Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-09
Automobiles are also allowed to rest

Automobiles are also allowed to rest
| there.
And in Traer, every day Is seen
| "Tama Jim Wilson stopping for
while with his sister, resting up after
his unequaled work as secretary Of
agriculture Evidently Washington life
i agreed with him for he carries his
years In fine fettle." He contem-
plates an extensive trip abroad before
long.
Tama and Toledo will support a
baseball club this season, using the
ball grounds on the electric line.
| The Workmen setting the poles and
stringing the wire from the big plant
at Marshalltown We're getting close to
the power house. half way between
Tama and Toledo. last week. and when
connection is made, the Juice" can be
sent from Marshalltown to operate the
cars and heat and light both Tama
and Toledo.
The Fox Indians on the reservation
are good business men. They held up
the power and light company for a
good big price for right of-way in
crossing the reservation. There's quite
| a difference in the amount of real dam
age for crossing the grounds and the
amount they received for damages.
The old Indian school near Tama
and Toledo. which was closed some
time ago because the young Indians
would not go to school because their
parents would not compel them to and
| because neither the state of Iowa nor
the United States government could
compel the parents to compel their
their children TO go to school. now is
almost ready for use as an Indian hos
ptal principally for the treatment of
tuberculosis. Cases too far gone" will
not be received. only those with a pos
sibility Of cure. There Is plenty of such
cases for the writer is told by good
authority that seventy-five young In
dams need such treatment. And listen
TO these figures: Forty per cent of the
grown UP Indians are now afflicted
with this disease. And an Indian in
specter has made the startling state
nent that 20 to 40 per cent of all In
dams in the United States have in
cip!ent or pronounced tuberculosis.
Here's another eye opener The same
authority who gave this scribe these
figure says that so per cent OF Indian
children have trachoma over so per
cent of the children of the Fox tribe
have it. It's infectious and caused by
the lack OF proper ventilation in their
homes No doctor or official can
treat this eye disease unless asked to
by the parents. But there are two
schools on the reservation and there
these children can be forced 10 submit
10 medical treatment The population
tonary The births keeping pace with
the deaths, till some epidemic occurs.
There are now about twenty I'VE fami-
lies living in houses and some of them
have become good farmers. Several
graduates from the Carlisle school live
here Invariably these Indians think
themselves superior TO the white men,
ard claim the diseases they have ac
quired from the whites and the booze
habit SO many Indians acquire. more
than offset any and all the acquired
virtues of civilization.
In several Iowa towns potatoes are
selling for - per bushel stock that
cost the dealers GO to IS cents. but
men come down from Minnesota and
offer TO deliver good sound potatoes for
% cents bushel, on account Of there
being a big stock on hand in many
places in Minnesota. One can not
blame these merchants for wanting to
get their money back after keeping
these potatoes all winter. or for refus-
ing TO buy more till their cellars are
enptied. But the consumer hearing
these stores as did the Looker-O on
wishes the dealers had not filed their
cellars Only a year or two ago these
same dealers had to ship in potatoes
and retailed them for 40 to so cents
neck. But the public the ultimate
consumer" has forgotten that
A. 2. THAYER
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