Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-22
Looker-On In Iowa

4 Laurel. March 22.-That the auto
mobile is displacing the horse has been
/ affirmed and disputed many times. The
! horse men say its preposterous when
! we see everywhere horses worth more
each year. On the other side we find
buggy manufacturers adding that Of
automobile making in nearly every
state in the union. At recent meet
ing of carriage manufacturers one
prominent dealer claimed that in
the east more particularly the sale of
automobiles was seriously cutting into
the buggy business and as a matter
of self protection carriage manufacture
ers must add that of the automobile.
Here in Iowa the livery stable men are
beginning to feel the effects of the
automobile garage. One livery stable
keeper puts it this way: 1T works like
this. For many years our best BUSH
ness was the short drives about town.
Now when well-to-do people here have
visitors, they send down to the garage,
get an auto and use that to show their
friends the sights of the city. Three
years ago we boarded a large number
of horses for those that liked to drive
afternoons and evenings. Now these
people own automobiles. Travelling
men are using the garage more and
more. All this when the roads are good
and weather nice, but when the win
ter comes with storms and bad roads,
the snow drifts get big, then they come
to US. When we would as soon our liv-
cry outfits We're in the barn, then we
have a big demand for teams and driv-
ers. Besides all this, with hay at SIS
ton, corn and oats 40 to 60 cents per
bushel, harnesses costing much more
than five years ago, to say nothing of
wages for help higher than ever be-
fore. WELL there'll be less livery stables
in Iowa every year
We have 100000 in the state treas
ury, the amount collected from the
hunters licenses. Everybody is keen
to spend it, There are as many plans
advocated as the men that propose
them. Here is an account of what
1t comes from the Terre Haute cor
respondence of the Louisville Courier
Journal:
The state game commission has just
placed 5000 Hungarian quail or part
ridgs on preserves in Indiana. Under a
law of the last session of the legisla-
ture they are protected for six years.
The purchase of the birds was made
possible under another new law by
which one-third of the money received
from hunters license fees might be
applied to restocking the state.
Several thousands of the birds had
been brought into the state year ago,
and they are reported to be multiply
ing rapidly y preserve is formed by
farmers owning contiguous land equal
to 5000 acres agreeing to care for the
birds. The Hungarian quail is hall
again as large as the American quail,
but is as fine favored in its meat as
the native bird. Breeders in Hungary
have a preserve in Pennsylvania which
is a distributing point, and hundreds
of thousands of the imported birds are
coming into the United States yearly.
With all of the conflicting opinions
it is safe to assume that the gun own
ers of Iowa that have paid in tins
s1O6 600 will agree that some of TINS
money can rightly be used in the Stock
ing of our lakes and rivers with game
fish. and that the state fish hatchery
can profitably use many more thou
sands of dollars.
That woman is gradually taking up
the burdens and occupations of man is
more ard more in evidence each year.
Whether this is the greatest good to
the greatest number is another thlng.
However there will be no dispute that
one woman in Iowa is engaged In
work that does not crowd poor man
to the wall And that is the woman
travelling doctor with the medicine
show. She's a good one. What she