Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-05-02
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Sioux city has concluded that the
$4,000 paid in by the gamblers for the
privilege to fleece home citizens and
the stranger within her gates, doesn't
pay after all, and threatens to close up
the joints, thus throwing out of enn-
ployment $50 employees of the gaming
houses. Fourteen thousand dollars does
seem q small sum for privilege that
kept $50 parasites and made an inn
n,ense profit for the proprietors. No
wonder the business men have con-
cluded that gambling does not pay the
city"
The state laborer commissioners
statement that Iowa needs 100, 900
workme,n is very properly being sub
jected to question and criticism. Pros
porous as we are in Iowa, the indus
tries Of the state would not bear an
influx OF 100000 workmen. When each
town and city takes stock OF the actual
number of working men it could ac-
.commodate, it win be convinced that
1000 to the county Is altogether too
many.
That 5 millions appropriated for the
purchase OF submarines might be not
incorrectly called sinking fund. 81
she--What Interested you most in
your travels, major?
Major--Wen, the mummy of a queen
1 saw In Egypt. It's wonderful how
they could make a woman dry up and
stay that way. Philadelphia Inquirer.
s or course, the Clinton Telephone
company IS entitled to credit for rails
ing the salaries Of its efficient tele-
phone operatives, but the persons en-
titled to the true thanks Of a telephone.
using public are the ones who raised
the telephone girls.
president Roosevelt and Governor
Cumnlins are constituted too much
alike to ever drive together" says the
Vinton Eagle. from which it; is not diff
ficult to see how much Pat likes the
president.
q A Marshalltown man purchased a
few cedar posts ten feet long this week
and paid 35 cents apiece for them. An.
acre Of ground will grow 4S0 trees and
II it required twenty years time in
which, to grow trees that would cut
three posts to the tree, the income from
the posts would average $22 per acre
for the whole period; Is not the spec
ulation worth investing four or five
acres?
one farmer has gone crazy anu a
director has lost his last cent, even to
mortga ging his home as the result Of a
cashiers mismanagement, yet bank
failures should not be reported to the
public.
The Sheldon Sun has discontinued its
daily edition as non paying venture.
Delegates to The Hague conference
will be obliged to leave their body arms
with the janitor.
Dorothy-I call Charlie Adams aw-
fully soft. don't you?
Agnes-Yes, call him down.
Agnes-Yes. cal him down.-Lip-
The sisal industry Is becoming an
about one thousand acres
having already been planted in Hawaii.
indicate that it can be
cultivated from sea level
up to $500 feet and with rainfall as
high as sixty inches Hawaiian sisal
is pronounced by fibre experts. to be
equal to that produced In Yucatan.
Tommy-My papa's automobile is a
nicer one than your papa's.
Dicky-Bein' nice amt nothin'. You
can smell m ydad's machine a mile
away.--Chicago Tribune.
At Penon. Mexico. suburb of Mex
leo City. may be seen what is perhaps
the smallest church in the world. It
siestles under the shadow of a small
volcano The church Is about ten feet