Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-15

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C;ermania Aug. IA carload OF
ducks Was loaded and Slipped to New
York from this point one day this week
Four carloads were shipped last Au-
gust and September. As a carload OF
ducks weighs $1,000 pounds, and the
buyers pay cents a pound for old
ducks and 10 cents for young ones, one
team easily figure the amount OF money
tine farmers wives gel from this one
item of country produce. Again, chick
ems are being sold for cents pound
TOR old and 10 cents a pound for young
Jones. Turkeys are reported scarce ana
prices will be way UP for those mar
keted in November and later.
| The uppermost subject of converse
ton with ai classes of business men
lis the corn crop. From Forest city west
10 Baskerville on the c.. r. l. & p. rail
lroad there is more poor corn than good,
land only a phenomenally late fail Will
give these farmers q crop. Of course
ION rolling ground. early planted. there
4 viii be many acres of good corn IL the
| frost keeps off as late as usual
| The threshing machines are now at
work on the oats ard the yield Is good,
had and Indifferent. Early soWed oats
! liz many cases are going forty bushels
to the acre and Weighing twenty-six to
twenty ght pounds 10 the bushel.
Late oats are poor Weighing only eight
Teen TO twenty pounds and very light
yield There seems little or no dispo-
Isiti0n 10 stack along ntre, and thou
sands of acres will remain in the shock,
exposed to all kinds of weather till the
machine comes around.
/ Troubles never come sngly. Even
I the fishing at Spirit Lake and the Oko-
bojis is poor. Industrious fishermen
are threshing the water from early
Idawn to sunset and small strings are
the result. One party of four worked
hard all of last Saturday to get fVe
perch and two bullheads. SunoAo fore
moon two expert fishermen failes to get
a strike. And a camping out party from
Lake Park say for the past Week they
can hardly get fish enough to eat. the
reason Is a simple one, and an easy
problem TO solve. All around the shores
Ianywhere and everywhere are ten mill
lions of good sized, fat. juicy frogs. the
writer caught twenty-four lively ones
In eleven and three quarter minutes.
AS one walks along the shore these
frogs by the hundred jump into the wa
ter, and all the pickerel. bass on pike
have to do is to pick them up. Even
the solemn. slow bullhead is fattening
these DAYS on frogs hind legs, as when
caught these bullheads are gorged with
that delieacy.
Meanwhile the usual crowd of pleas
ure seekers are here. The cottages are
) full and the hotels overfowing. Rates
, have disappeared and your bill is
straight SO much per. whether you stay
a day, a week or the rest of your hatu-
raj life 1t shows how keen the pubic
) are to "go to the lakes when one Is
told of a tirst-class hotel where re-
! lcent storm blew off part of the ROOF
and vet all of the bedrooms are taker
+ each night, and If 1t rains the guests
, cover up with bedclotiles and the cham
: Ibermaid mops up the mating mex
morning. There's the usual kick on no
getting half enough to eat. and the
party that changes hotels every week Il
5 in evidence the same as last year.
5 THEY'LL be here next year and wher
starved out at one place go to the mex
hotel with their tale of woe. And thes'
hard hearted landlords do not hesitate
, Ito saw that these chronic kickers fail 7
Q Rave ANYTHING to eat at home for clever
r months and expect to get enough her'
. lin the summer to last them TILL mex
: tseason.
: The steamboat service is as good a:
) ever Regular trips are made to the ols
/ hotels. but If one for economy's SAX
. gets off at the smaller and cheaper no
J. ltels then trouble commences. They
come if they see the flag but witt
big load of passengers on, all gong q
, the big hotel. that flag way down IN
: lake is frequently obscured. STU
: there's heap of difference in cap
: ltains. The other night big steamboa
: headed for the depot actually turned
;, about. went down the lake two miles II
= answer to swinging lantern. and USE
= up so cents worth of coal to get 20
i cent passenger. To probably offset TINS
another piratical captain carried
woman with 3-months -old baby iron
In a. M to 3 D. m. all around the lax
! before he had time to go to the landln
: she wished to make. She says the poa
went three times to one big hotsi an
= twice to another before 1t was neaue
towards her stopping place. But IN
: writer heard that story last year. wit
. the babv part omitted Two years ag
~ wss with 4-year-old children, thre
wears ago they told ii on an old woman
= Ave wears on an old man, and ten year
!, ago it happened to
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