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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02

were employed by the directors to
have charge of the club house, grounds
and the catering service that is to
be installed. This latter feature is a
new one, and it will be so arranged
that lunches may be secured at the
club house at any time during the day
or evening. A radical change is to
be made in the hack service, which will
do away with the delays in waiting
for the vehicle, which have proved q
great annoyance.
The club membership, provided the
members of former years renew their
membership this season, will num-
Der over 200. 1t was decided by the
directors to put a limit to the mem
bership. c. c. Urine, who was elected
secretary at the annual meeting, but
who has since been made a member
of the board of directors, resigned his
office, and he was succeeded by A. G.
Click
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
Eighty-six School Directors to
Be Chosen Within the
County
TOWNSHIP PLANS
Effort May be Made to Vote a Tax to
Construct Central School at Hart
Iand-PIan Me..with Some OPP
position-No Teachers Institute This
Spring.

During the next two weeks the vot-
ers of the various townships in the
rural and independent school dis
tricts will elect a total of eighty-six
new members to the seventy school
boards Of the county. The elections
in the township districts come on
Monday, March 6, and in the indepen-
dent districts, both rural and town, of
which this city in one, the election falls
on Monday, March 13. The annual
meeting Of the new boards will be
held on Monday, March 20, when Off
GERS Of the different boards will be
elected. In the country there are twelve
school townships eleven town indepen-
dent districts and forty rural in
dependent districts, total of seventy.
In, the rural independent districts one
new member is to be elected to each
of the forty-seven boards. Each of
the towns, with the exception Of this
city and Albion, will elect two MEM
bers. Albion will elect five, for, like
MarshaMtown, it altered the boundar-
les of the town since the last election
and took in three Of the sub districts
Of Iowa township.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
MAY VOTE SCHOOL HOUSE TAX.
Central School Building Is Talked Of
for Marietta Township.

1t is possible that at the coming
school ELECTION in Marietta township
the voters will be asked to cast their
ballots for or against a tax levy with
which to build a central school build
ing. Its proposed location is Hart
land. The idea which has been adj
vanced by those who have fathered
this move is to erect two room
school building to cost about $1,000 or
$4,000 so that pupils from all parts
of the township might have the adj
vantage of the advanced studies which
would be taught in the higher grade.
The building of such school would
close two Of the present schools of
the township, of which there are eight
now open. There is opposition to this
plan, and whether or not the propo-
sition will be submitted to vote is in
doubt. 1t is claimed by those opposed
that the central school would be of
great advantage to those living near
Hartland but the distance from other
parts Of the township is too great to
make it practical to those living far
ther away.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
Mrs. Swearinaen's Death.

Mrs. Eliza Swearingen, whose maiden
name was Lockwood, was born in Mil
ford, o., Sept. 1, 1918. In. 1910 she was
married. to Joseph Swearingen, and
they moved to Crawford county, Illi-
nois, being among the earlier settlers
of that county. Her husband died in
1856. Her parents and brothers We're
then living at Illinois Grove, and in
1865 She came to Iowa to be with her
family, and later she made her resi-
dence in Albion. She went to Manka-
to, Kas., in 1893, to make her home
with her daughter and at that place
she died, February %. at tha age of
81 years. She leaves two children.
Mrs. Virginia Moffatt, of this city, and
Mrs. Clara Goodrich, of Mankato. Kas.
Burial was in the Albion cemetery,
Sunday, February &c.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
SPRING OPENING.
At skess's Wall Paper and Paint
Store

~ SNSSS . wan 0HSt 0u0 0suA
Store.
Each year sees US in better posi-
tion to successfully handle our BUSH
ness and each year our business has
steadily increased, and our customers
grown more numerous, thus proving to
some extent that the selection of wall
papers, the decorating materials we
handle and the class of work we do
have met with general approval.
At no time in the fifteen years Of
our business career has our line Of
wall paper covered such an immense
field as this present season. The scope
of the line, the number of designs,
grades and colorings are hardly real
lied even by those who have gone
carefully over it. We are thoroughly
posted on the modern style Of decor
ating and are always pleased to make
UP combination for one room.
We keep the year around four times
as many papers hangers and painters
as any other firm in the city; they
have been with us for years, and the
class of work we do is well known in
tho city.
sKEGGs WALL PAPER AND PAINT
GTORE
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02

