Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-16
renter and had pick q farms. Until

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! he bought a farm or his own.
i 1t was Old Moore that offered lof
! days work or $500 to gravel the road
from his place to town. When they
objected and said that man and
! team wasn't worth more than $3.50
| day--and they were not then--old
Moore said his men and teams were
, worth that to him and they'd better
| take his money. 1t was Moore that
put the first string OF tile thru a patch
| Of low ground Folks laughed until
they noticed that Moore had more rea-
son to smile over a new cornfieid than
anybody had at his city sewers
Gradually people ceased to dislike
Moore: but the average man didn 7
like him. The average man didn't un-
derstand him. He thought ~Old Moore
was queer"
Still. it was Old Moore that drove the
pedigreed stallion four miles to town
and four miles back in 40 minutes ana
brought a doctor the time the man
lost his arm in the threshing machine
at his place. II was a trip long notable
in neighborhood story. incidentally II
was money in Old Moore's pocket for
the game. savage old Morgan stallion
just took three or four long breaths
and took to nipping grass after Ola
Moore and the doctor had piled out
and hustled to the stackyard. The
Moore horses were in greater demand
than ever. But Moore didn't think OF
that when he pounded the old horse on
the back.
1t was Old Moore that was always
trying a little patch of new seed oats
or an ear of corn that he had Sc
cured from somewhere Foolin' with
all kinds of new tangled stuff But
when the 1hreshers told the tale OF
Moore's oats everybody wanted few
bushels for seed. They got them at !
the ordinary price. For that was Old
Moore's way.
Some folks thought Old Moore crazy.
n
used 40 talk of land worth $50 an
acre. said his land would be worth
IL. Everybody knew that $50 was too
much for land and that ii might be ex
pected TO slump as soon as the boom
was over.
Another foolish thing Old Moore used
10 do was to keep his straw on the place.
He piled i UP by the barn instead of
oucking it away with bull rake and
burning il like a sensible man would /
Worse yet he used to haul manure a
mile or two to his own Land for moth
ng for people who wanted TO get II
out Of the way Didn't seem 10 know
hat the deep black prairie soil couldn't
wear out. Moore was peculiar. He
lid such funny things No real harm
n him-but you know.
All the neighbors laughed when a
and Spectator stuck Odd Moore with
about 5000 acres Of land in northern |
Iowa. Old Moore didn't know that it /
was too cold and wet there for crops. |
Why they couldn't raise apples IN |
northern Iowa They froze out. Take |
western Kansas now. some sense tot
that. Well, Old Moore had money in the |
bank and mortgages and let him flick |
er. But that Iowa land at $3.50 an /.
acre-weli il was rich 20 see the old /
sweIl-head get his. The old man died !
too soon to realize. how much he had |
been stung but his estate sold the land !
for $50 an acre few years after he |
had passed and sold some Of it TO the |
sons of the men who had laughed to !
see Old Moore get stuck on IT.
Now there's a moral TO Old Moore |
It is the same moral that attaches 10 !
the same men we call book farmers
and the men we term crazy fanatics
today when they bring new and eff |
Glen, propositions before us. on course
we shall change our minds-we always
do when he have had time enough to
laugh and criticise without thinking.
When we are shown we shall know
more than we do now. And then we
will probably claim that we knew it
all the time.