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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24
NATURAL GAS IN IOWA.

Herndon, twenty years ago the CEN
ter of hope that natural gas field
had been found in Iowa, is on the
boom again. Reports have it tina:
two gusher gas wells" have been
struck there. At any rate company
has been formed, an expert found to
predict great things in gas and oil and
options on 5000 acres of land Sc
cured.
1t is twenty odd years since this lit
tie village on the Milwaukee flourished
in prospectuses as the coming metrop-
oils where factories were to multiply
and pipe lines concentrated. Some one
with large confidence and little mon
ey built hotel of some pretensions.
He got on the ground early. The ho-
tel is still on the ground I'M
less some one has moved it
away. Its guests have long since de-
parted with the hope that brought
about its erection. Now the excite
ment is on again. Perhaps some one
viii build another hotel. Perhaps the
latest builder shall die millionaire?
TO the prospector, gold always
glimmers at the bottom of a hole in
the ground. otherwise he wouldn't be
a prospector. To the promoter "a
company is a prospect hole. If Hern-
don is destined to be new Muncie
or Findlay all Iowa will rejoice.
However, it is we'll to remember that
a lot of territory surrounds a real oil
field and not every drill taps a gusher.
Frederick, Metz and other oil and gas
prospects in Iowa have not strength
ened distrust of the scientists who
place Iowa outside the gas belt and in
sist that our prospects are but pockets,
not sources of supply
Ordinary men with little money to
invest will do we'll to wait Instead of
gas stock buy a COW with the spare
change. A COW is good property and
one can often get large blocks of gas
and mining stock for a good mixer
Buy the cow first and wait.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24

these fifty-nine towns there were
shipped by rail during the year 81,
147 car loads of farm products, valued
at S1S,3S5,O20 in addition to the ST.
100000 paid in freight rates to the
transportation companies.
Figures are prosy things. II the
car loads shipped from Essex hat.
been sent out at one time, engines and
cars in the single train would have
stretched over about four miles of
track. The head engine would whistle
for Shenandoah while the cahoose
stood before the depot in Essex. The
hogs in the train would furnish a
ham or shoulder for every family In
MarshalltoWn, Dies Mones, Ft. Dodge,
Waterloo, Dubuque, Clinton, Daven :
port. Burlington, Cedar Rapids and
Sioux City, and possibly leave over
enough to supply Council Bluffs. The
cattle sent out would offer quarter
of beef to every man, woman and child
in Marshalltown. The Swedish farm
ers about the little Nishna town fed
themselves and sent a surplus out big
enough to make meal for millions.
1t is q modernization of the miracle
of the loaves and fishes.
Multiply Essex by the thousands of
other towns and villages in Iowa
whence the food supply of the world
rolls out on wheels day after day
Add to the product those of the great
stretching agricultural west. Tho result
is astounding. Why, the wheat and corn
crops of three years ago were worth
in cash two billions! Two billions of
dollars, enough to buy 100000 one hun
dred acre farms at 800 an acre.
Let panic rage among the specula-
tors. There is little speculative about
of bacon, hams, beef and
mountain ranges of corn and oats and
wheat No water In these. They are
the bases of wealth, solid as the rock
ribbed hills. safer than banks and the
secret of the predominance of the
corn country"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24
CAPTAIN PATTEe's WISE SUGGESTION.

/ Capt. Pattee of the Des Moines po-
plan. He had sent an officer home
with two foolish little girls who had
been rambling the streets late at night
when he announced his intention to
ask the council to empower the police
Elnatron with authority to spank sound
lily girls found running about at night
in search of fiirtations. Girls he AYERS
are brought to the station nightly, not
vicious or depraved girls, but the fool
I ish daughters of decent people, carried
away by the idiocy of Irritation that
! attacks even good girls at times. When
| he catches these the captain would
have them spanked soundly and sent
home to bed.
| suggestion. However, it scarcely goes
! far enough. While the police matron
was busy with her slipper, a husky
patrolman might well be busy with
| a paddle for silly boys and an elm
club for designing men. No idiotic
little girl ever went out to put her
soul and her future in peril that she
twas unable to find men anxious to
help her down the facile descent to
Avernus. Spanking is no remedy in
the latter cases. They need a club
unless a riot gun with buckshot were
to be substituted.
| And while the patrolman and the
matron were in active pursuit of their
blacksnale whips should be sent to
interview the girls parents at the
home address If spanking is good for
the girls. horsewhipping is none too
good for the parents who permit them
to run at large too weak to command
or too reckless to care. There are
infinite possibilities and much prospect
of satisfaction in an elaboration of
Captain Pattee's scheme.
Perhaps had the night watch taken
Irene Blydenburgh from the carriage
in which she took her midnight rides
with Dickinson, cuffed her ears sound
ly and sent her home she might be
alive and respected, instead of lying in
shameful grave while lawyers
wrangle over her life and character
and the morbid and curious crowd to
the salacious entertainment.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24

