Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-26
T LOOKER.ON IN IOWA
NEUTRALITY-SUSPICIOUS.

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Nevada, Dec 26.-Opposite the pas
senger depot in this place Of the c. &
N. w. r. r. is a poultry yard which
contains over 5000 ducks. 1t is said
| this firm of dealers here have had as
| large number as 5000 live ducks on
hand at one time One thing about
these ducks is that they are not of the
nervous temperament 1t takes 40
bushels of shelled corn day to feed
these quacks and its money well in
vested for the Emphatic tempered,
easily suited duck can eat 40 bushels
of corn a day and gain in weight, while
the nervous, easily frightened chicken
| will eat and lose flesh. And such
| thing as a dead duck is as unusual a
Isight as dead mule. More power to
| the ducks.
| Ames has a boosters club, nominally
| the commercial, and they are nothing
building hotel to cost $4,000 to one
hundred thousand dollars. Anything
under the fifty mark not to be con-
sidered. These men claim that with !
modern hotel in the town, the visitors
and parents of the young men and
women at the college, will pay the ex-
| penses of such building. That at the
present time such visitors plan to ar
rive in the morning and leave town the
same night, whereas If hotel accomo-
dations were here, many parents would
come Saturdays and remain over Sun
day. Then with trains running in ev-
cry direction every few hours they ar
que that travelling men would make the
town headquarters to work adjoining
towns and territory. 1t is the inten-
| ton to locate the new hotel within easy
walking distance of the railroad depot.
The new soon to be finished interur-
ban line is also supposed to me some
thing that will increase local travel to
adjoining towns, thus making the ho-
| tel patronage of the town much larger
| than at present.
! State Center is town that, for Its
size, carries unusually large stocks OF
goods in every line. Moreover the
dealers there are up to date in selection
and kinds. One dealer there has a
fine display of hand-painted chinaware
and while the writer was present In
this store, we'll to do farmer was
pricing the goods. Overhearing the
conversation this scribe soon found out
the farmer was posted on and-painted
china, and when he bought and paid
1925 for two pieces, know more about
this kind of articles of virtue as Mrs.
Partington once said, than this scribe
and the whole newspaper crowd of
Marshall county What about it?
Nothing only the New York Sun and its
provincial writer's haven't an idea that
there is a farmer in the state of Iowa
knows the difference between hand
painted china and kiln baked jugs.
Furthermore the said Sun and it's force
of west ridiculing editors, would soon
err expect one of their Bowery mer-
chants to buy hand painted china, than
farmer in the wild and woody west.
Talking with a well posted citizen of
Hardin county soon after it was known
that the supreme court had granted
Blydenburgh a rehearing, the writer
heard of strange situation OF affairs.
This Hardin county man whose name,
if given here would add weight to what
follows. said that if Blydenburgh was
granted a new trial, 1t was more than
doubtful if there was another trial.
That the expert testimony used in the
previous trial would now be impossible
to get and that the taxpayers would
not consent to another expensive trial
without it. That the probable end of
the whole business would be a failure
to push the case and finally nolle
PROSE- be entered and Blydenburgh be-
come a free man. There is no inten-
ton here to make any comments on this
case. it's merely to suggest possibility
and probability. Coming as this case
does close on the farcial legal proceed
ures in the Busse case, it can be inn
agined that the citizens of Hardin as
well as Butler county are doing some
hard thinking these days.
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