Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-01
Topics Of the Times

| Now that Mr.. Harrimans Suggestion
| OF a broader gauge roadbed has beer
| turned down would it do to try broad
err gauge men for presidents and di-
| rectorsa
If Theodore is getting to the poin
where he can endure mention of re-
election he is only a step from en-
bracing the idea. And the idea i:
hurrylng around the White Houss
waiting for him to come out.
Grundy county papers proclaim
Grundy Center as fur market. Dur
ing the last four months a, firm in thai
town has bought in round numbers
100000 skins and furs and pair Sal
o75 for them. Before the end of thi;
year it is estimated that it will do t'
exceed $4,000 worth of business. Thinf
of Iowa, where almost every acre pays
i'll toll of corn. grass and grain, fur
nishing million or so dollars WORTH
Oh raw fIurS
The Fort Dodge mayor says the no.
torious ordinance to which he has beer
forced to stand sponsor. was simply
for the benefit OF Fort Dodge Stirring
friends" And W 18th the examples OF
Representative Buckingham's bill and
Gen, Gates poetry right before his
eyes, too!
A. A. Bowman, late of the Contra
City Herald. has purchased the ochey-
dan Press and will assume immediate
possession. the retiring editor leaving
for health resort to recover his fail
ing health The Press has been one OF
the dependable well edited weeklies OF
northwest Iowa.
The Cherokee Democrat says man
went to certain druggist and enquired
the price of sulphur Ten cents per
pound said the keeper of drugs. Ism
that pretty high?' asked the customer,
..whysI can get it of Montgomery Ward
for seven cents" You can get it in
he'll for nothins;,' answered the drug
sist. land a MIN that small is on the
road"
Dan Hupp, the Iowa League player
Who is down with smallpox. would be
5excusable If he had muffed it,
$3.50
The Waterloo Reporter can not be
reconsiled to the primary. One of the
best arguments for the primary law
is the attitude of some Of those who
refuse to be reconciled.
In Indiana the two-cent fare brought
the threat that all excursion rates would
b.. cut off but the railroads have just
voted for the retention of such rates.
When 1t comes to the question OF cut
hing off noses in spite, Very few severed
probosces will be found about railroad
Headquarters.
James A. Towney, who represents
the first congressional district of Min
nesota, has the best singing voice in
congress-a high baritone which at
simes sounds like a tenor. Only once
at the windur of the fifty seventh con-
gress. did he give his assembled coli
leagues spe simen of his vocal ability.
There was tile usual din that marks
the close of session and a Lot OF
would be son gsters had been torturins
the air with all sorts of choruses. Then
somebody started the doxology. None
of the singers seemed able 10 recall the
words Of this fine church song. AS IL
in very shame for the ignorance of MS
colleagues Mr.. Tawney raised his voice.
Its first clear note stilled the tumult.
He sang the doxology as never before
or since has it been heard in the halls
of congress. Every word of the old
hymn took its flight to the uttermost
part of the great chamber But Mr..
Tawney has resolutely refused from
that day to join in the singing in the
house.
Senator winthrop Murray Crane OF
Massachusetts for many years has held
the exclusive contract for making the
paper on which bank notes and gold
and silver certificates are printed. But
for this fac he would have entered the
cabinet as secretary of the treasury.
President Roosevelt offered him that
position, but he could not accept, the
law forbidding one having such interest
from entering the cabinet. Mr.. Crane
withdrew from active management IN
the mill at Dalton, Mass, before going
to the senate
Green-I was the victim of lynch
ing party in Arizona once.
Brown-You don't say?
Green-I married the widow of a
man who was strung UP for horse
stealing-C Chicago News.
Can there legitimately be a February
80? asks q Chicago paper, which an
swers: Yes under exceptional circum-
stances. if ship happens to be voyag-
ing across the Pacific at the end of
February during leap year. An OBJ
server, looking over a collection of
menu cards, found one dated February
80 1904. At first he thought it was a
printers error, but he afterward ascer-
tanned that it was correct. The dinner
was given on board the Pacific steamer
Siberia, while crossing from Yokohama
10 San Francisco day is gained be-