Ottumwa semi-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1899-1903, 1902-06-17
FOUND IN THE TALL GRASS.


FOUND IN THE TALL GRASS.
Ida Grove Era: A bunch of blue
grass from the farm of James Deal,
of Hayes township, was shown to us
this week. 1t stands over three feet
high and is a good specimen of Ida
county products.
Orange City Herald: Referee G.
Klav on Saturday sold the Jansma
farm of 120 acres to P. H. De Jong for
$ll,0SO, or sos per acre. There are
practically no improvements on the
place, and a new record is thus placed
on the value of Sioux county land.
Armstrong Journal: A woman
wouldn't be satisfied without an I'M
natural bump on her somewhere. For
a time the hustle sufficed. The big
sleeves with an unnatural bump on
the shoulder came next, but did not
last long. The bump then moved
from the shoulder to the cuff. Just
now it is the fad to wear shirtwaist
that looks as if peck of apples had
been dumped into it in front.
keosauQua Republican: P. J, Hal
loran, who purchased the Robert Ely
farm of $40 acres in Harrisburg town
ship something over a year ago, has,
we understand, sold to Benz Rhynas,
of Illinois, who recently purchased the
George Gall farm in Cedar township.
Mr. Halloran gave about $50 an acre
and sold for $3.50 an acre, which
gains him a profit of over $4,6S0 in
less than two years by the advanced
price on the land.
Charlton Herald: There is a queer
animal friendship at the home of
James Wilson, lin North Charlton For
several years a big fat toad has in
habited the yard and lately the fam
lily cat has become very much attach
ed to the reptile. They play together
in remarkable manner, the cat toy
ing with the toad as it would with
kitten or ball. and the toad recipro-
eating by hopping in the cats face in
sport, hiding under the board walk,
and so on Once in while, when the
cat gives the toad a playful pat on
the head with its paw, the toad will
utter queer sound, half between a
cry and a croak. The whole perform
ance is very amusing and unusual, and
naturalists would find much pleasure
and profit in studying the antics of
two animals.
Orange City Herald: With hay I'D to
So per ton, corn at so cents and oats
at 40 cents the horse has become a
luxury.
Waverly Independent: The Waverly
milk condensing factory now gets 30
900 pounds of milk daily, for which
they pay cent a pound, $500 day.
They make three carloads of condens-
ed milk week Each car takes TAI
cases of 4S cans each, 35,56S cans of
condensed milk every week. Besides
they use about 5000 pounds of milk
each day for the butter they make.
Marshalltown mes-Republican: An
instance of the remarkable prosperity
OF the farming districts is related by
one of the Times-Republican travelling
agents, who has been working on the
rural mail routes at Deep River. In a
days drive he observed twelve new
barns and six new farm houses One
of these residences had cost $4,000,
and all were modern and roomy, with
modern conveniences in the way of
bath rooms. furnaces and the like.
Hampton Recorder: This is the sea-
son for snake stories, and H. H. Wheel
er, living in the northwest part of
town, has one that is offered as a
SfQrtnr A fnuy do
was hunting eggs, and found in hens
nest bullsnake between three and
four feet long, snugly coiled up and do
ing his best to swallow an ordinary
hens egg, having already gotten the
biggest part in its mouth when rudely
interrupted in it's repast. The shell
was not broken, and Mr.. Wheeler says
that the snakes head was not half as
big as the egg.
Centerville Citizen: Lincoln Harbold
of Johns township, the cattle king and
peerless farmer of southern Iowa, was
in the Citizen Office Saturday Swap
pin" lies, and told one that was hard
for us to believe; but it coming from
Link we swallow it as the gospel
truth, as it is not entirely an impossi-
bility. He said that the grass on his
farm during the past twenty-five days
had grown twenty-five inches by actual
measurement and he could bring the
stalks in to prove it. He said it was
not necessary to push the measuring
stick down to the ground to get a
clear twenty-five inches.
INTERVIEWS AT LONG RANGE.