Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-26
IOWA NEWSPAPERS.
HIRED GIRLS SCARCE.

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HIRED GIRLS SCARCE.
Travelling Mans Notes In Waterloo
Reporter.l
The hired girl question Is bothering
the heads of families in cities and
towns everywhere. At Des Moines
gentleman who claims to be authority
says there Is a demand there today for
900 girls. At Denison q man OF family
drove seven days in the country and
then failed to secure a girl that could
even wash Dishes
ABSORBING THE CENTRAL,
[Muscatine Journal.l
Railroad men say that 1t Is but
question of time when the Milwaukee
will enter upon its rights and title in
the Iowa Central and take possession.
The Cedar Rapids Gazette thinks there
is little doubt that some arrangement
has been made between the two COM
panies for the operation of. the Iowa
Central. These indications are said to
have very strong Milwaukee odor.
OF course If the Iowa Central falls into
the hands of the Milwaukee the Musca-
tine North & South road will go with it,
Muscatine people will be glad to have
connection with the Milwaukee system.
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GOOD ROADS PROBLEM.
IBuffalo Center Tribune.l
We are informed that between $500
and $500 have been expended on the
roads of Buffalo township this year.
Can anyone tell where it has gone ?
Surely there is not very marked inn
provement in our roads, and next
spring they will be as bad as ever Is
| 1T not time this money was looked af-
ter a little more closely and some bene-
| fit derived from it? If Mr.. Hits, the
trustee for this township, can explain
where the money has been used we will
be willing to publish 1t, so the people
of the township will be able to know
where it has gone.
NAMES AND OCCUPATIONS.
[Odebolt Clarion
| After all, there isn't much in name.
We have Hartman running grlst
|mill: Shelter expounding the law;
Wright conducting a hotel; Sawyer
clerking In a store; a Platt teaching
music; a Storey and a Satchel each
conducting a livery stable: Smart
tailor; Frey taking pictures; A
Freeze doing barber work; Boyer
pulling teeth: an Appleyard landlord
a Bowman proprietor of lumber
yard; a Townsend prescribing medi
ltine; a Cole buying grain; Grey JUS
tice of the peace; Carr preaching tn,
4 gospel; Graham selling furniture: {
!; Bey cashier OF bank Mumme!
stringing telephone wires: Bate
running typewriter; Coy clothier
a Mill shaving whiskers, and man.
others whose names do not fit their oc
lcupations any more appropriately thai
corset would fit COW.
DOLLIy1IR'S OBSERVATIONS
[Sioux City Journal.l
Congressman j. p. Dolliver, of For
Dodge, who arrived at the Garretso
I|yesterday to speak to the Methods
conference last night, intimates that
is disinterested observer of the war;
fight for the Iowa senatorship that
now in progress.
II can't tell you what to think of tn
situation he stated. ITO disintel
ested observer there is little else BIT
doubt in it. Both sides are making til
i strongest KIM VI icldlIHS LOT lLell cai
didates, and if man tries to give eac
q fair amount of credit for truth an
veracity he is bound to get perplexe'
know nothing more of the situatio
: than any newspaper reader knows, an
that is an unsatisfactory sort of know
edge
Congressman Dolliver grew inte1
y ested in Sioux City's efforts to Undue
President Mckinley to visit here on h
trip west. When I go home I'll s.
about at once to cooperate with yo,
people in the hope that may Undue
: him to stop and visit me at Fort Dodg
/ don't care particularly to have o,
city give him whole lot of fireworl
"a and band music. but I would like
show him some of the best fishing tn.