The weekly Republican., November 30, 1911, INDUSTRIAL NUMBER, SECTION THREE, Image 22

About The weekly Republican. (Plymouth, Ind.) 1911-1922

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1 The Town of Tippecanoe
Tippecanoe is one of the most en
terprising small towns in Marshall
county. The land in the township
is considered excellent for general
purpose farming:, but wheat and corn
are mostly grown around the neigh
borhood of the town. While this
has been the ease for some years, a
number of fanners are now going
into the raising of potatoes and
onions, the latter for pickling pur
poses. Lands in the vicinity of the town
sell at from 75 to $125 per acre,
having increased considerably in
value during the past few years.
There is a good deal of trading
done in Tippecanoe. Wheat this
3ear averaged 15 bushels to the acre
Quincy Cram's
Livery Barn at Tippecanoe
is the best in the district.
Good horses, careful drivers
and reasonable prices.
There is an automobile for
rent in connection with my
livery barn.
Tie Home ol Ik Famous Mob Captain N.
and oats 50 bushels. The farms
mostly average 100 acres, but that,
of James II. Shaffer is 3C0 acres and
is the largest in the township. His
wheat yield, this year was 15 bushels
to the acre, corn, 50 bushels and
potatoes, 200 stone to the bushel.
Oats went 50 bushels. The potato
crop was considered only fair in
this neighborhood. Mr. Shaffer will
leave shortly for Texas, where he
owns 3000 acres of timber land.
The town i s splendidly isolated,
and the merchants complain bitterly
of the poor train service which they
have to eon tend with. They do jon-
siderable business with Plymouth,
less than twenty miles away, yet
they cannot come to the county seat
and return to Tippecanoe the same
dav. Thev sav that if better train
service could be arranged with Ply
mouth, it would mean that the lat
ter citv would benefit considerably
by it.
The farmers are mostly well to do
in this part of the county, and ov.Tn
very fine homesteads.
Tippecanoe has a Methodist church
and two schools. It has six busi
ness places, an elevator, saw mill,
cider mill and Heinz salting station.
The Tippecanoe river is a famed
Mecca for sportsmen, and the sum
mer season brings disciples of Izaak
Walton from all parts of the state
who usually carry away splendid
catches of black bass and other spe
cies of the finny tribe.
The leading store in the'town, that
of Mr. St. John, was purchased by
him eight years ago. It then car
ried a stock of general hardware
valued at $420. At present the
stock is valued at over $7000. It is
one of themost complete in the coun
ty. Mr. St. John is a live, and pro
gressive business man and is highly
respected in the community.
There is no marshal in Tippe
canoe, and consequently no crime.
Neither is there a justice of the
peace in the township. The resi
dents of the little town are certainly
a happy and contented people.
The Heinz salting station makes
a goodly source of income for his
community. The more prominent
growers of cucumbers there are
Jacob Yantiss. who had returns of
83.21 from a half acre; Valorous B.
Fisher, who made an acre pay
THE VALUE OF
FARM FESTIVALS
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We are a cheerful nation or a
discouraged one, according to our
corn crops. When we hear that the
corn field for the year ending De
cember, 1910, totaled up to one
billion four hundred million dollars
we begin to understand the value of
corn to the progress of the United
States, and, furthermore, when we
are told that through the art of im
proving plant life by breeding even
these enormous crops could be in
creased ten per cent. annually
(adding one hundred and fifty mil
lions a year to our national re
ceipts) we realize somewhat the ad
vantage of the study of agricultural
conditions and the enormous value
him of the Corn Exhibitions which are
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WILLIAM S. ROSS
OBMERAL BLACKSMITH
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Horseshoeing a Specialty
Repair Vork o! all Kinds
$110.42; Chas. Smith, whose acre
brought him $110.81; and Chris.
Martin, whose acre produced for
him the sum of $101.10.
