Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-23
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point. They can swim, tho. all right.
They can climb any smooth surface,
do believe, and the! have brains OF
their own You have to move the traps
into new places about every othef
night. otherwise the rats will fight shy
of them. The great trouble before was
that we did not have the large meat
compartments where our supplies are
stored lined with galvanized iron. IL
cost $500 to line one of those, but II was
worth it, Our meat is absolutely safe
row. for the rats cannot gnaw thru
that. altho they could eat thru old
fashioned masonry; the new masonry,
lined with cement is too hard for their
teeth. Our meat is perfectly safe, but
it has taken money and time to fighs
off the rats.
At the fire station one of the firemen
said that the rats came there from the
direction of Boeck's packing house,
where they were drawn by the meat.
The central station cats do good work
in keeping down their numbers, ana
the rat who cannot fight for his party
at the polls gives the fire station a wide
berth.
At Unterkircher's stables they feed
the six cats milk, and only OCCASION
ally little meat. Thus the animals
generally have to forage for their own
meat, making levies on whatever ven
turesome rat comes around there. Thus
they are never bothered with them.
Out in the country rat killings are re-
sorted to now and an, IN order to put
down the pests. 1t is said this section
Of the country had much the same trou-
BILE about two years ago. In those cases
the rodents often show fight when cor
nered while the mems boots bear the
marks OF the animals sharp teeth after
the fray is over. The ground under the
corn crib is often honeycombed by the
animals. which fairly swarm out when
the crib is moved. ard the men attack
them with clubs. The rat war is on,
and Iowa is seeing many a bloody fray,
with a heap of dead rats to mark the
battlefield after the enga cement.
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| GOV. CUMMINS ABOVE DEFEAT.
Mason City Times Herald.1
The Iowa state republican conven-
! ton has been held and is now part
of history, yet it's rulings and actions
will live after it and have an influence
on the state and nation, without
doubt 1t was very harmonious af-
fair in the main, despite the fact that
there were many reasons to expect 1t
would be otherwise, days and weeks
before it was held. There is vast
difference of opinion in the state over
/ the Iowa idea This matter was
| lost sight of to a great extent because
of the fact that Governor Cummins,
| who has favored it, has the enmity of
a class of powerful politicians in the
state who could not control him, and
they, taking advantage of this issue,
| which has been in advance of the
other states. as Iowa is in many things
political and otherwise. organized to
defeat this idea believing they could
/ belittle him in so doing. TneJ won
so far as defeating the idea in the
/ convention is con cerned, but failed
fully to belittle him, which was evf-
denced by the fact that while the
committee on resolutions headed by
LATE Young, ambitious, sometimes
vindictive, yet ever brainy LATE
4 Young. were out to frame Stand
Pat set of resolutions and have them
i adopted. IL possible the great con-
. yention complete in every sense -
4 for no county, no section, scarcely a
4 village of the great state WAS unrep-
Il resented-was saying in no uncertain
tones that Governor Cum!nins must
4 speak to them. He did. Powerful In
debate, fascinating as a speaker. at
4 this time Influenced to exert his pow
/ ers to the fullest, he stepped forward
amid "A roar of voices, before Il waving
of hats from men who arose to their
feet. and in substance, he said:
II have not heard the platform rea
that will be adopted" (The commit
tee was then out preparing IT'D
but want you to know that what
!. ever it is / stand squarely on it,
CHEERS, hats in the air. men on the'i
, feet, cheering even louder.)
II want you to further observe the
, l am standing squtrnly on its center
not lettering on lis eds. or on c''hei
corner" (More and prolonged cheers
II have not been very we'll pilvsi-
cally for the last three months. but
i am getting better" Uaughter)
Il think the worst is over. (McIs
, laughter ani cheers
| Il heard a ken-.lsil hn say thai
there was but one thing he bad rather
), do than to play poker ana lose =
5 that was to play poker AMI VIM
Ri Iaug,ter)
!, I'm politics am The sumo (Loude1
. laughter)
!, II want you Ill % believe that
! haven't got cold feet Cloud laughter
bursting into cheel's.)
II will continue ID Iio.' ard d'"v
. cards and some day may oil j :oya
, flush" applause proionge')
81 want to say to you that II any on
holds the banner of republicanisn
higher than I do at the national col,
: yention, he will have to mount step