Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-05-19
TOPICS OF THE TIMES


from him by the cranky reformer the
sawed off shotgun should be substi-
tuted.
Fourteen years of courtship, with oc-
casional OSCILLATION. brought trouble to a
New York lover who after so many
wears proved tickle and has been sued
by the object of his amatory regards.
She had kept tab on his caresses, as the
| trial developed. In fourteen years the
defendant had kissed her 1926 times.
The jury mulcted him to the amount of
$4,000, which might seem high aver
age price 1t should be considered, how
| ties to get his moneys worth during
fourteen years and might have run the
average down to a ridiculously low
price.
The suspension of the Gallatin, Tenn,
mail routes where negro carrier
named Allgood is said to have been as
be made permanent. The patrons of the
route are promising to be Allgood as
well as the carrier AMI the routes will
probably be ordered into action again.
Poor Robinson! He couldn't make a
living. and married woman with
money"
But isn't he all right naw7"
Hardly. She is so close with 1t that
he has to work harlet than ever"
D. n. Nicholson, a postal clerk, who
lives in Tuscaloosa, Ala. says the postal
clerks of the United States have a
unique claim against the United States
postal department for actual and neces-
sary expenses while on duty on each of
their respective runs and that no clerk
while in the service has ever been paid
for these expenses. This claim is be-
and will be tried before the United
States court of claims at Washington.
The claim is based upon the following
section of the postal laws and regula-
ton: "Chief clerks and railway postal
clerks shall be paid their actual and
cling on business of the department and
away from their designated headquar-
ters." The claim will amount to some
thing like s14,Oo0.OoO.
John S. Stanbery has announced his
tat Of
Gordo county. This puts three candi- |
dates in the field asking for the delega-
ton, and ali are worthy men. Mr.. STAN
berry is one of the older residents of Ma
son City, having come there in 1858.
An eastern paper calls attention to
The extraordinary fact that pictorial adj
of plays, vaudeville and
he like are Haunted on bill-boards
which, if reproduced in book or news
paper, would cause the publication to
De excluded from every respectable
hat would be put under the ban If
printed in book or newspaper are ex-
josed, in magnified form, to the gaze
If children in the public places of the
lily. The city authorities should find
some way to put an end to the prac-
ice. They have ample power to do it. +,
t is case where official Indifference
,egets individual license.
Estherville people have a convenience
n the shape of a butter wagon con-
lucted by the local cream sryman, who
makes semi-weekly deliveries of but .
er and buttermilk. The suggestion to
Their creamery men is obvious. IA
j. w. Burke. of the Kellogg Tribune,
. a full-fedged candidate for repre-
entatiye in the assembly from Jasper
ounty. He is a lawyer, publisher edi- ,
or, town attorney and member of the t
chool board in Kellogg. and has been {
ustice of the peace and postmaster. Mr.. i
'urkes versatility augur5 we'll for his 6
uccess in the coming campaign.
The law allowing seining for soft fish !,
; meeting considerable opposition, es- \
ecially from points like Spirit Lake h
nd other fishing resorts. The seinilg c
!: this time nf The year is said to do a
troy game FISH spawn ir. srea, qGhnti- |
es. One of the northern IoWa county y
apers says. - gentleman who WAS :
yer to Okoboji one day last week ana
aw sein drawn for the purpose of
aking soft fish informs the N,::ler that
t least two bushels of spawn came in s
18th the fish! Only thinil of =! This
as only one haul, and the ceining has !,
een going on all the spring! The fish n
of the state might as we'll L
e abandoned if the leglslttu-, legaliaes t
n act that destroys many times more a
,pidly than the commission cali bud II
p and preserve, and the money sol
'olishly spent saved 20 the taxpayers
The school board of Spirit Lake is
either of particularly enthu- g :.
astic fishermen or far-seeing politi- =,
ans. Friday, the opening day of tie s,
shing season, was made school holt N
ny by the board of that city and every T
)y in town has pledged his maiden e:
ote for president to any and all of its a
embers.
Wiliam-You must remember, my Il
EAR, that my taste is better than yours.
His Dear Wife-Undoubtedly wien Y