Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-10-14
! Topics Of the Hines

"There have been grave fears for
clude to retire" says the Iowa City
Republican speaking of Congressman
Hull. Which shows how extremely ner-
vous people with a rheumatic trouble
are likely to grow.
A Keokuk report says "the post
masters and assistant poatmasters of
the First congressional district held
their third annual meeting at keokuk
yesterday with most satisfactory re-
suits" The report Is silent as to the
date Of similar convention in the
Eighth, but 1t ought to be soon,
Judging from the indications.
The Cedar Rapids Republican OBJ
jects to the bias" I'M Mr. LaF'ol-
lette's nature. but it is not impossible
that the greater objection of the Re-
publican is to the "goring rather than
the "bias."
Iowa City Is to have an anti-spitting
ordinance soon. But 1t Is hoped that
this will not deprive us of Dave
Bmnt's editorials.
1t is u pity that Secretary Taft is
opposed to football. lie has some Of
the prime qualities of center rush.
1t Is to be hoped that the claim Is
strait of the discovery by Behring or q
specific for consumption. We shall sea
what we shall sea.
Were the time OF Professor Dough-
erty OF Peoria unoccupied he might
take the SUPPLEMENTARY Of 1.-THE
school OF high finance"
1t looks like q teeny, weeny leetle
bit to the Sioux City Tribune as
though Secretary Shaw would face
another deficit in his race for the
presidential nomination. 1t there isn't
such q, shortage it will not be for lack
Of either venom or effort on the part
of the Tribune. The secretary must
have done some one connected with
that paper a favor some time.-1Keo-
kuk Gate City.
This is likely to set Iowa wonder
ing what accommodation the Gate City
has ever received at the hands of the
present clean handed state administra-
ton.
Some one has said that a woman is
at the bottom of every embezzlement.
The Belgian government discovered
some time ago that the leather bags
used for the mails in>the Congo Free
State were often stole. Investigation
proved that natives in the postal ser
vice took them, cut out the bottom, and
gave them to their wives to be worn
as clothing.
Chose Hall Of Fame people are
cracked" said the Princeton freshman
who was trying for the football team.
Here they put in those old dopes,
Lowell and Whittier, and turned down
Poe. Wonder If they never read bout
that run he made the year I'VE rubbed
1t into Yale?"
Il
Johnny was good boy, but he loved
to fight. He had been reproved over
and over again, an dat last he had
promised to battle no more. That very
evening he returned from school with
a cut cheek and swollen nose.
Johnny" said his mother, you
promised me this morning that you
would not fight again"
But l haven't been fighting, ma
This is an accident"
"An accident?'
Eyes, ma. was sitting on Tommy |
Biggs, and forgot to hold his feet"
Miss L. Bonnie Gallagher, the as
sistant photographer in the national
museum at Washington, is the only
woman in that branch of the govern
ment service, and her work has been
singularly successful She has been a
most valuable aid to the veteran in
Professor Thomas w.
Smile, who for thirty five years has
more eulipses, probably,
than any other man in the country. |