Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-01-29
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

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TOPICS OF THE TIMES
In Nebraska the individual bank de
the past year. But 1t has tended t
posts increased over S5,400.000 durint
decrease the number of calamity howl
ers.
The average annual salary paid fe-
male teachers in the Missouri school:
is s306 and male teachers only S296
With this pittance they ought 10 b.
able to teach their pupils lessons o
economy.
In Texas rice growers recent.
bought 5000 acres of Hunt count,
land. near Victoria, paying $4,000 fol
it, Rice growing is destined to be on'
of the biggest industries of the state
There is s12,000,OoO more of iniivid.
ual deposits in the banks of Missouri
than there was a year ago.
$50
A Salt Lake City newspaper has Is
sued orders that all male employees
who are not married by June 80 shall
be dropped from the rolls. This gives
u man five months in which TO pick out
Sun agreeable companion, and it viii
doubtless make eligible ladies investi-
gate their chances in that direction.
Judge Thomas Breen, of Michigan
who served during the civil war, has
just received his discharge papers af-
ter being lost in the archives of the
national capitol for many years. What
makes the document particularly in
teresting is the fact that 1T bears the
signature of the late president when
he was william Mckinley. Jr. cap
tain and acting assistant adjutant gen
eral.''
In Illinois farm of 104 acres near
Adrian recently sold for 800 an acre.
and an eighty-acre piece brought
$3.50 an acre. Iowa lands in some To-
calities have already reached these
values.
A tract of Ohio oil land consisting
of $50 acres, near Findlay. with TWEEN
ty-three wells producing 100 barrels a
day, has been sold to New York parties
for $4,000.
Local newspapers turnout Kansas
fearing to call the disease by it's cor
rect name, for trade reasons, refer to
smallpox as it
The Journal notices that ]. H. Quick,
of Sioux City, makes a noteworthy
debut as poet In the Century for Feb
ruary. That magazine accepted and
published pretentious poem. "a
Whit of Smoke" written by Sioux
City's ex-mayor. and gave 1t the I'M
usual distinction of two pages of space
and beautiful illustration. 1t is a
graphic and forceful song of the
prairies.
Harriet--Sadie's husband never gets.
excited, never fights back and she sim
ply cannot make him cross
Esteile-Yes. The horrid thing. He
is simply exasperating.
Brooklyn Eagle.
Six years ago the Rev w. A. Will
Jams. pastor of the Universalist church
Of Benton Harbor, Mich bought block
e copper stock at cents share. He
has received word that his stock is now
worth SO a share, giving him a $50 900
profit on the deal. He will continue to
preach
Representative Secor has introduced
a bill to encourage the planting of for
est and fruit trees in Iowa. 1t is in
the right direction If not too expensive
If it does not rob Peter to pay Paul
After an existence of fifty years, the
Warren county fair Ullinois) has been
abandoned, and the grounds will be
made into town lots. County fairs
must offer new attractions or so out
Of existence, it would seem.
A Chamberlain, S. D., item states that
rs a result of a lease which Lemon Bros.
Y Walker have just executed with the
of Indian affairs for the
use of 100000 acres OF the Standing
Rock Indian reservation for period OF
FIVE years, that firm will be required to
build a fence around the immense tract,
A distance of 259 miles. This fence, which
VIII become the property of the Indians
1t the expiration of the lease, will doubt
ess be the longest fence ever con-
structed in the northwest by any one
firm.
That fur-covered wild man eight
'eet high discovered in the west may
De an octopus that broke away from
2yran's menagerie in SO.
1t is said President Roosevelt is will
ng to assume the responsibility of
:hoice of routes for the isthmian ca
lal, from which it might be inferred
hat his political fear of the future is
not a dominating trait.
The state printer may find 1T neces-
,ary to keep up with the procession in
getting out work or dwell under the
ear of having his job abolished.
Here is something rather abnormal