Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-24
TO GO OUT or EXISTENCE WITH
LITTLE EFFORT 70
REGAIN HOLD.
RuMoREO TFsT CASES
FAILING 70 MATERIALizE
State Attorneys Office Expects Ma
jority Of City and County of .oiaIs to
Exact Strict Compliance With Law
Railroads to Put Mileas. Books at
Increased Rate on Sale Soon.
Special to es-Republican.

II Les MONIES, Dec 24.--Ihe, passing
of the saloon in Iowa on Jan. thru the
repeal Of the mulct law will be marked
with comparatively little opposition in
the opinion of the, state legal authori-
ties While there have been a number
Tof rumors Of a fight against the en-
forcement Of prohibition. and it has
been reported that the saloon interests
were preparing to fight against giving
up their hold in certain localities, vet
as the time draws near these contests
I; are not materialiZing. Apparently the
II saloon interests realize that with both
public sentiment and the law against
them there Is nothing doing in Iowa
after Jan. l. The saloon men who
have not arranged to go into other
business are moving to other states.
Ten saloons went out of business
in Iowa City Thursday by reason Of
the operation of the five mile limit law
This leaves Ats which will close up
Dec. 81. Twenty lone out of the ninety
nine counties have saloons with the
larger number in the counties with
large cities. Scott county has the most
with eighty eight saloons and Dubuque
jcounty Is next with seventy four.S Polk
county has had no saloons since last
1 February when the grog shops Of Des
Moines and Valley Junction went out
! CT business
i Des Moines can not claim the dis
tinction of being the largest dry city
in the country. Atlanta, Ga, Is dry by
reason Of state prohibition and Atlanta
is a city of 100000 inhabitants. Cam
bridge, Mass, with a population Of
L., ~
Moines, with it's population of los, O00
4 went dry Feb. Is of this year beca use
a majority petition had been presented
to the city council against renewing
the licenses.
According to figures recently given
out by the government, prohibition by
state law prevails in seventeen cities
I OF more than 10000 population thru
out the United States Municipal pro-
hibition is in effect in fifteen cities.
county prohibition has made two
Michigan cities dry and parish prohibit
ton one city in Louisiana, SO that there
are thirty-five cities in which total
prohibition prevails.
! There are some strange regulations
as to hours Of opening. In Manchester.
4 M H., they are open only four hours
per day, from until 10 in the morning.
\ There are ten cities, Hoboken, New
lark. .Passaic and Paterson, MI; Phila-
4 delphia, Wilkes-Barre Allentown, and
York, Pa. New Orleans and Milwaukee
where the saloons are open twenty
four hours per day.
J Railroads will put mileage books on
sale Dec. 20, asking "a cents per mile,
according to information which has
Ibeen received by the state railroad
commission. In the opinion Of Cliff
ford Thorne. chairman Of the iowa
commission. they have no right to do
this inasmuch as the order of the in
lterstate commerce commission was to
the effect that the new passenger tariffs
must be filed with the commission be-
fore the new rates could be made. It
will not be possible for the railroads to
do this in so short a time. the Iowa
lofficials believe.
1t is not probable either that the
travelling public will pay "a cents per
mile for mileage books in lots Of 1000
miles each when they can buy straight
tickets in number of states for 2
cents per mile.
The Iowa commission may start in
junction proceedings in the federal
strain the roads from putting these
new rates into effect. The roads. II
is understood, will fight the case BIT
Iterly.
Five states were represented at the
conference Of railroad commissioners
and attorneys held at Omaha Wednes-
I day OF this week. They were Minne-
sofa, Nebraska, Iowa, North Dakota
and Kansas. Each state will make an
independent fight but the five states
will cooperate in preparing briefs and
larguments.
| The Farmers Savings Bank OF
Salem. Iowa, has incorporated with a
disqualification of s25,G00. The incor-
porators are all residents Of Salem
and vicinity. Among them are Owen
Hourihan, G. O. Van Wrinkle. c. II.
Cooke, w. G. Savage and John =,
Bentler.
Resolutions of appreciation of the Lie
| work Of Senator A. B. Funk, OF the
state board of education. were passed
by the board at it's session yesterday.
This was the last session Of the board
for Senator Funk who retires to sue
coed Industrial Commissioner Warren
Garst on Jan. I. Senator Funk was
5 vice president OF the board.
Commissioner Garst is leaving the
work Of the Industrial commission to
give his time to his own business at
fairs. His personal and business In
!, terests are such as to take much of
his time and It IL mott thought here that
j! he will take up any pther line OF pub
y lie work which wilr require close ap-
| plication. Governor Clarke has not
lyet appointed any one to succeed
I Senator Funk on the educational
n board. tSe .5s Sc
1 President H. H. Seerley OF the Iowa
State Normal explained to the board
yesterday the develsrament Of normal
extension work which has been pos
lsible this year bec re OF the larger
appropriation made NJ the last ,legis-
| lature for this work Formal extension
work Is now being Clarified Son in ninety
FIVE counties Of the state and more
than 10000 teachers are enrolled in the
classes. A force OF 100 constitute the
faculty which isl putting on this ex-
tension work Glasses are held every
] Saturday in some convenient location
In these ninety-fiv counties In. which
the elementary normal work ID taught.
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DuttSe Tub Factory.
iCresco. Dec. 2&.-Ths manufacture oil
butter tubs 10 the latest Industry 70 b
established In Cresco. and the factory