Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-30
POSTMASTER AT GENEVA RE.
fcE,vEs LETTER DIRECT FROM
h GERMANY.
GIFTS OF IoWANS
GREATLY APPRECIATED
Soldiers Widow and Three Children
Benefit by Generosity-lncomp potency
in Engineering Work on Drainage
and Road Systems Frequent Reason
For Opposition.
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Special to Times Republican.
Geneva, March SO.-Postmaster Gill
lerte received letter bearing Ger
man postmark one day last week Be-
sides the name and address on the en-
velope was the information that the
its federal duties. also took care OF a
. business involving trade in cigars,
candy, post cards, laundry, etc. IN
side was the picture OF a woman and
three small children. There was also
a letter. unmistaka bly, German. AS the
inspection proceeded the postmaster
began TO realize the situation. Geneva
inha bitants contributed to the Christ
mas ship that carried presents to the
European war sufferers and into
stocking cap some member OF the
family had placed the P. Ms. business
card. Donations OF this nature are
thought by some TO fail. generally, 10
reach the destinations for which the
donors start them. but in this case, at
least the gifts We're distributed non
estly, as the Acknowledgement of their
receipt showed.
Mr. Gillette was unable to translate
his letter but across the street ne
found a business man who possesses
ability in that line and in its finished
form. the mssive read as follows:
.Kirchheim near Heidelberg, Bauden,
in the War Year, 1915. My Loving
Good Doors: ] give you all my hearty
thanks for your useful gifts. May God
the ali giver bless your family Tor
what they have done for us.
tNnE
much suffering and mourning in so
many homes 1t has torn into our
family, taking my loving husband, our
children's best father from US.
My dear husband died at Friekart,
France. a. heroic death. We at first
could hardly believe that we should
never see him again. but now we are
convinced that if it is Gods will we
shall meet him again in heaven. We
German women Will bear our hard
ships with courage if only Germany.
our dear fatherland, viii gain the vic
tory and we have the strongest hope
IL will.
Your dear family may rest assured
| that we Germans are fighting only for
our fair rights May our kaisers
| favorite motto be fulfilled I'VE must
! win. with God. for kaiser and empire
1T is surely hard for me alone with
three children TO get thru this life
without support. 1t means to work
! from early morning till late at night.
which we German women are willing
| TO do. Then with the Almighty God
for us. let come what may. We shan
manage to keep ourselves upright.
I Dear loving doors. Your kind gifts
/ touched my heart and were just what
| we most needed and relieved me from
worrying at present for clothes Surely
THE Lord has been good to US: there
! fore. / and my orphaned children shall
be thankful to him forever and pray
Him. dear family, to shield and bless
YOU all One thing I beg Of you. that
you please answer this letter. 1t would
be a great pleasure 10 me and my chill
dren to know that You received our
thanks. Respectfully yours, Bertha
F'eins.'
Say" said farmer on train tbs
other day, do you know why some o.
the most intelligent and progressive
farmers in the country insist on stir
ring up trouble over drainage and roat
laws? There is sometimes sometime
more than Increased taxation anc
transfer of petty authority that rouse!
the ire OF the man who kicks asains
some Of the modern ways OF doini
things. I want to give you an illustra
ton" he continued. Last week
party OF US took the liberty to inspect
a point in a county drain. Perhaps W
had no legal right to do il but tn
ground was SO wet round there ;"
thought there must be sometime
wrong SO we dug down and looked II
We found big tile filled to within te
inches of the top with mud, grave
etc. and we found the adjoining piec
= of tile above a little more than tW
inches lower than the one into which
it was supposed to discharge. VIVA
next we might nave discovered ma
We kept on I do not know; we stoppe
with that Ny drainage expense wa
about sl5 per acre. Do you see VIVA
am getting at? The supervisor t
whom 7 complain says the enginee
understands his business The con
tractor says keep out of the way,
know my trade and you don't. I'll
this job without interference, and tn
farmer who foots the bill finds out
very little about the matter after it
all over. Incompetency, that is til
cause Of lot Of the trouble. If tn
feature could be removed and engineer
EXPENSES kept to a reasonable figul
lot OF opposition 70 drainage ar
road laws would soon disappear. tt
young fellow fresh from school WI
says TO the much older man. star
back, you don't understand this like
do and then proceeds to blunder ar
repeat the performance time after tin
will furnishe a reason for prejudi
against the present system as long
he exists
F.. P Benson, of Hansell as
chicken raiser is surely success
While operating a farm near Gene