Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-03-17

SCHOOLS CLOSE TOO SOON.
North English Record


Why is it that country schools close
,h= first of March, Can any one sng
eest a good reason for this Farm
later ard the larger boys arf. thus de-.
prived q q naontA,s study which they
ought TO have the advantage Of 1shs
farmers boy big enough u work gen
orally goes TO school about three
nantfls during the year. Fan werk
Keeps him busy until the Writer ernl
begins and then he has three months
20 study Under such circumstances
the farmers son has a poor chance ID
gam an education. Wig not utilize the
month OF March for his beneiita These
thoughts Mere suggested by Il woman
livirg in the country who has sons she
Mould like To see have a batter eppnr-
turity to secure an education. It's d
Thought worth considering.
FORT DODGE IMPROVEMENTS. s
fort Dodge GhrenAie.l
The Chronicle stated last week that
Ethe Indications We're that building
would not b. as extensive in general
over the country as ii was last year.
but that Fort Dodge has a fesw sure
things that could be Depended upon.
The complete list Of improvements 70
ldate that are booked for this year IN
Fort Dodge are:
Corey apartment house, three stories
land a half.
Kirehner apartment house, three
! stories.
1 Addition to Logan hotel. forty rooms.
Gates block, three stories.
! cahill block three stories.
Court hoitse, four stories.
Public library building.
/ Fort Dodge mattress factory.
Fort Dodge & Southeastern railroad
Third street Niaduet.
/ Union depot, Central and NJ. &, ST. L,
COUSINS OPPORTUNITY
lTama Herald.
The Fifth district Is proud d the
4 fact shat its representative in congress
Hon. Robert G. Cousins, has been III
al the ensuing republican state con.
vpntioL The honor is woltnlly be
! slowed a. rome Of Iowals statesmen i!
4 better fitted 10 fiji the position. Mr.
Cousins IS an orator whose fame loise
4 since overleared the boundaries of his
state He IS q member Of the inaor
liant house committee on foreign reid
4 tions and II is expected with reason
! that upon taking the chair he Will SiN'
! a comprehensive statement concerning
/ those Important foreign question:
which hava been before the peopl'
4 since the outbreak OF the late war witt
/ Spain. That statement VIII be con
4 ceded to be from an administration
Il standpoint and thus the Views @
Il cousins will be accepted. in measure
as the views of Mckinley. The orator,
Tor Cousins. however, will be all his ow,
4 and we snail be surprised il his comm;
4 speech does not add largely 10 the lau
rels he has already Won and worthil,
worn.
THE CRITICISM OF RF,MLF.Y BILL
dubuque Tlmes.i
4 The secretary of the Marshalltowl
Business Mems Building and Loan AS
sociation has made an unsuccessful al
tack an Attorney General Remley'
building and loan bill His prineipa
objection is that domestic associations
. meaning Iowa associations operating
! Ion the national plan, can not do busl
ness for less than 8 per cent. of the as
sets. This offered as an arsumen
| againstitl.e bill when 1t is really an ar
gument. against the national plan.
IL is more expensive than the domestic
local. as undoubtedly ii is, it shout
not be encouraged. The secretary fur
then, says that If the statute exempt
Ling building and loan association
III. 4 no In ~
were repealed the domestics would b
ruined. This is confession that tn
domestic associations practice usur!