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Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-03-08
REoRoANIzEp.

Al the residence of Mrs. Chas.
Casey, 1857 Clarkson street, last We'd
nesday evening happened an unusu-
ally enthusiastic rehearsal of Holley's
orchestra. The several members of
the organization upon hearing of the
departure of their leader resolved that
they would perpetuate this organiza-
ton and keep 1t In fourishing condi-
ton until he returned. Arrangements
were perfected by which Mr.. j. H.
Rhodes. violinist OF great ability,
has been secured to lead and direct.
Mr.. Monroe Tompkins was retained
as business manager, as he has proven
to all his ability to successfully
handle the affairs of the organization.
After a very pleasant social time the
various members babe their leader
God speed. r. G. Holley desires TO
thank the many friends who have so
kindly patronized his orchestra in the
past and to assure them In his alb.
sence the same service will be rend.
cred at the usual price. Mr.. Thomp-
kins presented to Mr.. Holley upon his
departure a token OF esteem which
although great surprise was highly
appreciated.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-03-08
Better THAN oolpFlElp.

Mr.. G. c. Sample is in receipt OF a
letter from Omaha which states that
enc OF the white stockholders in the
Golden Chest mine has been offered a
block OF Goldfield shares OF four times
the number for his holdings in the
Golden Chest The offer was refused
roint blank. for the owner predicts
that before a year stock In the Colo
rado mine will be away above par.
Mr., Sample informs us that the
emergency stock is being rapidly COB
bled up by buyers who know good
thing In mines.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-03-08
DEE

John Leslie Travers. the beloved
son OF Mr.. and Mrs. John W. Travers.
died Of scarle, fever. Sunday morning.
March ,, age 2 years. II months and
20 days. Little Leslie Was exception
ally bright, and won the hearts of ali
who knew him. The grictstrickcn
parents have the sympathy of large
number OF friends and aoquiintances.
The Moral offerings were many and
beautiful; several kilograms OF sym.
pathy were also received. Interment
was at Fairmount cemetery Monday.
March 4. 2:30 p. m. Mr.. q G. Gilmore
in charge.
Mrs. Turley rendered suitable
vocal selection. AT the cemetery. Rev.
Dyett spoke a few brief words of con.
ISOLATION.
Franklin's paper the statesman., 1907-03-08
THE POND LllllES

The Pond Lily Art Club OF Harman
met at the home OF Mrs. T. J. Harris.
56S Clayton street. Nine members
we're present. Remarks by the pres.
ident, Mrs. L. Walton. on the progress
of the club. Solo by Mrs. +. J. Harris,
Piano solo BY Miss Gilberta Walton.
A pleasant time for all. The club will
meet at the home Of Mrs.. NJ. Peoples,
.s?s East Fiftb, avenue.
MRS. L. WALTON, Pres
MISS GlLBHR1A WALTON. Sec.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
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For Sunday Reading, ]
Al Sorts Of Opinions. !
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Suggestive.
John D. Rockefeller Jr.'s bible class
in the Fifth Avenue Baptist church is
in need of money to meet it's expenses
for the coming year, and a letter has
been sent out to each member with
the treasurer's report showing bal
ance on hand of $70.61. Officers make
no secret of the fact that Mr.. Rookie
feller's presence as leader brought
large attendance and his absence has
reduced the class seriously. On the
other hand, however, they are glad to
think that the undesirable" members
will remain away and the good and
sincere ones stay. Il was pointed out
by an officer of the class today that
Of membership of 400 Is per cent
had applied for places in the Stand
ard Oil company. Last Sunday the
attendance was seventy-five, or one
half what it usually is at this time of
the year. If it goes much lower it is
the intention of some of the old mem
bers to have meeting, requesting Mr..
Rockefeller's return to the leadership
Church Replies to Miss Smith.
When Miss Laura A. Smith, whose
tests of churchly cordially were con-
sidered in our issue for September la,
turned from the ''Effete East to test
the hospitality Of churches nearer the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
Topics Of the Times

