Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-13
Farm of Otto Willis Near Steamboat
Rock Has Grown From Eighty to
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houses after March /, as the following
will show:
j. p. McCarnmont has sold his farm
southeast OF here and has bought an
other one between the GOWNS OF Manly
and kensetr. lie VIII live in Sheffield
until March 1 of next year. ". c. sail
son is leaving the place ne occupies
and Will move to Mason City. ". O..
B-oush is also preparing 10 leave the
farm ana viii so to the same town to
live. Arthur Itawson viii move from
what is known as the Hunt farm to
one near Clear Lake and mis- place Will
I be taken by Raymond Clark. whose
! present nome will Do occupied by = Ny.
Fell from near Rockwell. George
kruselnark moves from his place to
Sheffield and John Hunt takes pos
session there. while j. w. Strouse, of
near Swaledale. takes his place. George
Geerdes has rented wnat is known as
Lne McMuilen farm near Rockwell and
James Ward succeeds him, SWale-
dale man coming TO where Ward now
lives. An elderly man named Eicriss
is moving from his farm to Sheffield.
his place being taken by Rudolph
Schaefer. Rex Nogehouse is preparing
TO move from Sheffield TO the Herman
Schaefer farm east Of town. Rowe
brothers have erected buildings on .
farm west of tow and il is reported
that John Rowe. of Sheffield, will take
charge Of that farm. George Gable is
moving TO Rockwell, leaving a son in
possession OF the old nome. Herman
RasIead has bought farm somewhere
in the northwest ana is leaving a farm
70 be occupied by one Schaner, who
comes there from Illinois. Otto Rurup
has moved TO the farm of Gerhard
Block. a pioneer OF Cerro Gordo county
who Is retiring. having bought a home
in Rockwell. Ben Rurup will take the
place vacated by Otto. Frank Klingel
is moving to the Pohle farm, Mr.. Pohle
retiring to Rockwell. and Peter En-
! hoff will occupy the farm klingel is
( leaving. Z. a. Walker will farm the
Mark Huntington place on a Hampton
route this year, his place being taken
by r. c. Meyers, whose present home
/ viii be occupied by Bert Knapp. O..
D. Hay goes TO the Moran place west OF
/ Sheffield and Fred Ro1n will take his
| place southeast of here, while a man
/ from near Thornton takes Rohn's place.
! Fred Slade has rented his farm be-
tween here and Dougherty TO Irwin
! Scott. a. A. Perrin has rented the
Mrs. Walter Bigg farm now occupied
I by Frank Morehead, the latter moving
to a farm near Rockwell. William
/ Conrors, another old-tinler, has sold
cut and will go to Mason City TO live.
J. A. Younge moves 10 farm near
| Thornton from his present home west
| OF Sheffield. James Parson will move
| to Minnesota, his place being taken by
George Terrill. Martin Engebritson,
we'll known farmer and stockman, is
retiring. He viii move to Sheffield,
and A. Baker will occupy the farm.
Leonard Clawson has bought farm
near Geneva, to which he will move
this spring. and Fred Frendenberg, of
Sheffield, will take his place southwest
of town. j. H. Elphic has sold his farm
between here and Chaplin TO ]. High
berger and will make his future home
in Clear Lake.
| one of tee i-kI1o.yn farmers IL
| the vicinity of Steamboat Rock is big,
good -natured Otto Willis. Mr.. Wits,
| who is leaving the farm on which he
has lived more than forty years, came
with his father from Germany in 1855.
| Two years later they settled on an
/ eighty between Steamboat Rock a:S
| Wellsburg. They paid s2.75 an acre for
! the farm and broke UP the first forty
with five head of oxen hitched to
twenty-four incn pillow. Wolves We're
all too plentiful then and the oxen
we're hard to manage when the former
| became noisy, and on several occas-
| ions young Otto drove the steers while
| his father hustled around and kept the
wolves from yelping. After the break
| ing season was over Willis traded his
oxen for team of young horses which
/ he turned loose on the prairies. Then
he tried to catch the animals, but they
didn't want to be caught, and for
| long while they grazed at will. Finally
along in the fall "Old Man Ireland"
one Of the few residents Of that sec
ton, was appealed to for help and one
autumn morning he mounted his horse
and determined to round up the estrays
IL such thing were possible. All day
| he chased them and at last he sue
ceeded in firing them out. The eighty
received additions from time to time
until it is now a $40 acre farm. Fiji
! teen dollars per acre was paid for the
first one, then s25, and finally 800 for
the last. Mr.. Willis has bought home
in Welsburg and third generation
member will assume management Of
the big farm this spring.
|
Stock owners along the river near
Steamboat Rock nave been having ag-