Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-14
Retail Association OF Iowa Nov
ing to Counterfeit Won Meyers
Parcels Post Agitation
LETTERS OF WARNING SENT OUT
Postmaster General Charged With
Using His Official Position to Pro-
mote His Pet scheme-WiI Send
Protest to President Roosevelt
Capital Gossip.
Special to Time.-Republican.

the state. are SrSutiy CNClteu oNei q
letter just written by Postmaster Cen
eral Meyer, in regards to the proposed
Parcels post. This letter'is being sent
al. over the country
Enclosed Is the speech OF the post
master general on the parcels post
subject, and also some printed matter
on the subject. The letter itself Is
simply a request for criticisms on the
proposition.
The retail merchants believe that the
postmaster general Is unfairly taking
advantage OF his high office to In
nuence people in favor of the scheme.
They will make complaint before
President Roosevelt.
Secretary IRA B. Thomas of the
lie tall Merchants Association, is writ
ing to the officers OF the various as
scciations about the state. warning
to get busy" In exerting their opposi-
.on to the scheme. I'VE are COM
Il elled,' said Mr. Thomas, ITO believe
that the postmaster general is not
serious in this matter He has only
been in office II few months and he Is
jumping into a proposition that big
ren have grappled with for years. We
feel that he is taking undue advantage
of us In using his office to influence
against the merchant and we intend to
combat him by every means possiblelH
Further evidence Is found by tile
historical department that buffalo
al one time were native of Iowa. Not
long since j.. VI. Walden of Walling.
ford. Iowa, informed the department
that during a drouth In about the year
1894. Mud High and Swan Lakes in
iimmet county. We're dry or nearly so
and that il was possible to walk over
the bottoms Of the lakes. At that time
he and several others observed great
Qualities of buffalo skeletons prOtrud-
ing from the mud and they collected
some Of these with the horns attached
and still have them in their possess
sion.
Young women going to Europe have
OsSCoNeISa lIlol lbClt ID III loNd et iiiehh
who has an acquaintance with some
of the foremost literary men of Eu-
rape. 1t has come to be the natural
thing for young ladies and others who
are interested in literature and art to
seek Hon. Charles Aldrich of the his
torical department for letters Of intro
dIction.
Mr.. Aldrich has given fully dozen
letters of introduction to young women
or Iowa to William M. Rossetti. Ros-
setti is an art critic and belonged to
the Pre- Raphealite" school of artists
His brother was an artist Of ability.
Mr. Aldrich has an acquaintance ex-
tending over some years with the great
critic which has been continued thru
During the last sum-
nter some Iowa young women visited
Europe and carried letters from Mr.
A.drich by means of which they were
able to see and learn what otherwise
they would not have had access to.
Big demands for real estate are
by Des Moines real estate
p,en with every show that they are
speaking with wisdom They are say
ing that as soon as people find they
can get money they will start to put
ting their wealth in real estate. The
is already starting and real
estate men are having many Inquiries.
People with q little money think they
will be safer If their money is in real
Many Of them have 81 little
money but before they invest in real
estate must borrow little. Just now
no money is being loaned much. 1t is
among bankers and 9TH
ers that money will be loaned shortly,
however, and this will all tend to start
money to circulating. The man who
sells will put the money back into the
banks and business will be started on
the upgrade again.
That diseased meat is being con-
sumed by the residents of dozens Of
smaller cities Of Iowa, is the state
ment made by DR.. l.. Enos Day to
health officers.
EVERY small town in Iowa should
have a municipal slaughter house"
advised DR.. L. Enos Day of the animal
husbandry department at Washington
to the conference of local health Off
GERS and mayors yesterday afternoon.
Iowa sends out more cattle for the
area than any other state in the union
and is second in the union for her hogs.
When it is known per cent of the cat
lie is affected with tuberculosis, the |
need Of the sanitary slaughter house is |
realized.
"The cattle you eat at home are the |
1nes that cannot be sold in an outside |
market. The cattleman's second class
goes to a local packer and you get the |
infected with disease cattle that can
not be sold in any market and should |
nave been put out Of the way. The
small butcher cuts up his meat in
she'd that has never been cleaned,
hangs his meat near dripping ice and
slime, takes it to his store In the same
wagon that he carried away refuse that
morning from his back door and cuts
t up on a block and in a store room
where the microbes swarm 1t is the
disease reeking meat The matter from
he cattle is thrown from the shed to
he hogs. The hogs are killed later
nd the work of disease distribution
,oes on"
DR.. Day advocates brick house, ce-
nent lined ten feet from the floor in
ide, cement floors and cement cellar
\ price should be charged for each
ead slaughtered and the amount given
o a janitor to keep the building clean.