Spirit Lake Beacon (Newspaper) - August 15, 1902, Spirit Lake, Iowa VOL XXXII SPIRIT LAKE DICKINSON COUNTY IOWA FRIDAY AUGUST 15 1902 I at tbe Post Office at Spirit I 1 I KO 40 4 J RAILWAY TIME TABLES C ft I fc Ry a Chicago Fast Express P M b Chicago 1assenBer A M 6 Way p is GOING NORTH a Sioux Falls Passenger 758 A M o Spirit Lake Passenger f M b Way Freight A M Dally 6 Except Sunday Freight trains shown above will carry ere only when provided with tickets R G GREELIS Acent C H St P R R vision ARRIVE No m No No 208Mixed pm No Moines p m DEPART No 32Des a m No 208 p m No p m No Moines Passenger pm G E COREON Agent Minneapolis St TRAINS SPENCER A3 FALLOWS NORTH No 31 am No 61 GOING SOUTH No 32 No 62 am No 31 arrives Minneapolis at p m St Paul Dm making connections witn all at Sioux Rapids with C N W and at Storm Lake with 111 Cent for Chicago and intermediate and all points east and west c A B CUTTS Agt Spencer Iowa i P T A Minneapolis Mmn A E RECTOR M D Physician and Surgeon Office over Dickinson County Bank Telephone office No 73 three rings resi dence No 50 Spirit Lake Iowa R C 0 Physician and Surgeon Office over H A Millers Store Office open from 8a m tc8 p rn 7 Residence 43 SPIRIT LAKE IOWA DR WM A SEELEY HOMEOPATHIC Physician and Surgeon All calls answered city or country andall consultations given my personal attention when so requested Chronic and obscure dis ease diseases of women and children and family cases given special attention Over twenty years experience of beeley Stoddard NO 21 SPIRIT LAKE Lv DR E D PIPER Physician and Surgeon Office In Stevens Telephone Spirit Lake Iowa BOTSFORD and Brick Layer All kinds of plastering and cement work don e Work in ray line guaranteed to be done in a satisfactory and workmanlike manner L E Francis FRANCIS OWEN Attorneys at Law Will practice In all State and Federal Courts Collections given prompt attention All kinds of papers drawn up Za door west of Beacon SPIRIT LAKE IOWA ARNOLD BEEBE Attorneys at Law Lands Leans and Collections Co Bank Bdg Spirit Lake Iowa NEWTON METTLER Attorney At Law Real Estate and Loans Special attention given to central Minnesota lands Office two doors east of H A Millers store Spirit Lake Iowa C A NELSON Tonsorial Artist A Clean and Comfortable shave and a sat B factory hair cut New Baths In Connection W STOW Cutlery and Sporting Goods SPIRIT LAKE IOWA PETER TAILOR FIT AND WORKMANSHIP Repairing Promptly Done SPIRIT LAKE IOWA BARBER SHOP STEVENS BLOOK Warm at All Times VU F E J Successor to Bros Prompt and Satisfactory Work Guaranteed I will appreciate a share of your business E J The pell Meat Market S SON And Live Stock Buyers Your Patronage Solicited CARLTON BROS FURNISHED AND Titles Examined We are making a specialty of abstract busi ness All orders will receive prompt and care ful attention SPIRIT LAKE IOWA GET YOUR Gasolene and Kerosene At your own door phone No 84 Tele Chas P Flatt B S BRAY Can be depended on to do work Promptly and Satisfactorily film a Trial All orders given prompt attention PRICES REASONABLE B S DEIBNER BROS BUS AND TRANSFER Spirit Lake and Okoboji Telephone either place for rigs New and First Class Turnouts Good Roadsters Single or Doable All Orders Given Prompt Attention JOSEPH SARAZINE Proprietor of the Flag Dray Line Do Your Work Right Do it promptly and make Prices Satisfactory to All No 39 HENDERSON BROS OKOBOJI IOWA Repair Work of all Kinds Promptly Attended to Traction Engine Repairing A Leare orders with Chas II Spirit Lake Iowa or at tne shop in Iowa CASH E Mills Sons Laundry we propose to do a strictly business Both call and delivery must be paid for at time they are called for or delivered After careful consideration we have concluded a cash business will be the most satisfactory Help Us to Make the New Plan a Success E MILLS SONS A squeaking windmill doesnt seem to worry some men An Irrigating plant In Arizona cost ing has developed farm and orchard lands worth Sick hens and sick sheep are best tilled as soon as possible and we are Inclined to put the sick hog with them also More and better work and less land Is the motto which should be hung up In onehalf of the farm homes of the country Orchard cultivation after the 1st of July should be avoided as It tends to Induce a growth of wood which cannot fully mature before winter What food thirty sheep will eat on the average farm would largely be oth wasted The only trouble about keeping them Is the question of fenc ing We a young fellow In the country who has rigged up his harness with as many as forty rings and he can get all the girls he wants to go him The state of New York has placed a ban upon the shooting of live pigeons by the tournaments some thing which will meet