about six miles southeast of Column
bus Ind, latitude 80 degrees . minutes
SO seconds north, longitude SIS degrees
40 minutes Sd seconds west
f. Augustus Heinze seems to have
been Jared loose from his rocket
Mrs. Chadwick's $350,000 laid away
for her release from prison was worth
less when she finally came out
According to Il statement made by
the Pennsylvania Society for the Pre-
vention of Tuberculosis, consumption
costs the people of Philadelphia more
than $4,000 q day, or more than ST.
900 900 a year At present there are
900 consumptives living in that city.
Mrs Mary A. Wright of Burlington.
Vt, is probably the oldest Sunday
school teacher in the world The six
tieth anniversary of her service as a
teacher was recently celebrated, and
she received messages of congratula-
ton from Vice President Fairbanks,
Hon. William Jennings Bryan and 9TH
err prominent persons. Mrs. Wright is
vet teacher of the women's bible class
of the First Baptist church of Bur
lington.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24
Topics Of the Times

No doubt the aborigine who invented
Iowa's Indian summers was good
Indian.
A furnace for roasting iron ore has
been installed at Waukon Junction
and it is predicted that the ore beds of
northeastern Iowa are to be made a
profitable source of supply. Add iron
to our natural resources.
4 + Il
The Times Republican is in receipt
of copy of the Iowa Year Book of
Agriculture for 1906 issued by j. C.
Simpson, secretary of the state de-
partment of agriculture. The book
has an interesting collection of sta
tistics and important facts about Iowa.
1t is attractively bound in black and
gold and illustrated with pictures OF
the Iowa fair grounds, showing the
great fair crowds, and of Iowa farm
scenes.
London doctors give warning that
progressive card parties are prolific
sources of influenzas, etc, thru dis
tributive exchange of germs. Still a
goodly number of colds may be at
tributed to the frosty stare of your
lady partner after losing game.
The intoxication of speculation has
made money tight"
An eastern preacher assures his
hearers that there will be no auto
in heaven AS there can be
no asphalt paving in the other place,
the future Of the automobile is cloud
ed.
The center of population of the IN
tied States at the last census. not in
Guiding Alaska or Hawaii, was located
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24
THE WORLDS sTOREH0UsE.

Essex. a little town in Page coun-
ty on a branch line of the Burlington
and in the productive center of the fer
tile Nishnabotna valley, is cited by a
writer in the World Today as an IL
lustration of the reasons why the
middle west finds itself released from
the financial domination so long en-
joyed by the east over the west. From
that town in the year ending with
June 80 last We're shipped Isl car loads
of cattle. 227 cars of hogs, 80 cars of
corn. nine cars of horses. three cars
of eggs and one car of oats, for all
of which the farmers of the vicinity
were paid, clear of freight charges,
s413,Ss1 Essex is one of the fifty nine
towns within 900 miles west from Chi
cago which are used by the magazine
writer to illustrate his point From
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24
The Strawpile


