Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-19
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Jefferson, May 1s.-- Some people affect
to despise what is known AS the social
element In community. Perhaps such
persons can get an idea from the follow
ing report OF u conversation the writer
heard of in The hotel office here: Yes.
sir; I believe l shall move TO Marshall |
town. have a nice home In - ~ but
Marshalltown is just as good town for
me to get out Of My territory is all in
Iowa, and can get home every Sun
day IL we move there. My wife and I
We're down there on a visit last week,
and / want 10 tell you don't know of d
town! where the people are go social.
And they are nice people,, too. Why we
got acquainted with more people there
in three days than we did in six months
In And my wife is stuck on the
town, SO We shall sell out in and
move there this fall. 1 came mighty
near buying Il property there last week
for $500, but my wife wants to build.
go / did not take it in, altho 1t was
bargain. So when, this fall, MARSHALL
town gains a well-to-do family of five
credit sociability
Not every one read this item in the
papers last week: ION Saturday eye-
ming last readers of Iowa City news
papers were somewhat startled by
unique advertisement occupying four
columns in width, which announced in
bold type Tho Tragedy os Job. Con-
igregational church Sunday evening.
This is the first time in Iowa City church
work that minister has used display
space in q newspaper to call attention
Ito what is going on In church circles.
and while many Of the conservative peo-s
pie of the city looked at the ad With
displeasure, yet II Accomplishment s spur-
pose and brought out large number to
hear the able sermon upon tine subject.
Now this is worthy of attention. When
one goes To a frst-ciass hotel he has a
bill of fare offered him. He doesn't have
to eat corn beef and cabbage because
1.-The landlord thinks that is good enough
for anybody. III u stranger or resident
Wishes tosastend a theater he knows by
previous announcement whether Uncle
Tom Cabin is the play or not Why.
even the purchaser of newspaper now.
can read an index on contents Better
than all. he can skip Objectionable Ito
him) reading matter. But one goes to
church on a hit or miss sort of Il plan
Perhaps he has a great interest In for
cign missionssand to his disgust has to
jlisten to a sermon OH the terrible iniiu-
iyeGce of the workings of the mulct law.
/ Itmay be that Decentralization is'5 mis- pet
ldoctripe and UP gets the good minister
land delivers 45-minute discourse
|. on total immersion. Now this Iowa City
minister gathered together a crowd to
near about job II showed there We're
many people in the fivc-mile limit town
\ who we've Interested in patience, or boils
\ or something of that kind. And If they
were not particularly interested in the
1 striking peculiarities of Job and jog
eph and His Times was the subject ad-
vertised then the crowd could hear
about that coat OF many colors and
GONE other things. There's another
practical feature of this church adver
Iiising. and that is when a three-column
double ad was contracted and paid for
1.-THE editor of that Iowa City paper had
3some money to help pay the preacher,
A as we'll az Il email amount for foreign
Emissions.
Il III the newspapers of this state do not
s,sltil! that apple story on Congress man
i Lacey. It's going to make him trouble
iamong the farmers. AS is we'll known
/ Mr.. Lacey Is pushing n bill for this pro-
gItections OF the birds, and the story goes
4 THAT to convert another congressman
A who doesn't run to biros. Lacey showed
l.said congressman a Normy apple, and
jproved cinclusively then and there THAI
4 the birds We're being killed Off, conse.
A lueptly the worms hourished, therefore
q we had wormy apples, and we didn',
when we Mere boys. etc. NOW thu
5Looker-On does NOT believe Congress-
man Lacey irresponsible for this yarn
land a great many old fellows who at,
4 apples fifty years ago remember dis
ltirctly of taking a good big bite out Of
a luscious Rhode Island greening only Il
Lind a great big fat Worm In the cente
of the apple. They remember this AM
other apples were fair without, but ii
Z the center there lived a healthy speci
y men Who would crawl out>before spring
II And they We're told this worm was borl
II there, bred nold Rhode Island and tina
a mature was working out a general plal
4 by putting the egg of the worm on tn
blossom. so that worms could destro.
l3ali of the apples before the next crol
ARRIVED. All this and more We wer,
taught as boys. And wormy apple
We're made into cider in those days. XII
7 the story$o or Lacey will lose votes anon
) the apple raisers in the 9Th district.
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