Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-10-24

1WO tUWHS dlOhEl Tic puthWuS siA"'
show progress and energy on the part
OF their inhabitants are Ellsworth and
Jewell. Altho only three miles apart,
each town has a good business Each
has prosperous weekly newspaper,
and both receive liberal patronage from
loyal business men whose pride takes
the form Of deeds and not words. Botn
towns supply the needs OF a large
clientele of farmers In the surrounding
country and Of retired farmers IN the
towns. Prosperity and civic pride are
apparent, and they each are ready with
the glad hand OF welcome to all visi-
tors. Ht
One Of the Oldest continuous resi-
dents Of Jewell is J. e. Williams, who
has been in Hamilton county since
1852, having come to that locality with
his father the building of the first -four
mill, known as Williams mill, not Tar
from Webster City. In his boyhood
days Hamilton county was slough grass
country, and tillable acres were few
and far between as compared with
present times.
Charles Siedenstucker, of Jewell, who
formerly conducted a hotel there, sold
out the business and went to California
last winter He enjoyed the beauties
of that country and its equable climate,
but the idleness palled He therefore
came back to Jewell and now is In the
meat business.
Speaking Of the multiplicity OF re-
tired farmers in the towns and villages
Of Iowa led resident Of New Sharon,
Mr. Hammond to remark that in that
town there are at the present time
nearly 100 widows Of farmers who tired
of lifc's endeavors on the farms. moved
to town and died Of various diseases
superinduced, no doubt. by ennui. Per-
|haps these 100 widows also would be
sleeping in the silent city had they been
privileged to enjoy the same oPportup-
ity to take life easy, grow fretful and
decay. But the retired farmers wife
does not retire. She has to work about
as hard as a resident IN town as she
did when she had to look after the
chickens take care of the milk. churn.
cook and keep house as a farmer
wife few years before. And that, un-
doubtedy. Is the main reason why
there are so manv farmers widows in
every town and village. Many OF them
are we'll to do but most Of them are
old in years and have come upon the
time when ones dream Of love is
passed and without hope or desire Of
repetition. Otherwise than as above
noted. New Sharon is one Of the livest
tv
and the incident above recorded Is
common TO all other Iowa towns sur
rounded by land selling at from 5000
to $3.50 an acre. Slopan. Back to rhe
land for retired farmers
Charles w Phillips. Of New Sharon.
breeder Of Poland China hogs. and
a man who has made hog raising
study for twenty-six g years. contra.
diets the statement made by an mex
perienced young man that a white or
red hog is a more economical animal
to rear than a dark colored animal. Mr..
Phillips says the darker animals are
in the majority and speaks splendid
word for his specially, This writer fire.
auently has observed that the number
of swine by the roadside in the main
were black and black and white spot
ted, and the controverted statement
seemed to challenge the intelligence OF
the farmers. and therefore was the
cause Of the inquiry from the New
Sharon man. But, whether or no, all
market authorities are agreed that at
the present time there are not enough
hogs of any or all colors in existence.
else the price would not be so alti-
tudinous at the market centers. nor the
product so scarce on the dinner table.
To have lived seventy-one years in
Mahaska county is the achievement OF
s. D. Stewart. of New Sharon. who
with his parents landed at Brimms
Point. ten miles from Oskaloosa. on
April I. 1916. He was soldier Of the
civil war and can step to the time OF
martial music to this day.
3. I. Gable. Of Searsboro. this year
raised some wheat OF excellent quality
1t weighed out almost perfect. Not be-
ing satisfied with the price proffered
for the cereal, he took some Of the
grain to mill, had II ground into -four.
paying the miller for the service. and
hauled the -four home. The grain
yielded him an equivalent of $3.50