Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-12-17
Topics Of the Times

One Of the trials of housekeeping is
to know what to do with furniture and
other articles that are not needed.
There is no money and much unpleas-
antness in dealing with second hand
dealers but a fifteen, cent ad in the
T.-R. with owners name withheld will
often sell household goods at such a
price as to realize very respectable pin
money and one can get the old goods
out Of the way.
Instead Of in his stocking, President
Roosevelt gets simplified spelling In the
| neck.
A man never knows who might want
his property until he advertises it in a
newspaper like the T.-R. He only needs
to interest one reader out OF 10000 and
among that many people somebody
can be found to want almost anything
under the sun.
The managers Of a Chicago charity
ball have taken in $500 from box pur-
chaers. Charity balls come high but
balls.
The Indiana Changers in their ses-
sion at Ft. Wayne declared for the par
cells post and postal savings banks. No
one was bold enough to suggest pos
tal system Of Moving corn
Senator Arthur Brown, of Utah, did
more in his death to point moral than
he appears to have done during life.
The French government is urging a
a form of simplified spelling. Just at
present there is some difference in
France as to how justice should be
spelled.
sfBut your associations on earth have
not fitted you for this place" protest.
ed st. Peter to the new arrival at the
gate.
I'D like to know why not" answered
the other: "as distiller haven't had
d lOJ W uO Will ICllItcu SpllllS. --DOS.
ton Transcript.
The Protestant communicates Of
Greater New York in 1855 were 3d.
All, or 81 per cent of the population
of the city; In 1905, they numbered
337,2S9, or s.4 per cent Of the city's
population. The Catholic communi-
cants of 1856 numbered 110,4SS, or 1872
per cent Of the population. In 1905, L.
O61,716, or 1854 of the city's population.
Comparing 1905 with 1904, Federation
finds that the Jews have increased their
part of the population from 1873 per
cent to 1876 and Catholics theirs from
1913 to 33.S. The churchless Protest
ants of New York outnumber the whole
population of Nebraska, and are the
equivalent Of the whole population of
Washington, Idaho, Montana and Wyo-
ming.
The Salvation Army bids fair to be-
come an aristrocratic body. Major
Mary Murray, who supervises the mill
tary and naval league of the Saliva
tionists, IL . daughter of the late Sir
John Murray, K. c. B., and Lieutenant
Colonel Minnie Reid, who recently
married Commissioner Booth Tucker,
is daughter Of former acting gov
ernor Of Bombay. The commissioner
himself resigned q judgeship in India,
with all the wealth and social position
attached to 1t, to devote himself to Sal
walton Army work. Lady Sarah iSladen
is 'Salvationist and the countess
dowager of Seafield is member of the
auxiliary Of the army. Intimately con-
nected with the work in Australia is
Mrs Bird, wife Of the former prime
minister Of Tasmania. The daughter of
the late Lady Gait, wife of the lieuten-
ant governor Of Ontario, is working in
Canada, as is also, among the daugh
tiers Of millionaires, Miss Macdonald at
Toronto.
The census bureau finds that in 1902
about one-haf of our states had inherit