Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-10-18
TOPICS OF THE TIMES

| Now candy trust is coming into
| the arena, and the home made article
will be stimulated as a competitor.
No wonder the New York banks were
hard up! For relieving the financial
situation the police should have been
sought long ago. Shaw and the United
States treasury is a piginy combination
compared to the results of raid on
gambling dens.
Russell Sage, at the age of Sc, has de-
cided to gradually withdraw from bust
ness. He couldn't do it all at once; 1t
would grieve him to death.
The Illinois state grand lodge of Ma
sons at it's recent convention in Chica-
go voted $4,000 for the erection of
buildings upon the $50 acres of land
near Sullivan, Moultrie county, their
state, bequeathed to the Masons by the
late J. r. Miller for an orphans home.
The plans for the buildings comprehend
accommodations for the widows of Ma
sons as we'll as for the orphaned chill
dren.
The Chicago, Milwaukee & st. Paul
railroad has made a traffic alliance with
the Onion Pacific and thus receives a
Pacific coast outlet.
The Pullman Car Company's annual
report for the fiscal year ended July 81
shows results from operation the best
in the company's history. The net sur
plus amounts to over 100000, and
with the surplus brought forward from
last year. the company has a total sur
plus OF close on s11,OOo,O00.
The people have grown optimistic
about the supply of coal, even tho they
may be compelled to wait for it.
"W j. Bailey" says the Kansas City
Journal, twill be the first Kansas gov
ernor taken from the farm if we except
Governor James M. Harvey. 1t is true
that other of the Kansas governors
dabbled in agriculture to a greater or
less extent, but Harvey and Bailey are
the only ones who farmed for living
and did nothing else
Farmer Jones-What grounds have
you for thinking my daughter loves
you?
ST Hayrake- Eighty acres here and
100 in tn next county.-Puck.
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Down in Missouri Carthage teacher
was telling her pupils the story of the
loss of one of the kings ships and fin
ished by saving that after he heard Of
his sons death King Henry never
smiled again. The story awed the chill
dren, but after short pause one little
girl asked: please, ma'an, what did
he do when people tickled him?'
Andrew Carnegie's gifts of $4,000 to
Belfast and $4,000 to Limerick for the
establishment of libraries have been
accepted. Thus the Irish people have
been greatly favored by the illustrious
Scotch american.
A woman in Wellington, Kas., OBJ
iected to the celluloid collar which her
husband persisted in wearing. One day
she stole the collar and put 1t in the
stove. There was an explosion, in
which the woman was considerably
singed, and the house was set on fire.
All this in addition to the possible ex-
plosion that followed when her husband
learned the fact.
Just now because of scoop" on
the strike settlement the Burlington
Hawkeye INDUCES in some pardonable
boasting about the lateness of its
news service as compared with the
Chicago morning paper editions which
reach Iowa on the fast mail trains. 1t
is well known to the newspaper fra
ternity of Iowa that the morning edi-
lions Of the Burlington Hawkeye and
Cedar Rapids Republican do contain
much later news than the Iowa edition