with the ap proval of all humane people The strikes among the different branches of federated labor are almost wholly an effort to restore a reasonable balance between the wage of the la borer and the increased cost of living Yes we would salt all which we put In the mow of the barn It makes the hay more palatable and tends to check excessive fermentation A half peck of salt to the ton is about right It takes a robin and In fact most other birds which build any sort of a substantial nest about three days to do the work A sparrow will build a nest in twentyfour hours and have an egg in it A two pound spring chicken will bring the grower at least 30 cents and If kept until it wears spurs and a red comb in November it will not bring as much money The good die young In the case of roosters Of the starch produced In this coun try 99 per cent is made from corn A little is made from potatoes but unless they can be secured at less than 20 cents per bushel they are not avail able for this purpose In no other country does modem machinery cut such a figure in the production of farm crops as in the United States With this machinery one man is enabled to accomplish as much work as ten men in many of the old countries With seven dollar hogs iu sight and a big crop of both pigs and corn al most assured an outbreak of cholera may be reasonably looked for for the young pigs will be stuffed with new cora to get them on the market as soon and somehow that al ways makes trouble The best preventive of the cabbage worm pest is to plant very early or very late The early cabbage can be matured by the 1st of July and the late ones planted during the last half of July which enables the plants to udge the period when the cabbage butterfly does the most mischief Normally wet and undrained lands should not be cropped but be kept In grass either pasture ow Thousands of acres of choice land in the west will be this year because of tbe fail ure to observe this fact the cultivated crops upon them being simply drowned out The question is pertinently asked why a dog should be u free commoner more than a cow a horse or a hog Many a dog allowed to run at large will do more damage than ever could a steer in the corn Dogs may be very easily trained to attend to their proper business nnd a man whc daes not know enough to so train his dog has no business to havo one If were a young man just starting on i stock farm inui had only to Invest ill stool us a starter wo rather put the money Into five head of well bred mid registered heifers than Into twenty dollar scrub cows Tho first three the scrub animals might make us the most mon ey jt at the end of time they would not be In it at all with tho thor Onehalf of the worlds crops are raised by irrigation A good test sT modern athletics la to be able to lift a farm mortgage If you have a horse to sell fatten him Fat n multitude of faults in a horse There la one thing In favor of blue is always ready for business when there Is moisture enough It costs about to take a Pasteur treatment for hydrophobia and there fore it does not pay to take any chances on dogs A bull corner on corn never arouses the of the granger who pro duces the cereal It Is only bear cor ners which set him howling Crop prospects are good in India The periodical starvation of Indias millions as a result of drought Is the most horrible thing the world can show Most of tie people lived to the great age of 100 years are to be found in county poorhouses and in proving that they have out lived This Is a great country In July when the people of New Mexico were praying for rain Kansas Iowa and Nebraska were being flooded with a deluge of water There has been relatively a greater advance in the fifty dollar farm lands of the country than in the five dollar unimproved lands of the western and northern borders The sparrow when it has preempted every available nook and corner of all buildings for nesting places will then take to the trees preferably ever greens next box elders The man who wants to raise fruit and does not know enough to take care of his trees Is a good friend of the nurseryman Not 10 per cent of the trees sold in the west at least ever live to bearing age A country community Is not educat ed up to the right point when a couple of slick peddlers can sell several hun dred pounds of a concoction of brown sugar and water as pure strained honey Not one woman in ten knows how to make a nice flaky pie crust They can make angels food and cholera morbus salads bl a dozen and sorts of beats them The meanest garden weed we have Is the grass or wild barley It Is the most firmly rooted of any of our common weeds and a monopolist of the worst type It will almost ruin a nice