Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-21
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/ Old the 0t1ef Gay, Dut II IL tlhNli "is'S'
| and larger than its age would indl-
cate.
The Board of Health Bulletin reports
smallpox at Webster City in Hanii-
ton county, ten cases in Massilon town
ship. Cedar county, five in Jasper
county, and one in Marion. There are
leases of the disease at Nandalia, Run-
nells and Cascade. Das Moines IS the
Only city affected with diphtheria and
scarlet fever prevails al Lost Nation
and Dies Mones.
! 1t is a dangerous matter to villtfy
and abuse your neiehbor over a county
telephone line one Wapello county
| farmer is suing another for $1,000 DAM
lagos for SANDER aud asserts he viii
grove his claim by eight other neigh
bors who are connected on the same
lime of the telephone. and all of whom
ceiver when the alleged slanderous re-
marks were made. The scarcity of
witnesses would indicate a short line
with few phones
The thankfulness will be little mite
strained OH Nov 90 with turkeys at %
cents per pound Last year Was hard
year on turkeys and the rains OF this
year following have not permitted tur-
key raisers 10 make much Roadway.
The prices will be cares pondingly
high.
The chairman of the Union county
cen lral committee admits Iowa repub-
licans never were in grayer danger
than at the present time. He wants.
Governor Cummins to deliver the last
address of the campaign in Creston,
Jerry Sullivan's home city, as a solar
plexus blow. He says in a recent in
terview: The republicans will have tc
work: It is not as 1t was In the last
campaign. We have harder man TO
defeat this time. Jerry Sullivan is
good mixer a good speaker and is
self-made man" However, the worthy
chairman is needlessly alarmed. As
the Iowa people all right. hut if he is
ever elected governo he will have to be
self elected, too. And he can't vote
but once.
An eloping pair of Knoxville lovers
We're trailed down by bloodhounds and
separated before the contemplated
4. Il
was case where dogged opposition on
the part of the parents was success
full.
The county superintendent of Tama
county schools is planning series of
spelling contests during the coming
winter. A contest In each school is 10
select representatives 10 township
contest The winner In the township
contest will represent that township In
the county contest, 10 be held at some
central place in the county. The inten-
ton is to stimulate interest in spelling
and the idea might be generally
with advantage.
Officially, by a recent order OF the
navy department., the Star Spangled
Banner" is hereafter to be recognized
1t has this advantage. at least, that it
has not been appropriated by any other
ration Furthermore. whatever may
be alleged against Its origin as, the air
OF drinking song, it is now identified
before the world with the grand verses
of Francis Scott Key. composed amid
the smoke and thunder of the siege of
Fort McHenry OF these verses, and
OF the incidents of their origin only,
viii nine hundred and ninety out
az thousand people think when they
hear the music, If they have any
thought at all beyond recognition of
the national air of our union. The
choice of the navy experimentation
less approved by President Roosevelt
lis one which the country at large Will
applaud.
The president of Amitv College has
bought the local paper in the town of
College Springs and will conduct a
class In journalism this winter on his
first proof sheet he should mark the
~" off the name of his college and
prefix big big ID" Failing this he
should kill" the class in journalism.
Three sons of C. A. Christian. OF
Atchson county Missouri, ages 8, 1G
and IS years, received $4,154.52 al q
for one summers work
in blowing corn. 1t is said they tended,
practically unaided. $50 acres Of corn
on the David Rankin ranch, near Tar
kio, which is one of the largest ranches
in the world. According to their con-
tract with Mr.. Rankin they We're to
received IL cents per bushel for every
bushe yielded by the field that season,
The field yielded 34.621 bushels, or an
average of sixty-four bushels per acre.
The worlds fair commission of Mis-
souri, had photographs taken of the
field ard ranch. These photographs
will be exhibited at the worlds fair.
The old town of F'redonia, al one
time a candidate against Iowa City for
the state capital, losing by one vote,
has been wiped off the time table and
map of the G. r.. l. & p. railway Ere
donia was for many years a promising
railroad center, one of the oldest sta