Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-02
MAIL ROUTE CHAOS
DEPARTMENT APP.
K PEARS TO HAVE 6UNGLED
THINGS NIGHTLY.
ROUTES CHANGED TO ROADS
WITHOUT IMPROVEMENTS
Mail System Has Suffered Treren-
dous Injury Without Accomplishing
Economy Remarkable House and
Barn in Hardin County.
Special to Times Repablican.

BARN N n dFoln SSUhty.
Special to Times Republican.
Iowa gai.s. Nov 9-lf Hardin
ns fsrn.e, We're 10 wake ~ some
morning and ma his Darn in direc-
ton from the house opposite to that IN
which he mad been accustomed TO see
IT, his corn gria where re machine
sired had -, 90 the nighi before ana
the straw >tack where the garage hai
Jeen be might NTH entire appropriate-
ness remark. This IS almost as bad a
mxup - The guTal mail route system
n this part OF the country Travelling
thru this section and observing VIVA
has been done IN the WAY Of ouEcher-
ire up the lcutes ore wonders what
SORT of > plan was followed % produce
The condition that exists hs-e AZ This
the. AL ove- the country men are
topping ;heir daily papers because
they are cut off from rural deli cry or
what amounts 10 the same thing, COM
PEELED 10 travel a mile or more 10 hair
rlaE foxes. Every neighborhood con-
,a;ns ~, example OF q change 1aneilt-
ing few patrons than are injured in
the alteration. BY roads which have
been neglected from the beginning Of
road working days 70 the present time
because there has been SO little oc-
casioll for travelling them have been
designated as routes and nobody may
arrive al any but one conclusion in re-
eard 10 their FEASIBILITY in times Of
urtavorable weather. II viii be years
before they will be made 1T for trave.
by The rural carrier taking the ordi-
nary country highway as standard
The average man IN this part of the
country feels that the rlra! mail route
system has suffered a tremendous in
jury and that absolutely every scharge
made has been effected al the expense
az service and with doubtful results
from the standpoint Of economy. OF
course such general changes neces-
sarily benefit some. Its an Ill vino
that blows nowhere. one farmers
wife said Yes We have the mail RICH:
at our door now, some OF those who
have been set off half mile now
know how We have been feeling for
years. but at the next corner two new
posts supported boxes, the owner OF
one living nearly mile away
DO Won EIO" what lI.s 4SSi-!45
proposition means in this part Of the
ccuntry2' asked a man experienced in
his line Of farming the other day. III
tell you what / think. he went on
we have a lol of soft corn that We
must feed up between this and Jan.
and a lot OF financial obligations that
must be met before the latter date
Hundreds Of men are turning great
n- ~ i'm
felds and when these have exhausted
their range the stuff must be sold al
once You can imagine what the re-
suit VIII be a; the market centers
when unusually heavy shipments be-
gin. You will hear lot OF talk then
about unnecessary guarantees and
other Influences that work out 70 the
benefit OF somebody besides the pro-
ducer or the consumer either. This
feeding business will have 10 be
handled with care this time or some
body is going TO lose enough TO dis
courage him II there IS any discour-
age 10 him.
within the past year there have
been built in this community what are
Lropably the finest farm home and
farm barn respectively, that are TO
4 be found in Hardin county. The house
( is the property Of Warren johnson,
Young farmer southeast Of town,
man who has made a remarkable rec
ORD in the way cf financial progress in
the dozen years since ne started work
for himself The barn stands on the
S,ayten estate il the early day village
Of Georgeton. il is round in shape,
sixty tour feet in diameter with siio
l2x5o feet standing in the center. The
material Of the walls is hollow brick
block. the siIo is cement stave. Two
carloads Of cement were used in the
: construction of the great building. The
cattle and horse stalls are arranged
In circular form heading toward the
center There IS capacity for 200 tons
Of hay in the now. 125 tons of silage
IN the sno and 1000 bushels of grain
in the bins. Twenty mich COWS and
sixteen calves may be Sanctioned IL
the building and there is provision for
ten horses There is circular track
for nay fork above and litter carrier
arrangement of similar shape below
The silo must be filed from the outside
and the kind Of outfit with which the
filing job was attempted this year
failed to work successfully, therefore
the silo is empty but 1t is said to be
practice pie 10 fill with different kind