Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-06-13
Topics Of the Times


Palmer landed the commandership OF
| the G. A. R. He has been spending
most of his time while on salary for
| the state campaigning among the VET
Grams and hopes to become the Blythe
candidate for governor. He needs the
advertising the commanders Office
would give him.
orchard sticks to his story very
much as tho 1t were true. 1t sounds
something like Shercliffe's confession,
only infinitely more bloody.
Governor Hughes has not made the
fight of his life for the public utilities
bill without becoming convinced of the
usefulness Of tn commissions. He
now vetoes 2-cent fare bill In order to
give the new commission an opportnn-
ity to investigatelAe subject.
The California Japs who are trying
to stir their home government into UNI
friendly relations with the United
States give US some close acquaintance
with the pernicious activity which our
own citizens sometimes, commit in for
eign lands.
Young men graduating from high
schools should read about the manu-.
facturers' convention and the crying
need for educated mechanics there dis
cussed. Why slave and starve getting
started in a profession when big SAL
airy awaits man the moment he steps
out OF a technical school or learns an
intelligent trade?
The packing house teamsters getting
ESQ and 500 per month want SIS more
in wages because meat prices have ris-
en-, but what effect will that have on
the price Of meat to union laborers in
other lines of work? 81
It isn't much use for Pennsylvania
to come Philandering around after The
presidency. ;
The edict which has gone forth that
the saloons must not sell liquor. TO,
minors is a good ones and here's hop
ing it. will be enforced Council Bluffs
Nonpareil.
Now, if some mayor will give it out
cold that he holds to the eighth corn
mandment, some new spaper is likely to
see much commendable in his position.
Billy Sunday got over $4,000 at.
Knoxville. What is Rev. Sunday doing
with all this money 50 freely showered
on him?
The Idaho Orchard is the sort that
blooms in crime and bears fruit for the
gallows.
The Hon. Joseph G. Cannon is
marked for promotion to the presi-
dency.-Inter Ocean.
But there is reason to believe that
he is not marked to the right address
The incandescent light bulb has now
given notice thatit is a source of dam
ger, if not death. We still await the
opinion of experts before pronouncing
judgment, however. A young lady ,l8
years old, at Champaign. Ill. was all
most instantly killed a few days ago az
a result of an electric shock from an
sincandescent light bulb. The thumb
and fourth finger Of the left hand We're
burned, the finger being cooked to the
bone There was also a burn on the
great toe Of the right foot, where the
current left the body to a register on
which she stood, and which formed
ground circuit. The electric light wire
usually carried only 10 volts. City
Electrician Inspector Caldwell investi-
gated and could find no reason for the
surrent being higher. The coroner is
awaiting the testimony Of expert cleo
tricians. III
Building for May makes q i pretty
good showing. During the month per-
mits We're taken out in forty-one lead !
ing cities, according to official reports
to Construction News, for 1928 build
ings involving total cost of $61,9Q3,- 4
O0s, against 14,1oo buildings aggregat-
ing in cost s60,6o1,1o5 for the corre-
spending month a year ago, an in-
crease of Las buildings and $1,305,e04,
or 2 per cent. This increase is in spite
of the fact! that in twenty four cities
there were losses and in seventeen
gains. III Al.
Maria Mitchell, whose tablet was I'M
veiled in the Hall OF Fame on Memorial
Day, was born in 1918, and died in 1889.
She helped her father, a Nantucket
Quaker, in his astronomical observa-
tons. In 1s47 she discovered a new
comet, and was awarded the gold
medal offered by Frederick ". of Dem
mark. In 1865 she became professor Of
astronomy at Vassar college. Her sue
cessful efforts to obtain the same sal
airy as the male professors made her
one of the pioneers in the movement
for equal pay for women teachers. She
was an officer of the Massachusetts,
Woman Suffrage association, and was
also the first woman to be admitted to
the American Academy of Arts and
Sciences. Emma Willard and Mary
Lyon are the two other women who
have been honored by tablets in the |
Iyon Ia t5f 49, ~