Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-10-27
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A Forest City minister bore away
the prize and the championship in
1 shotgun contest at flying targets. Now
/ if he shoots error as she flies with the
same accuracy and precision that he
! displays upon blue rocks. sin should be
hard to find in Forest City
| The potato crop is '.patchy' in Iowa
| this year. Down in southeastern Iowa
| the tubers are selling at As cents per
bushel. while at Emme5sburg, accord
!, ing TO the Reporter. Potatoes are
mighty scarce articles in this county
| this fail. During the past week, three
/ cars havv. been shipped in. These Sell
for 10 cents per bushel. The last two
years have been tough on potato eat
ers.
| Frank Clark, the mixed breed rap
! ist under sentence of death at Kahokia.
| Mo-. who i, is said has asked and re-
eeived permission to sing song on
| the scaffoid vii probably discover that
| the sheriff was only "strlnging" him.
| Baron Won Sternburg. the German
amba ssador. is going home for an OPP
grafton to improve his hearing. Amer
| lea opened his eyes, but failed to help
his other infirmity.
The announcement that Dave Brant.
of the Iowa City Republican, is stump
ing for the republicans and making
standpat speeches is good news. Not
long ago Mr. Brant's affection of rheu-
matism made it hard for him to stand
pat or otherwise and rendered stump
| ing about any old way very painful!
business.
Page county is the home OF twa-
story corn or of sky scraping prevari-
Gators. The Shenandoah World tells
of Il display of cernsta'ks brought III
by a farmer and exhibited in front OF
the World office the tops of which
reached away up to Dir. Sutton's Of
flee windows in the second story. The
! ears on the stalks We're twenty-one
feet from the ground The World
says: 1T has set the preachers to
talking about this community as be-
ing the greatest corn country in the
world But the nature of the story
would suggest activity among the
| preachers in a different direction.
| To Things are not always what they
seem
| This saying may be added:
Fully many manly shoulders nor
SO broad as it is padded.
Washington Post.
| 1t is recalled that Samuel E. Morse,
editor and proprietor of the Indianapo-
| lis Sentinel whose fatal fall from his
office window OH Wednesday is de-
| scribed by his friends as accidental,
was the man who. In the campaign OF
1884, originated and persisted In
| cruel Islander OF Mr.. and Mrs. James G.
Blaine 1t is also rather curious cir
cumstance that the career Of another
| editor who welded slanderous pen
| was ended in IA similar manner q few
years ago in ST. Louis.
/ Samuel Parks, already indicted and
4 convicted OF penitentiary otfense,
/ must answer an Indictment for per-
Jury preferred by the New York dis
| trict attorney Truly the way of the
walking delegate, which seems identi-
cal with that of the transgressor, is
/ hard.
1t would have been rather a dull
campaign for the Cedar Rapids Repub-
| lican If 1t hadn't been for the railway
/ taxation question, which the Repub
| lican admits is not an issue-Sioux
| City Journal
In the temporary absence of the
beauty editor, this question was hand
| ed by mistake to the sporting editor:
/ How shall one get rid of superflu-
Gus hairs on the upper lip"
That's easy" he wrote in reply.
Push the young man away