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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01
CITY chicken MURDERS
RURAL POULTRY IN FL0CKS
Want any chickens killed.

Want any chickens killed.
Mary Pickford has designed a new
way,
In "The Hoodlum." her second pic
ture produced in her own studios. and
which will be seen at the Strand
Theatsr for an unusual engagement.
commencing Sunday. Miss Pickford
becomes = terror for all chickens. tur-
keys and ducks living in and around
the country roads out Of New York
City. .. -. ..... 4. .ssrass
5Stt
The answer II 4 speedy. sporty auto.
mobile which Miss Pickford. az Amy
Burke. Tho Hoodlum," uses to clir
the rear feathers Of edible birds in q
most speedy q d accurate manner. As
the panpered grand daughter of Alex
ander Guthrie. she scores high roc
ord as an auto terror.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01
AREvELATloNs or A WIFE"
Al the odeon, Friday, Oct. 8, Matine'
III r..- and Niaht,


Coming with a stamp Of approVa!
from dramatic critics. "The Revela-
lions Of a wife" at the Odeon Friday
matinee ana night. matinee for ladies
only. It is called q play Of mystery.
with . wonderful plot that holds and
grips you until the final drop OF the
curtain, and sends you home FEELING
better for having witnessed play OF
real merit, 1t has been sent on tour
with a very strong cast OF recognized
performers and a production that Is
far above the average. The demand
for seats steadily srowB and from all
indications. standing room will be at
a premium during tho engagement IN
this city. Tho evening performances
are for everybody over the ago Of six
teen. Odeon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01
CLUB OPENS eEAsoN.

Twentieth Century Program, FlrsA In
Two Years, Enjoyed. "
Aftsr q CESSATION Of activities Tor
two years, due to the war, the Twsnti-
9Th Century Club opened It's 1890
season Tuesday night with Q very en-
3oyable meeting at the r. N. @. A. lee
ture room. Almost 100 members and
: few guests gathered at tho associa-
ton room Tor dinner and to hear q
pTvIT- & reading. given by Mrs
BeulAh. wright Comstock, Of West
Union. 8s
Wslcoulng thA members and theis
CuSsts were TIE president o. the club,
Nh. =. q. Hynds. and the members 81
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01

w,nisrod. have gone 10 aeAdisoA Wa.
to enter the University o. wsseeAsin.
Baich In returning to Madison Tor ais
sophmore yeAr. and w1llisrcA VINO
entered Madison LAST fall bvt htsr
Transferred 10 Iowa state college win
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01
ATTE NTIoN

To the Carpenters o. Marsha'to~n
and Marshall County.
MI. Flood Of the Atkins Saw "orKs
win be With US all day Saturday and
Saturday evening demonstrating all
the good points Of the Atkins saw
Whether in the market or not for a
new saw, the time is well spent to hear
wha. he will have t9 say Abbott q
Son -.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01

resume M collage wssA q WlDoenGA
Ishn Smith. nAw u 3esAA Woeso -
attended Ne wedding a. ~ esesAss.
Lieut. HAN osnith. WIN enses - Ua1-
vsrxty Of wisconsin seu1s - sais
week.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01
pr EDeEp At q, U. !.

Pledge lists announced ut the Uni
yers,ty Of Iowa contain the names OF
three students from Marshalltown.
Margaret HOWE becomes . member OF
the Aloha XII Delta sorority, Ruth Van
Law affiliates with tho Gamma Phi
Betas, and Margaret Ferris has been
n1edred TO the Delta Gamma sorority,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01
HIGH SCHOOL MEETING.

