Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-06
SMALL TOWNS NO LONGER AGl.
TATEp OVER BUSINESS IN
THE THOUSANDS.
HARD TO RAKE ENDS
MEET ON S1,1oo SALARY
Shortage in Ice Supply Being Met BY
& Installation Of Cooling Plants in
Creamcries and Other Factories
Farmer Kicks Because Hogs Brought
Only 10 Cents--Wilson's Notes.
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I.atlmer, May 6.--Ordinary business
in small towns runs into bigger hgures
than it used to do. If farmer mad
brought in his marketab BILE hogs ana
taken back home the record of BANK
account augmented by $500 ten years
ago everybody living within a hundred
miles would have had a chance to read
about it within a few houS OF the
time the big check was written. yet
that very thing happened at Latimcr
few days ago and there wasn't such
a great number Of hogs involved in the
deal either--130 in all. Then. too. If a
small town creamery OF decade ago
had announced that it had done SlOo,-
900 worth of business within the past
year the announcement would have
created something Of sensation, but
that is what the Latimer creamery has
done, and its promoters are not saying
Ianything much about 1t either. On a
train a preacher told another one how
his son, bookkeeper for some firm.
worked fer S,100 year and couid
hardly live on his salary. Ten years
ago he would have considered that
sufficient and then some. but times
have changed" as is being said fire.
quently these days.
What is the use of worrying over
the exhaustion of the lumber supply
or that of coal or of anything else!
Something or some way is always
available when the real need arrives.
This same Latimer creamery found it's
usual plan of buying it's ice supply
from concerns dealing in the natural
product impractical this year and has
installed an ice machine at a cost OF
some $4,000. The manager explained
that it Is a four-ton machine. that IS.
it is capable of the same cooling effect
as four tons Of ice has in twenty
four hour period. or that it will freeze
two tons of artificial ice within that
time This man believes that natural
ice like Iowa farm land has advanced
permanently in price. and will never
be used anything like so extensively
as it has been in the past.
and the way some people look at the
matter buyer told how he offered
farmer 10 cents for his stuff, the price
having receded slightly from the mark
the day before. "Only 10 cents! ex-
claimed the farmer, and then in all
earnestness:-"r I'm going to quit rails
ing them if that's all I can get"
49,
One doesn't have to travel far these
days to find interesting stories of war
and army camp life. The letters and
souvenir collections have arrived in
countless homes, where they will be
talked Of and treasured at least while
we who are here remain to talk and
|.listen. +. C. Johnson. son of Post
master Il. P. Johnson. of Latimer. en-
listed at Camp Dodge Dec. Is. 1917, FOR
field hospital work. He was transferred
year later to the, 349th Infantry band.
In letter home he told Of meeting
newly ,created major whom he had
known and to whom he remarked:
| "Major we have both been promoted.
We ought to be glad Of that, think
to which the major returned the not
really dignified tho perhaps. heartfelt
answer, You're gosh darned right
In the st. Mihiel country just after
the armistice was signed young John
son, who is still in France, collected
his souvenirs and sent them home.
SHE'LL the leaden tip of a German
three-inch shell, a rough and jagged
piece of shrapnel about two inches
long and an inch wide. little piece of
aluminium shrapnel that helped take
Off the leg of an unfortunate French
soldier, a German chevron and honor
button an emblem to denote that the
wearer had bought a German war
bond, this a green badge with verti-
cal red bars running thru it, a piece
of German war bread picked up from
dugout. This bread resembles petri
fed wood as much as anything else
and is said to consist of beets pota-
toes, wheat and sawdust. Johnson was
permitted to visit Paris and his letters
tell about the tomb Of Napoleon and
other attractions of the French capital,
also of seeing an automobile travelling
thru the streets, one occupant OF
which was pointed out to him as
woodrow Wilson, president vi tie
United States.
Arthur Peters, of Alexander, Iowa,
a returned machine gun instructor,
tells how he and his companions while
on the returning transport each morn
ing changed their watches to- conform
with the location of their ship. The day
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