Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-10
Looker-On In Iona

| Allison, OCt. lU.-1raNellnS men are
passing it along that in Blanktown
several cases of BARRIERS itch have APP
peared and word to the wise is suffi-
cient. Before several legislatures bills
| have been offered to license barber
shops, and said bills, proposed law and
! licenses all We're based on the idea Of
sanitary legislation and enforcement.
In Blanktown some well posted trav-
cling men claim this is the second time
| this dread disease has appeared and
the origin is traced by inference to one
shop, notorious for its disregard of
modern methods, in the use of towels.
soap and razors. Much of this talk
and suspicion is undoubtedly reckless
and uncalled for. but the fact remains
that B!anktown is today doing very
small barber business and even adjoin-
! ing towns are suffering from dull
! trade in the same line of business. But
We will forget all about it in six
months. The unsanitary shop will again
| be crowded till midnight Saturday, the
! next legislature will refer the BARRIERS
! license bill to the committee on edged
| tools. they will report il Tor indefinite
pos1ponement and in a year or two we
will have another scare in Blanktown
! from the same cause and this present
agitation will once more be repeated.
Everybody knows and realizes what
competition is and does between bust
ness men. but few notice, town COM
petition. OF course if one town has a
case of smallpox all of the adjoining
towns are So sorry about it, that in
mentioning it, if one case Of varioloid
is reported as ten cases of virulent
smallpox in Extra, its done pro bono
publlco.' SO the farmers Will not go
there to trade and thus cause an cpl
demic all over the county. But who
would have thought AN early closing
movement" would have ~ be decided
by several towns before one town could
put it in force It's true probably that
! Albion, Liscomb, Written, Conrad and
Beaman, no one Of these towns could
afford to close at 6 p. m. excepting
Wednesdays and Saturdays, unless all
signed an agreement 10 that effect
which they have done. None of these
towns could afford to lose the farmers
after supper trade. Some towns in
Iowa attempting to have early clos
ing" have been baked in their efforts
along that line, by some one store re-
fusing to sign the agreement. In Mex
town. Angenspiel & Co. refused to go
into the early closing movement. and
contrary TO the boycott. laws every
clerk and every proprietor who wanted
to close at p. m. and all of their
wives, auntS. cousins and mothersin
| law sWore a solemn oath before high
heaven that they would rot trade a
{! cents worth at Angenspiers till he
agreed to close at p. N. 1t worked.
He closed.
There's nothing new under the sun
and every story has been told before,
only slightly changing dates, names.
etc. but the following is vouched for
by many living near Geneva. The rural
route solicitor for the Times Republic
can. Mr.. c. E. Wilson. is nothing, if
not very much in earnest, and once he
! is in a farmers home the whole family
soon conclude they can not enjoy life
unelss they take" the daily. Well, it
seems as result Of his visit in one
| family they had been reading the T.-R
! for over a year when along came a
| bible colporter and found an opening.
He labored in vain. He used up all OF
| his arguments. He showed all Of the
colored plates. He told them his So
| ciety furnished the bible at cost pdice.
! Then he started the religious side Of
the argument, when the good wife said
We don't need it. We take the daily
! T.-R. of Mr.. Wilson,.
An observing railroad conductor vs.
| in the near future passenger trains will
all have auditors" on all trains, and
| the duty of conductors viii be to con
[. duct" the train. The auditors will take
! up the tickets and cash fares, and they
will be run on different trains, one trip
over one division, the next over an
other division and SO on. He expects
that the terms freight and passenger
conductors will be eliminated and j
conductor will run any train excepting,
of course, way freights. construction
and wrecking train outfits. Further
more he expects that soon all brake
men will be taken off passenger trains,
and "porters." probably large per-
centage made up of colored men will
take the place Of the present brake
men" He says that every year more
and more of these changes are taking
place on the larger roads and he soon
expects it will be a general custom.
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