| cheaply. Their owners were also do
ing we'll financially and doing that
! cheatly The rape was not large, as
| 1t usually is when sown with grain
| but the acreage was SO large and the
season so early there VIII still be
much growth. This man has grown
no corn so far, as he cinsiders 1t
too far north to be n safe crop, but
| barley and speltz are looked to for
| finishing grain and have given excel
lent results in the past.
This farm is an almost exclusive
cornless small grain farm, and still
hogs are so brought into 1t that they
form the principal source of income.
The Montana station has recently
| made some very interesting expert
ments along this line F'orty-one pigs
from 8 to . months old were allowed
the run of barley, wheat, and pea
stubble fields of Is, 1914 and 1913
acres respectively. For some time
before the test they had been pas
tured on alfalfa and fed one pound
of cracked barley per head daily. For
ten weeks Immediately preceding the
test they made a daily average gain
of 042 pounds per head. While pas
tured on the stubble fields they were
given no grain in addition to what
they could find, except on stormy
days. The grain thus fed amounted
to al pounds in the five weeks of
the test.
During the time the pigs made a
gain of 22.S pounds per head. or 175
pounds. deducting the amount which
1t was calculated they gained from the
grain fed during stormy weather. On
the supposition that As pounds Of
grain are required to produce pound
, of pork. the forty-one pigs gathered
1928 pounds of grain, which otherwise
would have been lost The harvesting
had been done in the usual manner,
and in the Investigators opinion the
amount of peas and grain remaining IN
the field did not exceed that left on
the stubble fields on the average farm.
The scattered grain could not have
been saved In any other way, and
represents a clear profit.
The grain saved from the stubble
fields by these pigs was not all that
remained in the fields q longer
tIIUe. SEVEN pTOOW SOWS were dIleT-
wards pastured during the winter
on the station stubble fields, which
included a twenty-four acre oat field
In addition to those mentioned above.
They were given Stops and a small
grain ration on stormy days. The
sows frequently rooted down thru six
inches of snow and found sufficient
grain to keep them in good condition
turnout the entire winter
1t is stated In a recent communica
tion from the Montana station that
several brood sows have been pastured
during the past season on stubble
fields without receiving any grain in
addition, and that they are in fair con-
dition. They had, In addition to the
grain stubble fields, the range OF clo-
ver alfalfa, and timothy meadows and
the gleanings Of fields where root
crops had been raised. The manure
from grain-fed stock, which was
spread upon the fields, also furnished
some grain.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24

The above view of Villageside Farm
presents one of the attractive and
prosperous farm places of the southern
half of the county. 1t is the old home
of Joseph II. Scurr and wife. Mr.
Schurr was born in Belmont county,
Ohio in 1884 and emigrated with his
parents to near Princeton, Ill. in 1854
In 1859 he was married to Susan
Stevens of Belmont county, Ohio, and
in 1858 they moved to Marshall coun
ty, Ia. and located on half section of
land some four miles southwest of Gill
man.
This farm they rented in 1874 and
moved to Grinnell and in 1876 they
moved back to Gilman, purchasing the
farm which joins Gilman on the west
and which as their home they have
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24

called Villageside Farm.
Mr.. Scurr did not at any time ac-
lively engage in public enterprise, but
was known best by his friends as a
man of frugal nature, never aspiring
to anything but an uprightness in his
career, and though he has seen much
of the darker side in the beginning Of
new country he is of a genial dispo
sition.
He is large land holder and a
stock holder In the New Citizens
bank at Gilman. Mr.. and Mrs. Scurr
who now reside in Gilman are the
parents of two children, Ida F., who
died in young womanhood and j.
Harry, who lives at villageside Farm,
conducting it along the lines laid down
by his father.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24
Completes Bio Feeding Test.

That pigs must be accustomed to
eating shelled corn before they will do
well on 1t was proven in an expert
nent just concluded by Professor VIII
liam Dietrich of the Illinois experiment
station. The pigs used In the test
were sold on the Chicago market.
There We're IS head in the entire lot,
40 of which had been used In the
above mentioned feeding test. They
sold at $6.25.
This is the fifth experiment in Sc
ries which Professor Dietrich is con-
Quoting with the aim of establishing q
new feeding standard. These pigs We're
fed cornmeal. middlings and tankage,
with clover hay The pigs We're weaned
at two months old. when the feeding
began and continued for six months,
making them months old when sold.
In this test when the pigs were weaned
instead of feeding them cornmeal they
were given shelled corn in their slop.
They were fed this way for three
weeks. but didn't do well, so the
shelled corn was dropped and the
cornneal added. Professor Dietrich
says they lost from so to 80 pounds
Setll ny 6INiil6 lHSii ShSiiNN Scii'. ny
did not masticate 1t thoroughly and
it hurt their digestion. He says 1t
showed that cornmeal was necessary
TO the ration to dilute the middlings
and tankage and more equally dis
tribute the protein. Otherwise they did
not all get an equal share, some eating
more than others. In previous tests
pigs have been made to average $50
pounds at months as compared with
the 1T pounds of the present one.
which shows the effect of feeding
shened corn.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24
Hoas in Grain Fields.

