Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-11-04
LO0KER-ON in IOWA:

Storm Lake. Nov. 2.-Passengers Oh
the morning Illinois Central train out
of Sioux City the other day little knew
how near a tragedy was enacted just
a few feet ahead OF them. The train
stopped suddenly and they wondered
why. Here's the reason AS usual the
train stopped out in the yards for reg
isterng The fireman got off the en-
CINE, saw something that needed fix
ing and crawled under the engine to
do It, The engineer got oft on the
other side. went into the office, regis
tered. came back, got onto the engine,
Opened her up and then heard the
fireman yell. When the engine stopped
the fireman crawled out, uninjured,
only bruised. by hanging on to the
brake beams and being dragged TWEEN
" feet Then the fireman climbed into
the cab, began shoyelng coal and on
we went as tho nothing had happened.
just as other towns are throwing
out the trading stamp scheme Sioux
City is going into 1t on larger scale
than ever One of tine big department
stores there recently added trading
stamp parlor. Offering a variety and
assortment of premiums ahead of any
thing heretofore shown. Not to be out
done in enterprise, other large and
smaller concerns to the number of
forty have formed trading stamp as
ISOLATION, made a Joint stock concern
of it, have hired big store room on
the principal street, filled it with sew
eral Thousand dollars worth of goods
of all kinds and descriptions, secured
the services of a first-class man to run
the business. who has two lady assist
ants as we'll as office boy and porter to
help carry on the affair. The plan is
simple. Any one trading at any one
of these forty stores can get a book
free by applying at any of these stores.
gets stamps of certain amount for
each purchase, and when the book is
pasted full of stamps can go to the
store and get any article to the value
of the book. The simplicity of THE aft
fair is also shown in that each one of
the forty proprletors OF the different
stores buys his stamps of the manager
of the premium store. paying spot cash
for the same and thus furnishing said
manager with money sufficient to sue
cessfully keep UP his end OF the deal
in buying new stock for premiums as
needed. The writer Is told that enter
rrises Of this kind are successfully car
ried on in New York. even where the
manager of the premium store gets a
salary of $4,000 year.
Here's different political story from
this congressional district than that
told the writer on previous visits. 1t
comes from a very conservative re-
publican, whose name by request is
not mentioned. but who says in sub
stance that the Hon. Lot Thomas is
pretty sure to succeed himself as con-
gresham. That there are so many
candidates for the position that no one
OF them will have votes enough to
nominate. The idea is that Judge Hub
bard, of Sioux City, can not go to con-
gress df Uncle George is made gov
-ernor. 1t won't do to give Sioux City
too many plums. The same situation
is true of LeNlars ]. U. Sauanis and
Judge Struble both have friends -
strong friends-and either faction Will
support Lot Thomas rather than let
1.-THE other felier get there" r. c..
Roach, OF Rock Rapids, and "Abe"
Funk are both good stock to make con-
gressmen out Of hut their friends can
hardly get together to defeat Thomas
Rather let Thomas have it another
term. Then, as a final argument, why
Thomas will be renomlnated, is that In
each of the fifteen counties compris-
ing the district there are several post
masters who owe their positions end
possible reappointments to Mr.. Thom-
as. Internationally postmasters have
right to go to congressional conven-
tons as delegates. They also have q
right to help one or more tried friends
to also go as delegates. These men
will be united on ore candidate named
Thomas. Where's the other candidate
that can put up as good q showing?
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