Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-09-09
Topics Of the Times

Next week is fair week In Marshall
county. The county will furnish the
good livestock, the good nature ana
good people. II the powers that be VIII
furnish good weather.
In the fall the young mans fancy
turns to a light overcoat.
II Is astonishing how comparatively
comfortable the average man IS under
the telegraphers' strike.
The car has been compelled to draft
constitution governing Finland en-
tirely thru the diet. Good scheme too
Every good housewife knows how easy
1t Is.
Judge Lands has been fishing with
Grover Cleveland. dust what the two
are angling for is hothering the news
paper correspondents.
"The old Grecian spirit is not dead :
Artist Earles' neighhors put Oh the tar
ana ripped open a featherbed wh'ie
they waited for him to come home the
other night
George Burrier, paroled convict at
Clinton has been sent back to the
penitentiary to serve out his time. Hls
case is an illustration worth ponderins.
Burrer was known as pretty falr
sort Of man except under the inhu-
ence of drink His neiehbors and ac-
maaintances at Clinton claim tina: his
downfall was primarily due TO the
liquor habit III prison he was a mod
ell. decent, well behaved and prospect
OF good citizenship. He was paroed'
did we'll and lived right until he fell
again under the temptation OF drink.
Now he Is back In the penitentiary.
The saloon Is doing business at the OLD
stand Without conformation of Bur-
rier's crimes or any maudlin plea for
sympathy for a man who deserves
penitentiary sentence, has the com
munity been entirely fair to Burrier
when It permitted traps to multiply in
his path? How many like Burrier find
the fear of the penltentiary less pow
erful than the appetite for drink? And
IL we were to count the cost against
the income. ewhat profit has the COM
munity that sends its Blrriers to
states prison made out of it's saloon
revenue?
Harvey S. stiles. horticulturist
has made a discovery of great Interest
10 the people of The southwest. He
finds that dates of the choicest va
riety, rivaling the kind raised in Syria.
will grow in Texas in the territory
included in a triabe formed by line
drawn thru Laredo and Corpus Christi,
thence down to Brownsville and up
again to Laredo Mr., Stiles, went TO
Texas from California and began to
experiment. He found the female date
tree in the BROWNSVILLE country and
began a search for the male tree. He
discovered this and polinated
the two. AS result he raised 140
pounds on the three branches on one
tree, 1t now seems probable that the
date industry VIII prove great Ieeuer
for the Brownsville country.
Newpop (wearily)-It must be time
to get up, my dear
Mrs. Newpop -, Did you hear the
clock strike six?
Newpop-No. but the baby has fall
len asleep.--Chicago News.
The Whitney Reduction Company
the completion of the great
tofferdam, undoubtedly the largest in
the southern states. More than ST.
100000 has been spent in spanning the
YQadkin river thirty-one miles from
Salisbury, n. C. The dam is as feet
nigh and GIT feet long. The minimum
low Of wate, gives $4,000 horsepower,
second enls tc Niagara. On January
next year the water will be turned
Dill the turbines, and all the industries
within forty or fifty miles will be sup
plied With electrical power. The
Whitneys have contracted for 10000
horsepower. The plant will cost ST.
100000 complete.