Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-03
Looker-On In Iona

Iowa Falls. Oct. 3.--Of course the
man that tells the last story has big
advantage, but this one goes. regard
less. "A young farmer in Iowa, for
merly clerk In a store at SIS month,
this year has paid his rent of SLIGO
$50 acres at 81 an acre; paid his help.
paid all of his Gaumiy expenses, with
his oat crop, and now has safe and
sound, $4,000 worth of corn in his
fields. the figuring on the corn being
at 60 cents per hushel at which price
he can contract 1t. and the bushels
per acre. estimated by certain num-
Der of rows alrendy picked. Next!
If this meetsghis eye. 1t will be to
tell him that at the supper table, few
of us were Interested In his account of
the disease he had, what the doctors
told him, and detailed story of how
it affected him. We would all of US
enjoyed our supper better if he had
been out In the hotel office, sitting al
another table, or at nome. where
man belongs that has such troubles.
One gets hardened to a description OF
the meals served at the Nextown no
tel, can even listen to an egg story,
not that 1t adds to ones appetite or
relish, but when one has to sit at the
supper table and listen to fifteen
minutes discourse on a cause and eff
feet of disease, this given with a real
istic apparent enjoyment of symptoms
and results-well, we draw the line at
the supper table.
Folc hat fhaf
is. some men have faculty of enjoy
ing their fads without expense to them
selves. In Buffalo Center is success
full merchant that for pure love OF It
is in the. wild animal business, and
gets good cold cash for his pets. de
has raised buffaloes. broken them TO
harness, and sold them at a big price.
He now has leased to q circus man
agement, two wagons OF animals for
which he receives 5000 a month for
the show season. Anything-beast,
bird or fowl-that is wild. he knows
the market price thereof, and buys and
sells accordingly.
1t takes a good travelling man these
days. to dodge THE town where some
"dorgs" are In progress, Maybe " $
the county fair, and the stores all close
in the afternoon. Perhaps the Mex
town base ball club plays Lastown to-
day and everybody is away from thelf
place of business To get away from
"Sauer Kraut day,"5she may rum into
"Rean days,o Potato day in one Gown
and old settlers day in the next
When he arrives in one OF these Towns
L.. In;v h0toIS
are full and occasionally some OF the
citizens. When he leaves town piie
cars are crowded and he stands up.
Conductors gtsoan and say we don't
get rid of one crowd before another
gets on. Never before was there SO
many "doings' in Iowa,
And why shouldn't the people OF
Iowa travel and have a good time!
Seyenty-tive cent corn Accent oats
and 7cent hogs Some OF us In town
irving to keep a dozen chickens, raise
our own hog meat, own a Jersey cow
or a driving horse, are taking phe
necessaries of life from the family Ia
bic to avoid running in the feed store
it's not so funny for us. But just tine
same this crop of 1905, these prices OF
1908 are to give Iowa. a tremendous
store trade this winter. The merchants
will buy heavily, travelling men WIN
fill the hotels, and money will he
plenty enough for our iowa tanners to
90 out to the Dakotas and buy a few
more Square miles. philosophic
friend of the writer never knew good
times when potatoes We're Is cents per
busllel."