Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-06-15
RnPUB1IcAN, MAHsnAI1rowS row JUNE il, 1909

tlvation. but corn - doing we'll con-
sidering tho great lack OF sunahino:
apples have set we'll.
Franklin (GensvA)-Ffrst three days
rainy and cloudy; no Held work done;
latter part OF week warmer and better;
corn being plowed. but ground rather
wet; sunshine needed: wild grapes and
blackberries in blossom. (Hampton)---
Rain 1.04: rain on first four days in
terfered with field work; some fields
are little weedy, but corn Is O good
stand; oats growing rank.
Wright (Dows)-Rain 2.4S; 1%6
inches fell in 15 minutes on the even
ing Of the 9Th; not much work done.
Humboldt (Humboldt)--Rain Ga;
crops much improved.
Northwest District.
Osceola (Sibley)-Rain "a: the en-
tire week has been favorable for work;
corn Is clean and doing well; apple
crop promising, but plums are n fall
ure on account Of rains during bloom
Ing period.
Lyon (Inwood)-Rain 81: much
cloudy weather and low Temperatures
have retarded growth OF corn; first Gull
tivation is little more than half COM
pleted; gardens and early planted po-
| tatoes doing well; week closes fair.
Sioux (Alton)-Rain lbs; too wet for
much progress in corn blowing; first
blowing about 10 per cent finished;
small grain looking fine; only two clear
days this week.
Buena Vista (Alta)-Rain on three
days; ground very wet. but all crops
are doing we'll; some cultivating done
last three days. but ground in bad con-
dition and some fields very weedy.
Plymouth Gle Mars)-Rain Sc: crops
look good, but need warmer weather;
pastures and meadows in fine condi-
ton.
West Central District.
Sac (Sac City)-Rain 1.25; corn good
stand. but weedy and injured by rain:
oats thin. but good color and doing
we'll; grass excellent; fair prospects
for apples, plums and cherries; small
fruit fair, but Strawberries injured by
wet weather.
Woodbury. (Sioux City)-Rain SO;
mean temperature 62.2 or 5.s degrees
below normal; sunshine very deficient:
corn fields getting grassy; hay and
pastures making fine growth small
grain too rank.
Monona (Onawa)-Rain 1913: not
much cultivation of corn this week, TOO
wet; corn is looking fine, but needs
more dry weather: winter wheat head
ing out and looks good.
Audubon (Audubon)-Coolw with too
much rain; no cultlvating done until
the 10th and most land too wet then;
dry weather needed for corn and small
grain.
Shelby (Harlan)-Rain 2.72; rain
cultivate; low ground flooded and corn
fields as green as meadows. but corn
is still looking WE'LL
Harrison (Little Sioux)-Rain 255:
maximum temperature. so; lowest 81;
too wet for cultivating.
Central District.
Grundy (Grundy Center)-Rain 1870;
forepart OF week wet: corn being
plowed as rapidly as weather will per-
init; all crops in excellent condition,
but dry weather is needed.
Calhoun (Manson)-On account OF
frequent rains have quit planting corn
and will SOW millet; cultivating being
done where possible; grain and grass
doing we'll.
| Greene (Scranton)-Rain 3.36; grass
and small grain doing well; corn on
high ground good stand and Is grow
ing nicely, but needs blowing; 10 per
cent of corn acreage not planted or
drowned out.
| Boone (Woodward)-No cultivating
done until Friday on account of rain:
| fields getting very weedy; oats improv-
ing.
Story (zearing)-Rain lao: no field
work done until Thursday noon; corn
good stand except on extremely low
places; most fields cultivated once.
Siarsiiaii tMarshaiitowni Rain
1865; crops are looking good. but corn
is little weedy; only two days Of field
work.
Tama (Toledo)-Rain 1928: corn
fields are grassy. (Traer)-Rain l.o1.
Poweshiek (Hartwick)-Rain 200:
week very wet; corn blowing progress
ing slowly and fields very weedy: stand
on sod generally quite light with some
loss on low land; hay and grain making
rank growth. (GrinnelD-Rain AT:
small percentage OF corn drowned out;
first picking Of early Strawberries be-
gun: early peas in blossom.
Jasper (Newton) Rain LII; rain has
hindered field work; growth of all
crops fair to good; work in the fields
being pushed: general crop prospects
good. (Monroe)-Only one day OF
field work: nearly all corn getting
grassy.
Dallas (Waukee)-only two days q
field work: weeds are smothering corn:
oats looking fair: pastures and mead
ows extra fine; cutworms doing lots Of
damage in sod ground; fruit doing we'll
| Ode Soto)-Raln 255: ground very
wet; corn fields are as green as mead
ows; several pieces to be planted yet
| Guthrie Guthrie Center)-Rain 232
plums and cherries light: grass heavy:
corn and small grain looks we'll on high
ground.
Jenkins Proves Easy For Gotch.
| Des Moines, June 15.-The fifth
meeting between Frank Gotch and
Tom Jenkins proved the champion to
| be easily the master OF the former title
holder. Iowa's grappler hurled Jenkins
to the mat for two straight falls, the