Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-30
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Iowa Falls. Sept. so.-rhe sale Of
county rights is an old well established
business. OF course we have some
preJudiced persons who consider such
Sales much s the sale of blue sky, but
| some men object to any kind Of bust
ness enterprise Not SO long ago in
one OF our Iowa towns was we'll
dressed. prepossessing individual SELL
lns a county right to make soap. And
II was good soap, TOO, and so easily
made. After YOU had paid $3.50 for the
|; right to make it and sell it in your
county. all you had to do was to borrow
bis kettle of the landlord, put in some
| dope according to the purchased direc-
.. lions. put the kettle on the stove and
in an hour or SO you had some nice
, smelling soap that would really remove
grease spots or dirt from your hands
-ano IT. is fact one man buying this
county right actually went out among
| the families one day, Just with one
horse and buggy and sold twenty-flv
cakes at Is cents each. It's one OF the
sn1ootfest, sltckest, sweet scented bust
ness any one can engage in. Besides
the dealer has the consciousness of be-
ing engaged in g clean business. He
can quote Scripture and back it up.
ISM Cleanliness akin to sodl!pess?"
Now that it is all over ard some
$4,000 on the credit side OF the books,
II is time to mention that only portion
OF the business men and other citizens
or MarshalltoWn realize what a big
advertisement the Marshall county fair
has become. Every year the crowd
comes from farther away. Those of us
travelling in the towns in central Iowa
hear Of men fifty to a hundred miles
away that now go each year to the
Marshall county fair, because it's a
good one" And these visitors all have
complimentary remarks concerning the
town and the people with one exception
and that is they feel, that is some of
them do, they are held up for sleeping
accommodations. Prices paid and
asked for rooms are reported at very
that visitors had been at Des Moines
attending the state fair, to hear of
prices asked in some places for bed. |
1t may be such proceedings go with
successful fair and big crowd. But |
the men who make this fair only second |
to the state fair, whether 1t is the farm |
ers or the town people can add to their |
week by having an information bureau |
with a list of rooms and prices asked. !
Perhaps there is now in operation such /:
an information bureau but if there |
Is, neither the writer nor the visitors |
from out OF town know Of its existence. /,
1t has taken Iowa many years to |
acquire a good roads sentiment But
another sentiment has grown much |
faster, and that is something must be |
done at once to stop the reckless auto |
mobile driving on our country roads !
as We'll as in city limits where the slow /
down signs appear. Children are in |
danger everywhere from these reckless t
drivers. On our country roads children |
walking half mile to school are ex- |
posed every day. Mothers in town and |
country now worry" every day until !.
the children return safely. And it's not |
the majority OF the Automobiles who !
come in for this censure and criticism. !
Perhaps it's not one in ten that needs |
killing, but certainly there is one in |!
hundred automobile owners and j
operators, who if they go in the ditch |
and the result is large funeral all the |;
neighborhood is sorry, but If some man
had to be killed by his own machine
they are glad it was this man.
The first killing frost arrived last
year Sept. IS. This year on the Goth.
One peculiarly this year, is that one
neither reads in the papers nor hears II
talked of. that is eve shall have lots Of
soft corn" We have some cases OF |
damaged fields by dry weather some |
fields that were fired" some corn that |
will be Chubby" but it all got ripe. !
And as one makes northerly in this |
state the corn crop report gets better i
and better. Along here on the Illinois |
Central there is some Of the finest corn !
ever grown in Iowa. this both in quality !
and quntity. And the old conundrum I
is asked over again: Why don't the |!
Iowa farmer cut up his corn fields for |
feed? Less than usual seems to be |
cut this year. unless the silos are to !
be filled with dead ripened frost killed |
corn stalks One man answered this |
question by saying land was too cheap |,
to make it pay. When these farms are !
worth $500 an acre then corn fodder |
will be saved and fed
A. P. THAYER.