Modern farming has obliterated the
pigpen, turned the hog into pastures
and now has it into the stubble fields
just like any other stock.
We recently passed stubble field
of something like a hundred acres in
which could be seen scattered rape
and turnips growing, and this field
was literally covered with Berkshire
and Poland China hogs and pigs.
Quietly feeding on the rape weeds
anditscattered grain heads, they were
singly and in small groups spread over
the entire field hundred and fifty
or more of them. 1t is needless to
say that all these hogs were healthy
and doing we'll, and doing it all
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES

Noting that Mrs. Dickinson STANDS
by her husband, and says. Herbert is
no worse than other men, the North
wood Anchor complains; This Is sure
" rather tough charge to make
against mankind"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24

Lets put the wife deserters at work
on the public highways after legal
provision has been made to that eff
feet" joins in the Keokuk Gate CITY
but meantime lets give them taste
of life in the penitentiary as a re-
hinder Of their duty to those they
have solemnly promised to love, cher
ish and protect"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24

The Cedar Falls Record says: There
is neither sense nor justice in per-
hitting a lot Of DRINKS TO have their
own way on a passenger train where
decent people have paid to ride. The
drunk is getting II on all sides these
days He is not wanted anywhere.
Business men do not want him. EN-
ployers of common labor spurn him
and self-respectiHg people do not want
to associate with him."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24

whether the 1907 corn crop is in
the crib is not nearly so important
a question as whether the 1908 corn
crop has been hung in the seed room,'
points out the Sioux City Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24

and in the meantime" suggests the
Sioux City Journal. Mr.. Hartman
might be able to win a few proxies out
this way by putting back those trains
that were taken off and restoring the
old schedules"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24

The Iowa City Republican says:
Have you ever noticed to what an
extent farmers and others use checks
in the transmission of business? A
few years ago open bank accounts
We're kept by very few, except bust
ness men, but now most of the farm
ers and many of the working people
have them. One thing that has in
creased the banking habit is the es-
tablishment of banks in the small
towns Thirty years ago there We're
but three banks in johnson county;
now there are fourteen"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-24

IF 1t is not yet practical to remove
the tariff on steel without harm TO
the domestic industry, it soon will be-
is the astonishing assertion of the
Dubuque Times.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-05-23
PROF. RAMSDELL's
PUPILS PERFORM
ARTISTIC WORK

In the Providence Opera House last eve-
ming Prof. w b. Ramsdelrs pupils gave
their annual exhibition OF dances. bal
let's musical numbers, choruses. etc. all
OF which were carried out very credita-
bly,.
The theatre was packed. The program
was Of great variety, and the young peo-
pie carrying Il out ranged in age from
little tots 10 the older pupils. Every num-
ber received enthusiastic applause. but
few encores were possible on account OK
the length OF the program.
The dancing numbers. including indl-
viduals, duets. trlos, quartets sextets AMI
septets. were varied with popular song or
duet song and dance. Among the numbers
was a song and dance by Madeline Nc
Gettrick and Master Howard Finn. both
children OF extremely tender years, but
who did their act artistlcally. Miss Lii
Han Bischoft performed n toe dance with
skill. All OF the performers merited the
highest praise. The program included tho
Six Shetlands. w. A. Mauran and his
Yankee Doodle Girls. tho Partisan Nov
city dance and the Horse Ballet. Prof
Ramsdell participated In several OF the
numbers.
Those who participated were: Prof
Ramsdell. Miss Bessie Ramsdell, Miss
May Hayes Miss Evelyn Lewis, Miss
Richie Corey. Miss May Rodman, Miss
Addie Johnson. Miss Theresa McGettrick.
Miss Annie Deignan, Miss Anna Kenney
Miss Bessie Babcock. Miss Gladys Rich
Miss Ruby Dick. Miss Annabelle Moore.
Miss May McKenna. Miss Gertrude Place
Miss Madeline McGettrick Miss Lillian
Bischoff. Miss May Rodman. Miss Eva
Warden, Miss Hattie Clark, Miss Alice
Bartlett. Miss Lena Hoepold, Miss Louise
Cleveland, Miss Thelma Anderson Miss
Ida Williams, Miss Edith Richardson.
Miss Lillian Drownsfield Miss Hattie
Clark, Miss Isah Ordway, Miss Pearl
Semper. Miss Katherine Barnswell. Miss
Ida Davis. Miss Rose Keegan, Miss Anita
Campbell. Masters John Deignan. How
ard Finn. Thomas Deignan, George Rock
well. Joseph Brown and Hiding Oster-
berg.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-05-23
The Theatres

