Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-05-19
cALADoosEs AND TOOL HOUSES.

When . new town was started TWO
Of the early institutions were a
saloon and calabooss. Folks used
to build the calaboose n soon az
possible. They used to think they
couldn't get along without II. 1t
wasn't place for desperate crimi-
mails like rnurderers and burglars.
The real dsAth defyins dsspsradoss
would go thru one Of those old GALA
booses Ike your automohils went
thru ,:hs end Of the garage that time
you thought you had your foot on
the brake ana concluded afterward
that 1t must have been on; the ao-
celersstor. The calaboose wasn't for
them: but when Jones went home
orstde and concluded that bis wife
would be the better Tor chastisement
with harness tug or Smith and
Brown fingered long enough at the
bar to want to lick each other or
somebody else then the town marshal
threw am into the calaboose. later
known as the quay and still later rs
the hoosegow. Temperance folks
and preachers with sand used to in
sist that the saloon was to blame for
the whole business. The business
interAsts" however were certain that
grass would grow in the streets If
the saloon were given the gate and
argled that the personal liberty Of
the victim held good thru the
various stages Of getting drunk but
that throwing rocks thru plate glass
windows and whaling the wife who
took in washing might be, going
little too far.
Vinton had one Of those jails
or calaboosss while the saloon
lights held out to burn and the
druggist could slip q half pint or
a quart across the counter instead
Of depending on the family
rsmsdies. and "tonics for the run
down people, Of the present period.
Perhaps you may recall that Iowa
had . Jag cure down at Knoxville, a
flag cure" for the hoi polloi Of
alcoholism and q "dipsonaaniac hos
pital" tor the aristoor.aoy OF In
inebriation. They're both gone. The
state rents the Jag CURE for indus
trial purposes ana vintcn has made
.. tool house Of the calahooss where
In to shelter city machinery instead
IT Duttins away plain trunks until
they sobst up. There's = reason.
The state and vinton have run out
Of calabooss and Jag cure raw ma
tsrial
6ssma. from The results that the
temperance folks were right about it
and that the saloon was mostly the
cause to which the calabooss was an
e1sct Also. the '@business interests"
seem to havs bean mistaken on tho
prospects q the grass crop. There
are no windrsws Of hay in tho streets
tho hay u 80 . ton.
Another thing we perhaps haven't
oonstdseed II The saloons were In
full blast and esozs wide open what
chanee would . sober man have dstv-
Ing IN automobile Of = Saturday eve
ming On q smooth ROAD anywharss
This talk q Tignt wines and
beers" Il The Same old stun that we
used to hear shout the saloon and
tho ssl ltauoe and the suds Of
saloea DAYS Thsss'A be Just -
many dsunks on wines" ~ on
waterfall anA JssssN Wsd have 70
taks tho tools esa Of The old oaia-
booss and dx up us hunks with
horse BLANKETS again. ~ ths wsy
how'd yeu Ike - nssss the fellow
full q Light wtass and bssss ca Z
narrow dl Of . slippsey day with 4
ditch ten esst below the roadway ~
you wore driving into town with
your family and no was going out
boil beut7 A DRINKS = drunk.