Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-26
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

4 oVA wv VI kAA nAUhA0
The next great thing for President
Roosevelt to tackle will be his message
to congress.
\ Chicago bankers are a unit in declar-
| fEg that the money troubles in New
York are not likely to have an impor-
| tant bearing on the business situation
| in Chicago and the wast. The coun-
try is too prosperous for that. 1t is well
known that the small banks as class
are in particularly strong position.
75-year-old congressional candidate in
this way: after few preliminary
turns around the track. to timber him-
self up, Uncle Horace Boies will be able
to prance and snort with the youngest
of them"
A remarkable family passed thru
Iowa to Oklahoma. 1t was composed of
Michael StraoI.cs.t1orfer, mitil sixteen
sons, two daughters and grandchildren
enough to almost fill a car. Why ask
for further proof of our prolific soil?
One Minnesota county lacks fifty
school teachers OF having enough.
+ss
How would 1t do to go to Echoland
and shout 1T is wrong for the Rou-
manians to discriminate against the
Jews" and to have the reverberation
come back, 1T is wrong for Ameri-
cans to discriminate against the me-
groes ?"
Albert Chase, who died at the ne
tional soldiers home at Togus, Me-,
few days ago, was one of the numerous
characters who figured in the John
Wilkes Booth tragedy. He was ser
geant of the guard at the navy ya-d
bridge at Washington on the night If
the murder of President Lincoln Whtn
Booth passed. Chase held Booth fer
some time, but as Booth gave such a
good account of himself he was allowed
| reward, however.
An aged Indiana miser near Petrole
UNI buried $4,000 in bonds and cur
rency in an eighty-acre tract "a few day
before he died, and now the entire com
munity is engaged in digging over tn
land.
One of the largest window glass sale
Ind, where the Federation of Windoy
Glass Company sold to the Amerfcai|
Window Glass Jobbers' Association
100000 boxes of glass for a consideraI
ton of $1,4oo.O0o. 1t is in harmony witt
this era of big transactions.
The st. Paul Pioneer Press makes 6
doned visit under the head of "Glad He
is Not Coming" by saying it saves
"citizens the humiliation of having no
safe or decent building with an audi
forum capacious enough for an audi
ence of respectable proportions, to say
nothing of the crowds that would natu-
rally gather to hear an address from
the president of the United States"
Perhaps visit would have stirred them
to action.
you see" said the young man who
was explaining the mimic war, 1.-The
attack is carried ON the same as in act
pal warfare, except that the missiles
are only technical. Now, suppose that
am commanding a brigade, and 1
should be charged by regiment of the
enemy
"Technically?" asked the young
woman.
"certainly. And suppose they fired
upon US
.Technically?" repeated the young
woman.
Eyes, yes. And should be encourage
ing my men to make last stand"-
"Technically?"
"Of course And should get in range
of the enemy's fire, and should be shot
thru the BRAIN
"Oh,' interrupted the fair da1nso1, y
know that would have to be techn1cal-
ly, tool" Baltimore American.
This conversation between two wom-
en- was overheard In Cleveland a few
DAYS ago. "Did you notice that girl
who looked at us so pointedly just
now ?" mo dear. Which one?" 1T
was Just as we were passing the
Achilles statue ooh! Do you mean