Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-18
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There appears q touch of inconsis-
! tency in the Shenandoah Worlds insis-
tence that hauling voters TO the polls
! in carriages is a curse" when ii is re-
meinbered that the World would load
every democrat in Iowa into the Hearst
band wagon ana haul it away to the
st. Louis convention,
| A preacher who went to a Kentucky
| parish where the Pensioners bred hor-
ses was asked to invite the prayers of
the congregation for Lucy Grey. He
did so. They prayer three Sundays for
| Lucy Grey On the fourth he was told
he need not do it any more. Why.
said the preacher. is she dead 2? No,
| answ cred the man. she won the derby.
Rather an odd lawsuit is to come up
at the next term of court in Butler
county between the Central Lyceum
| Bureau of Chicago and a number OF
parties at Greene who compose the lee
ture course association. The lyceum
bureau holds contract wherein the
| five number course. and the failure of
| the bureau to furnish a man to fill the
| first day of the course provoked the
| Greene association into refusing the
acceptance of any of the remaining
numbers on the program. lnasmuch
as nearly all of the members of the
Greene association are prominent peo-
ple and backed by considerable wealth
| there are strong Indications of a hard
| fight.
The outraged people have risen at
Abba and secured city legislation on
| the chicken problem. Hereafter any
chicken running at large in the city OF
| Abba will convict Its owner of a mis-
| demeanor and render him subject to
500 fine.
| Disaster to a submarine boat has
heretofore meant the death of its entire
have. however, shown that 1T is possible
to fire the men thru the torpedo tube
with a fair chance of ultimate escape.
| The case of the last man, after he has
discharged his comrades thru the tube
to comparative safetyis hopeless and he
must stay to suffocate.
| There is a sensible suggestion in the
action of the Texas good roads asso-
| citation which adopted resolutions ia
voring the employment of convict la
Dor on the roads of the state.
| The Chelsea Independent seems de-
sirous of starting something" when 1t
says: Friends of this paper can help
! 1t out wonderfully by refusing to trade
| with the man whose advertisement is
never seen in it's column. Do 1t! You
can save money by dealing with live
| people anyhow. Don't fail to read
| the ads. Every once in while they
offer you a chance to save good
money"
Some cur cursed communities would
| look upon the craving of the Igarroter
| for dog flesh as Godsend, but the ST.
Louis humane society appears to have
absorbed the Missouri idea in politics
which is to keep everything worthless
alive as long as possible.
|
Bobby is a little Germantown boy
who is a seeker after the wherefore of
things. Some days since he was ques-
| tioning his father as to the nature of a
weapon.
"A weapon, my son. explained the
father, SIS something TO fight with
rs ma your weapon a?"-Philadel-
phia Ledger.
Heating timed meats with calcium
carbide that was previously packed in
! a lower compartment of the can is an
expedent said to have been adopted by
the Russian army. Immersion in water
promptly produces the desired effect,
the liquid entering perforations in the
| bottom. The generation of acetyien :
gas and heat ensues. II the trick really
| be practicable, 1t should be of service
TO explorers and sportsmen who must
travel in light marching order.
|
How OLD would you say she was"
Well lets see; when we were in
high school together she used to snub
me because l was Kid. Now / am
thirty-seven and um- M well. I
should say she was about twenty eight
| by this time."-4Town and Country.
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1 DIR. L. O. Howard, chief entomologist
4 of the United States department of ag-
| rieulture says the boil weewil cannot
be exterminated and that it is only a
question of time when it will invade
/ every one of the cotton states. Plow-
/ ing their fields in the autumn and keep
| ing UP a constant study of and war
| fare against their enemy, is. he says,
| the only remedy the cotton planters
have against the pest. Man has often
! been confronted, however, with some
what similar conditions, and, notwith-
standing Dr. Howard's prediction il
| seems proboble that some effective
. remedy may yet be found against even
| this minute foe.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
The Rockford Register insists that
! 1.-The singing of baskets, codes and ink