Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-10-11

81 Different Towns and Com.
munittes.
BEGGING FOR HOUSES.
Mason city Times Herald.l
Mason City has been fortunate enough
to secure another institution of which
We are not now at liberty to speak.
Some things must be handled carefully,
and this is one of the things. This leads
us to remark that next year will be the
most prosperous year 20 far as resi-
dence buildings are concerned that this
city has seen in recent years. IL is a
very healthy Sign when you see men go
begging for houses to rent. This IL the
present condition. Dozens have spoken
to US regarding the matter and state
that they are planning to build. There
Will bequite a little building over in the
military college addition, while in the
northwestern part OF the city buildings
will boom even more than they have
this year. 4
OLD DEMOCRATIC REFORMERs.
Newton Journal.l
In looking over the filessof newspa zen,
things. For instance, in September
Montezuma, we find the following az
one OF the resolutions passed:
Il. That unless the coming Chicago
democratic national convention shall
adopt plain. straightforward, out-and-
out peace platform, without ambiguity,
as clearly anti-war as the English Ian
as candidates for president and vice
president men whose views and feelings
harmonic with the platform, we will
dates in hell, rather than vote for the
candidates or sustain the. action Of the
lconvention.'
For the sake of posterity, We hope
that the names of the men who were a
part of that meeting have been entirely
Iforgotten-but, we might add IN passing,
that thirty years from now men who
are now living and who are denouncing
President Mckinley and his admins
Istration will seek the same oblivion as
now sought by the peace-at-any-price
democrats of 1864.
HEATHER POUCHES DISCARDED.
[Sioux City Journall
One million dollars a year is an item
worth the thinking about. According
| to a Sioux City man in the railway mail
saves by using mail sacks made out Of
duck instead Of the old leather mail
pouches.
In fact the government saves q whole
lot more than that, because the man
III;
only about the saving in the weight Of
the mails. He did not include In his
estimate the enormous saving that ac-
1.-The cost Of the two sacks. The old
leather pouch, the kind that is pictured
I in tobacco advertisements, used to cost
about 81, while the new duck pouch
costs only about 81.
1t Is to the interest OF the govern
lment TO have its equipment for the
tlble, because the sum it pays the rail-
road companies IL in proportion to the
|weigh-up once a year, generally In the
month of April, which is considered an
average month Inasmuch as the mail
pouches are weighed With the letters
land papers and packages, the advan-
llsiNlIlS 4liittll as Sdltly
Twill permit is quite evident.
Last year the government paid the
railroad companies $4,000. 900 for carry
eminent to sell 3,400. 900, 900 steel engray-
lings of George Washington To make UP
this amount of money.
IN the stacks CT mail pouches which
!are rolled along the Sioux City depot
platforms on trucks every day. an old
lleathern pouch is TO be noticed only now
and then, an especially tough old timer
which has outiived his comrades Of for-
mer days. Generally these leather
pouches are badly scratched and
l.cracked. because they are necessarily
aged.
A recent Improvement in mail pouch
tes is one which can be gathered Sp at
THE neck and quickly fastened with q
rope or strap. which Is locked by a pad
lock. The value Of this sack lies in the
thine that is saved in Fastening it.
do you see those blue lines on every
lone of those white sacks?. asked the
mail agent. They We're plain to be seen
s ss::.:,d looked like very ordinary dacora-
lions. He was answered in the affirm
iatiye. Well, II have been In the mail
service for more than twenty years he
went on. land have seen those blue
Hines almost every day of my life In
lthat time, and until just the other day
| / was not aware that there was any
thing. at all significant about them. Fol-
1.-THE want of something better to do
happened to take the trouble to count
1.-The blue lines. and found there were
ltust thirteen OF them. I'd be willing "a
lbet there is not one railway mail agent
In hundred that knows those stripes
stand for the thirteen original states. :