Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-12
Lookey-On In Iona

! Ames. Nov. lion Monday last the
elevator here commenced to take in
/ the new 1915 corn. They paid SO cents
per bushel with "a per cent moisture.
! This corn as received is cool and
sweet" but if the present warm wealth
Grier before it can be shipped to the
Chicago market. This new corn Is
shelled as fast as received and none of
II is considered safe TO crib. Farmers
are husking and hauling Immediately
good and unless prices so down many
a farmer and renter viii break even"
on his corn crop Of 1915 II he can mar
ket il at IS cents. All this is not say
ing the farm renter or the owner Of
$50 an acre land will make any
money this year, but half a loaf Is
better than no bread at ALL
It's 10 longer a theory: Ames is to
have modern hotel The new build
ing. four stories, is almost ready for
the roof, and good weather few days
longer will enable the contractors to
enclose the building and finish the in
terror on contract time. Here's a real
fire-proof hotel Of 10 rooms, to cost
in the vicinity of 100000. Mrs. Hib-
ner, formerly Of the Iowa Falls Woods
Hotel. has leased it for term Of
years, which insures a popular hos
telry. II is situated on the corner
south of the post office. and the places
with an open space will give fresh air
in every room in the building.
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And the city is doing some building
on its own account. A new city hall
opposite the post office is we'll under
way, this TO cost $4,000
Also the city electric light plant and
water works is being rebuilt at a cost
of say $4,000. This building, unusual
in a town the size Of Ames. is a steel
frame with brick laid in. a la Chicago
style OF building. the maeons laying
the brick any old place. top or bot :
tom.
In view Of the fact that the Iowa
Light and Power Company has applied
FOR a franchise and right Of way to
Ames and on to Boone. the guessers do
not know what to think and say. They
know the voters OF imes most de-
cisively ordered this $4,000 rebuilding
Of the city plant. and they also know
the power company offered to sell the
city electric Juice" at wholesale
rates, SO the city could retail it at
profit. YET with all this the city is
spending 100000 on the plant, and still
the power company wants to come
into Ames.
Another matter which disturbs the
town guesser: Why does the Iowa
Light and Power Company want a
twenty -fve-foot right OF way. just to
set poles upon? Why does this COM
parry remove some Of the wood poles
shipped in near Colo and replace them
with the steel poles? Why are they
using such "thunderin" big copper
wire? Why is the c. & N W. rail-
road accommodating in allowing these
poles on or close TO their right-of-
way? I'll tell you Il means another
electric road running in and out Of
Ames, paralleling the C. & \. w with
their knowledge and consent" Ask
these wiseacres where they got all Of
this important news, and they will not
commit themselves. but just the same,
its evident, "a wish is father to the
thought"
LIS risky business saying anything
about the weather. but the past three
weeks Of sunshine has not only saved
the corn crop-along here-not only
given fine pasturage up to this writ
ing. that saved thousands of dollars to
the farmers but it has been Cod
send to contractors in helping to finish
thousands Of dollars worth of public
and private buildings. Miles Of side
walks and miles of street paving have
been finished. which was thought to
be an impossibility month ago. The
| condition Of building affairs here in
Ames. is exactly that Of many other
/ Iowa towns.