Delos Arnold; president, w. G. Bene-
dict; vice president, Albert Negus;
secretary, C. II. Parsons; treasurer, T..
D. Allen.
"There was a reunion and annua!
meeting of the former students of
Cornell College, of Mt. Vernon, Iowa,
and besides the twenty resident mem
bers there were found present sixty
former students. Charles II. Toll is
president: George I. Lyttle vice presl-
dent; and c. III. Kent, secretary.
1.-The Iowa soldiers had a reunion at
their tree headquarters, and there all
day long were to be heard interesting
anecdotes and "reminiscences of the
civil war. This tree was also the
scene of several touching reunions OF
former comrades in arms.
Cali the amusement concerns did a
great business. The little railroad and
the merry go-round were simply
swamped with customers, and the new
plunge was fairly swarlning with
swimmers.
The Iowa association was formed at
Raymond Hill, January Is, 1900, and
it's reunions are to be continued an
annually. Its purpose Is to include all
of southern California in it's scope;
and yesterday there We're large crowds
present from Long Beach, Santa Mon
lea, Pasadena and other outside
places"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
CRANE IN THE PAPERS,
Milwaukee Papers Give Details OF
Tempest Superintendent Crane Stir

Milwaukee Papers Give Details OF
Tempest Superintendent Crane Stir
red Up.
Copies of the Milwaukee newspapers
are at hand in the T.-R. office and
from their news accounts of the cpl
sode in which Superintendent Crane
figured at the convention Of educators
it would seem that the tempest arous-
ed by his address was of the kind that
abides in teapots. The outburst was
really clash between old and new
methods of teaching.
Mr.. Crane argued that there was too
much teaching of subjects that are Of
no practical benefit to the pupil in af-
ter life. "The true purpose of the
school," said he, Should be to fit the
pupils for life and in life we need quail
titles more than learning. have grown
tired Of the word essentials meaning
the three RS Much arithmetic has
never been an essential. Its value as
mental training has been overestimat-
ed. The girl who is going back into
the home had much better be taught
to sew, to cook sanitary food, and to
keep the cottage clean. Teach her to
sew on clothes for the baby that is
to come. Teach her how to nourish
the child correctly and prepare it for
the struggle of life. Let arithmetic go
If 1T must interfere with these first
duties"
There is no mention made in the
Milwaukee papers of remarks that
would give justification for the severe
personal criticism advanced by Sup
erintendent Heating, of Pueblo and
for which he was Missed down.
DR.. w. o. Thompson, president Of the
Ohio state university, intimated that
the clash of extremes was unnecessary
by arising to- dissent, from Mr..
Cranes paper. He said: II dissent
from the assumption that it is only
possible to reach the same goal, the
fitting of pupils for life, by one route.
1t is possibly to reach it by variety
of routes and the schools will never
live up to their full opportunities while
they have but one program and one
method for all children. We must learn
to live together and to learn now that
no one set of subjects can be guaran-
teed to produce one set of results
The significance of these remarks
was that Heating is the author of what
is known as the Pueblo plan of indi-
vidual instruction, the doing away with
classes and the teaching of the child
according to it's individual needs and
capacities.
The Milwaukee Sentinel says that
the outburst of feeling on Keating's
part dates back to college days in Ohio
when Heating and Crane were class
mates. The Sentinel also says tina:
the Iowa educators present declined to
support Cranes views and w. S. At
hearn, editor of the Midland Schools,
published in Des Moines. was inter-
viewed in the Free Press saying that
Crane has so good an opinion of HIM
self that I always print his name I.
William Crane instead of William I.
Crane
AS explained by the Free Press re-
porter in his introduction the whole
trouble arose from the fact that a
young educator. not more than thirty
five years old, was telling gray headed
educators how they have erred and
what they should do and was rather
sarcastic in telling of 1t.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
Marshall County Made a Mem
Der of the Iowa Farmers
Institute Association
PROVE A BENEFIT
Altho the County Was Not Represented
at the Cedar Rapids Meeting it Was
Admitted = Schedule of Institute
Dates For Central and Eastern Iowa
to be Fixed BY Association.

