Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-09
LOSE IN
INDIA BANK WRECK
Fund For the Payment of a
Number of Missionaries De-
posted at Bombay
EFFORTS TO MAKE LOSS GOOD
Des Moines Women Trying to Raise
a Special Fund to Replace the Money
Lost to the Missionary Cause by the
Failure of the Watson Company,
Bankers, at Bombay.
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Des Moines, Sept. 9.-Miss Elizabeth
Pearson, of this city, president of the
Des Moines branch Of the Women's
Foreign Missionary Society of the M.
e. Church, and other officers of the
branch which is co-extensive with the
Des Moines conference embracing all
southwestern Iowa, are engaged in a
heroic effort to raise special fund of
$1,000 with which to make good a loss
of that amount by reason of a bank
failure last winter in Bombay, India.
1t appears that in February the society
had $1,000 in the bank of the William
Watson Company. in Bombay, when
the company failed. Investigation has
been made and it is found that only a
very small portion Of the money will
be returned to the depositors and that
only afte. years of waiting. The quar-
terly remittance from Des Moines had
just been received at the bank and the
lated with which to build. An appeal
has just been issued for contributions
to replace the loss.
The remittance received at Bombay
just before the failure was to pay the
salaries Of the missionaries from this
state, Misses Wood, Evans, Maskell,
Wells and Flicker , and their as
sistants, and for the support of or
phans. The building operations under
way include an orphanage and hos
pital at Khandwa, in charge of Miss
Flicker, and the Stanley Huston
building at Hyderabad, in charge Of
Miss Evans. In order to avoid great
loss these buildings must be finished
soon.s
The same society here has also just
sent out six other missionaries -
Misses T'rimble, Bartlett and Glass
burner, to China, and Misses Hyde,
and Losing and Mrs. Holland to
India.
1t is believed that this loss Of $1,000
is the largest loss to any American
local missionary sociey in this way for
many years, and 1T has seriously Grip
pied the missionary work under way.
State Dairy Commissioner Wright
has been much hampered in his en-
fOrcement of the laws of the state in
relation to impure milk by the unwill-
ingness of local officials to cooperate
with him. In one county where he
secured evidence the law was being
violated, the county attorney fatty re-
fused to commence prosecutions and
the state dairy commissioner was
helpless. In another city the city au-
thorities have been putting obstacles
in his way. Several points in rela-
ton to the application Of the law and
especially with relation to the char
acter of the evidence which will suf-
flee before the courts, will be tested In
cases brought to convict four persons
in Sioux City, who were caught with
formaldehyde in their milk. When
these cases are settled the movement
against other offenders in the state
will be pushed. Milk inspectors are
employed in all the cities Of the state
and they make reports to the state
dairy department. These reports show
that in many cases poor milk is sold,
but in very few cases is there resort
to poison for preservation of the milk.
In this city a local doctor much given
to sensationalism, claims to have
found formaldehyde in four samples
of milk. The city milk inspector has
made reports which do not show this
state of affairs. 1t is expected that
will be commenced very
soon in this county and that it will be
demonstrated whether the milk is
good.
An interesting question has been
raised regarding the rights OF a rail-
road company in the moving of a town
and changing it's name, In a contro-
yersy in Montgomery county. When
the burlington railroad was located it
was given turn so as to go thru the
nioneer town of Hawthorne, but the
town has never grown. Last year the
company Strengthened its line and left
Hawthorne out in the country. A new
town was plated recently about a mile
and a. half from Hawthorne and the
company has opened station called
III Hebard. after the first surveyor of the
line. The reason for not calling the
station Hawthorne is that there is an
other Hawthorne on the Burlington
system over in Illinois. The residents
of Hawthorne are invited to move over
to Hebard and movement has been
started to have the postoffice name
to Hebard, but some of the old
timers object. They say they do not
so much rnind moving their town but
they do not want to give up such
pretty name for their town. An eff
fort is to be made to have the town
Of Hawthorne moved over bodily to
Hebard and the old plat be abandoned.
The Iowa railroad commissioners are
called upon to decide whether or not
heavy and continuous rains excuse
from prompt unloading of his
goods and will prevent the collection
Of demurrage charges by the COM
pany It is new question In rela-
ton to demurrage. The attorney gen.
eral has decided that the demurrage