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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
11n1Es-REruB11CAN MARsHAILTowN,

ed beef it cost him $40 more to sell 1t.
Why in the larger towns some shops
keep two telephone girls just to take
orders over the phones. It's common
thing for Mrs. Jones to call up the
butcher at 1880 a. m. and say to Mr..
Butcher, Charley forgot to order the
meat, can you send up 10 cents worth
| Of round steak imm ediately, SO we can
| have something for dinner? Certainly,
certainly, the phone girl answers. And
| the high priced cutter slices off 10
cents worth, rolls it up in nice paper,
| ties it up with white string, calls the
extra delivery boy which all first class
shops now have to keep, and away goes
the boy with the horse on the dead run
out to 1777 Seventeenth street, two
miles away, to get that 10 cents worth
| OF round steak there for Charley's din
ner. Mrs. Jones is out, the hired girl
says, and she has no change so
| the boy comes back and the
bcokkeeper who costs the firm
| 81, 900 per year, makes a charge entry.
And the end of the week this book
keeper makes out bill, the city col
lector goes out after that 10 cents,
comes back, hands it to the cashler'
who reports 1t to the bookkeeper, VINO
balances the account. And remarks
this butcher. "if Charley and his wife
get a very small cut of round steak,
they get all that is coming to them.
! A grocery man in one of our Iowa
| towns one that also had meat mar
! ket as an annex, said to the writer
DO you know 1 now have more money
| tied up in fixtures than my stock or
| groceries cost me when | went into
business twenty-five years ago.! My
expenses the first year l was In pusl-
ness We're only per cent or my safes.
Last year my expenses were IL per
Icent of my sales. This means II l sell
a dollars worth of sugar at figured
profit of 10 per cent / lose cents on
that particular SALE I am selling this
packing house beef at 1914 to is cents
per pound, costs me to by the quar-
ter. When the shrinkage, loss in weigh
| ing. small amounts, delivery, cost of
help. delivery teams. rent, taxes, my
| living expenses and all is added up, |
am not getting $1,000 a year for my
| time and risk l take in doing bust
ness.
| And now let this writer add a bit
| of his personal observation. rms IN say
| 200 Iowa towns and covering many
years of experience in the same towns.
| If the meat market men of Iowa are
getting rich, the assessor has failed to
! find it out If the dealers in fresh meat
are making big money, they do net
| let the public find it out, by building
big houses or wearing purple and fine
linen Clothing men, dry goods deal
ers, shoe merchants, even grocery men
apparently are making more money.
The sad experience of all consumers
is that we are paying twice. as much
flor fresh meats as we did twenty five
Years ago. We also notice sales of cows
at s34O in Chicago, live weight and we
know we pay 10 to 20 cents per pound
| for that cow when it comes back TO
Iowa as packing house beef. Who gets
the difference?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
TREAT THE INVESTIGATION Jup,c,ously

The investigation of Secretary Bal
linger. now in progress, should be con-
sidered judcially by the newspapers
and the people generally. 1t should not
degenerate into a fight between fac
tons and parties and personages 1t IS
absolutely necessary to the integrity of
the inquiry that neither Ballinger nor
Pincfot nor CLAWS be more than Incl
dental. Blind partisanship of either side
Of the case Will go far to destroy the
usefulness of the investigation. In the
last analysis this trial is before the
court of public opinion and the public
should retain its judicial poise as
equally as possible The dramatis per-
sonae are least of all to be considered.
They must have a square deal but the
vital spot of this investigation is
whether or not government has been
justly administered or subordinated to
special interests, traded for power, sold
in the market. And this is not to be
arrived at by jumping to conclusions
but by the evidence
But there must be no further at
tempt to divert or essentially limit the
inquiry. All this talk of putting
"Glavis on the GrilI'' thru the efforts
of the California statesmen whose
names have been connected with the
/ scandal is of piece with incorporate
demand against Ballinger and the
/ president This is an investigation as
to facts whether they prove Ballingc,
unfit for office. congressman knaves
or CLAWS and Pinchot liars, and caba
making traitors. If Ballinger is guilt
less. if the congressman have done n,
wrong. they will not greatly help theil
case by "grilling" Claws. Claws i:
not on trial He is witness who i.
supporting his testimony with zorro
borative reports, kilograms, and letters
| The party must be incidental to thi:
inquiry, both parties What we want il
for the one and offers apparent al
| vantages to the other or not. The re
publicans viii not aid their party b!
seeking to cover up illicit acts nor vii
the democrats aid theirs by seekin,
occasion to invite comparison. This in
Investigation touches the honor of tn
country. It is a case where parties ant
men may well be forgotten.
# there is one thing more than an
Lother desired By the average voter AM
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
Iona Newspapers
IN THE NINTH.
IAtlantic Telegranh.1

