Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-17
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| Is it possible that Secretary Shaw
/ had the st. Louis exposition and The
collection of that government loan il
mind when he declared in favor of high
living expenses?
Boone county supervisors have con-
ceived the idea of county picnic at the
poor farm on the occasion of the dedi-
cation OF the new building which has
been erected there, with the idea OF
having the taxpayers gather in body
to see and discuss the results of the
expenditure of their taxes
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The most that has been done has
been to defend the platform against the
venomous assaults of disgruntled tariff
rippers.--Des Moines Capital.
And even that uasuccessfully.
The proceedings of the Iowa Park
and Forestry Association, at its third
annual meeting, which was held in Des
N-oines, Dec. and 5. 1908. have just
1t is a very neat and attractive produc-
ton of 1876 pages, printed on very fine
grade of deckel-edged paper. 1t con-
tains a number of half-tone views or
the college campus at Ames, also a
view of the Northwestern park at the
Ames depot, which is conceded to be
the most. artistic along its line from
Chicago to Council Bluffs. One of the
most stirling views is a picture Of the
stone arch north of the college campus.
and in the road leading UP to the same
can be seen man standing, gazing
northward, which can be recognized as
President Beardshear.
At the ST. Louis exposition there is a
restaurant where forty-thr languages
are spoken by the proprietors, walters
and attendants.
Society women will be interested in
Miss Alice Roosevelt's record of work
for the last fifteen months. She has
attended it is said. during the last year
ners and $50 teas; has been to III
dances, paid 1,643 calls and shaken
hand with $4,000 persons. She some
times receives thirty invitations to va
rious functions a day, and, altho she
accepts so many. is forced to decline
good many more.
sse
The four-inch June snowfall in Col
orado is nothing To the frost that It's
own lawiessness has brought upon the
state.
Business MAXWELL, my dear, have
about made up my mind to sell out my
business and so out into the country,
and buy hundred acres or so. and be
a farmer for the rest of my life.
Business Mans Wife-Oh. John. how
lovely. But are you sure we can afford
it ?-Somerville Journal.
The T.-R. Is in receipt OF numerous
queries from rural carriers asking
or not they are permitted to
solicit for newspapers under the new
Jaw. The fourth assistant postmaster
general replies to this question as fol-
lows:
The carrier can not act as the agent
for newspapers or other publications,
Or even receive subscriptions or make
even at the request of peo-
pie on his route. The government has
his salary and 1t means to be
his only employer. We Interpret the
provision permitting the carrier to take
to the patron on his route
On the request of that patron. OIL
course there may be violations of these |
but we VIII deal severely |
with the carrier who violates them
when we fiId him at it. And l think |
Ne will be able to find him at it,
A life-size oil painting Of Hon. Leslie |
VI. Shaw, secretary Of the treasury, |
ust completed by the we'll known por-
raft artist, MIR. F. Carl Smith, of Wash
ngton. has been given conspicuous
place in the Iowa state building at the
st. Louis exposition.
Mrs. D. r. Francis declares at is
lone OF my affair what other women
year, but as for myself consider low
heck gowns very poor taste on EXPOSE
ion grounds" Mrs. Francis does not
propose to be mistaken for part of
! ballyho.