Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-05-13
Looker-On In Iona

Clarion-The public mind is so dense.
perhaps, that is it. the world pu, an
other way, the people Of Iowa, cannot
understand why a booster greater
Iowa crowd IS roaming over Iowa and
incidentally raising money for the
Panama Exposition exhibit Many
times has this scribe been asked what
are they raising money for?" Thought
Waterloo was to furnish The building"
Are these boosters going to take away
from Waterloo the honor and adver-
Using. or does Waterloo still stick to
Its proposition TO build the Iowa build
.nA or is the money these boosters are
raising TO be turned over TO Waterloo
or is the money Waterloo agreed tc
raise 10 De turned overto the boosters?
II. the writer could pickup some daily
paper Waterloo preferred. in which
these Questions were fully answered ii
would save him much time and
trouble.
This town Of Clarion has taken a
very practical step towards the erec-
ton Of q new hotel and the writer is
glad 70 repuolish il, in this column.
Inc business men have purchased the
OLD hotel ana corner lot opposite the
court house. equal distance from the
oepots, AMI "iN give Il outright TO any
one VINO Will erect $4,000 modern
MOTEL. The hote. business has far ont
grown the accommodations for the
travelling public and no better OPENING
exists toda! FOR some one with the
cash TO finish bargain in this offer.
And Clarion has installed fine pub
lie improvement in the way Of water
ou0b!ers on the business streets Other
county seats will 90 we'll 10 follow
clarion's example.
II seems as thought there was two
sides to Judge Lees eligibility Former
Congressman and Ex-judge Birdsall of
! this place is Of the opinion that the
word "el!gib!iity' refers to the time
Of assuming Office and not TO the date
Of election. Says one resigned the
tudgship and Ex-Governor Shaw re-
fused 70 make him notary public be-
cause he was not eligible. He also
! mentions q case that once came be-
! fore him, where another was elected
supervisor. bu: took out naturaiizat ton
papeTs before Jan.lst and legally quail
fed for the office. All Of which sug-
gess that cur Lawmakers frequently
are unable 10 put the English language
together 50 that said words express the
same meaning 70 all men.
Il reminds the writer Of one day last
week, when the man in the car seat
! behind. noticing the scribe was reading
a fresh daily. asked are they still
Ted.taiing" over the Mexican war:
And today the writer had quite a
pleasant chat with an 81 year old Irish
woman IN one Of the stores. She was
bright a dollar" physically ans
mentally favorably compared witt
some women OF sixty. but think it
she didn't know there was a war II
Mexico. and telling her Of the bort
dropped IN the streets Of Mazatlar
from an airship, and the press repor
sent BY wireless" brought out that she
had not heard Of the war, and did not
know what an aeropiane or wireless
was for or were used. And this stor!
{ has been told before in this column
! Three days after McKinley's death, thu
writer met a storekeeper in a small
| town in northwestern Iowa, who die
not take a daily and seldom read {
! weekly, and when some one said NC
Kinley was dead said: 1T didn't sur
prise MIN. No man could sit up nighti
| and take care Of a sick wife and keel
| il up as Mckinley had, and live long
! Now don't for a moment imagine thi
woman. or the merchant referred t
would be classed as dun o
stupid. Far from it. II they read
daily paper they could criticize vii
son's management OF the Mexican bus
mess as well as the old fellow who toll
US all in the postofice, if we had any
body hut "a school superintendent Il
the presidential chair. We would nav
captured the City Of Mexico long ago.
Some Of 1.c remember the ION o.R1cn
rnond. OF the civil war. go over I
Cuba" in the Spanish war ana nov
the same specimens OF humanity az
Yelling ION to Mexico. mt.
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