Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-09
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
New sharon, Nov. 7.---Here Is u new
one. Womnn has heretofore becn
blamed for everything that has hap
pened On ths world, excepting railroad
aectt Eats. And now one more thing
can be laid ut woman's door. This rs
The way 1t happened. The way ffeights
enying time was Z u. IN. The conduc-
tors wife had been out to club dance
inc night before. therefore she faile /
TO have breakfast ready on time, con-
aeduently the freight trains crew
were twenty minutes late In starting.
Again, they had big train. the engine
wouldn't ateam worth cent and all
together the way freight failed to got
In the clear at tho station where the
passenger train struck 1t. All OF
which. l. O., the accident, would have
been avoided. IL 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 the true
,nwardness" OF the affair.
IL ia pleasant TO note another town
where the squirrel az the city park pct
"a practical. Some time ago u man IN
Harlan wantonly killed one Of the park
SQUIRRELS, and was arrested and fined
Sc. 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
OF Harlan. was followed some distance
by a big red squirrel, and the sma'i
boy noticing the danger to which tins
scribe was exposed, said: He thinks
you've got peanuts in your pocket.
mister" And ut Clarinda one day,
sitting on park bench, this same
scribe actually was waylaid by two
red squirrels. who persisted In examin-
ing his coat pockets. At Grinnell, they
tell story Of man who broke the
sabbath all to pieces, In gathering a
peck OF hickory nuts These. on his
feturn from the nutting trip, he put out
in tho wood shed. Monday morning
his wife noticed two red robber sauir-
yels carrying off the fruits of her hus-
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 "the squirrels were
coming out of the cellar window with
their mouths full Of hickory nuts"
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In several towns now In Iowa the
hotel proprietor has added to his BUS
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 n supply OF towels, sheets,
napkins and tablecloths. washed ana
ironed by machinery at less than the
cost OF extra hotel help Again, Its
greet convenience to the guests OF the
hotel. who can secure laundry work
on a rush order, at rush prices, as wen
as leave their accumulated soiled I'm
en- and have 1t forwarded to their flu
ture address, on u 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 IL millinery stock In the
salesroom of harness shop. Millin-
cry and furniture business Is q COM
mon combinations: this In one room
which Is very embarrassing to men
customers for furniture. One town
has q drug stora 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 a good
thing for the saloon man and hard on
the stock buyer, 1t 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 q 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 Dalkotas, 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 $4,000 all over onf
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 tc
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 ir
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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