Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-14
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II may become necessary to call At
individual merger of a Des Moines
preacher. Rev. c. Durant Jones. He
Ipreaches regularly at two different.
points, publishes a weekly religious
| Journal. the Evangelst,c Review, and
three weekly newspapers. the Benton
Banner. Green corn and yellow legged
/ chickens received on subscription and
salary are. however. not. likely to re-
main long as 'undigested securities" in
the Durant merger.
Three hundred divorce cases on the
Polk county docket is not necessarily
an indication of race sucide-in Des
Moines.
If the car could induce Kentucky to
agree to his disarmament plan there
would be room for six new distilleries
in that state.
An Italian newspaper suggests Car
dinal Gibbons for pope and says that
i. the successor to the pontificate were
to be chosen by popular vote, the
United States. with its great number of
Catholic residents. would WELD an in
iuence in the election that would not
be inferior to that of any other. Glib
bons is the only American cardinal
Spain has four with less than half
Americas catholic population. To an
outsider it would seem time that Amer
representation in the college of cardi-
rails: There is plenty e red hat ma
terial in America
Professor Cooley, Of the State Agri-
cultural College at Bozeman, Mont. |
has returned from an investigation Of
the grasshopper-r ridden district about
everything in a strip seventy
miles long an1 fifty miles wide and
that, as q consequence @. their raids
range conditions are very serious. He
says the plains are dotted with cattle
lIat have starved to death as result
4 the grasshopper raids.
Don't you know that It is wrong to
,amble?"
'Yassir, said Pickaninny Jim. as he
hook the dice. Il knows it's wrong to
Gamble, but dishere isn't gamblin'; dis
ere is guessin' contest"
Washington Star. ,
An enthusiast on the excellent quail
les of the United States paper money
avs hundred dollar bill will sustain
weight of fortyseven pounds, length t
wise. The Hampton Globe asserts 6
that's nothing. We have known a hun {
red dollar bill to sustain man and q
is family for a month and get out four !,
ssues of the paper besides !,
Particular interest is attached to an
from the Dubuque Times pub .
shed in another column of this paper :
ecause of the fact that Il is published
I. Senator Allison's town and is gen.
rally supposed to keep close to Alli- {
on's views in Its discussion of politics /
newspaper men who have enjoyed I
eading the vigorous Iowa idea edi- q
orials in the Times had no fears for =
ne platform that Allison would con-
ent to as a compromise, and hence the :
cry satisfactory result at the state
was no surprise TO them. \
Iowa is promised an invasion of the
ocular religious sect called Amish,
no are about to emigrate in a body V
ON central Illinois. The Amish are b
Scellent farmers despite their peculiar II
algious customs and belief and their =
attlement in this state will in no way =
etract from it's prosperity. The big y
ID Amish barns have already become 3,
umerous in Wright county. /,
The ignorant and unfeeling popula- 8,
on of Italy is buying lottery tickets on k