Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-29

Indianola
G. S. Igo came in from Kansas City
last week with 16 car loads of feed
cattle, six cars of which he sent to the
farm of Palmyra and 10 of them are at
his feed yards at the outskirts of this
city. This makes &c car loads he is
now feeding and makes altogether 60
cars which he has handled since Jan
II, 1902, total of over 1900 head.
Coon Rapids.
The heavy rains Of Monday and
Tuesday caused quite rise in the river
and played havoc with the new dam,
being put in, most of the new work be-
ing carried away. Some of the timbers
were recovered but the loss to the
contractors was quite heavy, to say
nothing about the loss OF time, etc.
With fair weather there is yet how
ever, time before cold weather for q
new dam to be built.
Red Oak.
4 The Montgomery County Telephone
Company began charging its batteries
this week and it is probable that opera
lions will begin early this week, which
| is considerably sooner than was ex-
Ipected when construction began. The
new company will start in with about
900 phones in Red Oak, practically the
same number the Iowa company has.
But in addition to the town subscribers
there are thirteen rural lines with near
ly $50 patrons.
Sac City.
G. S. Larimer is preparing to start an
artificial stone mandatory in Sac City.
His experience in making cement walks
and concrete foundation material has
been considerable and he is convinced
that there will be q demand for arti-
fetal stone, on account of its cheapness
land durability as compared with
quarry rock. He hopes this fall to get
out his patterns for machinery he will
use In the work and he will erect this
fall or next spring the necessary buold-
lings.
Sioux City.
Farmers who were in Sioux City re-
Gently report that in northwestern
Iowa the potato crop will be damaged
80 per cent by the wet weather of
August and the recent drenching rain.
It is reported that per centage is eth
er rotten now or will be before they can
be dug. Even the early potatoes are not
nearly all out of the ground, and the
harvesting of the late crop has scarcely
got under way. Ordinarily much of the
early potatoes would have been dug
last month. But the almost constant
rains delayed work of all kinds, and
gave farmers but little time to- attend
to their potato fields. Besides, the
ground was SO wet In many places that
1T was impossible to dig the tubers.
Tama.
There has been considerable discus
sion In newspapers recently and
especially in the agricultural press as
to the possibility of growing good
winter apples in Iowa. Every season
the market is glutted with home grown
summer and fall apples and prices have
ranged from twenty-five and fifty cents
bushel. But winter apples have been
scarce. selling readily at from 81 to 81
a bushel. An old settler of Highland
township tells the Herald that this
condition of things is unnecessary and
that winter apples can be grown in
this neighborhood as well as the fall
varieties. He mentions the Willow
twig and Romanstem as being perfectly
hardy. Another variety that has done
we'll for few years is the Pewaukee.
1t would seem desirable that Tama
county farmers replenish their orchards
next spring with good winter apples
rather than the varieties with which
the country Is now well supplied.