Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-01-17
Looker-On In Iona

iowa Fails. Jan. 17.-Durins the past
f@w years much has been said and
printed about developing the water
power at this place. Everybody knows
its here. how many thousand horse
power is yet to be determined. A year
or so ago. there was a crowd of ten
men that had faith enough to subscribe
$500 for survey An option was Sc
cured on the mill and dam. hi. for UNI
explained reasons the whole project
fell thru. Lately this power pa NJ pro-
ject has been warmed over" While IL
las oct has taken no defrite shape
th ere's a heap Of ta,kfn'" The Com
~ arcial Club here may take Initiative
The city may decide to have dam of
heir own and sell power I, is under
stool that in the near future the pres
ont dam owned by Messrs Harp and
Roberts Will have 10 be rebuilt by some
body And the writer is told the pres
lent owners Of the dam are willing 10
sell the dam and hire power OF some
company which will improve the water
power. There is some sentiment in
favor Of the city of Iowa Falls buying
the present dam. rebuilding Il. using
what power is needed by the city and
selling power 70 other towns nearby. At
present /: costs Iowa Falls IN round
numbers 5000 every year to light the
cit-' and pump water. Some close fig
urer says il Iowa Falls should invest
$4,000 in this dam and proposed power
plant. their present outlay for light and
water would pay interest on the invest
ment, besides having many hundred
horse power to sell.
of course we have ito go away from
home to hear the news" The New
York Times prints from the Washing
tor Herald. the following:
John Porter, OF Eldora. Iowa is the
Oldest practitioner before the United
States supreme court in point OF years
of service. having been admitted March
g, 1853. Mr.. Porter has known every
president since Fillmore with the ex-
cep-ion Of Roosevelt and Taft
How many people in Eldora and
H ardin county knew this?
The prejudice against the rabbit rs
an article of food is fast disa ppearing
At the hotel here the CALI for sup
fried rabbit" Seven travelling men
at one table out of eight sitting down
at the same time ordered fried rab-
fresh market when he returns from a
days hunt. Market men report a good
demand and shippers of dressed raD-
bits-just why a rabbit with it's skin
off is dressed" no Teller can find
out"-will pay cash for all they can
get hold of. twenty-five years ago in
Iowa, a hunter could hardly give them
away. Now IL a friend presents you
with rabbit or two, it's a real thank
you. he gets. The next thing will be
for some one to find rabbit skin.
equal to other fur bearing animals.
Then and perhaps before Iowa will
have closed season for rabbits Mean
while there is in the east. especially, a
liking for musk-rat meat. In some To-
,calities it is eaten as freely as we now
eat rabbits. With this in mind even il
we have to cut out beef and pork as
the chief OF our diet" this on account
Of yearly advancing prices. we can
count on rabbit and musk-rat for
many years to come.
After all there are some disad-
yantages in trading with a mail order
house. The story comes to the writer
OF well to do farmer who ordered a
base burner Of a Chicago mail order
house early in the winter. OF course
he sent the money with the order. And
! the stove was slow in getting here. And
when it Old come it was SO badly
broken he refused to receive it Of the
railroad company. He Immediately
wrote the mail order house to send
another stove, which they have not
done as yet. say the middle Of IAN
uary- Cnquestionably the railroad
company will have to pay somebody
for the broken stove. But who, the
shipper or the farmer? And the Farm
Ter IL sitting around the cool front