Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-02
lO0KER-ON IN IOWA
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lOOkER-ON IN IOWA 81
Observation-Disclosures
For the Times Republican.
Ames, June There is a small army
of men working now inside the city
limits on the c. & N. w. railroad i'm
provements. The steam shovel Is at
work. SO that the new double track
will be several feet lower than the!
single track just east of town, and the
sag mile east Will not be known in
the new track. Work on the new depot
commences next Monday. Those who
claim TO know say when finished the
trains for the north and south will ar
rive at and start from the west end
of the new depot. Another report is
that only cold lunches will be served
in the new building. the quick order
meals being discontinued But on top
of this rumor is another that the same
management who has the old lunch
room will build q fine new hotel some
where near the depot and run 1T as a
first class house Ames will we'll sup
port an Institution of Nthat kind. The
southwestern corner of Onondaga and
Kellogg streets has recently been sold
TO judge Stevens and wiseacres say this
means the G. & N. w. will own it and
that is where the new hotel will be To-
Gated. The present freight depot will
be moved south and west q few blocks
and those who know what the railroad
is going to do, have 1t that Mr..
Fowler's big elevator is also TO be
moved over to the north and south
track. All of which is given for what
1T is worth.
"A number of men mention that they
picked mess of strawberries on
Decoration day. at least two weeks
earlier than the Oldest inhabitant re-!
members strawberries being ripe in
Ames. On the same date men found.
in their gardens green peas large.
enough to eat. New potatoes, from
present prospects. will be three weeks
ahead of time. When 1t comes to fins
products, corn is as far along as gen
orally in the middle of June. this the
state over. So with small grains and
the grass crops. We really had no
spring this year. Old winter jumped
square into the lap of summer. Speak
ing practically. we changed WOODEN UNI
An oNercoat one week and the next
willing to take off our flesh and sit in.
our bones.
Even our Iowa poets have to sell
their wares in Chicago, or rather seek
a market there. Worse STILL 1t is evi-.
dent such metrical thinky thoughts are
not appreciated. One of the cold blood
ed prose editors of the Times Herald
recently had this to say under the head
The Bard Of Muscatine:' The eye
of Fred e.. Shafnit. Of Musratine, Ia
seems TO be in fine frenzy rolling, even
to the extent of double time on Satur-
day afternoons and Sundays. Almost
every morning we RECEIVE bunile of
poetry from him. most of which he can
|reclaim if he Will send a dray to the
Office. In the batch that has just
reached US. however. VIC find some
verses which ought to be published,
and we gladly give them to the world:
THE LITTLE KISS.
Alittle kiss was sent one day
on a journey across the sea,
by Mall
And Cupid also was enclosed:
His heart was pure and free,
But Frail.''
And when mighty storm arose,
This little kiss was tossed.
All me-
Then after many days of Wind
The little kiss was lost.
AT sea-"
"A kiss that's sent by mail
| Ere it can reach the mouth is lost.
| No thanks are due for such boon.
| Which leaves you cooler than a tomb.
! Kisses are tasteless things, we know,
I Unless they're gathered when they
glow.
I'VE would suggest TO Mr.. Shafnit
THAT this poem might be3mproved II he
would substitute for colder than a
tomb. the words wilder than a loon.
I'm the last line, too, there ought incur
4 opinion, TO be a change from when
| they glow to where they grow. But
4 this may be a mere matter of taste
The writer ila mentioned in this coll
1Sumn n number OF towns where the
postcfiice seems to be run on the plan
1 OF accommodating the public. Toledo
4 where w Il. Lee is postmaster has ar
open postoflice every night till . p. M
Later il necessary to distribute mails
lIfrom east and west. Frequently Mr.
1 Lee goes home IN the $3.50 p. M. car
such postmaster is entitled TO liz
abed mornings.
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