Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-02
Looker-On In Iona

| Special to Times Republican.
| Conrad. Nov. 2.-IndiaNa has recently
celebrated the birthday of her poet,
Riley. We have in this state some poets
/ in newspaper offices who persist in hid
ins their light under bushel' so
when the blacksmith poet of Conrad
t felt the inspiration this scribe was only
too glad to give il publicity in this coll
umn. Hheres from the original manu-
| script:
A WORD FROM CONRAD.
( In our town the golden rule
| Is what we teach in church and
school.
! It's never wrong, it's always just
A rule that everyone can trust.
Whatever else may not avail
This is the rule that will not fail.
In our town is blacksmith too,
The very best of work will do.
He'll shoe your horse. hell fix your
pIow,
The honest sweat is on his brow.
Then go to him if you're in need.
For all his work is guaranteed.
The old reliable Sweed
Twenty years in Conrad
Yes sir. I've got enough of it, Two
dollars a day sounds big TO a man on
farm, who buys nothing he eats ex-
cepting sugar. tea and coffee. and when
we got q chance 20 trade we jumped at
it. My wife wanted to get away from
the drudgery of farm life She did get
away, but she got into a place where
she worked sixteen hours day. seven
days in week. Actually she's lost
forty pounds since we went into the
hotel. There's days al time when she
doesn't change her dress from in the
morning till 10 at night. Hasn't been
to church for six months. Does go to
the movies at the second show at S
o'clock. She's got enough of getting
rich at so cents meal of the travelling
men. Not hard on me? Well II have
snap let me know about it. I put in
eighteen hours a day 3s5 days in a
year. Get up at $40. start fires, mop
the office. go to train at O'Clock, go
after the mail at o'clock, help the
travelling men over to the 10 O'Clock
passenger. then work in the kitchen
till noon. help wash the dishes till 2
o'clock, sometimes get nap after that,
then make another train at o'clock,
once more help about supper and again
wash dishes. then put the guests to
bed. then go to the 1880 passenger.
perhaps not man, perhaps get half
dozen big grips to carry. and some of
these fool travelling men will sit in the
office smoking and playing smear for
an hour or two actually had to put a
sign. mo card playing after midnight"
ard even then after get to bed some
automobile crowd comes along at or
o'clock in the morning. Some of them
have the nerve to want something to
eat at that time Of night. Rather milk
six cows? Yes. rather milk sixty cows.
Did have little time to myself on the
farm. Yes, I've got enough Of 81 day"
Within the past week the writer has
seen tractor hauling a corn shelter
and TWO wagons behind. going from
one farm to another at four miles an
hour. Not great big boiler on wheels
grunting along at two miles an hour.
but n tractor no bigger than Ford.
And soon after an automobile went by
with a two wheeled cart hitched be-
hind bobbing along twenty miles an
hour. At Ellsworth, one man has the
seats taken off his Ford and put on a
small wagon box. Several farmers
mere nave had short poles made for
their wagons, TO hitch behind their
automobiles. And in several garages
and livery stable Offices now can be
seen the seats taken off played-out
automobiles and used for visitors and
help in the place of chairs. And it is
now common sight to see old auto
mobile frames and gearing in junk
pile. One-half cent a pound for that
car that cost $3.50. Taking the seats
eff is big salvage beside the junk
pile.
Freddy the Cold Digger" tonite
Three new reels 10 cents, children 5
cents And if the Literary Digest
has adopted eleven new words spelled
as they think best why can not the
/ movie man have one each mite" But
the school children going by and no.
| ticing the spelling are as much con-
founded as some Of the older children
are with the new spelling for old
words. The writer voted for Roosevelt
but never mas forgiven him for his
phonetic Quitting in Slang ss all right.
1t becomes classic in year, altho, one
can get thru with eleven words by
studying hard tonite.