Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-26
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Gait, Nov. 26.-Within n radius of
,1redges are at work, four floaters and
one dry land machine. Unless break
down occurs, and such a thing fire.
quently happens, a dredging machine
can dig q big ditch 500 feet in length
every twenty-four hours. These ma
chimes are kept in operation contin-
ually. night as we'll as day and some
of the owners claim they can work
successfully thru fifteen inches OF
frozen ground. In round numbers
Wright county is now digging half a
mile every day Of large wide bitches,
which empty into the Iowa river In
addition, many farmers are thing their
farms by small drain tile running into
these large bitches. Some of the far
mer boys are looking forward 10 next
year catching good strings of fish
out of these big drainage bitches. The
water in them will be clear and free
from many substances the fish avoid.
when possible, and as some of these
bitches are eight or ten feet deep and
as wide, there is no reason why in
the spring many good fish will not
come into these artificial streams.
SO
More depressing news President
Marvin tHughitt of the Northwestern
road, a proverbially conservative man,
says the corn crop this year in Iowa
will yield the farmers $500,000,O 900
and the farms of that state alto
gether will yield not less than s1,000,-
100000 Ruin!'
The above is taken from the Hart
ford, Conn.,, Courant. How they do
lie about us. And such talk, in the
opinion of many, is what keeps prices
down. Some think if the real facts
were known about our corn crop, corn
would be worth a dollar a bushel. The
reader should understand these words
are written in Wright county where
the corn crop is not over one-fourth
of an average yield And here's a pc
culiar thing: When one meets a far
mer up here and mentions the good
corn crop this year Of Mahaska coun-
ty, the fair corn crop of Pcweshiek,
lama, Marshall and Grundy counties,
he is looked upon as mistaken, or
worse.
Should a livery man shoe his own
horses, always supposing that he
knows how. That's the all absorbing
question before the corner grocery de-
batting society of NeXtown. The mega
tive was forcibly and profusely shown
by the village blacksmith. Some of the
merchants think that the blacksmith
ought to start livery Some of the
mechanics say it's no worse than for a
merchant to make his own sidewalk
And the meat market man says every
store keeper in town keeps bacon, and
hams, and would ship in fresh meat if
they had q place to keep it. The hotel
man says everybody keeps boarders
and takes all the transient trade they
can get hold of. The preacher men
toned that he had no monopoly. That
they sent away for evangelsts and
paid said evangelists more for six
weeks work, than for his six months
labors And the store keeper said for
blacksmith to kick because the liV-
cry man shod his own horses, didn't
hurt town half as much as to send
off to catalog houses and buy bill
of goods he would sell fully as cheap.
And the livery man remarked, you all
take the side of the blacksmith when
there isn't one of you but what borrow
your neighbours horse and buggy in
stead of hiring a rig of me. NextoWn
isn't in this county, but it's on the
map, marked population 100.