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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

house, shed 22xS0. All buildings
are good as new, we'll and cistern,
flowing we'll and running water. No
better markets in Iowa. Only two
or three hours from Des Moines by
direct road. Here is one of the best
stock farms in the county Can't be
eXcelled for pigs, COWS, and poultry.
No run down land. Cream is all on.
Cheaper farms in that vicinity; farms
in that part of the country are SELL
ing as high as SIS TO $3.50 per acre.
Price only $4,000. A grand bargain
for someone. About $4,000 to $40
90 will handle this.
A chance to get back to nature.
Embrace it.
No. S2s-2So acres about miles
from two good towns on Rock Island
About 5 miles from two smaller R.
R. towns, r. f. d. at door, phone in
house, " miles to school. Good soil
we'll fenced. All farm land but a
few acres. About 16O in clover and
timothy, 10 acres brush and young
timber, 100 acres hog tight, fair 5
room house, sheds, cribs, granary.
Almost new cattle barn. Ground
rolling, some a little rough. Price
$40 per acre. $4,000 mortgage due
in or 4 years. Exchange equity for
good livery stock and barn. $4,000
equity.
just what you need for the boy.
Think of it, 100 acres of Iowa land
for only $4,000 per acre.
No. 329-120 acres about four
miles each from two good rail road
markets, good roads, 1 mile to
school, phone, R. F. D., about so to
80 acres of this under cultivation,
balance brush pasture. Some young
timber, 100 acres good farm land,
we'll fenced, woven wire hog pasture
we'll watered, good room house,
stable for 6 horses, shed for stock,
about 16 X so. Price only $4,000 per
acre. $4,000 mortgage optional.
About $4,000 will handle this, easy
payments on balance at low interest.
Owner will pay $500 for use of farm
for season of 1908. If this is not
sold soon owner VIII build addition
to house. Also add other improve
ments, then the price will go to $50
per acre.
Iowa Stock Farm at only $3.50 per
acre. Quit raising grain. Let the
Stock gather the Wealth for you
Take Life Easy.
No.330-252 acres about eight
miles from good railroad town on
main line of Rock Island, good roads
one half mile to school and r. F. D.,
on phone line. Rolling. About all
brush and young timber land, except
about 60 acres, 10 acres under pillow
SO acres cut over and ready for pillow
stumps rotted out. All fine soil.
About all underbrush killed out, good
blue grass pasture. A No. 1 stock
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14
SOUTH DAKOTA

D. 1910 acres z miles west of
Cotton, good granary, no other build
ings, all good tillable land, partly I'M
der cultivation. $4,000 cash. balance
5 years at per cent. Per acre $40.
IN LINCOLN COUNTY.
D. 53-142 acres miles of Tea,
100 acres cultivated Will sell on
easy terms $500.
d. 56-160 acres ga mile of Tea.
A good set of improvements and a
fairly good barn. $4,000.
McCOOK COUNTY.
d. 70-151 acres 4 miles Canoya.
10 miles Salem, small set of build
1ngs, 100 acres cultivated, 20 acres
pasture, reasonable terms. S42.5O.
D. 71-1GO acres 10 miles of Mont
rose, no buildings, 100 acres under
cultivation, all tillable, terms half
cash, $4,000.
d. 72-160 acres 3 miles Salem.
good story and half house, fair
barn, Ito acres under cultivation.
balance pasture and hay land, will
leave $4,000 back on farm, s47.5o.
D. 1870 acres 8 miles Salem.
no buildings, 65 acres cultivated, bal
ance smooth prairie land, encum-
bered $500, at 1-2 per cent,
$3.50.
AURORA COUNTY.
ID. 5000 acres 1-2 miles of
Plankington, good soil and lays well,
fenced two sides, terms to suit $26.
D. 3o1-16o acres 3 1-2 miles to
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14
Make the Hen, Pig and Cow pay for
This Garden Spot.


