Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-10
MILITIA ON A MARCH
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Fifty-third Regiment is Given
Taste of Something Like
Real War
MARCHING ACROSS COUNTRY
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Less of Gold Lace and Tinsel About
the Maneuvers Which Adjutant
General Thrift Has Provided This
Year---NationaI Guard to be Given
Conditions Like Real War.
MARCHING ACROSS COUNTRY
Special to Times Republican.

of Iowa soldiers. is on war footing.
The Fifty third regiment started Sat
urday from Dubuque and will reach
Maquoketa about Thursday Of this
week UP to last night the reports
were that the regiment had acquitted
/ itself well. The plan of having the
troops march across the country as a
new one, and Iowa is the first state
! to put it into practical execution. The
custom has been heretofore to have
! the regiments go into camp for week.
! Adjutant General Thrift has DECIDED
/ that it Is better, once In while at
least, To have a little more of the real
! thing in warfare and not quite so mush
of the gold tinsel and epaulets. Al
the annual encampments there IS all
| the opportunity in the world for dis
Play in dress uniform. On practice
Imarch across the country the soldiers
are not seen except by the people Oil
the farms they pass. and the villages
| they pass thru. Every soldier is
fweighted down with blankets and camp
paraphernalla and there Is no partic-
ular opportunity to strut. The reports
! Of the march of the Eifty-third say
| that The first day there We're some foot
| sore soldiers, but not a man fell cut
Of lire and rome was overcome by heat
| or sickness. Altho the men were from
| the shops and ytores, they stood the
march in good order. The regiment
went into rendezvous five miles south
I of Dubuque. and the first day covered
| thirteen mics, marching to point a
half mile south of Lamont. The Fifty.
fosIrtt Will he the next regiment to
| take the road, starting out July 16.
General Thrift was with the Fifty
third Sunday, and is highly pleased
with the success of the change from
camp to maneuvers. The march brings
into use all the military science except
fighting. and. is believed to be much
more effective than camp life. 1t is
probable that hereafter the two will be
combined, or that at least there will
always be some marching. There is no
intention of abandoning the camp
grounds purchased by the state near
the army post near this city. These
grounds will be used annually This
year they are not used because there
was no appropriation with which to
make necessary improvements If the
grounds are to be ed annually, IL is
absolutely necessary for the sanitary
conditions that extensive improve
ments be made that are not called for
where soldiers camp but one night. The
grounds will be improved by next year
SO that the troops can utilize them
The railroad commission is in Clar-
india today hearing arguments in the
condemnation of ground for, the FUR
poses of building depot. The Bur
lington desires to erect a larger depot
and wishes to have more land that It
and the property owners can agree to-
Tomorrow the commission will be in
New Boston to listen to arguments
concerning q joint depot of the Fur
lington and Sante Fe. Friday the com
mission will be at Marion to hear algu-
ments in condemnation proceedings
for Strengthening the track of the Mil
warrkee. Next week there will be more
hearings so that the time of the COM
mission will be pretty well taken UP
for Some time.
The members Of the Luther League
of Central Iowa who will gather at
Badger Wednesday and Thursday. ex-
pect one of their best meetings. Of
ficers in this city say the attendance
will be the largest. DR.. l.. P. Ludden of
Lincoln, Neb, who will be the chief
speaker is connected with the home
missionary work of the church and ons
of the ablest speakers.
Because local authorities instead of
prosecuting millkmen who put poisons
in the milk to preserve it, usually tell
the newspapers about 1t and then do
nothing there is considerable difficulty
being experienced in keeping the milk
supply of Iowa cities wholesome and
free from any Injurious ingredients.
Every summer in this and some other
cities there is talk by the local au-
thcritins of investiea tine the mill snn-
ply Then q chemist Is engaged and
soon after there is story that for
maldehyde is discovered in the milk.
For good many days then it Is inl-
possible to get any evidence and the
local authorities usually fail to show
positive evidence Of the presence of the
poison.
The use Of formaldehyde in milk 1t
is claimed is usually only when milk
man has milk left over. II he doesn't
dispose of his supply completely by
night there Is a strong temptation tc
put in a little formaldehyde to make
it keep till the next day. 1t is not used
every day therefore by the milk men,
and consequently it is not always easy
for the state milk inspectors to catch
the milk man with the doped milk.
Just after a city physician has come
out with a big newspaper story to the
effect that the milk supply of the city
is being poisoned. 1t is next to impossi-
BILE to catch any of the doped milk.
Every time state inspector has
caught a milk man selling doped milk
there has followed a prosecution. The
other day the newspapers of this city
contained stories to the effect thai
formaldehyde had been found in milk.
The discovery was made by a special
bacteriologist in the employ OF the
city. Last summer there were just
such statements also but never pros
ecution. The state dairy commissions
repeatedly asked for the facts and
tests with the promise to prosecute the |
Offenders but was unable to get it. The |
state inspector found one man selling |
forinaldehyde in his milk and a prose
cution promptly followed The ieale.. |