Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-08-11

century. the highest OF the candidates
to be voted for in New York. have linz
tied county jurisdiction only, or, are
chosen from subdivisions of q county
The absence of state ticket and OF
either congress or senatorial candt-
dates, will make this years campaign,
SO far as New York county is concerned
in it, peculiarly and unprecedently
local.
Local correspondents of Illinois coun-
try weeklies report large crops of
wheat, corn and oats. One crop that
will be unusually heavy is the nut har-
vest.
AS a result of injunction proceedings
to restrain the Toledo, Ohio, city offi-
Gals from using $4,000 for a junket to
the meeting of American municipalities
the plan has been abandoned by Mayor
Jones' burg.
Arrangements are being made for the |
removal of the springvale cotton mills
of Springvale. Maine, to Fort Valley,
the kind from York county, and shows
the growing tendency of cotton manu-
facturers to establish themselves in the
south.
The town OF Dundee, New Jersey, is |
in a peculiar condition. 1t boasts fine
railroad station, which cost $4,000, a
station agent and ticket Office, but abb
solutely no trains. Because the inhabi-
tants of Dundee patronized the trains
so poorly the powers that be have
ordered that they shall run through the
town without stopping. 70 commit
tee OF business men who visited him
the general manager of the road said:
When the trains did stop all the peo-
pie of Dundee ever dia was to come
down and look at them run through. |
They can do that now. I fail to see
where they have any ground for COM
plant"
The proffer of gold certificates to aid |
in moving crops has developed the fact
that there are large SURPRISES in the |
financial centers of the west and that
the demand will be considerably less
than treasury officials expected.
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The citizens of Cleveland are deter
mined to restore order in that city if /
money and intelligent effort will do it,
The present aftermath of the street car
strike has resulted In dynamiting cars
and in various forms of disorder, and
large sum of money has been pledged
by citizens to convict guilty parties.
Mayor Jones, of Toledo. tried to pour
oil upon the troubled waters at the
strikers picnic He was cautious, how
ever, and pointed to municipal owner
ship as the sovereign remedy.
On the morning of Aug. Marshall
county was visited by devastating
storm of wind and rain that laid the
growing corn as fiat as though the
fields had been rolled with road build
ing rollers. Gloom pervaded the busi-
ness atmosphere of the community for
| the oldest and wisest farmers declared
that the crop was ruined. that the
stalks would never stralghten up, but
with a few days of scorching heat fol-
lowed by a gentle shower or two and
again by more heat the corn stands to-
day as erect and healthy in appearance
as it ever could. The thought occurs to
us how prone is the farmer to see the
gloomy side Of every seasons events.
Does the anxiety caused by the vary
Il ing fortune of an uncertain climate
make of him pessimist or is it mans
lhelplessness before the forces of nature
that makes him cry out in despair.
Cheer up,ye yeomen of fields.and fiocks,
and listen to the old woman who warns
young wives never to cross bridge
until they come to it. Your troubles
ARE great but are always made greater
by ones inability to see ahead into the
bright days that must always follow
a storm.
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