Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-04
ALMOST GONE.

Two LeMars livery barns have found
the business Improbable owing to tho
increasing number of privately owned
automobiles and will on Saturday, Feb
ruary 9Th. dispose of their real estate
and stocks at public auction.-LeMars
Sentinel
The livery barn is a relic OF the past
We do not know of one left in Tama
county There are a few feed barns
and auto liveries, but when you want
to hire a livery team as in years gone
by YOU discover there are TO such
things. Traer physicians have been
attempting to get by without keeping
any horses. Until the past year there
have been two or three teams in town
that could be hired in emergencies, but
not now. DR.. Wild was forced to invest
in two horses the other day because
he could not hire a team at any price
when roads made the use OF cars inn
possible. 1t is an expensive business
for a doctor to feed a team the year
around for the privilege OF using it a
few times, but conditions seem to make
it imperative.
BEATING ABOUT THE BUSH.
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The Carroll Herald adopts queer
method Of reasoning in insisting that
the question OF passing the national
prohi bitory amendment should not be
brought up at special session OF the
Legislature. il one be called. 1t says
the members Of the legislature were
not chosen to endorse national prohi-
bition. that the question was not I'M
der discussion at the time Of the cleo
ton. Does the Herald mean to infer
that our representatives at Des Afoines
must confne their actions only to such
things as have made specific issues
the preceding campaign? Even grant
ing this to be true. does the Herald
claim that passing the prohibitory
amendment would be contrary to the
of the state2 The decided dry major
ity in both house and senate would
certainly indicate otherwise. Like the
governor himself. it appears that the
Carroll paper Is hard pressed for an
excuse 10 postpone action on the
amendment that would mean a saloon
less nation.
THE BOTTLE BREAKERS
Correspondence Dies Moines Register.1
To the editor: Some time ago
drove over to In my car. When
little over half way to the city saw
a broken bottle in the road and tried
to dodge 1t. It was too late and the
wheels passed over the sharp frag-
ments. with the result Of blowout. 1t
was by a close margin I avoided going
into the ditch with my family. After
working and sweating for an hour in
replacing the tire ] resumed the jour
ney to the city. After getting home
and allowing ample time for surplus
wrath to escape ] sat down and calmly
penned these lines. which / consider
very conservative and lenient:
The meanest man in all the world is
not the Stacker gink who. when Old
Glory IN unfurled, will slyly smile and
wink; nor is ne that low mutt that
prowls around in human pants and
sneaks the neighbours pigs and fowls
when e'er ne gets chance: nor do
yield the place to him. low down as ne
| may be, who sells you milk you can
not skim and willow leaves for tea:
but further down the human scale find
a human thing that makes these other
guys turn pale and slowly leave the
ring--it is the man ~ who guzzles
beer until ne has a load" then smash-
es bottles far and near along the
country road. Elmer Ellsworth Preston.