No reports have come in from the
balloon race of bystanders killed or
farmers teams frightened into run
Always.
Bostons Old Home Week is reported
to have been failure. It's pretty hard
to make a western man see anything
land week seems to have been highly
successful, but there is wide differ
ence between terrapin and a lecture
on TRANSPORTATION and between eye
glasses and the kind used freely all
over Maryland during the "home week. y
The president need feel no surprise
over his reception by the south. A man
who can hunt and will fight if he is
crowded, could always get along pretty
well south of Mason's and Dixons.
sss
Seem that he's Alice's husband no
strong objection would be raised by
the people if the president sent him to
Germany as 81 leading representative
of the United States. bald headed
man smooth enough to capture Alice
must have some talent for diplomacy.
The Marshalltown Times Republican
continues to have all the other state
dailies beat mile on Iowa news, be-
sides giving its readers all the rest of
: ii. i,,.Y nf tho world The
I. r.. probably has twice as many sub
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
LOOKER.ON In IOWA !

Belmont, Oct 26.-One day last week
business called the writer out to
farmers place near MarshalltoWn
Naturally after the transaction of the
business the scribe and the farmer
talked some. And as the farmer was
prosperous, he explained why. Said he
there's about 300 chickens Matched out
in April that my wife now sells in
town after she dresses them. at 30
cents each We get 20 cents dozen
for all the eggs we have and more
wanted by the town folks. There's
some ducks the wife sells at Is cents
each, dressed, and those geese will
bring me s1.25 each, any time we take
them to town. l have forty hogs
weighing over 900 pounds that can get
S u cents for any time. Am only feed
ing twenty head of steers this year
and am sure of cents if not better.
Yes, I sold pair oil horses last week
for 1925: had more than l needed. But
ter? Well. me don't make much only
for a few families that are willing to
pay 80 cents a pound: not more than
fifteen or twenty pounds a week.
We've got to have good prices when |
can sell all Of the Lay can spare at
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
The Preachers Salary.

Reports received by The Tribune
from ten Of the Methodist Episcopal
conferences in Illinois and neighboring
states show that the question of high
er salary for the average minister OF
that church has reached a crisis.
The generally expressed opinion is
that religious work soon will suffer
for lack of preachers unless salaries
are raised. In many of the conferences
Just held there was an exodus of
preachers from the pulpit to enter bus
mess life.
The higher salaries movement was
discussed and advocated at practically
all the conferences.
From the Des Moines conference,
held recently at Council Bluffs, Iowa,
comes the report that 81 of the 217
pulpits are vacant because of the in
sufficient salaries paid to the preach
ers. Ten years ago there were more
PREACHERS than pupils in this confer
ence.
Salaries have been advanced about
500 each during the last four years,
but this increase-which has not kept
pace with the increase in cost of 1iy-
ing-has failed to stem the ministerial
stampede into business life.
Five withdrawals from the ministry
were reported at the northwest Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
MORNING AND EVENING DAILlEs.

The Register and Leader, Whlcn Is
printed as Il morning newspaper, thus
compares morning and evening news
papers to it's own apparent advantage:
The evening newspaper is properly d
news bulletin. 1t takes the world
where the morning newspaper leaves
off, and issues hourly announcements
or bulletins during the day. 1T is a
newspaper of headlines because in the
busy season of the day headings are
all that will be read. The morning
newspaper gathers all the news of the
day. with ample time in which to ar
range and classify. gives a summary
Of the worlds progress. Compared
with the great morning newspapers
the best evening newspaper Is meas.
ured accurately by it's price, which Is
uniformly half.
In Iowa, where the Register and
Leader is naturally circulated. its
comparison fails to hold. In the met
ropolitan centers where evening pa
pers begin issuing editions at 10
o'clock in the morning and continue
to issue almost hourly bulletin sheets
thru the day, it's criticism of the even
ing paper applies to some extent and
It's praise of the morning paper is more
or less justified But in Iowa it is diff
ferent. The evening dailies of Iowa are
not bulletins but balanced newspapers.
complete, and satisfactory Eight
tentlis of all the Register and Leader
publishes in the morning has been car
ried to the supper tables of subscribe
ers to evening papers. The morning
paper is a story that has been told
or continuation of a story, more and
often unnecessary detail is added to
news already exploited The evening
paper is a today's paper, the morning
paper Yesterdays. Comparison is
proverbially odious and often invidi-
GUS In Iowa at any rate the evening
papers can afford to refrain from IN
dividual instance and comparison.
They are not on the defensive. They
ti<tN Y 81 anu ECiiSAtShaS sas' NANN
culation as the morning papers of
the state. They are well arranged
and classified Such an excellent
morning paper as the Sioux City jour
nails supplies an evening edition and
an evening paper published in the
same city has a very wide and general
circulation. The same is true in the
city of Des Moines, where three even
ing papers exist and prosper. two of
which enjoy circulations as wide and
larger than the single morning paper.
tit is useless to tell Iowans that they
should prefer one paper or another.
They know what they want and when
they get 1T.
There is room in the state for both
morning and evening publications.
They should not and need not quarrel.
Evening papers, at any rate, have no
cause for complaint in Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26