Of the High School Parent Teaehers'
Friday.
A meeting Of the High School Parent
Teachers will Be held at o'clock. Fri
day. October 3 In room -. high school
building. An Invitation Is extended to
all. A. Palmer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-10-01

Five young men Of this city. Halsey
Smith. Walter MoCreery, Elderk1n
Boardman, Harold BAlch and George
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-12-13
COMPETITION


eventne Post
Do
The star-progress. (Opelousas, La.) 1917-1921, 1919-12-13
OPPORTUNITY

touch with parties who willing put down wells in all TO
is and the Their Geoogst will be select place where
the leases which may obtain.
There excitement all the and the the oil
who knows but that might have second B Burnett Homer OF
the people willing give leases their lands
money drill oil wells and the de
unless oil actually produced and down
eighth of all the oil found found have made good DEAL
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

it accomplished and the means at its
disposal, ii may be suffered to expire in
peace.
OF course, it's stockholders made no
money-eXcept, perhaps, those who
withdrew at the time of the family jar.
The others lost whatever they put into
it. The company was never land
owner. 1t expected to make profit sell
ing water to the mutual water compan-
les composed of settlers. If it had
been properly financed and managed
no doubt it would now be profitable
enough
The mutual water companies-there
being thirteen of them now-still buy
water from it, but the people of the
valley have now organized the Imperial
irrigation district, embracing 5S1, 900
acres. This is a municipal corporation,
with power to levy taxes and issue
honds-the organization, in fact. being
much like that of a city or county. The
district has voted SS,500,000 of bonds.
The Valley as 1t is Today
The development company still owns
its original right to take water from
the river and the main canals. 1t also
owns the contracts with the mutual
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01
Perabuator Niagara Marched Backward Through Valley S

Since then growers have made ver1
good money in some years, though Il
others they have made little. Last veal
for example, between market cond
tions there was a big profit.
Cantaloupe raising is a standard Id
dustry, yielding well over $4,000, cd
gross in a fair year. The Imperi{
melons reach market in May, befoi\
all competitors. They are shippd
out Of the valley in solid carloads, on
train of 207 cars having been pulle|
out. They go pretty; nearly everywheI
even as far as Maine-the Atlantic Sci
board, in fact, taking an important pal
of the yield.
OF late years melon growing has
go tlaregly into the hands of the
Japanese. They have now prObal
bly, four-fifths Of it. Indeed, the}
valley is cultivated by labor oil
many shades and races. Negroes
pick cotton, Japanese raise the
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

pindling when compared to those in
Imperial valley.
If you would be here you would be
duly warned that, in looking at the
valley today, you can hardly believe it
was an utterly empty and barren
waste little more than a dozen years
ago. Indeed, everybody will tell you
that, and it is quite true You can
hardly believe it, The valley of today
is as green the year round as Illinois
or Pennsylvania is in summer. The
roads for miles at a stretch are firing
ed with cottonwood and eucalyptus,
the size of which, if they We're beech
or maple, would indicate a growth of
twenty to thirty years.
Residence streets in town have
shade trees. Grass and flowers OH
the lawns look fresh. A some farm
houses stand flOurishing little
groves. Herds of likely-lOOl1ing
cattle browse in broad fields of
green alfalfa, $4,000 of them being
fed there yearly. 1t is hard to
realize that the scene of all this
varied, abundant and inviting life
was bare, sunbaked desert only
dozen years ago. So extensive and
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

companies, under which the latter get
their water from it. The people of
valley, organized as an irrigation dis
trict simply took the place of the devel-
opment company and the whole water
system was in their hands. And they
were virtually beholden to nobody.
1t is true the government appropriate
ed 81 ,00O, 900 for work on the Colorado
river, but it's value to the valley is
debated And in 1915 congress appro-
priated 100000 to be used for work on
the river in connection with the like
sum to be supplied by the valley. The
irrigation district readily raised its
quota by loan from the Los Angeles
banks.
Some men of the valley regret that
congress was applied to at all. They
point out that the valley now has a
population of $4,000 and an annual
agricultural output of $65,000,000 or
more-both of which items will certain
ly increase. Over in Arizona the gov
ernment has spent, l believe, about ST.
OOO. 900 on the Yuma reclamation and
irrigation project, with results quite
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

of cotton near Ell Centre, and that
staple has now become probaly second
in money vaue to the cattle product.
Last year, of course, it was not pro-
fitable because of the war-demoralized
prices. At all the valley towns one
sees baled cotton standing in the open,
weather damage being so slight that
no warehouses are provided. The cot
ton has brought in considerable
negro population.
Money i'm Early Melons
Before that, somebody experimental
with cantaloupes and found they yield
ed astonshingly. In 1907 many grow
ers netted $500 to $500 an acre. Some
growers say they got $1,000 an acre,
but probably their bookkeeping is not
very exact. Irrigated land could be
bought for $50 to $50 an acre. Natur-
ally there was great rush to raise
cantaloupes. The markets were glutted
the next near and profits disappeared.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

