Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-22
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This seems a case os perfect har-
nony:
| But as Mr. Perkins owns his paper
why shouldn't he do as he pleases with
It's columns Cedar Rapids Repub-
lican.
To be sure-why not? The Journal
is an independent republican newspa-
per.-Sioux City Journal.
Fortunate Perkins! He seems to
have won the admiration of the Repub-
lican. He owns his newspaper and
owns himself as we'll Could such ideal
ity fail TO excite comment?
Daley. of the Clinton Herald APP
pears TO have the athletic temperament
and willing mind that his name would
indicate. Says he to them all. bowld
guy and undaunted as Brennan: IF
any man is of the opinion that the edi-
tor of this paper can be intimidated or
coerced he will find out by trying to
put his belief into practice that he new
er made n greater mistake in his life.
/ We are always at the Office during Of
flee hours and are ready to accommo-
date any man, no matter what his busi-
ness may be. Threats will not pre-
vent us from doing our duty, and the
duties of an editor are about as numer-
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The Wall Lake Blade insists that II
Abrams closes the Sac county saloons
he must stop the sale OF beer at the
lSchutzen Society's park near Wall
Lake, where they are accustomed to
lhoch der kaiser and each other in the
good old German way. If Abrams
should pluck up courage to tackle the
Schutzen outfit some one should ar
range for photograph privileges and
the fight pictures.
A two line want ad can run two days
in the T.-R. for twenty-five cent: and
$4,000 people will read it
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democratic nominee for governor, is to
remove from Creston 10 Des Mones
after the election has a decided ten
dency to take all Of the local pride out
of the campaign.-Creston Advertiser.
If Mr.. Sullivan has business in Des
Moines that needs his attention his idea
Of moving there is all right-but he'll
have to rent an office.
IA fine. hair-like worm" has been
discovered which is sure death to mos
lauitoes. and the Gate City asserts:
This simplifies the situation very ma
|terially. When a mosquito lights on
lyou all you have have 10 do is to set
the worm on It, What blessing 1t Is.
to be sure, to live in a scientific age!"
The Dubuque Times says that as high
as S22 per ton is being paid for clam
shells this year by the factories along
the river and even at this price con-
siderable difficulty is being experienced
IL, getting enough to supply the de-
Inland Many OF the fishermen in this
vicinity will not sell their shells now,
Holding them with the idea of getting a
higher price in the fall and early WIN
ter, when the fishing has ceased and
1.-The supply of shells for the factories
have run low. Few who are not used
tic the ways of the river realize what a
profit there is In clam fishing with such
advanced prices. Men who are located
in the good fisheries, where the supply
in the beds is plentiful. are able to get
out in the neighborhood of ton day
and many are known to take out more
THAN this amount day after day. 9th
ers, however, who are working the old
beds do not get out more than half
ton a day and some not this amount,
but even with this it can be seen what
an enormous profit there is.
! A new form of the cyclopedia swindle
has developed in Muscatine, where the
state department of public instruction
has been notified that agents are traV-
cling about the state selling books un-
der pretense of introducing courses In
agriculture In the common schools I'M
der the instructions of the department.
The contracts given by the agents 1t Is
said bear the seal of the state, and 1t
lis said that the agents return every
night to border states after completing
their days canvass. The agents are
described as elderly men. we'll
|dressed" and Smooth takers" 1t Is
said that they have been canvassing
largely in Rock, Jackson. Mobiles and
| Martin counties. Superintendent j. w.
lOlsen has received the following let
ter written by a school teacher OIL
Jackson county and sent to the depart
ment by the county superintendent OF
4 Jackson county: ~. w. Olsen: Has
the state sent men to introduce an ag-
Iriculture course in the common schools
Of the state? There are men passing
thru the country. giving contracts to
teach agriculture by mail. we are
asked to sign to pay $i.I5 year foi
ten years. Is it all right? If 1t is a
humbug let other school boards know
before it Is too late. The contracts nave
the seal of the state on them"
The saloon business IS increasing
having grown from fifty -four drinking
places in three years 20 eighty-nine,