Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-09
Looker-On In Iona
Special to Times.Republican.

scribe is far away enough to tell a
story. Few will recognize the princi-
pal in the case, for another generation
IS on the boards. Last week a man Old
beyond his years. only 80. was working
on the streets in Nextown. Digging
in ditch with husky Italians earning
Sll5 day. And Yet. ever since the
writer began making the town" this
man was a prosperous merchant there,
carrying a $4,000 stock and one of the
influential men of the town. What
brought about this changed condition
Simply business inability. He belongs,
or rather should have been in the hired
man class. Good worker, honest. we'll
posted, drew trade because Of his
genial manner, made friends. vet withal
was unable 10 say no. Bought too
heavy 10 oblige the travelling men. sold
to anybody that could promise WE'LL
and so he gradually dropped his wad.''
Today in his old age he has to do man
ual labor 10 earn bread and butter.
Moral-again there isn't any.
Several men and several times have
asked the question how Jack Frost
manages his dye works. This fall and
now the evidence of his handiwork Is
unusually fine. He has picked out the
shellbark walnut trees and touched up
every leaf bright yellow. Not ten
feet away is the hard maple with
variegated pink. red and lavender. The
brave old oak looks better to Mr..
Frost in maroon or dark red When
it comes TO sumac, Jack paints the
same scarlet he did fifty, yea ten thou
sand years ago. And TO show he don't
have to change the leaves on all of the
trees at the same time, he leaves the
soft naples the same green he painted
the early leaves Ave months ago. And
probably 70 attract the boys, on the
same theory. that flowers are made IN
high colors TO attract honey producing
wingsters. he out-does himself on the
red and blaclshaw bushes. These bushes
or trees if you prefer are today great
big large boquets. Leaves in red, pink
yellow and in green, with the scarlet
fruit hanging thick and ripe within
the touch of shortest legged barefooted
boy out in the woods on a Saturday S
holiday Only the boy just sees the
red indigestible fruit. It's the senti-
mental old chap that sees the leaves
and the handiwork of Jack Frost, art
@~--~
ist.
Many changes are occurring in Iowa
Social, financial and business. For in
stance, in 1904, the creamery at Lis
comb in one day took in $4,000 pounds
OF milk TO run thru the separator To-
day that creamery is closed because OF
a want of patronage. because there's
tn, hoY ,ynip
ity TO keep a creamery in operation
Because now the hired man makes q
| contract for s25 to $50 a month that
| he will not milk cows. He agrees to
work in the field from Z to s. After
supper he bitches up his own team
and it's in the contract that the farm
er boards the hired mans team-and
takes his best girl out riding. And the
farmer with big bank account dom
have to" milk a dozen cows, rather
he lets the young calves attend Il
that part of the dairy work, and ther
these fat calves are sold at as mucf
cold cash as tho he had MIXED the
cows, and raised the calves on skim.
milk and bran And when the farmer
goes TO town in his automobile he buy!
some creamery butter the storekeepel
has shipped in from Chicago ant
brings il out with fresh fruit and vege-
tables also shipped in from Chicago
Meanwhile the residents of the smaller
towns actually have trouble to ge
enough butter for table use. It's the
same with milk in other small towns
Travelling men report the sale OF tel
times as much canned milk as former.
ll> &c I,s ;,,,v nv
the old style-condensed or evaporatet
milk thickened with corn starch ant
isweetened with glucose-now is uset
by many families entirely Independent
of the milk man and all Of the annoy
ances that comes from buying Of thu
milk peddler.