Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-21

Jack Frost or law suit will catch that
sewage disposal plant before it Is
completed. Both are in sight.
ass
Those who are lamenting the fact
that the summer is past should remem-.
Der that October, the best month of
the year, is yet to come.
With new cracker factory to be in
operation in sixty days the reopening
of the glucose factory and the conse-
quent employment of 300 men, the far
;mer receiving so cents for his corn and
Ia corresponding price for his corn-fed
stock, and the many industrial institu-
lions of the city working to their full
capacity, the poormaster ought to have
few applications from able-bodied
heads of families the coming winter.
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Marshalltown girls need not mourn
because Of the lack of manageable
prospects. The recent school census
shows that there are in the neighbour
hood of 100 more boys than girls. resid-
ing in the limits of this city. The
conditions in this respect have changed
lin the past year, az one year ago the
girls were largely in the majority.
The Cherry Sisters, during their var
led experiences before the footlights as
entertainers of bowling mobs. have
Learned the value of advertising.
hence their threats to sue the carnival
management because of the manner In
which they have been advertised.
When Jury of level-headed farmers
says the residents of outlying territory
of right belong in the city, there ought
to be no doubt as to the business of the
icity's contention that the council acted
rightly in taking them in. The people
OF West Marshall are now in to stay.
They are as whole an excellent class
of people and their fellow citizens will
welcome them in their councils for the
commercial, moral and political adj
lvancement of Greater Marshalltown.
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Mayor Jones does not possess the
I nerve" OF his predecessor, but on the
occasion OF his first appearance before
large congregation of fellow citizens,
when he read, at the union memorial
services Thursday President Roose-
Welt 8 proclamation on the death of VIII
liam Mckinley, he acquitted himeelf
with credit.
Even tho the occasion was an extra
ordinary one, the general compliance
with the Presidents, governors and
mayors proclamations was surprising.
At no time in the history of Marshall
town has there been such general ces-
trio q a.
framing from indulgence in pleasurable
pastimes. Almost every wholesale and
retail mercantile establishment in the
city was closed down practically all the
day. The drug stores, which are kept
open of necessity almost every hour OF
the twenty-four and on seven days in
the week, closed from 10sa. m. until p.
M, or during the hours of the memorial
service in this city and the funeral ser
vices at Canton. The saloonists and
billiard hall proprietors, many of whom
mourn William McKinley's death as
sincerely as those engaged in other
lines Of business, closed their places
most OF the day. Not only was business
and work suspended, but the people re-
Trained from Indulgence in the pursuit
of pleasure There may be Dissertation
of Memorial day and other sacred days
of the year by the thoughtless. but
when the last sad rites for beloved
president slain by an assassin's bullet
are being performed there are no
thoughtles.s ones. There We're no
thoughts of politics or of religious
creeds last Thursday.
The merchants of the city displayed
good taste in the decorations of their
windows because of the national be-
reavement. Where emblems of mourn
ing were displayed nothing but goods of
sombre hue We're exhibited, and in al
most every instance all price marks
and bargain counter inducements were
removed.