Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-25
Looker-On In Iona

Williams, March 25.-Traveling over
Iowa is a railroad car filed up with
a stereopticon showing fields OF grain
and other pictures of prominent land
| thru which this railroad passes. Pros
/ pective buyers are also invited to see
samples of vegetables. grain and fruit
actually taken from the soil. The
prices for this land are very low in
comparison with that of Iowa farms
and it's no wonder thousands OF men,
women and children are leaving Iowa
for this locality and otner places north
west and south. Every $40 added to
the value of Iowa acres. drives nun
dred families out of Iowa. One has to
only introduce this subject. to hear
mentioned the names of the men VINO
have left Iowa for Minnesota, the Da-
kotas, Canada, Texas, Louisiana. Okla
home. California, Oregon. Idaho ana
Montana. Our very prosperity. our big
crops an dthe advancing prices OF land
is the cause Of all this emigration.
Land renting at IS to IS an acre In
Iowa requires nerve for a young man
to move on to an Iowa farm.
Mr. D. w. Turner, OF Steamboat
Rock, banker and big dealer in stock.
for many wears gave the clipping be-
low which he saw in an eastern paper.
The contrast of conditions in New
York state and Iowa are sharply
brought Oh; BY this advertisement !!
is given space here.
1870 Acres $1,000
Only $500 Cash Needed.
Near a city of 10000, only l II miles
to village. R r. station, creamery. milk
station. etc: so acres level. machine
worked fields. spring watcred pasture
for 20 COWS. ! 900 cords wood, 500 sugar
NAPLES. thriving orchard: two-story
seven room house. 3ox4o basement
barn. other buildings: owner has other
business, must close. out at once: II
taken now only s1,so0,: $500 cash. bal
ance liberal terms. For complete de-
tails and travelling directions TO see this
New York and another of 40 for s1,soo.
showing picture of two-story ten-room
modern house"
Mr. Turner was back in New York
state three years ago and saw many OF
these farms where you can buy Two
story ten room house" and 140 acres
of land for $500" So utterly neglect
ed are they that on some farms there's
a crop of Canada thistles as thick as
, mustard in some Iowa GA, fields.
There's at least one postoffce In
Iowa run for the accommodation of
the people and that's at Eldora. Post
master Biz akley. knowing of the Dig
mail on the evening train from the
south on several occasions. kept open
the pcstoffce an hour to an hour and
half. when the train was late. And
this is to let him and his employees
know the public generally appreciates
this way of running public business.
! Eldora expects to have free de-
! livery system installed June !, 1913.
The coming SEASON Will witness the
! building of a large number of private
residences in Iowa. Contractors tell
! the writer of the number to be built
| in their towns Nearly all will cost over
] $4,000 and he modern" in all respects
! Ninety per cent of these new houses
will De built in towns having over
! 2 900 inhabitants. State it another way.
| these new modern houses will be built
where sewerage. water works, paving,
/ big schools. churches and opera houses
are a part OF the advantages OF the
/ town. AS a result of this desire to live
! in the larger towns. building lots In
such towns have gradually advanced In
price, and the newcomer in this way is
l obliged TO help pay the cost of these
! public improvements. One enterpr's-
! Ing Iowa town. with a live commercial
| club. is advocating paving Of the pub
lie streets. mot because we need it,
| but all Of the other towns around US
/ are paving"
| And speaking Of towns in Iowa and
| the growth of towns, the writer often
wonders If all over the world exists the
same conditions one finds here in this
state. This refers to the "cliques" ex-
listing and maintained always to the
| detriment of the growth of the town
| One town has an east and west CROWD
| that crowd and pull against one an
! other much like pair of oxen this
| scribe drove years ago down east. An
! other town has a doctors line up which
results in a bank fight and three
| churches arrayed against one ahother
| Another town has u college crowd anc
! a town crowd who do not mix socially
| any more than necessary. Severa
| towns have a wet" and dry" crowt
that can be depended upon to night a.
every election. In one tcwn so strons
| is the religious question that the schoo
board has to appoint teachers first as
a member Of one church and NIL ths
| next vacancy from the other church
| All these things are interesting ant
there's always something doing IL
that town, but does it pay?
~ MAA4~s~