Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-07-02
Local Affairs in Hundreds Of Iowa Towns Of
81 Interest to the General Reader.

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a man and the. others were reduced to.
ten or fifteen men. On account Of this
the wages were raised to $1.65 per day,
but the scarcity OF labor grows worse
daily, and such men as 30 to work are
of that class which work day or two
and get some money and then go and
get drunk. II the scarcity Of men con-
tinues the company will probably bring
negroes or Italians from the south to
complete the work, which must be
done before trains can make any time.
The Northwestern and other roads are
having the same trouble, but are pay
ing somewhat better wages. 1t Is
thought that later in the season there
will be more men than will be needed.
TREATMENT OF COUNTY CxANDI-
is DATES.
Esprit Lake Beacon.l
At the corn belt editorial meeting at
Storm Lake last week the question OF
editorial treatment OF county candi-
dates was under consideration. A
bright lawyer insisted that 1t is the
duty OF the local newspaper to tell the
people just what sort of a case each
candidate has as to character claims,
ability. etc. The country editor already
has his .share Of grief. but such q
course would much further reduce the
limited sunshine in his tumultuous ca
lsreer. Outside OF northwest Iowa, OF
course, every court house is occupied
more or less by men who feel that OF
far greater interest than the presiden-
tial succession is the duty of the public
to see that they hold their job. Out
among the honest yeomanry are aspi-
rants more or less numerous who feel
that the destiny of the republic is by
no means assured unless they get the
Jobs of the other fellows. All of these
l good people are more or less prone to
4 hold the local editor in q grea ter or less
degree responsible for political re-
suits In the local field. Where ten cam
didates have contested, editors who
have taken their papers into the thick
4 est of the fight to help name the candi-
sdate have been known to make nine
enemies and one migrate, and then
forced to support as the party choice
THE man he fought the hardest, limping
4 thru the campaign as suspect in the
party camp. Then in many cases IL a
paper is shouting with particular ems
Iithusiasm for one nomination the voters
lSare wont to get notion into their de-
voted heads that there is an Ethiopian
j in the fuel dump. The local paper as a
rule serves its party and its people bes,
and best conserves its own interests by
keeping from between the upper and
the neither mill stones OF the prelimi-
nary local campaign.
"WANTDD- GIRL TO DO. HOUSE.
WORK
Rockford Register.
4 The above is a wall which Is going uI
from all sections of the country; from
iIpalatial city residences, from farir
homes, from all places where a modern
civilization imposes upon woman a
burden OF domestic and social cares
(which is beyond her strength. While
A there are too many school teachers, toe
slJmany typewriters, too many clerks. toe
many teachers of music and art, there
lis all the time an awful shortage OF
competent women who are willing tc
work as home makers and housekeep,
|ers. Some say that this scarcity of do,
nestle help is caused by the womer
1 themselves, who, to not a little extent
Iplace a social ban upon the woman who
cooks their food, makes their beds ant
does the family washing; others say
4 THAT it Is because woman cannot
keep nice. white hands and do the dirty
4 work OF the homes: others that the
Il weekly wage of the hired girl is no.
high enough. One young lady tells u
a that the real reason is that a girl fool,
iIaway her chance of making desirable
matrimonial alliance when she hire:
out to do domestic work. Some trutf
A in all OF these, perhaps, with the las
i treason assigned being nearer the truth
4 than any of the others. But no mat;
4 ter about the cause, the fact remains
4 that the help to do house work Is now
4 and will in the future. be hard to get
n and 1t forcibly suggests the plan o.
peoples recasting their methods of liv,
1 ing on simpler plan which. from oul
standpoint, is really the most sensible
(, thing to do. Over one-half of woman!
4 burdens today are those which societ,
& and custom have imposed upon her
4 The cultivation Of a little womanly In
. dependence of "a don't-care-a-cen
i habit as to what the woman next doc
thinks OF your way Of doing things
would relieve many woman of /
9I6lCdl ~ 40 u ut as SOSpe.
that there Is nothing on earth woman
lis SO mortally afraid OF as another wo
man. Educate the girls that there /,
no loftier or more womanly sphere thar
that of being an accomplished ant
4 business like home maker and HON,
!, keeper: remove as far as possible tn,
social ban placed upon the hired girl
raise her wages 80 as to dignity hel
] work; don't expect her to work sixteel
hours a day, and the problem of do
nestle help will settle itself.
BEAUTIFUL LAKE OKOBOJI.
ia. L. d. iE Spencer News.]
A The west or great lake of Okoboi
has been described times without mum
Der. and each new writer finds some
thing TO mention which has escaped hi
predecessors; but no description cal
] ever adequately describe the natura
beauty Of this gem among lakes: 1t i
summer resort hardly to be excelle,
both for healthful surroundings, pleas
ant diversions and for beautiful seen
cry. Around the borders of the lax
} are some commodious, well-equippe,
hotels. each with some special attrac
ton to make 1t pleasant place 10
the summer On the lake itself ar
boating. bathing. carnivals, regatta
and moonlight rides. Fishing Is goo
"A and the hofela hava r,t,,,