Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-22
Looker-On In Iona

Laurel Dec. 22.-On Oct. 10 a travel
ing man living in Marshalltown, hired
a livery rig and driver of George F.
| Fletcher, a livery man of Iowa Falls
After driving all day the travelling man
took the train for Hampton and then
found he had lost his pocketbook, con-
tanning over s10O in money and
checks. Telephone Inquiries and adj
vertised rewards produced no results
and check givers were requested to
send duplicates. On Saturday, Dec. 10,
| the travelling man received a letter
| from Mr.. Fletcher that the pocketbook
had just been found wedged in be-
tween parts of the buggy top. This
buggy had been used almost contin-
uously for the two months, carrying
around the lost pocketbook, and only
| by accident was it discovered. MIR.
| Fletcher is $40 richer by finding 1T, and
good deal more in his honesty of re-
| turning 1t.
| One thing the writer has noticed
here in Iowa in many years contact
with "all sorts and conditions of men"
and that is. there are many more Am
orleans by birth living in Iowa, that
cannot read any language, than for
eigners by birth that fail to read their
| own language or some other 1t is true
that these non-readers nearly all have
come to Iowa from some other state,
in other words We're born outside of
our state limits. And the number OF
people who cannot read or write is
surprising. considering all things con-
nected with our educational system.
The interest in the question Of guar
anteed bank deposits continues and
is quite a geenral subject of CONVERSE
ton. The public generally now under
stand that Bryan's Oklahoma plan is
proving itself a failure in it's present
farm. Nevertheless some plan is de-
manded by the people and generally
favored by the smaller banks of Iowa.
Mr.. w. A. Pollock. cashier of the bank
at Clemens, favors plan, which
amounts in substance to an associa-
ton of banks guaranteeing depositors
having money in any bank belonging
to such association. This implies an
arrangement which is now In working
condition in Minnesota, |. e.. such assoc
citation having their own bank exam
liner paid by said association. This,
one can see at blance, has some
very good features. First a small bank
belonging to an association that has
for membership several big banks Is
tremendously strengthened as de-
pository. Again, this system of their
own examiner enables all to know
what each individual bank is doing,
and how they are doing business. Prob
ably such plan has also weak points,
but out of all this will come some ar
Management that will make a postal
bank system unnecessary and unprofit-
able, at least in Iowa. and the other
thickly settled portions of the coun-
try.
Talking this week with an Iowa
renter that has just bought 100 acres
of Poweshiek county land for $500 an
acre, he said. II have looked over Mis-
souri,, Oklahoma, Dakota and the
Manitoba lands and have seen all KINDS
OF prices and lands. l have come back
and bought this farm because with the
improvements on it, its cheaper than
any have seen any where. l pay $16.-
900 for 100 acres of land, notice that
get a house that cost $4,000. barn
costing $500, corn cribs and fencing
costing over a thousand dollars,
to at least $1,000. This
leaves the bare land costing me $4,000.
or say $55 an acre. Now this year my
corn and cat crop alone amounts to
over $4,000, to say nothing Of the hogs,
cattle. horses, hens and milk and but
ter that we sold for more or Tess as
direct product from this land that cost
me $50 an acre Poweshiek county is
good enough for me. Besides we shall
continue to live in Gods country and
raise our family of three children
within five miles of Grinnell and that's
saying something"