Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-08
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! New Sharon, Nov. Here is a new
one. Woman has heretofore been
blamed for everything that has hap
pened On this world excepting railroad
accil/nts. And now one more thing
can be laid at woman's door. This is
the way it happened. The way freights
leaving time was Il. m. The conduc-
tors wife had been out to a club dance
the night before, therefore she faie
| to have breakfast ready on time, con-
seauently the freight trains crew
were twenty minutes late in starting.
Again, they had big train, 1.-The engine
wouldn't steam worth a cent" and all
together the way freight failed to get
in the clear at the station where the
passenger train struck it. All or
which, j. e., the accident, would have
been avoided, if the conductors break
| fast had been ready on time. This is
not the report that was sent to head
quarters, but is said to be 1.-The true
inwardness" of the affair.
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| 1t is pleasant to note another town
where the squirrel as the city park pet
| is practical Some time ago man IN
Harlan wantonly killed one of the park
squirrels, and was arrested and hned
SIS. This trial and fine, seems to have
been communicated to the red bushy
tailed chaps, that have headquarters IN
| the shade trees around town, for the
writer walking down one of the streets
Jo,lo distance
by a big red squirrel, and the small
boy noticing the danger to which this
scribe was exposed, said: HE thinks
you've got peanuts in your pocket
mister" And at Clarinda one day.
sitting on park bench. this same
scribe actually was waylaid by two
red squirrels. who persisted in examln-
ing his coat pockets. At Grinnell. they
tell story Of a man who broke the
Sabbath all to pieces, in gathering a
peck of hickory nuts. These, on MS
return from the nutting trip, he put out
in the wood shed. Monday morning
his wife noticed two red robber squir-
rels carrying off the fruits of her nus
mand's Sunday labor, so she TOOK the
| sack containing the nuts and put II
down in the cellar. When the school
children came home Monday afternoon,
some OF them rushed in with the In
telligence that 1.-The squirrels were
coming out of the cellar window with
their mouths full Of hickory nuts
In several towns now In Iowa the
hotel proprietor has added to his Dus-
mess that of an up-to-date laundry.
1t works we'll, that is running hotel
and laundry together. The hotel thus
is sure of a supply of towels, sheets,
napkins and tablecloths, washed and
roned by machinery at less than the
cost Of extra hotel help. Again, Its
great convenience to the guests OF the
hotel. who can secure laundry work
on a rush order, at rush prices, as we'll
as leave their accumulated soiled lin
! en- and have it forwarded to their fu-
ture address, on q date mentioned on
| the laundry card list. Frequently two
kinds of business get together in one
room with one proprietor that seems
"sorter mixed" For instance In one
town there is millinery stock in the
salesroom of a harness shop. Minin-
ery and furniture business is q COM
| mon combination; this in one room
WHICH IL very GIlupdII doSAA6 " AAASAA
customers for furniture. One town
has a drug store and furniture store
together, with printed signs asking
their patrons not to sit on the tables
and stands. In another town the live
stock buyer has an Office and desk In
| the saloon, which would seem good
thing for the saloon man and hard on
| the stock buyer, it being so handy to
| set 'em up to the SELLERS. But the
| laundry and hotel business goes we'll
| together and this item is here given
| to suggest to more Of our hotel keep
ers to go into the laundry business.
Travelling men, all, will second this
| motion.
In many places in Iowa, just at this
| time, you can't get dollar out of the
bank" No matter how good the note
is, the bank has no money to lend.
Many reasons can be given for this
conditions of affairs. The banks In
some localities "are carrying the mer-
chants" who "are carrying the farm
ers," till the present corn crop is turn
ed into cash. One banker says why
money is so scarce in his county is
that thousands of dollars are being
sent out Of the state to make payments
on land in the Dakotas, Minnesota and
Canada. He says spectators in these
places are not selling off the land as
fast as they expected, that many are
now making second payments, that
never intended doing it. That he
knows of one firm in southwestern
Iowa that spread 100000 all over one
part of Manitoba, making small pay
ments on each small farm, intending
of course to sell such farms before the
next payment was due. So that this
firm is now mortgaging Iowa land to
| raise money to send out to Manitoba.
1t can readily be seen where this firm
operates in Iowa they are using all of
the home banks money they can Sc
cure. Going north from Jewell last
month, there were twenty-six men in
the smoking car, going up into Min
nesota on land deal business. Some
had purchased land there last year,
and now were taking their neighbors
along to view the promised land.
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