Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-22
!: TOPICS OF THE TIMES


cific stock recently changed hands il
Wall street at an advance Of 81 for
common and rs for preferred.
Last week 4,925 shares of Iowa Cen
trail common stock changed hands on
Wall street at prices ranging as high
as 21A, while S.475 shares of preferred
We're sold at prices as high as COS.
The Buena Vista Nidette, published
at Storm Lake. comes to the T.-R. table
in a siNteen-pageAill illustrated edition. the
occasion of Its issue being the meeting
of the Iowa State paiiNmen's Associa
tioli. The Nidette contains many haif
tone views of Storm Lake, when, &c
lceralng To the late census has popu
latian If 2,lss. The paper IS a credit III
tho town and Its. publs.s hers.
HAVING announced that he would preach
Tie .ol!s,Wing Sunday Oh Eeil ana Who
VIII Go TheEe, received sevaral Iettels
from parishioners threatening dire ven-
seaHee i'll case he dared to make use OF
their names.
Chairman w. H. Moore of the ma
tional good roads convention says va
grants should be made to work on
street improvements. There are many
Eothers who advocate this policy.
A number of pronlinent coal men OF
Pennsylvania have decided to erect a
monument Of coal to Philip Ginter. tho
I disooverer of coal at Summit Hill. near
Mauch Chunk. One hundred and nine
years ago Ginter lived in Il rough cabin
III the forests on The Maueh Chunk
mountain. While III quest Of game for
his family, whom he had lsft at home
Without food Of any kind. his foot struck
q black stone. BY the roadside, not far
from the town of summit Hill, he built
a fire Of wood and threw pieces OF the
supposed stone about It. so that the en-
bers might last longer while he was
roasting q fowl. He was surprised after
ia little While to see the stones glow ant.
retain their heat for a long time He
/ carried u lot OF the coal home and
burned Ii there. The few neghbors soon.
learned Of the discovery, bat there WAS
mo mining to any extent in Carbon
county until after The war of 1872 had
begun.
with hot weather in mid November d &
Piftsburg and u destructive cyclone in
/ the south. the clements appear to have
t5great event early in the month.
/ The statistics show that the manu-
facture of oleomargarine is increas ing.
lit finds more favor with the resauran-
tours and hotel caterers than many OF
their patrons.
That the people of tropical countries
/ are by nature destined to be governed
by nations living in temperate climes
!. was The opinion expressed by Alleyne
Ireland in a lecture at the University of
Chicago Tuesday He said: 1T Is al
WAYS true that the people of the tenn
81 perate zones overcome and conquer the
4 people Immediately to the south Of
4 them. This is due to the greater en-
/ ergy and aggressiveness Of northern
races, and that is due to climate
i Congressman Allen, OF Mississippi, is
4 an expert in the matter of cotton. to
which he has given much study in
leisure moments, and 10 the cultiva-
4 ton of which he intends to devote him
lself upon his retirement from politics
next March.
Hoke Smith, OF Atlanta. has given
4 travelling libraries tc fourteen counties
Tin Georgia. The books are intended for
school children and are to make a cir
q cult Of the schools.
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4 GOOD ROADS AND CONYICTs.