Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-07

on account Of cold weather. Some Of
these fifteen days were warm enough
TO mix mud: hut he objected 20 work.
Ing with cold hands. And yet Ice
twelve inches thick was being cut that
day In the lowe river. There's no other
way to figure It out. old winter IN Iowa
this season has worked nights and
| Sundays"
Every year one notices more and
more fur coats worn by women. es-
pecially women living on the farms and
women who ride in automobiles And
these fur coats are mems fur coats,
made for comfort and woman can put
on one Of these mems coats and look
as we'll and keep as warm as tho made
to order. In an automobile the other
day the writer saw a farmer and his
wife ride into town each comfortably
dressed with fur coats, and when they
got out and walked across the street
some one remarked, That's womens
rights that's sensible"
| The First National Bank Of Kanawha
has recently moved into Its new build
ing. It's a wonder, both outside and
! interior finish for a town the size of
Tanawha. Over $4,000 has been in
vested. The counters and wainscottins
solid mahogany They have the usual
vault and also safety deposit boxes.
Have ladies reception room with
/ toilet accessories. In the basement Is
a dining room and kitchen while over
the bank is the Odd Fellows hall. All
this in a town not yet Of age. In fact
1t was a farm less than twenty one
years ago.
Talking with an express company's
agent a few days ago he claimed "the
| business Of the company had fallen OIL
F., very little since the parcels post went
/; into effect, unless it was the very small
packages and there was no money IN
this small business. He once had
charge Of an express office where they
paid 50 day for drivers and wagons,
and many time the load they took to
the depot cost more TO haul 1t to the
depot than the company received for
carrying the bundles the entire dis
tances. He had an idea the express
| companies really didn't fight the parcel
post system. because they We're willing
to turn over the small package bus
mess to Uncle Sam"
The other side was told by post
master, where that day he had sent by
parcels post to town in California. a
package for 81 cents, that last year
cost the sender of an identica, pack
age to the same town by express $50.
In both cases the sender prepaid the
charges.
What strikes the writer as strange
! is that country store keepers, and FOR
| that matter store-keepers and business
men of our larger cities are not wax
! ing up to the possibilities OF the parcels
pest as a menas to an end of Increased
home trade. If the store-keepers along
this branch Of the Chicago & North
western railroad had seen carloads OF
goods unloaded by the way freight to-
! day, much Of it from the mail order
! houses of Chicago. in one case the
| freight room OF a.he depot literally
filled with these goods from Chicago
mai, order houses, 1t would suggest the
parcels post Is not whats hurting
u.s." It's an easy thing for this scribe
to mention ell this. TO point out a
remedy is another matter. Unques-
tionably the Iowa trade with the mai
order houses is on the increase. JUS
as true is it. that 1t hurts the lowe
town. How shall We stop 1t.