Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-07-22
Northern Io1ua Items

Z Presbyterian church at Monticello,
| where he has had a notably successful
pastorate, but the recent death there
OF Mrs. Innes has made a change of
location seem desirable to him, and SO
he returns to Story county and accepts
the pastorate at the college
Titonka.
| Union slough is dry as a bone. Thou
sands of acres of it will be pastured
| this fall and several hundred acres of
| 1t will be moved and the grass put UP
and stacked 1t has been more than a
score Of years since the slough has pro-
duced grass and hay. The scarcity OF
| feed in this section will make Union
slough hay worth money. Already
many Of the roads along farms haYe
been cut and hay made out Of grass
that for many years has been left
standing The hay proposition Is a
serious one and many farmers are now
selling their stock in order to make
what little hay they have tide them
over the winter months.
Forest City.
A new high level mark in farm land
values for Winnebago county was
reached last week. when J. F. and NJ.
NJ Thompson sold their quarter sec
ton farm known as the Lewis farm
north of town to a Mr.. Wilhelm Olson.
OF Illinois, for consideration OF ST.
900. This is at the rate Of $1O625 per
acre and is the highest price paid for
lands in this locality or county: small
er tracts have sold higher but not a
100 acre farm. Messrs. Thompson
bought this farm four years ago and
during this time have brought 1t up to
every foot of the farm is under the
ploW. In one season alone they had
put in 27.30O tile.
Waterloo.
One thousand dollars will be offered
as prizes for creamery butter displayed
and scored at the annual cattle con-
gress and dairy show to be held in
Waterloo on Oct to IA Gold med
ais and gold pieces will be given for
first second and third scores in both
the whole milk and separated cream
classes. The balance of the $1,000 will
be divided pro rata among the butter
makers having butter scoring above
90 This was one of the decisions made
at the meeting of the executive COM
mittee of the Iowa State Dairy Asso-
citation held in this city. 1t was also
decided that SIS would be offered in
prizes to the buttermakers showing
the best ability in scoring butter. 1t
is the idea Of the members Of the COM
mittee that a buttermaker should be
able to correctly score the products Of
his churns.
livermors.
The Thul brothers and Elmer Hewitt
had quite loss OF hay by fire. They
rent the Barney Devine 160 acre place
just north of ST. Joe, which is mostly
hay land This was seen to be afire
on Tuesday, and resulted in a loss Of
about twenty tons OF green, uncut hay,
and fifteen tons OF old, stacked hay.
An area Of about twenty acres was
burned off, and but for the prompt eff
forts Of George Lenertz and Joe Zeller,
who happened to see It, the entire 100
acres would have been burned over.
The further facts that there had been
rain two days previous and that there
was no wind stirring, also helped in
saving the crop. The grass was prob
ably fired by q carelessly thrown cigar
stub or match. The place is fenced. but
people have been in the habit Of dr1v-
ing thru. The Thul boys have repeat
eddy put up notices at the two corners
where people have persisted in taking
down the wire and driving in and out,
that they should not trespass. but the
public has imposed upon their good
nature and paid little attention to 1t,
hence this loss, just now Mt time
when hay is a valuable article.