Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-05-30

knowledge Of dry or wet territory, only
as a matter Of experience. this makes
much confusion in the way Of returned
goods and money that has to be re-
turned. Once more not all Of the ex-
press companies have issued such cir
culars, so that at the present time some
people in dry territory can get their
beer and liquors under the interstate
commerce laws and others In dry ter
ritory can not The predictions are
made by many that the effect of this
law, win be to change some dry coun-
ties into wet ones, as many voters here
tofore have refused to sign petitions
for the legal saloon in their counties, as
| long as they could get what beer and
liquor they wanted by express. The
idea is such towns as Mason City. Mar
shalltown, Waterloo and other larger
cities. where the saloon is kept out.
only by continued vigilance on the part
of the temperance workers, will find
now many voters ready TO sign petit
tions for legal saloons, SO that they
can legally ship in what they care for.
The new state law requiring many
articles TO be sold by weight, will take
a small arym Of inspectors to enforce.
Al the present time in the smaller
towns not one dealer in dozen knows
of the law in detail and IS proceeding
along as heretofore. There are many
storeheepers, strange as II may seem
in this day of universal daily paper
reading. who do not know of any such
I law. and when the fact is mention.
seem 10 think it will amount to Is much
as the Canada thistle law or road drag
/ law in some townships in Iowa. There
! is going to be quite a general effort
made oescape the trouble Of weighing
these Aforementioned articles. by only
doing so when customers asks for
dry measure quantity. One merchant
says Suppose you telephone me to
! send up quarters worth Of potatoes.
Can't send as much or as little as |
! please ." OF course If some customer
says or orders a peck OF half bUstel
I suppose III have to weigh it
/ Great is the power Of advertising.
/ They have a good press agent at Clear
Lake this year. Those In pound
] pickerei taken out of Clear Lake. and
/ duly mentioned in the specials to the
dailies are good stuff" Several times
| the writer has heard mentioned in the
! hotels and depots. there's better fishing
! al clear Lake this year than Okchou
And some fine strings have been taken
/ a; Gear Lake this year. This scribe saw
! a basket Of wall eyes On the train, that
" ould he creditable 10 any lake. The
! best part of this fishing business is
| that somebody Is satisfied with any
! kind Of fish. In Minnesota, pickerel
! even In pound ones. are outlaws.
/ Seine them. shoot them. spear them any
/ day in the year A man goes TO Oko-
/ boil and catches hundred perch in a
day and goes hack home ali swelled
up over his skill as a fisherman Last
( Saturday at st Paul in the Mississippi.
men were taking on, German carr with
: dip nets and when a FIVE FOUNDER was
! brought up and safely landed a crowd
| gathered and congratulated the fisher
man or the docks at White Bear Lake,
! MINI. the writer saw one OF the big
! merchants Of St Paul catching sun
4 fish He had string of over nun
dred which he carefully pat in his
/ automobile and took home. And he
. wasn't a bit more cranky than some OF
US who wade an ice cold trout stream
! in Wisconsin TO get twenty-five small
( trout in half day. the largest not
weighing half of a pound. Some Of US
even sit on tile banks Ct Iowa river,
fish all day in the hot sun and take
home d dozen small builhea6s.