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Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-27
Good Hotel Needed.

There is a new railway station to be
erected-a union station for the five rail-
ways which now enter the city--and It Is
expected to cost several millions of dollars
Let us hope that this building may be Span
ish rather than French in design, and that
it may include suitable hotel, which is the
greatest necessity of the City of Mexico to-
day. / have mentioned this subject before
but, in this connection, 1t seems fitting to
suggest that, IL the railway companies are
going to bring tourists from the United
States down into this country. they ought
to provide them comfortable stopping
place, and 1t might be done in connection
with the new union station with less cost
and trouble than q separate proposition.
Every one who has made an investigation
of the hotel question declares that the ina
biltty to secure competent servants makes
the hotel proposition impossible in this city,
but, as was remarked in a recent letter, 1t
would seem that the enterprise and the
genius which has regenerated this country
might solve that problem Chinese cooks
and walters might be imported without the
slightest difficulty under contract for 4 term
of years II sufficient natives cannot be
found.
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-27
Irregular Postal Service.

The postal service of Mexico seems to be
weak and irregular. My experience has
taught that It takes much longer to send q
letter from the City Of Mexico to Chicago
Or Washington than the distance will JUS
tify, and, for some reason, letters do not
always reach their destination in the same
order in which they are mailed These ec-
centricities cannot be explained. but some
thing is wrong in the postal service.
When we were coming down from the
United States few weeks ago we saw nlI
OF the mail bags on the train transferred TO
g wagon at Laredo and driven toward the
town. Several other wagons loaded with
mail drove I'D to the station about the same
time and the bags were transferred to the
mail car. 1t was explained that all letters,
papers and packages crossing the Dorder
were detained twenty-four hours at Laredo
in order that they might be examined by
the customs inspectors. which seemed I'M
necessary.
Just now gangs of workmen are laying
water and sewer pipes In several OF the
principal streets of the Mexican capital.
and they carefully pack them in loose
volcanic scoria, three or four inches thick'
Ii is explained that this is done as pre-
caution against earthquakes. The scoria,
which Is volcanic cinders and ashes, Is
elastic, and furnishes a sort of cushion Tor
the pipes to rest upon, SO that Wnen the
earth shakes they have room to pay
whereas, IL they were packed In clay or
other hard and unyielding soil, they would
be more easily cracked or broken.
another peculiar fact is that cooks IN
boxing cake in Mexico use only one-han
the amount of eggs, butter and baking pow
der called for by recipes used In lower
attitudes Cooks and housekeepers from
the north have to learn this phenomenon
by experience. When they first come down
here they wonder what makes their cakes
and pastry so heavy. Their biscuits are
like lead and their cake is soggy and
damp, but they soon discover that this
fault can be corrected by limiting the
amount of butter. eggs and baking powder
used In the mixing. II Is all due to the
altitude, the rare atmosphere and the lack
of oxygen. For the same reason 1t takes
twice as long to boil an egg In the City
of Mexico as 1t does in Washington or
Chicago. Instead of three minutes an egg
must be boiled six or seven minutes to De
cooked at all, and II you want your eggs
hard you have to boil them half an hour.
In Construction Two Centuries
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-27
In Construction Two Centuries.

Down In the little city of San Juan
Guichiccvi, on the isthmus of Tehuantepec.
which has population of about 5000 peo-
pie. is one of the largest churches in the
Mexican republic. 1t has been under con-
struction for more than 40 years and Is
not yet finished A few masons and Ia
borers may be seen puttering away on the
walls every weekday. and, at the present
rate of construction, 1t Will be at least au
years more before the church IL finished.
Generations OF priests have been collecting
money for building purposes continuously
since the corner stone was laid in 17U2 and
there Is no reason to believe that the funds
have not been honestly applied Most OF
the money has been expended for material.
while the work has been voluntary on the
part OF the parlshioners. Every man in
the parish spends certain number of days
Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1906-04-27
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is Fashioned on That of
Paris.
: FOR DEEP
REGRET
Individuality Sacrificed for Imitation
Some Notable Peculiarities
of the Country.
CITY OF MEXICO. April 21. 1eot
BY WILLIAM F.. CURTIS
Special Correspondence of The Star and the Chicago
Record Herald


