Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-01-05
AGED RESIDENT OF WRIGHT
COUNTY TELLS OF PIONEER
DAYS.
GROVE HOGS TO MARKET
EIGHTY MILES DISTANT
DAYS Required to Reach Trading Point
Where 5 TO Cents Per Pound Was
the Fredericksburg People Lose
Kin in Ware. E. Wilson'S Rural
observations.
,ecial to Republican.

Clarion, Jan. John Samueis is an
old man. He was born in 1874 and as
therefor nearly 81 years old. He makes
his home al the present time with a
grandson farmer who lives on a Car
ion mail route He IS interesting be-
cause his memory is good and ne can
and viii talk Of times when things were
different. Mr. Sanuels saw the first
railway train thai ever entered Indian
apolis. now one OF the srea, railroad
cepte-s OF these United States The
engine that drew the cars didn't look
like 2 modern locomotive either; more
like tractor thai creeps along pao4!c
hiEhways these days pulling ihresh-
ing machine or corn shelter a-eer ~.
Neither did Il run on loo-pound steel
rails. buzz on white oak tiraoeTs OF
which were nailed thin strips Of iron
As a l5-year-oIG boy Sagnlels rode II.
the hrs. train that ran out OF the town
OF Madison. Ind Ee had been one OF
a Marty that mad driven herd OF eVe
hogs 20 market over the public roads
IRON, where they were raised, elShIE
mics away Il required man ana
eight u -e-. boys . accomplish 2 10
Of this kind ard the distance Travelled
per day was abou- SIX miles There
were regular stopping places along me
line. hotel acccmu, oc!a-3oEs. ya-Case
facilities and all. Fifty cents per cay
coul5 1e made al This Kind o. q Joo- IN
these davs." declared Iae OLD r-<a;s
even q tramp wo1ldn', do such worA
al ten times The pay We got The price
received for hogs II those days ne salc
varied from cents 70 cents per
round and the shrinkaSe was 'consld-
erahle" While still very yo1-lg man
Mr.. Sanuels and TWO companions con
ceived the idea Of touring the wes-
in & prairie schooner" They started
out with about sl5 apiece AID Travelled
over several counties II this part o.
Iowa, often for whole cay without
seeing z human being o. the fsao-tat!oi'
OF one. The political memory OF this
remarkable old man reaches back 10
the administration o. President An
drew Jackson.
Here is a remarkable record in pub
lie school attendance and one that eS-
plains WHY Il IS that students from
the country sometimes oOtstrip those
with better opportunities, in the race
| for an education. Lillian aged ~, is
! the daughter OF Mr. and Mrs 9. a
! Scnu1t. who live or farm nine and
one half miles from Clarion. For near
/ II four years she has attended tbs
| Clarion schools and expects TO gradu-
ate next summer. She has never re-
| NAMED away from home more thar
three weeks al a time during the whols
period and has never been absent OF
tardy. She is ''oit for an education
and is getting what she desires.
Gus Bouiron and his wife, who live
! on a Blairsburg mail route, both have
/ q realizing sense Of the aWfuiness o.
I the great war now raging in Europe
/ They came here a short time ago from
| Alsace. Germany, where. the contend
ling armies have been operating. a lev
weeks ago Mrs. Bouillon's mother con
tracted pneumonia and died, the re
suit OF trying TO live in damp cellar
and later the news came that as MI
Bouillon's mother was descending int
her underground home a French shell
exploded near her and injured her s.
that she TOO left this troubled world.
There are possibilities in sheep rails
| ing. FIVE years ago two lambs wer'
given to members OF the VIII Bell fam
/ ily near Clarion. a little later 3lr. Bel
added five ewes, by purchase, TO th'
flock Three years later the sheet
business was turned over TO a son-in
law, S. 3. Bjelland While the Bell
owned them they sold SO worth o
/ sheep and s32 worth of wool. Bjelian'
4 has marketed animals that brought hin
1858, and wool 10 the amount of sllo
1 The stock on hand is estimated to D.
worth 1850. Something over $500 a!
4 the result of that small start five year:
ago and the whole thing q sort of sid
line.
4 II present intentions are carried OF
/ Lincoln township in Wright count.
will have every mile OF its public roat
graded in modern fashion by next fall
More than eighteen miles We're thus i'm
proved last season. The work is don
with tractor and two graders, III
outfit costing s4s per day complete AM
the work is done al a cost of abou
SIS per mile. The grades are mad
wide enough for three automobile
abreast They use the King drag her
according TO law and the roads shop
the effect OF the system.
A few years ago car of western
horses was shipped to Clarion and dis
tributed among local buyers. Anon;
the lot was one larger than the res
and apparently unTnixed with "bron
cho' blood. AT present ne is the prop
ert- OF Richard Webb, conductor OF
a motor car running on one of the rail
roads here. Webb was at one time IL
charge o. local freight and it wa
his custom TO mount Dick, ride hin
between the tracks from the station {
where his way car stood, usually abou
half mile, noting the numbers of TIL
cars in his train as he Travelled along