Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-26
Looker-On In Iona

| Eldora Sept. 26.-Just now we are read
I Ing how successful some county fairs are,
not only In exhibits but cash receipts.
We are also told of some others not 80
fortunate. Many years ago the town of
Malcolm held annually a county fair
that in every way went from bad to
| worse. So weak financially did the NAL
com Fair association become, that GER
tain enterprsing Grinnell men got
hold of the stock in sufficient amount,
moved the fence to Grinnell, started a
fair of their own, and thought they
had not only killed the Malcolm fair,
but had buried it. But like the Irish
man the Malcolm Fair association did
not know they were dead and such
treatment of a fair corpse, brought the
dead to life Several of the business
men of Malcolm were Joined by the
farmers, they put James Nowak at
the head as secretary they pay him
something for his trouble" and for the
past seventeen years Nowak has been
secretary and for seventeen years Nal
com has had a good fair every year.
Moral, pay something" for a good
man, and let him run things
Wish could provide his name He
lives near Malcolm Drove in to town
one of the hot September days with q
big load of oats. Result a team tired
and wet with sweat. Then this Pow
eshiek county country farmer. drove up
to the pump and gave each horse a
nice cool drink. Then he drove over
in the shade to where two-inch iron
pipe run through posts makes good
hitching place. First he hitched each
horse Then he took the pole Of the
wagon and placed on top of the iron
pipe thus taking every ounce OF weight
off the horses necks. That was not all.
He stepped back and raised each
collar, and pulled the collar an inch
or so up on their necks. And as we
walked away one fat 1,400-pound bay
said thank you," while the gray mare
remarked much obliged" The writer
hears so much horse talk he heard
and understood them,
At the Eldora fair, the incoming
owners of the fast horses wrote ahead
! to have on hand some good old oats"
| And the farmer that sold the secretary
the wagon load OF good old oats" re-
ceived check for $51. That's going
some" but every day now farmers
here are hauling in good new oats
and getting $50 to $40 for each. load.
One cash renter has already sold oats
enough to pay his entire rent, and has
a big corn crop safe and sound on
hand Already one hears OF buyers
! willing to contract for this 1908 corn
. at so cents per bushel, but as old corn
i is bringing rs cents, few contracts are
being made. The banks here talk of
!enlarging their bank vaults. But there
| is another side to all this. 1t takes
i Frank Near to tell it. Frank ds In the
livery business, and has to buy oats.
He says a man has to sell horse now
/! to buy a load Of oats
Speaking of the livery business, In
1.-The Brooklyn hotels are printed CARDS
announcing the garage company Will
take travelling men to any point at the
same price as the livery stables. Tel-
ephone ahead and we will meet you
at the depot" In the Brooklyn ga
| rage are eight machines. two con-
stantly employed in 'the livery bust
ness" while in the town OF Brookly1l
are twenty machines constantly run
ming over the roads. teaching the OLD
horses .hitched to farm wagons, car
riages and two-seated buggies, not
4 to be afraid Of the cars. in the pas
lures are the colts, the coming genera
ton of workers. They gaze over the
fence and see the red devils" whizzing
by. and in few years, by the time
they 20 to work for a living, they Will
recognize an automobile as only part
and parcel of farm machinery. In
mnay places the farmers are owning
and using automobiles. In and around
Kellogg are eight machines owned and
used by farmers.