Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-10-02
Looker-On In Iona

Parkersburg, Oct. 2.-The poets are
not all dead in Iowa. One of the old
landmarks in Gilman is the livery
stable. For year or so no livery bus
mess was conducted there. Then it
was reopened. Here's copy of the
sign still on the buildngi:
''Cleo and Art
Can't keep apart
In life they start
In Noah's old ark"
Poetical license may permit rhyming
start" and ark" but it seems too
bad to spoil this effusion by the metre
of the last lines. Still the poet laure-
ate of England is frequently criticized.
A farm sale was recently held near
Gilman, and while the owner of the
property did not actually make the
offer, it was well known he would take
$500, and lump the whole business.
At auction the sale brought S4o12 A
house was recently sold at auction for
$4,000, which the owner offered to sell
at private sale for $500. week be-
fore At a sale near this town last
week, shoats We're sold at SS.75 per
hundred pounds. Moral-Sell what you
have at auction.
Some man is going to die rich by
getting a patent on some device to
take mail from the boxes on the r. F.
D. route to the house In many cases
the mail box is quarter of mile
away, frequently half mile or more.
One farmer has already tried a wire de-
livery from the box to the house, an
other has an electric push button that
tells him when mail is put in the box
But what is needed is cheap auto
matte contrivance that will bring the
mail to the front or back door. And
our Iowa farmers will gladly pay a
reasonable price for such an outfit.
The writer is far enough away now
to tell the story. The cashier of the
State National Bank stopped into the
First National State, and said sotto-
voice, eff P. D. Quick's check for 500
to the order of Slick Fingers is pre-
sented here, don't pay it," Then re-
marked the cashier of the First Ma
tional, It'll be paid all the same, only
it will be endorsed to some other par
ty that has already cashed it," Funny
business for that well-to-do young
farmer. thinking he can play poker
with Slick. Probably that 800 check
isn't all he dropped last night. If he
is taught lesson, it's a good thing it
happened"
Dr ~, al,
Eldora, is also a very successful
mushroom producer Probably has
given away to his friends during the
past year two tubsful of mushrooms
Not all at one time however Here's the
way he does 1t. Has a dark, dry ce-
ment cellar with ground bottom. Uses
a 2x6 fence board to enclose the bed
Packs horse manure, free from straw
ten inches deep, well tramped down
Over this three-fourths of an inch dry
dirt mixed with horse manure. Lets il
set for ten days till heat goes down
Then the spawn" which can be
bought of any florist and comes IL
bricks, is broken up in pieces the sizt
of the end OF your thumb, is dipped II
water and planted in rows six to sew.
! en- inches apart Care should be takeI
not to plant if bed is too warm. Their
another thin covering of dry dirt. AT.
! ter this all that is necessary is t.
thoroughly sprinkle and keep wet thi:
mushroom bed. In about six weeks thu
first mushrooms appear and the bee
bears continuously for about fou
months. In gathering the harvest tn,
mushroom is pulled carefully, ant
sprouts again in the same place. Mush
rooms literally grow in one night. TIL
doctor says the temperature must b.
kept about sixty-five degrees and tie,
degrees up or down spells disaster
Also that dry cellar is absolutel.
necessary The spawn" is not expen
sive, and the raiser can make his owl
spawn when once in the business a
little or no expense by following print
ed directions from the florists. All o
which is given here in hopes our hote
proprietors will read it and go int
the mushroom business.