Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-08-07
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

nVa tNS VI AIlA EAitAAS
The Iowa harvest grows greater as
The season wanes.
With corn acreage the same as las
year. and the condition 100 per cen
better, Iowans are not looking on tho
d,uk side of life NOW.
w. w. Willis is the champion wheat
grower of Livingston cou.ty, Mo. He
las threshed 667 bushels from crop
raised on fourteen acres, making the
leverage yield about fortyseven bushels
10 The acre. The old timers around
EChllicothe say this is the biggest av-
Ierage the county ever knew, regardless
of acreage.
BY killing himself Harry Tracy, the
OUTLAW. made ii impossible to do amy
hero worship i'll his case.
The late Dir. Tamage once called on
his lawyer and found two of his par
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private nature. "Ah. DOCTOR" called the
lawyer in greeting. Good morning.
| Here are two of your flock. May ask
! without impertinence if You regard
them rs black sheep or white?" Il
GGon't know as yet replied Tanage,
idryly, whether they're black or white,
but I'm very certain that If they remain
here long they'll be heeced.
| The hard coal strikers are making the
greatest possible effort to prevent work
being resumed in the mines.
Only thru the &-rays could ]. p. Ell
civil war. convince the pension bureau
at Washington that he had n bullet in
his lungs Mir. Ellis applied for pen
sion fifteen years ago. Stating that the
bullet WAS in lungs. 1t was said in the
pension bureau that he could not live
with a bullet there Recently he went
to Indianapolis and had an N-ray ,,hot-
ograph taken OF the bullet and today he
was notified that had been granted s24
a month.
In some sections of Kansas the past
and farmers have been cutting it for
feed.
Among the rest OF the campaign lit
erature' With which Kansas is being
flooded is Senator NJ A. Hanna's speech
in favor of the encouragement of deep
sea fisheries. Ii leads residents to look
into the old salt barrel.
Captain Lemly judge advocate gen
eral of the navy. has just summed up
in tabular form the results of the first
complete years work of the probation
system put into effect by him for the
treatment of naval prisoners. The re-
suits are exceedingly gratifying to the
officials of the department. for they in
fenced by courts martial for nava. Of
fences will reform If they have n
chance under this system. 1t is shown
that there were twenty me non proba-
ton on July 1, 1901. In the year fol-
lowing thirty-two sailors We're so
placed on probation or these seven
teen were Internationally restored to
good standing in the service. Only four
while five failed to reform
and We're required to serve out their
sentences. One was honorably dis
and three were discharged as
leaving twenty men on
probation a the beginning of the presa
ent fiscal year.
Henry w. Blodgett. ex-judge of the
United States district court, has just
celebrated his Slst birthday in Chicago.
The celebration was marked by COM
plete reunion of the family. A feature
Of the gathering was the presence of
the six brothers, all of whom have been |
more or less prominent in and about |
Chicago.
In Marion Ind, test was made last
week of a process of making paper from
oat hulls; and the paper SO made is
described as of excellent quality An
immense amount of waste can be util-
lied in this way.