Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-19
IOWA NEWS ITEMS

4 IVWA NkWS klANaS
! Iowa floods are beginning to awaken
/ apprehension among the spectators in
Chicago.
With more than three feet of rainfall
in some sections of the state Iowa is
prepared to water stock of all kinds.
The placing of the Puck Soap Com
pany of Des Mones into the hands oi 4
trustee discloses the fact thati has had
Il severe battle with adverse circum-
stances. 1t is out of the soap needed
to carry it on. but hopes to get on its
feet again. Ii has Valuation of Sll5,-
600, With liabilities OF $4,000.
The secretary of the committee on
employment for students of Columbia
/ University is soliciting housework as
employment for various students who
| find ii necessary to support themselves
during their university courses. They
| will tend furnaces, wash dishes. clean
the house. wait on table, do errands
and take care of horses. 1t ought TO
educate them in a direction in which
they need light.
The large total of s3.S75,ooo was
found in letters undelivered by the
British postmaster general last year,
showing how such money may miss the
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The Oldham Index betrays signs of a
vacation in the following: There isn't
much news this week. the editors are
all off on a spludge. roasting ears are in
bloom, the tomato is red-ripe. Water
melons are here, acknowledged chick
ems fun feathered, grares getting blue.
wild-goose plums plentiful, camp
meeting most here. CONS all fresh, and
the goose hangs high
Senator Foraker denies the story cir
culated to the effect that he would be
vice presidential candidate. with
Roosevelt a the head of the ticket. He
says the story is false and absurd, tho
!
The site OF the lost Indian city. Mas
coutens. which was reported as having
% 600 inhabitants in 1919. has been de-
ternlined by the labors of Thomas Gil
there, of Portage, Wis., which have
extended over many years. 1t was the
largest city in all Indian history, so
H.
cerncd. and the descriptions of the Jes-
uits in the course OF the seventeenth
century,, closing with Marquette and
Joliet in 1913. are said to have been
verified.
The Honest Coal Dealer.-"No." de-
clared the honest coal dealer. Il shall
rot increase the price of coal from my
yards one penny
listeners. You are a true friend TO hui
nanity You may take our orders inn
mediately."
II will take your orders if you so de-
sire" said the dealer, but l have no.
coal in my yards
The largest crab in the world" says
.Iapan TO the American Museum of
Natural History. Its body is about the
size of a large dinner plate, and Its two
great arms would go around man.
The longest measurement of the whole
is twelve feet. The jonted limbs re-
semhle bamboo, ana carry spines and
hooks, as We'll as claws. The crab is
said to disguise itself TIC initiate the sea
bottom by sticking pieces of sponge
and seaweed on its body with u giuti-
nous saliva
The Hopping Rheumats.n.-"Yes
said the old man. 'Peared lax he wuz
give inter de hans or Satan, Ell Satan
fi'cited him wid he hoppin rheumatism
I'ust ii wuz in one place Ell den it wuz
another; but he Went ter praNin ter be
relieve of 1T, EN- one day, whilst ii wu2
a. hoppn' fun one j'int ter another, 1t
hoped into his wooden leg, am he
pulled off de leg. an thoWed 1t in de
fire, en- it en- de rheumatism wuz teto-
tally consumed
Atlanta Constitution.
The number of saloons in Washing /
ton, ID. c., will soon be reduced by
nearly half. There are now about o13
bars. including clubs, hotels and all
places where Intoxicating drinks are
sold. These bars have been paying Il
tax of $500 a year as license fee. This
lee has been increased by the new code (
10 $500 and it is estimated 10y the conf I
lnissioncrs that the number of bars I
will be reduced to about 20, which will I
he a comparatively small number for u /
city of a7S,0o0 inhabitants. The ratio /
will be about a saloon for every thou
sand people, which is approaching pro- T
libiton.
The boys of England have presented I
TO jules Verne a gold-headed walking +
stick the money for which MAS col- /
lectcd by the Boys Empire League. At
last accounts Nj. Verne, who lives at
Amiens was going blind. He has writ
ten about eighty books since he began
TO write, nearly forty years ago.
Undoubtedly Kansas is becoming
liberal. In Clay Center the q. \. X.
had debate on the subject: Re
solved, that the south had more able