Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-05
lowan Who Tried Living in
Georgia Comes Back to North
ern Home to Remain
RULING ON PRIMARY VOTERS
Only Qualified Electors Will Be Per.
nitted to Participate-Mystery as to
Why Dolliver Skipped His Home
Town in Speaking campaisn-Mc-
Cumber Incident Recalled.
,pecial to Times-Republican.


Des Moines, May 5.--Iowa Is good
enough for DIR. Robb, of Newton, and
he has returned from the south to his
home in Newton to resume his prac-
tice. Out of consideration for his
wife's health DR.. Robb moved to
Georgia, and located in a pretty little
town and began practice of medicine
The climate failed to benefit Mrs.
Robb's health She died in the south.
DR. Robb lived there long enough, how
ever to find out some things about the
country that were not apparent on the
more money from his practice in the
south he will live in Newton.
Outside of a few of the larger CEN
tiers, DR.. Robb says the town that he
lived in is quite characteristic of all
in the south. The weather Is pleas
ant and congenial in the winter time
and northern people flock to the south
There they make their winter home.
Out about the edge Of the quaint lit
tie towns they have ten and twenty
acre fruit farms with magnificent
homes and spacious gardens. There
are many Of these about every little
town and give the surface appearance
to the town that 1t Is wonderfully
prosperous place. The occupants of
these mansions live there during the
winter and return to the north for, the
summer. They make their fruit or
chards pay a good return on the in
yestment. besides giving them a fine
winter home.
But they buy all they buy in New
York and Chicago, and the north and
the little town about which they live
gets nothing from their wealth and is
fifty years behind the times The peo-
pie who live in the mansions with the
twenty-acre front yards take no part
whatever in the village life and the
village is dead. Unless one can live
with twenty-acre front yard he must
live in a twenty-foot front yard. There
is no middle ground. man must be
a nabob or plebian, a millionaire high
fiier or a common grubber.
1t is this phase of the south that
DR.. Robb does not like. He likes rath-
er the idea of the north where the
differences between a man just start
ing in life in a rented home on a
small salary and the man living on
the hilltop on the interest of his
money, is nothing unless there is
difference in character.
John W. Gooder, janitor in the office
of the state superintendent, has taken
up a claim in Colorado, about 100
miles east Of Denver in a country that
desert. Mr.. Gooder proposes to make
it his home and is now on trip back
to Des Moines. He said today that
Colorado is all right, but he looks for
ward to about three years work be-
fore there is moisture enough in the
ground to do much good. 1t is impos-
sible to plow the virgin soil except
right after a rain, because the ground
is too dry and hard. and to try to run
a. plow thru the buffalo grass at any
other time is like pulling a cat out
of bag by the tail. When plowed
Immediately after a rain when the
ground is soft and then cultivated
constantly so that there is dust
mulch over the ground continually the
evaporation of the soil is retarded and
minimized and after about three
years of this dry farming" fairly good
crops can be raised.
Hon. John Cownie Of the state
board of control, believes that there
is more fruit got thru the frosts of last
week than most people believe. He
has made some hasty and limited ex-
aminations, but finds that many blos-
SONS were not harmed by the frosts
tho many were.
To vote at the primary election a
voter must be a qualified elector at the
time of the primary. This is the in
depreciation of the law by Attorney
General H. w. Byers. Some voters
have gained the idea that if they are
qualified to vote at the Novem ber
election they will be qualified to vote
on June-2. This is not always so. One
young man who will be 81 years old
by election day in November but will
not be 21 by June 2 can vote in No
N6Q1DGT, Dul Stl1lAOl NOlC az liC "
maries in June according to Gen. BY
ers There are many who will have
been in the state six months by cleo
ton day in November and can vote
then, but if they are not in the state
six months by June they cannot vote
at the primaries.
Politicians are inquiring why Dolli-
Yer skipped his home town on his trip
thru Iowa last week making speeches
for Allison It will be remembered that
there were reports both from Wash
ington and here in Iowa to the effect
that Dolliver was not anxious to come
to Iowa to speak for Allison at all and
it is known that efforts were made to
get him to come long before he did
come. The reports became 50 per-