Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-30

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Algona, Sept. 2o.-Recently in. the
new little town of Webb on the c., NJ. u
ST. P. railroad the LOCKER On noticed the
unloading from the way freight of sew
eral sacks of cabbages, onions and 9TH
er vegetables. The shipping tags
showed they were for the manager of
the railroad boarding house, who has
between eighty and 100 strong. able
bodied men for regular boarders, these
men engaged in surfacing the tracks.
The peculiar part of the business is
that these vegetables are shipped from
Chicago into agricultural Iowa. The
manager said his firm had eighteen
boarding house outfits OH different rail-
roads and all of their vegetables came
from Chicago. That it was impossible
to get in our IowA towns the vegetables
needed for such a gang Of railroad men.
Then little figuring showed that this
one shipment was worth more than
three acres of oats, and as these ship
ments are received every few days they
would If raised near the consumers
bring more into the pockets Of the
farmer than whole forty-acre field Of
cats. And 1t is not an uncommon sight
for the Looker-On to notice in our small
country stores the farmers wives buy
T. - 40. 4 ~ 1,,v
ing harvest time the best customers our
butchers have are the farmers buying
fresh beef and pork to feed the thresh-
ing crews. Comment is unnecessary.
Every little while Come newspaper
announces the wonderful fact that
Blanktown has q woman doing the
business of man. Perhaps she runs a
farm, is a successful storekeeper or
even is a bank cashier. But the next
time you go to Emmetsburg notice the
number of women in all of the bust
ness houses in town. The writer in his
travels nowhere sees 50 many women
behind the counter. One exception
should be mentioned. No women are
behind the counter running saloon. or,
for that matter. in front of the saloon
counters patronizing the bar.
A travelling man tells the following as
enc Of the suggestive signs Of the
times: He works for big concern hav-
ing branch houses and agencies all over
the country. They employ in different
capacities thousands of men. To give
an idea of their business, at one time
n
months time" on $4,000 freight bills
due. This was in '93, when things shut
Gown. And but for that little assistance
in allowing freight bills to accumulate
they would have gone to the wall. Now
this big firm sees business troubles
ahead. They do not propose to be
caught mapping during the next panic.
They already are retrenching, cutting
down expenses and preparing for (to
them) tie inevitable. The public knows
nothing of 1t, but 1t is going on just
the same. Are other big and small con-
Germs doing the same thing?
Every little while some one tells the
story OF how a letter reached them.
perhaps misdirected or missent. Here's
one the writer can vouch for: A travel
ing man who lives in Grinnell received
a letter not long ago with only his
name printed thereon. No town or state
or territory was mentioned. The ex-
PLANTATION is that the bookkeeper of the
house wrote him the letter, put 1t in his
printed name envelope and then went
to his route sheet to find out where to
direct it. Some one called him away.
,Sol. ft,<,
letter lit was stamped), took it to the
postofice, the officials there sent 1t to
the train, the railroad postoff1ce men
threw 1t into the Grinnell sack and the
free delivery route agent promptly de-
livered 1t to 'Steen street Just the same
as tho 1t was marked John Jones. I'LL
Eleventh street, Grinnell, Iowa, u. S. A.
One OF these days we ought to have
gone fishing in Okoboji again. Two
million small fish have been. or will be.
"transplanted" there this year. Then,
too, the SEEMING out of several hundred
Gars this summer will give these young
er fish longer lease OF life. Some one
has figured out the number of pounds
os fish 1t requires to keep the gars of
Okoboji and Spirit Lake in good c0ndi-
ton. The writer won't be sure but it's
like thousand pounds a
day. That is, the figurer counted the
CARS In the three lakes and estimated a
half a pound of fish each day necessary
TO prevent the poor gars from starving.
And during this SEEMING out of gars and
Euffaloes these state officials actually
allowed the bystanders and crowd
m tn rrNyt
away hundreds of great big, fat bull
heads. Now every one knows this game
fish only eats minnows when he can
catch them, and supposing the BULL
heads in Okoboji do catch and eat
S,432 frogs each day. what are frogs
for? The next legislature should pass a
law protecting the frogs and only allow
the fisherman to catch ten frogs an
hour during the open season! Make 1t
q misdemeanor for any man. ministers
excepted, to have in his possession more
than thirty frogs over three inches in
length. We must protect our fish and
game.
The nomination of Judge Birdsall at
the Third congressional district con-
vention at Hampton last Thursday
gives much satisfaction to republicans
outside of the district. There was a
feeling that something might happen to
destroy the work together" sentiment
Of the district, but getting together as
they did on the third ballot shows there
Is a big lot of political good sense left
In the district. One observing. we'll
posted politician says "the nomination
Of Judge Birdsall solidif1es the district.