Alto no authorized representatives
from Marshall county were present at
the organization of the Eastern Central
Iowa Farmers Institute Association,
formed in Cedar Rapids, Tuesday
night, this county was made menu
ber Should the officers OF the local
institute continue it's membership by
the payment of 81 in dues, great adj
vantages will be gained in the institute
being able to secure much more desir-
able speakers for the institute of next
winter and those following.
Marshall county was made member
thru sthe application of e. M. Went
worth, of State Center, the only person
from this county who was present. lie
deemed the advantages to be gained
too good to be lost, and took the re-
sponsibility. This organization of
county Institutes was brought about
by the desire Of central Iowa county
institute officers and institute speak
ers, to avoid making institute dates
which would conflict, and thus making
it possible for the best speakers Of
Iowa appearing before a large num-
Der of institutes. Under the indepen-
dent plan so many county Institutes
have been held at about the same time
that the dates overlapped, and men
like Professor Holden, of Ames, We're
unable, for this reason, to reach but
a comparatively few. The dates for
the counties which are members OF
this association, will be fixed by the
association officers, so that one will
follow another in such order that
speakers can reach all, without travel
ing back and forth, over long distances.
The scheme is similar to that employed
by circuits of theaters, and the assoc
citation believes by being organized.
with institute dates fixed months in
advance, it will be able to secure the
best speakers of the state.
More than dozen of the counties
OF eastern central Iowa were repre-
scented at the meeting, the details of
which will be found on another page
Of this issue.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
THE BRIGGS INQUEST.
Death Was Due to vaIvuIar Heart Die.
ease.

The coroner's jury, empaneled to in
vestigate the circumstances surround
ing the death of Daniel B. Briggs, the
old soldier who died in the county Jail
Monday afternoon, Tuesday night re-
turned verdict of death due to valvu-
lar heart disease. During Tuesday
afternoon Coroner III. H. Nichols held
post mortem examination and this, to-
gether with the testimony Of those
at the Soldiers Home, who knew
Briggs we'll, showed plainly the cause
to have been due to affection of the
heart. The jury also exonerated Off
Ger Edgar, who found Briggs on the
street, and took him to Jail, from all
blame. The son of the deceased, George
Briggs, who arrived in the city Tues
day morning, accompanied the body to
Dundee Tuesday night.
Mr.. Briggs family, on his fathers
side, was a remarkable one, owing to
extreme age Of its members. Mr..
Briggs grandfather lived to be Ill
years old and his father died at the
age of 104, and each Of the latter's
brothers lived to be over 100. Mr..
Briggs had two brothers who died at
the ages OF "a and 90 years. This re-
markable record of old age was told by
Mr.. Briggs son, George, who came to
the city summoned by his fathers
death. Mr.. Briggs himself was SO.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
MARRIED..
Haneoan.caIdweIl.

At the Methodist parsonage, We'd
nesday evening, at 8 o'clock, Rev. c.
L. Gould united in marriage Miss Anna
Belle Caldwell and Mr.. Guy Wilbur
Hanegan. The couple were attended
only by Miss Eva Longnecker and Mr..
Charles Turnkey. The bride is a
daughter of Mrs. Mary ]. Eads, re-
siding at 3O4 North First avenue, and
the groom is a son of Mr.. and Mrs.
w. B. flanagan, 7O7 West Linn street.
The latter has lived his entire life In
this city and his bride has made her
home here for the past five years.
Both are quite prominent members Of
the Iowa Legion of Honor, and have q
large circle of friends. Mr.. flanagan
Is employed as a stenographer in the
office of the Iowa Central storehouse.
Mr.. and Mrs. flanagan will make their,
home for the present with the for
mer's parents, at 707 West Linn street.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
A Dinner Invitation.

