Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-04

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to 8. SO. that 5la is not extravagant.
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! TOPICS OF THE TIMES :
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
Forty-two industrial companies will
distribute s17 100000 In dividends in
April. This is q. trust feature that COM
mends itself to stockholders.
$50
thru the strawberry section OF Missouri
| led an observer to think that not more
iis.hsn 2 half crop will be harvested this
year. Last season WAS disastrous to
lssrawberry growers everywhere from
overproduction, and many plowed up
their fields. However. many fields were
seen in fine condition. promising large
Yields. a Sarcoxie grower says that in
| 1897 that section shipped go carloads;
| in 1898, 96 carloads: In 1898, 100 cars.
This year it will probably be go, with
| 400 acres In bearing, against loo In
1899 The frost affected other berries to
some extent, and peaches are hopeless
l:ly done for. Apples are in splendid cons
i:dition.
/ Under the new scale which went into
4 effect Monday the coal miners Of Penn
/ sylvania are nov receiving the highest
Wages of any time in thirty years.
1 They have no time to listen to popo-
\ cratic plants.
Navigation on the upper Mississippi
| has opened and promising steamboat
ing season il in prospect.
| The dozen or SO packers OF sweet
corn in central New York have closely
Figured the past months on prospects
4 of the coming season. Usually by this
| time contracts with the farmers have
| been made and orders for the greater
part of the output taken. But there is
a hold up this season, caused by adj
vance III price of tin and solder and de-
mand by farmers for 60 cents per 100
| for their sweet corn. Increase In cost
of packing will be 10 centsS per dozen. or
! 30 cents per case. Farmers want 10
cents per 100 advance, equal tot3 cents
l3per ease. The corn makes one-fourth
1.-THE cost of packing Some farmers are
asking only 5 cents advance The To-
cent demand has not been met. Most
of the factories have sold for future
delivery about half their expected
Npa king.
The Indianapolis journal says SEN
ator Depew was the first TO congratu-
Hate Senator Pettusson his speech. The
gentleman from New York WAS
NATURALLY enthusiastic over a man VINO
had the nerve to tell story older than
any in his own collection OF early all
jfInanacs.
A number Of authors and writer's to
whom the old finn OF Harper q Bros s
of the company will pay
| them in fun.
80.
The editor Of the Britt Tribune states
that he is no; prepared to guarantee
Ismatrimony to In. an absolute remedy
l3forEthe woman suffrage idea in women.
but he is certain il is a panacea when
accompanied by 4 good lot OF love on
both sides. \ nise Preside the editor
continues "a strong, able. good young
husband. kitten on the hearth. a
brigf, coal fire. Il few good books and a
hired girl to wash the dishes. run err
rands and rock the baby presents a
scene Of womans sphere that has at
IAtractions. and viii continue to he a Y
ltractive 50 long as there are Adams
and Ewes on this mundane sphere.
yonan suffrage are irving tnis ran,-
ady IN large numbers this sprinK.
The present Iowa legislature has
shown Itself to be a careful and con-
Woman suffrage has a paralyzing ef-
]sfect in one direction. When Mrs. Ham
4 nah Bosworth, of Cleveland o.. went