Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-28
Looker-On In Io,va

Rockford. May 2s.-spirit Lake has
a healthy building boom on hand and
will see many new buildings erected
this year in the business section as
we'll as the residence. together with Il
new school house and church, and if
i, any of the mechanics who want to
work, find any time to so fishing, we
will miss our guess. The foremost
| structure now proposed and one Of the
most beneficial and most needed Is the
! new school house. Every body wants
| a new school house and II Ia thought
ere school time rolls around again, q
school building that will be a credit
to Spirit Lake and adjoining territory
will adorn the campus
| Then will come the completion OF
the new $4,000 Methodist church, the
foundation for which was put In last
| fall. The contractors are expected
! this month to start the work
"A new $4,000 bank building will
grace the site Of the old building be-
fore the summer season Is over. Work
I of wrecking the old building IL now
! under way"
| The Beacon" feels IT IL, the air and
| says. lin citizenship Spirit Lake does
not number with the larger county
! i.20G TO $500 of the hest people on
earth. 1t has everything that goes to
! make up clean. progressive, happy
1 and Industrious little city, together
with the most popular lakes in all the
! central west at its dooryard. 1t IS ex-
pected that between twenty-five and
! fifty new residences will go up during
! the coming summer season, together
with number of business blocks. All
OF which goes to show that the build
! ers have faith in Spirit Lake and that
! they are willing to back that faith
! with chetr money. There Is no truer
statement than that Spirit Lake is IN
better shape in every way today than
at any previous time IN its history.
! 1t IS up to every resident to have the
confidence and keep pushing Tor Spirit
Lake" Reports on the fishing are
good bad, and Indifferent The man
who is satisfied with perch and bull
heads can have great sport at any OF
the two Okobojis or Spirit Lake. And
the party who viii hire q good guide
can get good strings OF crappies and
walieyes IF they're biting" Black
| bass are slow this year in taking livc
or artificial bait, probably because OF
| a late spawning season. ali of which
| is good thing FOR the bass and future
/ fishermen.
| The northern tier OF counties is
! paying little attention to politics. Dick
!rsor county has no progressive ticket
/ for county offices. and win give a good
I republican majority for all national
and state republican nominees. Cum
minis viii hold his own and Governor
Clarke fall but little behind his ticket
| Judge Lee has spoken at EsthervtN1
and for some reason was greeted by a
| small audience. I, is only fair 20 say
! his meeting was poorly advertised. The
| fact OF the matter is the progressive
|partv has lost much of it's strength in
! this neck OF the woods, /. e. all along
! the northern tier Of counties. More
| md more one hears that Il yotec
| gainst Taft but voted the state re-
! pu olican ticket and know no reason
f! this year why I should vote the pro-
gressive ticket The very small per
centage Of changes on record for thu
! primary June J. tells the whole story.
| Baskerville tried the experiment OF
tciled stree $ late last fail. too late many
claim to &c. good results Another
coating will be applied soon much to
!
| like the dirty store floors for the arst
few days While it is fresh. However
they admit it's cheaper and better thar
| sprinkling the streets with water.
Some Of the residence streets will try
! oil this season.
L l. Bingham Of Baskerville. has the
pleasant experience of having no OPP
! position al the primaries as candida te
| fer reelection for the Legislature.
/. The crop situation never was bet
; ter Corn is up in many places. the
farmer who got il IN early for once
nit II right Big rains last Friday.
Saturday and Sunday. Followed by hor
weather. has made the grass. and small
grain two weeks ahead Of usual
growth. All gardens are equal, II not
ahead Of central Iowa Garden truck
I-as put in early and has grown every
.6ay since There must be something In
Ii; for since Il was mentioned in this
icoIumn. continued observations prove,
more livestock Of all kinds in she
pa stures than any time for twenty I'VE
years One farmer near Spirit Lake
said many head Of yearlings. and TWO
year old steers have been shipped IN
from the west.
In some places one sees where the
dandeiion has got out OF town on &c
the Iowa farm. One pasture or per
haps it was being kept for hay, showed
i Ten to fifteen acres Of rs good stand
Of 6andelions as the poorest unkep'
lawn in town. Nothing short Of plow-
, ing that this fall will kill them on. In
,.nn setting the lawn mower close
followed up by squirting small
r amount of kerosene into the cut
off portion will do the trick this
: year and is much better than digging
them up and much tame grass with
, each dig But like The poor. they!
be with us next year and as long as
millions 90 to seed every year, on un
. occupied lots and rOsdsides.
, A sign IF the times. At 1870 p. m
i, | in Nav 1914 on the main street o.
Roland. the Story county town, where
:, no democrat gets mall. there Were
, fourteen automobiles and not horse
:. to be seen Nearly all of these cars
, we're owned by farmers who ran III
: after dinner for some supplies ant
would be home thirty minutes late
at work with hour horses and a disc.
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