CITY OF MEXICO, April 81, 1905
The people of this city are initiating Paris
more than Madrid. Their capital is more
French than Spanish. Spanish customs and
habits, Spanish architecture and methods
are gradually vanishing in this city, and
French fashions are being substituted One
would think that the Mexican people would
have an antipathy for everything that Isl
French after all they suffered during the
occupation of the country by the French
army under Marshal Bazaine from 1853 to
1887, but that disagreeable period and the
Macmillan episode appear to have been for
gotten. Perhaps the prevalence of French
customs Is due to a large extent to the fact
that so many rich Mexicans live in Paris. or
spend part of the year there. There Is a
large Mexican colony at the French cap
ital, composed Of rich landowners Many
others send their children to France to be
educated Ihere are more Mexican stu
dents In France than in the United States
or Spain, or both combined and of course
they bring home with them the airs and the
habits In which they have been trained
Ihere are more than 1000 French residents
In the City of Mexico who exercise con-
siderable influence, and many French nuns
are teaching In the schools of the country
VINO have hand in shaping the characters
ana the taste of their pupils. The number
or French nuns in Mexico has largely in
creased since the suppression of the con-
vents In France, and they are widely scat
tered throughout the republic chiefly in the
private and parish schools for girls Very
naturally they form the minds of their pu.
plis after French models, and teach them
the manners and customs of France
Mr.. Limantour, the minister of fnance
one OF The ablest and most influential men
IN the country, is thorough Frenchman
In taste and habits, and he, too is doing
a great deal to .Frenchify" Mexico. 1t
was through his influence that a French
architect was selected for the new gov
eminent opera house and for the new
building for congress, instead of an
American or a Spanfard While perhaps
the French ire more advanced in art and
architecture than any other nation, one
hates to see a Spanish country .Frenchi-
fed. Mexico has splendid individuality
of its own, which ought to be retained, and
we hope that 1t will be retained in other
cities, although the capital has already sur
rendered and many of Its native character
istfcs have been sacrificed to what may be
termed French renaissance. We NAV be
pardoned for expressing regret that Moor
ish, or at least Spanish, designs have not
been chosen for the new opera house and
the building for congress, and to hope that
in the future improvements which are con-
templated by the government on such a
liberal scale, whoever has the matter in
charge, will not entirely overlook the APP
propriateness of preserving a national IN
dividuality.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
Attorney General Gives Opinion
in Relation to Purchasing
Teachers Certificates
EVIDENT FLAW IN THE LAW
Legislature Failed to Provide For Buy
ing Certificates Which the State
Board Must Furnish Teachers-Fees
Will Not Be sufficient-Ask Appro-
priation.
Special to Times Republican.

Speclai to IlmeS-Republfcan.
Des Mones, Sept. Sin an opin-
ion as to the provisions of the new
teachers certificate law, Attorney Cen
eral Mullen holds that the state board
Of educational examiners has author
who pass the examinations and that
the money to pay for the certificates
must, according to the law, come from
the fees paid by the teachers. Be-
cause these fees do not amount to
enough to pay the expense of holding
the examinations and marking and
grading the papers and purchasing the
certificates also, the state superinten-
dent will advance the money amount
ing to several hundred dollars with
which to pay for the certificates and
ask the legislature to make an appro-
priation to cover 1t. This is done on
the advice of the executive council
and attorney general and also on the
advice of members of the legislature.
Under the former law the certifi-
by the counties issuing them The state
board of educational examiners each
year with the approval of the execu-
tive council purchased enough certifl-
Gates for those granted by the state
1t was the intention under the new
law to transfer to the state the ex-
pense previously borne by the coun-
ties OF paying for the certificates, but
the language failed, in the opinion of
the attorney general to say that 1t
provides that the expense shall be
met by the fees paid by the teachers to
the county institutes, one-half of the
fee going to the state for the pur-
pose of meeting the expense of the
board of educational examiners.
The certificates cost the counties
SO and S4 hundred and it will take
about 10000 of them. BY having them
uniform and purchasing them in bulk
the state can get them for about one
third of what they formerly cost the
counties.
When the question of purchasing
the certificates was raised the exec
utive council discovered that it had no
authority to make the purchase and in
looking up the law it was also ques-
toned as to whether any body had
any right under it to issue a certificate
at all. Both questions were submit
ted to the attorney general. The last
sentence Of section IA reads: "The re-
suit of such examination of persons
who pass the same shall be entered
upon certificate provided by such
board, and shall be transmitted to
the county superintendent of the
county in which the person entitled
thereto resides"
The attorney general holds that tho
the language is somewhat ambiguous,
nevertheless full authority rests with
the board to issue certificates to
teachers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
FACULTY MEMBERS RETURN.
iowa College Instructors Coming Back
From Vacations.


