Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-11-08
Looker-On In Iona

gearing, Nov. S.-The present man
agement OF the Chicago Great Western
are doing many things 10 increase the
popularity of the road with the travel
ing public. The employees on the sec
ton work also very much appreciate
the new motor car which is now fur
nished on many divisions. This car.
which is nothing more than the old
; style handcar with a gasoline engine
| attachment. is capable of making
| twenty 10 thirty miles an hour. and
some say $50 miles an hour down
grade when loaded with six men and
a dozen eighty pound steel rails. It
is so arranged that if the gas engine
gets "balky.' the motor power can be
thrown out of gear and the men can
pump her. along the old fashioned
way. And this motor car really is
money saver for the company, as the
cost of gasoline used is more than saw
ed by getting the men on their work
sometimes five miles away. much earl
! Ter in the morning, and also allowing
them TO work later in the evening.
Like all labor saving machinery it ap
parently throws some men out Of
job. for section bosses with this motor
car have charge Of thirteen instead of
SAA Iu1icS VI IidCh II also saves Tile
company money in hauling out ties and
(, rails for it has a five and one-half
; horse power and can haul a big load.
! which would sometimes have to be tax
en- out on q special train or the way
, freight.
Up TO the time Of the recent fall in
prices in farm products. and this it is
, claimed Is only a temporary lull. the
real estate men Of Iowa were doing "a
land office business" with all the term
implies. One big firm with several
branch house agencies. told the writer
their sales for TWO days this week
were $4,000" Neither time nor money
are considered as valuable when
trade is on hand. In one hotel there
was q well do German from down
east that had made an offer Of $3.50
for piece Of Iowa dirt and the real
estate men were holding out for s95.
And then the train came in bringing
/ two more real estate men from Non
tour where said German had been the
day before and made them an offer
which they declined at that time. but
were now ready to accept. A hurried
consultation was held, and an agree
ment made that il the newcomers
would keep hands Off, they should have
80 much commission II the German
/ bought Of the S95 an acre firmand if he
traded with the newcomers afterWard
| the other real estate men at present
! paying for his dinner should also get
some of the commission. Nothing like
harmony.
/ BY the time this is in type the bat
tie will be on and somebody getting
| licked The result will be surprise
to many that are now cock sure The
scratching that IL inevitable is going to
F! be largely OF an expression Of personal
/ dislike, or rather a political dislike OF
many candida tes. There is no organized
movement of the prOgressives to knife
standpat candidates or the reverse. The
! progressives will do much less voting
! Of the democratic ticket. j. e. "the whole
! hog" than the standpatters did in the
! good old CumminE campaigns. Car
roll will be scratched severely by the
! cownie ad mirers. and the Kelz crowd.
II. e.. druggists and their friends. He
will get many votes from the prohibit
ton element that he would not have
| had IL Jim Weaver had not spoke out
! in meetin'' Cosson if he fails OF cleo
] ton can lay his defeat to these same
| prohibitionists. II they vote for "prin-
ciple" as they think 1t duty instead OF
voting for republican the local option
crowd and all that goes with 1t will
! clean out Cosson. Clifford Thorne IL
defeated can thank the farmers-whose
cause he Is fghting-for failing to 80 to
the polls. No matter what the results
are put this down on your diary. there
are no more democrats in Iowa on
Tuesday, Nov. 8. than on the same day
year before.