Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-03-10
TYPE OF YOUTH FOUND IN IOWA
TOWNS WHO scoRN oRoIN-
AIRY WAGE.
DANE TAKES OPPORTUNITY
TO EARN INSTEAD OF TO LOAF
Foreigner Looking Forward to Time
When He Will Become Land Owner
Other Fellow Still Win Be Seeking
ODD Jobs at High Pay-Rural Route
Changes lrritate.
oecial to Times-Republican,


Coulter, March l0.-One day last
week traveller stopped at a small
town. He wanted TO find some one to
drive with him thru the country. The
liveryman had the necessary team but
didn't keep regular driver Plenty of
young fellows We're lounging around
and one of these was approa ched. The
traveller named the price he could af-
tord to pay. 1t wasn't threshing day
figure 70 be sure. but enough to buy
several meals for a hungry man. The
youngster wouldn't consider such
price moment, however, and quickly
Went over to the other side of the
street. A spectator pointed to another
young man and suggested, IT; that
fellow The second man was asked
to make his own price. which was
reasonable one, and he got the job. He
was Dane three years "oyer from the
old country a carpenter, and tempo
rarily out OF work. And he could ask
questions too. Most Of these related
to the price OF land in different parts
of the country. opportunities for be-
ginners, etc. He had saved a little
money and proposed to keep moving
along taking whatever offered itself
until the season opened again Now.
every little town thruout the country
contains plenty OF the first kind OF
Young men here mentioned. They are
out OF Work u good deal % Cue ,.lI1s a11.i
they want TO be that way. They pick
up an occasional short job when they
can get somebody to pay them twice
what they are worth and then they loaf
the rest Of the time. If the first men
toned lad had done the driving he
would have been asking questions
about the nearest "wiGe-open" town, if
indeed he DID not already know all
about it, rather than the price of land
Thirty years from now he probably
Will be glad to get work at ordinary
prices. but the Dane won't be in the
market IL all then. unless it be as an
employer. Mighty hard for the young
man 70 get ahead any these times. Toe
many of him are too particular entirely
about the kind OF work and the wages.
especially in winter when there isn't
much work TO be lad.
There is a neishborhood near this
place which has surely been afflicted
With its full share OF misfortune and
death in the past few years. In one
farm home several years ago a man
nauIei Chris Johnson lost mis- wife.
Later on Mrs. Eli Appleby died at the
same place and last week Mrs. John
Berghefer passed away in the same
house. Not long ago a man named
Juhl died on the next farm to the east
and few weeks ago Axei Peterson lost
his life thru gasoline explosion in an
adjoining farm home.
The work Of some OF the postoffice
inspectors on rural routes in northern
Iowa is highly unsatisfactory to many
Of those affected by recent changes. In
earlier days when changes were made
the old patrons We're generally taken
care Of in some manner even tho it was
not SO satisfactory TO them as before
but in these days whole neighborhoods
are cut off from service without a word
of explanation II their stories are to
be credited. The expense to the gov
eminent Of delivery seems TO govern
more than in former years and the
rural carrier comes in for his share o.
sorrow because when a twenty-fou-
mile route is heightened as has been
done in many cases OF late there is no
extra compensation and when route
Of that length is shortened, which is
also frequently done. deduction is made
from the carriers pay.
Here is something for the boy who
likes to hear hunters tell stories about
birds and animals and their ao!ags and
habits. 1t was told by a farmer who
takes a hunting trip, occasionally,
away to the north OF this state but
this happened at home. He said: 81
heard a queer sort OF noise in the edge
Of a field near the roadside one morn
ing ana Investigating found that a
crow was trying to make a raid on a
prairie chickens nest on which sat the