Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-11
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Goldfleld, sept. 10. very unusual
condition now exists In Iowa. this refer-.
ring TO the marketing OF small krain,
instead OF grain dealers now taking IN
tinousa nos Of bushels OF wheat and oats.
very little 70 coming In Threshing ma.
cn tlll are at work everywhere, but the
grain 70 put into the bins at home on
i.he, farm. Frequently at this time In
A A'l'' g cara are scarce. extra train loads
o. small grain are going to Chicago and
feorla. Nowadays grain men can ret
gu the cars they want. 1t is not be-
cause prices are low, for Is cents per
sbushel for oats is the common price sup
this way. One dealer says: II am Of
fering is cents for oats and the farm
ers want 20 cents. II offered. 90 they
would want %. The fact is these farm
iers don't have to sell. They are inde-.
pendent. All this Is affecting trade In
the stores, disadvanta geousiy, for the
time being. Usually at this time OF the
year small grain is marketed to nay
store bills, but the store bills are few
and FAR between. The Iowa farmer has
lDeen paying spot cash for the past year.
He does not have to sell his small
grain to pay taxes He mas been selling
eggs. butter, chickens and other fowl
Tor good prices. So that for once DEAL
!ers IN oats are not cribbing the farm
Iers, crop at low prices. The farmer Is
doing the cribbing. And now before he
sells his small grain comes monstrous
big crop of corn. It's safe from frost,
the ears big and well filled. One man
at Renwick claims he has field that.
viii go q hundred bushels to the acre,
this estimated by some he has snapped
Tor feeding. And to complete the pic
sture. new corn will start in at big.
price. a feeder near this place is Of
Eferihg now to contract new corn at %
cents for eighty pounds to the bushel.
The writer is told that one farmer has
sold to feeder near here 500 bushels
VI snapped corn at Is cents per bushel.
This means something with Yield of
sixty to seYenty-five bushels and only a
short distance to haul 1t. During the
past week the writer has seen many car
loads of cattle from Dakota unloaded
at these Iowa stations, bought by Iowa
farmers who have money to pay for
them and corn to feed. Who wouldn't
live in Iowa, in these Mckinley times?
And yet many of these prosperous lowe
farmers will vote for Bryan!
As the writer goes over the state and
gets into localities where the prosper
GUS and frugal German farmer lives 1t
is one UNIVERSAL story that these Ger
mans will vote for Bryan. Conservative
republicans and democrats tell the
Looker-On the same story. Talking the
other day in Bancroft with we'll
posted hard-money democrat, a busi-
ness man thrown into contact daily
With the German population, he said to
the writer: It's no use OF talking to
these men. I'm q democrat and have
no use for Bryan, but he will get their
votes around here. The Boer war and
OUT Philippine experience have con-
WINGED them that the party in power
has no sympathy With the Dutch, and
that8the war We are engaging In in the
Philippines Is a war of conquest. In
other words, Bryan IL shrewd in max
ing the most OF Imperialism. The only
show for the republicans to get this
German vote in northwest Iowa is TO
convince them that Bryan's election
really means free silver In this country,
and that the so-called imperialism 10 a
put up by Bryan and his
crowd to catch the German vote of this
country The writer has been accused
before now Of giving aid to the enemy
by publishing in this column facts as he
found them regardless Of the desired
hot IL q ri q
the most Of it.
Hotelkeepers in Iowa are having q
hard time in getting girl help. They
pay SIS to $40 month and board for
good table walters and at these figures
the demand exceeds the supply. The
great trouble seems to be that they will
get married. Some man figures out
that girl who can take six orders at
one time and delivers them correctly
has head on her, and so the hotel
Keeper mOurns and the man rejoices.
The girl sometimes repents after q
years experience Of married life.
A hote,keeper at Lake City has solved
the help problem by letting the girls
run the hotel. He lets out the rooms
and three girls run the table. They pay
him 80 much for the use OF the dining
room and kitchen and collect for meals
at the door. They also have lot OF
regular boarders as we'll as the tran
sient trade. Evidently they have found
another woman's sphere.
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