Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-12-07
Topics Of the Times

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
w. A. Simltins, editor of the Britt
News confesses editorially to q desire
to be postmaster of the town that or
lginated hobo conventions.
The inhabitants OF 1iiron, Craw-
ford county paradise, We're picking
dandelions and pulling young onions,
and radishes during the latter part of
November if the veraclty of the Sem
| tinel Is to be depended upon.
M. T.. Hostetter, who Is attacking
the anti-saloon league, after n noisy
and annoying fashion, seems to be in
agreement with the Wine and Spirits
| Gazette, when 1t says: Something
must be done to check the work of tho
anti saloon league" The Gazette adds
| that IL this liz not done every saloon in
| America will be closed inside of five
years. A prediction that few will re-
gard as sincere.
l
mer, who lost his pocket book and $40
last Sunday while husiing corn will
suggest to some people that he could
have saved 1926 by going to church.
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| The estimates OF this years Ameri-
can cotton crop published by the de-
partmcnt OF agriculture last week will
| bu, tad Wifi uuf Of IN ut tnt hv
manufacturers In the United States
ard Europe. For the first time in his
| tory the production has exceeded 12,-
900, 900 bales, or about 100000 bales IN
excess OF the average for the last seven
or eight years. The best previous
showing was made In 1898. when H.
1S9,205 bales were raised.
Lady: Did you ever feel MS tho
you'd like work7" to
Tramp: "Yes'm, wouldn't mind be-
Ing linenan for wireless telegraph
company" Judge.
/ Nine. Patti will sing at a concert In
/ st. Petersburg this month for the BEN
eft OF the Russian wounded She VOL
| unteered her services from q sense of
gratitude, as her first great public tri-
umph was in Russia. Madame Patti
seems to have been more fortunate
than the army she is to sing for. 1t
has secured no great triumph.
Eary Grey. the new governor general
pf Canada. expects that within n gem
/ GRAFTON the population Of that province
will be equal to that or the United
| Kingdom. The forecast was expressed
in the speech which he made at a fare
well dinner given to him cn,the eve of
his departure to take UP the duties of
his post and is supported by a fair
calculation of the probabilities.
/ Claude Jarnagin, son of the well
known editor of the Cedar Falls Rec
ord, has been selected for an editorial
position on the Des Moines News, and
er's paper to accept the offered posi-
/ ton.
Odebolt claims to be the greatest pop
corn market on earth. It Is claimed
1 that Conservative estimate Of the a
mount which will be handled there by
dealers this season is ten million
was grown this season In the vicinity
of Odebolt.
Grimes: II suppose you tell your wife
everything when you get homer"
Grant: mo, not everything,
Grimes: "Of course not, but the
things she wants to know"
Grant: my dear fellow, those are
the things / don't tell her. I use up
so much time telling her the things
4 she doesn't care to know that there is
no time left for her to question me O.
bout the things she does want to
know."-Boston Transcript.
The necessity for tariff revision is
not denied by thinking men. 1t is
certainly not denied by the republic
can party On the contrary 1t Is
affirmed in the Chicago platform, and
the one denial made is the denial of
the necessity for democratic advice or
democratic suggestions. Tariff revis-
ion will be had. But 1t will be had
In the house Of Its friends and not In
the camp Of the enemy. 1t will be had
soberly, justly, equitably and in con-
trinity to the exigencies of the situa-
Il = -
facts are. Cincinnati Commercial
Gazette.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
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