Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-03

has chosen Mr.. Hugh p. Baker. of thu
Bureau of Forestry. Mr.. Baker is Z
graduate of the Michigan Agricultural
College and the Yale Forest School
and has had a wide experience III hand
ling problems in forestry in the west
He will lecture at the college half OF
each year on general forestry in Its
application to Iowa conditions. The
other half of the year he will devote
to bureau work, for the most part In
vestigating forest problems, as they
concern the state of Iowa.
Nurserymen in northern Iowa are
offering to set out an orchard. fur
nish the trees, replant all that die and
| look after them until the farmer is sat
isfied that his orchard is growing all
right, then he is to pay the stipulated
price. Under these conditions there
ought not to be a farm in Iowa in the
year 1914 without it's orchard in full
bearing.
! If Massachusetts, would save its corn
crop no more frigidity in the atmos-
phere should be tolerated and the sug-
gestion to run Richard Olney for gov
ernor should be promptly suppressed
The Free Press, of Detroit, says that
President Castro's troubles are moth
! ing compared to what they will he
when the women of Venezuela get to
sorting over the revolutions to find
| which one they are the daughters Of >
| Oh, shut up about the corn for a
minute; the orators are trying to make
a campaign speech.
| The city of Toronto has establishe
a technical high school at which are
/ offered three distinct practical courses
one in science, one in business and the
for technical education must be met
Mn our public education.
Girls, here's a word to the wise. A
man at Port Chester N. Y, having
heard that his divorced wife was
earning her living at dressmakng
hunted her up and married her again
There's a future in almost any trade
When it comes to the boycott, Penn
sHlvania BARRIERS have reached the lin,
it in their refusal to hair cut. Here
after men who shave themselves are
! barred from hair cuts at :. union shop
Y y +
! What will Bishop Potter say when
some enthusiastic American names a
special brand of liquor after him. "The
| Bishops Whisky-That's All' would
make a flaming poster for billboar!
! circ!l'at OF.
Indications point to the civilization of
Kentucky. Rival candidates are now
charging Il at money is being used to
| influence voters. Have the tailors
quit making hip pockets in Kentucky ?
| Besides having Parker's campaign
on his hands August Belmond is face
to face with a demand from motormen
on thel subway lines for a raise IN
Belmont says his company will not
grant it and the men say they will
strike.
"Tom" Taggart - Your assessment,
uncle, will be $4,000 for every year of
your life, or $405,O00 in ALL
Uncle Henry Gassaway, handing in
a check for s1O.OOO-All right tom, .
feel like a two-year-old according
to your press bureau, and this bal
ances accounts.
1t has been suggested that South
| Dakota's complaint that the Chicago
strike is running her market for meat
comes with poor grace in view of what
South Dakota did to Chicago's divorce
| market.
Politicians are evidently experience
ing the same difficulties in the east As
worry them in Iowa for the Boston
Herald advises the spell-binders to
bring megaphones with them if they
expect to be heard i'll Massachusetts,.
The Pastor-My dear man, do you
drink?
Hobo-Sure thing! Are you de rev
erend gent what opened dat booze fac
tory in New York?
Charles f. Murphy, after talking
over with his district leaders the re-
suits of the New York primaries has
said that Tam1nany had no candidate
for any state Office and that no Tam
many man would be on the state ticket
Among the politicians this is inter
preted as notice to the Parker men
that Tammany will not have any
crockery to be Smashed next Novem-
Der, and that the men who are run
ming the Parker canvass are at liberty
to go ahead and make up the state
ticket and elect it if they can.
Nebraska's grasshopper story has
been outdone. Potato bugs on the track
just south of the New Jersey Reform
atory near Railway, stalled a car on
the Public Service Corporation Elee
trio line. The wheels would whirl
around but the car refused to move,
and passengers We're compelled to
alight and pour sand on the rails in
order to get the car over the bugs. 1t
is certain that the wact will send