Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-08-23
!: TOPICS OF THE TIMES
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IoWa's grassFcrop continues to enlarge
under frequent rains.
In the interest8of cleanliness decency.
and public health the city of Richmond.
Va. has enacted a stringent regulation
making it unlawful to expectorate upon
or throw fruit skins or peelings on the
sidewalks or floors Of street cars. public
elevators or public hails--under 4 pen-
atty Of from 81 to s..
L Hung Chang is apparently not eas-
lilly discouraged. AS quickly as one of
his propositions is hung up he submits,
another.
New York 10 great state and yet.
Iowa leads Ii in several respects. Iowa
is the largest butter producing state in.
I the union yielding 1914 per cent Of the
3country's production: New York stands
next to it With 9.3 and Pennsylvania
third With per cent. One-half of the
entire butter production Is IN seven
states, and these three states produce
more than half of that. 1t remains
for Iowa now 10 make her butter the
best in the union.
About fifty car loads of machinery,
stock and Other exhibits have reached
l1es Moires for the state fair. which
opens tomorrow Friday and continues
10 Sept. 1. 1t promises to be the most
successful OF recent Years.
There used To be concoc,ion known
az eWahoo bitters." Bryan took in,
yNahoo 1Neb.) for his first effort to get
that bitter silver taste out of his mouth
He talked about international bimetal-'
lism." and put his free coinage r,opo-
sitian With an '.ife-.'If the double
srab!e NOM. He certainly considered it
desirable in 1886. and for the succeeding
years held 10 il and insisted that ii
should be placed IA the democratic plat
form, and Of course the fair Inference i $.
that he desires il noW--hoWeyer much
he may Wish to s9ften it's asperities or
TO hide il behind his paramount is-s
sue.
$50
In opening the twentieth session of
I&he farmers congress in Denver, Presi-
dent Canaase took occasion to refer to
1.-THE Favorable ard prosperous conditions
Iof the farmers n this country, the
Yield Of the hslds having brought satis-
Factory returns. It il difficult TO refer
10 agricultural conditions without no.
tlcing the prosperity attending them.
Elmer b. Adams. who presdes over
the United States court for the eastern.
district Of Missouri, is believed 10 be
the wealthies, federal Judge in the coun-
try his fortune being estimated at $780,
LEGO.
In 1899. for the first time in the his
tory Of the south, the price OF cotton
was fixed in some degree by Che de-
mand Of the local mills instead of the
Liverpool brokers. There were in.
stances in which the local manufacture
ers paid half a cent more a pound than
the exporters offered. The gold stand
ard and a home market appear to suit
the south pretty well. Both We're
made safe under Mckinley. Yet the
south Will vote against both and for so
cent dollars, and to restore the disas-.
trous times OF democratic rule.
So
Ferdinand w. Peck Is said to have
violated the constitution OF the United
States by accepting from the French
government the decoration Of the Leg
ion of honor.
The Illinois Central Railway Com
pany has given its employees notice Of
an additional 10 per cent Increase in
their wages. This is a pleasing sexhibi-
ton Of advancement without the re-
quest Of the advanced.
The Oldest school teacher in the world
in active service is thought to be Mrs.
Sarah Davis, who regularly teaches the
pupils OF the national school at the Wiz!
lage OF Finmere, near Buckingham.
England. Mrs. Davis is now In her Saith
year, and for more than fifty consecu-
tive years she hag taught the same
school. Her first pupils were the grand
fathers and grandmotherss OF the chill
dren who now daily All the schoolroom
over which fhe. SnldS Sa 49, VIZ fSIN