Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-09

chance to vote against Bryan and Nc
kinley. Ii will probably cut equally
between each ticket.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES aesss9sesoo99s
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OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
For. the Times Republican.
Baxter. June 8-The Northwestern
hotel at Cambridge served new potatoes
on .lune 9th that We're grown in the gar
den adjoining. These potatoes We're
planted on Good Friday. 50 that 1t was
exactly seven and one-h half weeks from
the day they We're planted till they We're
dug. Generally 90" the gardener fur
inishea green peas TO Il day With the first
mess of new potatoes. but this year,
while some are ready, there was not
enough to place before hungry travel
ing men. He mentions this. to get early
garden truck it must be planted early.
His plan of saving of garden stuff when
Jack Frost makes an early visit is
worth mentioning 10 gets UP before
old Sol and sprinkles With cold water
every frosted vegetable. This plan.
works exactly as the beautiful snow on
"a frozen nose. And on the same day
that new potatoes Mere dug In Cam
bridge splendid. solid old potatoes We're
sretailing there for l0scents a bushel. As
one storekeeper remarked. We goEdown
cellar. get a bushel of potatoes, deliver
them a half n mile. charge 10 cents on
the books. and get our pay when said
customer feels like it,
And on the same day when good pota-
8toes Mere selling for 10 cents Il bushel in
Iowa, thousands Of human beings were
dying of starvation In India. There was
once Il saying that IL took n dollar To
take annexed 10 the poor heather. That
lis not true. but how many bushels III
POTATOES at 10 cents Il bushel will il take
to carry one bushel there? How many
bushels of wheat does il take to carry
one buShel of wheat TO India And
while potatoes ar.. going Il begging at
fl08cents bushel iii Iowa. what of the
thousands of poor people. in our big cit-
les that are paying all the Way from 30
cents TO 81 ri bushel for this cheap and
good food product? All of this potato
talk suggests the greatest need of the
day IS for the inventive genius cf the
world TO be directed towards cheaper
motive power. Thousands of bushels of
potatoes thrown away or rotted in Iowa,
and AT the same day and hour thousands
dying in India of starvation.
Many readers of the papers do not un-
derstand the opposition shown TO the
new railroad being built south from Ne
8Vaaa 70 oss MONIES one curious ex-
pia; Ration IS there are so many wealthy
3 3 4 a long ihe proposed route. When
lhests farmers are told this railroad VIII
advance me price OF their farms they
reply, we don want our farms TO be
Wos,th more ~ our lands advance vance In
price We snail nave 10 pay more taxes,
ana az We can not raise any more farm arm
l'Foinee on hish priced land than now,
we shali be out Of pocket by having q
ne" falir 'f Flows that for indie
pehasht FARMERS: Again. some Of the
business VlFs men say the building OF this
ro esg means y. new town south and
new Town north OF US. which VIII cut
iiitosour trace more or less. But just the
sai1e' CONN near Cambridge nearly
1hfee miies OF grading Is finished. and
ne :. inprlage scltizens want a north
ana NJ south road and expect now to get 1t
"ltnout special taxes
me writer remembers reading some
mere OF an American citizen who al
ways had law suit on hand, was born
with one az an inheritance, and died
While others We're pending. Hetty Green,
t .i. multi-millionairess, belongs to this
y, genus q humanity. She
laws everybody, corporations, towns
and individuals. ard there is one town
lnot here) in Iowa that has weakness
for this kind of intellectual enjoyment.
II Is divided into cliques. sets and
crowds that differ on any and all queH-
sssy asa svys HsS i one s church ssf