Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-10
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ception room for tine use CT patrons, out
of which there is a safety vault con-
tanning at present the boxes for the
farmers and others to deposit their pa
pers and valuables. This room also
contains a desk, chairs, stationery, etc.,
which visitors are welcome to use to
transact private business. In addition
there is another room and safety vault
for the use of officials and below in the
basement still another safety deposit
vault, probably for the use OF future
generations when the present rich
farmers around Gearing have filled
these other two vaults. In the bank
room proper is the regulation large bur-
glar proof safe for the use OF the bank.
1t would seem as tho Gearing had
place where thieves can OF break thru
and steal and where moth and rust Will
not corrupt.
Tn nearly every town in Iowa there Is
lat least one man to be thoroughly pit
lied. It's the man who has accumulated
wealth and is trying to co nothing. Ana
lie makes a fiat failure OF ii, in so far as
his personal enjoyment is concerned.
He finds everybody busy when rs goes
down town, no one has time to talk
Ito him. the women folks have driven
him out of the house tired of having
him hang around there. he's too proud
TO stop and talk with the town loafers,
there's no one in the hotel to visit with,
he imaeines the landlord is tired OF his
company. so he goes after his mail, but
that only uses up half hour, and back
home he goes to find ths house full of
women who wish he would stay away
till meal times. Pity the sorrows OF
the do-nothing rich man who lives in
an Iowa town, especially the small Iowa
town, where card playing and billiards
are considered bad form and the man
who enters a saloon is socially ostra-
cIsed.
And the reports still come In of the
feeders of Iowa's soft corn. Almost
without exception they nave lost money.
If the writer remembers correctly. the
scientific fellows early in the season
made a statement that altho this crop
| of 1902 was soft and 'chaffy' 1t con-
tanned fattening qualities equal 10
sound corn. But the experience OF the
practical feeders has knocked the SCI
entific doctrine into sm.thereens Big
feeders near Belmond bought lot OF
| soft corn in December, paying 40 cents,
and fed it for several weeks. Now these
| same feeders are shipping in sound
corn that costs laid down 10 cents Cone
firm has shipped in eighteen carloads),
and will only offer 25 cents for corn
raised around Belmond. The money
lost by feeders in Iowa this year makes
| 1T the most disastrous season in the
memory Of the oldest inhabitant. Many
will lose not only all the corn they have
| fed, but can not sell the carload OF
steers for what they paid for them. The
beef trust must be dead or sleeping.
Travelling men think Marshalltown
must be beginning boom season and
/ give as an indication that desirable
modern houses are almost impossible to
/ obtain for those who want to rent
house to live in. There are In abun-
dance houses that rent fer Sc to s15
month. but flats cottages or houses
renting from $3.50 tos350 year, are all
occupied. 1t is reported that one party
who will build series of sixteen flats
to be finished on Aug. I, has already
1 leased twelve of them to anxious ten
| ants. That's what's the matter with
| Marshalltown.'
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