Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-20

lSickles, julius S1ahel, Lew Wallace,
James Fl. Wilson and Thomas J. Wood.
! Generals Dana, FessenIen. Grierson,
Howard McCool1. Merritt. Miles, Scho-
field, Sckles, Wilson and Wood are
Istill in the army. Miles being the only
ione still in active service. Generals
Schofield and Miles reached the rank
of lieutenant general, Generals Sckles
of lieutenant general, Generals Sckles.
Howard, McCook and Merritt that of
major generals in the permanent es-.
Establishments; Generals Fess.nden
| Wood. Wilson and Grie,son retired as
! brigadier generals in the regular army.
| and General Dana is retired as cap
tain. Thu others left the army at the
end of the war.
| Don't complain because you must
read about T-R. want ads in every is
sue. Realize for a moment that every
body would hear just rs much about
what you had to sell if your ad was in
this newspaper.
The sixth annual meeting of the Iowa
Medical Womens Society, which will
be held at Sioux City On April IA and
is, is the only state MEDICAL society for
women in the country and is COM
posed of nearly all the women physi-
clans in the state. DR.. Jessie V. Smith.
of Winterset, is the president and DIR.
Mary Breen, of LeMars. the recording
secretary.
The surviving soldiers who served
under Generals Taylor and Scott in
Mexico, in 1916 and 1s47. are invited
10 be present at the thirty seventh ma
stional encampment of the Grand Army
of the Republic. in San Francisco. next
August. The pension rolls show that
$500 still live, and LOCO dwell on this
Pacific coast. The managers hope to
attract at least 400 of them TO the re-
union, believing that it will be the last
they will ever attend.
A bill has been introduced in the
New York legislature TO require all
city paving to be done by days work
and by resident labore,s only. The bill
is meeting opposition as !, measure GER
tain to Increase expenditure without
adequate return. 1t virtually puts the
city at the mercy of its employees.
New York is looking with an unfa-
vorable eye on the proposed invasion of
the metropolis by John Alexander
nd hos ~ octn ;np
Changes in tina ordinances concerning
street preaching are being agitated.
The retirement of George G. Vest. of
Missouri, from the United States sem
ate to make place for William J. Stone
deprives the democrats If Missouri of |
their most eloquent. if not their most |
diligent representative in the upper |
house of congress. Senator Vest is Il |
kentuckian by birth ana his first vote |
was cast in that state. He was MEM |
Der OF the Missouri legislature before
the war and became u United States I
senator Chosen to fill y vacancy in
1879, and and has been a member for /
the twenty-four years since, consecu-
lively. Missouri in the territory be- |
yond the Mississippi, like Maine in New
England. is tenacious of its representa-
ton IN the senate and nas shown for
many years little disposition to make
any change, Senator Vest being, as
stated, in the twenty-fourth year of his
and Senator Cockrell, elected in
1875. will have been thirty years sena-
tor when his term expires on March 4.
1905.
There was young maiden from Fla,
Who the girls declared couldn't act ha
When she'd go to Gall
She would not dance at all,
But would sit them all out in the ca.
In the new congress there is not a
single democratic Unite, States sena-
Tor from east OF the Mississippi and
North OF Mason and Dixon's line. The
republican representation from the
south or the border states is limited to
lwo senators from West Virginia and
me from Maryland. The two West
Virginia senator's We're born in Ohio.
City mail delivery has been granted
Iowa Falls, but with limitations. The
handsome little city spreads over con-
stretch up and down the river
and has number of additions which
are not to be included III the free de-
livery. Now the residents of the afore-
said additions are making war medi-
zine. They propose 70 discontinue
renting postoffiee boxes and have de-
.lared their intention to line up at the
general delivery window after each