After a hearty meal a dose Of Kodol
Dyspepsia Cure will prevent an attack
of Indigestion. kodol is a thorough
.digestant and a guaranteed cure for
indigestion, dyspepsia, gas on the
stomach, sour risings. bad breath, and
all stomach troubles, N. Watkins,
Lesbus. KY, says: II can testify to the
efficiency of keodol in the cure of ston-
ach trouble. j. was afflicted with stom-
ach trouble fer fifteen years. and have
taken six bottles of your Kodol Dys-
pepsia Cure, which entirely cured me.
The six bottles We're worth $1,000 to
me-" Kodol Dyspepsia Cure will d.
gest any quantity Of the wholesome
food you wan- to eat, while your stom-
ach takes rest-recuperates and
grows strong. This wonderful prepar-
alton is justly entitled to all of its
many remarkable cures. Sold by all
druggists.
If it is bilious attack take Cham
berlain's Stomach and Liver Tablets
and a quick cure is certain. For sale
by all druggists.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
OBITUARY..
MettIin.

Mrs. Viola L. Mettlin. aged %, wife
of e. e. Mettlin, living on the Stubs
farm, five miles north Of this city in
Taylor township, died at st. Thomas
hospital Wednesday night at 1890 o.
clock. Her death was due to cancer
and disease Of the abdominal cavity,
for which she was operated upon We'd
nesday. Mr.. and Mrs. Mettlin former
ly lived in Cherokee, but for the past
year have been living in Taylor
township. Besides the husband she
leaves two children, her parents, Mr..
and Mrs. Scott Mitchem, of Cherokee.
two brothers and three sisters. The
brothers are Truman and Walter Nit
chem, of Cherokee. Noah Nance, of
Omaha, is sister. Another sister lives
in Michigan and another resides in
Cherokee Arrangements for the fun
eral have not yet been made.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
Renters Are Taking New Homes
- Many Real Estate Deals.


Many Real Estate Deals.
The first of March is the annual NOV
ing day in the rural districts, and all
over the country renters are leaving
their former homes and taking their
household goods, stock and farm ma
chinery to their newly leased farms.
In the city this annual change is not
SO noticeable on March 1, as 1t Usual
ly comes later in the year, about April
L, or May 1. At this time of year an
enormous amount Of real estate
changes hands, both in the country and
in towns, and altho this spring it has
not been unusually heavy, yet the to-
tai has been big and the employees in
the county recorders office have felt
the increase very forcibly. During the
past week farm land and city property
to the value of $121,930 has changed
hands This covers twenty one farms
or parcels Of land at $151 100, and nine
pieces of city and town property list
ed at $6,S30. The transfers in city
property have not been as heavy as W.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
lowANs At BIG PICNIC.
Thousands in California Attend Outing
At Los Angeles.

Thousands in California Attend Outing
at Los Angeles.
The following, taken from recent
issue Of the Los Angeles Times, will
be Of interest to many Marshalltown,
Marshall county and other Iowa people,
who have friends, acquaintance or
relatives living, or visiting, in Califor-
MIA, who attended the big Iowa picnic
at Los Angeles on February %:
Every one of the ninety-nine coun-
ties of Iowa had, big delegations pres
ent yesterday at the Iowa reunion and
picnic at Eastlake Park. There were
county reunions under the shade of
the trees, while Snames Of counties were
posted on trees, as headquarters, with
registers tied to the: tree trunks.
Thousands of people registered, and
thru this means there were many hap
by reunions Of old acquaintance and
neighbors.
"Officers Of the Iowa association es
timated that there were fully $4,000
people at the park yesterday, and
nearly every one of them wore the red,
white and blue badges of the associa-
ton. The attendance is said to have
greatly surpassed that of last year,
WHeH d Careful SolAAA1dSC GAeASSo IAC
crowd at 10000.
There was no attempt at presenting
a program, except that of cordial
good fellowship and hearty greeting
for the strangers within our gates
and their name was legion. The tour
list was everywhere in evidence with
his kodak and his heavy overcoat or
clothing The novelty of a great out
door picnic among the roses and
other fragrant blossoms, and dinner
spread on the thick, green grass, I'M
derneath the grateful shade of the
eucalyptus, was a fancy-tickler as the
Iowan thought of his own land and
it's zero weather of the past week.
Picnic dinners were spread every
where, the groups varying from small
families to those including the repre-
sentatives of an entire town or city
At the furnace on the island, there
were wash boilers full of coffee.
and around the fire We're huge
buckets, tubs and other vessels, full of
the beverage, which was served free
to all corners.
This department was in charge of
NJ w. kellogg of Pasadena. who has
been official coffee maker for the
Iowans ever since the association was
first organized. Six barrels of coffee
were made for yesterdays feast re-
curing 100 pounds of ground coffee
and twenty-five gallons of cream.
Many picnickers brought their own
coffee vessels; and everything present.
ed was filed, and the coffee depart
ment sold more than 500 tin cups
1.-THE business meeting of the Iowa
Association took place at 2 o'clock.
officers for the new year were elected
as follows: Honorary president Hon.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
:
DEATH AT ST. ANTHONY.
Henry Beck, Father of John Beck
Well Known Farmer, Passes Away.