"A prominent republican and sup
porter of Congressman Walter I. Smith
made this statement a few days ago:
ct will have to admit that If the pri-
anaries were held now. Webb Byers
would be nominated but I believe the
situation will grow better as far as
Judge Smith is concerned as the weeks
go by" This is certainly a strong adj
mission. However, the friends of Mr..
Byers must not be taken off their feet
by such statements. The primaries are
not until next June and the friends OF
Judge Smith are exceedingly busy.
They already have an organization OF
postnasters who will not leave stone
unturned Their job depends upon the
return Of Smith. The proprietors OF the
the Evening News of this city are do
ing all in their power for the Chases
are long headed enough to see that
their future depends upon the return
of Smith. Efforts will be made to
hush the mouths of certain candidates
who are for Mr.. Byers. They will prom
Use anything and everything If the can
didate will forget that he ever had a
mind of his own and will "get under
the bed so far as Smith lis concerned.
The friends Of Mr.. Byers must not stop.
There is but one thing to do and that
is to hunt for votes for Mr.. Byers from
now on until the polls are closed. If
this is done, Mr.. Byers will carry this
county by a strong majority and we
believe the district by a creditab!e
one"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
ROAD DRAGS.
r.. W. Foster at Guthrie County In


stitutel
There has been so much written and
printed upon the subject of using the
road drag that it would seem that
everybody everywhere is in favor OF
it. The road problem in Iowa Will
be largely solved if We can devise some
means whereby the roads between
market places can be regularly and
Systematically dragged. How can this
be done? Township trustees when ap-
preached about the matter tell you that
thew have no money to drag with. Ihey
always think they have no money to Go
ANYTHING with. When did you ever
approach a member of the board of SUI
peryisors or a township trustee but
what he put up the same plea there
is no money" The compulsory drag
law requires the dragging of all main
Travelled roads, including rural mail
routes, and provides a penalty for neg
lect of the same. There are not SO
MANY miles of this road that there Is
any excuse for neglecting them pc
cause funds are wanting. The average
township in Guthrie county has $l,0o0
each year. including poll tax. which the
trustees spend, or waste, upon the
roads Suppose 5000 of this was set
apart for the purpose of dragging the
roads. There is not a township in the
county that would require more than
this amount to drag it's main Travelled
roads and rural mail routes thorough
TX. I wish to make this proposition
publicly: that 7 will drag the mail
routes of any township in Guthrie
county, and do it regularly and sys-
tematicaly, next year, for 5000 NOT
a township in this county has forty
miles of rural mail routes. The largest
mileage of rural mail routes is In Cass.
which has thirty eight miles. The least
is in Union, which has twenty miles.
All OF the data gathered, and all OF
the estimates submitted shown that
roads can be dragged regularly in an
ordinary year for less than SO per
mile. Here in Valley township last
year we did lot of road dragging at a
cost of less than 5000. Jackson town
shin. Hardin county, has the reputation
of maintaining the best dragged ROADS
in Iowa and Mr.. Ransom, who has peen
superintendent for a number OF years,
saws that it has cost them on an aver
age less than 5000 per year to drag
their roads 1t does not cost much 10
drag. 1t is the only cheap work we
get done upon our roads. How can
trustees be induced to spend sub
stantial part of the road fund for this
work? Why not set apart a portion
of our levy for dragging purposes, and
cali it a drag fund.-" Why maintain
teachers fund. a schoolhouse fund.
a cemetery fund, a library fund and
keep them separate from the general
funds? I submit that it is in order to
force the officers to use certain parts
of their funds for these special pur-
poses. I believe that a law creating
drag fund and safeguarding it In the
same manner that the teachers, contin-
gent, and school house funds are safe
guarded, would force the trustees to
use the drag.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
THE LODGES.
\ MASONIC NOTICES.

Il MASONIC NVIlC6Ss
~ Visitors always welcome.
./VNHall over 105-107 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE. 1os. A. p. 8
A. M-work on third degree, Friday.
Feb. 4, at 1880 p. m.
r. w. Chamberlain, W. M.
H. S. Lawrence, Secretary.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. 50, R. A. u.
Stated convocation Monday. Feb. q,
1880.
George H. Boggie. p. II. F.
I. 8. Willard, Secretary.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL, r. & 8.
M.-Stated assembly Monday. Feb. n,
1880 p. m.
A. D. Meeler. T. 1. n.
l. T. Forbes, Rel
ST. ALDEMAR CoMMANDERY No.
80, K. T.-Stated conclave Tuesday ,ev-
ening, Feb. %, 1910. Visiting Sir
knights always welcome.
f. NJ. Wilbur. f. c.
Fred Wallace. Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER, No. 81, o. =.
Sheets in regular session Wednes-
day evening, Feb. 16, at 1880.
Mrs. George Downing. w. NJ.
Edna G. Fularton, Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
Many Taxicahs in London.

