Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-08-24
TOPICS OF THE TINES.

TOPICS OF THE TINES 5
Fine rains have fallen over south and
south central Texas. They will aid cot
ton materially, tho the first effect will
already formed
Charley Huber, the oldest character
and probably the poorest person at Ar
cola, Ill.,, has received word that he has
Inherited a fortune from his aunt in
Germany.
John B. French has been reelected, at
the age of SO years to the office of city
clerk of Galena, H., which he has held
for forty years. His father was the city
clerk for four years before him, and died
while in office. For twenty years the
city council chose him. Then new city
charter made the office an elective one,
and the people have elected him at ev-
He is q democrat
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The fruit and vegetable growers Of
southern Illinois have made more money
this season than ever before in the his
tory of the industry. ii. r. Eastman,
the veteran Union county fruit grower,
is authority for this statement. The
peach crop now being marketed is the
heaviest ever seen and the fruit of UNI
usually good quality. Mr.. Eastman has
cleared $1,000 from forty-six acres. w.
Il. Roper. of Union county, has cleared
500 from twenty acres. and many others
could be named who have done az we'll.
Apples. grapes and pears are also good
crops this year in Egypt.
City Barber Ito Scotch visitor after
shaving)-Little bay rum. sir?
Scotch Visitor-weli. I'm ma fond o.
rum, but wadna rafuse drap o whis-
Philadelphia Press.
On Sept. 9TH the suffragists have been
invited by Ebert Hubbard and the Row
crofters to hold meeting in East Au-
rora. at which are expected Harriet
May Mills, Susan B. Anthony. Rev. An.
ma Shaw. Mrs. Carrie Chapman Gait.
Harriet Taylor Epson. Rev. Anna Gar.
land Spencer, Mise May Wright sewall
and others of national reputatiop.-
W'lman', JouriaI. Boston.
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great absinthe mandatory in
France, one of the best known in the
world has been destroyed by fire. and
the cable accounts say that when the
vast quantities of the liquor which We're
stored in the buildings burst into flames
of dazzling Intensity and of the most
brilliant and variegated hues the specta-
Gle was marvellous. The medical pro-
fession the world over agrees that peo-
pie who acquire the absinthe habit and
crink the potent fluid to excess become
pitiful wrecks, with louded brains,
shattered nerves and hopeless ruin of
body and mind. 1t may be. then, says,
the New York Tribune, that the big fire
in France did much less real harm than
huge confiagrations usually do The
world might be no worse off il this per-
| nicious drink had never been COM
FOUNDED. In hospitals and medical prac-
tice generally brandy, whisky, rum.
rnany kinds of wine and of other stimu-
lants are made use of in certain condi-
tons and in certain diseases. But who
ever heard OF a doctor prescribing alb
| sinthe for patient in any circum-
| stances? IL this liquor were never made,
| touched tasted or heard of again, might
not weak humanity be the gamer?
j. Hampton Hoge has been nominated
ans. His name is not quite like that OF
the ex-governor of Texas and probably
he will not display the same quality in
getting election returns.
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One of the sights of Modoc county,
CAL is the stone wall four feet high
| which nearly surrounds Jesse D. Cars
estate of twenty-five thousand acres. In
| order TO protect his stock Mr.. Carr built
| the fence at a cost Of something like
$4,000. DO you know what the United
4 States marshal said about 1t when he
was sent out here to investigate at the
time they We're trying to force me to
pull it down during Cleveland's admin
|istration?" he asked of a friend recently
Well he looked 1t over carefully, and
he said to me. Carr, don't know which
is the bigger fool-the government, for
wanting to pull down that fence. or you
for putting it up" That" added Mr.
Carr, was the most sensible thing ]
ever heard about that fence-even if j
did put 1t up"
Choice northern potatoes sold Thurs.
day in Kansas City at so cents peck
the price of two bushels year ago. A
single bushel now costs $3.50 from retail
dealers, or about S1.60- when purchased
direct from wholesale dealers and Job.
bers Homegrown potatoes are small
and of poor quality.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press says: 1.-THE
Iowa democrats In convention Assem-.
bled have been and gone and done 1t.
In spite of the vigorous protests Of
many leading democrats thruout tl1s
state they have reaffirmed the Kansas
City platform and renewed their fealts
to Bryan and his discarded free silver
fetish. They have made the way smooth