Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-12-15

ule is fast enough" And while the
passengers on that train knew moth
ing Of this conversation. they made the
trip much safer than If that train had
gone down Steamboat Rock hill. on q
hop, skip and jump, Making up those
forty minutes" More power to Billy.
Last week in Sac county the writer
got their popcorn figures. Oar Zipmer-
man, near Ida Grove, put In zoo acres
of popcon, and lately put In $4,000 IN
the bank as result Of $50 an acre for
his crop. Will Miller, four miles north
of Ida Grove, recovered 500 an acre
from eleven acres, this from the scale
tickets. Popcorn this year sells for
1885 per 100 pounds and there 10 no
more labor and expense in raising pop
corn than for any other kind OF corn.
excepting husking. Corn pickers, pop
corn pickers get 10 cents hundred for
husking, and expect and do make 30
Per day for such work. And where all
this popcorn goes to is wonder. Sac
county now raises more popcorn than
all of the world put together. Prices
have steadily advanced for the past
twenty years. There seems to be an
increasing demand every year.
The proofreaders can kill this para
graph if the blizzard arrives before this
copy does. Put it down in your diary.
Iowa had an Indian summer commence
ing the day before Thanksgiving and
fine spring weather until Dec. =. The
reader can fill in the blank date. Ev-
cry day since Thanksgiving some proph-
ct of evil has told this scribe, "Oh.
yes. this is fine" But just wait. you all
will make up for it." In two cases
bowling blizzard was billed for the
next morning. On the other hand. an
optimist in each town is sure we shall
have an open winter. The first three
days in December were remark
ably fine days. so the three months OF
winter. December, January and Feb
ruary. will be remarkably fine. Here's
hoping he is right and the blizzard
won't reach the T. r. office before this
does.
A variation of the high cost of !iv-
ing" in many parts OF Iowa is the
cost Of keeping alive the animals, one
fortunate or unfortunate in owning
Right here and in as good county as
there is in Iowa today is being unload
ed a carload of hay shipped in by j. r.
Hardin. the Montezuma livery man.
1t came from the prairies OF
Kansas wild hay. from soil
never touched by a plow and costs
1880 per ton laid down at the depot
here. There is no hay for sale In this
part of the county. One man says
timothy hay sold for SIS ton in
BROOKLYN this week. Straw is being
shipped in Brooklyn for feeding pur-
poses. At New Sharon. shredded corn
stalks have been sold at 50 per ton.
Owners of horses have to pay 46 cents
for oats and so TO 50 cents for corn
Al these figures it's Hobson's choice
between repair bills for an automobile,
or feed for the family driving horse.
Speaking Of automobiles, one OF our
Iowa citizens that recently made tour
of several nearby states in his big tour
ing car, claims that in Wisconsin after
entering a garage he found one evening
he found big brad nail in one OF his
tires. The next morning. going down
early after his machine. he saw on the
cement floor Of this garage several
dozen of these brads lying around the
less workmen evidently had forgotten
to sweep the floor or
There seems to be but little dines-
enee between central and northwestern
Iowa concerning the denomination CT
Mr.. Taft In Poweshiek county, the
good" republicans that speak OUT
in meetin and say he will not vote for
him, if renominated, is surprising IN
this, none of these men make any
concealment of their intentions. Ordl-
narily a man that is going to bolt ms
party ticket keeps quiet, don't care 10
have his party associates know ne Is
going to kick over the traces. TO put
lin another way there seems to be no
political shame this year. And 1t is no'
only republicans that are threatening
but the democrats are very free Win
! their talk. One rockribbed democrat
Of Woodrow Wilson as possible
candidate for president. we don
! want no college professor in ours.
! At Gilman, in the bank building, Mr..
and Mrs. w. w. Imler, is carefully at
| tending dwarf lemon tree presented
his wife twelve years ago. AT the pres
| ent this tree is only about four 1eet
! high and has five monstrous green lem
ons hanging on tWigs seemingly TOO
| small to hold them-one of these lem
ons by actual measure is fourteen inch
es in circumference and six Inches IN
length. Last year this tree had eigh'
mature lemons, the largest weighing
twenty-eight and one-half ounces. The
blossoms now on the tree for the nex'
crop promise better than ever before
Last year one Of these lemons sold fo1
50 at a church fair, and Mrs. Inner
succeeded in making from another
small one, four big lemon pies Mr
Inner has planted some OF these SEEDS
and has some young trees as a result
At 81 each, if these trees do well. Mr.
Inler may quit the banking business
and hand a lemon to any one possess
ing the price.
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