Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-02
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENT.
MISREPRESENTATION OF BARNS


customary. The horse barn is 36xl0,
with eighteen foot posts, and Will hold
seventeen head of horses and fifty tons
of hay, besides 1000 bushels of grain.
The cattle barn is 4sN52, With fourteen
foot posts, and Will accommodate 100
head of cattle and hold forty tons of
hay. Mr.. Conover has lived on this
farm since coming to the county nine
teen years ago and has made all he has
from the soil, having $40 acres in the
home place, besides an interest in $40
acres more. Ills farm has every cons
venience for caring for cattle aud hogs
by means of which he always markets
his grain. He has read the Era for
nineteen years.
OVER 800 TEAMS IN TOWN.
[Acklcy Photographic
Saturday was a nice day, a good day,
for business men. 1t was a day when.
clerks in the stores of men who adyer-
tise We're taxed to their utmost capac-
ity. We talked with a clerk in one of
the prominent stores here and he said.
that farmers complained of being un-
able to find places to tie their teams.
As a matter of curiosity and news We.
strolleu around town and counted the
teams in one block and there We're sew
enty teams in he block. We saw
enough TO convince us that there We're
over 300 teams in town. This is proof
of a substantial nature that Ackley is
the place they all come To do their
trading. The farmer WHO hasa dollar
to invest in the necessaries of life or
the luxuries either is going To invest
that dollar where It brings the best re-
turns. The business that is done here
every day and especially on Saturdays,
is evidence sufficient that our mer-
chants are the Very people the con-
sumner is looking for.
If a merchant wants your trade he
will ask you for it, and through the
column of the Phonograph he will offer
You special Inducements, telling you
why you should trade with them. If
they don't ask you for your patronage,
don't give it to them.
ELECTRIC ROADS FOR FARMERS.
Iowa Homestead.]
The good roads problem is assuming
a new and interesting phase. The sue
cess of rural electric railways has led
some of our progressive farmers tokcon-
slider the practicability of co-opera-
tive system of electric lines on country
roads for use in hauling both passen-
ger and freight traffic. Just at this
time when steel and all other mate
rails entering into railway construction
are so high, 1t may not be advisable to
enter extensively into q work involving
such heavy expenditure, but In many
sections of our great agricultural states
where for long distances roadways are
lined with producing farms, Which
stretch back perhaps for miles, AND
where the quantity of products involve
vast amount of expensive Transports
ton, made uncertain through the lnfiu-
erlce of weather conditions upon the
roads-under such circumstances there
is no doubt but the plan would prove
entirely feasible, while the effect upoi
the social life of the farm would be inn
measurably advantageous.
The proposition involves the con-
struction of a track at one side Of this
roadway, with switches and side tracks
and main trolly system; this mair
system to be used by farmers at will
employing each his own cars as he nov
employees his own wagons and buggies
Running from the main line to eacl
farm would be side track which may
to suit the wishes of the individual
farmer. He could load his produc
when he chose, selecting those time:
when markets We're most promising o
returns, or take his family to church o.
institute, social gatherings or shopping
with swiftness and ease. the only thint
to Interfere, perhaps, being heav,
SHOWS.
The American farmer is studying tn,
economics of agriculture these days a
never before. He is becoming in yer!
truth business man" He is learn
ing what the railway man and tn
manufacturer long ago learned through
necessity, that it is lIt the first cost
but the expense Of operating that costs
He knows that the present condition
of roads make transportation the mos
expensive item in his list. Ii the farm
ers' electric railway is to lessen that ex
pense it is bound to come.
SIOUN CITY Girl. HELPS KILL 25
SNAKES.
According to an O,Neill, Neb., specia
in the Omaha Bee, a Sioux City gil
figured in a fierce battle with snake
at that place recently. O'Neill peopl
look upon 1t as the best snake story q
the season. The account of the battl
is as follows:
one day last week Mr. Berry an
Miss Caldwell. Of Sioux City, his nice,
We're strolling along the river bottoi
east of the house through beautifl
natural grove, when all at once the
discovered by the warning whirr {
hundreds of horny, tails that the
We're in the midst of a congress of raj
tlesnakes that seemed to be insessio
as a committee of the whole for excel
tive business.
Mr.. Berry happened to have a spad
in his hand and with it laid about hil
vigorously right and left. Miss Gale
Well assisted with a club. When tn
battle was over they counted 256 rattle
snakes and half as many blue racer
A great many of the snakes had 8
high as eleven rattles. They We're a
extraordinarily vicious lot and instea
of attempting to escape came savage
~ at the intruders and fought dot
gedly until the last one was EXTERN
mated. The rattles, which fill an ord
nary cigar box, they cut off and prii
very highly as mementoes of an e,