When he wants water he simply tele
phones for so many inches and the com
pany sends a man to open the gate ant
puts the water on his farm.
Water and Fertilizer Combined
He pays annual assessments on
his water company stock. That
entities him to SO much water to
the acre. The amount Of water he
uses will depend on what he is rails
ing. II it is alfalfa-which requires
about the maximum of water-he
will use about three acre-feet. Thus
his water bill will come to about
$500 an acre year.
This is his fertilizer bill also,
however. The Colorado water,
with its heavy deposit of silt, con-
tains q considerable percentage
of fertilizing matter. Practically
no commercial fertilizer is used
there. Valley farmers | consider
Colorado water decidedly superior
to rain water. They can get it
just. when they want it, and i'm just
the quantity they neetl. 1t never
comes along inoppOrtunely. to spoil
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

the haying or interfere with spring
plowing.
Cattle raising and dairying. to-
gether, are rather the leading. in.
dustry. There is green pasture all
the year r0und-principally alfalfa,
but as alfalfa lies dormant during
two winter months, a man who
wants good pasture then will SOW
barley in his alfalfa field in the fall
and have a green crop in winter.
They cut alfalfa, ON an average.
seven times a year, and expect q
ton an acre to the cutting. You
hear Of ten cuttings a year. but
seven is about the average. A
forty-acre field will keep thirty
dairy cows through the year. Again
you hear of q COW to the acre, and
it is sometimes done; but thirty
cows to forty acres is safe rule.
Often a field will be divided, say,
into eight five-acre strips. and the
cattle turned into one lot after an.
other up to the sixth, the last two
lots being moved for winter hay.
Imperial is now the grst county
i'm the state in butter prOductiO. and
expects very soon to be the first
in the nation.
In 1906 Ira Aten planted a few row
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01
complete scene-shifting i'm SO
short time taxes ones credulity.
Valley Now Wet


short time taxes ones credulity.
Valley Now Wet
Water, of course, was the scene
shifter and it runs everywhere. From
one of the dryest of spots, the valley
has become one of the wettest. There
is a gridiron of main canals, brimful of
swiftly-running, muddy-red Colorado
water the largest of them being of
size that would be dignified by the name
of river in most localities. Your road
will cross one of these canals every
now and then, or run beside it. Then
there is the intricate network of lesser
canals of various sizes. Always there
will be an artificial watercourse at
each side of the road, and you are con-
tinually crossing them. At the corner
O fevery field red rivulet bubbles.
Literally, there is water everywhere
and there must be. Take the water
from any spot and lit turns back to
desert. Not only every tree and shrub,
but every spear of grass must be
watered. Even the public roads are
irrigated. They are made with ridge
through the middle and a track on each
side. When a road gets dutsy, water
is turned on one side of it from an irri-
cation ditch, flooding it. That soaking
will keep the dust down for two or
three weeks. And when one side of the
road is flooded travellers use the other
side. Except for this alternate soaking
the dust would become fairly intoler-
able.
The soil is not sandy There is no
grit in it, but in summer, under the
churning of wheels, it turns to a flour
like powder, which, on an unwatered
road, becomes a foot thick. At FL
Centre a well was driven 1900 feet, and
to that depth the soil was the same as
the surface-a gritless, alluvial silt.
Nobody knows how far it may be to
bedrock.
Rains Sometimes
True, it rains sometimes in the val
ley, the average annual fall being about
two inches; but these occasional visit
ations are not particularly welcome.
1--WE hate to see it Rin down
here" farmer explained, with
perfect seriousness. 1T vets every
thing all up! I've known a field
Of alfalfa to get SO wet from rain
that had to drive the cattle of to
keep them from trampling it into
the ground. We prefer to tele-
phone to the water company when
we want water"
That is what they do. farmer order
ing his water there very much as he
orders sugar and flour elsewhere. Tho
the valley looks quite level, there is
everywhere sufficient slope for drain
age. The mutual water company de-
livers water at the highest point on a
mans farm. From that point he con-
structs his own bitches as he pleases.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01
{. E.H.HARR|MAN.
.T0THERESCUE.
Hundreds of Thousands of
Dollars Required to Force
Unruly River Back Into
Channel; S. p. Helpless
Continued from Page 81

