Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-02-03
LOCAL COMMENT.
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES


Conventions are coming Marshall
towns way nowadays, without the eX-
lpenditure of much effort. There are al
ready booked for the present year the
lconventions of the Iowa Supervisors
Association. the Iowa Postmasters AS
sociation. with that of the Central Iowa
Teachers Association as probability.
/ The excess pension question at the
Soldiers Home will not down There is
merit on both sides Of the question and
4 it is probable there will be a fight in the
ilegisla ture on the bill to be introduced
with the objec, of preventing the board
Icf control from enforcing the rule re-
lquiring the surrendersto the state of all
lpension money in excess Of S6. If the
llegislature abrogates this rule it is pos
Isible the limit Of admission will lie low
Eered To such Il point that those pension
ers receiving nearly enough for their
1indivicuai support viii De barred IRON
4 the institution and room made for vet-
lerans VINO receive no pension The uiiss-
ton is one that should be- decided in the
Interests of the veterans and their fam
y lilies and at the same time on sound bus
illness princi ples.
In the midst Of the cold Weather the
5lprice of milk is coming down. During
the winter thus far the dairymen have
i charged cents per quart. but this price
lis being reduced now TO 5 cents by the
Heading dealers of the city. The poor
8 are not always out of luck.
The word smallpox to some conimuni-
f;.ak,H
4 bull, and there is not much more reason
ltofear an epidemic of one an the sup
posed effect Of the other 1t is srrpris-
ling that an enlightened community like
h Gilman should resort to the measures
just adopted there in the case of a
young lady from this city. Said lady
had bean visiting in both Gilman and
4 Grinnell. and then spent one day in
4 MarshaltoMn before returning 10 Gill
4 man for a longer stay on her arrival.
4 there she was auarantined. with the
4 family she was visiting. The T.-R. takes.
a this opportunity to assure its Gilman
a friends that people eat. sleep and walk
Il the streets in the vicinity of the six
Eauarantined houses. and 60 about their
. business without fear or trembling Civ
ing little thought to the fact that there
4. ara q few very mild cases of smallpox
in the city.
4 The greatest fear the people of Mar
shalltown seem to have is that II they.
become slightly i'll from any cause the
doctors viii diagnose their atilction
: wrongly. This is shown from tbs fact
Ethat the physicians. wllather attending
persons afflicted with the more serious
diseases or not, note a great falling off
in the number Of their calls. The doc
tors are losing much more in this way
than they gain from the numerous vac
cination operations. ThisSist only history
VI repeating itself, and goes 70 disprove
the foolish assertion not infrequently
: heard that tiis doctors have been guilty
Isof getting up q scare for the sole pur-
pose of financial gain. This charge is
$ uncalled for. nonssnsiea, and very un-
! kind to a profession that does more for
T suffering humanity than any other.
Every one will have TO concesie that
4 the saloonists Of Marshalltown acted
I wisely in closing their daofs on receip,
LOT the news of the supreme court dacis-
7 ion regarding the petitions of consent.
! even tho they opened again al the Very
! first opportunity afforded by a legal
II move. 1t WOULD have been foolhardy
I3disobedience of law to have kept open.
The church committee has completed
! the comparison Of the new petition and
it is understood will send out list Of
the same To every signer. with The re-
z |quest to notify the committee it the
|name was placed thereon without au-
says the petition is a good one and he is
No
: successfully attacked.
While many reports have been circu-
lated of late for the sole purpose of In
y Turing Marshalltown and Marshalltown
trade. it was not thought any paper of
the county would Intentionally give ex-
g preston To an insnuaton so broad and
s SO apparently malicious as the follow
: ing from the Melbourne Record: "A
4 good many people have a pretty We'll de-
) fined idea that the smallpox conditions
= lin Mershaltown are worse than repre-
? sented by the local press. 1t is seriously
I dues toned by a good many thinking
4 people whether the plan of newspapers
\ covering up actual conditions fearing
$ business will be injured. is just course
e to be pursued 1t is better than TO let
. innocent people unwittingly expose
y themselves to DANGER This is "A NEAR
4 stab in the back. and the T-R. is sur
t prissd that the Record editor would al
$ low himself to be influenced to say what
: he has said The T.-R. and the Other
: papers of this city have not suppressed
e a fact concerning the presence Of small.
e poX in this city. on the theory that i
4. were better to let the outside worlC
* know the whole truth rather than t,
e have it accept the wild and woody stor
$ les that usually arise under similar cir
]. cumstances. We have nothing 10 con
q ceai nothing 10 fear, and our oitizen
are not one-hundredth part as badl.
frightened az some of Marshalltown,
enemies would wish their own neighbor
10 be- There has not been new cas-,
n of the smallpox in the city for week
and the few already i'll are rapidly re
/ covering.
:, The assessor is abroad in the land
y and people should recollsct that al
r, honest confession is good for the soul
e Assessor Elliott says there is q bette
n disposition To list personal property thi
e year than heretofore. and he hopes t
d be able to show a good increase in tn
n sum total.
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