Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-01-23
Iowa Newspapers

THE G. O. u. SALOON.
Union Star.

Union Star.
The magnitude of the increase In
| the liquor traffic by the recent G. o.
u. rulings is immense. Within n few
days after the ruling was handed down
the depot at Union had been made one
| of the localized saloons by the ncfar
| ious traffic. by receiving surprisingly
| large numbers of the one gallon jugs
to be peddled out. without ifs or ans,
to the consigned parties that have the
necessary fees.
We do not feel that Union is more
than an average point for the out
ragcous traffic. yet considering 1T as
much we are safe I'M saying that 1t
would take five or more figures to
write the number of one gallon pack
ages shipped into Iowa upon 81 single
days notice. after the handing down
OF tho decision.
1t offers opportunities for the
young the blacklist drunltnrds and
all who have heretofore received
some blessing by the work OF Iowa
legislators.
1t makes hell holes OF the little
towns and causes n vast decrease in
the decency of the community.
Every town has It's liquor traffic.
has had and will have but the
thought of lcgalized saloon. opera
ted without regard to law. or, without
regard to whether 1t be n minor or
the blacklist drunkard, is sufficient
cause for every respectable person
to raise hfs voice in utter condemna-
ton against the damnable and out
rageous feature of the G. o. ID. liquor
traffic.
NEW USE FOR WAR RELIC.
[Shenandoah Sentinelu.l
Mrs Rhoda A. Teece is using
mail box temporarily until her regu-
lar box can be moved from the Elmo
route, that has quite an interesting
history. At our request she furnish
es the following sketch: when we
moved into Nodaway county. Jnnu-
airy s. 1851, our only mail was horse
back route from some point east of
Maryville, crossing the Nodaway riv-
er at Hallsa's ferry, one and one-half
miles northwest OF Burlington juno
TONS location, crossing on fiat boat
when the river was UP and fording
the stream when 1t was low. Hallsa's
postoffice was the only one in this
section at that time. II the waters
were high or the snow four or five
feet deep, our mall carrier, unlike our
rural route boys of today. did not
have his trips, so there We're many
times when we did not get our mail.
In the spring of '61 James and John
Lamar were running a general store
at Lamar station, and John M. Lamar
was made postmaster of the new
postoffice on a new route from Clar-
linda, Iowa, to Savannah. Mo-, the
Office being located in the Lamar
store. Before the summer was past
we were In THE midst Of that terrible
strife, the war Of the rebellion. One
day posse of union soldiers came to
our home on Mill creek, one and one
half miles west of Lamar station, and
told Mr.. Teece that he had been APP
pointed postmaster and must take
charge OF the office at once. Mr..
Teece refused ito do SO, saying that
John Lamar was a good man and
would be true to his appointment.
The soldiers said: We have our or
ders and you are the only one who
can have 1t, and IL you do mott take
1t we are to move it east of the
river Mr.. Teece then consented
and the office supplies were turned
over to us. We fixed up the box you
inquire about, some by and IA
inches long, and putting in two card
board partitions to make boxes. one
for letters coming, one for mail go
ing out, and one for papers placed
the case on a trunk and we had Il
'postoffce.' For four years this was
our outfit and at no time were the
boxes full, altho the territory COW
cred all the community from Dawson
to Blanchard, Iowa, and from the
NodaNray river to Tarkio. All the
mail matter that came to this part OF
the country passed thru that box.
AS soon as the war closed Mr.. Teece
resigned, and Mr. Lamar was again
appointed, and the Office went back to
old Lamar station, where it remained
until the building Of the Wabash
when 1t was moved to Elmo.
And now comes the new condition of
our postoffice is changed to
Junction, and each morn
ing, rain or sunshine. a rural route
mail boy brings our mail to the front
gate, and puts the morning paper In
the box that forty years ago was our
postoffice case"
AsIATIC CHOLERA IN IOWA.
A southern Iowa newspaper recalls
the almost forgotten scourge of Asiatic
cholera that swept over parts of the
United States more than fifty years
ago The disease spread terror and
death thru the east and decimated the !
railroad construction gangs of Irish Ia
borers who were then to the railroads |
what Italians are today, the main de-
pendence of the contractors. The ac-
count of how the terror spread into
Iowa is an interesting addition TO
history.
In the year 1851 there was terrible |
scourge of the dread cholera in Henry
county, Rome, a small town of that
county, being in the very center Of the
scourge. That year was a very wet |
one. Skunk river being out of its
banks, the water being too high for the |
mills to grind the grain which was
most precious in those days when the
country was thinly settled. On the sth
day of May, in that year, George Craw
ford, then young man of 80, but now
over so years of age, started on a trip |
to Burlington for load of flour. He |
engaged a man named jackson to go |
with him, also taking a team and wa
gon. The two men stopped at the |