Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-12-28
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can be named for a military hero as
saloonkeeper has nothing to do with tn
army canteen.
He is a protectionist of the schoo
of Blaine and of William Mckinney
saws the Hartford Courant of Governor
Cummins. and the Courant is repue'
lican newspaper published in the hear
of the protected industries of the
east
DR.. f. w. Porterfield, promineo;
member of the X. P.'s, is candidats
for member of the board of regents OF
the state university from the Ninth
district.
Sioux City is considering the adop-
ton of the voting machine. Ihlrty-slN
machines at $4,000 is the proposition
payment TO ME made in ten years out o.
money saved by their use The voting
machine is sure to come sooner or later
Manufacturers might hasten the day
by offering $125 machine for less than
$500.
Now That Dowie has gone thru this
part of the world thoroughly he has
time TO plan a trip around the rest .
it.
Maryland has produced Jill more
gifted than that friend of childhood
days. Mrs. William kiddy went UP
the hill to milk the COW, whose homo
was in barn four hundred feet above
the level of the valley in which the
Kiddy homestead stands. When her
pail was we'll filled. the barn, detached
from it's foundations by the snow, slip
ped gently from it's moorings and sill
to the valley. Mrs. Kiddy kept her
balance and her pail of milk, and when
the barn finished Its journey she
emerged from it. carrying her milk and
leading the COW. She had no bruises
TO show for her trip. Thus Is the
advance of modern times over the Old
days illustrated anew.
The following epitaph has an optim-
istic ring combined with 4 certain
amount of epitaffy that will be gener-
ally appreciated:
Here lies Inferred p. c. Bird,
Who sang on earth till sixty-two;
Now upon high, above the sky,
No doubt he sings like sixty, too.
-Keokuk Gate City
proyerbially wise and alive to their
own interests, only fifty-one out of 2G3
eligibles cast their ballots at a school
election.
The Keokuk Gate City has purchased
and will install at once a new perfect .
ing press and Is remodeling its building
to fit the new press. 1t is gratifying
to the Gate City's many friends in the
field to learn that ths
changes were made necessary by thE
rapid increase in the circulation IF
The Gate City. The Gate City deserves
success.
E. r. Harris the bright young editor
of the Missouri Valley Times. died
at the age Of twenty-five
years.
"A Hopkins man in an early day"
relates that most veracious of all Mis-
souri, newspapers, The Hopkins Jour-
nal" hauled lots of cordwood and usei
rawhide harness on his team. Raw
hide, we all know, expands when wet
and contracts on drying out Well, this
man was hauling an exceptionally big
load one day when a thunderstorm
overlook him just as he reached long
hill leading to his home. He was walk
ing beside his team that he might pay
close attention to them and did not
his rawhide harness until the top Of
the long hin was reached, when, to his
utter amazement. the wagon stood at
the bottom of the hill. the rawhide
tugs being fairly stretched into fiddle
strings. He was puzzled for mo-
ment, but just then the sun came out
and happy idea found Judgment IN
his fertile brain. He unhitched the
team, fastened the tugs securely around
a big tree and went in to dinner When.
he returned the sun had caused the
rawhide to contract sufficiently TO bring
the wagon up that steep hill with
that smashed both front
wheels when it came in contact with
the tree around which the tugs had
been fastened"
OF old when fellow would steal
He was dragged to a dirty bastile;
But the modernized crook
When he's brought to book,
Rides to Jail in his automobile.
Baltimore American.
George w. Sewers, of Oskaloosa, IS
an open candidate for delegate to the
republican convention from
the Sixth.
From reports in the weekly newspa~
pers the fur business In Iowa is likely
10 make good any possible deficienc.
in the corn crop, A Charlton man has
sold rs worth of his own trapping so
far this season. Last year he marketed
S576 worth.
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