Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1905-04-04

Ihls is "cleaning-up time.' Have you
frightened up your lawn?
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IOWA PRESS COMMENT.
A good story is told of pioneer of
Cedar Rapids and his son by the Ca
zette. The past winter the pioneer
was driven by the rigors of the CHI
mate to seek warmer location, and
while he was absent Old Boreas made
wrote: Dear Father-You reed not
tell US Of the winter of fifty-six any
more. We have all previous engage
ments with Arctic conditions skinned"
The father replied: Dear Son--The
weather may be few degrees colder
than In the year you mention, but re-
member that we did not then have
warm houses and that we experienced
considerable difficulty in our efforts to
keep warm by burning green wood"
On comparison Of averages of con-
d1hons the son is willing to admit that
the father is one full lap ahead and
going easily.
The Keokuk Gate City is inclined to
think that really meritorious paper
does not find it necessary to boast con-
eAAAo'Aiy VI 40 SACellSllCe.
The Atlantic Telegraph likens Rus
STA to big overgrown boy who has
been whipped by little fellow and
who wants the latter to apologize for
doing such a good job.
In the opinion of the Abba Union
the only cities that are going to make
much of spot on the maps of the
future will be those becoming the CEN
ters from which radiate the inter-
urban roads. The farmer has the
daily mail, the telephone and the next
thing he does is going to be to send
his products to market by electricity"
The indications are that the church
IS after money pretty steadily" says
the Sioux City Journal THE indica-
lions are that it wants to be rich. 1t
IS human in its government, with taste
for architecture and fine furnishings
and splendid music and thrilling elo.
quence. People who live luxuriantly
will not worship In a howell; and there
you are. The struggle Is to equalize
conditions, taking what money will
buy as the standard"
The Oskaloosa Herald notices that
there was a flaw in Russia's 999-year
lease OF Port Arthur which has already
cost the empire several hundred mill
lion rubles In addition to the land.
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One of the successful candidates for
councilman at Sigourney was C. G..
Heninger. His success is explained
by the Oskaloosa Herald by the fact
that he once lived in Oskaloosa
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The Cedar Falls Record observes
that the good roads movement comes
to the surface every spring about the
time the frost goes out, and whether
1t remains an issue the rest of the sea-
son or not depends upon the condition
Of the weather.
The Mason City Times Herald saws
1t is questionable whether good roads
ana an good crops ever did mix well.
And If we must take our choice and
cannot have BOTH" it adds, I'VE wish
the roads as good as Iowa soil will
permit them to be-"
The Marshalltown Times Republi-
can says the fact remains, after all,
that Castro is the only one who ever
got the best of the asphalt trust.
The Fairfield Ledger is mean enough
to observe that widow does not feel
SO sorry for the death of her first hus-
band as her second husband does,
The turban steamers which are
now coming in use are said to do
away with sea sickness, and the Cedar
Rapids Rapids Republican says, IF
that is true they will get nine-tenths
OF the ocean travel for not more than
one-tenth are fond of seasickness."
o.
Mother Van Colt, the noted woman
evangelist, has started from her home
in New York for Iowa to engage in
evangelistic work and convert the
Iowans. The Sioux City Tribune be-
lieves that she is passing by some ex-
cellent territory for evangelistic work.
Cap'n Arson, who is running for
city clerk on the democratic ticket in
Chicago, threatens to come out to
Iowa and go to farming If he isn't
elected. The cap'n always was
pretty good at using the big stick, and
1t wouldn't be surprising If he should
make hit with 1t this time" says the
Sioux City Journal.
Whether Iowa should be abbreviated
10" or ia" depends, the Mason City
Globe Gazette suggests, on how the
abbreviator pronounces the word. 'If
it is I-OH-wa, the abbreviation is 10.
II To- WAY, he would write it Ia. Down
In Boston they call it I-o-er, and con-
sequently abbreviate it IT."
'At any rate Ottumwa Republicans
know how to take off their coats and
win in democratic wide-open town.
says the Davenport Times. "They did
not produce landslide but they did
secure few more than enough votes
to elect their candidate for mayor, and
that is all that is necessary. And
their victory is good thing for Of
tumwa."
The Cedar Rapids Republican com
ments on the readiness with which
Des Moines politicians look upon the
rest of the state as their own political
asset, and on the Des Moines view
that one of the duties Of the state is
to take care Of Des Moines and Polk