Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-04
TOPICS OF THE
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A Holstein is considering the advisa-
billty of raising the rate of it's saloon
H licenses Its six saloons are now pay
ing 5000 each which is likely to be adj
vanced to $1,000.
The automobile is likely to remain
popular in Minneapolis, where the au-
tomobile club is keeping tab on acci-
dents resulting from reckless driving
by automobiles and reporting them
| with the names of the chauifeurs to the
newspapers. If the necessity grows ur-
! gent the club will accept the RESPONSE
| bility of prosecuting the cases.
A Dixie is to have carnival and the
Grundy Democrat warns it's readers to
call for Dixie "rosewater," since recent
prosecutions under the mulct law made
change Of labels and saloon signs ad-
yisable.
The United States civil service COM
mission will hold examinations for the
position of stenograp her and typewri-
ter on Aug. IL, 1908, which is open to
males from is to 40 years old. This
examination will not take the place of
the examination scheduled to be held
turnout the country during the fall OF
| 1903. but is to fill vacancies In the de-
partmental ana Philippine services.
The salary in the departmental service
is $40 to $1,000, while s1.4o0 per an
mum is offered in the Philippine serv-
| ice TO those sterogra piers who tran
scribe their notes taken at the speed of
100 words or more minute. Exami-
nations will be held in Chicago, Boston.
indianapolis. New York. New Orleans.
Philadelphia. San Francisco and Wash
| ington.
| Failing water supply in the river at
| Ottumwa leads the Courier to profane-
| ly urge the authorities to begin look
| ing into the dam situation immedi-
ately."
| A penny an acre to put nitrogen into
poor land is said to be the cost of the
rev patented nitrogen yeast which Is
being furnished by the department Of
agriculture to farmers who apply for it.
| 1t does not cost the farmers even that
much. 1t is furnished free. 1t costs
about cent to make Il cake large
enough to impregnate IN acre of land.
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| S. b. Richards has taken control of
subscribers a clean, reliable, republican
paper.
| The balloon ascension appears to be
losing its grip on the rural population.
A farmer near Omaha has begun in
junction proceedings against an aero
naut who has acquired a habit of set
in few years we may see the farms
pasted with notices warning airships to
keep off the grass.
The crisis in Wall street appears to
have reached its climax, and from now
on Improvement may be reasonably eX-
pected, accompanied, OF course, by the
usual setbacks incidental to GONZALES
cence. Experts seem to agree in dag
nosing the ailment which has attacked
| the stock market with such severity as
financial gastritis-the inevitable result
of an ill-advised attempt to swallow an
immense quantity of indigestibl Sc
curties. Singularly, the attack has
been most severe upon those who took
part In this sumptuous meal; but for
tunately, owing to vigorous constitu-
tons and heroic applications of the
lhydropathic or liquidation treatment,
the disease did not become sufficiently
acute to develop symptoms of hysteria
or panic. The unhappy patients have
suffered severely by their underwriting
commitments: nevertheless a valuable
| lesson has been learned, and the expert
ence should have it's value to observers
and all interested.
| The Canadians are considering a bill
to disqualify any electcr who fails to
vote at one general election from vot-
lib dl ASAt. IL Is tiiIlc lCE lliS NV
erymen and ward heelers to get busy.
Arnold White, in an article published
in the National Review, advances the
assertion that international action is
necessary to the settlement of the Jew
ish question in Russia. The Kishinetf
horror. like the barbarous lynchings in
| the United States. Is a matter for in
terna tional horror and private expostu-
lation rather than for the interference
OF one country in the internal affairs of
another. Russia must rid herself of
mob murder by her own strength. Out
side interference will not accomplish
| much.
The Perry Chief Reporter tells of
three hoboes rounded up by the Perry
police. one Of whom was Harvard
graduate with a Virgil in his pocket.
The second was a landscape painter OF
| high ability and the jyl a civil anoi .