Special to Times-Republican.
Grinnell, Sept. 5.-Prof w. j. Rusis
has returned from Canada where he
has been spending the summer. Other
members of the faculty who are ex-
pected this week are Prof c. N. Smi-
ley, A. N. Meyer, Prof. j. P. Rogan
Miss Pauline Andrews and Prof Clara
E. Willard.
Mr.. and Mrs. C. H. Haines, of Den
yer. spent Sunday with Mrs. r. Nj
Haines.
Mrs. Y E. Spaulding is entertaining
her father and mother, MIR. and Mrs
c. e. Brown of Sibley.
Dr. Connard and family arrived yes
terday. DR.. Connard is the new in
structor in botany for Iowa college.
Misses May and Ruth Armstrong
are visiting Cedar Rapids relatives.
Ray Mills, of LeGrand, has entered
the Grinnell high school and expects &c
go thru the high school or academy
and college here
j. r. Cravath and family of Chicago
are visiting Grinnelf relatives.
Miss Mary Spencer, of the college
faculty, returns this week from a sum-
mer outing in Colorado.
Harold s. Herrold expects to remain
in Colorado the coming year and will
not return to his college work.
Miss Irene Lawrence left today for
Denver where she will spend the year
with her sister katherine, and attend
Denver University.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
Thornton News.

Special to Tlmes-Republ1can.
Thornton, Sept 5.-Rev. Simpson
and wife are enjoying a visit from
their father, Mr.. Simpson, from Har-
per, kas.
Mrs. Rogers, from Usage, is here
visiting her son and wife, Mr. and Mrs
G.. M. Rogers.
Mrs. Jacob Mattress enjoyed a short
visit with her old friend, Mrs. Crav-
en-. from Mason City
School opened today with a number
of rural pupils enrolled, and the US
ual number of town pupils
Hans Petersen attended the Iowa
State fair last week, and quite num-
Der of our citizens are attending the
Minnesota state fair this week.
Mr.. Lee from Sheffield has beer
laying a cement sidewalk for Mr.. n
| H. Shannon and now is laying one fol
p. j. Agler.
Spence Downing is building a nice
large barn on his farm north OF
Flown.
Shock threshing in this vicinity is
lust about completed and the recent
rains have helped out on fall plow-
ing in fine shape.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
WILL WE'D IN JAPAN
Miss Kitty Henry, Prominent LeMars
Girl, is Travelling 5000 Miles to
Join Her Lover, Who Is the Son
of ex Congressman struble, Of

Special to Times-Republican.
LIE Mars, Sept 5.-People of this
town are interested in the romance of
Miss Kitty Henry, daughter of j. II
Henry, one Of the pioneer Englishmen
Of Plymouth county, and one of the
largest fancy stock raisers in the great
northwest, and George Struble, son OF
ex- Congressman Struble, of Iowa, who
are to wed in Japan. Miss Henry left
her home here last week to travel $500
miles to meet her lover. She was ac-
companied as far as San Francisco by
her sister, Mrs. J. f. Robinson.
Miss Henry and George Struble, who
is former banker at Los Angeles,
W ere children together in LIE Mars tho
they have been separated for several
years, MIR. Struble going to California
a number Of years ago and making a
small fortune in the savings bank bus
mess. With all the native daughters
of California around him, and with the
glitter of riches and the f1attery of So
ciety in which he entered in the Cold
en- State, young Struble did not forget
his boyhood playmate when he came to
look for a wife. But he wrote to her.
having learned thru her sister in Cali
fornia that Kitty was still single 9th
err letters followed and Miss Henry
answered them. Then Mr.. Struble
went to Japan to enter the banking
business in the far east.
Both the bride-to-be and her sister
Bessie, now the wife of Prof j. E.
Robinson, of the Jonathan Club. in
Los Angeles. are artists of more than
ordinary ability, having attended the
Chicago Art Institute and studied un-
der we'll known masters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
versity at Minneapolis, MINI. Mrs.
Goddard's mother is living at Pomona,
Cal, and Is the owner Of. considerable
nrOpertN."
COUNTY suPT. RESIGNS.
N. S. Vance to Devote Whole Time
to Newspaper at Laurens.
snnnial 10 Tinas-R o nnhlicau


