Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-04-10

breeding purposes; 200 binders. zoo
mowers. 30 steam threshing machines
grist mills, 4 saw mills and one brick
and other implements necessary to
farming. Two years ago the whole
colony was practically penniless. To-
day thousands of acres are sowE In,
wheat. barley. oats and flax, Only
two weeks ago. the colony paid $4,000
for ten complete steam ploughs of %
horse power each. These engines are
capable of drawing eight ordinary
plows.
Spring comes a prancing. and glanc-
Ing and dancing.
With song birds enhancing the ear
with their tunes.
With everything happy. except that old
yappie.
That snappy. old gappy old bach full
Of prunes.
The editor of the Ochcydan Press
counts up $210 monthly paid in sold
iers' pensions at Ocheydan to fifteen
pensioners.
Cedar Rapids is to have a Bohem-
ian daily newspaper and the type
foundries are working overtime on
rs" is" and ks"
An Elgin, ILL.,. merchant secured an
injunction restraining relatives of his
divorced wife from preventing MIN
from attending her funeral. The writ
was probably granted on the consti-
tutonal privilege of every man to the
pursuit of happiness"
The movement in Wisconsin looking
to the position OF secretary OF state Tor
Senator Spooner is not one of the
"booms'' from Senator Spooner's lum-
Der woods record. The news that such
n. movement exists will accentuate the
deep regret felt by the public over Sec
rotary Hays indisposition.
SO
The Dealer-Here's just the knife
you want to buy sir, to take on your
fishing trip. 1t has five blades and a
corkscrew.
The Angler+Haven't you one with
less blades and--er-more corkscreWs?
Cleveland Leader.
Possibly Commissioner Garfield may
find that the tyranny of oil pipe lines
is only a dream and that the 100000
offered the foreign missionary board
by Mr. Rockefeller represented the
savings of life time.
The other day a collection of old
battleships that cost the British gov
eminent many millions of dollars was
sold for the old iron they contain. 1t
is said that a warship will last only
about twenty years. Other machinery
more peaceful In it's uses changes quite
as often as once in twenty years, so
that the British probably got value re-
ceived out Of their sea defences. Twen-
ty years is long enough for battle
ship.
The Christian Science Journal for
April published in Boston, appears in
new dress, thus beginning it's twen-
ty-t third volume. Since 1883, when it
was first published by Mrs. Eddy, 1t
has recorded the interesting progress
of the movement. This number pre-
sents a series of articles which cam
not fail to arouse approval of the cam
did and kindly way in which Christian
Science is explained.
T. p. Cook, general superintendent
OF the Western Union Telegraph Com
pany, announces that the Western
Union has extended it's money trans
fer business to foreign countries and
that local Western Union offices will
accept money to be transferred by ca
BILE to points in Great Britain and Ire
land, France, Switzerland, Germany,
Austria Hungary, Italy. Sicily, Spain,
Portugal, Belgium, Holland, Denmark,
Sweden, Norway, Russia. in Europe;
Turkey in Europe; Roumania, Bull
garia, Servia, Greece, Corsica, SARDINIA,
and all other countries in Europe. They
also transfer money to Alaska, Cuba
and the Philippines.