Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-01
r.-R. SOLICITOR HAS $4,000 BARN
DulLr ~ SOMEONE ELSE BY
MISTAKE.
PAINTING MARY MYSTERY
STRIKES HIS FARM
Way Up In Marinetts County, Wiseon.
Gin, Norman Faker Induces Contrac-
n tor To Start Construction on Viii
Il sons Land Without His knowledge
v Or Consent-Sheriff Calls and She
Paints and Then skips County.

TO b blissfully at work travelling
rural routes in Iowa for the Times
Republican while some mysterious per-
son contracts for the erection Of a
10000 barn and $1,000 house and &C
tually causes to be constructed $4,000
substructure for a mammoth cattle
barn on his brush farm in the far
away regions OF northern Wisconsin is
the strange experience that has come
to C. E. Wilson, veteran rural solicitor
for the T.-R, Thereby hangs a tale
strange even in long distance farming
and reEindful Of days of Painting Ber-
tina, who added romance to crime years
ago in Iowa and did time for 1t in the
pen.
Wilson, travelling from farm to farm
sthruout the garden. spot Of Iowa, has
Ionged to possess some land and ac-
quire the unearned Increment Of rise
which has made so many of his Gus
TONER'S rich without their aid or con-
sent, so he speculated in a quarter Sec
ton of timber land in Marinette coun-
ty, Wis. For the past few summers he
has chopped and grubbed away until
4 he has a few acres cleared and cheap
barn constructed and he returned to
his newspaper work this fall feeling
that at last he had begun to improve
his place.
Early last fall he had an inquiry by
mail for price on his land and he Of
fered to sell for a handsome profit At
s35 per acre, sending deed TO a bank
at Marinette for delivery upon receipt
of the money The deed came back
shortIyfro the banker with word that
the purchaser, a woman, was in f1nan-
cial difficulty and could not carry out
her purchase and then came notice
from a cement company threatening
a lien upon the land for the amount
due for a partially constructed barn.
which Wilson had never heard Of nor
contracted nor ordered.
The woman in the case a mysterious
Mrs. Schulz had optioued other land
adjoining to the extent Of 500 acres,
had engaged herself to be married to
farmer a mile and half down the
road, had received an advance OF
money from him, had selected Wilson's
farm for the nucleus Of her vast landed
domain and had started contractor
to work on SO, 900 barn and a $4,000
house all without the foru1ality Of ac
curing title to anything or paying any
money to Wilson OF his banker for the
land,
The contractor put the concrete wall
ave feet high above the ground for
cattle barn 3Sx140 feet with wings on
each side, 20x60, with concrete foot
ings feet wide and all covered with
!. concrete floors. Then he thought he
ought to have a payment on his con-
tract and the fun began. His attorneys
attached the woman's new auto and
: some live stock and sent the deputy
sheriff after her. She was so frighten'
ed and shocked that she tainted forth
with and being no Hun the sheriff left
her in charge of physicians but when
he returned tho lady was gone and she
is still gone. altho the warrant for her
arrest in Marinette county is awaiting
her return.
The Marinette Eagle-Star reports
that Painting Mary was arrested in
Springfield, Ohio, for some confidence
game but tainted and was ordered TAX
en- to the hospital by the city physician
and then escaped in the night. -Anoth-
er story of similar experience is re-
ported from Kenosha, Wis.
Years ago Painting Bertha would
+ throw a III OF d TallTOdu TRAIN III 1O"d
and when kindly gents would carry her
to the open air they would lose their
Z watches and pocket books, but finally
Bertha landed in the pen She or her
twin sister may be operating now in
Wisconsin but Wilson Is wondering
what he will do with the beginning Of
a $4,000 barn on a $500 farm He
has the $4,000 concrete wall covering
nearly an acre of the twenty which
he has so laboriously grubbed and
cleared and "a hates to pay for some
thing that he did not order. and Of
course. can not be compelled to. He
also hates to make the poor contractor
move the concrete wall.
The business manager Of the T.-R.
wants to sell him an ad. reading
something like this,-F'or sale. a vaiu-
able $500 farm in northern Wiscon-
sin, highly improved, but not yet clear
ed OF timber A large tract Of un-
& improved land adjoining can be had al
4 bargain together with marriageable
r1eighbor. Terms, hereafter, Strictly
cash to widows or satisfactory surety
# that they will not faint. Address c.
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