Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-16
Observation-Disclosures
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
5 LOOKER-ON In IOWA.
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.
For the Times Republican

For theTimes- Republican.
Laurel. Nov. 15-The sister of oui
former fellow citizen, DR.. Heron. has
evidently advanced" ideas on several
matters. We have read in the papers
of her approaching marriage, the cere-
,nony TO be plain and simple, as occur
red when the professor married Mrs
Heron number two. A little squib IN
the Chicago Tribune says.
We don't exactly know what Miss
Heron means when she says that there
is something too infinite about love 70
be measured by earthly pledges-vain
idle pledges and when she asks, What
do such vows count for if two hearts are
afire with love- But we are willing to
believe that the lady means we'll.
Grinnell has got beyond the stage of
furnishing copy" for the newspapers.
for we find in the New York Weekly, a
story paper, this item, which they pub
lish as something unusual:
"A rigid liquor law prevails in Grin
nell, Iowa. 1t is crime for two or
more persons to drink alcoholic stimu-
lants in company When a man thinks
he needs bracer he must flock by HIM
self and drink alone
1t is pretty good plan for non-resi-
dent land owners to take weekly pa
per published in the town near where
they own land. Recently an Iowa renter
received letter from the owner of the
land the renter had lived on for twelve
years, saying he was getting old and
desired to sell hia farm in Iowa, and
that he would give the renter the first
chance to buy. Said renter Immediately
took the train for Ohio and bought the
farm for s24 an acre. On his return, in
the town. before he went out home. he
was offered $50 an acre for the self-same
farm. When the Ohio man reads this
item he can kick himself for not taking
the Weekly Storm Cloud.
1t is astonishing how particular some
communities are over little things. 1t
was in 4 prohibition town, and the un-
dertaker, SAD to relate. was not teeto-
taller. One tight a farmer, living near
town, received by express jug of whis-
ky and u friendly stockman went with
him up to the undertaker's to sample
the goods. Along about midnight our
undertaken was too full for utterance,
in Tact was dead drunk. and the stock
man was also in the same blissful condi-
ton. But the hard headed farmer re-
tanned his senses and wit. After much
hard work he succeeded in getting the
into one of his own collins,
crossed his hands. loosely placed the
glass and left him under the effects of
the embalming fluid. Then he Laid out"
the stocknan on a table. using the han
Oily convenient robes found in the un-
dertaking room, and made a real nice
job of IT. Along about 2 o'clock in the
morning Mrs UndertakerAcam UP to
the shop and found conditions as de-
"the neighbors haven't bought coffin
of him since"
Freedom OF speech has occupied
much space in the papers lately. The
writer has always believed in the doc
trine, that il. till the other day. Now it
occurs to HON that listeners have rights
the freedom fellows are bound to re-
spect. They sat at the other table In
the hotel dining room. The two young
doctors were star boarders at IFS cents
per meal. The travelling man paid so
cents for sitting at the other table.
Same hash exactly. And the two young
doctors were talking shop" First It
was about some pills and the great
work they were doing. This served as
an appetiser to the travelling man. Then
detailed symptoms of smallpox treat
ment followed. BY this time the trav-
cling man was as hungry as bear"
Then for dessert the boarders at LIS
cents and the travelling man at so cents
had thrown in the edifying details of
late surgical operation, removing tu-s
NOR that weighed 1000 pounds, more or
less. All this made the noontide repast
man could only have remem-
told the Looker-On the same this little
effuslon would doubtless have been cop
led into some medical journal.
$3.50
And the travelling man had another
tale of woe. In the morning he went to
the depot to take an o'clock train. 1t
arrived at 3. Then he made six miles to
a little town to take $3.50 train town to
work in the meantime. The train dis
patcher allowed passenger and freight
train to run on his" trains time, so
that was two hours late. Finally it ar
rived and he got on board. 1t went on
to side track and waited an hour for
another train. Then it backed up and
took water thru a two-inch rubber hose,
because the tank was out of order; then
II started and he rode seventeen miles to