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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14
Iowa Stock Farm at only $3.50 per
acre. Quit raising grain. Let the
Stock gather the wealth for you



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Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

buildings are finely painted and in
good repair, groves and orchards.
Price $500 per acre and bargain.
About $4,000 to $4,000 will handle
this fine farm.
Why Leave Imperial Iowa When You
Can Get Such Bargains on Easy
Terms?
No 333-110 acres 1 mile from
one station and three of another, both
good markets, miles from main
line market. All but about ten acres
lays nicely rolling, not foot of
waste land, stone quarry. This
could be made to pay for the farm
is only few rods from a railroad
switch. About 10 acres of hog pas
ture, woven wire fencing, finely wat
tered, we'll at house, we'll near the
barn that can be piped into tank,
fine spring in hog pasture, fine grove
and orchard. Good room house
stone foundation, cellar stone walled,
good barn about 24X40, cribs, hen
house, granary, buildings in good re-
pair. A bargain at $40 per acre.
About $4,000 will handle this, then
$500 payment every year.
Buy This Beautiful Home and Your
Wife will Take on "The Smile that
Won't Come Off,
No. 334-12O acres 2 miles from
a fine market town on the main line
of the Rock Island. Fine roads, R. r
D., phone, one mile to school, good
high school in town, lays rolling,
40 acres timber and blue grass pas
ture, fenced with woven wire, 80 in
crops and grass, we'll fenced, good
soil in high state of cultivation.
A splendid grain and stock farm on
ly two miles from one of the best
creameries in Iowa, big orchard,
Buildings? Well, there's where
you'll shine. A fine or 6 room
house, stone walled and cement cave.
A new barn about 36x42, 20 foot
posts, new double corn crib about
26x32 shingle roof, new COW stable
about 16x4S, stancheons, floor, hog
house, hen house, lots etc. All new
first class repair. About 50, 900 will
handle this. If you have a few hun
dred dollars worth of good horses or
cattle at right prices or an equity in
good Oklahoma 100, swap could
be arranged. Price $40 per acre.
After 1909 the payments will be
$500 per year optional however.
Make the Hen, Pig and Cow pay for
This Garden Spot.
No. $500 acres miles from
county seat, / mile to school, one
half mile to r. F. D., lays rolling but
good soil and a first class dairy and
stock farm. The owner of this farm
kept close count of his cream checks
and his cows increased his bank ac-
count during the last season over
$500 to say nothing about the calves
and milk. He MIXED on an average
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14
Buy this and you will always bless
the day we called your attention

10 1t
No. 327-16O acres 1 Y miles from
one of the best towns in Iowa. No
better college town in the state All
churches, creamery ETC., good roads
R. F. D. at door, phone in house, on
main road. A fine location, close to
Audubon county people, no better
neighbors any where; close to fuel
of all kinds. Coal $3.50 per ton.
About % acres now under pillow,
about so acres more can be easily
broken up, balance somewhat rough
but all good pasture land. No better
SOIL no noXious weeds, some brush
De thousand rods of woven wire
fencing, lots, yard etc. all fenced with
woven wire. All fences in good re-
pair. A good or room house,
good as new, stone foundation, in
natural grove. All kinds of outbuild-
ings in good repair. Barn, chicken
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

D. Ais acres 2 miles Wall Lake
nearly all under cultivation. Is in a
good German neighborhood and
would make nice little home $3.50
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

We are prepared to sell you a.
most beautiful South Dakota farm
Tor an ideal home, or as fine prairie
land as can be found, out of doors.
as fit for investment.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

Have you any swapping blood in your
Veins. IL so, here is chance to
Test your nerve.
No. 324-200 acres II miles from
railroad town, about from small
country town, school on farm, one
half mile to R. f. D. Lays rolling to
rough about 100 acres nice farm land
no waste. All but about 10 acres has
been under pillow, finely watered. A
good stock farm, fair four room
house, out buildings, not much hog
pasture, we'll fenced. Price $4,000
,000payment, balance long time at
s. " per cent. Or will take $4,000 to
$4,000 good trade. Will take in
place of cash any other good evil
dence of credit-deposit certificates,
drafts Soap Wrappers" or any thing
that represents the coin.
Have You Anything You don't Want?
Maybe This Fellow Wants it. Lets
Try him.
No.325-16o acres miles from
County seat, / mile from small
country town, r. F. D. at door, on
phone line, well fenced and watered
A part of this lays we'll, balance is
rough pasture land. About so acres
under plow All good soil; some
young timber. New 2 room house;
small stable Price $4,000. Take
$500 to $4,000 residence or in
come, balance any old time at 5 per
cent Make a splendid dairy farm
or will take $1,000 payment, cash
and most any terms on the balance.
Are you tired of moving? Yes?
Well, here's chance to get little
home of your own.
No. 326-46 acres fine young tim
ber;a part of this lays we'll, balance
rough; timber will pay for the land
if cut into wood and posts. good soil
This lays off the road, but private
road can be gotten out Price $3.50
per acre. $3.50 to $500 payment,
then easy terms on the balance.
This would make a good little home
for someone. No Improvements
whatever. Close to school and R. F.
D. and country store.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

