Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-07
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The condition of Keokuk's water sup
ply has forced the building of an I'm.
portant addition to. the brewery.
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When the collection had been taker
ct the close of the Holiress camprneet.
ling at Rowan several gold watche:
were found among the offerings. The.
lad been deposited by those whose con.
sciences chafed under the weight of the
golden timepiecess The question is
whether wicked gold watch, unfit fol
the fob of sanctification. is proper
Offering to the contribution box.
The new method of masking a bat
ltery by painting guns rainbow fashion
with streaks of red, yellow and blue
rendering them indistinguishable
against any background, has stood a
very remarkable test a. Aldershot. A
section of Horse artillery sent to en-
gage the guns did not locate them until
! within a distance of 1000 yards. This
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| officer.
A Perry woman whose husband has
| acquired the habit Of coming home
drunk and ugly has inaugurated a cure
for that kind of inebriacy which should
commend itself to other wives with
similar husbands. During one of his
recent attempts at the reorganization
Of the household in conformity to his
\ apprehension of domestic duty she took
the mega tive side of the question and a
stove poker with such good effect that
he has been under the surgeons care
ever since. The legislature should take
UP the question OF supplying the proper
and needed number of pokers rather
than the building of special drunkard
penitentiaries. The pokers come cheap
Ier and seem more thoroughly reforrna-
tory.
The democratic Waterloo Tribune
observes: '"rhe republican papers about
the state are having great time criti-
cising each other. One criticises Gov
ernor Cummins' address at the conven-
ton. the other criticises Congressman
Cousins address at the convention.
Thus it goes and the fights are grow
ing hotter and hotter each day. Let
Just let the democrats try to interfere
with some stiff opposition once and
this family would get together to rap
the policeman so quickly that the pro-
verbal Irishman and his wife would
feel ashamed of themselves.
Mrs. Won Blumer-Wiiat are you go
Ing to do with those awful cigars?
Won Blumer-I'm saving them for
friend of mine who has just become
Christian Scientist. Life.
"a Farm Hand" writing to the Upper
Des Moines Republican, takes an opti-
mistic view of crop conditions in Kos
suth county. He thinks that county
thirds of good crop yet. We will not
get much from some OF the low, wet
ground. But the high ground is getting
to the front in great shape these hot
days. And as to the oats crop, that is
practically insured to us now, provid-
there is quite a portion in the shock
already and this week will finish the
cutting. So we have nothing to fear,
only the high price of lumber for the
enlargement of our granaries."
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The Northwood Anchor wants some
thing new. 1t says: The more we
noted correspondent, the more we wish
he would confine his writings to topics
of which we know nothing. When he
writes such trash as he has been writ
ing about the Iowa insurance compa-
MES we lose confidence in him. What
he writes has "a pretty sound, but his
misrepresentation are just as bad as
those coming from less noted writer"
A. G. Lee a citizen of Denton, Tex,
writes that If the city Of Stevens Point,
Wis. viii change its name to "Philan-
thropy" he will secure location there
for two philanthropic institutions OF
world wide interest. backed by unlim
tied capital, and which WIN mean the
expenditure of $1O0,000,000 first and
last" He calls the institutions the In
ternational Political Specialists School
and the Worlds Diathetic Institute. A
letter OF inquiry addressed to the edi-
tor Of a leading paper at Denton brings
the reassuring answer that "Mr. Lee is
perfectly reliable and responsible
A travelling man alighted frosn train
and. covered with the dirt and dust of
travel. made his way to the best hotel
in southwest Missouri town the 9TH
er day. AS he handed the porter his
grips he told him he wanted to take a