Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-14

| obtain their supplies without the IN
| telvention OF village tc.idesmen. except
those employed in the sorting and DIS
tribution of goods IL tie cooperative
| Warehouses. Leroy Independent.
| Here's another case of going away
| from home to hear the news. The edi-
| tor of the Chenille Herald should
| come down and shake hands with a
| mighty lively corpse once. IL he was
here awhile he might discover the
| thing that he took for a hearse is real
| ~ band wagon If the town is ruined,
the way city property has sold for the
last few months is certainly no critic
rion. IL the home market has been de-
stroyed. it is because the farmer gets
| from 2 to 3 cents per bushel more for
| his grain in Rockwell than he could in
neighboring towns, and this doesn't
usually destroy the home market for
| farmers produce" If 1t has reduced
| the value of land" the assessor has
failed to make this discovery. the own
er is too darn mean to admit 1t, and
the fellow that wants to buy can not
convince him that such is the case,
either. Perhaps the town is going to
blaZes, but we know we have q popu-
lation of nearly 1000 people, five
churches and no saloons, n public
school building costing about $4,000.
with corps of six teachers, Sacred
Heart Academy, one of the finest in
situations of its kind in northern Iowa,
built at a cost of about $4,000. and not
a pauper an illiterate nor q confirmed
drunkard in town Further we have
the usual number of business houses
in "a nf CT nj ,x-ft1
no more territory To draw from than
has Rockwell. Not only this. but an
other general store is just being opened
by two lifelong residents of this place,
experienced in mercantile business and
conversant with local conditions and in
q building almost adjoining the office
of the company that has ruined the
town." But what's the use of all this?
lie will travel faster on foot than the
truth can go by rail.
BIRDS.
Washington. Iowa, PressT
What look of exaltation the man
has who comes into town toting a large
pelican or swan on his shoulders and
tells Of his prowess in shooting them.
And yet the pelican or swan do no
harm. What looks more beautiful
than a graceful swan floating on the
bosom of one of our prairie lakes2
Why kill them? They are not good
to eat; no one wants them for scien-
tif1c purposes. why kill them in pure
wantoness? We would not shoot n
pelican or swan If we were within
twenty feet Of them and had loaded
arsenal at hand. 1t seems that the
breech loader has bred generation OF
bird haters.
Go to the wilderness of trees and
rocks in the west and note the absence
of the singing birds no grain for them
to live on there, they congregate nea,.
the fields and farms and pop goes the
breech loader and soon the species be-
comes extinct. Will this be country
without birds. except the buzzard o"
the migratory birds that stop only n
inaccessible regions where the man be-
hind the gun seldom goes? Where
are the pigeons the partridges, the
wilk turkeys. the millions Of prairie
chickens? Ask the man with the
breech loader Even the quafls are
going, and the robins. We wish a law
was passed making it fine of $50 II
Kill bird unless forced to do so in
search of food.