Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-10-17

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as the lights are turned off on the night
Of October S1-the date fixed for the
closing of the present exposition. The
exposition buildings will be torn down
before January and nothing will re-
main to mark the sites where they
now stand other than piles of lumber,
iron and rubbish, to be disposed of as
junk. That this will be great junk
shop is evident, as there are 100000
feet of lumber. four miles of fencing,
10000 posts, hundreds of poles, thou
sands of flag stats, thousands of set
tees. chairs, doors, windows and every
thing that goes to make up the build
inGs as they now stand. The buildings
and the ground improvements aggre-
all this the wrecking company paid the
sum of $4,000, though by some this has
/ been regarded as an eXtravagant price
when the fact is considered that all of
the material is "old junk" much of 1T
being such stuff as one would find in
one of the downtown junk stores.
One year ago today (the l7th) the first
snow came.
1t is one of his first experiences in a
dry goods store, says the Syracuse Her
aid. He purchased some collars. Sud
denly the girl yelled Cash Hold
on. thar young lady he cried, diving
into his pocket, I'm a-gettin' it es fast
as cam
The most unpleasant feature of Pres
ident Mckinley's visit in Iowa was the
brevity of his stops.
4
Berlin furnished an extraordinary
exhibition of the collecting mania
awhile ago. The German postoffice
uses numbers for the months in stamp
4 ing letters, and on September 9 coll
lectors determined to obtain the un-
1 usual sequence of mines from district
office No. SO, whose stamp on that day
would read 99.9.999. A mob of over a
4 thousand persons stood outside the Of
4 flee when it opened, so that the police
had to be called in to keep it in order
| and all available help was sent from
the general postoffice TO handle this
mail matter. The rush continued
through the day and al night the police
mad TO use force to dispense the Grove
that was waiting after the closing
: hours and TO enable the officials Il
leave the Office. Sixty thousand piece.
of mall We're stamped during the day
The Chicago Journal says: Charlie.
Johnson claiming to live in Iowa. coule
give no satisfactory explanation o
where ha got the several suits Of clothe:
he had in a grip and is locked up pend
ing an Investigation. This is ii crue
J thrust at lowans, who are thus pre-
sumed TO be entitled TO but one suit 0
clothes
According 10 the reflections of
bachelor skirts are a terrible troubl
TO a woman in life. When she ism
{ holding them UP she's holding ther
DOWN
q In the matter Of building improve
q ments in a number of cities for Sci
!, tember, Atlanta headed the list Wit
q an Improvement of IS per cent over I'll
record of the same month of last yea
a CleNelandis gain WAS 80 per CEN
. Brooklyn, 40; Pittsburg and New On
. leans each, A. Toledo AZ: St Paul. 3,
4 Minneapolis q. st. Louis showed I'll
greatest falling off. being - per cer
below the figures for September, 1sa
!, Denver showed decrease of a p,
cent, and Chicago and Milwaukee eac
IL per cent
Is The bigarist who came to Iowa ar
4. worked as an evangelist and who h;
: since transferred his study 10 the il
$, terror Of a Jail. is convinced that Won
& ans Ways are not past finding out.
:. An eastern observer declares tina,
= you eliminate selishness from the a
- erage politician you reduce his capita
s. s. cation at least 80 per cent.
6 The following is illustrative of i
kind of incident upon which Dom Pau
reputation as a solomon rests: T,
brothers had inherited large far
which they were ANXIOUS to divide. Il
the one did not trust the other and
:, the end they went TO Pretoria to a
=, the president for his advice, which W
"a that the elder should make his divisi
-, and the Younger should have the rig
~. Of selection. Their fellow burghers ]
Il marked: There is no question of j
ooo the old presidents equal is dead
ch If one desires 10 stimulate his pr
and he satisfied with his lot as
~ A merican citizen he should read the !
y ter from England, given elsewhere
this issue.
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