conference. held at Sioux City, and
the sa-ae reason was given in every
caSe--iusufficient pay.
The topic was exhaustively dis
cussed at the Indiana conference at
Columbus. Speakers read statistics
showing that the cost of living had In
creased 40 per cent in the last few
years, but there had been less than 10
per cent increase in salaries.
Seventy ministers withdrew from
this conference to enter lay pursuits.
Invariably they said they preferred the
preachers life to u business career,
but tie obligation to support their
families in decency" caused them, they
said, to decide In favor Of business.
Resolutions favoring higher pay for
the preachers We're adopted by the lay
conference of southern Iowa at Bur-
lingtor.
Frorn the Wisconsin conference at
Milwaukee comes an especially pessi-
mistic report. Salaries there have not
increased at all in the last decade or
so. H. was revealed that twenty pas
tors In this conference receive less
than $500 a year, and, at that each
breaches in two different villages every
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26

| 80 a ton. have only eighty acres of
corn stalks for my cattle to run in. so
viii not sell much hay. When 1t comes
to feeding more than one car load of
steers don't know what to do. | shall
crib over 1000 bushels of corn, but at
| so cents don't know whether to sell
or feed 1t, If it goes to 60 cents, as
| some expect, shall sell Yes. apples
are fair price this year, we've sold
sixty bushels al dollar a bushel. but
! think I'll keep the others a while.
Storekeepers in Marshalltown are pay
Ing $3.50 a bushel for Washington
fancy apples. and my Jonathans are
fancy, too. We only put in eight acres
of potatoes, and will have to sell about
1000 bushels. Have already sold them
for 55 cents. Yes, its work, but we
have no children, so my wife
helps good deal. OF course have to
hire some help. but don't keep man
regularly, I tell you when it comes t.
paying man $50 month and board
1t runs into money. No, I wouldn't
sell my farm at hundred dollars an
acre. Don't know what I'd do with the
money unless l bought another farm
and this place suits us.
SO
And the writer went back to town.
That evening he called on young
man who has a wife and two children
Has an income, salary Of $1,000 per
year And these people talked too.
Yes. rents were high. they paid $50 a
month Had to sell his horse and cow
couldn't stand the pressure with hay
on IN nrl ,,,{1
was going to 8 cents a quart Novem-
Der ! because of state inspection law
so perhaps better have kept the COW.
But when one paid 80 cents for but
ter. 25 cents for eggs, so cents for
chickens. rs cents for potatoes, all
fruit and other vegetables higher than
for years. they had to economic some
way Why rubbers and shoes We're %
cents pair higher than last year. Dry
goods cost ever so much more. PAID
a dollar dozen more for the
same. quality of napkins than
when first married. They laid up some
money the first three years they were
married, but this year with the same
salary it would all go, and more too,
IL they had doctors bills to pay. Lucky
we've some and 10 cent shows in
town or we would never go anywhere
We actually do not go to church be-
cause we can't afford it. Used to give
$40 a year regularly, but had to cut 1t
out. Ten cent cigars: why I don't
know how they taste now. I hit the
pipe and plug tobacco is good enough
for me. Oh, yes, these are bully
good times, for the farmers and BUSH
ness men, but not for me, with the
same income as five years ago. Both
of us are going without many things
we had a few years ago. hated to
sell that horse, about the only recrea-
ton l had driving around town even
ings.a. Think, I'll vote the democratic
ticket this fall. These republican good
times are not half what they are
cracked up to be-"
And as the writer walked slowly
home, he could not help wondering
how to fix up things, so that good
times would suit everybody
- "a MeuLAA
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26