A Mail' Carrier's Load
seems heavier when he has a weak
back and kidney trouble. Fred Due
hren, Mail Carrier at Atchison Kas.,
says;: tlI have been bothered with
kidney and bladder trouble and had
a severe pain across my back. When
ever I carried a heaw load of mail,
my kidney trouble increased. Some
time ago, I started taking Foley kid
nev Pills and since taking them 1
have gotten entirely rid of all my
kidney trouble and am as sound as
ever. ' ' Fred Wenzler.
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The Up-To-Date
Butcher
HOP
Nothing but the best of
meats kept in stock.
ALWAYS FRESH
Beef, Pork and Smoked
Meats our specialty.
Isaac Rhodes & Son
Proprietors
Phone 19 TIPPECANOE, IND.
FIRST CLASS
BARBER SHOP
(M POLLSON, Proprietor
Tippecanoe, Ind.
EXCELLENT IRK GUARANTEED
A fine line of Cigars,
Tobaccos and Can
dies of all kinds kept
In stock.
EVERYTHING
UPT0DATE
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Jas. Vorsham
TIPPECANOE, IND.
Saw Mill
feed Mill
feed Grinding
Cider Mill
Best of attention given to all
orders. First class workman
ship in all branches of my busi-
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PHONE No. SIX
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The Big Hardware Store
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TIPPECANOE, - DND
I CARRY AN EXCLUSIVE LINE OF
FAVORITE STOVES
The Best and Most Economical Stove sold in Marshall County.
It burns less coal, gives more heat and is easier to keep clean
than any other stove sold. Come in and see for yourself.
Farm Implements
Of all kinds and a
all prices. If you want
to save money on your purchases of such implements, buy
from me. A large and varied stock always on hand.
Harness
And every other requisite required in the
stables kept in stock. STEEL ROOFING
AND SPOUTING, PAINTS, OILS AND VARNISHES,
STOVE PIPING. ROYAL FENCE.
My general stock of TT T7TTO embraces Everything
to be found in similar JLicirU. VV dlC stores in all the big
metropolitan cities. It is thoroughly up-to.date in every detail.
IT PAYS to do your trading at my store. You get satis
faction; you get value for your money, and you get well
treated always. Even if you do not want to purchase,
you will at all times be welcome to come in and look around.
canoe's Big Hardware Sture
TIPPECANOE, IND.
G. S. ST. JOHN, Proprietor
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AUTO DELIVERY SERVICE
beinsr held from year to vear in the
Middle West.
Not only are these exhibitions of
the greatest practical importance i
the country, but of the widest sig
nificance to the individual, and so
rapidly has the interest in them
jrrown that where at first the cities
in which the shows were held
assumed the responsibility of meet
ing expenses, the fourth Xational
Corn Exhibit, held this winter at
Columbus. Ohio, was financed and
managed by the corn growers themselves.
Hut important as these exhibitions
are to the nation as a whole, their
significance in the back-to-the-land
movement is incalculable, for they
muH awaken the interest of the boys
of America in country life by stimu
lating their imagination toward the
growth and prosperity of the nation.
A country cannot hope for agri
cultural prosperity unless tlie face
of the youth of the land is turned
toward her fields and meadows, and
the boy of this country, alert,
caucr. oucstionimr. will face the
direction of most vital interest
the city if it otters the greater thrill
and opportunity, cr the country if
it beckons with big enough call to
the pulse of youth, lint the ap
peal has got to be genuine, it has'
rot to flaunt a banner and stir the
blocd and promise some sort of
tangible victory.
And that is tho vain? of the Corn
Exposition. It brings men. the
workfrs of the land, together, to
sho what each is accomplishing and
to contrast effort and success. It
brings about co:npetiti'jn. in t lie
finer sense; it awakens a desire to
struggle, to prove individual ability.
to ope with t he best efforts of other
strugulers. It stimulates intelli
gent industry; it stirs admiration
and t ouches personal pri.le. And
then t lie results are twofold for
the nation and the individual. The
ycuth who is a progressive, success
ful farmer is not only establishing
his own life in a permanent valu
able relation to his country, but is
aidiirr the advancement of that conn
try in the most vital and practical
ma nn or.
