Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-28
Topics Of the Times

paper read by Miss May +. Davis. {
colored girl. on the growth and devel-
opment of her race since the war, anc
manship and clean manuscript she IL
the equal of any graduate from the
Abba high school, irrespective of color
4 Miss Davis Is a domestic in an Abba
i home and has fitted herself for schoo
teaching or any position the white stu
fair example of what the negro can dc
i with education. All the colored resi-
4 dents Of Monroe county are not rep
resented in the list of atrocities which
| have made Buxton notorious. The AL
bia girl points out to her race of the
real path to race recognition.
/ Mapleton has reelected a school d.
rector who has served continuously for
twenty-six years. A place on the Ma
pleton school board seems to be the
nearest thing, in educational circles,
to a seat in the United States SEN
ate,
/
| Possibly one of the reasons Pobie-
| donostseff escaped the terrorists to die
| in bed is thru the lack of OF time to
write a death warrant and the i'm
possibility of spelling it right any
| way
The batch Of Greek farmers Inn
Nv l,, 81, ~
are not likely to depreciate the price
of labor. They demanded $50 a month
and are still out.
What do you suppose turned Sena-
tor Cullom against Hartman that
way?
The past week started the grass and
the soda fountains.
Fort Dodge's mayor is likely to give
that city as much notoriety as Britt
gained thru the tramp convention.
If this keeps up the state OF New
York should appoint commission in
lunacy to examine everybody connected
with the Thaw trial from judge to
bailiff.
Why is 1t that Uncle Joe Cannon gets
skittish away from home? From Pan
anna comes reports of the old man act
ing like a village cut-up and every
one remembers how he ran footraces
with ladies across the depot platforms
on his trip into Iowa some time ago.
II. G.. Mcmillan, retiring United
States district. attorney, says he has
retired from politics and will devote
all his time to his agricultural inter-
ests. The general impression is that
he was retired by being pried off and
none too soon at that.
Pennsylvania is trying a treatment
for insanity where the patient is bound
into hammock under faucets giving
both hot and cold water. He lies there
with the water at an average tempera-
ture of 100 degrees flowing on him for
eight hours at a time. The head is
the only part Of the patient left above
water. Here in Iowa the prescription
favored for cranks1 and crazy people
generally has been to advise soaking
the very part Pennsylvania leaves out.
Robert Shields, banker of Neenah,
Wis, who recently started on his
heightyflrst year, drove the first sur
vey stake for the first railway in Wis
consin. That was in the fall of 1S49,
and the line was the Milwaukee &
Waukesha, out of which the Chicago
Milwaukee & st. Paul Railroad grew.
"wiTl you" asked the prosecuting
attorney, kindly explain to the jury
why you think this defendant in
sane?"
Well" replied the expert witness.
she built house not long ago, and
really thought it wasn't going to cost
any more than the architect and con-
Record Herald.
The "Auld Brig" at Ayr, commemor-
ated by Robert Burns, will be pre-
served. 1t had fallen into decay and
was unsafe for use and likely to fall.
The money, 100000. needful for it's
restoration. has been raised, and the
town council of Ayr has ordered i'm
mediate prosecution of the work.
Headaches and Neuralgia From Colds.
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world wide Cold and Grip remedy re-
moves cause. Call for full name. Look
for signature q. w. Grove. Csc.