Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-26
Looker-On In Iona

Ackley. Sept. 26-Last week in AL
5ion the writer walked along a street
where apple trees were planted years
ago for shade trees. And this year
their usefulness has been for shade
Probably twenty-five bushels OF sound.
1ed marketable apples are lying on
the ground not worth enough to pay
any one to pick up and sell. One fruit
raiser and shipper sent thirty-six bar
rels from Albion to Minnesota town
Of the sale Of the thirty-six barrels.
There il something wrong in the fruit
business in Iowa, lack Of system. pack
ing and shipping where there is mar
ket. During the last week in August
this year the writsr paid 80 cents q
peck for DutchssS. apples at White
Bear Lake, MINI, and during the same
week in Iowa, the same kind Of apples
weer sold at Is cents q bushel.
The wonder IL that in our smaller
towns the hotel keepers don't put ap-'
pies on the tables, don't have a big
dish in the hotel Office for guests to
eat. And the same Is true OF water
melons, musk melons. nutmeg melons
and cantaloupe. There In no market
worth mentioning for this kind Of fruit
now. They are retailed at cents
each in ;Marshalltown and small ones
peddled out two for nickel on the
streets. Tomatoes are given away
everywhere. Our Iowa gardens are
loaded with lettuce.s string beans. to-
matoes. squash, and other vegetables
TO one wants. The late rains have
made the fall supply immense. And
yet In country hotel the other day
for dinner we were offered canned
string beans and canned tomatoes. We
had canned peach pie, and hundreds Of
bushels Of apples rotting on the trees
within a mile Of that hotel It is true
II one wants fresh vegetables the lar
ger the city the better the supply. This
summer IN Wisconsin on a fishing trip
the party stopped for dinner at farm
house. The woman Of the house said
IL we would take what she had we
were welcome, but "sl1e had no meat
in the house." Half an hour later We
sat down TO big platter Of splendid
ham and eggs. half q dozen kinds Of
fresh vegeta bles, raw tomatoes, plum
butter. apple pie, rye bread. elegant
coffee and cream so thick we had to
cut.it in chunks, and yet 'she had no
meat in the house. Neat IN the woods
means tough beef steak or tougher
vension killed in the light Of the moon.
Some Of US wish the hotels IN our
small Iowa towns would run out Of
meat"
What a thing is habit! what a
wonderful thing is q city ordinance?
What relic Of Puritan times is the
curfew bell? And what nonsensical
thing 1t is IN an Iowa town? Grinnell
still solemnly rings the curfew at $50
p. m. The children" on the streets
pay as much attention to Il AZ cherry
stealing robins do 70 q scArecrow.
However it Is some satisfaction to the
parents Of some children. They have
done their duty. They have q city
marshal that rings the bell regularly.
II their boys still are up town and
their girls are somewhere else, there IL
no one to blame. Didn't you hear the
curfew bell ring?
90 Saef 5
Grinnell always furnishes copy FOR
this column. Notwithstanding the
tremendous sale OF automobiles the
country over, Grinnell has yet ten bug
~ firms In the wholesale business.
Nearly all of them employ from three
to eight or ten men al agents on the
road. At low estimate thdeo ten
firms sold $4,000 buggieS during the
year 1910. Not all were made IN
GrfnnelI." but they wers SOLD ~ Grin
nell buggy firms ana the bills we-e
made ont by Grinnell Companies the
spauldfngs were the pioneers Of che
Grinnell buggy business, and while
they have also gone into the eutomo-4
bile business and manufacturo. they
stil1 sen buggies by the fhousan6G.
sa8lsen0 - x 60 :
Here It IL almost the first % Octo-
Der and no frost yet. Corn n dying Of
old age. tomatoes are all tired cut with
continued blossoming and beAsinG. Cu-l
cumbsrs are yet ambitious ana blosgonn
daily. Sweet peas that sullssd III
summer refusing 70 grow or blossom:
now have been fooled By the spftng
rains Of September and are 3do1aeg me-
Even the Newspaper men foSoee this
year 20 worry about ~ safly visit
from Jack Frost. WSuldn't Il 10 A..
.keai eveyv wear TO take Il for 9ru4ted
that iowa always produces : earn esslgp..
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