Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-29
Looker-On In Iowa

Kanawha, Jan. 2e.--The ice crop of
Iowa this year will exceed in quality
and quantity any previous year. Many
farmers are. for the first time. hliing
their ice houses, and every town Will
ifll every ice house. Prices IN some
places are as low as 81 ton put in the
car. on the track. Nearby towns get a
freight charge as low as 20 cents a
ton. To this has to De added the
hauling and packing after arrival. II
is safe to assert many ice houses will
be flled at cost ranging sil the way
from $3.50 10 81 a ton. So that We
can feel safe in thinking we will get
the family refrigerator next summer
supplied with all we want III 40 to 90
cents per hundred pounds. This seems
10 be a big profit for tire ice dealer.
but when the cost of men and teams,
the waste in handling small lots. and
the inevitable shrinkage, even If what
costs 50 in winter is SOLD for IS in
summer. It is not an eNorbitant price.
only next summer beware OF the man
who talks short crop. This year
every body can get all they want.
Grain dealers tell US the average
farmer does not realize the big prices
ne is getting for his crops this year.
He takes IL as matter of course
Things are coming his way for once
one dealer on this Algona branch Of
fered a farmer in the writer's presence
65 cents for his corn and ~ cents for
his oats. Several farmers VIII not sell
at these prices and are sure the 1914
and 1915 crop Of corn Will ret the Iowa
farmer 81 d bushel If ne hangs on to
it." Here's hoping they &c. it, even II
our fried mush comes sigh.
Few towns OF its size are forging
ahead as fast as Sheffield. In addition
TO being surrounded by the best farm
ing land and scores Of wealthy far
mers. the brick. tile and crment works
employing many men. makes a weekly
/ pay rool that gives a hig trade 10 the
merchants. So the Sheffield Press is
no; exaggerating when it says:
During the year which ends today
! Sheffield has made longer strides IN
progress :hzn any other town Of liz
| size in the state One year ago our
streets were dark, We hal no water
system and no sewer system and our
children were going to school in the
old frame school house that had
served for that purpose for nearly thir
ity years and was ready 10 be con-
demned. Today our streets ere lighted
with electrol,ers, we have an excellent
water works system and sewer sys-
tenn. and our school children are at
tending school in a modern $4,000
brick school building heated by steam
and are comfortable and healthy.
/ That is not all. There have been
/ four new business buildings erected on
our main street and about two dozen
fine new residences haze been built
show us another town. Of the size.
in Iowa that can duplicate that record. :"
Attracting much attention in the
| First National Bank at Rockwell is
an OK yoke made sixty years ago by
George E. Lyman of that place. al
though lis all there now, it would no.
he safe 10 use it on a steady old pair
Of oxen for some insect has bored holes
in almost every inch of 1t. Here's the
funny business. School children and
many grown people come in TO see It.
Have never seen an OK yoke before.
Its almost safe 10 assert more people
IN Rockwell nave seen air machines
than OK yokes. That is more people
lcltS years 81 dye, KNOW more
about aeroplanes than OK yokes.
There's a Congregational church in
Iowa, that has added TO many other
things connected with the church, an
employment agency. II has a time
when men needing work can be pu,
on a waiting list, and at certain time
of the day those needing men TO dc
any kind Of work can phone and have
the man sent 10 them. All this has
been written UP" in the papers. What
! IS TO be noticed here is the comment
, heard in adjoining towns. dozer
towns has this scribe heard it referred
to as practical christianity" Now We
have in all towns a certain number
of men, who always have more or les.
, criticism concerning churches AND
. church work, and not elways Of /:
favorable kind Even Billy Sunda!
/ and his methods are criticised. Blu
not man, christian or unbeliever
latheist. agnostic. catholic or protest
ant has one word 70 say against thi!
, kind of church work. More praise" t,
this church.