Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-03
SOUTHERN IONA NOTES
iOpmberland's Railroad Aspirations
a Sad. Sweet story From
Clarinda.
lMurray's Band and Business Pros.
poets Secret Of Williams
Popularity.
A Big Man For q Little Town
Moscrip Observes as He
Runs.


Runs.
Special to Times-Republican
Murray. April Cumberland is
praying for an extension OF it's present
line OF railroad or that some other
company may,Duiid a line that viii giveIi
them northern connect ton. Some
talk has been current OF an electric
road to run from Creston to Atlantic,
but the extreme probabilities are that
it will never ma!terialize. The Great
Western is considering a line from Des
Moires to Council Bluffs and this may
be built, and if so will scarcely miss;
Cumberland. Something Of the kind is
needed to assist the developme Of this
good town. AT present it is the ter
minus of the branch Of the @, to
which it gives Its name. With north
ern outlet Cumberland would double its
population and business inside of a
year. 1t is a capital town in a good
county and the writer hopes to be able
soon to ride north out Of Cumberland
in the painted cars
Clarinda furnishes a sadly sweet
story OF love grown cold, and inciden-
tally hungry. of marriage that proved
lafaiure and brought a romance which
i faded in the finale of ma trimony, With
Its practical aspects of butcher and
\ grocery bills. Last September u pair
LOT trusting souls with a single thought
We're made one on the fair grounds at
\ shenandoah before the crowd assem-
| bled to witness a frenlens tournaments
( Filled with hope, etc, they saw moth
4 ing before them save the prize offered
4 to the couple that would marry pub bic
\ ly to assist in making a Shenandoah
4 holiday and long life OF love and
conjugal felicity. But mark the sequel.
I They moved To Clarinda, Where they
have since resided Friday last Heze-
kiah went home minus the bread and
l3butcher stuff that somehow seems a me-
1Ecessity to conjugal happiness. Then
love flew the coop and battle shook his.
\ CORY locks. The happy Authorizations of
the fair grounds went up in the air and;
II Hezekiah, bereft ut one fell blow of
4 hope and harmony. concluded to end
his existence. After making the an-s
announcement, like Mr.. Wrinkle, that he
Twas about to begin, he shut and locked
himself in his room. Sheri Fl Foster and
Marshal Brooks We're summoned and
lresolutely broke down the door, expect
ing the desperate man to open fire upon
.ISthem. He didn't, tho. They found him
s|isnug in bed asleep. and possibly dream
A ing of the September day at the fair
4 grounds when he found his trouble.
4 And they listened to his wife's appeal
4 and didn't Jail him.
4 Murray, Iowa, is inclined to be
4 musical. 1t has one of the best bands
4 in southern Iowa and is proud of it. Its
SEpride takes a practical direction also,
land a cornet player who is out of a job
4 hasn't much trouble in getting one i
Murray if he will get into corresponds
s(ience With the secretary of the band.
a BARRIERS and all kinds of classes of peo-
lple who work for wages, SO long as they
lean play in the band are always want
Led at Murray.
This town, while probably one of the
muddiest in Iowa. is also one of the
market and heavy distributing point
4 for goods. "A move is on foot for the es
4 Establishment of brick yard there and
to the writer 1t seems an opportunity
4 for practical brick maker With sutfi !.
business. The clay is present in mex
sI.haustibe quantities and the people are
a class that stay By. any industry that
oS
Whatever may be the Individual
3I.opinion of Mr.. w. b. Williams and fliH
work at Shenandoah, he is the most
A popular public man in Iowa. When one
talks with the people of the place the
4 reasons for his popularity are not far
d Ito seek. Williams, work regenerated
4 Shanandoa'h; it took the GlrUnkard from
4 the gutter and forced upon certain
4 class of the population the realization
l.of moral responsibility and the hope of
4 a higher life. One man broke into a
A conversation between the writer and a
business man TO say: II was drunk for
A three years. never had a dollar. Fol
several months I've been sober man
and I've got a few dollars and the chill
Il dren have shoes That's what that re-
I
bered that there are many who can talk
much as this man did, it shows Why the
major portion of Shenandoah stand be-
hind Williams. The writer wishes to be
fair above all3things. and in fairness he
must say that Williams has accomp-
lished great good in Shenandoah IL the
large majority of business men are to
be allowed to speak conclusively.
4 . . 4
over at Mt. Etna, country town
near Corning, lives a country doctor
A who has performed three times success
fully the operation known to surgeons
as the calsarean section, and in each
instance upon the same patient, Mrs.
4 T, an Adams county woman. In each
case the life of the infant was saved
and the patient made a rapid recovery.
The doctor has visited England, been
a welcome guest at the lord mayors
palace In London and a lion at English
hospitals and among English surgeons.
But he still keeps his country practice
at Mt. Etna.