Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-08
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
The late storms favors We're fairly
well distributed Texas acknowledges


well distributed. Texas acknowledges
the receipt Of a blizzard.
In Kansas, Emporia's row over the
location of the Carnegie library is not
SCI ed, after all. An injunction suit
has been brought in the district court
by citizens of the east side to prevent
the acceptance of the west side site.
If "Uncle Joe" Cannon gets into the
speakers chair of the house of repre-
sentatives, and it appears likely he will,
he will be the first man reputed to be
a millionaire to occupy that high office
In Danville, ILL.,, Mr.. Cannon resides N
very large and richly furnished house.
but he also wears Boots" chews tobac
CO and tells very plain stories. A cor
respondent remarks of him that he Is
credited with having LANDED" more
constituents and friends in soft berths
in the different branches OF the govern
ment service than any other five men in
congress.
1t is as uncertain what congress will
finally do with the trust problem as
what it ought to do.
The ice harvest also promises to be
large.
Publicity Not Courted.-T suppose
you would like to say or do something
that will live in history"
We'll" answered Senator Sorghum,
there are so many things concerning
which should prefer to keep history
uniformed that guess I'd better not
take any chance on trying to break in.
Washington Star.
Sage's Iowa crop report on yields will
show that Iowa's corn crop was large
in bulk but snail in weight.
A Joplin (Mo.) man was given two
years sentence in the penitentiary for
stealing $500 from a lodge of which he
was treasurer. He bet the money on
Bryan in 1896. He took a double haz-
ard, as Bryan is not in a position to
pardon him.
Congress is planning to take holt
day OF nearly three weeks. It doesn't
want much bread with it's butter.
Perhaps no order ever issued by an
executive department las produced the
CONSERVATION incident upon the ruling
of Postmaster General Payne to the
effect that women in the service may
not marry: losing their position In case
they do. 1T is said that many weddings
ON tapis have been indefinitely declared
off and one separation has occurred.
The latter was a case Of a man who
was drawing $1,S00 and his wife $1,400.
The wife Informed the postmaster gem
eral that she and her husband had sep
arated; that each party had in fact
spent the money received by them in
the past; they were not particularly
congenial, anyway, and rather than lose
the salary had concluded to each go it
alone. OF course in case of this kind
the postmaster general has nothing to
say.
Miss De Style-She received a great
many calls New Years day.
Miss Gunbusta-Very popular, pre-
sumo.
Miss De Style--Oh, no; she works a
switchboard In a telephone oftice.-New
York Sun.
A Unanimous Jury.-At an inquest
on a case of suicide recently held in
England the foreman returned this re-
markable verdict: 1.-THE jury are all of
one nind-temporarily insane"
The annual miracle is again to be
chronicled, according to a Washington
writer George Graham Vest is still
alive and in the United States senate
He is still keen and alert and strong Of
mind. The robust, like Mcmillan, drop
out. The old-timers like Hawley fail
and stay away. But Vest, physical
shadow, tottering bag of bones, scarce
able to stand alone, returns year after