to Newspaper at Laurens.
Special to Times-Republican.
Pocahontas, Sept. 5.-N. S. Vance,
county school superintendent, resigned
yesterday, in order to devote his whole
time to his newspaper at L.aurens
The board appointed Mr.. w. p. Jen-
sen as his successor.
Mr.. Jensen is a candidate subject
to the will of the republican conven-
ton.
Mr.. Starkey, Jr., who for the last
twelve months, has been i'll at a hos
pital in Indianapolis, Ind, arrived
home last Saturday.
The Secret Heart church has l2o
pupils. The four teachers instruct
twelve grades.
The hunting season has started, and
ducks are reported plentiful, while
chickens are very scarce.
Alex Sinclair w. o. Furman,
Charles Lohr, James Sinek, and Chas.
Pavik went to Minneapolis yesterday
morning to attend the Minnesota state
fair.
Miss Josie W1lf left yesterday noon
for Colorado Springs, hoping to I'M
prove her health there.
The two hardware stores are chang
ing locations, Robert Bleakly's store
going into the old Steinhilber building
and C. A Parker's going into the
Kronek building, where the Bleakly
store was formerly located.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
SCHOOLS ARE PROMISING.
Tho Outlook for the Year is Good a
Montezuma.
Special TO Times-Republfcan


Special to imes-Republican.
Montezuma, Sept. 5.-School open
ed Monday September 3rd. with a
large enrolment, and many more are
to come in later. The schools will be
continued on the plans adopted dur
ing the 'superintendency of Mr. Doug
lass. Already some pupils from the
country have arranged to enter high
school and many more are expected.
The outlook for a successful year is
very promising. The teachers all
manifest much enthusiasm. Following
is the teaching force in the. grades:
First, Olivia Forcum; second. Ina
Barker; third, Flossie Vest; fourth,
Ruth Mortland; fifth. Edith Hutchin-
son; sixth, R. NJ. Hayes, principal, OF
Garfield building; seventh, Lizzie I'm
derwood; eighth and music, Warren
Pollard.
The high school force is as follows:
r. L. Gardner, principal. He is a
graduate of the State Normal of Mis-
souri, and the State University of
Iowa: Ida Mckee, Mary Raymond, M.
o. Roark, superintendent.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
jefferson Schools Open.

Special 10 Times Republican.
Jefferson, Sept. 5.-Educational mat
tiers in jefferson have never been more
prosperous than at present, under the
supervision of Prof. Palmer, who is by
far the best superintendent the JEFF
ferson schools have had.
School began Monday. The high
school staff consists of Prof. Palmer
superintendent; Miss Dority, princi-
pal; Miss Remick, language; Miss
Parsons, history; Miss Specht, mathe-
matics; Mr.. McIlravy, science; Mis-:
Eagelson, art and drawing; Miss Le-
Gore, music.
The grammar school: First grade
Miss Eagleson; second grade, Miss
Head; third grade, Miss Brown; fourth
grade, Miss Young; fifth grade, Miss
Hampton, sixth grade, Miss Mills; sew
enth grade, Miss Fenton, eighth grade
Mrs. Jay.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05

