Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-12
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Kiron. Aug. Lit Is sometimes a
good idea to wait and tell the last
story. Marshall county has already
been heard from ON fast growing corn
but how's this from the Vail Observer:
i"Chares Mccullough brought to town
this week stalk of corn, which can be
taken as proof of good corn weather.
Mr. Mccullough made a nick in the
corn stalk, a certain distance from the
ground. and twenty-four hours after
ward it had grown thirteen inches. The
stalk can be seen in front of Watsons
/ harness shop"
The Winchester Democrat says that
"A Kansas candidate for a county office
has introduced a novel and what seems
I to be very useful plan of electioneer-
t ing In his rounds he takes with him
in his buggy a competent ploughman.
When he halls farmer in the field the
ploughman takes the plough or culti
vator and the work goes right on, while
the farmer stands in the shade o. the
hedge row and listens to the tale the
candidate tells. 1t works like a charm.
Some farmers would rather be talked to
for a whole day in the shade than pod
in the new field behind the Implement
Probably that sounds big for Kansas,
but here in Iowa candidates for office
tried the same plan and found it a use
less and extravaganza waste of money.
Our farmers now don't hold the pillow
or cutivator handles. They are able to
hire men "at $50 a month and board"
to do the farm work. Our farmers are
now able to have an office, a stenog-
rapher and short hand reporter. who
send the dictated messages over the
telep phone to the superintendent on the
the different sections of the farm. Its
a fact that in this little threeyear-old
town, the stock buyer buys nearly all OF
the hogs in this vicinity, byt the use
of the telephone. 1t is also another fact
that Albert Hanson, the hardware man
of this town has sold fifteen lawn NOW
ers this summer to nearby farmers.
1t has been noted in this column that
we'll to- do citizens of Mason City, own
ing cottages on the banks of Clear
Lake. have for several years tried CO.
operative housekeeping much to their
satisfaction, financial and otherwise.
Now we are told by Il Sioux City cor
respondent that "Twenty one residents
of the suburb of Morningside have lived
now for twenty weeks independence
and defiance of the servant girl, and
have discovered that by cooperative
housekeeping the head of the family
will save one-f fourth of the cost of sat-
isfying the appetites of the family.
The Parkside Cooperative House.
keeping Association, organized in De-
cember has cost each of the members
an average of $2.35 a week, and has
saved 81 cents a week for each. The
association has found its plan will
mean an annual economy to family
of four members of $lTS.4S This union
Kitchen was the first of it's kind in the
United States. the members say, but so
ISOLATION has been organized here in
the Reinhardt flats, and two more will
be formed in Morningside, to begin OPP
erations next September.
No one has ever doubted the repub-
iicanism of the Hartford (Conn) Cour
ant. Senator Hawley, one of the largest
stockholders and presumably one hay
ing much to do with the tone" of it's
political utterances, curiouSly enough Is
in entire harmony with Governor Cum
MINIS. of Iowa and "his wing on the
duty of the republican party on the
tariff question. And it is safe to say