Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-03-18
BELIEF c-NSgAL THAT WHEAT
GROWING INDUSTRY HAS GEN
REVIVED PERMANENTLY.
TOLEDO PLANNING UPON
MILL COSTING $4,000
Farm Lands Near Toledo Show Ad-
vance Of s25 Per Acre During Past
Twelve Menths-Town OF Melbourne
sprueine up-Five E<-Pestmssters
Rssidents--Wilson's Observations.
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Toledo. March iS.--Ncgoti1tions for
the establishment: os = s5e,e9o hour
mill here have been carried on in the
past few weeks Buildings formerly
occupied by foundry and machine
shop are available for the project If II
succeeds and somebody evidently be-
lieycs that the wheat growing Indus
try In central Iowa, once Of first I'M
portanCe. but later almost insignificant,
may be permanently revived with the
prospect of continued higher priced
breadstuffs. Another hoped for insu-
tuition is the state orphan school that
Il Is sought 10 have located in Toledo.
In this case also there Is a building
waiting. the local college having been
compelled TO close It's doors with the
advent Of this country into the war
In the Judgment Of II. p, Green,
Toledo real estate man, farm lands in
this section have risen in value about
SIS an acre In the past twelve months.
While property within the city has not
advanced notfceably. farms near by
evidence their desirabll!ty by the high
prices at which they change ownership.
One Of these. containing i2O acres. sold
for s245 per acre. another Of the same
size at s?7S and an eighty at s225.
F. w. IngersoN. who was elected
member Of the legislature from Tama
county by majority Of one vote, evil
IDENTIFY believes in representative gov
eminent of the old fashioned kind. 1t
IS said that in one town in his county
he arranged a meeting 10 which he in
vited number Of leading citizens Of
different political parties and OF vari-
Gus occupations and interests. Cues
lions relating TO current legislation
were talked over and community senti-
ment ascertained. Doubtless other
meetings of the kind were held in 9TH
er parts OF the county.
Few Of the smaller towns Of central
and northern Iowa have improved in
appearance as has Melbourne in the
past three or four years. In that time
several neat, compact business blocks
have been built and whole streets of
residences have sprung up, practically
every house being modern in conyen-
fences and appearance.
Melbourne is Of course the home of
postmaster or rather a postmistress.
Mrs. Josie McMahan being the present
incumbent. 3, Nothing extraordinary If
the matter ended there. which it
SSesn't. NJ. w. Corbett was postmaster
Of the town for nineteen years and he
| lives there too. So does W. A. Saw
tell. who filed the position several
years, Jacob Leibsle used to hold down
the job and he still lives in town. Then
| there is Editor Springsteen. who for
nerly waS a postmaster at Garrison,
and still the list Is not exhausted. for
DR.. B. NJ. Rowland. now a Melbourne
man, was once postmaster Of Villisca.
There never have been many ex-presi-
dents alive at given period In United
States history but this doesn't apply TO
ex- postmasters. Melbourne alone has
five of 'em.
1t is nothing unusual TO hear sub
scriber say that he has taken the
Times Republican twenty or twenty
five years, which seems long time TO
be reading a newspaper continuously.
but Mrs. Katherine Arnold, resident
Of LeGrand, has a record in this line
that makes 8 quarter Of century a
comparatively brief period. Why.
said she, we have taken that paper
| for sixty four years. My father was a
subscriber when it was published in
Lafayette now Albionl. When he was
gone we had the name changed, but II
| has been q continuous subscription
Mrs. Arnold is Sc years old and re-
| members Marshalltown when it con-
tained but five houses. Her father was