Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-20
RAILROAD COMMISSION TO AZ
SYST PLAN TO ABANDON ANA.
MosA &NoRTHERN LINE.
RECEIVER SEEKS ORDER
FROM FEDERAL COURT
Says Road Has Been Improbable and
At Great Expense in Keeping Line in
Repair Because Of Unusual ssason-
Citizens Anxious to Have Train Ser
vice Continued.
special to Times Republican.

ing made by the state railroad commits
sion, Commerce Counsel ]. H. Hender-
soE and the state department Of JUS
tee to resist the move to suspend train
service on the Chicago, Anamosa &
Northern railroad. The stat. officials
received notice yesterday that the re-
ceiver for the road, G. E. Farmer, OF
Anamosa, has asked the federal court
fer permission to abandon the road.
The case will come on for hearing
before Judge Reed of the northern dis
trict of the United States federal court
at Dubuque Dec. z.
The Chicago, Anamosa & Northern
went into the hands of receiver
eighteen months ago. The principal
owner of the road is l.. E. Meyer. pf
Chicago, of the Meyer Construction
Company The road is about sixty
.nlles long and extenis frcm Anamosa
in Jones county to Quasqueton in Blu
chanan county. The receiver says that
this past season has been an especially
hard period for the road as the heavy
rains have caused many washouts and
1T has been a difficult matter to keep
the road bed in repair. The crops up.
lii u lAlaI ISS Hsfilc uSCldTeS, nave DeST1
injured by the bad weather and thai
has cut down the business Of the road.
Citizens along the road are decided
ly anxious to have train service KEEP.
up. A delegation of men owning eleva-
Henderson and protested against the
abandonment of train service They de-
clare the road can be made to pay.
:
The state dairy and food department
has received ruling from the attor-
uey generals office as to what con-
stitutes a violation of the law in the
sale Of lemon extract. The attorney
generals office declares that it is only
when lemon extract is sold as a bever
age that it is in violation of the law.
When sold as a food product it's sale
is entirely within the law. A dealer
has reason to suspect a customer
who buys lemon extract in large guam
titles, the officials declare, and it
should not be sold to such party.
California ranchmen and farmers are
anxious to buy some of the Iowa corn
for seed shown in the big horn OF
plenty exhibit in the Iowa display out
at the Panama-Pacific exposition, ac-
cording to A. r. Corey, secretary OF
the Iowa department Of agriculture,
who returned yesterday from the ex
position. The corn is to be put up for
sale. There are 400 bushels of it and
it will probably bring good price.
Secretary Corey says the best offer the
Iowa officials have had for the Iowa
building up to this time is 5000. There
is not much that can be used for sal
wage in the building, he states. The
exhibit still continues to attract
great deal of attention.
The Women's Christian Temperance
Union of the First Presbyterian church
here has asked the state executive
council and Governor Clarke to have
the anti-cigaret law printed In pamph-
let form for free distribution. In
resolution passed few days ago the
organization declares that this is very
essential as the use of cigarets is on
the increase, that their use Is spreading
at an alarming rate and that the habit
of using them is not only undermining
the efficiency of the young men and
boys but Of future generations.
According to figures at the local
postoffice 1874 Iowa roral routes have
been cut off since July 1. There are
now 2,243 routes in the state. 1t is es-
timated that about so per cent of the
rural routes of the state have been
affected by either consolidation, or by
being heightened or shortened. The
changes in the routes are being made
gradually but practically every ural
route in the state will be affected. it is
said. before the program as planned by
the department is fully carried out.