Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-11-26
Topics Of the Times

AVplIO VI lliC AIAlNo !.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
The Dove now being zealously but
unavailingly sought by the Chicago
police for the murder of Bates, the
chauffeur, seems a fly sort of bird.
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Aside from persinage, the question is
how in the world did Richard Harding
ever hear of Sioux City?
1t appears to have been definitely
settled that Minnesota holds over Iowa
In the technical branches of the high
er education by a proportion of eleven
to one.
A shortage of funds in the Chicago
City treasury has been productive OF
some good results. Recently the
controller went around and notified
the heads of several departments that
unless they collected money due the
city from various sources they would
get no salaries on the forthcoming pay
day. The city railways owed the city
a considerable sum for one reason or
another and city officials charged With
the collection Of the debt, ana who
carried passes over the street railway
lines in their pockets, We're negligent
about pressing the claims Tor co!,ec-
ton. Other corporations owed the city
sums aggregating close TO half Eli)i-
ion dollars, which had been long over
due and which they never wo,li pay
until persistently urged. The result Of
the action of the comptroll ]. was sud-
den activity on the part OF he.ls of
departments, and in n short time the
depleted treasury was rep.en.Snea.
Mrs. Gayweed, 1 hear is going to
marry poet"
ooh, dear, you don't say so! / all
ways thought I'd feel sorry for any
man she might marry, but bless me, If
don't feel kind of sorry for her.
Town Topics.
Reverend F. w. Gunsaulus has added
Iowa farm produce to the category of
"books in the running brooks, sermons
and Stories" by exhibiting samples of
Iowa grains in his pulpit in illustration
of his address the other Sunday The
gospel of hard work and prosperity
could not be better exemplif1ed.
The memorial to President Roosa-
welt from the Polish Catholic Society
objecting to the acceptance of the
statue of Frederick the Great, received
little serious consideration. This was
case where even the longest Pola
knocks no persimmon.
Chicago still retains its reputation
for practically and a more or less
harmonious blending of the beautiful
and the useful. For instance, back III
the days of the Columbian expo stion
visitors TO Chicago Wee constrained
to notice an heroic statue OF Cnrls;o-
pher Columbus on the lake FROM, its
bronze fingers extended .mucn in the
fashion of an iron RAKE. Later the
statue was ANONYMOUSLY haulel off its
pedestal and carted away 70 one of the
parks, where it slumbered peacefully
among various other kinds Of junk.
Now, however, it has been recast into
a statue OF William Mckinley, and is
to be erected In the, new McE'rle"
park of that city. IT is to be hopad that
the transformation has been success
full and that the statue may be as
worthy to commemorate the eanse o.
our martyred president as the fine
st. Gaudens staue of Lincoln Is to
remind visitors to Lincoln park, Chit
cago, of the great emancipator.
She-And what did she say whom
you attempted to kiss her?
He-She said she thought was a
gentleman.
'Well?'
ooh, after got thru kissing her she
didn't think anything about il; she
knew it."-Yonkers Statesman.
The Republic of Panama now has
an army of only twenty-five men. it
is pleasant to know that thee is ONT
country to which fearful democrats in
terror of the American army and navy
may fee and find an army small enough
to quiet their fears and permit item
to sleep o. nights.