Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-17
LOCAL COMMENT.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

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If j. r. Faust isn't much abused
man he should not have been released
from the Ohio insane asylum, wherein
he was once confined.
Asphaltum pavement is expensive,
but the majority of North Third street
residents asked for it and 1t was proper
to give it to them. One argument in
favor of ordering this class of improve
ment is that asphaltum has been grow
ing cheaper. while vitrified brick and
other materials, as well as labor, cost
more than when the last paving was
laid in Marshalltown. AS far as the
expense to the city is concerned, North
Third is a favorable thoroughfare on
which to try the experiment, as there
are few street and alley intersections
and the city's portion will be small.
1t is more than probable that those
citizens of Marshalltown who received
invitations to the coronation will de-
cline for much the same reasons
prominent visitor to England refused
to attend on of King Edwards courts
They can not comply with the demands
OF fashion in attire.
Some of those prominent citlzens
who have received invitations to
Edwards little function have displayed
to their friends only a portion of the
documents coming to them under the
royal seal. The instructions how to
dress have been deliberately secluded
from the gaze of even their intimates.
Those instructions as applying to Mar
shalltown residents read: Titled no.
bility from the United States must.
wear costumes that are typical Of the
derivation of their title, among them
railroad kings, oil barons, knights OF
the green cloth, Napoleons Of finance,
peers of the packing house, earls OF
the brews and watts, queens of bur.
lesque, royal and four fiushers, matt
nee gods, counts of Monte Carlo, Indian
chiefs. merchant princes, and lords OF
creation in the pursuit of happiness,
and must dress to represent oil cans,
horse collars, stove collars, celluloid
collars, collar bones or collar and ell
bow, dinner pals, imitation horseshoes,
butterine. arctic overshoes, stock tick
ers. coupling pins, clothes pins, stick
pins, tape measures, curry combs, stone
crushers and military capes with six
teen inches of squirrel skin around
the edges" Then follows advice as tt
what to drink and where to get il
while en- route.
The deputy game warden who sup
S,nf 1aI 4,
way at the dam In this city ought to
try again. 1t is insisted by some. that
the structure is not fishway, for the
reason that no fish can get thru it, The
chief fault is the height above the top
of the dam of the outlet. With the
exception OF one or two days during
the recent high water the chute has not
contained a flow of water sufficient to
float minnows, and 1t is believed that
the only fish that has attempted to
shoot the dam thru this continuance
lost its life in consequence, as large
catfish was found dead a few days ago
inside the fishway. A test case to Sc
cure decision as to whether the struc-
ture is fishway or a farce is being
talked of.
The Maggie Werle case recalls to
the minds of attorneys of the city a
similar case and has caused a discus
sion among the legal lights concerning
the difficulty in securing a conviction
on charge of infanticide under the
Many years ago a
young woman employed in the home
of prominent East Main street family
gave birth to a child alone and unat-
tended, the infant was later found dead
with no marks of violence, and The
arrest and trial followed. The
court trial attracted wide attention and
it was shown by medical experts after
an autopsy was held that the breath
Of life had never entered the infants
lungs. Acquittal followed.
Marshalltown citizens are the own
ers Of and are driving more attractive
vehicles this season than ever before
in the history of the city, and what is
more. there is an ambition on the part
of those who can afford to own car
rage horses to secure the best that
money can buy.