Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-08-29
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Ames is to spend $2o,GoO on sewer
system this fall.
An item going the rounds states that
down at Bells Ford, Ky. Colonel Al
exauder has a jug of whisky that will
be 100 years OLD on the both OF Septem-
bar. and on that date tire seal Will be
broken. The newspapers giving spac4
Ito this item should cease wondering
why men break out Of inebriate asy-
llms.
An advertisement from paper pub
llished in suburb of London "Will
any kind, philanthronic person adopt
John H. E.. al present getting living
las leather merchant and dealer III
Heather fancy goods. who, albeit he is
not afraid of work, IS confident he
would make an excellent only son to a
millionaire? kilograms to Bruce
Grove Tottenham." Should he be sue
Icessful in obtaining his desires, what a
boon ii would prove to The want ad''
lnan.,
England has just launched a battle
Iship which, when fully equipped Will
have cost the British treasury an
amount equivalent TO six millions and
| a half in American dollars. Later .
vessel will be constructed which viii be
O.
monster, and will therefore be even
more costly. When will the limit be
reached?
The assassination of United States
consul at Beirut in SYRIA by Mussul-
mans appears on It's face TO be an at
Jack upon the flag and the signal for
Iswift national resentment. Until the
causes and circumstances can be fully
understood, however, it is not likely
that any severe measures will be con-
sidered. Ii will upon reflection be con-
s:dered improbable that the murder of
the consul was a blow directly at this
government. The average. Mussulman
knows nothing of the United States
and its policies or sympathies. If he
has heard Of this country at all 1t is
as an excellent market for dancing
girls and BON bonn" candy. The prob
abilities are that when the case is
sifted down i; will be found to be the
individual act of some crazed Moslem
who killed a man and not a consul. AT
any rate Turkey should be mulcted in
a manner that will discourage future
attempts on the lives of American
citizens.
According to the New York Sun,
many knowing persons are talking !
elibly about the queens cup again. |
Americas cup never was the queens |
cup. No American yacht has ever
sailed for that prize. The Americas |
cup was just a plain regatta prize, Of |
fered for race of the Royal Yacht |
squadron around the Isle of Wight on I
Aug. %. 1851. The cup is stin here de-
spite the efforts of many would-be
filters.
On the big Cook farm near Odebolt
sixty-five acres We're seeded to alfalfa
on April 25.--on July 90 the plants
were In bloom. An average plant pho
tographed recently measured twenty
six inches in height, the tap root was
eighteen inches long and there were
five full length stalks on the plant. The
experiment bids fair to prove The fea
sibiltty of successfully growing alfalfa
in Iowa, which If it can be generally
accomplished will prove of great value
10 the farmers of the state
The fence about the Fort Belknap
Indian reservation, when is forty miles
wide and sixty miles long, has been
finished, according to dispatch from
Mont. 1t probably is the long
est fence in the world ard has taken
years in building. The rlan is TO pros
tect the fiocks and herds of the eros
ventres and Assniboines from intru-
sion, as we'll as TO keep them from
straying.
Thomas Edison in his suggestion OF
the use of radum as a remedial or
curative agent in the treatment of cam
,er seems to antagonize the use of the
N-rays for the same purpose. He is
Inclined to regard the &-rays as
,ause. while others use them as a cure.
The benefits thus far secured have been
United, and no one can yet say that
hey are going to be lasting. Never
heless, there is Just now an increas-
ns faith among medical men in the ,
OF checking generous
,rowths on the surface If the body and
,ther cutaneous diseases by the radia-
ion of a vacuum tube.
Marshalltown has the reputation of G
laving more fires than any place of .
is size in the state.-Keokuk Gate city. :.
Something of the sort is to be ex- !,
,ected by hot town, but the real rea O
on Marshalltown appears to have more c
Tres than keoku, and other small t
tiles in the state lies in the fact that L
when q fire breaks out in Marshall q
own it simply has to burn something !,
aluable. That's why it attracts atten- :,
ion. .
A corn crop of not less than 2,o0O,- "
10000 bushels with a diminished n
heat crop, estimated at outside call 81
ulations at 650000O00 bushels, is the il