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RG-T: Treasurer's Office Records 1847-1980
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Correspondence and legal documents

Correspondence between Phelps and Lewis Scharnberg, farmer, deals with daily activities, problems and trials of farming at the time: planting walnut ttrees as a windbreak, Dec. 3, 1936; building repairs; marketing crops; list of grains to be planted, cost of seed, roads closed because of mud, March 1936; description of an "old timer" snowstorm and reminiscences of "the old days" ("oldest child was born in the barn, done it ourselves, had no $5 to get a Doctor, second child was born in a machine shed...:" "...walked 8 miles to and from work every morning and night and got $1.50 for 10 hours work...did not have time them days to smoke cigarettes..." Feb. 11, 1936 Correspondence and legal papers related to the college mortgage on the farm. Arranged more or less in reverse chronological order, as they came to the archives.

Correspondence

Correspondence between Phelps and Lewis Scharnberg, farmer and manager of several college-owned farms in the area: financial hard times, difficulty of paying taxes ("talk of burning corn at the Court house" "We have got to get back to the old times, eat fried mush and milk, which my wife and I lived on many a day and can do it again if I have to: Oct. 3, 1932. Re: a farmer who netted only $51 for his entire crop "...how is a farmer going to make ends meet at our present prices, prices have got to change to make the manufactories roll or Our good Country is gone. We can live on mush and milk again if we have to" Dec. 20, 1932. "I never thought I would ever get hard up again as I was from 1891 to 1896..." Oct. 31, 1932). Correspondence discusses many details of farming in the early 1930s: seed purchases, crop yeilds and prices, shipping to market, farm repairs, petition to extend time of drainage assessment payments. Correspondence regarding college mortgage on the farm; correspondence with Dwifht McCarty, '01, Emmetsburg attorney, on legal matters. List of farms and of city properties college owned on January 1930 (last sheet in folder). Real Estate Register p. 1 (RG-T Ser. 5.2). Also pamphlet on Felt farm in 02.334/p3

Leases

Included leases for 507, 509, 511 West Walnut St. with H. L. Green Chain Stores and with J. C. Penney Co. 1930s and 1940s. Assignment of leases to Grinnell College, 1942.

Good Block Co. leases

Good Block Co. leases to Oransky & Sons Corp. (a realty company) 1922-1931. Oransky indenture, 1929. Leases of Oransky to F. W. Grand 5-10-25 Cent Stores, Inc. [B. A. and L. M. Younker were officers on the Board of Directors of Good Block Co.]

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