Colorado river. but firmly refused
to pay the bill. The cost of the job
to the Southern Pacific was near
Ss,O00,000. A bill TO reimburse it.
on the ground that it had perform
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

Seven thousand, eight hundred and
thirty y-eight carloads left the Imperial
Valley in 1919 for eastern markets.
No city of $4,000 or larger in the
United States was without Valley
cantaloupes last year. A marvellous
distributing organization placed these
luscious fruits in 125 distributing CEN
ters. Imperial Valley cantaloupes,
famous the world over, are the first
to ripen in the United States. They
appear on eastern markets in May.
The shipping season is over the first
part of July.
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01

ed n public work on behalf of the
government, was introduced, but
not passed.
The earliets industry i'm the Inn
perial valley consisted of salt
works in the Salton Sink. 1t had
been operating there, with consid-
cradle success, since the SOS. The
Colorado flood put the salt works
ut the bottom of the sea, where it
was neither useful nor Ornamental.
Ii sued the development company
and obtained judgment of over
S500,00G, whereat the much-endur-
ing development company gave ore
feeble gasp and yielded up the
ghost
Imperial Valley press., 1919-12-01
All Wallop Company

EVERYBODY. from the government
down, has taken a wallop at the devel-
opment company. From beginning to
end its path was just a mess of thorns.
There is no doubt that its second cut
caused the flooding of the valley, and
that the cut should never have been
made. Nevertheless, this company
was the instrument by which the val
ley was developed. Considering what
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-26
PRESENT PENSACOLA'S CENTEN.
NAL CLAIMS

| The eleventh annual convention of the Southern
Commercial Congress convenes in Savannah, Deem
Der $40, and according to the program recently
published, the meeting will be the most important
since the organization. One of the reports to be
made before the body will be that of the trade COM
mission, organized for the purpose of making ex-
tensve survey of opportunities for direct recip-
rocal trade relations between this country and
Europe Representatives of the trade commission of
European countries. in the United States will
participate in the convention; the secretary of the
navy will mobilize the vessels of the Atlantic fleet
in Savannah and the war department will probably
be represented by General Pershing and staff
The United States department of commerce will
be represented by the acting secretary who will
deliver address and by the bureau of foreign and
domestic commerce. who as trade advisers will be
in attendance Acting secretary of commerce. Sweet
will mobilize the fleet of the department of
meree in the harbor of Savannah river.
The theme of the convention will be the part that
the South has played in the American merchant
marine Cd the South's part in the solution of
economic problems of the nation, ~ and the ex-
tension of the trade of the South with Latn-Ameri-
can countries.
No more important convention has been held in
all the history of the South than that which is to
sible Pensacola should be well represented at this
congress.
At this time when the port is in need of all pos
sble publicity and when the attention the entire
country has been drawn to Pensacola because its
natural advantages and trade possibilities the South
ern Commercial Congress would offer an admirable
opportunity for presenting Pensacolas claims par
ticuary at this time. when Pensacola is out after
a great world celebration
Pensacola should be represented by some man or
men familiar with the port in its every detail and
thoroughly eonyersant with trade conditions here
who would not only represent Pensacola at the con-
gross. but who would CLEAN from the sessions much
that would be Of value to this port.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-26
Florida Press Opinion
MIAMI ON THE CENTENNIAL
The Maimi Herald