lawn In a single season The Importance of the poultry busi ness Is not realized as It should be While but few can go Into the busi ness upon a large scale It is still pos sible for many to take up the work in a small way with profit The bicycle automobile and rural mail delivery are a trinity of agencies which are combining in a wonderful revolution in the matter of building better roads the rural mall service bringing about the most effective re sults Some men hate on general principles and one such undertook to prove that sheep were as nasty and disagreeable animals to care for as hogs but was shut up when asked If he ever knew a sheep to eat up its dead er Hogs will Bumper crops of oats and corn a greater than average yield of wheat and liberal rye barley hay and fruits are indicated by the July reports of the department of ture This year bids fair to be one of abundant harvests We have never known of a case where purely kind measures were taken to break in a broncho Men who have this work to do say that force is the only means which will tame it This we very cruel and In human work is done in this line It is estimated that there are 50000 regular tramps In this country which cost the country to maintain not less than per year The worst feature is that they are nearly all able bodied men and instead of being a burden upon the people should be In the ranks of the producers The overflow of the Nile river which rarely fails not only brings moisture put to the great har vest fields of Egypt Its waters carry in solution the stored fertility of the mountain and tablelands of central forages his Egypt the the orient RUNNING A BY PROXY A friend who owns a nice Improved farm of 160 acres In a western state and who is so situated that he cannot carry it on himself but who still de sires to keep his money safely Invest ed In the farm wishes to know which s the best method of handling It shall he rent It for a cash rent le let It on shares shall he hire a man o run It The first plan will Insure lm the least trouble and the smallest return The second plan will be right provided he con get the man and make a lease for a term of years The third will prove the most profitable If he will assume the gen eral oversight of the farm work stock t up with good stock to the limit and say a good man what he is worth to carry It ou He will find it bard to get just the sort of a tenant on ie sharo plan and still more difficult to get the right roan on the salary The honest man may be lazy md the hustler a man who will steal he owner blind TOO MANY On the average farm there Is fre to be found too great a variety of animal and bird life We would not xy to keep Jersey Shorthorn and Hoi stein cattle In one farm herd or try to raise trotting horses aud draft stock or keep two or three different varieties of chickens or raise ducks eese guinea hens and turkeys all hi one happy family We believe In spe the average type of cattle one of horses pigs hen a constant effort to produce the very test of the type selected We would apply the same rule to crops Even diversifying may be carried to an unprofitable extreme DEBT ON THE FARM We are asked how much debt a man with a quarter section farm should carry That depends Assuming his farm to be worth and the man a hustler turning his attention wholly o the production of meat products on lis farm arid not a steam he might swing a debt of 000 at 5 per cent Still this will make ilm sweat aud grunt before he gets it paid We believe it to be a mighty ood time to shorten sail in the matter of indebtedness during these days of agricultural prosperity aud not load up to the limit as so many are doing The money loaners will have their in again some day It is not easy to solve the problem of how to both ends meet where a man with no capital save his hands nnd at his best earning not over per year hns lo maintain n home and provide for a family of six Such a man desiring to educate his children and live in u decent way has n hard job on his hands One of the principal agricultural pa pers of the west on the 1st of July had a leading editorial on the Importance of tlie dust mulch The article must have been left from lust year for this season it Impossible to raise a dust of the territory where the paper circulated An article ou mud would have been more priate SHOULD MAKE A YEAR This is for the goodwife on the eighty or a hundred and sixty acre farm If you are not making a clean hundred dollars per year out of the you may Just on tue farm something is wrong for this amount can easily be made just giving ordinarily good care to a good breed of fowls letting them have the run of the farm aud it can be done almost wholly from eggs This you ought