Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-12
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Alexander, Aug. 11.-Driving from
\ RoGkWell to Swalelale the writer saw
d lot of poor corn-corn that under the
most favorable circums tances viii not
make marketable corn It's in the same
Icondition around this town. between
here and Eemond. And oats are turn
ing out light in weight, but good III
,cc!or. And SO aroun! these towns
I farmers, storekeepers and grain dealers
( are convinced that Iowa will not raise
! haii OF crop this year, and when the
/ l.ooker-On tells them of the fire crops
lin other counties the Information is re-
iceived much as some late fish stories
I from the same source
| And strange TO relate, these good peo-
| pie forget to mention the enormous hay
crop here and elsewhere. They omit to
/ say that thousands of cattle have grown
| fat on these pastures not having been
fed anything by their owners since May
/. And the hay to keep them alive till
next May is already cat and in the
barns or stacks.
| Here's a hay story that can be
lvouched for: A town dweller in Bel
lmond bought three acres of grass and
cut ii and hauled ii TO town. The
ground was carefully measured and the
hay weighed as hauled in. And off that
three acres the purchaser got eleven
and three-fourths tons OF hay Next!
In Thornton a we'll borer is at work
boring a five-inch hole and casing it
up. He is doing this in the center of a
frog pond, where stagnant water prom
Uses to breed disease. The city con-
tracts with this man not for Well of
lure water. but for drainage, and un-
less the five-inch hole drains the frog
pond-no pay. This We'll borer claims
he has successfully drained off other
ponds of standing water. and that if
the water in the we'll does not rise to
within eight inches of the top he will
empty the pond. Business men with
flooded cellars and back yard cesspools
are already figuring to lay sewer pipe
to this fve-inch vertical sewer and
think the whole towns sewerage can
be run into this or several five-inch
bored wells. All of which Will be cheer
ful reading fer those towns which have
gone 10 the expense of putting down ar
4.
AT present this contractor Is down nine
" feet and drilling in rock. and ex-
poets when he gets thru the rock to
quit and drain the pond. Now If this
schsme works. aid ii does in other
places, where will this impure, filthy,
typhoid breeding water go too. Why
into the vein of underground water that
supplies your artesian we'll! Get out
an injunction, neighhor.
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Few realize the different kinds Of
business enterprises that are snriuging
Up all over Iowa. Shipr MS horses like
shipping cattle, has long been an estab-
llshed business. But buying and selling
horses, dealing in retail ono joke in
as it were, is comparatively
new. For instance. there is in Grinnell
a man by the name of j. w. Norris who
keeps q horse store. He will buy and
pay cash for any kind of a decent horse.
and he carries in stock some forty head
if you want to buy. Fe has farm
near town and on the pasture and In
the barns he fits them for market Mr..
Norris was a successful shipper of
horses TO the eastern markets, but now
has given that UP and sells his horses to
the travelling horse buyers. Last year
he sold over $4,000 worth OF horses.
Why shouldn't churches go TO law
hen both parties to a suit know they |
are right and have justice on their
side? Some years ago in one of our
little towns 4 church organization sue
2eeded in getting together property /!
worth $1,000. They had a minister, a |
good congregation and We're flourish /
ing. Then came evil times. The best
men of the church moved away and |
finally the trustees sold The property to /
another church organization and used .
he money TO pay up their debts. But il |
seems there is at least one or two I
church organizations in this country
where the deeds TO any property are
made out to officials in trust for the
,hurch, that is, the Episcopal, the Cath
,lic the Salvation Army and probably
,thers, and this society was one OF
hem And thu purchasers found this
,ut after dnstead of before) buying
his property. Hence we have the spec
acle of one religious organization try
ng to hold property that another re-
igious organization has bought and
oaid for.
Grnnell, in licensing billiard rooms
md bowling alleys, has inserted in the
license one provision other towns will
10 well to to copy. They prohibit the
ale of soft drinks" or the premises.
1t first glance this seems unreasonable
or after the inevitable violent exercise
cold drink of pop or lemonade would
ONE handy. But, say the wise city ia
hers of Grinnell. such Places would be
ure to sell sweet cider that will get
ard. Somebody would call for an in
oceut lemonade and then proceed to
our in something stronger from the
ocket flask. Even the proprietors
Night sell hop ale, malt extract or Is. Il.
Veil protect these billiard room and
owing alley proprietors. Well force
hem to avoid even the appearance of
vii. Down with soft drinks! Only ice
sater goes.
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