Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-03
Looker-On In Iona

pysart. March 3,--Just now when
there IS so much talk concerning tuber-
culosis in cattle, the following from 4
veterinary surgeon is interesting. IL
seems that in the vicinity OF Sioux
City there lived a farmer. who had Il
grown up family of girls All of them
helped do the work including the milk
ing of the cows. They had the best
kind of open, out doors exercise, and
vet three Of them died Of consumption.
during period of eight years. or
course this attracted the attention OF
the doctors and the local board OF
health and an investigation followed.
4 number of cows on the place were
found to be infected with tuberculosis.
and even after this inspection his last
remaining daughter became consump-
tive and died. making four deaths in
side of ten years in this one family
from consumption. Whether cattle can
communicate this dread disease. Is a
question still debated by the scientists
but there's father and mother on an
Iowa farm near Sioux City. who have
no doubts on the subject
There are many towns in Iowa which
have not yet put up their ice crop
At the shipping points orders for hum
dreds of cars are not filled because OF
the warm weather in February. Near
Nv all of the small and large running
streams are now free from ice. but
some of the pounds aud lakes are still!
covered With poor quality that may
yet furnish a local supply if we have
a few days of freezing weather. All
of which suggests that the artificial
ice plants in Iowa will do a good bus
mess this year 1t also is a reflection
on the ice men in some towns. that
We're not ready to put up the ice. when
the ice was ready to be put up.
We're gaining on the splitting habit
in Iowa Several tobacco users now
dopnot spit on the floor at home More
of them now use the cuspidors in the
larger railroad depots. or the railroad
men tell them very plainly not to spit
on the floor In the court houses and
hotels it is quite the fashion now tic
walk over to the cuspidor. instead OF
shooting at it ten feet away. Red hot
stoves are still the favorite mark fol
few experts in tobacco chewing
Bnt in the smoking car we still neef
reform. Every brakeman should be
armed with a stuffed club and the
man that defiles the floor between the
seats. should get whack for each ex-
pectoration. Furthermore each con-
ductor should receive as part of hi.
Instructions an order to call the at
tention OF the other passengers to the
man who. in 1908, has such lack o.
common decency That other men have
to sit in the seat is a fact these to-
bacco users seem to neither know mol
care.
The c. &, N w. railroad is at the
present time having an economical
spell that makes their pratrons fight
ing mad. In Garwin one dealer say:
that he paid the company $500 il
freight charges during one month. Ye
when he wanted to go to Toledo, elev
en- miles away. if he Travelled on thu
railroad. he had to leave town at 6:3,
D. M. stay all night in Toledo, and be
ing unable to transact his business
early enough in the morning, the train
north leaving before he could attent
to it, so he remained all day in To
ledo, taking the train the next morn
ing thus paying hotel bills two night
and a day and a half.
| At another town they propose to talk
cut the telegraph station. a'town tina
has shipped eighty-ive cars of grail
and stock since January 1st. so tn
dealers claim Now these buyers pro
pose to go over to the Great Western
and open up business offices and shil
over that railroad.
A good story comes to us Of Jan
| itor in the big depot at NeNtown. H
has attended to that building eve
since the company erected it. But whel
| the word economy was sent out. TIL
| agent was ordered "to fire him" AM
| have the section man act as janitor
But he wouldn't be "fired." Told TIL
agent he did not hire him and couldn'
| fire him. Then the division superin
| tendent came down and discharge
him. Again he refused. Said he wa
appointed from Chicago office and hal
received no word from headquarters
| And the funny part is that II" is still
! at work and received his pay las
month.
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