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Newspaper
Muscatine Journal
Location
Muscatine, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 10, 1906
Page
10
The article links well managed church practices to orderly work and timely effort. It cites a South Carolina farmer offering ten thousand dollars for a ten acre lettuce patch to show intensive agriculture's promise. It argues early eighteen year olds facing time issues reveal family training problems.
Miss Lora Dickey returns home from school for a two week vacation before resuming work. Thomas McAfee buys Wm. Duncan's house for 1200 dollars. Dr. M. Chaver moves in as Duncan relocates to Joy. The community reports sales, moves to Nebraska, and a fatal horse accident near Franklin, Nebraska. Roy Dickey's surprise party. Arthur Dickey heads to Kankakee with his uncle toward Canada. Richard Bangess dies at the asylum. burial planned in Millersburg cemetery.
The Iowa Central Ry offers sale fares for February 20 and March 6 and 20 for homeseekers to Nebraska Eastern Colorado Kansas Missouri Arkansas Indian Territory Oklahoma Texas and Louisiana. One way tickets are two dollars above half fare. Round trips cost three fourths of the regular one way rate with a twenty one day limit. Twenty one day tickets available on first and third Tuesdays to southwest west and northwest points at one fare plus two dollars for round trip.
Mrs. L. Satterthwaite returned Saturday from Muscatine after visiting relatives. Paul Kretchmar made a short business call at Chas Alteneder’s home. The annual school election will be held March 12 at Pine Bluff school house No 4 in Sweetland township. Miss Emma Brandt plans a new barn on her farm.
On every Tuesday during March and April the Iowa Central will offer special second class settlers tickets at very low rates for settlers traveling to the northwest. Call on agents or address A. B. Cutts G P T A Minneapolis Minn.
The passage counsels careful choice between farming and grocery ownership, warning that rapid trades lead to financial ruin. It argues beets and sugar ventures, like marriage, demand calm deliberation, effort, and discipline, with significant rewards possible yet high costs.
A practical guide urges gardeners to inventory household preferences and plant more of the loved vegetables. It warns against wasting space on disliked crops and emphasizes including plenty of favored varieties for a productive season.
In European agricultural communities, labor saving machinery from the United States is condemned for doing too much work. Customs favor centuries old slow hand labor and observation suggests those who plant poor seed corn also sign notes for strangers and buy fruit trees from peddlers north of latitude 42.
A man recalls buying land in Iowa twelve years ago for 850 per acre. Neighbors mocked him, but now several have offered to buy at double the price plus 10 per acre, illustrating foresight and market shifts.
A historical note argues that mules outperform horses in cost efficiency by about ten percent when considering raising costs. The mule is said to need less care, suffer fewer injuries due to a calmer temperament, and appear resistant to several ailments that affect horses.
The excerpt advises obtaining a root of the English violet this spring and placing it in a shaded sheltered spot. If it grows, it should yield good returns. The prior bed produced many buds and blossoms from early spring, with the flowers blooming throughout the season. The violet’s color and sweetness are noted as especially pleasing.
The passage argues farmers are a progressive and intelligent group as agriculture rises in esteem amid commercial pressures, with conventions schools and the press advancing the field.
A magazine writer asserts spending about 20 million dollars on Mississippi levees would reclaim 20 million acres of fertile land, yielding a bale of cotton per acre and boosting wealth by roughly 500 million dollars, a proposal deserving federal study.
While pruning an orchard last spring, a writer found cocoons with their chrysalis removed and a corn kernel tucked inside. A dozen cocoons showed the same pattern, suggesting a clever bird, perhaps a crow or blue jay, used the nests as storehouses.
The passage extols farm families as the country’s top achievement, arguing that healthy boys and girls returning from or remaining on farms provide the greatest return, credit, and satisfaction for the nation’s prosperity and free institutions.
Children arrive with wet muddy feet creating concern for weather related discomfort and cold risk as families seek safer routes or gear to keep them dry on the way home from school.
