Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-05
Lookcr-On In Iona


Dr. Somers, of Grinnell in Aviator Rob
! inson's monoplane TO visit patient in
| the country eleven miles from town,
| the account of it in the T.-R. mas
caused much comment. Doctors in all
| these towns are told an aeroplane must
be part of their outtit-automobiles are
| too slow and useless in mud times, while
Robinson can take Somers out twenty
miles in the country in twenty minutes,
night cd day, good roads or bad ROADS.
In case Of accidents every minute
counts. OF course much of this talk is
half in joke but the other half is In
dead earnest Nearly every reader can
remember the same kind of talk When
the automobile was first used by the
doctors.
And to illustrate this same idea, to
show how little the public is prepared
for the new. the unusual, what nap
paned in this town few years ago is
in the same line. Mr.. G. w. Bury at
that time in charge of the telephone Of
fee, told the writer of his experience
in telephoning to man in rhe country
after the wires were broken and many
poles were down. as the result CT Dig
snow storm. Mr.. Bury knew ne hao
talked with the man in the country
was positive the wires were broken
and vet he talked with the man ana
heard his replies. Well, the Looker-on
published the story in This column. AND
the result was many readers had FUN
with this scribe wonder you'd let
man fill you up with such yarn
That telephone man got good one on
YOU didn't he?" And Mr. Bury mad
trouble too Letters were sent him.
asking where he got his liquor. Susges-
tons were made that he furnish every
newspaper man that came along with
more such stories, It was good stun,
etc. Well Mr.. Bury has gone to an
other world 1t is pity he Is not mere
to know in many places wireless tel
ephones are working. And the PROB"
abilities are, twenty-five years from
now. when in the T.-R. columns are
republished TWENTY-FIVE Years ago
Today" some Of the youngsters VIII
wonder why DR.. Somers and AVIATOR
Rob!nsons trip in 1915 created SO much
talk.
Daily and weekly papers are giving
much space to cleaning UP week.
Mayors are proclaiming and women
are working. school teachers are urging
the boys and girls all to ciean INC
lawns, the back yards. 10 MAKE CITY
beautiful. Now the writer, Whiie not
deriving this agitation, has this TO say:
Never before in twenty-nine years mas
Iowa-this referring TO large ana sma!i
towns-been so clean on the ISL OF May
as at the present time. An uncut lawn
is the exception. The rubbish piies
are cleared away. Back Oh the stores
usaully the winters accumulation -
allowed OF remain long after the gar.
dens arep Ianted. Not 80 TINS yedI.
change has come Ger the spirit OF our
Dreams" -Four weeks ago the "rite,
saw bank cashier at Chaplh hafu
at work raking off the the whoie sue "a
his lot clear to the railroad TRACKS. a.
Ellsworth. the elevator man hau se'
eral men cleaning up and haullns a"ay
ALL of the rubbish around ms ONCE anu
elevator Even had a lawn mower ~
commission and raking up the cut
grass. And in the towns the streels Oh
rounded up earlier ana Deter
usula. Painters ere at "ofh
where. More flower beds are iaio ou..
More Towering plants from the no
houses are set out en- me siues anu AZ
|ron+ of nrivate residences. And TINS
ia referring " t'iS 'esA
This town Of Beaman % mooei ., a
cleaned up town. What started TINS Is,
cleaning up epidemic, not here but an
over in Iowa is hard 20 tell, only TINS
everv town the writer visits seems 10
have on its Sunday clothes-speakins
In Darables-and evidently is going to
taen them clean. There's big oppor-
unity for our railroad companies 10
add to the general appearances OF
depots and grounds. Section men can
49, lawn mower and depot agents
can take care of flower beds. The
writer has heard the name of a railroad
| that spends a hundred thousand ooiiars
| year along the line On MOWERS anu
a. oara of them around the depots.
The towns of Iowa have cleaned up
and are going to keep clean. Per-
haps il the railroads would do the
same. the people might vote ~ -ceh'
passenger rate. Nothing reaches 'ns
heart like flowers.