to make and to have to do with as you see 6t We know of plenty of women who are making from to out of their poultry each year IMMENSE INCREASE OF WEALTH Tlie boom In real estate farm lands particularly has Increased ly the wealth of the owners of such lands During the past four years there has been an advance in the value of good farm lands In Iowa Kansas Nebraska and the Dakotas of not less than per acre which means that the farmers of Iowa alone are over richer than they were four years ago and this Increase In wealth has not gone Into the hands of spec bat each man has got his share just in proportion as he is the owner of a few or many acres HE IS PAST HELP We have an old bachelor friend who lives all by his lonesome self He has a small house on a little farm and Is really a good housekeeper as men go but dear dear what a dreary old life he lives He has only a cat and a dog for company and no object on earth to make him get a hustle on himself If ever woman could do a good job it would be with him but he is sort of soured on the left some years ago cut out by a likelier man and has elected to go it alone One or two pretty good women have tried their hands on him but have had to give him up as a bad case NATIONAL BANK SPIRIT LAKE IOWA JNO w CRAVENS President o a JONES xio GOODRICH Cashier CAPITAL STOCK General Banking Business Interest paid on time deposits REAL ESTATE LOANS Made at Reasonable Ratee and on short notice Where to Locate WHY IN THE TERRITORY TRAVERSED BY THE Louisville Railroad Great Central Southern Trunk Line IN Kentucky Tennesee Alabama Mississippi Florida Farmers Fruit Growers Stock Manufacturers Investors Speculators and Money Lenders will find the greatest chances in the United States to make big money by reason or the and cheapness of Land ind Farms Timber aul Stone Iron and Coil Free sites financial assistance and freedom from taxation for the manufacturer Land and farms at 84per acre and upwards and 300000 acres in West Florida that can be aken gratis under the U S Homestead laws Stock raising Gulf Coast District will Half fare excursions aud third Tues days of each month Let us know what you want and we will tell yon where arid huw to get dont delay as the country is filling up rapidly Printed matter maps and all information free Address RJ WEMYSS General Immigration anil Industrial Agent LOUISVILLE KY COLORED FARM HELP A Kentucky farmer was telling us recently about the peculiarities of his colored farm help He said they never could be depended upon if there hap to be a camp meeting or revival In the neighborhood or any of the oth er doings which are common to their race would just quit and go no matter how badly their services might be needed on the farm Then they seem ed to never have got over tbe notion that what belonged to their boss be longed to them which brought about a confusion at times as to the ownership of property FOOLISH MOTHERS That is a very foolish mother who taking the ground that it Is more trou ble to show her daughter how to do any kind of housework than it is to do it herself lets the girl off About a ago a young lady whom we know was married Her mother one of this sort The girl knew very little about housekeeping could neither make a lonf of good bread nor get up a palatable meal Of course she had a time of it and her husband did also nnd for that matter they nre having It yet J M JOHNSON County Surveyor 1 am prepared to do all kinds of surveying Including laying out town and lakeside plats for town grades and road grades and tue drains etc SPIRIT LAKE Iowa GEO STOERLEIN DEALER IK FURNITURE STOCK COMPLETE PRICES REASONABLE ORDERS FOR UNDERTAKING Given Prompt Attention SPIRIT LAKE IOWA LOW RATES CALIFORNIA COLORADO UTAH VIA Great Rock Island ROUTE Less than ONE FARE For Round Trip New Train Service FAST TIME Jno G Farmer CEDAR RAPIDS DIVISION PRy CEDAR RAPIDS IOWA For full Information WALTER 0 FURMAN Dentist Office over the Star In Lake Park on Monday of each week IOWA SPIRIT LAKE BROS Successors to Jas A Smith Lumber S Coal Our Stock of Lumber Is Complete If you are going to build let us figure with you Well make prices right Cottage Lumber a Specialty Very respectfully Smith Bros PROMINENT IOWA RAILROAD MAN CURED BY MATT J an Kinds A f Curs all Hinds of II Blood tmm anachronic SIXTY la Feb Illinois Central Company Office of Asst Gen Pasa Agt MATT J Co St Para Minn great Blood and the best remedy I hava ever used ond I may say that It Is the only one of many has been of permanent Yours wily J F MERRY Asst G P A vain We 0088 to be frao from all opiates Irons A FREE TRIAL Oa Win bottle nd not rotirn the bottlo and wia bo bought from oat agents For Sale and Guaranteed Only By R Druggist
