Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-14
Local Comment

/ Ii Ed Macks suggestion had beer
listened to the crowds who Will come
to the city next week would have
public comfort room in which to rest
He would have the county build ar
ornamental stone building in the real
of the court house with public lava
1 tories below and rest room above
Then he would have the city maintain
it in first class order. Mr.. Mack adj
mits that it would cost money to builo
/ il but when county has as much OF
surplus in the bank as Marshall coun-
/ ty has. he believes that the public Is
! entitled to some luXuries and some
comforts.
Some Of the merchants are going
! to exhibit at the fair. 1t will pay The
| thing they ought to do is to form a
stock company and build fine ex-
hibit hall with rest room on the Sec
ond floor. The expense in ten years
would not be more than SIS per year
and with some music in the building
no fair visitor would ever miss the
| exhibits.
Men who are paying s125 and $50
per year for Marshall county land are
simply giving US a glimpse of the flu
ture.
| Mr. r. r. Lay says that he intends to
select a number of factories manufac-
turing dry goods specialties and send
to them copies Of the proposed illus
trated magazine of MarshaltoWn with
letter inviting the managers out here
to investigate the town as factory
site. This plan should be followed by
merchants in other lines.
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OF course you have noticed the con-
dition of the city water during the past
few days. and have wondered at the
cause. The reservoir has been cleaned
out. causing stirring up of the set
things" Superintendent Mack declares
that there is nothing in the water that
causes the discoloration outside of the
iron oxide, but the average person
prefers some other sort of tonic than
roily water. If patrons could be given
some notice when work of this sort is
to be done, and make preparations for
it, 1t would obviate vast amount OF
inconvenience in the household.
With two tailors on the city council
it is hardly any wonder that the po-
lice department was permitted to go
into the measuring business by adopt
ing the Bertillon system
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Now that Chicago's State street has
been ridden of it's countless overhead
signs, Councilman Herman is becoming
chesty over his ordinance. While Her
man can. not say Napoleon looked
like me-" he does insist that the Chi
cago alderman have patterned after his
sign ordinance.
Two days more, providing the
weather man remains good Marshall
town will be entertaining crowds that
will rival a. circus day. If Indications
are any criterion the county fair next
week is going to be the biggest exhibit
ton of it's kind ever shown in any
Iowa city outside of Des Moines,
where the state fair is held. The fair
must be an attraction that has caused
more than ordinary interest when ex-
hibitors with large displays have to be
refused admission because of a lack
of room. Such is the case with the
Marshall county fair. Two exhibitors
were. turned down yesterday because
there was no more available exhibition
space in their classes The races prom
Use to be a big feature, and in one class
alone there are sixteen entries. Take
some time off next week, visit the fair,
ot thn 80
county, and see your friends. 1t will
do you good.
The eyes of the medical profession
of the state will be on the district
court of this county from the present
time until the disposition of the case
of F. M Miller, a so-called chiroprac-
tor who was indicted this week by the
grand jury for practicing medicine
certificate from the state
board of medical examiners. The case
will be an interesting one, for there Is,
involved the question of a states duty
to it's citizens in protecting them from
the claims of a practitioner who has
not educated himself in the practice. |
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The supreme court is very clear in
its previous rulings in similar cases.
There is but one primary point that
the medical profession insists upon,
and that is that every practitioner in
this county be possessed of the right
to practice, as granted only by the
state board The statutes do not at
tempt to discriminate between different
schools of medicine or systems for the
cure of disease No method of at |
tempting to heal the sick, however oc-
cult, is prohibited. No one is thereby
deprived of the opportunity to exploit !
his system. All the law eXacts is that, |
whatever the system, the practitioner
shall be possessed of certificate from |
the state board of medical examiners, (
and shall exercise such reasonable skill /
and care as are usually possessed by
in good standing of that |
system in the vicinity where they prac-
lice.
The supreme court has said that |
one who publicly processes in announc-
ing generally his claim of skill in the |
art of healing. must have a certificate |
from the board. The public health de- !