Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-17
IRON SOUTHERN IOWA
The Humeston & Shenandoah Rail-.
way and the Country It
Traverses.
Fine Blue Grass Country. With Good.
Crops, Pretty Women and
Good Towns.
Horses and Horse Buyers in South.
ern Iowa-A Word About
Judge Davis.
al to Times-Republican.


Shenandoah. April II. - Somebody
said the Humeston & Shenandoah rail-
road starts nowhere, goes no place
and never gets there This isn't true
The II. & S. trains creep thru the fines;
blue grass section of the southwest and
crawl past some of the best farms and
busiest villages to be found anywhere
Grand River, Gravity and Clarified
and many small towns command a
apital trade and with better railroad
population more rapidly than, at pres
ent.
This portion of sout hwest Iowa Is es-
sentially q grass country. While good
crops OF grain and corn are produced,
blue grass, timothy and the other
grasses grow rank and luxuriant and
make glad the heart Of the cattle man.
1t is Kentucky with its blue grass,
game men and beautiful women left in
and political gunplays and gubernato-
rial assassinations left out. To give ami
Idea of the grass seed produced, MUIR
ray shipped seventeen car loads of
grass seed in a single day. In conse-
l}quence it follows that the farmer does
not get hard up in southwest Iowa
when the corn crop fails or the price of
grain gets low. He has his cattle on a
hundred hills and the grass seeds from
\ his meadows bringsa welcome addition
Ito his roll
1t is true that during the hard times
THAT we are now striving to forget the
southern Iowa farmer felt the pinch.
Hess than his congener farther north.
He is essentially a stock raiser and fed
his cheap corn into stock that while low
i in price paid him a better profit on hii
\ feed than he is making today.
II Southern Iowa is undergoing an cpl
X denlic of pneumonia If the word epi-
4 dernic may be used in this connection.
Especially along the line of the K. &
A w. railroad the cases are many and
ldeathS numerous.
4 Horses are horses in southern Iowa.
il The good horses are all gone to mar
4 ket excepting those absolutely necessa-
s ry to the labor on the farms. The horse
buyers on the road are inferior in num-
Il bers only to the travelling salesnlanwhc
y sells the redeye of commerce to the
l3priyate individual. The lattersis harmed
= llegion and halls from almost any place
There's a lot Of him. The write,
! checked up forsore of this gentry late
y ~ who was making a return of coilec
: Istions and sales and wanted 10 max
S sure his balance was correct. His terri
tory embraced a portion of mine ant
Z many of the names We're familiar. H
had them from bootleggers up to dea
!, cons. with possibly one or two highe
: up the ecclesiastical ladder. One MAJ
e whoshad stood OFF, his newspaper ac
count of sl.s5 had paid $3.50 that sam,
n day for bug juice.
S ..Diamond Billy, Hall broke the rec
:, ord for horse buying lately at Corydon
e where he bought from farmers 240 i1eat
e in one day. Twelve car loads of horse
bought in one day. horse by horse
5 seems rushing business.
e One of the portions of Iowa offering
n good opportunities is the rough coun
try lying along the line of the Grea
I Western south of central Iowa. TIL
: landls as yet low priced compared Wit
81 land values in the more level parts an
n offers good returns in the cattle bust
e ness to those who have sufficient CAPT
n tai tosinvest. 1t is a good grass coun
n try! and is an easy place to make a lit
lie tie money easily.
Atl The postoffice at Shenandoah is shor
q, of help or the help abnormally SLOW
Sometime ago the writer waited fror
lg 7:3O a. m. to 9:45 the same day TO &c
ID an opportunity Of asking for his mai
IL F. A. MOSCRIP.
A Death at Mnrcngo.
y Marengo, April 11.-Joseph ]. Glen
,ll.l ents died at his home in this city Sur
hi day evening the 18th inst. aged
r years. He came to this country frol
Ireland in 1853, and located on a farl
lie near Marengo in 1856. Some years az
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