The piece notes that most children on farms keep or form bonds with animals, teaching them to observe closely and to develop tenderness toward all creatures encountered on the farm setting.
Spring invites families to attract birds by building houses for wrens and bluebirds, fostering close acquaintance with these small creatures and a wholesome influence on both children and adults.
A favorable House report backs a $30 000 appropriation for experimental work at each state agricultural college. The projects are practical and the proposed aid timely, supporting agricultural development through applied research and extension.
The article notes three perilous farm instruments the herd bull the corn shredder and dynamite. It claims the corn shredder accounts for the greatest number of fatalities per reports in the daily press.
A man grew rich by selling off farm possessions and using the remainder for family sustenance. The resulting frugality left clear signs on him and his household, illustrating how far some will go to save a little money.
If you own a healthy apple tree lote growing well but never bearing fruit and you lack its variety, give it a fair trial and then conclude it is a seedling or freak. Grub it out as the wait for fruit that never comes tests faith and optimism.
A church deacon faced social ruin after selling a lumpy jawed cow to a local butcher to save a few dollars. The scandal ousted him from standing among the town’s best people.
The passage argues that farmers should endorse a pure food bill even if it affects them less than urban residents. It contends adulterated foods harm consumers and reduce demand for farm produce, linking supply chains to price and market quality.
A local acquaintance who runs a horse breeding venture with sixty to eighty head of grade and thoroughbreds states that over several years the animals yield an average of 8 cents per pound at market weight of three years. This demonstrates the profitability of the enterprise.
The passage argues many farmers are cash poor because land is tied up by a few, making emergencies hard to cover without borrowing. It suggests more zeal in cultivating owned land would improve returns and reduce financial strain on families for essentials like bonnets and schoolbooks.
An elderly veteran who wed a much younger wife suffered a paralytic stroke after years and died, leaving three sons and a fine farm. The sons entered the thrashing machine business, the farm went to the sheriff, and the widow remarried a one horse carriage driver. The piece suggests the family could have thrived if the mother had stayed on the farm and the sons kept to farming.
A twenty year veteran dairy farmer built a 100 cow Jersey herd from starter stock. He yields 120 dollars per cow from sixty cows last year and runs an up to date operation with cement floors swings stanchions a 25 ton silo icehouse and express milk delivery. He markets milk and cream directly with no butter making and aims for premium quality which has drawn visitors from across the state.
A man who left a rough start with $7 now operates a 200 acre rented farm with stock, grain and machinery worth about $1,400. He adapts to new farming methods, works hard, and aims to own his own land within ten years, illustrating success through planning and perseverance rather than luck.
A rural moral note warns Sundays tempt children with liberty and lax discipline leading to fishing, town visits, or town strolls with companions. It cautions parents that their grip weakens as youths seek excitement, lighting a warning of lost influence before realization dawns.
A reader notes passing farms with trimming bill posters on barns and sheds. A neat poultry farm on a sunny hillside is described alongside transformed stumps turned into stove wood, fat steers in sunshine, a well drained pen, and several farms needing drainage improvements.
Masonic Iowa Lodge No 2 A F and A M meets first Tuesday evening each month. Washington Chapter No 4 R A M assembles second Friday monthly. Webb Council Royal and Select Masters holds third Thursday monthly in Stein’s music hall. DeMolay Commandery No 1 K T convenes third Wednesday each month.
The Muscatine Afrit No. 815 lodge meets every Tuesday evening at Engle Lodge hall over Dunbar restaurant. Visitors are always welcome. Officers listed include W. C. Towers as W. P and H. C. Thiesen as W. Sec. etc.
K. L. G. P. Pearl City Lodge No. 45 announces regular meetings on the first and third Thursday evenings each month at Fisch Hall East Second Street. Sam Phillips serves as President and Louise Maisenbach as Secretary.
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