Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-22
TOPICS OF HE
TIMES q = .

Senator German saws he doesn't want
to be president. Here is where seha-
/ tor German votes with the majority
A tract of over 1000 acres on the
Hudson river near West Point mas
been purchased by a New York corpo-
ration and Will be used to establsh
Baptist Chautauqua. Tillman should
ind room to swing his pitchfork in
country place like that
An automobile owner of experience,
who was running his machine himself,
has been drowned in the Erie canal HIS
lself- motor ran away with him and
plunged into the ditch. That canal Is
Ineithfr very deep nor Very broad. ana
| if the unfortunate man had been able
20 swim even a few strokes he could
readily have saved himself. 1t is cas-
Ter To learn how to swim than to ae-
qure the art of handling an automobile
SO as to avoid danger.
The Brooklyn Chronicle, like Kip
ling's ship, seems TO have found ltsed-
AT amy rate 1t is taking rank as one of
the best of county weeklies in news and
editorial expression.
Mrs. Lois Edgington, who gave the
city Of Eldora the name of her deceased
daughter, is still living and in good
health, according to the Alden Times.
Mrs. Edgington, with her husband,
Samuel Edgington, arrived at what is
now the town of Eldora in 1853. Later.
when the commissioners arrived and 1t
was decided to give the town name,
Mrs. Edgington, who was mistress of
the l:ading-and only-hotel in the
growing village, was asked to name it.
The Oskaloosa street department
mixed UP the name plates at the street
intersections and located Tenth avenue
away out in a pasture where Eleventh
streea is supposed TO run. Now the city
will set two men to making the proper
lchana;es-one who can read and anoth-
er who knows where the streets are.
The Independence women who COM
pose a cemetery association that keeps
IOakland cemetery spick and span have
IheId their annual horse and flower
show They took in net receipts OF
over $500 and entertained over 5000
people. Malcolm women made matters
move when they took hold of affairs in
that town and built an opera house,
land Geneva women made the little
GENE cry adjacent to that village a
thing of beauty. The hand that rocks
the cradle, etc.
AS an explanation of the decline in
stocks and the recent rally the Wall
Street Journal suggests that many
large holders of high priced stocks
tempted by the high rates for money
sold their holdings at the top of the
market and loaned the proceeds at rates
4 that Melted substantially higher re-
turns: but now that the market
has sallen they are buying up stocks
lagairl as investors. 1t mentions the
case of one man who year ago solo
1000 shares of certain stock at 22S
$500
3.65 per cent a year on his investment
but he loaned the proceeds at high
rates and recently purchased 1900
shares of the same stock at 166, max
ing g. profit in the transaction of $l14,-
900 in cash, besides the difference in in
come.
The Methodist hymnal commission
which recently met at Plymouth. Mass.
to edit book of choral worship for the
use Of Methodists. north and south, ha:
made some progress toward the accom-.
plishment of its task. and Will reasse1n
bic in December at Washington. Slav'
: cry ruprured the Methodist church ant
divided it into sections. Perhaps sons
may reunite them.
Or, one of the rural mail routes from
Alta there are four families with twelv'
chihsren each. and one with ten ant
two with nine. Which offers susges'
tior TO other rural communities whic!
desire to hold their rural free deliver.
routes.
e Three fourths of the attacks mad
upon William Randolph Hearst ar
based in ignorance Of the man. TIL
: citizens of the district which electe
, him to congress thought well enough o
him to give him majority severa
times larger than that ever before ac
= corded a candidate in the same district
S T'p1ppra nh
Perhaps the Telegrapll's good opin
ion and even Mr.. Hearst's majority
based on ignorance of the district.
e $50
d Two Catholic clergyman having Off
fered over the miraculous cures said I
have been effected at church In WIS
e lconsin the Catholic Citizen very sensi
e bly believes that the discussion wi
+ clarity Catholic opinion. Probably som
discussion was needed. says the Cit
zen While skepticism S the besettln
evil of the day, there is also good dei
!, of the opposite extreme, credulity. w
NAV believe a little more, in religion
thar the church requires us to believe
but not a great deal more. There al
sous who wish to take great deal o
IS credit; they are not exclusively Cathc
lic souls. Spirtualists and Christla
Scientists illustrate an excessive or
perverted faith. Something of thos
re mental attitudes may be found anon
= Ca tholics Happily, the guardians
d thC. faith know how to dead with cor
crete cases. if detrimental