Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-22
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Clarion. Nov 222-W A. STARK OF This
town. IS noI only successful merchant
but also one OF me successful farmers
% Iowa He IS scientific farmer With
practical results. On his farm near
here ne has over nine miles OF Wing.
That COS. something. Hear this: F'o.
severa! !-ears ne furnished his tenant.
tree, sl25 worth OF clover seed. 20 be
soIvn ard p,owe6 under as a fertilizer.
Now Ms tenant IS obligated 70 Use
clover as fertilizer and pays half Of
ne cost - seed This year Mt Stark's
crop 81 corn will average s:x,%-Sve
bushels 20 the acre. ard much o. : NH
yiaid sigh1y-tive bushels. There are
seE-era3 farms rea- here hat o-,y pro-
duce twenty-five bushels % corn - the
acre this YEAR. M-. Stark IS :. book
keeping farmer also. TIE ba,aCce on
ts= farm books -:lis year shows seven
per cen. icteres, returns tros.. al es
ci:c.a-a6 vaiue OF the farm at si2o ar
acre. Nos thar the farm cost him those
figures. oh. 10. And -:-ar ne vii sell
81 those figures. a ski! bigger no AL
this IS & county ard vicinity where
few ears ago were ne best duck
ponds y Iowa.
The New York Sun, whose editorial
writers have as much real knowledge
OF the wes, as sae average scheo! boy
has % Portuguese. gives y head line as
follows:
WHITE WAY IN \ TOWN OF 800.
The roS- remarkable example Of
street illumination -hai has Yet come
to or ..o:ice, say. the Illuminating En-
g;aee- Is thai % W5nterse- Iowa, a
tow which boasts o. a population %
500 and has q raa, White way" s.
Illuminated by -h!-rv-r nine handsome
cluster !appposts. This IS a. the rate
- ore .a,nppost ro- every 400 citizens
Al th.s rate New York should contain
10000 decorative lamp standards TAX
..g Vi,.rerset as :. standard of public
lighting. The exten- of opportunity for
The sale % lamps and electric cu-ren,
for this purpose in the other cities and
towns n the United States IS Sore
thing whose contean patton vii. make
the central station dizzy"
Bless his provincial soul. we have
more white ways IL, Iowa than al OF
New York and New England combin-
ed
What we viii 90 With our second
hand automobiles has become a vital
question. not onl!- with manufacturers
and dealers but man. who OWE ma
chimes they would ike to dispose Of
I::.ey- are 100 good for the scrap pile
and rot good enough for a man able
20 own a frs- class machine. Not
To- ~, = foe sod n
any 100 many dollars bought one Of
these second hand machines for s1ie
on time Being good mechanic he
fixed II Up and this summer he and his
family have mad the time Of their lives.
It's a question. tho, whether he got a
bargain or rot, for while he is out rid
ing the other blacksmith shop is get
ting considerable Of mis- regular trade.
a sale bill up this way announces
some sky head Of cattle at auction.
also four automobiles at the same time
! and place. The pedie-~e. age ard
weight Of the autos is described IN Ar {
prin; exactly as that Of the 5iooded
stock. And on the train the other
night. a real estate men from Sextown
was telling of just coming from Blank
vile. whore he had traded four auto
mobiles for seventy-sever acre farm.
: 7 didn't have time to ask him whether
the farm or autos or both were second
t hand or new.
One OF the Campaign echoes" comes
from Hubbard. There are only sixteen
simon pure, rock ribbed. ia cksonia n
democrats in that voting precinct. BY
/ g. curious coincidence only sixteen
straight tickets We're found in the bal
lot box Logic. every republican
scratched his ticket.
! Radcliffe, the next town west of
Hubbard, cast vote of Els ballots. OF
these there We're nineteen straight re-
publican tickets and five straigh. dem
ocratic votes. And one republican along
here remarked that If Carroll had ap-
I pointed LATE Young senator before
election. there would hsve been a still
! less number of straight ti.i:ets.
| The druggists of Iowa have feeling
THAI our pharmacy and some other laws
OF the state could be very much i'm
proved. They also think that if the eff
| fort was put forth of enforcing some
of the other laws that the pharmacy
board exercises it would be good
thing for the public. One druggist says
/, the code plainly points the sales OF
arsenic and any OF It's properties 20 be
illegal outside Of drug stores. Notwith
standing this, retail grocers all over the
state sci. a certain fly killer. and whole
sale grocers handle il. Yet it is the
arsenic in the ny killer that kin,, and