Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-16
MEN WHO PURCHASED LANDS
LARGELY en- CREDIT NOT
CRIPPLED By POOR CROP.
BUYING OF IOWA FARMS
SHOWS FALLING OFF
Young Men Seeking Cheaper Lands in
Minnesota and Wseonsin-lowa
Prices Still Tending upward-C. e.
....;scn Digs Up Early Incidents Of
Wright and Franklin Counties.
ial - rimes. Republican.

Special u Tines Republican.
Bows. Nov 1S.-F' c. Stielow. of
Owasa, hauled lead Of new corn TO
an elevator in that town Monday, Nov
5, and received :or j, 50 cents per
oushel OF eighty pounds, The Reed
brothers in the same neighborhood
have corn or their farms that will be
marketable. Ii there is any other such
in that section of Hardin county It es-
capped the observation of the writer Of
this paragraph.
\ wen known real estate dealer Of
Franklin county insists that with one
possible exception every one of The
many men 10 whom ne has sold high
priced farms with only a small initial
payment will be able TO pull tnru this
t,iscourag ing season without danger of
losing his place. Recent buying OF
farms is nearly all in Minnesota and
northern Wisconsin Many young men
from the vicinity of Iowa Falls are
locating in the latter region where the
first cost of land is low. The southern
part OF the country seems 10 attract
no attention at all on the part OF the
h0peseeker notwithstanding its bump
er corn crop reports Ten years ago
real estate man would have regarded
this as the psychological moment to
sell southern corn lands.
But the fact that farms in this part
of the country are not changing hands
as has been the case heretofore. does
not mean that the prices are not tend
ing higher all the time. a single IL
lussration Is typical A quarter sec
tor, a few miles south Of Dows was
sold last summer for si65 per acre The
purchaser made i'm proveDents. II Is
said. costing less than 5000 and the
other day sold the farm Al an advance
Of s22.56 per acre
one of the real pioneers Of Wright
and Franklin counties passed away
one day last week.
1t vas neither man nor woman,
1t was neither ghost nor human
Just a horse and probably the Oldest
horse that ever lived in this part OF
Iowa. maybe in any other part
Local historians tell Us that in the
year 1876 there vas no town of Dows
nor even railroad thru the country
where the busy. thriving toAn stands
in these days. There was an otisviile
then where Dows was built some FIVE
years later When an iron highway was
put thru and me surrounding region
thereby opened up for real c!viliza ton.
one William Tutin is said 10 have con-
Quoted the first store in old O-isville
and in 1880 re sold q 5-year- old bay
mare. large % size breed uncertain,
but q good tray eler. TO Mr. L. r Fobes,
then a farmer living FIVE miles from
the new town MIR F'obes later became
interested in some OF the towns ac-
Invites and Maud furnished power
for TRANSPORTATION TO and from often
making the trip four times day.
About twenty years ago the Fobes
family retired from the farm bringing
old Maud along 10 town where for
more than eighfeen years she contin-
ued TO act in the ca pacity Of family
horse A year ago last spring, altho
stu IN good condition, she was excused
from further service because Of her
liability 10 fan in some emergency that
might occur. a short time ago a
Veterinarian found thar the old mare
was nearing the end OF her remarkably
! long career and she MAS c1loroformed
and buried within few rods Of the
/ place where she first saw the light Of
day The Fobes lawn is a large one
( and the old horse was used as lawn
mower there It is said that within q
month she has been seen deliberately
! 70 start with a short run and jump
4 over the walks that lay in her way.
I Men and women have lived the time
that spans oxen and automobile days
/ So has odd Maud"
| An automobile shot over the rest Of
a small hill and continued its course
with increasing speed. Two little boys
+, evidently brothers. perhaps and
years of age were playing in the
/ road near the foot of the slope II
was a matter OF absorbing interest fol-
both we're SO intent upon it that Meth
er was conscious of the approaching
car At the proper time tho. the
driver sounded his horn and the ex-