Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-08-30
: LOOKER.ON IN IOWA !

Baskerville, Aug. 30-There IS state
wide interest concerning the probable
action of the state board OF health IN
the case of Dr. Smith of Shell Rock.
Readers of the daily papers will recall
the cause of this action. And II IS 70
be fought to a finish, more than nhely
to go to the supreme court.
"The state board of health Will meet
September 10, when the case against
DR.. w. H. Smith of Shell Rock. Will
probably be heard. He is charged
With incompetency. 1t being alleged
that he failed to regard the state quar-
antine laws in treating contagious dis
eases. The case against DR.. Smith
was first brought before the state
board at it's July meeting but was dis
missed on the ground that the session
was not regularly called one At
meeting of the board of health at the
Slavery hotel, the case was Reconstructed
and attorneys on both sides consented
to a hearing at the next session of the
board. Examination Of physicians
will be held at the state board Of health
rooms September 13 and IA.
For a while it looked here in Iowa
as though the big packing houses of
Chicago would monopolize the poultry
and egg business in our Iowa towns.
Housekeepers viewed with alarm"
installment Of such places in these
towns, claiming it forced the price OF
poultry and eggs up to almost pro-
hibitive point, the stcre-keepers and
other dealers telling their customers
that Armour and Swift by paying cash
for such farm products, got nearly all
Of the eggs and chickens brought to
town, which were shipped east, thus
creating a scarcity here. If all this
is true, relief is in sight. The writer
is told on good authority that these
packing houses are closing up their
Iowa purchasing Establishments that
whereas two years ago there were six
ty-three of these plants in Iowa, only
eighteen are now operated. The rea-
son given is that these packing houses
have found out by business experience,
that they can buy these products
cheaper in the big cities where they
are shipped to by local dealers in Iowa,
than to maintain the expense of an es-
Enlistment of purchasing places here
in Iowa. All of which may be good
news to the town-dweller consumer,
but how about the farmers wives, the
trusts. have been benefitting the farm
ers?
One day last week, between West
Bend and Ottosen, on The c., r. I. &
p. r. R., the afternoon passenger train
was stopped by the engineer to put out
a fire just starting in a hay field adj
joining the right-of- The engi-
neer, fireman, brakeman, conductor, a
fat attorney, four college boys, two
travelling men and somebody else,
armed with wet brooms, wet clothes,
pals of water from the engine, consti-
tuted firebrigade that soon put out
the flames after consuming only two
cocks of hay and the high grass near
the fences. And as these men at much
inconvenience to themselves, for it's no
joke to fight a prairie fire on hot
August afternoon, saved the farmers
property, as we'll as damage suit
against the railroad, some of us Won
dered if this was the result Of duty,
love or general benevolence. Among
the fire fighters were one or two men
that on all occasions are "agin' the
railroads" Maybe railroad employees
find it part of their regular duties to
fight prairie fires. AT any rate the
more we moralized the better opinion
we have of all these men, no matter
the cause OF their actions.
There was quite little excitement
in town. When the preacher left the
society owed him $50. He wrote for
it, but large bodies move slowly, and
he didn't receive that back pay. So,
the day the visitor was in town the
preacher came back and acted. He
actually attached the church. OF