Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-12-06
Topics Of the Times

The trustees of Corwin township
Ida county, after n series Of expert
ments, have decided to do all road
work with the drag. They say that
the cost of keeping a road in good
conditions with the drag is only about
thirty cents a mile, and that from
forty to sixty cents mile will put any
rosd in good condition for travel by
the heaviest vehicle" The Ida county
trustees are sensible in using the King
drug but it is well to remember that
tho King drag doesn't make good roads,
IL only keeps them good. The road
drag has not displaced the grader, but
gone into partnership.
The Keosauqua Republican an
nounces the candidacy of Hon w. NJ
Walker for the judicial ermine in the
district comprising Appanoose. Davis
Jefferson, Lucas, Monroe. Van Buren,
and Wapello counties.
The statistics of illiteracy just made
public may offer some excuse for the
YAK tOi ouPpiSIIGHl.
New York states expenditure ofif1fty
millions for good roads is only twelve
times the expense to policy holders of
bad insurance president and his fam
lily Of employees.
Buffalo Bill is to tour the Holy Land
or camel. This combination makes
all stops for water unnecessary. The
camel can carry all 1t needs and Buff
falo Bill doesn't need any.
The Omaha Bee utters a warning
that "The continuance OF republican
supremacy in the management of state
affairs in Nebraska depends upon lead
ership which will keep the party in
touch with the rank and file" This
seems about the status Of political
matters everywhere. Leadership out
OF sympathy with popular need and
desire guides to disaster.
1t seems to have needed the specta-
Gle Of democratic senators and repre-
sentatives flocking to Roosevelt to of
fer their assistance to bring Elllins to
some sense Of the dangerous ground
to which he and his associates in oppo-
sition to the president was leading the
republican party. Elkins and those
opposed to the presidents program are,
however, too late in their deathbed re-
i.catance The country knows that the
democrats forced their acquiescence.
and they have lost much of the credit
already claimed from the housetops by
the democrats. If the republican party
has been placed in an embarrassing
position, Aldrich, Elllins and their
standnat followers must accept the re-
sronsibility.
American women may be interested
in the budget for the Turkish Sultan
harem, each amounts to $15,00O,000 a
hnrem, which amounts to $15,000,00O a
year. Each one of the women who
cave the harem every year to get mar
ried receives a dowry of $4,000. Thre
are usually 800 inmates of the harem,
each of whom has ten maids, and
carriage with four horses
First Citizen-Then we both believe
in mutual ownership?
Second Citizen-Yes, but we differ on
the point O, which should own the mu-
nicipality.-Y onkers Statesman.
ssA
Mayor Franklin P. Stoy Of Atlantic
City, who has just been elected unan-
irnously to serve his fifth successive
term, holds the worlds record, SO far
as known, for attending the greatest
number of banquets and making the
greatest number Of public addresses in
the course Of year. During the last
twelve months he has been either pre-
siding officer or chief guest at more
than 700 banquets, making speeches at
all Of them. This is an average Of two
dinners and two speeches to every
working day.
Governor Folks definition of graft
is to be used in the Standard diction-
airy. Governor Folk received letter
from the publishers of that dictionary
i'll New York asking permission to
place his definition in. that work, which
is being revised.