Henry Beck, Father of John Beck,
Well Known Farmer, Passes Away.
Henry Beck, father of John Beck, a
well known farmer living near st. An
thony, died this morning at ] o'clock
at his sons home, where he has been
visiting for some time. Mr.. Beck was
a resident of Eudora, Kas., but has
been making his home with his son
for several months. About November
Mr.. Beck left for Kansas to look
after business matters at Eudora, and
while there was taken i'll. He return
ed to ST. Anthony on February % and
in his debilitated condition fell an easy
victim to pneumonia, which caused his
death.
Mr.. Beck was veteran of the civil
war, and served in Company B, Nine
second Illinois mounted infantry.
Since he has lived with son he has
made many friends in st. Anthony, and
his death has caused universal sad :
ness. The funeral arrangements have
not yet been made, as word is await
ed from relatives living at distance.
Mr.. Beck was IS years of age.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
Loos ON MoNoPoLIEs.
State University Professor Lectures on
Municipal Ownership.

State University Professor Lectures on
Municipal Ownership.
Municipal ownership is a local is
sue, and whether or not it proves a
good thing depends upon the local
people. In some places it would prove
a success and in others it would not.
just as in some cities and towns the
moral tone is high, and in others there
is little of the better moral element, if
any at ALL" Such was the essence of
the lecture delivered by DR.. l. A. Loos
head of the department of political
economy of the State University of
Iowa, before the Searchlight Club at
the Y. M. c. A. Tuesday evening.
DR.. Loos, altho he spoke for an hour,
was followed closely by his hear
ers, and only able to, touch upon
few of the more important sub-topics
in a subject of such breadth as "Mu-
nicipal Ownership" of which he spoke.
IF the municipality is good, the
ownership of it's water, light and
transportation is likely to prove a
success. If it is poor, and badly gov
erned, the opposite would more prob
ably be the case" he said
DR.. Loos traced briefly the change in
public opinion toward monopolies of
all kinds, natural and Industrial. The
hard coal trust is sample Of the for
mer, and the steel trust one of the
latter In answering the question how
best to preserve the interests of the
people in the control of monopolies, put
by himselfI he said the municipality,
in granting franchises, should always
hold the interests of the public to be
paramount. This right is assured by
federal and state laws, and whether the
method is one of public ownership,
with the utility operated under some
form of lease, or whether it is oper-
ated by the municipal ownership, the
interests of the people should always
come first. He said European towns
and cities, as well as those of Great
Britain, were far more advanced and
interested in public ownership than the
towns of this country. This was due,
he stated, to civic conditions and
more general desire on the part of pub
lie servants and the people to be con-
tented with their lot. In the United
States each man is ceaselessly after
never contented until he has it,
which results in corruption, the sale
of valuable franchises at an underes-
timated value, with the resulting evil.
"A municipality" DIR. Loos said.
Should never attempt to operate
utility until that utility had been re-
duced to a routine basis. Until that
time private capital should be induc-
ed to venture in and experiment.
DR.. Loos is not an easy speaker and
his method and mannerisms would be
better adapted to the class room than
to the lecture platform. Altho his
talk was, in a way, somewhat tedious, it
was full of interest to those who at
tended:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-03-02
Carney. Denies Il.

Mr.. Carney's candidacy for tha
office of city solicitor is only two days
old but he has already been attacked
by campaign lie which he wishes to
deny absolutely. II is not true that
he has ever been retained by the
Barber asphalt people at any time,
and he says that II he had been the
job would have been worth so much
more than that Of city solicitor that
1t is not likely he could afford to be
running for an office, the duties Of
which would be to defend the city
against the contentious Of the paving
company.