Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-12
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Wisconsin dairymen ana other pro-
spective exhibitors are preparing to
boyeott the st. Louis fair unless the
contractors offer reasonable terms for
the erection of the Visions n state
building at the exposition.
A most Interesting pillow case was
pulled off at Port Chester, n. Y. the
other day when a wealthy Tennessee
planter and factory girl We're mar
red. About a year afTo the girl. In q
spirit of fun, inclosed her address in a
package of pillow cases which she was
folding as a part of her duty at large
linen factory there. Later she received
a letter from a young man in Tennes-
see. The let er led TO q. correspondence
and exchange of photographs MI
Maingault proposed and was accepted.
Then the labor union was eonsum-
mated.
w. C. Van Buskirk, publisher OF the
Ute Independent, is seriously i'll with
tuberculosis.
Now that the paragra piers are busy
with Ruth Bryan and Captain Hobson
the objection is raised shat 1t is indie
cent TO pry INTO their private affairs
with impertin ent inquiries. But If these
same impertinences were net perpe-
trated Captain Hobson would notice
The consequences. This sympathy, for
the captain at least, is redundant.
The receiver for the shiphuilding
trust has made his report. 1t is an IN
teresting Illustration of the cause and
remedy of trust troubles. Industrial
liz. the shipbuilding trust is prosperous.
1t is only wreck financially. The re-
ceiver proposes to reoraganize it by
squeezing out half the water His plan
provides for q capitalization of S43,-
100000 in place of the original SSl,oOo,-
COO Probably the reorganization viii
leave some water in the stock. 1t may
be necessary to squeeze some more out
later. Il fixed charges can not be
earned. This trust was In the same fix
as Consolidated Superior 1t must sub
NIT to the same operation for dropsy.
1. is to be observed in both cases that
the value of the property has not
changed, and its productive power has
not been impaired. Both have been
blown up with gas that must be let
out; that is all.
In us head over a cornfield item the
Cedar Rapids Republican asks
Has Ears Sixteen Inches Long" The
farmer when heard from will be in
clined to locate the ears on the head
writer.
The old system of pay car Is still
in vogue on the Illinois Central and the
Waterloo Reporter says that on its re-
cent visit to tina, city distributed over
$4,000 in checks; to employees of the
road, ass in all, in less than twenty
three minutes. One engineer is at the
throttle the entire distance, 1.400 miles
This system was discontinued years
ago by the Northwestern and instead
the checks are sent direct to the sta
ton agent. who distributes them
among the employees.
Billy" Hamilton, Of the Odebolt
Chronicle. wants Jud Weiliver, of the
Sioux City Tribune, to name his new
boy BILLY" Ham ton Welliver. Its
requiring considerable of the boy to
ask him to live up to the combination.
Shenandoah has an epidemic OF ty
phoid fever, in all probability attrib
to the recent floods. The river
has been on rampage and distributed
germs over the entira countryside.
Shenandoah's case is similar in some
respects to that CT Marshalltown, as
the narrow Nishnaoot drains large
territory of closely settled farming
country and takes the wash Ut numer
Gus towns and villages.
A promoter is buHily driving, thru thu
country about Shenandoah seeking TO
organize a $4,000. 900 corporation for
purposes. He has prob
ably heard OF the condition OF the
Shenandoah banks, which hold s1,20o.-
600 on deposit, s1,t00,00o of which be-
longs to farmers. Perhaps the pro-
noter means to start mint.
There was youns. woman from Me.
Whose maiden cogiiomen was LIE.
Her first name was Je.
Her features were File.
And they called her Pie. Je. lie.
Minneapolis Tribune.
A census map shows that the Mis-
sissippi valley is the main seat of corn,
tho nearly every state raises it. A daub
of color is on some TART of almost
every state. But Iowa alone Is colored
all over. Three-fou this of Illilois and
Indiana, one-half of Ohio and Missouri,
the eastern part of Nebraska and two
thirds of Kansas are covered by the
color that indicates corn culture. The
average maize crop is $500 TO 5000
million bushels in the whole verdi and
1000 millions of that yield is made in
the United States In 1899 the six great
corn states produced 1.256, 1920
bushels.
The Bank of England has raised its
rate of interest from to per cent.