Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-26

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| Conrad Feb 26.--This town reads
with much interest the $32,0o0,000
Rockefeller donation to the educational
fund. A little over year ago stock
company was formed here and a city
gas plant installed. Yearly contracts
We're made with business houses and
owners of residences at so much per
| thousand feet for gas. Then came an
advance Of $3.50 per barrel in gasoline,
and the company furnished Thea con-
an assessment of $40 a share was nee
Eessary to make up the deficit. Recently
the new contracts were made for an
other year at an advanced price, SO
| now the consumers are chipping In for
| another $4,000, 900 contribution, the
stockholders of the company thinking
lthey did their share of the previous
donation. Still. they are shaking in
their boots for fear Rockefeller viii
have another generous spasm, and
again they'll do something for an edu-
cational fund.
Some towns run to womenS clubs.
Grinnel seems to have the club fever
masculine. There's a strong CONNER
cial club there that does things, things
that count in business Improvements
and increa sed trade for the town The
fire company hasa club, the students
have severaE clubs, and the business
men have prosperous social club.
Recently there was formed the Powe-
shelk club byltwenty young men. nearly
all what the older clubs would say
was composed Of kids. Said kids, how.
ever, are all over 81 years OF age. TO
state it fairly this Poweshiek club is
la reform club. They are critics OF
things that in their opinion exist con-
trary to the greatest good to the
greatest number At each meeting pa
pers are read on some subject, then a
debate follows. All Of which is good
thing for the members and the town.
Strange to relate, even In Grinnell none
OF these numerous mems clubs are
unanimously In favor with "the VIM
min folks
Pretty soon In some Iowa town when
the nice, warm days of spring arrive,
there will be an epidemic OF typhoid
fever. Doctors will be busy. hearses
In demand and the preachers officiating
w ~ AiiSAAAy AunCfdlS Oil ouludy. Inc
drinking water will be sent away for
analysis. The chemist will return 1t
with the statement that Il contains so
many Thousand typhoid fever germs,
people will then boil their drinking
water, the spring rains will come and
flush the streams. the epidemic will
die out. so will many OF the people.
firstly, and it will all be forgotten till
next time a similar epidemic occurs
All this Is sure to happen. for the cause
exists today. Along Iowa river for in y
stance. are many hog and cattle yards
situated on side hills awaiting the
spring rains to clean them by washing
the winters accumulation into the
river. Out in the woods close to the
banksSof the river awaiting the floods
of springs are dead hogs, dead cows
and sheep. Strange 1t is, that all Of our
farm animals are SO accommodating
as to die on the rivers edge. Probably
go there for a drink and drop in their
tracks. and as the ground is frozen
too hard for their owners to bury them.
they are washed away in the spring
before there is time and opportunity
to perform the funeral act. Now add
to this the number Of the poultry FAM
lily lying stiff and cold on top OF the
'cheerless earth of farm and town, fig
ure up the number of cats and dogs
missing, think of the numerous wild
animals and birds that have departed
this life this winter, imagine the whole
accumulation, washed into Iowa river
by the April showers. and II our drink
ing water Is contaminated and an epi-
demic of typhoid comes to your town,
remember this prophecy.
- M..11,xA