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52, UNFOLDING YEARS September Ira had gone to a small college to teach and it was there after the holiday vacation that he returned with his bride. Unfortunately for them the school failed and in the spring they returned to Des Moines. In the following fall Ira secured a position in a business college in Warren, Pennsylvania, and this time they left Des Moines for good. It was hard to see them go, but I knew it was inevitable and I was happy in their happiness. This was the first break in our little circle of friends. The others tried to make it up to me but no one could quite take the place of those loyal friends. The year 1898 was memorable for the Spanish-American War and there was great excitement. Although we had a part in it and one hear of the Sinking of the Maine, San Juan Hill, the Battle of Manila Bay, Teddy Roosevelt and His Rough Riders-- yet it all seemed so far away and scarcely touched the life of the average citizen in the middle west. Having lived through the First and Second World Wars, those days seem now tame indeed. That same year (1898) came the wedding of Julia Grinelle, followed soon after by Gene's marriage. Both married Drake graduates and went away to live. I attended both weddings and helped to make merry although each left me feeling more and more alone. Jennie Hancher came next to Hattie in my affections. We had many good times together, but she too became engaged to a young minister, a graduate of the Bible Department at Drake. In August 1900 Jennie and Bert Titus were married. The wedding took place in the morning of a hot summer day. When I returned home from that wedding I found sad news awaiting me. Blanche Fearing had passed away. I knew she had been ill for a year or more. The body she had driven by the force of an indomitable will had finally rebelled, and no medical skill could repair the damage wrought. Besides the two books already mentioned, she had published a novel, "Roberta" and a small book in verse "The Island Lily." While critics praised her work for its literary quality, yet her socialistic ideas and frank realism was far in advance of her time, and so her
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52, UNFOLDING YEARS September Ira had gone to a small college to teach and it was there after the holiday vacation that he returned with his bride. Unfortunately for them the school failed and in the spring they returned to Des Moines. In the following fall Ira secured a position in a business college in Warren, Pennsylvania, and this time they left Des Moines for good. It was hard to see them go, but I knew it was inevitable and I was happy in their happiness. This was the first break in our little circle of friends. The others tried to make it up to me but no one could quite take the place of those loyal friends. The year 1898 was memorable for the Spanish-American War and there was great excitement. Although we had a part in it and one hear of the Sinking of the Maine, San Juan Hill, the Battle of Manila Bay, Teddy Roosevelt and His Rough Riders-- yet it all seemed so far away and scarcely touched the life of the average citizen in the middle west. Having lived through the First and Second World Wars, those days seem now tame indeed. That same year (1898) came the wedding of Julia Grinelle, followed soon after by Gene's marriage. Both married Drake graduates and went away to live. I attended both weddings and helped to make merry although each left me feeling more and more alone. Jennie Hancher came next to Hattie in my affections. We had many good times together, but she too became engaged to a young minister, a graduate of the Bible Department at Drake. In August 1900 Jennie and Bert Titus were married. The wedding took place in the morning of a hot summer day. When I returned home from that wedding I found sad news awaiting me. Blanche Fearing had passed away. I knew she had been ill for a year or more. The body she had driven by the force of an indomitable will had finally rebelled, and no medical skill could repair the damage wrought. Besides the two books already mentioned, she had published a novel, "Roberta" and a small book in verse "The Island Lily." While critics praised her work for its literary quality, yet her socialistic ideas and frank realism was far in advance of her time, and so her
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