centers where cordially is thought to
abound, she was certain that the
churches of the middle west would Of
fer her such welcome as to dispei
any unpleasant Impressions left by
eastern churches. But Cleveland Chi
cago, st. Louis, and Cincinnati, ac-
! cording to her account in The Ladies'
Home Journal (October), seemed to
stand bravely by their confreres in the
east. Not Cleveland pastor gave
her word of welcome. Out Of the
evelen churches that she visited IN
that city, only one-the First Church of
Christ, Scentist--had people who
spoke" to her. Here she was greeted
by three. Chicago was in the same
ease. Ministers and laymen ignored"
her: but in three churches she was
greeted by women, In eight she was
lLnoticed. st. Louis pastors We're like
wise oblivious Of her presence She
was Completely ignored in eight
churches" but one woman in the
Church of the Messiah, Unitarian,
spoke to her voluntarily" and two
ushers in the Second Presbyterian
church Certainly" did the donors of
their church" OF Cincinnati we read:
when | counted over my Cincinnati
treasures of kindly greetings this was
the score: One minister in Trinity
Methodist Episcopal church. one Wom-
an in ST. Paul's cathedral, one woman
and two men in Wesley Methodist
Episcopal chapel-fve persons in three
churches. l visited nine churches here,
receiving no welcome whatever in six
of them
Taken all together the record stands
thus:
81 had now visited forty-one church,
es in the middle west and had been
ignored in thirty-two of them. / had
been spoken to in nine. One clergy
man, the Rev. II. d. Ketcham. spoke
to me in Trinity Methodist Episcopal
church, Cincinnati. did not receive
a single word of greeting or Cod
bless-you of dismissal from the p
tors in forty churches. Fourteen of the
church members had spoken to me in
nine churches"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
MEAT CONSUMPTION DECREASING.

A report issued by the department
of agriculture that Americans are eat
ing much less meat than they used to
do.
In 1910, according to the figures
meat constituted about one-half the
national dicta~y in terms of total nu-
titive units consumed. Now, however
meat is only about one-third. Amer
leans eat, per capita, 1856 pounds OF
dressed meat every year, consuming
$40 pounds of vegetables and all 9TH
er foods. Only two countries in the
new world exceed this meat con-
sumption. Australia, which eats 263
pounds per capita, and New Zealand,
which cats PIG pounds. Meat constf-
tutes only 46 pounds of the total con-
sumed in Italy, and 70 pounds in
France. Englishmen eat 121 pounds
of meat every year.
No alarm need be awakened by these
figures. When an individual has eaten
his own weight and more of meat
within year some indulgence in fruit
and cereals would seem to be hygenic
and sensible.
Decrease in meat eating has come
about largely thru the ability to get
fresh fruits at all times of the year.
Hundreds of families supply the place
of meat on the table with fruit in it's
season. Then too, the cereal foods
that have been invented and are pre-
pared in such convenient fashions
have cut into the butchers trade.
However, we are eating about ali
the meat we can afford. Neither beef
nor pork, poultry nor mutton, are
drugs on the market, or cheap to the
purchaser. While we eat 1856 pounds
of dressed meats per annum the live
stock industry need not fear oblitera-
ton.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26

scribers in this, Franklin county, as all
other daily papers ombined.--Hamp-
ton Chronicle.
England is thinking of running bat
tIeships with oil as fuel. Should she
run them at the United States our
navy will guarantee to not leave q
grease spot of them.
Mrs. Scrapcigh They say, my dear
that the new rubber plant, the Ficus
pandurata is extremely beautiful. 1T
has "A glossy veined leaf. -
Mr.. Scrapleigh twho has strained
his back Juggling the house plants
around)-l don't care anything about
It's glossy veined leaves. What does
the dunn thing weigh?--Cleveland
Plain Dealer
Would you expect farmer WIN an
eighty acre field of unhusked corn to
nav much attention to the row in Wall
street?
"Of course he has barrels of money
now. altho early in life he had quite a
checkered career
well. no one need complain OF
checkered career in the beginning so
long as it's echequered in the end.
Philadelphia Press.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26

