Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-25
N southern IOWA
Picnics, chautauqua Meetings and
Reunions Almost Stop the
Wheels Of Trade.
Garden Groves Novel Idea for Dec
Grafton Purposes Farragut
Since the Fire.
Clarinda's Colored Population-Its
characteristics Veteran
Railroad Contractor.
Special to Times-iRepublican.

N.
Garden Grove, Aug. 225.-In the south.
ern portion of the state Woodmenss
picnics. Chautauquas, old settlers
meetings and other and divers forms of
amusement and sociability have been
epidemic. The unsuspecting travelling
man who dropped in on the gala day
found himself up against hard day
and unable to exercise his wiles upon
a customer who was in hot pursuit of
the nimble nickels of the visiting pic
nickers. His feelings were indescrib-
able and his language as unfit for pub
LEGATION as one of Champ Clark,s
speeches. But the people had Il good
time. Sitting in the depot at Garden
Grove heard a conversation between
la bunch of boys and young men who
had lately returned from an NJ. w. a..
gathering at Diagonal They evidently
had mingled much in the hilarity of the
occasion. Said one: Things was
darned high at the picnic. I spent a
quarter all but about 10 cents, eli for
gosh darned things to eat And John
ny stated freely that he would attend
no more picnics until provisions ruled
lower.
Garden Grove has developed a new
idea, at any rate new to me, in a
method of shading the streets on occa-
Ssions. The main street of the village is
entirely treeless, but previous to big
day in town the merchants send teams
to the groves near by and haul young
shickories in loads like hay. The butt
ends are sharpened and driven into the
ground at the edge of the walks and the
trunk of the sapling spiked sotidly to
the sidewalks. Placed closely together.
they completely shade the walks and
give the town an arboreal appearance
particularly pleasing. The leaves la ST
the dried leaves will take fire in one
way or another and a forest fire on a
small scale will scare Garden Grove out
of a years growth.
Farragut's fire last winter resulted,
as fires generally do. in better built.
better appearing town. Where the frame
buildings were wiped out entirely from
one side of the street handsome bricks
have been erected, giving the village a
natty. up-to-date look. Farragut is a
good growing town. has a new news
paper and is getting ready TO take its
proper place among southern Iowa
cities.
The state is experimenting in Page
county. seeking a specific for hog chol-
era. Here at Farragut w. ". Cham
bers is deputized for the purpose of re-
porting diseased herds to the state ag-
ricultural college and to assist i'll and
report upon he efficacy of the expert
mental treatment of such herds, under
the direction of g. NJ. Day, of Ames
College,. Last years treatment proved
comparatively successful. Mr.. Cham
shers told me that twenty-five herds in
an area of four townships, We're sub
jected to the treatment. with the result
THAT an average of 20 per cent were
saved incubation with hog cholera
serum is being practced here, with ex-
confidently expected that the near fu-
ture will develop perfect specific
against the rayages of this disease
which destroys SO much Of the farmers
prosperity. AT any rate the past years
record of 10 per cent of recoveries
shows the immense value of the discov-
cry 1t incidentally furnishes an object
lesson for those farmers who ale in
clined to belittle the Work of the state
agricultural school and see nothing but
dress parade and kid glove farming al
Ames. The school is the true center
of agricultural learning and experiment
and should it find method for the pre-
vention of hog cholera will have giver
a quid pro quo for its maintenance fol
a thousand years if it accomplished
nothing else.
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The Northwestern is extending its
coal belt line south Of Oskaloosas west.
| ward to new mines now opening up al
Buxton Five hundred teams are max.
Ling the grades and getting them ii
I shape for the steel, which will be lait
before snow flies. The mining camp:
| and villages from the worked out mine:
near Oskaloosa will follow the path o.
the railroad and their population vii
be transferred to Buxton and Bussey
And here is where Oskaloosa sees hel
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scamps for the retail trade which ha!
built up her splendid stores and multi
/ piled her booze palaces, she sees in thu
lsdeparture of the miners for new field!
a serious diminution of her trade hel
/ population and her glory. 1t is only {
question of time when the city by TIL,
Skunk will be dependent on the agri
culturists of the surrounding country
Clarinda is cursed by negroes, over 90
| Of which race have their habitat in tina
Lefty. He finds Clarinda a pleasant place
loffabode, for he can work nearly ever!
day that he wishes or lay off any day
that the spirit moves him. Guntown, 6
Isuburb. is mostly made up OF these de
tscendants of old man Noah's sun-burn
sons. One profession patronized large.
lily by the man and brother, accord
ling to prominent attorney, Is the lie.
llgal profession. He told me that the ne
groes make much of the law business il
Clarinda and manage in one way or an
other to pay attorneys for SERVES rem
ldered. Next to the revered watermelon
land ida bones" a negro loves litigation
He may attain fame as crap shooter
or notoriety with his "razzer," but hi
never takes the position of social pre-
eminence for which he homes until h,
has had lawsuit. 1t shows him to b.
| a person Of substance, who has some
thing to law over. and stamps upon hin
1.-THE seal Of the business man with {
stake In the country.