And because the growing of corn
in America is so essential to the
strength of the nation, why should
not the Corn Exhibition become our
recognize 1 national festival the
meeting-place of the sinew and
backbone of the land.
Ticture what knowledge, what com
paniensbip. wliat stimulus for en
deavor would result from these
festivals! What an appeal could
be ma le to the bovs on the farm
through competitive display of pro
duce and from prizes for agricultur
al achievement. The value of con
tent in I aber has not in recent years
been recVoned with. "We need farm
festivals, where boys could haw a
chance to see what energy and en
thusiasm and knowledge can accom
plish. Tt takes a philosopher to lab
or for the sake of the world or
evc.i to work for self-development.
The average boy needs his ambition
'riekc-.l, 1 is latent purpose stirred by
the sense of ha tt I-?, the desire for
success. T et o;i- bovs enlist for the
field of action on the farm, and win
ore ferment at our nat:onal epi-tio-is
for farm progress.
What ai o'-pntunitv the Covern-n-e
tf wo "11 have to make the Agri
cultural Department effective by of
fering pries to countrv youths at
tbe-r expositions, thus stimulating a
sririt of rivalry in fruit gt owing,
vegetable raising, in advancing our
'orn err ns. in enlarging our hot
house activit'es.
And although . we have said bovs
through this article, we mean the
youth of our land, boys and girls,
for there is no reason why our girls
fhould not beco've expert gardeners
and farrers. Why should it be con
sMerc 1' any harder to weed a garden
than et ok a dinner, and why is it
a-iv vrr feminine to iron clothes
it'dcors than to plant seed out in
thf sunshine?
I On" farm festivals should be open
I to all comers, with helo and reward
, for. all effo-t ; for hom building, fit
ting and f'irnishing of houses; for
horro makers, including t'e handi
'"afts: w'th information for every
line of farm activ'ty. with opportu
nity to find out what can be done
ns vrll as wlnt has been done, and
ti e nio.-t significant department of i
U should be the space devoted to the
young people, to suit their nee;ls. to
stimulate their activity and reward
their achievement.
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An uptodate Blacksmith and
Horseshoeing Shop
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WM. RO$, Tippecanoe, Ind.
TELEPHONE. 43
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GENERAL STORE
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DRY GOODS BOOTS AND SHOES
DAIRY PRODUCE
and everything else that goes to make an up-to-date
GENERAL STORE
The Best of service in everything. Prices of all articles reason
able. Come in and do your trading at
W. TAYLOR'S General Store,
TIPPECANOE, INDIANA
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Attention Farmers!
Be progressive and keep in touch with the outside world!
Establish a TELEPHONE in your residence.
You will never have a better opportunity.
It Saves TIME, LABOR, EXPENSE and WORRY,
The Tippecanoe Telephone Exchange will do the work
for you. Just call us up at Tippecanoe, and for
the small price of
ONE DOLLAR Per Month
We will put you in comunication with all your near by
towns and neighbors.
WILLIAM GASKILL. Manager,
TIPPECANOE, INDIANA.
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.SHIM & CREIGHBAÜM
the up-to-date General Merchants in Tippecanoe, they carry every
thing in stock necessarv to good and cheap living.
OUR GOODS ARE ALWAYS FRESH AND PALATABLE
We buy nothing but The Best, and we sell at a small Margin of Profit.
The farmers patronize our delivery wagons, because they can depend on get
ting good value for their money. Everything in stock usually carried by
the departmental stores of tlie big cities. Dairy Produce of all kinds and
alwavs absolutely fresh. Patronize Tippecanoe's Big General Store. Phone 2
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