Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-06-30
LOCAL COMMENT.


LOCAL COMMENT.
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The blood of the spectators was set
5tingling one day last week with the
announcement that two local citizens
had made nearly a thousand each in a.
bucket shop speculation on wheat. Once
In great while such an experience
takes place in most every community
but the times that local citizens lose
in such transactions, altho a hundred
fold more numerous are seldom pub
slicly recorded. However casual in
5quiry among the bankers and other
men more or less posted on the finances
of their fellow citizens will reveal a
record that is disheartening. There Is
not business man in Marshalltown
no matter how limited his experiences.
who can not tell OF some one who has
lost a fortune, q farm or q wife's dowry
on the fatal shoals of bucket-shop
gambling.
Two MarshalltoWn men have come to
grief in way that will not elicit much
sympathy from their fellow citizens. Re-
gardless of the fact that they were mar
ried and should have known better they
triiled seriously with the affections OF
two young society girls in Boone and
the father OF one OF them has taken It
upon himself to inform the wives OF
these gay gentlemen of the whole per-
formance. Married men can imagine
the result and few of them will waste.
any sympathy on their smart brothers
for such actions we'll merit all the grief
that can come to the actors. There is
a tendency among men away from home
to commit many improprieties which
are inexcueable and for which they
should be made to suffer. There IL no
reason on earth why man should not
behave himself away from home Just as
|heswould at home, q moral axiom which
these two men will probably remember.
in the future.
Greatly to the regret OF the pub
fishers and employees II not to the sub
scribers of the T.-R. the democrats Of
the nation have, by their vain endeavor
to stir up some sensational sentiment
alism, made 1t necessary for the T.-R.
to be published on the Fourth. Hereto
fore 1t has been the custom in this.
office to honor the two cardinal virtues
of Christianity and patriotism by sus-
pending publication on Christmas and
the Fourth Of July but this year we
feel 1t our duty to keep a close watch
on the democrats at kansas City lest
they undertake to destroy both.
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over on back street the other eve
ming a citizen observed an incident
which would tend to disgust one with
the young people OF today IL he did not
know the case to be an exceptional one.
Two young men driving in carriage
l;stopped to converse with a pair OF girls
in their first long dresses daughters of a
hard-working man and harder-work-
ling woman. overburdened with large
family of small children. One Of the
Iyoung men got out of the buggy and,
| too drunk to stand, lay down on the
ground. The other just az drunk, pro-
posed a drive to the older of the girls.
| Despite her mothers pleadings and or
ders she drove away with her drunken
escort. And the weary, sad-faced moth
er sat and cried.
The ballasting of road beds with
pounded stone from the city work yard
lis sensible move. one than in few
years will result in system Of thor
:oughly macademized highways enter
ling the city. but when first applied
should be accompanied with some sort
of top dressing of sand gravel or ctn-
|5ders. The broken rock itself when first
4 deposited forms an almost impa ssible
highway which teams will avoid even
Ito the extent OF travelling down in the
ditch as has been done on North Third
avenue. The Improvement OF, neighbor
ling highways is an Investment that will
| yield large lasting returns to the city.
1t is one Of the very best things city
4 can do to draw trade from the country
around Marshalltown with available
stone Quarries near by should enlarge
it's work yard and then make such a
4 thorough roundup OF Migrants an
4 DRINKS that its road WORK would pre-
sent the appearance OF a summers visit
4 by q Chicago e. Northwestern construc-
ltion gang. Reasonable expense should
not be considered for the road work is
worth it and in addition the effect such
| a policy would have upon peace and se-
curity OF the community would be mar
4 velous. 1t would appeal even to the
prohibitlonists for ten days on the
stone pile has proved to be one Of the
quickest ways to sober up drunk and
one OF the most effective preventives
OF future offenses yet known. The
stone pile is grand Investment. Let
LIT grow. The law abiding and tax-pay-
ling citizens want to see the country
secured for Migrants to pound the
stone which is so badly needed on our
cuntry roads. but the work should be
undertaken intelligently and systemat-
Ideally. When the broken rock is put
on the road 1t should be rolled and top
dressed 80 THAI teams will not cut thru
1 the fields to avoid 1t.
There's No Friend Like an Old
Friend.
He will always help you In time OF
need. It Is the same with Chamber
1 lain's Collie, Cholera and Dlarrhea
Remedy. 1t is an old and tried friend
4 in. many thousands OF families. and
like other old friends can always be de-
4 pended upon in time Of need. For sale
by druggists.
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