The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1919-05-21

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,ries. Last year this bed produced ber-
ries by the milk pail full, and the Wom-
en- folks were kept busy picking the
berries. Mr.. Hansohn informed US
that he would have 60 acres of corn,
10 acres Of spring wheat, and about
SO acres of oats. He keeps the Duroc
hogs, and has at the head of his herd
fine boar purchased over at Battle
Greek. The crop of spring pigs was
very good, Mr.. Hansoh having saved
125 head. He also runs a number OF
white, face cattle on the place. This
family formerly lived near, Vail, but
I for the past number of years have oc-
cupied the present home, where a fine
family of children have been reared.
Carl Ludwig, of section 81, Stock
holm township, is one Of the good,
substantial farmers of that township.
He owns 200 acres OF land, has it we'll
improved, keeps Poland China hogs,
mixed cattle and takes the Review.
What more must a man do to become
a good citizen, and credit to himself
and family Mr.. Ludwig has two boys
and is thus free from the difficulty Of
hired help. He has lived on his pres
ent farm for the past 16 years, and
says there is no reason why he, should
not stay there many more years.
H. H. Edgington lives on the 80 acre
farm near Mr.. Baer's and he also rents
120 acres from Pete Weberg at Deni-
son. This gives him 200 acres to
Ework, and he is kept busy: Not much
time for lloafng where one man works.
that many .acressof land. When We
called there he was up on the Weberg
Hand. Mrs. Edgington was at home.
however, and she informed us that
they had Some pure bred stock, al
though they were not keeping up the
papers. She is running a s120 egg.sin-
cubator, and has lie spring chickens.
The cold weather has somewhat inter
Iferred with the young chicks. t.
Ed LANCER is feeling pretty we'll,
thank you, as he is the father of a
81 pound boy, born recently. He was
sticking around pretty close to the
house when we called, He didn't want
that boy out of his sight. He still
lives on the place where he was born
in section "a, Denison township, and
says lie expects to stay there for some
time yet. He has rs head of hogs on
feed, is running SO head of cattle, and
has u brood sows. The pig crop was
not at the best at this place, but we
noticed about thirty head of pretty
fair pigs running around the yards.
Fourteen calves represented the spring
|erop in the cattle qine.s Mr.. LANCER
has s140 acres under the pillow, and 10
|a 'e Of alfalfa look ;, ed good.
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The famous Adams ranch. near Ode
bolt, comprising, eleven sections, is to
he placed upon the market and sold.
This ann interesting be-
cause of the price asked, which is not
high, but because Of the shistorysinscon-
tnec ti0ntwith til hand NE land was
| first purchased by H. C. Wheeler, once
a candidate for governor of Iowa. Lat
Ier he sold the eleven sections for $31.
per- acre. Jafterfie had etriedH farming;
and found itaa-losing game. We nm
derstand the land is now to be offered
at $500 per acre straight through,
which means $2.OOO,OO0.i The PROPOSE
ton could be handled very nicely tby
la syndicate. but would be burdensome
| for; an individual 4 II divided up into
quarter sections and buildings erect
ed, it would prove a great advantage to
Odebolt. wy. III fz
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[ August Hanson, who lives about
three and oneshalf miles south of old.
Kiron, has a very fine set of improve
ments on his place. One of the latest
improvements being a new barn OF
consid cradle size. The barn is about
three years old now, and is being kept
in the vevy best Of condition. The 9TH
er buildings are. in keeping with the
barn, showing that Mr.. Hanson is pro
gressive and q live wire. ,.a-, NJ, ~
| While visiting at Kiron recently we
visited the new bank there, and met
Chas. Johnson, the cashier, and L. r.
Gronau, the vice president. The bank.
ing building tsaf very modern affair,
one that would do great credit to a
lefty four or five times the size Of Kir-
on. The fixtures are Of oak, of a
TUNED finish. and the floor in the lob.
by sis Of u ssstile. walls are finished
with 5fresco design. Mr. Gronau2 is a
son OF Fred Gronau, so long one of
the leading stockmen Of Stockholm
township. Mr.. - johnson every one
knows because of his having conducted
a mercantile business: for. so many
years at Boyer. We found L. H. Bas.
Esett, Of scileswig, doing some carpen-
tier work at the bank; in fact he had
1.-THE contract for the building, and his
work is his best recommendation as
q contractor and builder. 4.
Crawford county produces consider.
liable pop corn, and especially, over i'm
thu. nnrth al