\ recent consular report from Lon
- .s-ews light on the rapid rate at
vhich the horse-drawn cab is giving
Daece to the public motor car in the
s4reets OF the metropolis. According
Is nxures given by the British home
secretary, the number OF licensed han
nm cabs ON July was 4.cS9. de-
Groase Of 1890 IN one year. f0uT-
wheeled cabs, 1873, decrease Of
-: motor cabs, 1884. an increase
p leSe. It viii thus be seen that in
- year the number Of taxicabs has
100 than doubled.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
Looker-On In Iona

HAMPTON. Feb. 1.-The farmers Of
Iowa are very much interested these
days in the meat boycott" now gain
ing strength in the larger cities all
over the country. They feel that this
agitation is going to hurt. That the
farmers will be the ones to get the low
er prices not the packers, the middle
men nor the consumer. One farmer
tells this story: I'm our town the mar
ket man ships in packing house beef.
Naturally he has to have a profit, but
I object to his paying me 81 cents per
pound for a fat COW and then when /
want some fresh meat charging me is
to 20 cents per pound for the best
cuts out of my old COW. Til admit my
old cow when hung up in his shop was
just as good meat as the high quarter
of that cold cow-called steer-wf1en
shipped in as dressed beef from Chi
cago. The trouble is not that this
farmer is getting any more than his
stuff is worth for we have to sell ev-
erything we raise at any price we are
offered. When my hogs are ready to
go, / sell them to the local buyer at !
cents if I can get it, or take 4 cents ii
that is all they are worth. These
.yorkingmen that are boycotting meat
are really taking money out OF our
pockets"
Ore day last week a Des MONIES
daily had a sensational article showing
that one marketman paid $40 for q
dressed beef that he retailed out for
$3.50 and the inference WAS, ne was
robbing the consumer by his outrage
Gus profits. This has stirred up the afs
of all dealers in dressed beef O0e o.
these men Gays supposing these figures
are correctly quoted that mafzketmAn u
not getting rich. He pfs,oAbay Deys
big rent, has a big force to run M
business. and il he paid $40 for 2 dress-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
.e.a,,o. You, F.t.r

James Flynt OF Idaho was IA years
old on the first OF July and weleneo
100 pounds. He was SO fat that the
doctors feared for his life. Then No
took a walk, got lost in the mountains.
and was not found for month. ne
had lived on roots and berries. and
slept in a cave, and his weight had
come down to 1O5 pounds. II you
are too fat the remedy Is to get lost.
If you are not eaten up by the bears
you will come out all right.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01


we begin to deceive is still true.
Perhaps if we didn't buy so many
hawks bells and beads we'd have more
money left for meat.
Increased use Of pearl jewelry and
novelties has lifted the price Of oriental
mother of pearl from $500 a ton to
$1,000 and s1,100. The mussel shells
from American rivers have nearly
doubled in price in a year, being quoted
at from $40 to $25 ton. A few years
ago they could be bought for $3.50
ton. The use of large buttons on the
sweater. a garment that is being in
creasingly worn, is responsible for
some of the demand. SO it goes. We
can't even have large pearl buttons
for our sweaters without contributing
something to the increased cost Of
living.
1t remains to be seen whether this
Mabray defendant is to go Scott free.
The governor of missouri thinks the
way to bring down the cost of living Is
to keep COW and chickens. An auto
mobile might be cheaper.
If you can't go back to the farm, or
think you can't, you might figure on
little garden in town this spring. 1t
might not be very profitable, but it
would help you forget your troubles.
$50
Don c. Seitz, publisher of the New
York World, declares that the postal
deficit will be $40,0OO,0oo instead Of
s17,ooo,eGO, as at present if the depart
ment, backed by congress, does not go
out after business like an up-to-date
business house would do. He char
acterizes the postal service as a great
organization, but said that not enough
advantage was being taken of the OPP
portunities He thinks the government
should establish a parcels post and
give the rural carriers more to carry
than a few letters and at the same time
afford the government additional
revenue Not much politics in that line
of talk.
They are putting 10000 feet OF
| lumber into an automobile track in
I California. Another grind in the cast
of living.
! Salt is cents pound and sugar Il
cents in Italy. Wen be bound that the
salt trust and the sugar trust have
! known about that for a long time.
u
! We read that New York audiences
are crowding to hear Slezak at So 6
seat, and wonder if a well directed
boycott wouldn't bring it down to s4.S9
/ If iowa land would only have tbs
good manners to climb down to abou
| $50 an acre, we have faith to believ1
the cost of living would not be 81
great.
| Folks who supposed that football hat
been abolished are invited to behold
the matter of fact way in which thu
schedules are being arranged for mex
fall.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

citizen it is that this investigation may
hew to the line of truth, needless into
whose yard the chips may fall. The
newspapers which are attempting to
discredit the proceedings into per-
sonal squabble between men and de-
partments, are doing an unworthy and
dangerous thing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
Mtss,no the Praise.

