Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-04-25
Topics Of the Times

constitutional by the United States
supreme court makes IT misdemean-
| or punishable by fine and imprison'
ment, TO solicit orders for Intoxicating
| liquors within the state. This wouio
seem to offer the chance to give Iowa
saloon keepers a square deal. Instead
of permitting them to ship. the foreign
dealer may be driven out and the ship
ments stopped in toto.
.sFarm hands and dairymen $40 O
month and keep. liz the rate advertised
by the civil service commission al
Chicago.
An insurance agents advertising card
Of comparative business IN Iowa shows
that the three big Insurance companies
which were exposed in the New YORK
hearing have suffered loss on the
amount of Iowa business carried The
New York Equitable Mutual Lite ana
New York Life all show insurance lost
to the amount Of over million dollars
each, cutting their, premiums from Iowa
business by $26,tS6, $3,232 and $72,-
$40 respectively The old crowd car
ried the election, however. and will re-
tain control Of the companies.
Howard Ram, of Manchester, finally
landed the postoffice. Mr.. Ram runs
a Manchester newspaper and ran
against primary in Delaware county
last year hard enough to almost make
Ram past participle.
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Judging by newspaper praise and
comment the Sioux City Journal last
week appears to have issued an ami
versary number off unexcelled interest.
Somewhere between Sioux City and the
editorial office of the T.-R. the number
referred to switched or sidetracked, but
the Times Republican is sure that 1t
was creditable to the state of Iowa
and the man who has made the Jour-
nal for thirty-six years.
New Zealand las nearly every con-
ceivable species of organized labor
The latest union, formed there is that
of domestic servants, and 1t has been
duly registered under the law provid-
ing for the compulsory arbitration Of
labor disputes. The prospectus of the
new organization sets forth in the for
midable phrases Of legal document
that a weeks work shall consist of six
ty-eight hours. The hours of labor
and of rest are carefully scheduled for
each day. The woman workers are
strong on holidays. Eight are specifi-
cally named in the constitution besides
all the legal holidays, which are very
numerous in New Zealand. Work ex-
acted from domestics on any Of these
holidays must be paid for at special
rate.
Canada's Lords Day act, recently
PASSED, provides; that it shall be I'M
lawful on Sunday to engage in any
public game or contest for gain, or to
be present at any performance or pub
lie meeting, elsewhere than in a
church, at which a fee is charged, or to
run, conduct or convey any excursion
on which passengers are conveyed for
hire, or to advertise any performance,
or to bring into Canada for sale or dis
tribution or to sell or distribute on the
Lords Day any foreign newspaper or
publication classified as a newspaper.
Mrs. Knicker--"Does your husband
go out between the acts?"
Mrs. Bocker-"No; he comes in the
theater between drinks" Judge.
Gustav H. Grimm, of Rutland, VT, a
maple sugar expert, says that the yield
of the famous Vermont product this
year will be the best in fifteen years.
He predicts that the figures will show
an average of four pounds to a tree.
Last season, which was better than the
three or four preceding, the yield was
little more than two pounds to tree.
Reports gathered in 1906 showed that
about five million trees We're tapped,
and that the output was 100000
so that this seasons crop will
be approximately 100000 pounds.
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Tom-Have you had any spats with
your girl lately?
Dick-No;. we're great friends now.
Tom-How's that?
Dick-we've broken off our engage
Press.