Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-06
TOWN PROPERTY
CHANGING OWNERS
oNE-THlRD OF REAL ESTATE
TRANSFERS ARE FOR HOMES
IN CITIES AND TOWNS.
PEOPLE MUST BUY
OF MOVE ELSEWHERE
Farmer Will Not Strike But Is Com
PEELED to Restrict Stock Feeding
Operations to Prevent Additional
losses-C. e. Wilson's Observa-
tons.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Eldora, April County Recorder
Norris estimates that four times as
many deeds have been put on record
in his office since january as have
been filed during the same period in
other years. That this unprecedented
transfer of property is not confined
10 farm lands is shown by the fact
hat about one of every three of these
leeds represented change of own
-rship of town property. 1t is SAID
,n,st olank men making the state re-
,Vll conditions similar to this every
where. Many people of middle age
Oh more, who have hardly entertained
4 serious thought OF ever owning
homes of their own have been COM
PEELED to buy or leave town with little
prospect of finding improved condi-
..ons elsewhere. Rents. too, have adj
ranced until the old argument of It's
cheaper to rent than TO own is not
ieard so often as formerly, altho 1t
IS a common remark Gaat unreaSon-
.Die prices are being paid for hoin>-
OF course th.s l. 1880 s.stu Oh larm
iands too, and always has been, still
prices continue 10 advance a month
or two of home ownership does not
appear TO have brought about any re-
srets TO the buyers tor none of them
"A saying he wish he had not
Jouglt.
What if the farmer should striker
is a question that is often heard and
senerally answered by the assertion
that he can't or won't. Doubtless in
literal sense this answer is true but
t men mean what they say many of
,hem sare going to take action that
viii result in greatly decreased pro-
iuction in certain lines, heavy cattle
.eeders and stockraisers for instance.
Said one of these, the other day, Il
have worked hard all my life gener-
ally feeding a large amount OF stock
and buying more or less of the feed.
Il have made some money but not
this season. 1t has come to a time
when there is little If any profit in
this transaction if everything goes
along without mishap which Is sell
dom does. A visit to the local rem
dering works shows what happens on
the farms every day in the way of
losses by death of stock delays be-
cause of the impossibility of getting
cars, stock yard strikes and numerous
other troubles which beset the ex-
tensive farmer and stockman. / told
my wife that if we can ever get rid
of the stuff we have on hand we will
get on little place where some Of
these troubles won't hit us. We've
got to do it whether we want to or
nitely to follow losing game. no
matter what his IDEAS are on partio-
tism. striking. laying down of get
ting even
A modern" bank building has been
erected recently beneath stately ma
pie trees in the corner of Hardin
county's court house square. 1t is
"a by 36 feet in extent. the external
walls are covered with rubberoid and
the roof with asbestos shingles. For
foundation it has a row of hollow
cement blocks. It's numerous small
windows are so arranged that no
studding was cut for their insertion.
The floors are rather old fashioned,
being nothing more or less than plain
shipiap". Just across the street is
1.-The Hardin county bank and each
morning and evening little later in
the season what has been deSigna ted
a "two-man truck" but what appears
to the casual observer a sort Of wood
en- stretcher, will make trip to or
from the vaults of the old building to
the new one with the books OF the