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Show IOWA SAYS GOODBYE TO COL. BROOKHART WASHINGTON. Ia. Nov 17. The home folks paid their tribute to Colonel Col-onel Smith W Brookhart, senator-elect senator-elect from Iowa, here Thursday In a demonstration which was just a lnti" bit different from any other reception ever tendered a senator-elect from this state on tho eve of his leaving to assume his now duties. A cynical observer might have cottracienssa me event as a typical demonstration of Main street hon..r-ing hon..r-ing its leading citizen. There was a procession headod by the Washln Hussar band wdh the Boy Scouts bearing torches, a receiving line at the chamber of commerce, light refreshments, re-freshments, speeches, and all of that, but thero was a home-like feeling and a genuine showing of affection "for a man who h:id earned recognition whloh Is lucking from mo.st uff.iirs of tho kind and whloh pervaded th wholo evening. ''olonei Brookhart, smiling nil over, j with Mrs Brookhart and all tlif little I Hri.okharts. headed the reeeivlng line "thers in line Included lire-lone! frit nda such as President U. s Smith If a rlan of 1 ,,'s n 0f tW former co.n-nAnJrr Flyin w:y. th, : R RfpublTcans sent " 'Jw |