Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1903-11-07

dllpleS. OIL senators DepeN, fI,ldll anu
Stewart as proof that the mania for
marriage is infectious, and therefore
by inference due TO q germ of some
kind or other The Gate City pre-
sumes the senators caught the con-
tagion from each other.
The Onawa Democrat is convinced
that no country on tne globe is as
nice as Iowa in Indian summer; that
even Italv with her dreamy breezes
and mellow sunshine, is not so beau
tiful.
The insurance companies, following
the qualification of the anti-compact
law, are preparing to form boards of
underwriters in Des MONIES and else
| where throughout the state as in for
ner days. and the Dubuque Times
suggests that it is just possible they
4 will get themselves into trouble. The
! old associations, Which empowered the
secretary to cancel u policy written
below schedule rates the Times
points out, were in violation of the
antitrust law and Judge Mcpherson
has not held that insurance compa-
MES are exempt from liability under
this law
The Ninton Eagle notes KnoXvilles
reported willingness to have the va
cant state buildings there used as a
state .nebriate hospital and kindly
helps matters along by offering the
| following suggestion: IF the state es-
4 tablishes such an institution as an
4 inebriate institution it will be neces-
sary to establish it somewhere, but
the town getting it is sure to have
some horrible nickname attached to
it, giving an odium that it can't shake
loose"
Instead of the inebriate law being
/ repealed the Clarinda Herald believes
1 that it will most likely be strengthened
in several ways so as to make il more
effective.
The Council Bluffs Nonpareil con-
siders that John Mitchell has gone
Through enough during the last two
years to turn the head of an average
man, and it says that il he proves
1 himself strong enough TO Withstand
the temptation to enter politics he may
well be e eS s as an extraordinary
man.
The Cedar Falls Record indorses as
n sensible move the addition of 3
course of agriculture to the high schoo
course in the Des Moines high school
but adds a proviso that it must be
"sentibly conducted by sensible ag-
riculturalist."
The editor of the Burlington Hawk
Eye, speaking from personal eXper-
fence, perhaps, declares that "HalloW-
cen from a joyous occasion of innocen
: fun and amusement, has become nui
J. sance of the first grade
o.
Noting that the Cass county farm
ers have organized a cooperative com
, pany which will provide funeral TO
l its members at absolute cost, the Mar
t shalltown Times-Republican has tn
n nerve TO suggest that the plan nigh
be improved by adding "a mutual fir
!. insurance feature, good after the fun
: eral."
! To the Council Bluffs Nonpareil
q appears that "the number of railroa
t. wrecks resulting in great loss of lif
s the past few days ought to be a chez
to the railroads in their retrenchmen
plans" The Nonpareil advises tina
1T might be better to pay little NOR
Le for operating; and less for loss of lii
t. and property"
-. The Dubuque Times is looking o
= sympathetically at Minneapoli
- struggles with the tax ferret The Du
re buque newspaper approves the actio
of the Minneapolis business men VIII
are moving for the exemption of nor
eys and credits, and expresses IL
C. opinion that the tax ferret is nothin
S. less than legalized blackinailer.
III D.
yot This bouquet goes to Senator Doll
IL yer with the compliments of Colon
!. Lafe Young, of the Des Moines Cap
IL tai, who heard Mr.. Delivers adore.
in Des Moines, and evidently VIZ
pleased with it: Senator Jonatha
p. Dolliver has been making publ
oil speeches a good many years, even f
ct a man upon whom the years sit
III lightly as they seem to do upon hiI
1. But as the years have been passir
> Dolliver has been growing ia nent
strength broadening in intellectual d
velopment and assimilating the thini
II. which pertain to the richest cultul
-. until the present beholds him the w
" rounded and symmetrical orator al
statesman whom the great common
wealth of Iowa is proud to claim
a favorite son.
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