II looks as II the Edward r. Albee
Comic Opera Stock company, who are
In the last week OF their months sea-
son at Keiths. had saved their best
comic opsra for their goodbye week.
Surely no other comic opera they have
offered this season has made the em-
phatic hit that The Fortune Teller"
Is making this week. It's beautiful
music and Irresistible funmakins are
proving big drawing cards and at no
time during the short season has such
hearty applause been heard. James Nc
Elhern, the new comedian, who makes
his first appearance with the com
favorite already. McElhern Is truly
funny chap and every thing he does
or says gets responsive laugh from
the a@d,enSe rdo NJ. The sGPieahi hv 'Sns % MO Ro
Elhern. Mr.. Branson and Mr.. wooley.
IL one OF the biggest applause winners
OF the entire performance and earns
so many encores that the amusing trio
are tired when tho applause stops and
the performance is allowed to be con-
tinued
Opera Stock company, has two fine
solos I'm "The Fortune Teller" this
week. both OF which are repeatedly en-
at tSs
Is "The Gipsy Love Song" Mr.. May
not only has beautiful rich voice,
hut he uses Il admirably and sings with
delightful expression and enunciation.
His song, "Hol Ye Townsmen" Is given
with striking effect and II Is small
wonder that the applause given this
and The Glpsy Love Song" Is so
thunderous.
The rehearsals OF the Albee Stock
company, which OPENS at Keith's on
Monday evening next. are progressing &
capitaily and everything IL promising
for n brilliant opening OF the popular
players. All the members OF the COM
pany seem 10 NJ the roles for which
they are cast In The Heir to the
Hoorah." the opening play, and for
that reason, as well as for the reason
that the play itself Is quite the pret-
tiest, daintiest and funniest play OF
the decade, II seems 10 be particu-
larly happy choice for the opening at
traction.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-05-23
LOCAL EAGLES MAKE
PLANS FOR FIELD DAY

Preparations are being made by the
members ~ Providence Aerie. No. ~. for
the fourth annual field day TO he held in
New Haven. Conn. on July g. COM
mIttee OF Is having been appointed by the
local aerie 10 arrange for the event
The committee includes James n.
Reilly. chairman: william 8 Edwards.
secretary: Col Peter r. Bowen. Or.
Creighton w. Skelton. NJ r. Braeney.
James y. Dolan. James y. Nolan. James
J. IIorrigan. John p. Bowen. +. w. Kelll-
her. Peter Tunnlchele. David j. Barr.
John Martin. Richard Jennings and Jo-
seph 4. Dorney. worthy president, ex-
officio.
The news-democrat. (Providence, R.I.) 1906-1909, 1907-05-23
FREE BAPTIST
ASSN HOLDING
ANNUAL SESSION

The Rhode Island Free Baptist associa-
tion's S7th annual session. being held
with the Plainheld Street Baptist church,
was opened yesterday at o'clock.
The address OF welcome was given by
Rev. j. NJ. Loyden. with response by
Rev. G. T.. Cate.
Reports OF officers were then made,
followed by the reports of delegates.
A denominational conference followed.
led by Mr.. Harry g. Myers, after which
Rev, w. T.. bennett spoke on "Our State
Work"
The Woman's Missionary society met
at $3.50. when an address was given by
tho Rev. Albert r. Legg.
The evening session was praise SER
vice, under the auspices or the Free
Baptist Christian Endeavor union, In
which the musical exercises were led by
William r. Rowand, and the devotional
exercises conducted by Harry s. Myers.
general secretary OF the United societies
OF Free Baptist Young People. Harry
s williams. president of the Christian
Endeavor union, presided. An address on
"Our Business was delivered by Rev. c.
G. Mitchell.
The session this morning opened at
8 o'clock with a devotional service py
Rev ]. L. Sanders Carolina The annual
sermon. 1.-THE Evangel Splrit-Love, was
delivered by Rev. w. w. Deckard. Ar
llngton The annual communion was
conducted by the president OF the asso-
citation.