Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-11-11
LOOKER-ON IN IOWA
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New Hartford, Nov. 1O--Wien Park
ersburg was figuring with the new c. &
N. w. division from Belle Plaine to
Blue Earth, the great point was to have
the depot inside the city limits. Well,
it's located to suit everybody. The old
hotel and row of small tenement houses
across the road from the Illinois Cen
| trail depot We're bought by the Chicago
Il Northwestern Company and the new
1 depot will be hardy a block from the IL
! linois Central depot. The old buildings
| have been torn down and the lumber is
| on the ground for the new depot. With
all of this new railroad building In
/ Iowa 1t will require the experience OF
| old travellers to know how to go to GER
/ tain towns and when. The writer was
4 once in a northwestern Iowa town
/ where there were seven ways to go to
reach Marshalltown. That is the trav-
/ eler could take seven different routes
and arrive at Marshalltown at about
/ the same time. AS it is now, there is
/ hardly town in Iowa where one can
4 not eat dinner. transact business and
yet sleep at home that same night, that
is If you live in the hub, Marshalltown.
Enthusiastically the sentiment of the
people of Iowa is in favor of the Beers.
4 Last week, after the capture of the
English regiments, one heard every
where rejoicing that Johnny Bull had
got it In the neck 1T would stake
some of the conceit out of him.. He
had no business over in the Transvaal.."
He was always jumping on some
small nation" And then the Yankee
buster broke out every little while, He
knows better than to attempt to bully
4 rag the United States" Considering
the friendliness of Great Britain dur
/ ing our war with Spain, and England's
trouble coming so soon after, this is a
little strange, but whether creditable to
us or not. large percentage of Iowa
citizens would like to see England get
licked by the sturdy Beers of South
Africa.
1t is not three years since old iron on
our Iowa farms. or even in town, was
unstable, exceptions to this being in
a town whore a foundry was operated.
Now men are securing the country.
) buying up all the old worn out ma
| chinery, and the town blacksmith or
. implement dealer can find a cash mar
!, ket for everything that has accumulat-
ed for the past ten or fifteen years.
Keep n thing seven years and find a
use for IT. is the old saw. The writer is
! told that these buyers Will not deal,
: that is buy, any old iron that comes
: from 4 railroad. No matter what 1t IS,
even q piece of rail or any old thing
IA railroad has ever used. these buyers
), throw out The reason is not given.
i Three peddlers. Jews, are doing a thriv-
ing business in one locality. They 60
out to the farmers with wagon load of
dry goods and dicker for all the old iron
on the place. and the farmers wives are
e turning old moving machines corn
$ plows and even threshing machines in
: to new dresses. II is claimed one farm
ers wife now wears a threshing ma-
chine for her Sunday best clothes, and
these peddlers, when they can not trade
dry goods for old iron. will pay cash for
5 1t, only there is a heap of difference in
! the price paid.
: This town being an exception SO fa,
. as the writer knows, 1T will do to men
ton what Looker-On sees and has beer
accustomed to for many years, and thai
u is the man in every town who "woult
. I
+ lquor alone" this not referring to the
r. drunken loafer. the sol, who has go
e clear down to the bottom of the ladder
n ard there is no hope for him. but to the
merchant, the doctor, the lawyer, tbs
livery man. the hotel keeper. or the la
borer who is nice fellow IL he would
let liquor alone Hardly town bu
y what has this nice man, this smart
man this good citizen" IF he would
let liquor alone" and it must be con
-e fessed these men are the "brainy mel
) of their community. The writer ha
lie met them year after year in al;nos
l. every town. There's not a fool in tn
whole outfit. Nearly all are we'll edu
Gated men. Tn nearly every case. whel
their neighbors speak of them. they al
: ways add. and he's got such a mic
~ wife, Z such a nice family. Yet yea
g after year this nice man If he would le
IS liquor alone gets drunk and disgrace
i'll himself and family on an average ono
s. IA month. And when he dies, and get
a nice notice in the local paper, there
always another man to fill the place
the community. Perhaps 1T is in tn
IS. arrangement of nature that it takes n
up kinds OF people to make a world, BIT
.lf one would think the species would d
out after a while. But it does not.
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