Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-06
Looker-On In Iona

Iowa Fails, Oct. 6.--As a practical
showing of what the phenomenal
weather of September did for the Iowa
corn crop, Mr. j. l.. harrington. of this
place, while passing a field of corn on
Sept. ), picked two big ears and
brought them to his office in town. On
Sept. % he picked two more cars from
| the same field, and now has all four
on exhibition. The first two now are
dry, "chaffy" loose on the cob and a
hundred bushels would he worth just
about as much as a load of cobs. The
| last two are natures perfect work. ;"
Sound, flnty. heavy and perfect, But
the effect ar the dry weather shows
even on the good ears. Nature did not
| have a chance to fill them out to the
ends There's an inch or two covered
! with immature kernels. But John
| CoWnie's talk Of so much soft corn In
Iowa this year, does not apply to Har-
din county.
The getting together" OF Iowa re-
publicans is shown here by the NOM
ination of Mr.. Albrooh for district
| Judge He had some opposition both
\ IlSlt anu III ILhpttt. NV btN"pf'N
he was and is a standpatter His OPP
ponents fought him on personal
grounds while his friends both in the
county and district nominated him be-
cause of capability as a lawyer and
possible judge. We have all talked
harmony so long. that few of us real
ICED it was to come, by the naming Of
| John r. Lacey for United States sena-
tor, the standpatter from standpatter-
vile. Now we are going to have
peace by fighting for 1t. The
| two mon, Cummins and Lacey, repre-
sent to perfection the two wings Of the
party and there is now q general dis
position for each wing to work hard
| to elect their candidate. and then for
| the pefeated one to lie down and say
"Amen.."
Not long ago an Iowa doctor was
called into the country to see young
girl of IL. that had all of the symp-
toms of consumption, and that too of
! the 'galloping" kind. While in the
house the girls mother said to the
doctor. 81 wish you would come out
here in the kitchen and look at this
professional eye the liver and lungs
of the chicken were of the tuberculosis
type He took them with him, sent
them at once to Iowa City for an ex-
animation. and the result confirmed his
opinion. Then followed an examina-
ton of all the poultry on the farm,
and they were all more or less az
| fected with tuberculosis. And but for
| the visit of the doctor, the 12-year-old
girl would have continued to be
strengthened with chicken broth. Fur
thermore. the chicken buyer would
| have come along and bought what
they had to spare" and thus scat
tered over the country this lot of choice
spring chickens. OF course the doc
| tors still disagree as to whether the
white plague" can be communicated by
animals affected with tuberculosis.
Some will contend that even If these
referred-to spring chickens had been
sold and eaten. no harm would have
resulted, provided they had been thor
oughly cooked. and we eat very little
raw chicken Still, there is the fact
! of the sick girl on the Iowa farm be-
/ ing fed chicken broth, made from
chickens infected with tuberculosis.
| Grinnell has a young mems club
! that, while social In object and aim.
! has a literary feature some other town
may care to take UP. 1t is composed or
! all kinds of young men-professional.
business and otherwse-and 1t is not
necessary for one to he "a literary
cuss" to become a member. But the
membership Is limited to twenty, and
every two weeks they meet. have "a
banquet at p. m. and then some
member has to furnish, read or deliver
"a paper on any subject he chooses.
| On a recent occasion, Mr.. Ed. Brande
brought from Des Moines the dramatic
editor of one of the Des Moines dailies,
who delivered "a paper" an art sub
jects, much enjoyed. This was not be-
cause Mr. Brande was unable or dis
qualified from making an original adj
dress, but because an outsider might
bring new ideas and suggestions. Just
why "a feed" is necessary at p. M.
to quicken b.t in powers. both objective
and receptive, at p. m. mo Teller can
find out" but 1t seems to work we'll in
this club even if some of the members
eat hearty supper at p. M. then sit
I down to banquet at p. M, and have
i .food for tho't' at 9 o'clock.
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