The Herald desires to be very fair with the prop
osition and proposes to publish whatever is said
the subject of holding exposition especially on
the question of the ACCESSIBILITY and practcability
holding the exposition four different sections, in
and Miami. 1t also wants to represent fairly what
1t believes to be the sentiment of Miami the sub
Ject OF holding part of the exposition in this city,
in 1921.
sion, as yet as to the plans for financing the prop
osition The commission quoted above says that by
dividing the exposition into four parts, city
viii be called upon to raise mammoth fund. 1t
neSects, or is not ready to approximately how
much and how
The commissioners are emphatic in saying that
the expostions to be state county affairs,
leaving the Inference that they to be country
wide or even broader to take in foreign countries.
1t is evident from the language used however, that
each city is to be called upon raise large amount
Of money to finance the undertaking.
1t was said at the meeting held by the commits
sioners that five six million dollars would
be raised for the exposition but it not explained
how and whence that money would come, except
that it said that there every expectation
that the federal government could be relied upon to
advance at least million.
IT, say, the exposition is to cost each city one
million dollars then it is for each of the four cities
designated to whether it wants the exposition at
the price demanded
The Herald is not prepared to say that Miami will
be ready to attempt to raise that amount for the
purpose suggested. The question very largely rests
upon the possible profit permanently to the city of
having such exposition, as to whether it will be
willing to burden itself in raising million dollars
if that is the necessary.
If such exposition were in itself success, that
is, if it is properly shown has large attendance
and does not cost too much, it would probably be
great advertisement for Miami. 1t would have to be
successful, however. Then the question would the
advertising be worth the money spent and another
question would be whether the same money might
not be spent to much better advantage in adver-
Using in other ways.
AS matter of fact, there is very great doubt as
to the willingness of congress to contribute to the
enterprise It has declared itself against such ex-
positions. AS another matter of fact there is no
such desire in this state for the proposed celebration
as would warrant the belief that the people would
consent to tax themselves for millions of dollars or
any large sum, for the purpose. And there is an
other and that is that there is disposition in
the cities named to raise the money necessary That
may come, but at present there is distinct GOODNESS
displayed everywhere toward the proposition, espe-
ciay toward the four-way proposition.
Miami can much better look after her own affairs
tina nto take on the huge burden of financing
tennia exposition that will cost into the millions
and whose advantages are, to say the least very
problematical.
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-26
Come BY Way of Pensacola.

Each day scores of motoring tourists passing
through St Augustine southwark bound. Very few
nger although this city is the most historical
in the United States and worthy of investigation.
No doubt the travellers directing their course
to some definite destination and in hurry ito
get there 1t is true they to Florida to enjoy
mild winter climate, but they lose much by their
haste. One of the main pleasures of motoring is
the enjoyment of scenery and places of interest If
these ignored the trip loses much of its zest and
all of educational value.
It is probable that the attention of the passing
motorists has not been called the interesting his
tory of the ancient city, that they have never
given a thought to its exploration. This should be
the point breaking the trip-for relaxing for a
few days after strenuous drive of hundreds of
miles Travellers would benefit by a stop here
and the city would also profit by their stay.-St.
Augustine Record
The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1919-11-26

T. L. Cant says he was born in Ken
lucky in 1873. You'd know it, the
Kentucky part, for he talks that way.
He has spent most of his business
life in Pensacola. though, almost twen-
ty years. Before he came here he spent
several years with a buying organiza-
ton in New York. When he came to
Pensacola he became president of Bass
and company. wholesale drygoods
dealers on Romano street. Severing
of Marshal Fields southeastern terri
with Cant, Atkinson company, New
York commission merchants.
When he returned to Pensacola, Mr..
Cant be anne president OF the
Everlasting Fabrics company, a trade
mark with mills located in the Caro-
linas. The Everlasting Fabrics COM
pany in Pensacola is now under his
mana cement, and it's success is due, he
believes to its cash policy.
Mr.. Cant is a moderate man, he
thinks. except with regard to -everlast-
ing fabrics. (The following isn't off,
cial so were not accounta bIe but
someone told us he sometimes suffer-
ed from dyspeDsia.)
Mr.. Cant is president of the Retail
Merchants association, and a member
has been an enthusiastic worker for
for stock when centennial stock was
offered Two chubby sons enliven the
home of the merchant.