Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-26

suffer great deal oe pain. The acct
dent will cause him to lay off for q
| while at least. Prompt action on the
part of the engineer in stopping the
machinery proba bly, saved the boys
arm If not his life.
/ Shenandoah.
The not unexpected death of James
r. Eskew occurred Wednesday morn
ing about 10 o'clock following a long
illness OF creeping paralysis and other
complications. Mr.. Eskew was one OF
the very earliest OF Shenandoah :
pioneers. coming to Walnut township
In 1869. and being actively identified
with the growth and yearly increasing
prosperity OF the country since then
in many ways. He lived on his farm
in this township until eight years ago
when he and Mrs. Eskew moved into
the former Frank Redfield property or
Maple street and have since lived there
with the exception Of year spent in
travel in California and other western
states, and year spent back on the
farm.
M tanning.
Perhaps never in the history of the
town has there been such building
every house that Is being built this
More new houses would have been
built. but the lack of carpenters has
kept other new homes from being built.
George Dethlefs has just completed his
second new building. He expects to
sell both before the year is over. The
other citizens building new homes are:
G. H. Reinholdt, Jens Hansen, VIII
Schelldorf. Ward Biilick, George
Schelldorf, Mrs. Martin Drummer,
George J. Ohde. Chris Kaiser. Herman
Vogt, Adolph HIM. Hannes Hass. Hen
ry Opperman. e. c. Perry and Charles
Rockslen.
Shenandoah.
Quite a number of Shenandoah folks
attended the funeral OF A. r. Proctor,
of Sidney, Wednesday afternoon The
accident in which Mr.. Proctor was
killed last week Is claimed to be the
first of it's kind that has ever hap
pened. The Proctor family were driv-
ing thru Nebraska in their auto, when
a severe thunder storm came up. A
bolt of lightning struck the car. in
stantly killed Proctor. but not hurting
the others. The auto dashed along
with the dead man at the wheel. and
with the wife and daughters so over
come by the suddenness OF the tragedy
that they could not interfere to stop
the car. Finally the auto ran over
high embankment and came down
safely without injuring any of the live
occupants of the car.
Dee Moines.
Iowa has 1895 farms with total
acreage of 39,914,17s acres. The aver
age size OF an Iowa farm, according to
the most recent figures, Is 1928 acres.
More acreage was devoted to corn in
1912 than to any other grain crop. the
total acreage in corn being 9,420.434
acres. The total acreage in pasture
was s,9es,e44. The total acre in oats
last year was 1874, 752; the total acre
age in winter wheat was 37.ass acres
and in spring wheat 3se.371 acres. The
total acreage in barley was 3S9,4l0
acres. There was big acreage in tame
hay. the total being s,eS5,744 acres. The
acreage OF wild hay was 754,374 and
the alfalfa acreage 1884. There was
12o.os5 acres in potatoes. More than
% per cent OF the land OF Iowa is In
cultivation. There Is no other state in
the union that has such a large per-
centage of its total area in crops Not
alone IS the acreage large, but from
one end Of the state to the other the
soil Is fertile and practically All Of It
adapted to growing varied crops