D. 3o1-1eo acres 3 1-2 miles to
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

D. 73-16O acres 8 miles Salem.
no buildings, 65 acres cultivated, bal
ance smooth prairie land, encum-
bered $500, at 5 1-2 per cent,
S375O
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14
AURORA COUNTY.

ID. 3UU-SU acres 4 IL miles of
Planklngton, good soil and lays we'll,
fenced two sides, terms to suit $26.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

Write US for booklet or phone
Audubon County Journal, Extra, Iowa
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

D. 24s-1Go acres, 9 miles o
Oldham, a fair piece of prairie, one
half cash, $500.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

D. 247-160 acres 9 miles of
De Smet, 70 acres cultivated, all till
able, $4,000 to $25oo cash, balance S
years, $50.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

D. $50 acres 1-2 mile Dell Rap
ids, GO acres cultivated; all fenced;
encountered with $2250 due March
1911 at 6 per cent, $4S.00.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

D.133-160 acres 4 miles of ST.
Marys' all choice prairie land, S26.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

WE TAKE ALL THE RIsK-we
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

d. 126-160 acres 5 miles Fedora
a splendid quarter, 30 acres under
cultivation, all tillable, one-half
cash, $31.0O.
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

NO. F. 6-1Go acres in Kingsbury
Audubon County journal. (Exira, Iowa) 1884-1993, 1908-05-14

d. l25-101 acres 2 1-2 miles of
carthage, no buildings, 95 acres I'M
der cultivation, 1-2 cash, $500.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31
AUTOS TELL OF PROSPERITY.

The prosperity apparent everywhere
was never better emphasized than by
remark made by Judge Smith
Mcpherson at Ottumwa the other day
when asked as to the outlook in Iowa
for Republican victory. He is quoted
in the Courier as saying
will the farmers vote for continu-
alton of the present conditions, you
ask? Let me tell you, my son. of
little incident, and then you can Judge
for yourself whether the farmers are
for Taft or not / was driving from
NV home in Red Oak the other day
to see friend five miles out in the
country. and my life was threatened
no less than four times by farmers in
their automobiles. Fourteen years
ago these Iowa farmers We're fortunate
TO have wagon or even a span Of
horses. Today they ride from Their
farms to markets and other places IL
honk-honk vehicles. It's folly to ash
are Iowa farmers fo- Taft TIE chug
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31
CANDIDATE TRACY ANSWERED.
Keosauqua Workingman Calls His
Bluff Concerning Wages.

To the Editor of The Gate City:
KEOSAUQUA Iowa, Oct 80, 1908
have just received a letter from
George S. Tracy, candidate for mem
Der of congress of the First district, in
which he propounds this question :
Has your income increased As per
cent?"
I answer that twelve years ago
this fall when Mckinley was elected
was working for fifty cents a day,
and that my present wages is S275 a
day, which is an increase of $50 per
cent.
/ don't want quick halt" called
in the way things are going, but !
want the present prosperity and in.
crease in wages to be continued in
our next administration.
The large corporations mentioned in
Mr.. Tracy's letter do not draw one
cent from the government, but have
to earn their money the same as ev
erybody else.
The American protective tariff sys
| tenn is such that the rich and poo
alike share in the general prosperity
E. L. KINKADE.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31
DEMOCRACY AND THE NEGRO.

