Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-31
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chronicle credit that city with the ex-
nenditure of $4,000 annually for beer
and suggests the establishment of a
brewery as a needed and inevitably
urofifable enterprise. The natural man
ufacturing advantages appear TO be all
that it is necessary to consider. The
market demand seems to be all right,
Davenport nonagenarian boasts of
having seen and heard Daniel Webster
and Henry Clay, He can we'll remem-
her when a youth of having heard
Webster speak from the steps of the
capitol building in Washington.
The plan for q pipe line from the
Wyoming oil fields to Omaha suggests
there is no lack of pipes in Omaha with
which to build the line-on paper.
Cass county farmers have organized
co-operative company. one of the
purposes of which IS to bury It's own
members when they die at absolute
cost, thus eliminating the heavy profits
said to be CLEANED by the average I'M
dertaker in preparing man for his
final sleep. Now if they could add q
mutual fire insurance feature good
after the funeral the scheme would
seem to be complete.
A vote for state senator this year
| f,,, nj tpl Strlt ~
ator to succeed Dolliver.
The oldest editor in southwestern
Iowa, John Thornton of the Farragut
Sentinel. is receiving the condolences
of the newspapers of that section over
a serious illness.
The Philanthropic Lady sat in the
midst of the McF'adden family, expos
tulating with them in a panied voice
on the frequency with which they
chased the festive cam around the
corner to the nearest liquor saloon.
You ought to provide some kind OF
wholesome amusement for your FAM
ily." said the Philanthropic Lady
sternly to the abashed McFadden. You
should do something to tighten the
burden Of living. Every life needs a
little sunshine in it,
"Oh, missus' spoke UP Miss McFad-
den. aged l3, eagerly, I'VE has plenty
of fun. There's always a fight or some
thin entertainin' goin' on in the tint
mint. Why, oney last week a gentle
man cut a lady's throat and drug her
past our door"
-Lippncotts Magazine.
When It became known that Director
Dunbar Rowland, of the department oil
archives of Mississippi, had asked fol
a picture of Thomas p. Reed for the
Hall of Fame In the new state capitol
/ It raised howl from The state press
| This is a sample of the denunciatlor
| from the Vicksburg American: I'll
| this is true 1t is nothing short of desc
Grafton" The Thomas B. Reed whose
picture was really wanted was born ir
J Kentucky, but practiced law in Natchel
l "
in 1881 and United States senator from
| 1896 to 1889, when he died.
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| An exchange tells of a farmer resid-
| ing in Hamilton county, near Webster
City, who was compelled the other day
| to dispose of twenty head of young pigs
| at a dollar per head for the reason
that he was unable to feed them. The
| farmer In question resides upon ar
| eighty-acre farm. OFF the place this
year he raised $50 bushels of oats. The
corn crop was a total failure. The
| farmer had twenty young shoat;
Weighing from fifty to seventy-five
| pounds. He had intended to winter
he had raised nothing with which t.
| feed them, however, it was impossible
to keep them. He kept them for 9
time, but the animals began to grow
thin. and he finally was forced to sci
| them, getting the small sum of 81 pei
head. He did not get the cash, bu
took potatoes at rs cents per bushel il
/ trade for them. If the story is true II
statement the Hamilton county farm
ers should learn to advertise. There l!
plenty of corn in Iowa to feed all 1t:
hogs and any number of farmers wht
would have quadrupled the price a
which these shoats were sold. There i:
no reason for sacrifice of this sort il
| these days of publicity.
1 Has any expert examined the f1ooc
of Chicago Examiners, poured int
Iowa by Hearst, for the colon bacillus
Howard Burrell, philosopher, observ
er and writer, has come to the conclu
sion that not much real news exists
and that most of the items gathered
with such pains by enterprising new
gatherers are of no more significance
than collie or cold Burrell phi
losophzes on the cruelty of fishing
and goes fishing; criticises the valu
of minor news and very likely absorb
it with as much avidity as any othe
reader Philosophy IS abstract !
six pound pickerel on a six-ounce ro'
and the news of the ncighborhood ar
concrete propositions. SO is Howar'
Burrell. 1t is his philosophy only tina
is an abstraction.
Ida Grove kept posted on the prog