Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-03-30
MANY OLD LANDMARKS BEING
TORN DOWN FOR MATERIAL
THEY CONTAIN.
BETTER DIMENSION
STUFF FOUND THEREIN
Quality Of Lumber Thus Obtained
Not Found in Present Market
One Man at liscomb Making Bust
ness Of Buying and Wreeking Old
Buildings.
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Liscomb. March 3O.--Thc advocate
o. good in everything" finds confir-
nation in his theory these days as
he notes everywhere the wrecking OF
dila pidated shacks and other old
Luildings, especially in the smaller
towns. In our little town in this
part of the country a man has TAX
en- up this kind OF work as a tenn
porary occupation and has disman-
tied seven old structures in the last
few weeks. thereby not only obtain
ing for himself some good building
material but also very materially i'm
pruNln. tne appearance of the sites
from which they were removed. Ev-
erybody at all acquainted with the
situation knows that the dimension
lumber sawed twenty to forty year.
ago and So used that it is still in q
good state of preservation, as much
OF il is. is far superior in quality to
that in the market at the present
time. and modern day lumber prices
have awakened activity of those VIII"
thus find opportunity to head off the
necessity. in part. of buying new
lumber Tor building at his time.
one man in a Grundy county town
bought an old two-story house for
the ridiculous sum of SIS. and oh
taIned material enough from; Il t"
build creditaDle poultry house. at
he same time Kidding the town OF
an unsishtly structure. Wrecktns
buildings is not the most pleaSan'
work imaginable. but men are find
ing it profitable in these days as the
disappearance of innumerable olu
landmarks attests.
Those who have been so certain
shat any faint of ''militariSm' Will
put a candidate for the presidential
nomination out of the race this yea
may find it necessary to modify their
views before long if sentiment in
central Iowa is anything TO judge by.
Many are saying already that per-
haps it might he a good thing to
choose a leader who could be de-
pc nded on to employ heroic measures
in an emergency and everybody ad-
mits the probability of emergencies
in these times. This sentiment Is
found at unexpected sources. too. as
the following will show. There is
young preacher in the town of AiDi-
on, the Reverend H. NJ. Shirk, who
was with the American army over
seas in Y. NJ. G. A.. work. His eXpe-
rience included service in Russia ana
his observations there together with
the developments of later days has
convinced Mr.. S;hirk that boishevism
is to be rampant all over Europe
before the struggle is finished. ana
that whoever thinks We are SAT"
from il here IS on very dangerous
thinking ground. He says there is
only one effective way to down us
;ldnerents and that is by means oil
physical force. He favors modi-
fed sort of deportation for the a"i-
tat rS of this movement. VIZ the
loading of them on a ship. the later
return OF the vessel and the deDriNa-
tons of their followers of any def
mite information as to what ever pc
came OF them. Needless to add, Rev.
Mr.. Shirk is a Wood man. for he
doesn't want this country to take any
chances with anything like bolshe-
vism and believes that with Il mill
tarily inclined president these dis
turbers would get theirs
Something of the above was men-
toned to another minister. Rev. j.
y. Lyerly. of Albion. and he. too. IS
not averse to a military candidate.
Mr.. Lyerly was an instructor In 81
citizenship school" in n large city
for a time. He says it was an cas-!
matter to get the men started to the
meetings but an impossibility to
keep them there after the novelty OF
the situation wore off: that it is all
right to depend on the church ara
other civil institutions TO mold chill
dren into future good citizens y but
that something else Is necessary in
the case of grown UP foreigners bent
on changing The existing order.
Every day, practically. Of my WORK
somebody is telling me OF the long
time in which he has been a sub
81, rSS.1 &c 'rhe Times Republican.
Scattered all over the central and
northern Iowa counties are people
who have been reading the paper FOL
from fifteen to forty years, some
times even longer. At L:scomb last
Saturday one Of these produced EVIL
dence Of his assertion. 1t was re-
ceipt for subscription for the paper
It was dated at Union, Iowa. Dec -.
1895. and was signed bySA. p. Thayt-
er. 1t was given to Mr.. J. A. Span
gler, who was the railroad station
agent at Union almost quarter OF
century ago. Z. r.. Wilson'