Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-01-02
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George Fitch the melancholy you'd
4 who writes the INroics Of the Type
column in the Council Bluffs Nonparie
is writing humorous verse which SHOULD
send him to some metropolitan news
paper before long. His STUFF is per-
haps The most prominent feature g
that excellent newspaper.
Paupers and insane cost Des MoirsS
4 county $4,000 the past year. wiih
little prospect for a material reduction.
There are forty inmates in the county
| institution which are kept At cost q
50 each per month. In addition tl'5'
county has thirtyfve or forty incur
| able insane in the state institution at
Mount Pleasant, 81 an expense of 81
month The county Viii probably
ask TO have these latter patients re-
turned to it. which would effect say
ing of about $4,000 a year.
Two young men have been sentenced
10 thirty days in Jail for saying they
would like to kiss a Des Moines girl
This looks like worse tyranny than
government by Injunction. sun the
man who would really crave TO kiss u
Des Moines girl might be considered
Incapable of caring for himself.
From Germany comes news of To-
connective worked by steam and yet in
dependent OF fire of its own. The en-
CINE has just been completed at the
Hohenzollern works at Dusseldorf, and
is one of a type designed for lshunting
in explosive factories. Instead of car
rylng fire in its own boiler, 1t is filled
with steam from stationary boilers. and
when so charged Is capable OF several
hours work. The first warming up
occupies half an inour. and subsequent
recharging can be done In quarter
of an hour. The apparatus is so simple
tha,; an unskilled workman is able to
look after it. The absence of fire in
place where dynamite or gunpowder Is
being handled is the reason for the in
vention of this type of engine.
The town marshall of Rockwell City
shut a tramp in the calaboose and fall
ed to visit the building for two days
and nights during which the unfortu-
nate prisoner went without food AMI
fire Rockwell City needs new mar
shall. with common judgment and a.
spark of common humanity in his
makeup.
Kiron has an enviable record. Ac
cord!ng to the Sentinel, there has
never been an arrest made there.
was never anyone in it. The town -
out OF debt and has money in the treas
ury. yet 1t has good outfit of public
works. The kiron people seem almost
too good to be smart.
Mr.. A. S. Murchison who lives on
Williamsburg rural mail route. has in
vented mechanical carrier which
saves him the walk OF furlong which
is the distance between his residence
and his mail box. A carriage runs on Il
wire which crosses a large
wheel. and by giving this wheel few
twists the mail is at the door. When !
the rural man places the mail in the |
box by a slight turn of tine wheel a !
signal is displayed at the house end
his visit. Mr.. Murchison
will save about so miles of travel next |
year through his ingenuity.
Budweiser was the first thing on the
bill of fare a Greene hotel on Christ /
mas, and Madigan of the Clarksviile
Star says regre,fuliy. "A Clarksvi,!e
hotel that would do that would be sad
der but wiser, sure enough, for here the /
moon dare not get full oftener than
once month. There is a difference in |
towns. Some are full of beer and |
others are full OF sheriffs"
While sentiment" is all against the |
striking livery drivers OF Chicago IL
should be remembered that all the men |
have asked is sl4 for seven days work
Of twelve hours each. How would you
like to work that long for s14 Manson
Democrat.
How many livery drivers in Iowa get
that much?
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IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
we nave had altogether too much