Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-03-04
TOPICS OF THE TIMES
Marshalltown will now have othe
reasons for remembering March 4th.

Marshalltown will now have other
reasons for remembering March 4th
The weekly report of smallpox, is
sued Saturday by DIR. IL. M. Bracken,
secretary of the Minnesota state board
of health shows 433 new cases In that
state. There are now fifty-three
counties and 104 localities affected.
The report shows a decrease or seven
cases over the report for the week pre-
yious and a decrease of nine In To-
calities infected.
Large numbers of people in the city
of London, England, are down with
the grippe.
1t is estimated by railway officials
at st. Paul that the number OF imrnl :
grants that will settle in the northwest
this year will more than double that
ef last wear. Approximately about
60 900 people were carried by all the
railroads thru st. Paul last year TO
occupy vacant lands in Minnesota, the
Dakotas. Northwest Territory and the
Pacific coast The railway officials
believe the number will easily reach
10000 this year. Scores of homeseek
ers have already passed westward, but
the general movement will begin this
month.
Think, that thirty days means, the
h,,,a t,owar IN the prairie-CharleS
city Press. And sixty days means the
foxtail in the corn.
The Troy Times considers 1T note
worthy t/lt sometimes the jokes OF
one generation become the sober facts
of the next. Years ago Bret Harte
satirized an attempt to buy st. Thomas
and Thomas Mast made pictures OF
Uncle Sam on board q warship shoot
ing the Spaniards off the island of
Cuba.
Twenty-nine sculptors have signified
their intention to submit designs for
the statue of General Mcclellan, which
is 70 be erected in Washington. This
ever entered in such a competition.
A Chicago man who lives in Goethe
street gets off the car at Schiller street,
two blocks away, because no conductor
can understand his pronunciation OF
Goethe. II had practised on the pro-
n,,nciation for a week." he says. and l
had the sound of the 'umlaut down
fine. ] sprung it on the conductor the
first evening He looked at me blankly,
and replied: Huh i repeated 1T over
once or twice, and finally a great light
broke over him. oh, yes, you mean
Gothic. Why didn't you say so?' The
next evening the conductor called 1T
Go-eeth. The third time up 1T was Co
e-the. Then there was raw Irishman
in charge of one of the trains who
spoke of it as Go-tay, with the accent
on the last syllable. One morning l
left an order for my wife at the gro
GERS He looked at me in silence for a
minute after / had given our address.
ooh, yes, he said you mean Gertie-st.'
ne DulCHeI II way VIC, eiiS 'iuii
dryman pronounces it Gay-tuh, and the
man who delivers coal alludes to 1T as
Goth-st / have woman friend, who
brides herself on her culture, who
speaks feelingly of Gutter-st. But the
devoted thoroughfare doesn't really
get it in the neck until you hear the
janitor talk. He calls 1T Goitre."
Be sure you are insured and then
fight the fire.
Eugene F. Loud, representative at
Washington from California, has the
distinction of having received the
sword of General Pemberton at Vicks-
burg in the hot July of 1868. He was
at the time member of the Second
Massachusetts cavalry.
Archibald Bard Darragh Is a con-
gresham from Michigan and Thomas
Robert Bard is q senator from Cali