DR.. A. J. Park of Chicago writes
the Tribune that it is almost incredi-
Bile that some colored citizens are sup
porting a Democrat for President. He
asks a crucial q-estion:
Has the Democratic party ever
formulated or advocated measure
designed to elevate or in any way to
better the colored population of this
country? Not single instance. On
the contrary it persisted in prose
cutting a merciless war with the avow'
ed intention of establishing a slave
oligarehy with slavery as the corner
stone of the system where colored men
could be sold as chattels.
The attitude of the Democratic party
before and during the civil war anc
ever since has been one of opposition
to the negro. If it could have its wa,
it would deprive him of every RICH
he now enjoys. It holds out 40 hope
for the colored man in the nation o
in any state in which it is in control
The colored man owes it nothing AM
If cannot adduce single reason VIII,
he should give it his support.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31

G. w. Franklin in Register and
Farmer: Recent events have taught
me that there is no better pie than
pumpkin pie. l have come to the con-
olusion that it should be baked into
square pie and then cut into quar-
tiers so that each one can have corner
piece. / want the crust thick enough
so it will hold itself up and then |
want to take it in my hand (no knife
or fork) and notch it off until it looks
like section of cross cut saw. |
don't mind if the pie is so thick that
my nose acts as marker where to
take the next bite.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31

Lee county voters irrespective of
party should cast their ballots for the
Republican candidates for representa-
tive-Messrs. Gilbert Lee Of West
Point and Leroy Jones of Washington
township. 1t has been demonstrated
that Republican representatives can
accomplish great deal more at Des
Moines than can possibly be accom-
plished by representatives belonging
to the minority party in the state. Re-
publican representatives work with the
majority and influence legislation at
its fountain head. Democratic repre-
sentatives occupy an attitude of op
position to the majority in both sen
ate and house and are in no position
to ask for or get anything The cleo
ton of Lee and Jones will assure that
the influence of the county will be
felt in the legislature and felt in the
right way
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31
WAGES AND cosT OF LIVING.

Candidate Tracy's letter to First dis
trict voters, in which he alleges that
the cost of living has increased As per
cent under protection and asks II
wages have risen correspondingly, is
answered very directly and effectively
by e. L. Kinkade, Keosauqua work
ingman. in this issue of The Gate City.
The voter addressed draws on his own
personal experience for ais facts and
his testimony is valuable as being first
hand and conclusive. He tells Mr.. Tracy
that even if the cost of living is some
what greater now than it was under
the tariff law enacted by the Demo
ocratic party when last in power, his
wages have increased during the same
, time $50 per cent. This increase in
wages is nearly twelve times as great
as the increase in cost of living al
legged by Candidate Tracy. AS a mat
ter of fact, the increase in the cost OF
living, as shown by official statistics
compiled by the national Bureau OF
Labor, was less than 26 per cent. Any
body and everybody could we'll afford
to pay rs or even 100 per cent more for
the necessaries of life when the same
conditions resulted in wage increase
of 900 per cent, as in the case of the
Keosauqua gentleman. 1t is clear thai
Mr.. Tracy addressed the wrong mar
when he wrote Mr. Kinkade Of
Keosauqua.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31
Why You Should Vote for kenned

Why You Should Vote for Kennedy.
Montrose Journal: AS this is the
last issue before the election we desire
to say a word in behalf of our home
congressman.
1t is not often that town of this
size is honored by furnishing men,
Der of the United States congress. 1t
is distinction that is generally
usurped by the larger places and is,
in nearly all cases, given to an attor-
ney who has attained more or less
distinction as public speaker. AS
this town has been honored by the Sc
lection of Charley Kennedy to repre-
sent the district in congress it be-
comes the duty of every citizen OF
Montrose and vicinity to show his ap
probation of this honor by making his
home vote as large as possible.
There is another and better reason
why he should have the undivided
support of this community and that is
that he has made the best first tern
congressman this district ever had
We make this statement advisedly anc
it will not be disputed by any one
/ having knowledge of what he has &C
complished.
With this record as an official ant
with his standing as a gentleman and
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31
TAFT HAS THE BROADER VISION

