Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-04
TOPICS Of THE TIMES

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The Britt Tribune is authority for the
statement that some fine yacht races
| have been programmed for the county
fair at that place--if it keeps on rain
| ing.
The Ministerial Association of Des
Moines proposes to have law enacted
whereby licenses to merry in every
county in Iowa shall rest in the hands
of a commission of reputable physi-
clans, three male and three female
which commission shall examine into
the physical condition of every man and
every woman. applying fer a license to
marry to determine the fitness or I'M
fitness of the applicants to enter the
marriage state; and the judgment of
this commission shall be final 1t
probably has not occurred to the Min
isterial Association that rigid enforce
ment of such a law would raise the rate
of illegitimacy and sexual immortality in
an appalling degree.
Newspapers are agitating the justice
of cergymen charging a regular fec
for their services at funerals. They
say the sexton, undertaken and liver
man are paid and why not the minis
ter? However. in many cases collec-
ton would bring more money.
| The famous Ferris wheel, one of the
delights and attractions of the worlds
fair at Chicago. was sold Tuesday to
the high bid of s1.s00, Judge Chytraus
reserving the right to receive other
bids later. The Ferris wheel has led a
precarious life since the close of the
worlds fair. After playing the star en-
gagement on the Midway. it rested for
a long time, and was finally moved to
the north side, opposite the limits car
barns on North Clark street. The cost
of taking the wheel down was $4,000,
aid to erect 1t again cost $4,000. For
several years it was run as an attrac-
| ton in connection with vaudeville
| summer theater and beer garden. But
| it failed to pay expenses. Today there
| is an outstanding Indebtedness of about
100000. including 100000 in bonds.
| 1T is an i'll wind that blows no one
| good" 1t is estimated that Des Moines
dealers have sold $4,000 worth of rub
Der boots since the floods began. One
firm disposed of about 1900 pairs, an
other of 500. and retail end wholesale
houses alike were practically cleaned
out Of their stocks.
| Surveyor Pontius, of Eagle Grove,
was up Thursday and proceeded to es-
tablish a grade on Main street between
blocks % and &c. Now that this work
/ is done new and permanent sidewalks
will be built in front of many of our
business blocks.-Goldfi2,d Chronicle.
Sort of PLATED Goldtie,d toward bet
| ter sidewalks.
Joseph B. Greenhut, who is about to
go TO Europe for the purpose of study
ing the conditions pertaining to the
Jews in Russia, and who will report
| his findings to the international He
| brew committee, is known in the west
| as wealthy capitalist. Mr.. Greenhut
was born at the military post of Teinitz,
Austria, on Feb. %, 1S43, and went to
Chicago when he was nine years old. In
response to Lincoln's first call for vol
unteers he enlisted as a private in the
Twelfth Illinois regiment, and at the
battle of Fort Donelson was seriously
wounded He was honorably discharged
and returned to Chicago. but six
months later recruited company of in
fantry, of which he was elected cap
tain, and which was assigned to the
Eighty Illinois. with the army of
the Potomac. Mr.. Greenhut returned
to Chicago and turned his attention to
mercantile pursuits.
The city Of Cresco is negotiating the
purchase of a two-acre gravel bed as a
source of gravel supply for use in street
making. an example that may well be
followed by other towns in Crescos
class. Well graveled streets are an OBJ
ject lesson to farmers and likely to have
their effect on the country roads. And
good roads make a good town.
The Nonpareil digs up the following
from files of twenty years ago: The
storm which swept over Council Bluffs
last evening is unparalleled in its his
tory. The scene thru the entire city for
| two blocks of Indian creek beggars de-
scription. All the bridges from upper
Broadway to the bottoms were carried
away, with the exception of Market and
Eighth streets. Hundreds of houses,
business and private, whare flooded. At
the Northwestern depot on Broadway
| the water rose inside an hour to depth
of three feet, the height of the memora-
BILE flood of 1881. Water all over the
Missouri river bottoms IS from three
to four feet deep The rear wall of the
new opera house was undermined and
| fell into the creek"
| Club connections have not hardened
the women who comprise the Des
Moines Women's Club. whose sympa-