Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-15
sTATEMENTs MADE, HOWEVER,
ARE REFurEp IN LOCAL IN.
rERv,Ews.
TELLS FORT DODGE WHAT
A "sUM" TOWN THIS IS
Business All Gone to Smash Because
Saloons Are Not Running-Makes
Point With Alleged Photo Of "satur.
day Aftsrniin In a Dry Town"-Busi.
ness Men "caII' Thsodsriek.

Mr.. Bradford, who proved to be the
only orator for the "wets" from Mar
shalltown at the Fort Dodge rally
Wednesday evening, exhibited the al
legged photo of Saturday afternoon in
a dry town." which Simon LaShelle
has made quite conspicuous in Mar
shalltown, and told the Fort Dodge
people that there were more people to
be seen in one block on their main
business street than there were to be
seen in three blocks in that picture.
The address Of Senator Van Law, be-
before q large audience Sunday eve
ming in Fort Dodge, seemed to have
given the occasion for Bradford's ap-
pearance, and he sought to reply to
certain statements which Van Law had
made. To the story that it took five
teams now to haul meat when it had
required only three to do the work be-
fore the saloons closed, Bradford re-
piled that the drayman did not have
a team worth over 1925, and employed
$9-per- week men, so Il don't think he
When seen today Frank Gillette said
Bradford lies or else is mistaken. My
teams have cost me from $500 to $3.50
each, and my men receive Sl1 per
week. with extra pay for extra work.
which are standard wages. 1t IS true
that it has required more teams to
transfer meat ever since the saloons
closed The cars are loaded much
heavier"
To the story that bank deposits had
increased $215,000 In Marshalltown IN
March, as compared to March OF
year ago, before the saloons closed,
Bradford replied that the repeal OF the
tax on monies and credits had brought
money out Of hiding. and that the
Iowa Central shops had been paying
out $4,000 per month more In wages,
thus admitting the fact of increased
deposits, but evidently forgetting that
he was billed in the Fort Dodge adver-
tisements to tell of the idle men In
Marshalltown.
He admitted that possibly three" OF
our factories had enlarged, but we
have not had one new factory In Mar
shalltown" He evidently overlooked
our big sewer pipe factory, our Paris
green works, our light draft harrow
factory, and the reorganization and en-
largement Of our brick and tile works.
! On the subject of empty houses. ne
| said: There isn't any demand for 80
and $40 houses, because I can I'LL all
that demand any time they want" He
cited the DAILY property across the
street from his home. where man
lives as a care taker" in house
which SHOULD rent for SIS a month
County Attorney Daily today said that
he was holding this property as a
speculation, and that he was getting a
fair rental out of 1t, considering that
it was not modern In every way.
"There Is always a demand for good
houses in any town, don't care If 1t
is on its last legs" said Bradford but
there isn't any demand for 50 and $lO
houses" George NJ. Lyon, real estate
agent, said today that there was an un-
usual demand for medium priced
houses, and that every store lease that
had been made in recent months had
been made at increased rentals. A. M.
Treat said that he had had at least 100
applications for medium priced houses
since March 1, which he had been I'M
able to fill, and S. G. Bell said there are
only two residence properties in town
! for rent and unspoken for which are
fit to live in. He estimates that he has
at least twenty applications per day
for houses which he can't supply.
To prove that people were not COM
ing to town. as shown in that photo
graph which has always been consld-
cred in Marshalltown as libel upon
the town, Bradford asserted that au-
tomobiles were not coming to town as
they did before the saloons closed, ana
that the Marshall Oil Company's sales
of gasolene in ,Marshalltown had fallen
off from 1900 to 1000 gallons In Sep
TENDER and October. as compared &c
the year before, while the Standard
Oil Company's sales had decreased IN
proportion.
The Marshall Oil Company. when
seen about this, showed from its wagon
| tickets that it's sales in those two
months in Marshalitown had actually
increased $500 gallons over the same
months Of the year before. and the
Standard agent, who did not have the
authority to show any records. merely
replied: "Our sales have been increas
| ing right along
| Bradford said that he was we'll ac-
| uuained among the Germans of Grumpy
county, and among the people OF Tamh
county. where 1 have a great many
relatives on my wife's SIDE" and in
sisted that "They do not any Of them
come now. I mean the big majority.
He said that he was "authorized' to
make the statement: THAT in one Of
the ladies' furnishing goods establish
| ments it's business has been one-third
less since the saloons closed than 1t
was before. (" l. am authorized tc
make the same statement in regard tc
the clothing merchants OF Marshall
town. / have influence enough, and