Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-18

nan may get away with q few dollars |
but It Is bad business. The error 10 all
most certain to be discovered.
While we are exporting half q smil-
lion dollars worth OF provisions every
day OF the month the foreign market
must be of some benefit to farmers. II
contributes largely to the maintenance
of good prices.
Chicago has been doing little esti-
mating with her new city directory as
a basis and claims population of over
1000, 900. The census man may sue
coed in cutting down these figures.
In Newton, Mass, the other day, q
mans So bill was blown out Of his hand.
and he could find 1t nowhere. A friend
cut a piece of paper Just the size OF the
bill and liberated Z at the Iilace where
the man had lost his money. The paper
blew down the street and around into
an alley, ard there the man found the
So bill There's nothing like Injecting
little common sense into such efforts.
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A correspondent of the Boston Tran
scrips tells of u town in Maine having
a population Of 1000 in which there are
fourteen churches, each organization
having meeting house and all but one
of them supporting % regular SER
vices These churches on the average
raise little more than 5000 year for
the preacher, and no one gets more
than $500, and but two approach that
figure. There are six denominations
and three of these have three churches
each in town. lie tells of another town
in Nebraska, with less than 5000 in-
Ishabitants, that has thirteen churches,
leach with settled minister. and one
OF these churches received $3.50 year
for several years in missionary aid
| from funds raised mostly In the city
churches in the east. 1t is evident that
many places could improve their moral
! atmosphere by consolidating some OF
their church interests.
The Presbyterian assembly. which
lmet in ST. Louis yesterday, may permit
a.little revision of its creed in the INFER
lest os harmony and more liberal views.
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The war department has received nc
4 confirmation of the report that Agui-
Ira.do mas joined the rebel leader 'f,no
\ III TIE north.
The largest smokestacks which haye
i ever been manufactured in the United
4 States are now being built in st. Louis.
THEY will be seventy feet in circumfer-
Eence at the base and gradually taper q
forty feet in circumference at the top.
They will be 900 feet high. and will cos,
slabeut $4,000 apiece.
The recent hot weather must have
i had sitting effect upon smallpox, AZ
Hits abuting In the state. The Register
u states that no new cases have been re-
I. ported in Des Moines for two weeks.
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A statement from the city Of Sidney
y Australia, shows that the buboni,
lplague has spread with alarming rapid
II ity along the shores OF the harbor. Thu
ltESOurGes OF lGIGsl1Oll is III uIit
) Iwharyes within the quarantined area
Hundreds of men have been put t.
work cleaning and disinfecting ant
some hundreds of tons of filth have beef
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In snoal,inp or Senator clar,..s a,,da
Il cious return to the senate with ne,
Z certificate the Chicago Record properl
considers that the whole performance
. a ,efroshinp illnstrat, on az the CROWN
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e any way which keejs within the law
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