The New York Herald. politically
independent but usually of Democratic
tendencies, has come to the conviction
that IF lIr. Taft and Mr. Bryan We're
equally acceptable from the standpoint
OF their domestic policies, Mr. Taft is
far better qualified to be President
from the standpoint of foreign policr,"
1t quotes Bishop Berkeley's aphor-
ism, Westward the course of empire
takes its way" and points out the
growing need of new markets for
western products. 1T is hopeless to
think of finding in Europe an outlet
for the product of these western in
dustries." says the Herald. "and yet
one must be found. The necessity for
1t grows more pressing with every
year, and It can be found only in Asia
The United States has grown steadily
from east to west and its further com
mercial development inevitably must
be in the same direction"
The Herald says that Mr.. Bryar
evidently has no conception of tha
greater America which Mr.. Taft sees
= so clearly and would work to build up
Mr. Bryan's political outlook does no
extend beyond our Atlantic and Pacifi,
. seaboards Mr. Tafts view sweeps owe
wider area
{ The Herald SAYS that Mr.. Taft's kee,
; realization of this need of Asiatic mar
: kets has been demonstrated by franl
g advocacy Of closer relations between
: the United States and China, as es
pressed in his speech at Shanghai. |
finds that Mr. Bryan takes only
V parochial view of this vitality impol
x tant question"
d The Spokane (Wash) Spokesman
/ Review, good authority, declares tha
e this broad view and wide vision $
II ably manifested by the Herald Will b
h approved by the thoughtful voter
d of California, Oregon. Washingto,
Of Idaho and Montana. 1t saws tt
Y people OF those states have enth
lie siastically approved the statesmanlil
n. policies of the Roosevelt Taft admi
ut istration Especially have thev bee
is keenly interested in those polici.
o. which aim at the extension of O,
western commerce and the nrotecti,
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31

Colonel Bryan says that God, and
not Republican policies has made the
farmers prosperous" How singular
it is" says the Burlington Hawk-Eye'
that the Almighty should always
choose Republican administrations n
which to exert His beneficence.' The
Waterloo Reporter comedies that II
certainly is a singular circumstance,
and adds:
Democrats account for 1t by saying
it is bull-headed Republican luck.
But the fact is the farmers are pros.
porous under Republican policies and
in despair under Democratic policies.
Without speculation as to cause the
fact should be sufficient to supply a
preferment of what has happened ana
what will happen again.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31

The state supreme court has taken
judicial notice of the fact that the at
titude of the public toward combines
had changed in recent years. In a
damage case from Nicola involving IL
bel an article had been printed virtu-
ally accusing one merchant of main
tanning a trust or combine. The SUI
preme court called attention to the
fact that there has been remarkable
change not only in public opinion, but
in the law as well, regarding pools,
combinations and trusts, calculated to
stife competition, control prices or
regulate the output of goods; and the
court held that the law of libel must
of necessity keep pace with the pub
lie opinion as reflected in the public
prints as well as in legislation.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31
Messrs. Lee and Jones.

Donnellson Review: Gilbert Lee and
Leroy G. Jones are candidates for rep
resentatives. We feel assured that
both these gentlemen are well quail
fed to represent the people OF Lee
county in the house of Representatives
The Review can recommend both o.
these gentlemen to be worthy OF tht
support of every voter and hope the!
will receive the support they deserve
at the polls Tuesday next.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31

Running for congress in the south is
not without its difficulties and en-
barrassments. A case in point Is the
experience of the managers OF Con-
gresham Sydney e. Mudds campaign
for reelection in Maryland. 1t ap-
pears that they have been instructing
the illiterate colored voters how to
find Mr.. Mudd's name on the ballots
to be cast next Tuesday They were
told to look for two COX yokes, mean
ing the two ''ys" in Sydney. MT.
Mudd and his friends were filled with
CONSERVATION when, in one OF the
counties of his district, his name ap-
peared on the ballots spelled sidney
The candidate bestirred himself and
the ballots will be reprinted.
The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1908-10-31

business man in this community there
is every reason why Democrats should
vie with Republicans in making his
majority as large as possible.
With the water power almost an as.
sured fact Montrose will occupy a
larger place on the map than hereto.
fore. There will have to be lots 0.
river work done as result of the dam
going in. How important to have a
man at Washington whose work there
will add dollars to the value OF ever,
piece of property in town as we'll a;
all the farming land in the commun
ity. Now is the time to vote for you
own interests and the only way to d
it is to vote for the election cf c.
| Kennedy.