Eyes, it's a pity" remarked the maj
With the absent hair, who seemed tt
be thinking aloud.
whats a PITY" queried the party
with the rubber habit.
THAT q man can't hear his widow
telling her second husband what Z
noble, KIND and generous soul he was,
explained the noisy thinker.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

More people ares taking Foley's Kid
ney Remedy every year. 1t is consid-
cred the most effective remedy for all
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cal science can devise. Foley's Kidney
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ity Mcbride & Viii Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
Whan You Need

F.oiey's Orino Laxative. When YOU
have that dull, heavy, feverish feeling,
accompanied by constipation. When
you have headache. Indigestion, bill,
iousness, pain in stomach and bowels,
then you need Foley's Orino Laxative,
1t moves the bowels freely and gently,
and thoroughly clears the intestinal
tract. 1t does not grippe nor nauseate
and cures con stipation. Mcbride & VIII
Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
Hoarse Couqhs. stuffy Colds.

pain in chest and sore lungs are symp-
toms that quickly develop into a dam
gerous illness il the cold is not cured!
Foleys Honey and Tar stops the cough
heals and eases the congested parts,
and brings quick relief. Mcbride =
Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
u.x. 70 hs,sv. Ter Il.

H0VO 20 SSo~ttO vvr -.
Opportunity knocks occasionally
at every mans door," said Uncle
Eben; "but 81 You sits aroun' In dc
rockin' chair waitin' for it you's pref
ty sure to fall asleep an miss it."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

BY comparison with the awful Paris
foods our Christmas blizzard was
mere love tap-Phila delphia Record.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

The insurgents seem to have glver
up the war dance for the party cotllloh
Washington Post.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

Cannon says he will never voluntar-
lily quit under fire. Why qualify the
statement that he will never Voluntar-
lily Quit Louisville Courier-JournaL
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

Popular boycott Of the meat barons
is a somewhat new departure bat -e
can't see the philosophy Of the thing
except it be for the purpose Of max.
ing admission that the psople NO long
er rule in this country, that trusts still
have the throttle hold on ne throat Of
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
Her Answer Read,

Her NN6WeT NE3dy.
"What peculiar way that Gimble-
ton girl holds her lips. If you
propose to her you'll find OUT what It
means. She's all fixed to say Yes. !"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

The question of the hour at Wash
ington is. What is republican
Pittsburg Gazette-Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

Maybe ex-Banker Walsh, who whis-
tied on his way to the penltentlary,
took lessons from his creditors, who
whistled for their money. " Dallas
News
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

the consumer says the Ottunlwa Rel
view (democrat). Better strengthen
the government, perhaps it might be as
cratic congress for chance. That's the
way to cure a national evil"
1--WE think If there were fewer empty
whisky bottles scattered around there
would be more full coal bins and faml-
lies would have to suffer less for the
necessaries Of life" says the CorWlth
Hustler.
The Eldora Ledger asserts About
the the worst insult a man can receive
in this territory IS to call him Bal
linger.'"
eff we are going to quit eating meat
in order to reduce the price of that
comma dity, why not go naked and re-
duce the price of cotton and WOODEN
goods. There is no use Of doing Things
by halver," suggests the Esthervllle
Republican.
Replying to the T.-R. suggestion
How would it work if list of gov
eminent licenses were by law to be
posted in the postoffice," the Valley
Junction Express say 1T would be q
double-ender, especially in prohibition
districts 1t would expose who IS re
sponsible for sales and it would furnish
the initiated with a ready knowledge
of the persons of whom and the places
where the stuff could be bought.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
Replying to the T.-R. suggestion
GENERAL EDITORIAL COMMENT.

Prices have gone down a bit, but the
dealers attribute the decline to the
weather and not to the consumers atti-
tude. The consumer never gets any
credit for anything, except a week or
two before election.-New York Mail.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
IOWA OPINIONS ARD NOTES.

This is not the first time in the his
tory of politics when SO called party
leaders have to punish men for carry
ing ut in good faith party promises
remarks the Brooklyn Chronicle. eff
republican success next fall should be-
come impossible it will not be the fault
of those who are now called insur-
gents
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

There are just two 1,erruus wsiGiiii ~.
men are equal" affirms the Tama
News. AT birth and death. In the
interim there is a mighty difference be-
tween men"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
3O.Dav Treatment FREE

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

But even yet the drop in food prices
has not been marked by any dull SICK
ening thud.-Indianapoli News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01
Topics of the Times

Quite a tangled web, that Of the in
terror department. 1t goes to show that
the old saw about what happens when
we begin to deceive is still true.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-02-01

Perhaps if we didn't buy so many
hawks bells and beads we'd have more
money left for meat.