Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-03
Local Comment

| ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
A Marshall county tanner who has
just returned home from Missouri
visit is thankful that NE lives in Iowa
While he was gone the frosts came
but his corn up in LIBERTY township
was safe. But down south, where he
he was visiting, much of the crop
was in the roasting ear stage, full OF
milk, and not ready ITO mature fol
weeks. The same killing frost tina,
sinote the northland caught the south
ern fields, and the tanners know not
what they will do with 1t, so general
| is the soft corn, utterly ruined. The
Iowa farmer, who took enough interest
In the situation to examine several
stands. says that in Missouri much OF
the corn will hardly make good fodder
SO anxious was the city fire depart
ment to try out the newly purchased
fire horses, genuine alarm could not
be awaited. When q police officez
called for the patrol wagon, the de-
rsa~.pcent turned in an alarm, and re-
turned with a trophy Of the chase il,
the shape Of a poor. lone, ordinary
common drunk. 1t lis said the horses
show up we'll.
At the beginning of the social sea-
son it will be we'll to remind Marshall
town people of their neglect to recog-
nize the teachers In our public schools
with their invitations The T.-R. has
spoken of this before and seems to
have said just about what most peo.-
pie think to be true. A young lady
who has grown up In this city and
hence has her family acquaintance to
depend upon for social recognition,
now that she is a teacher in our pub
lie schools says that Marshalltown Is
not alone in this neglect. She taught
for two years in the Dixon, FL. schools
and was never invited socially to the
private homes of Dixon people. Nearly
everybody here, including the teachers,
concede that the T.-R is right i'm thia
matter, but no one seems ito take the
criticism home with him sufficiently
to start a reform by acting upon III
suggestion. Il
The doors Of a new bank opened wide
a welcome to iMarshalltown people
this week, and yet some of us have not
realized that the old town is growing.
e
Lost-An heroic resolve to reform
electric light and gas rates by ordinance.
Finder please return in time for use
in the spring campaign or no rewards
can be claimed.
If the T.-R. could interest an oblig-
ing councilman to introduce it, the
newspaper would propose that here
after it he required by ordinance that
all beefsteak be fried in Mar
shalltown between the hours of / a.
m. and 8 a. M, SO as to utilize gas
when it is at its maximum efficiency.
The experience one Marshall county
farmer has had with the testing of
his herd for tuberculosis should be
taken as an object lesson by every
farmer, and should be profited by. The
time is not far distant when the peo-
pie of the city, thru the medium of
the city council, are going to demand
of the farmers who furnish their but
ter that not a pound be manufactured
of anything but milk from inspected
cows. 1t is no more than fair to the
man who sells the milk to say nothing
OF the consumers themselves, to de-
rnand the same requirements from the
one who sells the butter. In the case
Of Mr.. Wilcox he would have been
money ahead if he had followed the
rules laid down by the state board
of health concerning the mingling of
infected stock with the rest Of his dairy
herd and stock cattle. Last spring,
when five of his nine mich COWS were
found to have tuberculosis, if he had
disposed of these five, and at the same
time ascertained If his stock cattle
We're also free from the disease, 1t
would not have been necessary for the
state to step in and conduct a whole
sale test of his herd. Now twenty-five Of
his thirty two head Of cattle are found
to be diseased. This is expensive. to
say nothing of the danger that has
been spread unfortunately. Not a
mich COW on the place but what is in
fected with tuberculosis, and the fam
lily drinking the milk. Furthermore
nearly every farmer sells some butter,
and if a farmers herd is diseased, what
protection is there for the innocent
purchaser who pays good money for
country butter? With the statement
from the International tuberculosis
congress, that 100000 people now liv-
ing in the United States are doomed to
fill consumptives' graves unless some
thing is done to eradicate the cause,
it is time some earnest consideration
was being taken by cities. towns. and
people everywhere, in overcoming the
one primary cause to be most feared
the tubercular mich cow.
Licensed 70 Wed.
E. NJ Bartholomew, car repairer,
aged 90, of ahis city, and Mrs. Alice
L. Kelley aged 81, Of Webster City.
RS
Put it to thez test. Let YOUR teapot
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