Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-03-15
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Nevada March 15.-The other dan
! While in Tama the writer met Mr.. Cory
the farmer" of the Indian reserva
ton near that place Not everyone
knows that Uncle sam pays q yearly
salary to man, whose whole duties
are to teach thes. Indians how, when
and where to raise crops on their 600
acres of good Iowa soil. One would
/ suppose that after all of these years OF
/ observation, that 10" the poor Indian,
would know when, where and how TO
| do it, but he doesn't. {sonle claim there
are White farmers needing just such
a teaehei') AT any rate the teaching
| is going IN every day About 100 men
| are engaged in cultivating the soil.
| These men farm it in patches of tive
| to twenty acres, in all have under the
| plow sorle 600 acres. Garden truck
| is the principal stuff raised. but corn,
beans and squash are the favorite pro-
ducts Some how they don't run to po-
tatoes, which perhaps others can ex-
plain the reason thereof. 1t will be seen
that less than ten per cent of the res
ervation is cultivated. the other nine
tenths being devoted to grass and hay
on this they raise ponies, only very
few cattle being in evidence. Mr. Cory
gave the writer no figures on the dog
crop. but it is fairly good one this
year as usual.
Since an item was published in this
column concerning Iowa horses being
shipped to the Canadian market, the
writer was informed that brother OF
Mr. f. c. Rust, of Glidden, Iowa. comes
to Carroll county every year and buys
horses for the Duluth market. He buys
the big ones, paying as high as $4oo
for we'll matched 1900 pound
pair of "slocky" ones. And a merchant
of Glidden, pertinently suggests that
Duluth is much nearer Canada than
Iowa. and wonders why Mr.. Rust does
not buy the cheap horses" of Canada
so much nearer Duluth and thus save
the heavy freight charges from Iowa to
Duluth.
In Ames the ministers of that
thriving town have been running re-
vival meeting since January 4th. and
are meeting with great success. nearly
u hundred converts being the result up
to the tirle of this writing. There
lis nothing wonderful in the account,
but 1t suggests possibilities to other
communities, who send off and get
professional revivalist. paying him
anywhere from $3.50 to $1,000 for four
weeks service. The whole expense of
this successful revival is the heating,
lighting OF the church where the serv-
ices are held, and janitors Fay in car
ing for the building. A collection is
taken every night, which the writer
was told lays the running expenses.
X seems almost incredible that the in
terest in these meetings can be kept
up, week after week, and SO many be-
come converted, without having
professional revivalist on hand to give
talks Ito inen only" or to hold after
noon meetings for women only but
somehow The people OF Ames do not
need such interesting 60 adjuncts to
draw crowd to hear the gospel of
Jesus Christ. Neither do these home
talent min sters find ii necessary to as
sure their audiences that ''Ames is the
Aiekedest town they have ever lived
In or that women who attend dances
play cards are, etc. Cor the stereo
type remarks on these subjects of thu.
professional revivalist. read the daily
papers OF he towns where the profess
sional evangelist holds forth).
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