Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-25

looked at her watch and remarked
forty seven minutes" The time Il
has taken us to cumef rom Grinnell,V
explained the owner of the car 1t -
something like twenty two or twenty
three miles by wagon road" from one
town to the other.
1t would surprise most of us to learn
the amount paid owners of auto livery
cars for transportation these days. The
farm hand and day laborer hires car
to take him to his. work and SO does
the schoolma am If indeed they do not
possess cars of their own. A baseball
game in a town twenty live miles
away makes business for the liveryman
and explains in part perhaps why
boys IL years oldScommand wages TINT
would have secured full grown nam
not many years ago. 1t takes money
to hire autos even tho they ars so COM
mon.
This is corn country and there will
be a good crop here this year notwith-
standing the severe drouth and two or
three days af almost hot winds" The
region of greatly damaged corn is
somewhere else. not here. And to IL
of corn growing it might be told that
one farmer named Evans, living south
of Brooklyn, was offered as cents per
bushel if he would deliver what corn
he had to sell to the station within
five days of the time the offer was
made He had something more than
$4,000 bushels of the stuff cribbed up.
all of it raised on his farm of less than
400 acres. but not all grown in one year.
One shelter, however, couldn't she'll 1t
all In the five day period and 1t would
be something of tack to find wagons
and teams availa BILE for the hauling.
but the corn is on the farm. nearly
$4,000 worth of it.
Hog cholera is claiming few Of the
herds in this part of the country but Is
not at all general as yet. 1t is thought
that vaccination will prevent any seri-
Gus outbreak of the disease. One old
farmer explained how he renewed his
stock OF hogs after losing all he had
except one. He put small crate In
his wagon and started out A son and
his partner lived several miles away
and as the father was passing the place
he jokingly called out, Seems to me
you ought to give me come pigs" They
called him in and filled the crate with
half dozen very "runty" pigs and the
old man could hardly induce them to
accept a dollar for the lot. He took
them home and they grew surprisingly.
Later on they multiplied surprisingly
and from this kind of foundation the
farm was stocked as in the old days.
Here is where the business portion
of Brooklyn was when l came here
forty-on years ago." said Mr.. L. d.
futile, one of the early day farmers of
Madison township, Poweshiek county.
indicating a location In the east edge of
town. The postoffice in those days, he
continued, was esta blished in two diff
ferent buildings and like the Missouri
river it was constantly shifting it's po-
sition. Finally a government authority
came along. and gave 1t permanent
location. About that time a 115-acre
tract within the present limits was
sold for SIS per acre. Mr.. Tuttle re-
called the fact that of all the men who
occupied farms in Madison township in
1873. but one solitary old pioneer re-
mains, a Mr.. Graham, so that in this
case at least. forty years approximate
ly sees a complete change OF residence
III rural community.
SIS C. E. WILSON.