Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-04-09
Looker-On In Iona

Baskerville, April 9-Where one
would least expect 1t, right around
Spencer there is scarcity OF hay,
that is becoming a serious matter to
CATTLE feeders. Usually hundreds bf
tons are left over of this wild hay, but
for some reason the usual quantity
was not put up last year and now the
feeders ARE up against it,
Price does not seem to enter into the
situation, 81 to $40 a. ton would be
given but the hay is not here. One
farmer chortles as he throws out his
corn fodder raised from ten acres
which he plants or sows every year
He uses his feed lot, changes it every
year, and drills in the corn, of course
only blowing or rather cultivating it
one way. but until this drilled-in corn
gets a good start he is almost reck-
less in the use of harrow He has
never weighed his ten acre-crop, but
planted as it Is in a lot used for the
previous six months for feed lot, the
yield is immense. Meanwhile he sells
his hay, and every year has cattle
"wintered thru in better shape than
any of his neighbors.
For once we have proposed law on
the whisky question that seems to suit
the saloon man as well as the prohibit
zionist, and that is one saloon to 1000
inhabitants. Temperance people favor
il because 1t is restrictive and saloon
men for the same reason, j. e., 1t would
lessen competition. Spirit Lake has for
several years tried the one saloon plan
and it meets with general satisfaction,
that is if we must have a saloon" is
the qualifying statement of the prof1i-
bitionist. This saloon pays a mulct of
$1,000 year, and is run in a way that
suits the majority ''if we must have a
saloon" The writer is told that pc
titions are being circulated to open
three saloons at Arnolds park. Some
days Arnold's park has over 1000 pop
ulation. but unfortunately for the sa-
loon men they are not all permanent
hence there will be only one saloon
there with the new law on
the statute books. Just why
beer and other drunk stuff
seems to be necessary for bait, and
other purposes for fishermen mo Teller
can find OUT but it is a fact, beer
seems to be very necessary "at the
lakes" and from close observation
Of several years, 1t seems to the writer
that an open saloon at Spirit Lake
and Arnold's Park, one we'll regulated
legal saloon is big improvement over
former conditions. During prohibition
days with the Minnesota line only a
few miles away, there was big traffic
from out of the state. and bootlegging
was regular business.
Not every one knows that the Or
leans Hotel on the beach near the
Rock Island track is being built again.
MI. Burnside, proprietor of the Antlers
at Spirit Lake, is the owner. 1t will
have sixty-six rooms for guests and
follow the general plan of the old Or
leans. torn down by the c., r. i. & P.
r. r. In addition he will build six
new cottages, both hotel and cottages
to be ready for the coming season.
Residents of Spirit Lake say the
| laws against illegal fishing are now
better observed than at any time for
years. This referring to SEEMING and
spearing and fishing thru the ice.
| Farmers living around all the lakes
town jewellers and professional fisher
men all begin to realize that the fish
| in these lakes are an asset no other
place in Iowa possesses. Hence sym
pathy with the present laws Many adj
vocate the adoption of the Wisconsin
law which allows a person to ship only
| twenty pounds of any three fish out
Of the state during a week. The hog
fisherman will be here very soon. He
will be here on the first day the law
allows. He will sell or give away
thousands of pounds. He will have hi:
photograph taken, showing the big
strings he caught in one day. AS re-
suit good fishing" becomes less every
year. AS another result many now &c
up to Wisconsin or Minnesota and fish
meanwhile leaving with the hotels ant
boatmen there at least one dollar fol
every pound they catch.
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