Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-30
PHONES IN SCHOOL
A New Luxury for the Rural
Resident Tried in West.
ern Iowa.
Homes and School House Con-
nected by Telephone..lt
Comes Handy.
An Ingenious Mothers Use Of
ofthe Phone System..A Sue
cessful Farmer.

Wall Lake. Jan. 3O.-Telephone con-
nection between the country home and
the rural school house is new thing
under the sun-at least to the writer.
East of Lake a summer resort located
on Wall Lake. the progressive farmers
have an excellent telephone line. which
connects most of the homes in that vi
cinty and knots the neighborhood to-
gether for business and social pur-
poses. Even the school houses are
wired to connect with this line and the
home may be put into instant COM
munication with the school house
where the children pass one third of
each twenty four hours.
This plan would seem to have many
advantages for both patrons and
teacher. On stormy days parents may
telephone the children to wait for the
conveyance which will be sent to bring
them or that the father will pick them
up on the way home from town. The
teacher and the parents get acquainted
and school matters are or may be dis
cussed over the phone.
1t is less embarrassing for the teach
er to explain over the wires why john
lie received his dressing down while
that tough little Smith boy escaped
scot free or how it comes about that
the johnson girl can go into the
Fourth Reader" Will Mary must be-
gin again with the Third. 1t is more
comfortable and gives the school
ma am courage and conviction to know
that the irate progenitor of John and
Mary is expanding his scowls on an
telephone case mile and
half away. Then there is always the
dernier resort of hanging UP the re-
ceiver and cutting off communication.
Further the irate progenitor also will
be careful in his language because he
is aware that half the school district
has its receivers down and is listening
with delight.
1t was on this route not long since
that an ingenious mother struck new
scheme worth the consideration of 9TH
err mothers not so ingenious, perhaps.
She went calling at a neighbours not far
away from her home. leaving the baby
asleep in it's bed. From the neighbours
she called Central and informed the
operator that she had gone from home
leaving the receiver down on her
phone and requesting central" to no.
tify her at once If the baby cried. Cen.
trail could hear the child's cries when
the receiver was left hanging and when
the infant awoke, as it did later, and
piped vociferously, she notified the
who forthwith hurried to COM
fort it. Tending baby at six miles dis
lance by telephone is another new
wrinkle and shows how the world do
move"
1t was on the Lake View route that
found farmer whose income from
cream alone is S110 monthly. He 1nilks
a large number of cows, separates the
milk in his own COW barn and delivers
the cream to the Lake View creamery.
The farmer is Dane and worked he
says. In Denmark at Is cents per day.
him in possession of 550-acre farm
and an income of proportion he never
dreamed of in Denmark The instance
IS cited simply to show what a careful.
economical man may do in Iowa with
40 capital but health and determine
lion.
The rural mail routes out of these
two neighboring towns, Wall Lake and
Lake View. lead thru a delightful farm
ng country. This year corn was in
ured by drouth in this portion of Sac
county, and in a few instances came
close to failure. Despite this the ask
ng price of farms gets very close to $40
md very little is on the market at this
rate. Outside of swampy farms the
prices roost higher. Adjoining the lake
10 one has land on the market at less
han $50. The community is largely
American in nationality and contains a
racted here by the comparatively low
orice of farms as good as they got S12O
or in Illinois.
Lake View is becoming each year
nore frequented as 8. summer resort. |
i lies on the shore of beautiful little |
Wall Lake, where fish abound and |
shooting in the season is fairly good. |
Coating excursions and the usual at
fractions of the summer resort bring
many to Lake View each summer
is when Lake View booms
md rises from it's status as q village
o the stature of city populous and
ul of business.
There is a gang of gamblers work
ng the unwary and sportively inclined
m Iowa railroads. Every now and then
ONE one tells the writer of some tray-
ling man or other passenger who
ught to know better being roped in
~ this bunch of tinhorns whose opera
mall. Five, ten or twenty-five dollars
$ about the extent to which the vic
i'm bleeds. Their method of operating
5 to arrange pitch game and ask
ONE stranger to take hand. After a
'eriod of play the victim gets three
ces for his first three cards. This, the
writer is led to infer, is good poker
and. One of the gang mentions incl
entally about this time that Ii he were
laying poker he'd bet something on the
irst three cards he received. The VIC
i'm, certain that he has every one
bout the board beaten, falls into the
rap The betting goes as far as the
i, to, IL