Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-20
Looker-On In Iona

Ames, Nov. 20-Traveling mon will
/ be interested to know the new hotel
project here is not dead, just sleeping.
I Every thing was arranged for a big
modern hotel. tenant secured and plans
drawn. but sad to relate. these plans
called for several more thousand dol
lars than expected and at such figures
( the party who vas inclined to leave it
could not see his way clear. So the
, ''stuff's OFF, pro TEN.
Election returns bring out some new
stories. to the writer. Il seems once
upon time, in one OF our Iowa towns,
just for joke. shoe cobber was run
for mayor" Strange to relate ne was
elected in dead earnest Now for the
sequel He made the best mayor we
ever had" So good he was reelected
and probably could have had third
term. All OF which knocks out the old
saying shoemaker stick to the last"
1t so happened on the day the Eu-
ziere boy was drowned at Marshall
toan and for many days after. while
the search for his body was continued.
| this scribe was working" towns near
Marshalltown. And II he was asked
once. he was a hundred times, have
they found his body yet? Now the
subscribers Of the T.-R. and many 9TH
ers In these towns. have a way of talk
ing 10 the writer. on the war. or cleo
ton. or the political news but in those
days. the first thing mentioned was the
sad case Of the Euziere boy. From
business men from hard headed stock
men. from old men and young men and
every woman present in these business
places came inquiries. came expression
! Of sympathy for the mother. 1t was
universal and war and politics sank
/ into insignifcance. One touch of pity
makes the whole world kin
! Mary have seen the motor cars now
/ used by the section men on our rail-
roads. A gasolene engine is attached
! to hand car used by section men and
easily takes q half a dozen men, two
or three iron rails, a few ties and a
key Of spikes to say nothing of the
water barrel. over the road at ten
mile clip. And by using this car these
men get 70 their work much earlier and
work later. all of which is good thing
! for the railroad company as well as
J
| CURED 10 pump the hand car Of the old
style. But It seems. so one station
agent tells the writer, the section boss
on some railroads has to buy this gas
| oltne motor After he has purchased 1t,
the company will furnish gasolene and
in some cases. refund the purchase
money As business proposition this
/ seems an odd one.
/
And this burning of railroad ties, by'
! the section men of course by orders Of
the railroad company, ig an outrage.
/ For some cases the section boss is al
liowed-or does whether he is Supposed
to or MOTTO take home enough ties for
his winters fuel The theory is If the
railroad men are allowed to take home
old ties they will soon be getting a nice
wood pile out of new ties. all OF which
is nonsense. And the passengers on the
trains now see big piles OF old ties
coarded up by the side of track, and
burned. See enough good wood actu-
ally destroyed, to keep dozen families
in their winters supply OF fuel. Give
the Chicago Great Western credit for
at least one year selling those old ties
at nominal price. Perhaps they do
this year but the writer has not seen
iany signs in the depots so far this year
Some railroad superintendent can do a
good thing by having all old ties on hi,
division, shipped to different towns and
igiven to charitable organizations who
will gladly distribute them to the
worthy poor. And these railroad su-
perintendents IL they will make In
iquiries will be surprised to find out
how many families even In prosperous
Iowa, are obliged to ask the county fol
fuel to keep body and soul together
This while rich corporations are burn
ing up hundreds OF loads OF good wood
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