Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-21

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Montezuma, March 90. on good au-
tEority it comes to the writer that Chef
Rowe, who some years ago became a
0efaulting treasurer in PoweShiek
county has had friends 20 go before the
proper officials to see If Tie indictln nts
still hanging over HIM can not be
quashed. He gives as reasons for
claiming such action that he has been
punished enough by the NJ sxican au-
thorties. and that he wants to return to
this country educate his children. Chef
Is now Il conductor on the Mexican
Central railroad. has the confidence OF
his employers and is doing we'll finan-
cially, but he wants to come home"
Il is understood the application was
turned down, for no oificial in this
county feels like taking such steps. II
vas only short time ago that some of
his bondsmen had failed to settle With
the county. and the whole business, a
loss of $4,000 more or less, is too fresh
in the minds of the voters to make
any possible forgetting ard forgiving at
present. Individually, Rowe has the
sympathy of many, bur officially the
former treasurer of Poweshiek county
will have to wait awhile before he can
return to Gods country.
Every little while there floats around
a story that 8 newspaper man can not
verify. and yet 1t has al. the semblance
OF truth. Sometime ago man wei!
jtce hr he
earth had swallowed him up" Finally
he was reported dead and the papers
made the most of it, Yet within week
after his untimely taking off, and only
a few weeks after his disappearance, q
former friend of his sitting in a hotel
" indow in one of our big cities saw the
one, the reported corpse,
walk by on the street. The friend
rushed out, called him by name, the
man stopped and coolly assured him he
was mistaken. the nam. was wrong. he
never saw the friend before, and then
gain the disappeared one was lost in
The crowd The friend made public
what he had seen, but 4 few days after
hs changed his mind, must have been
mistaken. and this change OF mind was
brought about by friends of the widow.
Who thought it cruel fer him to tell
such things. wkan there wasn't word
IF truth in it. The friend or the dis
appeared one need have no fears that
he LOCKER On will give it away" hi
sn.t sure enough of facts and figures to
rive any names. Only it was too bad
q have such sensation die |
-bornin'.''
When the rural free delivery system |
vas first inaugurated there were mer- |
.hants and business men galore who
yrophesied all manner of business ca |
amity to the towns VIII IRE these routes
tarted from. The farmers wouldn'.
,ome to town, and when they did have |
o go somewhere and buy. something. |
Iey would go to the larger towns, and |
hus the little towns would dry up and
low away, metaphoricdlly speaking.
Well, the II. II. d. has come to stay
!, has been in operation long enough to
tote results. In many Of the smaller |
owns merchants tell the writer that |
he year 1902 was the most prosperous |
n the history of the town This is true J
II all lines of business The r. T.. d. |
las probably changed some things. 1t |
s probably true that from Monday till
Friday a less number Of teams are
een in all OF our free delivery towns
han say five years ago. They don't |
have to go to town for the mail" But
he sales of the merchants for the year
ave increased and the Saturday trade
/, all the towns has more than doubled.
Ii many towns an increased force of
Jerks is necessary on Saturday. In
owns like Eldora, Hampton and Grin
ell on Saturdays the streets are full
t teams and the stores are crowded.
md when it comes to towns the size of
Iarshalltown, on Saturday afternoons
. is literally true there is not room on
he sidewalks for the country visitors.