Jasper County Democrat, Volume 15, Number 73, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1912 — A Letter From Allen Louks of Cambridge, Iowa. [ARTICLE]

A Letter From Allen Louks of Cambridge, Iowa.

Allen Louks, of Cambridge, lowa, writing under date of Dee. 7, in renewing his subscription to The Democrat, says the weather is getting quite cool there. “The thermometer stood at the zero mark this morning. There i s lots of corn yet to gather and huskers are hard to get They are paying from four to five cents a bushel for husking. Right in our immediate ne’ghborhood they are mostly done husking and the yield was good, from 50 to 90 bushels to tlu~ acre, but some sott corn on account late planting. Oats made a good yield. There was a good acreag e of wheat sown this fall which looks Well. "No snow yet and only ohe little •kift bo far. The ground is bare and raads are fine. There is lots of earn on the move now. We have three •levators in our little Norwegian cityi aad they are ab kept busy. Some farmers contracted their c ru at 0 8 C 'ctg and now the price has dropped fc® 33 cents, and oats are 25% cents. There are no hogs in this country t» speak of. The cholera made almost a clean sweep of them. I had seventy head and lost all but two; mjr neighbor had 117 head and lost all but five. One feeder here had 397 head and lost all but! seven. Another neighbor had 18,4 head and has but three left. Many I could mention lost all they had. A disease among horses is now causing a number of deaths. Horses are high, also cattle. I saw seventeen spring calves at a sale at $23.10 each; seven good aows'at the same sale sold at*s7G.4o each; twenty yearliing steers at an average of $39.65. v “The landslide of Nov. 5 was something awful for lowa. The republicans hardly knew that there was a* election so stunned were they ever the results. I am the only one !• but neighborhood that takes a democratic paper, and we are always Cktd to get it—The Jasper County B*»ecrat—-to hear from our old friends and neighbors. "J. M. McDonald, who used to be in business at McCyosburg with A. ifeOoy, is doing well in his new loca-

tion at Maxwell, lowa, where he is engaged in the livery business, has quite a large barn and a number of good rigs and horses. He also coeducts a feed barn in connection. His son-in-law, W. R. Foster, is now a regularly ordained minister. He preaches every Sunday and is an earnest speaker and apparently in his right sphere. The following clipping regarding Mr. Foster is taken from a Nevada, lowa, paper: ‘W. R. Foster informs Ug that he was the recipient last week of a license, sanctioned by Drake University, duly authorizing him to preach, and that he is also empowered to perform marriage ceremonies. He generously offers to donate his services free to the first couple who will avail themselves of same.’ ' “I also enclose the market quo. tations for produce, taken from the same paper; ‘Corn, ear, 33c, shelled, 35c; oats, 26c; butter, 32c, No. 1 cream, 31c; eggs, 29c; hogs, $6.25 to $7.00 per cwt; 3pring chickens, 10c; hens, 9c; ducks, 11c; geese. S cents.”