Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-17
ELooKER-oN IN IOWA


Searsboro, March 17.-The writer
after an absence of few months from
Grinnell saw several new things.
There's the big storage building c. Ill
| Spencer built. something long needed
and evidently appreciated. During the
| last week the Looker-Oa saw an open
bowling alley in Grinnsll, a project long
fought, bitterly opposed and finally IL
! censed. Then the town now has pub
! lie billiard room, something prevented
| for years by a prohibitiye high license.
| These open places of amusement show
quite change of sentiment in Saints
| Rest. for better or worse, just as you
look at it.
Spaulding & Sons. the buggy manu-
facturers, have finished and occupy an
office building which is rot equaled by
any concern in the state. that is, in the
manufacturing line. Without getting
any facts or figures from the firm, the
building. a two-story brick. must rep
resent an outlay of seven to ten thou
sand dollars. All of the firm and en-
p.oyes each have q desk in an open
room say 40x60. the desks and other ar
engagements all being OF modern max,
possibility of manufacturing in Iowa
that is tbs growth OF this concern in
Grinnell. Within comparatively few
years Mr.. Spaulding was making bug
|gies by hand in his blacksmith shop on
Main street. Today this concern has on
their pay roll about 200 men, thirty five
OF the number being travelling msn, ana
the output last year was 5,216-alinost
twenty buggies a day.
And here is something suggestive.
Grinnell has five othsr wholesale dom
Germs exclusively handling buggies.
whose sales run into the thousands.
thus making seventy-fve statesmen,
travelling out of Grinneii, selling Grin
nell buggies. Grinnell bids fair to be
as we'll known for buggies as Westfield
is for whips or Lynn for shoes.
CITIZENS of Iowa who think the Iowa
inebriate law is good thing, and hope
for it's continuance on our statute
books. should realize that at the next
meeting of the Legislature determined
and organized effort Is to be made to
repeal It,. This opposition comes partly
from class of our citizens, some OF
them wealthy and well-to-do and 9TH
ers professional men who have been or
expect to be affected by it The writer
Knows of some brilliant minded men in
Iowa who live in daily expectation of
being sent to Cherokee" but are I'M
able to break themselves of the drink
ing habit that makes such action pos :
sible (and to some of their friends)
probable and necessary.
Again, for some reason, one or two
members of the board of control are
opposed to the present form of the law.
Nominally they object to inebriates be-
ing sent to the insane asylums, and
they are credited with the intention of
trying to influence future legislation In
favor of having new building or set of
them in Iowa for an inebriate asylum.
This is an indirect way OF killing the
present law for it goes without saying
that this Iowa taxpayer and the dena-
gogic legislator can be counted on to
object to any new expense in the way
of public buildings.
The almost universal approval Of the
voters is in favor of the rentsntion of
this law on our statute books. One of
the Hardin county officials tells the
Looker-On that there have been fif-
Teen COMMITMENTS III l1GIUlIl uIluGE ILLS
law. Nine of these unfortunates have
returned home and at this writing all
are apparently cured of the drink habit.
The writer is told that the system
pursued in the treatment at Cherokee
is in direct opposition to the numerous
Kelley institutes located all over the
country. There is no .tapering off"
process. When a man goes to Chero-
kee he simply quits (perforce) the
drink, cocaine or opium habit. He is
sure twill kill him, and for few days
it does seem as tho he would be sent
home at double f1rst-ciass passenger
fare, but II the absolute prohibition of
indulgence in these liquors and drugs
has killed any of the patients at Chero-
kee the public has yet to hear OF it.
This treatment is also the opposite of
what many physicians advise to their
home patients, and is worth trying by
individuals who go neither to Cherokee
nor to a doctor.
And in visiting many towns in Iowa
tie writer hears of individual cases
where sending man to Cherokee has
been the greatest sblessing that ever
happened to him. and better than all,
these men know it and own up to It.
q - woeL14>lS
GAINESVILLE, O.--Miss Alice Murphy
has stirred up trouble by whipping
seventeen Of her pupils, ages from IL to
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