Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-09-07

fallen in love with the present Mrs.
bill thru the Florida legislature making
| insanity cause for divorce He then
settled an annuity of 100000 upon his
| first wife, established a luxurious pri-
vate asylum for her, and mar
J ried the seamstress, giving her
a present of $3OOOO00 and
each of her two sisters, who
were also dressmakers, $4,000 apiece.
| With all that millions have done New
port remains obdurate.
| The cartoonist of the New York
Press tells of a good joke Noah got
off on Methuselah Noah thought it
year 1904 for he might then have been
nominated for the vice presidency.
1t beats" the average college man
that the Russians did not take all the
prizes in the foot races at st. Louis
Olympian games.
For the first time since the civil war
the federal pension records for the fiscal
year show that a net decrease, both
in the number of pensioners and in the
expenditures of the department, from
the figures of the preceding years.
While 47,374 names were added to the
rolls, 49157 were dropped, showing a
net reduction of 1888 pensioners. There
also is noticeable falling off in ex-
penditures, balance of $1,706,50S re-
naming unexpended of the annual APP
preparation of $146, 419, 296. Thus is the
mute story of the pension roll told.
There are about 500 people in every
1000 in several Iowa cities who should
now be told there is in progress IN
Asia one of the greatest wars the world
has ever known The base ball seas
on closes this week and these people
would like to know what has been go.
ing on in the world.
as .
Discussing Bishop Potter's claim that
the drink evil is a necessary evil, Doc
ley concludes eff it is an evil to a mon,
it's not nicissry; an if it's nicissry,
it's not an evil"
So great has been the development in
England of motor car routes to supple
ment trolley lines and railroads that
a new era in the connection of rural
districts with centers of population has
begun. These motor omnibuses carry
twenty-five miles an hour, and de- i
mand so little outlay that they reach
towns outside of the profitable electric
railway radius.
Don't you think golf is hard on the
legs?
Yes, my wife pulled mine for a new
golfing outfit yesterday-Foozle.
The man who'd fill his Golfers tight
With gold and gems galore
Must gather everything in sight;
Then hustle out for more.
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The pontoon bridge used by the Jap
anese army is an Improvement over
of it's kind ever before put
into active service by other nations.
as to be serviceable for pulling, should
that use become necessary. They are
fitted with oar locks, and when fasten-
ed end to end, form a pier on which
the sleepers and road way is built.
A hotel clerk in Davenport has been
arrested, but later discharged for call
ing out the city's fire department in
the dead of night, when there was no
fire. He now proposes to bring action
for false imprisonment.
A male Indian baby was born to a
squaw with Texas Bills wild west
few days ago. The Indians
were proud of it and the chief of the
tribe named it Who Wa-Wa. Reduced
to English it is Lively Iowa Town."
Things should be looking up in Manson
after such a compliment.
Advices from the front say Bryan is
billed for defeat in his fight for the
United States senatorship. After swal-
lowing that Parker pill, too.
Bishop Potter's famous New York sa-
loon enterprise is an unquestionable
success, and more saloons of precise
ly the same character are to be opened
The income for the first week was $500
against running expenses of $3.50, leav-
ing profit of $3.50. The profits will
be utilized in the equipping and open
ing of other places
Secretary Root is coming to Iowa
to speak, and the state should feel hon
ored. Secretary Root is one of the
big men of the United States, and too
big, so he thinks, for the governorship
Of New York.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
According to the Manson Journal
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