Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-02-14
Schedule For the Northwestern
Lines Special Train Has
Been Completed
TWELVE DAYS CAMPAIGN
Will Start Out From Ames on March
6 and Will Cover All the Branches
of the System in Iowa-HIoIden and
Other Speakers Will Accompany
Train.
.necfa, to rirnes-Republican.

Special to TfmeS-RepuDllcaH.
Boone, Feb. 14.-The schedule for the
seed corn special over the Chicago d
Northwestern lines in Iowa has been
made out by the Northwestern officials
assisted by those who have charge OF
the seed corn specials In Iowa lhls
spring. Every station with one or
two exceptions, will be visited ana
stop of at least thirty minutes made.
In some of the towns and cities halls
have been secured and preparations
made for big turnouts.
The Northwestern Company Is pre-
pairing circulars which will be put up
i'm every town on the lines In Iowa.
The following is taken from this Cir
cular:
Seed Corn Special.
"a special train, to traverse the
various lines of the Chicago & North
western Railway in Iowa, has been
placed at the disposal of Prof +. U.
Holden of Iowa college of agriculture
the seed corn specialist, whose WORK
for better seed corn and better meth
DDS of selecting and planting nave al
ready done much for Iowa.
"rhe special train will arrive at the
stations named below at the time In
dicated and remain thirty minutes.
Immediately on arrival Prof. Holden
will talk to the farmers and others m
terested after which the train VIII
proceed to the next scheduled station
The talks are given on the train al
the Chicago & Northwestern station,
except as stated otherwise in schedule
below. Abundance free. Good seats
warm cars. Come and hear straight
practical understandable half hour
talk. Let your town be we'll repre-
sented.'
The Schedule.
The train will start out from Ames
March 9Th, go north to Jewell juno
ton and back to Tama. The tram
will be deadheaded to Anamosa and
will then so to Clinton and back TO
Cedar Rapids. on the second day.
On the third day the train will COW
err the line from Cedar Rapids TO
Boone, arriving here about $50 p. M
and spending the night here.
March 9th, the fourth day. the spec
ial will start out from Boone. A lee
ture will be given in this city at S:3o
a. M, in the car at the Northwestern
station. The train will leave here at
o'clock west bound for Carroll,
then on the Southwestern to Audu-
bon and Harlan and back to Carroll,
where on the evening Of March 9TH
lecture will be given in public
hall. at 1880 o'clock.
The train leaves Carroll on the fifth
day for Missouri Valley and from
there to Wall Lake, where it will stay
all night On the sixth day the train
will work from Wall Lake to Sioux
CITY. where in the evening at 1880 q
lecture will be given in public hall
the Northwestern transporting the
farmers from nearby! towns to and
from the meeting place.
The train will leave Sioux City on
the morning of the seventh day for
Lake City, where in the evening talk
will be given in a public hall. The
towns on this line will be visited dur
ing the day.
On the morning of the eighth day
the special will make the towns from
Lake City to Eagle Grove. where at
night a lecture will be given at z: 80
o'clock.
From Eagle Grove the special will
spend the ninth day in making the
towns until Hawarden is reached
whose in the evening another lecture
will be given at 1880 o'clock. The
tenth day will be spent in working
from Hawarden to Sutherland, Their
the eleventh day the special will COM
mence at Burt and go north to Fox
Lake and back to Mason City. March
18th. the twelfth day the special viii
make the towns from Mason City
back to Belle Plaine and then dead
head from Belle Plaine to Ames. The
last day the train will make the
towns from Ames south, ending the
tour with the lecture at Ankeny.
Those Who Will Make the Trip.
Among those who will make the
trips the following may be mention
ed:
P. G.. Holden, who will deliver the
lectures.
One or two assistants from the col
lege.
George A. Wells, secretary Iowa
Grain Dealers Association, Des
Moines.
Superintendent of the division over
which the special is touring.
The train will be made up of pri-
vate car for the party, two coaches
to be used for the lecture and trans
porting the farmers to and from
towns if necessary.
Superintendent w. H. Whalen of the
Iowa division believes that much good
will be the result of the tour. He be-
lieves that the special should not only
stop at the corn shipping stations, but
where the corn is fed and the cattle
shipped. 1t is as necessary for the lat
ter men to raise big crops as those
go