Special to imes-Republican.
Des Moines. Sept. 5.-Hon. Jerry B.
Sullivan today absolutely denied the
story printed in the Sioux City Jour
Governor Cummins had made per-
sonal appeal" to him to use his in
fluence in lining up democratic votes"
for Cummins. The story that appear
ed in the Sioux City Journal appeared
under a Des Mones date line and the
first paragraph read as follows:
within the past forty eight hours, it
is said upon reliable authority, that
Governor Albert B. Cummins has made
a personal appeal to Hon. Jerry B.
Sullivan to use his influence in lin
ing up democratic votes in his (Cum-
mfhs) behalf The rest of the dis
patch told of purported lifelong
friendship between the two men and
claimed that Sullivan had only refused
to support Cummins because of the
governors acceptance of the state
pl1tlOAlu VI ZIG lCPuOlASall PaASS VIZ
the tariff question.
!. Politicians are not surprised at the
appearance Of the dispatch in the col
umns of the Journal following the Bit
ter editorials in the Journal which
have appeared daily since the defeat
of it's editor for governor at the repub-
lican state convention. But they are
somewhat surprised that any reputable
newspaper man in the city would send
out the dispatch when Governor Cum
Minis and Hon. Jerry Sullivan We're
both in the city and could have been
reached by telephone to ascertain the
truth of the story. Governor Cum
Minis is now in Colorado for short
vacation before the opening of the
state campaign.
When seen today Mr.. Sullivan said:
There is absolutely not word of
truth in the Journals statement that
Governor Cummins has made a per-
sonal appeal to me to line up the dem
ocratic vote for him. l have not seen
the governor for four months to have
any talk with him and have not seen
him at all for fully month. He has
not made any personal appeal or any
OtHef klllu ol dIi dPPeai' nc S'e1'SS
ments there that / consider the gov
ernor as having backed down on the
tariff are all true. That was printed
in the Des Moines News some time
ago, in fact soon after the republican
state convention.
That the item was printed for effect
and for the injury it would do the re-
publican state ticket is the belief of
any number of republicans of this
city. The publication of the item is
merely the following up of the policy
of the paper while not openly advocat-
ing the election of the democratic
ticket to do all possible to bring about
that result.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05

first primary. The new teachers and
their positions are Professor Suffer,
principal; Miss Alexander, of Grinnell,
assistant principal; Miss Savage, of
Coggin, Intermediate; Miss Jones. Des
Moines. second primary. Some changes
have been made in the course of study.
so that those who do not want Latin
may take something to their liking.
Everything looks favorable to a pros
porous opening next month, and we all
hope for .proSperous year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
A NOTABLE REUNION
E. H. Raymond, of Geneva, One of
600 Relatives Who Sat Down to a
Banquet at Family Reunion at Mum
Gle, Ind,
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times-Republican.
Geneva, Sept. Sc. H. Raymond
has just returned from Muncie, Ind,
where he attended the reunion of the
Jones' Mallott- Raymond family At
the banquet served on that occasion
500 persons participated. all of whom
We're related. Next year the reunion
will be held in West Virginia and in
two years it will be held in Canada In
one family of Ave who attended the
reunion the youngest member was 70
years of age.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
News Of RoIfe.

Special to Times-Republlcan.
Rolfe, Sept. 5.-School commenced
September 8 with full attendance
There are twelve teachers, six of them
Young ladies who have graduated from
this school and life in Rolfe.
The masons are laying brick for our
new Presbyterian church. 1t will be a
fine building when completed.
Dr. Hollis, while in Chicago, pur-
chased an auto. He can now visit his
patients In hurry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
MISS FoY TO WAYLAND.

Elected Piano Teacher at Academy
Was Formerly at GIidden.
Special to Times Republican.
Jefferson. Sept 5.--Miss Nettie Foy
has been selected as teacher of piano
in the musical department of Way
land Academy at Beaver Dam, Wis
The Wayland Academy is one of the
oldest educational institutions in Wis
consin.
Miss Foy has been supervisor of
music in the Glidden schools and they
greatly regret her departure.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
Tho Grand Junction News.
Special to Times-Republican.

Special to TimeS-Repub1lcan.
Grand junction, Sept. 5.-Court con-
vened at Jefferson yesterday in spe-
ctal term of one week, with Judge
Church on the bench.
Mrs. NJ. Baker returned yesterday
from Des Moines, where she has been
for treatment In sanitariun.
The corn crop is practically secured
against the frost in this vicinity.
The town council have about COM
pleted some long decided drainage in
town.
w. w. wertz has moved his family
into the residence belonging to the G.
w. Nicholson & Co. plant.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-09-05
New Sharon Notes.
% Times-Republican

Special to TImes-RepuDI1caH:
New Sharon, Sept. 5.-Mrs. Sadie NJ
Carson and daughter Helen have left
for Storm Lake. where Miss Helen will
attend school the present term.
our schools opened Monday morning
in a blaze of glory, with an attendance
of 3o2 pupils. So of whom were regis
tered at the room over Reynolds Of
flee.
Carl Briney is fitting up the Hoove.
building near the skating rink for a
photo gallery.
Secretary Osborne announces the en-
gagement of the Oskaloosa band 70,
the last two days Of the New Sharon
district fair.