Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-14
Tuffree Tells Of the Markets.

Joseph Uuffree, VINO recently cele-
brated his Tooth anniversary, wrote on
Log Cabins and Distant Markets"
The paper was read by his daughter,
Miss Jennie Tuffree.
Mr.. and Mrs. Tuffree came from
Ohio in 1856 and settled in the south
western part of the county. Wheat
-four was one of the scarcest articles
Of food during the first year Of the
writer's residence in the new home. Mr..
Tuffree drove as far as Lynnville to get
some. and at the time he had the only
flour in the neighborhood. 1t was in
such demand that he loaned the greater
part Of it to neighbors.
Those We're the days, Mr.. Tuffree's
paper read, when aItho one could raise
the produce there was no market
nearer than Iowa City. He told of
butctlering hogs and hauling their froz-
en- carcasses on sleds to that place,
where they brought prices ranging
from s165 to $40 a hundred pounds.
Early Happenings of the Day.
Justus Garfield. who has the distinc-
ton of having camped on the site Of
the present court house on the night
Of May 16, 1854, read a paper entitled
EARLY Happenings In and Around
Marshalltown'' Mr.. Canfleld's parents.
Mr.. and Mrs. Andrew Garfield, settled
on a farm a mile south of Linn creek
on Center street in 1854. It was gov
eminent land, acquired for s1.25 an
acre
His brother. George Garfield. who
had been married week before the
family came west to Iowa, and his
young bride. spent their honeymoon
driving a herd of cattle from Illinois
to the new home, walking the entire
distance.
Mr.. Garfield told of Mr. Wicker
sham, VINO lived southwest of the vii
lage then, whose only teams We're yokes
Of mich cows. On trips which re-
CURED food to be taken along, Wick
ersham would take some bread, and
when meal time came he would milk
COW and have bread and milk.
Tells of Mothers Trials.
In a very well written paper. Mrs.
S. J. Statler told of Personal Recol-
lections of Pioneer Days" The paper
was read by her daughter, Mrs. Fred
Welles DIR. and Mrs. Stat1er came to
Iowa City from PENNSYLVANIA in 1855,
and on TO this city in 1853. The doctor
bought the property where the Times
Republican building now stands, and
erected one of the first brick houses
built in the hamlet. With three small
children, the youngest a babe of two
months, Mrs. Statler made the long
trip by stage from Iowa City, only to
arrive here and find the Arson House.
the only hotel, so full that they could
get no room in which to sleep. The
family went to the log cabin on the
property DR.. Statler had bought and
slept there the first night. When they
awoke they found it so full of caterpil-
lars that they abandoned it.
With the exception of wild grapes,
wild plums. and crabapples there was
no fresh fruit to be had. Mrs. Statler,
coming from a state where apples were
plentiful. longed for just one apple.
When Sylvester Lacey, at Christmas
time, brought his wife a pail of apples
for a Christmas present, the lucky wife
was the envy Of the little town.
Mrs. Stat1er told of experiments with
sorrel pie, which only the chickens
would eat, and green tomato pie that
was palatable after it had been seas
oned so that the tomato flavor had
been overcome.
The first Fourth of July. celebration
Mrs. Statler wrote, was held in Hughes
grove. where the H. w. Shove home
now stands.
Ferguson Walked to Get Here.
Smith ferguson, Of this city, who
walked from Iowa City to- Albion in
1885, talked briefly On Rem iTiiisseeses=
Mr.. Ferguson prefaced his. remarks
with a short poem. While on his way
on foot from Iowa City Mr ferguson
said he paid for his board and 1odg-
ings at the farm houses he stopped by
playing on the violin for the families
who took him IL He told an an,nsins
experience OF being ferried across the