Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-05-18
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Fonda. May lit was not in Pekin,
but in an Iowa town. The depot agent
was sick with typhoid fever in the liv-
| ing rooms over the depot. For seven
ilong weeks he had been in bed, while
| AN extra handled the telegraph key
/ and collected the freight bills. On the
rear platform about thirty feet from the
! sick man was a we'll thirty feet deep.
| and fifty feet from the We'll MAS depot
| Clubhouse. constructed by digging hole
| in the ground ten feet deep and board
| ing ii up on all sides with refuse planks.
! The depot agent and family Used the
| water from the We'll, so2do the travelling
i public, and since the Looker-Or lizard
of this case of typhoid fever he has beer
1 observing many ether depot outhouses
and depot wells. In nearly all cases the
agent has a bed all ready for the fever
when ii comes, and the bad Is not over
/ thirty feet from the Well. The Clubhouse
4 ia only nifty feet farther away. one Gaze
should be excepted. Al Bianktown the
tdepot well was on the other side Of
! the depot They We're cleaning ii GU; the
day the writer was there This section
\ men baled out with the Mater rs actual
I count. twenty dead rats. This agent has
4 no typhoid. He does not drink water
4 from the depot well
Ii is strange TO hear the commentator
/ given these days 10 Editor Perkins. Es-
4 peeiaily true in the las, few days,. sine
he has announced that Candidate Per
I kns did not resign in favor Of Will Ac5
icept" Ccnger. 1t must be admitted tina,
i Candidate Perkins MAS far from being a
popular parsonage. while I, is, true that
4 Editor Perkins only has he goodwill of
/ northwest Iowa in an equal degree with
Citizen Perkins. What strikes the aver
age voter as the good thing about Eds
ttor Perkins is that he Is, not sHiking in
Ibis tent He knuws his, persnanl friends
were pounding Candidate Perkins, not.
/ Editor Perkins. nor Citizen Perkins. and
there is an expressed admiration for the
4 way Candidate Perkins took his medi-
4 cine. H.. swallowed II like little man,
land has not been telling everybody
since what bad dose 1t was. When the
harmonious convention is held Aug. I.
4 and Mr.. Gummins nominated the writer
prophsses that the editorial leader in
4 the Sioux City Journal on the Sth of
4 August. in point Of sincere congratula-
ton, VIII only be equaled by by Late
Young in the Capital
When the Chicago & Northwestern
4 railroad bun, the new line from Belle
I'laine up thru Mason City and on
] NORTHWEST. they laid GU, many new
4 towns -Four or five Of thes. new towns
i are marveis, considering they are only
one year old Clutter has developed in
to a town of 200 Inhabitants, with eieva-
.Istors, lumber yards and stores equal to
many towns twenty FIVE years old. Dixie
i is little larger has hotel. bank build
ing and stocks Of goods that many
4 towns never will have. Dougherty ia a
/ hummer II Is only ten months old
but visitor gets the impression II is
Il twenty years old. 80 pronounced are the
improvements. The hotel actually has
4 sunday trade. and the inside finishing
of one bank building cost as, much as
any bank in Mason City. The imple-
ment warehouses and lumber sheds are
al up-to-date az in towns of 10000 in.
habitants. One advantage Dougherts
has 1t has been settled up by men who
have been in business many years ir
other towns The drug stores the cloth.
dug and dry goods stores are kept by
men who know how 10 keep store" Ac
tually have Gifted appearance. Nov
here's fact for figurers. Clutter ha,
saloons, Dougherty has none. and yet
the dry town grows fully as fast az TIL
{ wet one. Corner lots sold in the dry
town for $1,000 before there VAS a town
1 Both towns have 10 draw trade from
{ wet and dry towns all around them. On
seems TO draw as we'll as the other
III AZ the ante-c campaign progresses TIL
people are talking more and more Of tn