Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-12
THRU SOUTHERN IOWA
The T..R.'s Traveller Observes Many
Points Of Interest in Those
Parts.
g. B. & Q. Is Making Many Improve,
ments in Its Road Bed
The "Mail."
Lucas and Grand River Thriving
Wagons at Lacona-Evan.
gelist Williams.
,ial to Times-Republican.

gelist Williams.
Special to Times Republican.
Creston, March 1.-THE c., r. & @. |
Northwestern, in Improvements along
its main line. 1t is double tracking,
strengthening curves, cutting down
grades laying heavy steel and prepar-
ing in every way to keep its supremacy
as a short line and hold the lucrative
mail contracts the Northwestern longs
double track Will run dlagonally thru
the town site and will cut a strip go
feet wide thru the business street. AS
a consequence three store buildings,
an office building, the town hail and
dozen dwellings must be removed.
AT Alton junction the tracks will pass
above the Great Western tracks neces-
Stating a fill that requires 100000
cubic yards of earth. When it IS fin
ished the hill Will become a tradition
walked in on the carpet to explain
why fifteen minutes We're lost between
creston and Osceoa. The sharp curves
will have disappeared and the mail will
sweep toward the transfer without
checking its speed
Speaking Of the mall as the Q's
flying train is called, brings to mind
an incident al a way station lately.
Nothing else than county seats and
railroad crossings check the mall 1t
storms thru the towns and past ordi-
nary stations like winged demon. a
Whistle, a roar, a smother of smoke
and q flash of fire and the hind car
whisks out of sight around the next
curve. Every one wants TO see the
| train pass and agents have consider
table worry and trouble keeping careless
or ignorant people out OF harm 5 way
| \ mail pouch IS a Very ordinary and
! harmless article viewed laying on the
| platform waiting to carry its messages
| to their destination. Thrown from the
| door of a car speeding past a rate of
seventy miles per hour, it becomes a
| flying missile as deadly and almost as
liswift as a Mauser bullet. Wise people
/ keep off the platform. The other day
at the station a young man strobe out
on the platform about ten fest from
1 the track and calmly watched the app
1 preaching tram. All at once as the
! train shot past big pouch crammed
| with newspapers and probably weigh
1 ing 100 pounds flashed out of q car
doorway and sailed past him like cam
non ball. 1t missed him about two feet.
He Went around the corner of the de-
/ pot at a pace that might have made
Mercury trade his wings for pair of
bulldog shoes. What the WAS
4 that" he circulated. Then some one
4 explained to him.
Heavy crops in Iowa are not entirely
confined to the products of the soil.
strictly speaking Near the bright lit
tie city of Clarinda resides a gentleman
VINO might give Godiva cards and
/ spades in the matter of hersute adorn-
ment and still remain on easy street.
iOnly he runs TO whiskers. as BELTS his
sex. For many years he has devoted a
considerable portion of his visage to the
cultivation OF a record breaking beard,
! and despite atmospheric conditions
that are popularity supposed TO favor
4 the repression of whiskers, it has
reached a length of six feet ten inches
in the clear. When ii is stated that the
! hair plantation is himself but i've feet
4 four inches in stature it will be seen
4 that the beard has one and one-half
i feet the advantage of its owner in
length. He is said 10 be very proud of
4 his singular beard, takes great care OF
bit and carries it in a silken sack made
i specially for its protection. He has re
fused nattering offers to exhibit him
| self and does not care to make money
in that way.
The village of Lucas is making a re-
markable growth since the opening of
i cleveland No. coal shaft. Many new
buildings are III process of erection and
q will be begun at once. The population
has doubled during the past eighteen
months and daily paper, the Indus
trial World, is making bid for exist
ence.
4 Grand River one of the thriving
l,owns on the line of the II. & S., has
lately been incorporated, and Will here
after be able TO conduct its affairs ac-
cording to ito own ordinances. Grand
River is one of the brightest. most push
A ing little towns in southern Iowa, and 9
). capital point for business of any kind
II Real estate is on the boom since the in
corporation.
Down at Shenandoah there is a strons
following, which keeps an abiding faitt
lin NJ b. Williams. the noted and motor
ious evangelist. and thinks the sui
brought recently for SANDER is in ths
e nature OF persecution. AT a meeting
lately held in the armory at that place
Williams appearance was the signal fol
loud and continued cheering. Never
theless the writer is disinclined towards
the professional evangelist and th'
methods used by this class of preacher.
TO attract and retain crowded audi
ences Most of the evangeists for rev
Ienue only SAVIOR strongly of the mounte
. bank and demagosue. Compared Will
), the results obtained by the clean
tongued. conscientious resident ministe
whose pure life and blameess conduc
fit him for his heraldship and accentu
ate his leadership and usefulness. tn
ultimate good reached by the profes
sional is insignificant. 1t is mountain
!, TO molehill. the mighty enduring mu
sic of the Messiah against rag
!. time
All this is mere opinion on either side
but to my mind that pilgrim evangehs