Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-07-08
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Gearing. July Zone man near here
"las eighty acres of timothy that needs
cutting Rye in many pieces is dead
ripe. And still ii rains. Harvest is
close at hand and those that cross
bridges before they get to them are
leary about the weather next Week. :
There is no question but what the dam
ger signal has been shifted from the
corn fields to the hay and harvest fields.
The past few walm days and nights
have done wonders for the corn crop,
but the usual uneven fields are in evil
,ience, the late planted being more than
usually backward on the 4th of July.
Many fields not over six or eight inches
high can be seen from the car windows.
of the hundreds of acres of corn on the
district. at present they look like the
river bottoms With the water drawn off.
Even the weeds have been all killed.
and at this writing the farmers can put
these fields TO no use. as teams can not
go on to them. Millett would be Il
POSSIBLE crop if got in by the middle of
this month, but that now seems inn
probable.
Many have read of the efforts of Con-
necticut farmers, to raise tobacco UNI
der canvass, and thus produce 4 crop
bringing much higher prices than the
che raised by the ordinary plan Now
another Yankee has got an "idee
"Dwight Smith, of FLANDERS district
Southington, has been raising straw
berries under canvas this season. About
300 square feet of canvas was used with
success in proportion to that expert
enced by tobacco growers. The fruit
attained a larger growth and ripened
earlier 1t is Mr. Smiths intention to
cover several acres with canvas next
year
If this motion is practicable, Iowa
fruit raisers can adopt it to great adj
vantage, for with the easy and quick
shipments of southern strawberries into
our markets, prices are forced down to
S to 10 cents a quart, by the time the
Iowa crop is ready for market. 1t is to
be hoped that some of our Iowa fruit
growers will try this plan next season
and report results.
We naturally look to the eastern
states for protectors of protection. Out
here. many favor tariff reform or tariff
modification, because we think we need
the markets of the world for our sur
plus food product, 50 that the follow
ing from the Hartford Courant is sug-
gestive:
The Maine democrats want to know
why the steel trust should be charging
Maine shipbuilders S1.65 for material
which it is selling to British shipbuild-
crs for 90 cents. 1t is a pertinent ques-
ton. and a home question. A wiser re-
publican congress, Il more prudent re-
publican congress. would not have Civ
en- the Maine democrats a chance to
ask it," out here in Iowa they have to
wegians wonder how it is they have to
pay So to 50 more for plough than
their relations back in Norway pay for
the same identical manufactured arti-
Gle.
Fourth of July has came and went
The usual number of drunken young
men were on the cars, striving by their
foul language, outrageous actions and
noise, to create the impression they
were awful drunk and dangerous and
bold bad men from wayback. The US
ual number of older drunken men We're
to be seen, giving evidence between the
car seats, that nature gives them a
plan, to relieve overloaded StomachS,
refused to hogs. But the average hog
in the overf1owed hog pen,
was more edfying sight. And where
as we have been led to expect the small
boy to make the the noise on the Fourth
this year the big boys of 81 to 20 We're
as rivals of the kids in this
line. The dynamite cane is a winner.
Armed with this, these little fellows of
%, could get behind women and chill
dren, and brighten them out of their
Wits Then wasn't it fun to put lot
of dynamite caps on the iron rails and
hear them go off together. After drink
ing a few quarts of Hop Ale" the mu-
steal talent brought out was wonder
full. One young man with a voice, the
cross between a caliope and braylng
jackasS, sang one line about baby
NINE" one hundred and twelve times on
an Iowa Central car between MARSHALL
town and Dillon. About the indecent
shows at the Marshalltown carnival the
least said the soonest mended. Strange
to relate there is no need of taking
hearsay evidence. Very few men who
took in the carnival business. but what
can give a detailed account of actions,
words and songs. Very few men who
vent in to see "our girl" but went from
pure? curiosity, so they say now. Went
Summing al la Parkhurst so they could
come home and tell their wives and
daughters, to be sure and not go into
that show. Next year, the year after
and then some, will these advance cour-
iers of civilization take in all of the
couehee- couchee performances to be
had for 10 cents. And next year and in
the future. will they come home and
condemn such vulgar exhibitions. And
after all why pick out these carnival
visitors for criticism, when in our big
cities every night in the year are given
performances for 10 and 20 cents adj
mittance, that make 'our girl performs
ance, much like Sunday school act in
More than that some of
these visitors to these high toned in
decent performances in Chicago and
New York, come home and dwell in the
cdor of sancity for year afterwards, i.
O.. till the next trip to the city.