Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-11-11
DANIEL WHITE CONTINUES TO
OCCUPY LAND HoMEsrEApEp
IN JANUARY. 1856. t,
ENTERED QUARTER SECTION
ON FRIDAY, THE 18TH
Came Almost Being an UnIueky Day
For White and Companies, Who Al.
Hardin County ssins Built BY G. F.
Jackson-Rural Observation.
pecial to Times-Republican.

Special to s-Republican.
Iowa Falls, Nov. lion a farm in
Ellis township in Hardin county there
lives a real Iowa pioneer. So far as
this part of the country IS concerned
he Is perhaps in a class by himself.
due to the fact that the land he pre-
empted nearly sixty years ago has been
his continuous home since the day he
1t was in January. 1856, that young
Daniel White and four associates COM
piled with the preliminaries which
made them owners of Iowa quarter
at that Possibly Friday the 18th, is
an unlucky date. in this case every one
OF the party froze some part of his
anatomy. Mr.. White having failed to
keep his face from going wrong in
that particular. HIS i'll luck seems to
have ended with the freezing Of his
face. however. and he is still on the job,
pretty lively and bright for q man
nearly Sc years old, and living in a
comfortable home. built on the site
began with and which was later re-
placed by a good" log house with
"dovetailed" corners and "hewn" ex-
terror. When White came to this part
of the world from an eastern state he
journeyed by rail to Dubuque. walked
to Independence and then came by
stage to this vicinity. He found but
three dwellings in Iowa Fails when he
arrived.
Tell You one incident of pioneer
times: All right" said the old gentle
man. "A short time after came I
started On foot for Iowa Falls, about
five miles from here. 1t was as clear
and pleasant morning as you ever
saw. But about noon it clouded over
and snow began to fall. I started home
and the storm became heavier and
heavier until 1 couldn't see more than
few feet ahead Of me. There were no
roads and no trees to mark the way
but l didn't get excited but kept on
in the direction 1 thought I ought to
go. Out where that old church stands
now about twenty rods from my house
was tall pole had set in the ground.
the only landmark on the way 1 knew.
and would You believe it l ran right
into that pole and then went direct to
the house. Wasn't that providential :?
My sister was keeping house for me at
the time and she was getting pretty
anxious about me when I walked in
Mr.. c. F. Jackson, farmer living on
a local mail route. is building what is
probably the finest double crib and
granary on any farm in Hardin coun-
ty. Ii is 32x40 feet in size, fourteen
feet high at the corners and thirty five
to the peak of the hip" roof The
driveway is fifteen feet wide. In the
center Of this a stationary dump is in
stalled and grain is elevated to the
second floor by an elevator provided
with six spouts regulated and con-
trolled from below by a lever device
The cribs have beveled Gem ent floor
the stills at the side resting on squares
of plank placed at intervals from end
to end. To the south Of the building is
concrete feeding floor 3Sx22 feet. Two
sets Of double doors one above the
other have been placed in the south and
the upper ones which run on a track
may be opened up leaving the others
just below closed whenever the owner
wishes to admit sunlight or air the
building out Al the north end is a
hay door and track half way to the
south end so that when the bins above
are not filed with grain several tons
of hay may be put in. At one corner Of
the building is the engine room where
a horsepower engine is installed to
run the elevator. Two hundred sacks
of cement were used in the fve-inch
floors The capacity OF cribs and bins
is $500 bushels and the structure cost
about s1,1o0.
| This Is the way they save seed corn
at the L. w. Lord home southwest OF
town: The corn is selected in Septem-
Der and hung on the walls and over
head in a sort Of summer kitchen. The
stove on which the cooking Is done
also furnishes the heat to dry out the
corn. By about Nov l the weather
begins to be a little cool for summer
kitchens but It SO happens that at this
time the seed corn has become thor
oughly dried out SO the old farmer and
his wife move into warmer quarters
and close up the kitchen until spring
Last year seed corn saved in this man
ner was tested and OF the 2GG grains
planted 1876 We're good and strong. If
there is not good stand of corn on the
LORD 1drln next year IL won DE De-
cause of carelessness in the matter OF
saving seed.
Daniel Starr and Frank Carpenter
two old men. live in the little town OF
Owasa, Jackson township, Hardin
county They are said to be the only
living soldiers Of the civil war within
the borders Of the township Fifteen OF
their fellows lie in the beautiful Berlin
cemetery near the town. A few have
moved away and still live. Mr.. Starr
was a member of Company H. Third
Wisconsin volunteers, and took part In
| the struggles at Winchester, Bull Run