Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-25
Told Traveller

An evidently well to do farmer In
Jewell said this legislature is going to
compel me to pay taxes to help manu-
facture hog cholera serum, when l
don't want any on my place. II my
neighbours hogs get sick let him buy
the stuff and pay for 1t. Ames college
a good thing? Yes good thing to shut
up ten years and We farmers would all
be better off. l never had poor seed
corn in my life Need good roads ?
That's all newspaper graft, you fell
lows get so much for writing 1t up.
Why my taxes will be $1,000 next year
on a 100. They have just compelled
me to pay a big drainage tax to dry Off
my neighbours farm.
j. w. Henebcrry. attorney. Eagle
! Grove, says he has not examined the
exact wording Of the Kenyon Webb
! liquor law but is of the opinion 1t Will
not close the saloons Of Iowa. While Ii
is true Iowa is a prohibition state, lie.
dry territory. the mulct law While not
giving license to SELL really amounts
/ to it. so that legally. shipments from
! outside the state to Des Moines would
not be contrary to the laws Of that part
! OF the state.
+! Chris Ottosen, travelling pure food
! inspector, and the man who as candl-
/ date for state railroad commissioner,
made a big showing, in the hotel office
yielded to the reportorial pump-Says
at present four officials are constantly
travelling engaged in inspecting food
weights and scales. Two others do the
same work. but also inspec. creamer!es.
| while four more put n all their time
! inspecting the creaner!es and their
j products. ". 3. Barney. chief Of the
department. is asking the present leg!s-
lature for additional powers in the way
of inspection of meet markets. restaur-
ants bakeries, etc. A. Cedar Rapids
at one time he saw thousands of tons
of oat hulls, which undoubtedly We're
bought by the stock food manufacture
ers. mixed with refuse glucose, corn
and starch factory product. Knew OF
farmers imagining such stock food TOO
rich for feeding purposes, actually
| mixed bran with it. Now the law re-
| curing contents to be printed and
packages labeled, these stock food men
have to add some kind OF oil feed, to
| make 1t saleable. He has actually
! caught in the act. butcher grinding up
X; for sausage partly decayed and green
| meat; seen slaughter houses in condi-
| ton impossible to describe for print;
| one funny business was an old German
i woman arrested FOR selling rotten eggs.
! First she claimed the children packe d
them, and when reminded the youngest
! child on the farm was over 20, said that
some Of the neighbours did it to get her
into trouble. He quoted Wadley, the
big egg dealer. as saying that the farm
ers of Iowa lost cover 100000 every
year by not sending their eggs TO mar
ket while they are fresh, and taking the
market price AT one place he arrested
and had fined a man who deliberately
bought a lumpy Jaw steers for 81. the
price Of the hide. Then the purchaser
killed and dressed the beef and sold
1t out by the quarter at cut rates. Sick
ness caused by eating this beef brought
detection and fine.
An Illinois Central agent and one or
two postmasters along the line of the
railroad verify the reports concerning
the congestion of mail in this part OF
the state. They say six railroad mail
| workers were removed on Jan. ! this in
| the interests Of so-called economy. Re-
jsult about the first week in February
subscribers to daily papers sometime $
got none sometimes two or three copies
at one time. At Fort Dodge 125 sacks
of mail were left all day and in other
places carried by sacks Of letters anG
papers were thrown off for the return
train TO work it." It's bad enough tc
have to jump on these hard worked
men in the railway postofice cars fol
ineyitab )e and unneceSsar,- errors bu
the taxpaying public does not expec
the postmaster general to ask six mer
to do the work of ten men, even if such
economy makes a fine showing in ;
message to congress.