Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-01
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III TIMES - -
Fra Albertus turned out a cheap
sort of Fra piavolo.
The Hawkeye declares that LATE
Young couldn't have written better the
standpat editorial of the Davenport
lRepubliean. Perhaps not-but he did
long ago
| Death hid his scytha while Joshua
Stumbo. farmer near Roone, gave an
unique party recently by entertaining
| five generationsof his family. First came
his own mother. Mrs. Elizabeth Wise
cup who was 81 years Of age last Sat
iurday. Following her came Sarah
Miller. aged II, Nancy Scott. daughter
lof James Scott. ESD, aged 40, Elmira
Stickler, aged %, and her daughter
Ethel, aged 8 years.
The newspaper at Denver has been
suspended and the publisher of the
Plainfield Progress is threatening to
quit. Lack of proper support.
A Clear Lake dispenser of the drinks
| that make summer resorts famous
named Grau. has sued Deputy Sheriff
Clark. of Cerro Gordo county, for %
cents due on one bottle of "beerine,"
whatever that is. The suit is a result
OF search warrants issued on July and
served on the morning of the Fourth.
Grau's was one of the places raided
and it is alleged that Clark called for
| a bottle of beerine. tasted it, set it
down. and said that wasn't what he
wanted. Now Grau sues for % cents,
;he price of the bottle.
The editorial clipping referring to
editors who fill their columns, with
complimentary notices of their own
sheets which recently ran in the Iowa
| Opinions of this paper was incorrectly
credited to the Grinneil Gazette. 1t
| hell Herald.
Colonel Richard Root. notice Of whose
death at keokuk has appeared in the
news columns of the T.-R., was the
first captain of Company e, Eighth
Iowa cavalry. His regiment, the One
Hundredth and Thirty sixth United
States colored infantry, was according
| to Thomas Nichols. ex-iirst lieutenant
of Company + of that regiment mus
tered out on Jan. 1. 1866, at Augusta,
Ga, and were never sent to Browns
| Vile, Tex for further service. Maxi
millian's failure and disaster in Mexico
rendered it unnecessary for Uncle Sam
to enforce the Monroe doctrine. The
three regiments of colored troops or
ganiZed for frontier service were dis
banded and mustered out at Macon,
Atlanta and Augusta, Ga.
An Odebolt road Superintendent is
using a traction threshing engine for
road grading and claims for it superior
efficiency over team work. Other res
ports from different sections support
his assertion.
Lare Young for vice PRESIDENT We
have listened to worse propositions
fright here in Iowa.-Burlington Hawk
eye.
The Hawkeye should bid Satan get
behind. Don't listen.
The Cass County Democrat declares
there is a crying need of democratic
daily paper to be published in Des
Moines. This is the same crying ne
cessity that has endured for years.
There has been plenty of crying con-
lnected with every democratic daily
vertured in Des Moines, but the pro-
moters and stockholders had personal
charge of the mourning.
The caustic remarks OF Mr.. Tillman
on the Danville, ILL.,, lynching may be
| looked upon as press notices prepara-
| tory to his coming lecture tour in the
interests of violence and anarchy.
sss
Congressman Haugen, after much
correspondence, has secured for his dis
| trict seven big guns, three three two
FOUNDER Rodmans and four PARROT
rifles. all of which did service during the
rebellion. Northwood gets two Rodmans
weighing $500 pounds each, and a Par
rott, weight 400 pounds. Mason City
| gets two guns, one of each kind; Fay
cite and Garnavillo each get PARROT.
| The combined weight Of the seven big
babies is nearly twenty-five tons. The
| Worth county apportionment will come
handy for the next county seat fight.
| In statement and general reliability
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil's Deep
River correspondence gives color to the
surmise that William L. Curtis has got
busy at Deep River.
| ID. d. Carlton was taken with a stitch
in his side last Tuesday afternoon while
playing bail on the diamond west of
Main street and was in a serious con-
dition for a couple of days. In the
same game G.. l.. Durham started to
run after batting the ball and was
taken with like stitch in his leg,
which has crippled him up quite badly
this week.-Early News.
| The trouble probably occurred just
after Messrs. Durham and Carlton had
basted the ball across the lot. How
would it do TO call tha next game in
connection with the sewing circle or a
hquilting?