough gravel to give the road a thorough coat from the corner to the bridge. The labor of graveling the stretch did not cost the city a thin dime.
That is the kind of civic pride and usefulness that we believe in. It is certainly the thing that makes towns beautiful and streets useful. Steve Van Fossen deserves a vote of thanks, publicly from every citizen of Shellsburg. His action should make the rest of us a feel a blush of guilty shame mantling our noble brows when we think of the little things that we neglect and the big thing he has accomplished. They used to say " go to the ant and learn wisdom." We may well paraphrase that and say in Shellsburg. "Go to Steve Van Fossen and learn how to improve our town." This was in the papers. Steve and Ann live in the home they bought from Dr. Mc Corkil.
Jacob Steven A Douglas Van Fossen
Birth: 26 Dec 1860
Death: 9 Jun 1927 in Oakwood Cemetery Shellsburg, Iowa
Sex: M
Father: Benjamin Van Fossen
Mother: Julia Ann Matheney
Spouses & Children
Anna Agnes Elizabeth Hopper (Wife)
Children:
Joseph Leroy Van Fossen
Iona De Elda Van Fossen
Erma Lorena Van Fossen
Sprit of Progress Shown to be Alive!
Progress and public spiritedness still live. The are not dead. and we can prove what we say. And to our mind it is one of the best examples of its spirit that we have over encountered, one that might well serve as an inspiration to other citizens of this community.
Have you noticed the nice coat of gravel that has been spread on the Jones Street running east from the corner of Wyant Dickinson Heath to the bridge at the foot of the hill? If you haven't noticed it is certainly high time you were casting your eagle eye over it. For it is of that strip of graveled road we would speak and its manor of coming into being.
Steve Van Fossen lives as everyone knows in the big house on that street. the street may have been too dusty, it was certainly dusty enough. However that may be, Steve decided it must not continue. Said he to himself, "I have a team, I have the time. I know where I can get the gravel." Now given a team, the time and the gravel, what was to prevent him from putting the three together, and evolving a nicely graveled stretch of road past his house? "Nothing." said Steve. So he hooked the old team up to the wagon and hauled enough gravel to give the road a thorough coat from the corner to the bridge. The labor of graveling the stretch did not cost the city a thin dime.
That is the kind of civic pride and usefulness that we believe in. It is certainly the thing that makes towns beautiful and streets useful. Steve Van Fossen deserves a vote of thanks, publicly from every citizen of Shellsburg. His action should make the rest of us a feel a blush of guilty shame mantling our noble brows when we think of the little things that we neglect and the big thing he has accomplished. They used to say " go to the ant and learn wisdom." We may well paraphrase that and say in Shellsburg. "Go to Steve Van Fossen and learn how to improve our town." This was in the papers. Steve and Ann live in the home they bought from Dr. Mc Corkil.
Jacob Steven A Douglas Van Fossen
Birth: 26 Dec 1860
Death: 9 Jun 1927 in Oakwood Cemetery Shellsburg, Iowa
Sex: M
Father: Benjamin Van Fossen
Mother: Julia Ann Matheney
Spouses & Children
Anna Agnes Elizabeth Hopper (Wife)
Children:
Joseph Leroy Van Fossen
Iona De Elda Van Fossen
Erma Lorena Van Fossen
Progress and public spiritedness still live. The are not dead. and we can prove what we say. And to our mind it is one of the best examples of its spirit that we have over encountered, one that might well serve as an inspiration to other citizens of this community.
Have you noticed the nice coat of gravel that has been spread on the Jones Street running east from the corner of Wyant Dickinson Heath to the bridge at the foot of the hill? If you haven't noticed it is certainly high time you were casting your eagle eye over it. For it is of that strip of graveled road we would speak and its manor of coming into being.
Steve Van Fossen lives as everyone knows in the big house on that street. the street may have been too dusty, it was certainly dusty enough. However that may be, Steve decided it must not continue. Said he to himself, "I have a team, I have the time. I know where I can get the gravel." Now given a team, the time and the gravel, what was to prevent him from putting the three together, and evolving a nicely graveled stretch of road past his house? "Nothing." said Steve. So he hooked the old team up to the wagon and hauled enough gravel to give the road a thorough coat from the corner to the bridge. The labor of graveling the stretch did not cost the city a thin dime.
That is the kind of civic pride and usefulness that we believe in. It is certainly the thing that makes towns beautiful and streets useful. Steve Van Fossen deserves a vote of thanks, publicly from every citizen of Shellsburg. His action should make the rest of us a feel a blush of guilty shame mantling our noble brows when we think of the little things that we neglect and the big thing he has accomplished. They used to say " go to the ant and learn wisdom." We may well paraphrase that and say in Shellsburg. "Go to Steve Van Fossen and learn how to improve our town." This was in the papers. Steve and Ann live in the home they bought from Dr. Mc Corkil.
Jacob Steven A Douglas Van Fossen
Birth: 26 Dec 1860
Death: 9 Jun 1927 in Oakwood Cemetery Shellsburg, Iowa
Sex: M
Father: Benjamin Van Fossen
Mother: Julia Ann Matheney
Spouses & Children
Anna Agnes Elizabeth Hopper (Wife)
Children:
Joseph Leroy Van Fossen
Iona De Elda Van Fossen
Erma Lorena Van Fossen
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Oakwood Cemetery Shellsburg, Iowa
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