Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-12-02
%. COMPANY HAS
MODEL FROM WHICH OTHERS
MIGHT BUILD.
AuSA TO CALIFORNIA
SURPRISES ALL RECORDS
Many People Thought to Be Going to
West Coast Because Of Fuel Short
aos--Wiil Find Rentals High and
Cost OF Living Greatly Advanced
G. 4. Wilson's Observations.
Special to Times Republican.

special to T1mes-EeDuDlcan.
Green Mountain, Dec. 2,--Tf a man
should start from home intent on
travelling until he found the finest and
best In the way OF farmers elevator
office he would 90 we'll TO come TO this
small town, inspect the one of the local
association and then SO home, thus
saving further time and expense.
Erected two years ago under very
favorable circumstances at a cost OF
O6.500, it would require an outlay OF
nearly $4,000 to duplicate It now. 1t IS
. two story structure 24X30 feet with
4 scale area in front watch forms part
OF the second story as a porch of
residence with room above. The
walls are CT pressed brick and 1t is
finished in oak. The INSIDE compares
well with most small town bank build
.ngs for ConveriGaccs. There is d
modern basement and the upper story
Is a room 24X+9 feet arransed lJr
hall suitable tor meetings of the assoc
iation, township officers, etc.
This Is one of the many prosperous
institutions of the kind in this part OF
the state. II was established in May,
1906 and all of this time except the
first year of its existance has been I'M
der the management Of the present
head. W. ]. Lynch.
Every business institution has it's
own peculiar problems and in the mind
of Manager Lynch here is one thar is
worthy of the earnest consideration of
the thoughtful member of the
"a alaNa-nr az t6a
ginning of it's organization: The stock
of cooperative concerns like this
should be kept largely in the hands Of
the community which patronizes the
institution. A prosperous farming
community changes It's personality
almost completely IN the course of a
very few years. Farmers retire, 90
into other business sell out and move
away. How can stock be kept IN tho
possession Of the associations patrons
under such conditions as these?
The following record as remembered
by z. A. Hall, a local stock dealer. OF
q hog feeding operation conducted by
q well known Marshall county farmer
some time ago, shows the magnitude
Of the industry IN this part of the
state, and while this vas not q record
breaker IN the matter of gains or
prices received, there are indications
Of profits in the figures given. This
farmer bought $50 head OF 101 pound
hogs IN n northern market, paying
s1s.75 per hundred for them. He fed
them for q period Of iO5 days and sold
them for $50 hundred. They averag-
Oh go az ~
the owner receiving 1850 for the lot.
A retired farmer Of Hampton. Iowa,
told OF his intention to start at a
certain time with his wife for Cali
fornia, where the couple expected to
spend the winter. Asked how many
other residents OF the town would do
the same thing this season he said he
didn't know but that the number
would be unusually large. He did
know that at Coulter, a nearby town
Of 900 people, a perty OF seventeen
was n start n A special car on GER
tain date now past. All over the ter
ritory IN which this newspaper circu-
lates II has been the same and con-
slant story. 1--WE are going TO Cali
fornia for the winter" Later on some
body with a statistical Inclination viii
Issue ar approximate estimate Of the
number OF people from Iowa who have
made this flight from the rigorous
weather that Is to come and at first
thought to many It will seem un-
reaaonab1y high. for there never has
been anything like it before. Travel
ors in this territory know that IN
these times the only at all certain
method Of getting bed In q town
hotel is to write. phone, wire or other
wise engage il a day or two ahead,
and tie observer of this California
movement with a few nights OF street
walking experience acquired in the