Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-11-22
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vesting the fruit is the inability to Sc
cure help to pick it, No farm hands car
! be hired, the men preferring to work In
| the shops and factories of the cities
Every cider mill, however, in the state
ia running to its utmost capacity. This
is about the only use that can be made
of the surplus, and there are not enough
mills in the state to consume it all be-
| fore the season is over. Most of the
cider will be made into vinegar and sent
south, where a large price is paid for it
by the proprietors of the picking fac
tories.
1t with general regret that the people
OF the United States part with the Chi
nese minister, WI Ting fang, who goes
home to take up other work. Minister
WI left Washington at $3.50 o'clock on
Wednesday afternoon for San Fran
cisco, accompanied by a secretary, an
interpreter and servants. He will sail
for China on the Hong Kong Maru on
Nov. 20, first touching at Hong Kong.
ter on May 1, 1897, and now returns to
China to take up the new duties to
which his government has assigned
him. Mime. WI will remain in Washing
ton for about two weeks. She expects
TO sail for China from San Francisco
about Dec. 10.
cheap telephone service. 1t is a CO.
operative affair, and % cents a month
for residences and $3.50 for business
places is the average charge after the
dividends are set off against the ex-
renses. AS an instructive contrast to
the grasp of monopolies upon the large
cities the Grand Rapids Telephone
Company repays study. The private
monopoly which existed in Grand Rap
ids when the new home system was
started offered ito put in new instru-
ments, rent free for three years, in or
der to crush it's infant rival. Local pa
triotism, however, looked beyond the
present, and the free telephones were
declined almost unanimously. The pri- |
vate company retired forthwith from
the town, and the cooperative COM
pany now controls the situation No one
IS allowed to buy more than one share |
Of stock for each instrument actually |
used and thus the control of affairs can |
members.
Thus far there has been scarcely a |
symptom of serious winter, but one OF
these days the storm king will swoop
down upon us in way that will fairly |
make Rome howl"
The directors of the Standard Oil |
Company declared this week upon the |
500, 100000 of stock of that company d
dividend of SO a share, payable on
Dec. Is. This compares with a divi-
dend of IS share declared at this time
a year ago. Previous dividends, how /
ever. had amounted to only $S5 a share, |
: gainst $40 in the same period of 1901, |
so that the total for the year is only S45, |
with $4S last year, which was
also the amount paid in 1900. A share
of stock was quoted this week at go.
80
In a contribution to the Times Re
publican given elsewhere Mr.. w. How
ard has some timely suggestions as to
the adoption of more reliable methods
of securing credit ratings. He believes
the present ratings are often defective
in that they give too much credit to
those not entitled to it and mislead job
hers into mourning losses thru sales
will be interested in his suggestions.
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Continental Europe has been plunged
into midwinter, and much distress is
predicted for the German working
classes not now employed.
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A kind hearted clergyman was lately
to dismiss a gardener who
used to purloin his fruit and vegetables.
For the sake of his wife and family he
gave him a letter of recommendation,
and this is how he worded it: L heH- I
by certify that A B has been
my gardener for over two years, and
that during that time he got more out
of my garden than any man ever en-
ployed.
Brigadier General II. S. Hawkins has
been detailed as governor of the Sol
diers' Home near Washington.
Asleep Amid Flames.