Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-22
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ferret case. Whatever may be the mer-
4 its pr demerlts of the legal points set.
! tied, and the acts of all concerned, one
/ thing may positively be claimed. ant
1 that is, the individual taxpayer in Har.
dine county, be he rich or poor. has beer
| financially benefited by the tax ferert'.
\ work there. over $4,000 has been col.
lected. and $1,000 more Is likely to bs
the result OF this work. And that this
| collection Of such an amount has work.
ed this benefit, the following figure.
taken from the books In the court house
I proves conclusiveiy Here is a compar.
1 alive statement showing the tax lev.
| for 1900 and 1901:
HARDIN COUNTY LEvEEs.
| 1900. 1901
mills County. mills
2 mills Bridge IL mills
i mill Road Clio mills
CITIES-CO CONSOLIDATED LEvEES
\ 1900. 1901
69.S mills Iowa Falls g. mills
| 54.S mills Eldora So mills
66.S mills Alden SO. mills
\ AS has been remarked before In this
column. and the above figures are ad-
ditional proof. tax ferrets and Their
1 system. seem to be a great equalizing
board, for of this $4,000 discovered
| taxes in Hardin county. all of 1t comes
| from the pockets of rich men and cor
poratlons we'll able to pay 1t.
|
| The writer wasn't there. but the fol-
\ living comes from such a reliable source
| Ia truthful travelling man-it can APP
propriately be put in the Looker-or
column. The scene was at ---------- In
| the -- Hotel. the hour was mid
night. The s-personae, twent.
tired travelling men, the night clerk and
man and his Wife and five children
The hotel was so full that cots were
In the halls, -, the landlord
sleeping on the roof, the day clerk UNI
! der the counter, and the help in the
basement under the loiler. The man
and his wife and the five cherished
darlings, aged 11s to 10 innocent years
| years, arrived from somewhere to take
the Iowa Central 10 p. m. train north.
! There was a wrecked gravel train, Sc
| that 1t was 2:30 a. m. before the family
could go, so they camped out in the up
stairs parlor. The youngsters needed
exercise so they played tag in the hall,
and there was a big time for the young
sters. Finally it occurred to the night
| clerk some of the travelling men wanted
to sleep and tag was substituted for
"hide-and- go-seek." This was great fun
| till the landlord came down off the roof,
and notified the fond parents that
| noise must stop" Then all of the young
ones got hungry, and down stairs they
went like troop of young Indians to
get some crackers. The clerk said
they were just out. Then all hands
came up with rush, the tired
guests thinking the house was on fire.
In ten minutes more all wanted a
drink and five pairs of heavy shoes
pounded the stairs to the wash room.
After this healthy exercise the smallest
little cherub, the tootsey-wootsey. got
sleepy, so the mother rocked him, sing
ing at the top of her voice the "Old
Oaken Bucket" The name Of this beau
tiful song is given. as it will long be re-
membered by twenty travelling men, one
landlord and one night clerk. .Tootsey''
subsided. Then his fathers pride. aged
8, started for the land of Nod. His IA
ther, to help along the trip, then gave
the assembled audience, all wide-awake
and appreciative, four verses of Sweet
Marie" Owing to the chilly atmosphere
10 steam being turned on in the parlor
Mt 1880 a. M, the artist failed to do him
self justice, altho there was feeling in
the nearby rooms, II put into action,
that could have been called by that
name. The young gymnasts and the
soprano and tenor virtusos by this time
and brought the program up to 2 a. M.
end after much bundling up and waking
up and crying and scolding the entire
troupe marched down the stairs, across
the tiled floor Office. slammed the doors
to let the crowd know they had left, and
all took the $3.50 a. m. train north. The
Looker-On has here given only faint
description of the entire performance.
To fully appreciate 1t one should hear
,, the twenty stories of the tired travelling
men, the profusely adjectived account of
the night clerk and the tale of woe from
the landlord.
That advancement in civilization-the
rural delivery-is bringing out some
good stories. One is that farmer living
a half mile from the corner where the
route agent had to go out and then
back over the same route became con-
WINGED that II there was only one letter
or postal card for him the route agent
sometimes kept it and delivered 1t the
next day. So with malice aforethought
lie deliberately ordered a daily paper SO
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