county attorney fails to prosecute a
the assembly given the executive
council power to remove delinquent
county attorneys the governor might be
criticised along with its other members
but no one with lick of sense and
honesty will ask the chief executive
to call out the militia to stop a mid
night saloon or quell fight between
two citizens.
In all the three terms of the present
state administration no newspaper OPP
posed to it has been able to point to a
crooked act or derelict move. The
howl going up from the politically
syndicated Iowa press is the last re-
sort 1t is another attempt to smirch
by Islander a record that is impregna-
BILE to straightforward assault. 1t is
the ward heeers story circulated with
out regard to truth in the hope thai
some one will believe it. Why Is the
Journal so deeply concerned over az
fairs at Davenport while Sioux City is
the Wickedest city between the two
rivers? Why does it magnify condi-
tons at Davenport while editorially
glozing over the illegal selling of liq-
uor and the shameful shows of it's own
Interstate fair. Did it attack gambling
while gamblers owned Sioux City?
Does it ever call for cleaning out of
the dens OF, infamy that multiply in
Sioux City? Why this sudden interest
in illegality the width of the state
away?
Simply this: Some issue must he
raised, some ground laid for attack.
There are in Iowa as elsewhere some
few votes that my thus be gained or
at least diverted The very newspa
pers that We're most pronounced over
the possibility Of "bayonets in the
streets of Davenport" as a result OF
state marshals law are the ones who
are demanding military force to ac-
complish what any county attorney
can do in any county of Iowa. 1t is
Infinitely to the governors credit and
the splendid administration that be-
gan with his assumption of the execu
tive office and has continued thru his
incumbency that his enemies are driv-
en- to such extremity to find cause of
complaint against him.
1t is strange that the Sioux City
Journal should lend itself to ward
heeler's game. 1t knows better. Moth
ing that the Cedar Rapids Republican
might do should occasion surprise or
scarcely regret.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
AS TO STATE INTERFERENCE.

The Sioux City Journal quotes an
editorial from the Des Moines Register
and Leader to the effect that the state
has the power to interfere in the Id
uor prosecutions at Davenport and
force submission to the mulct law. 1t
quotes from local story in the same
paper the assertion that under the
present limitations the governor Is
not empowered to interfere unless in
case of riot sufficiently dangerous to
warrant calling out the state militia.
It is not the first time there have been
apparent discrepancies between local
stories and editorial. However, there
is not SO much difference between the
Register and Leaders statements as
the Journal would impress.
For days and weeks Cedar Rapids
paper has been calling loudly for the
governor to interfere at Davenport.
Just what it would have him do no one
knows, probably least of all the post
master and stand pat appointees who
are writing the editorial demand upon
the governor because they have been
told to do so. The Journal is helping
some The Burlington Hawkeye is do
ing what it may under the fear Of a
possibility that interference might not
stop at Davenport once it were started.
The chorus is going up from the same
bunch of newspapers that have reg
ularly given harmonious tongue at the
signal Of the anti-C ummins fugleman.
The whole thing is so small and of so
distinctly ward heeler type that 1t
is scarcely worth notice.
What are the conditions at Daven-
port? Bad enough. Some men have
been hooted in the street over lot
of liquor prosecutions and some
threats of violence have been made.
one editor has attacked and struck
with a cane the man most prominent
in the legal proceedings against the
saloons The editor is an old man by
the way Illegal saloons run in Dav
export with the consent and approval
of a considerable number of the resi-
dents of the city. All this is bad
enough, 1t is a blot upon Davenport and
in defiance of law. But shall the gov
ernor send troops? Would any man Of
common sense and without Interior
motive counsel soldiers in the streets
of Davenport or Carroll and military
law within its boundaries because d
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
BETTER THAN SPANKING

Spanking does not cure children OF
bed-wetting. There is constitutional
cause for this trouble. Mrs. M. Sum
mers. Box w, Notre Dame, Ind, Will
send free to any mother her success
full home treatment, with full instruc-
lions. Send no money, but write her
today if your children trouble you in
this way Don't blame the child, the
chances are it can't help it. This treat
ment also cures adults and aged peo-
pie troubled with urine difficulties by
day or night
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
Thew Make You Feel Good.

The pleasant purgative effect exper-
fenced by all who use Chambeflain's
Stomach and Liver Tablets, and the
healthy condition of the BODY and
nina which they create makes one feel
joyful. Price, rs cents. Samples free
At all drug stores.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-26
Wonders of Science

The seismograph in the office Of the
signal service bureau indicated a slight
disturbance of the earth's crust some
where or other.
Probably the falling Of the Knox
boom" contectured the attendants.