Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-18
Topics of the Times.

| Topics of the Times
The fellow who dislikes summer car
take consolation in the fact that tn,
grasshopper, cricket and butterfly are
getting numerous. They are early har-
bingers OF autumn
1t seems like an agreeably long per-
!! iod since anything was heard of Helie
and Anna, The more protracted the
period the better for the general pub
| lie.
A gentleman conducting retail
merchants association. fight against
catalog houses has figured 1t out that
one mail order concern will spend ST.
500. 900 to cover five states with its
catalogs. Will he please tell us, now
what the retail merchant is doing to
advertise his business?
$50
Once more Iowa gets touched for an
educator This time DR.. Mcneil of l.
S. G., goes to teach veterinary medi-
cine in Ohio universitys This emigra-
ton of the learned is only offset by
the immigration of people who think
Marshalltown Is the only place on
earth in which to live and this, OF
course, teaches us that there are COM
pensations.
At Estherville cooking club was
organized fifteen years ago among the
young women of the town. All the
members are married but three and
there has been only one death during
the life Of the organization. The mar
ital and mortality records of the club
are certainly a tribute to the culinary
Skill of the members.
The Sioux City Journal wants Cum
Minis to appoint some standpatter for
the vacancy in the name of harmony.
What good anti would the Journal sug-
gest?
Don't get sore at Taft because he
can not come to the state fair and
show himself. He's going to be a pref
ty busy man betwixt now and Novem-
her and has to attend to his knitting.
If he were to come to Iowa 1t would
result in an embarrassment by num-
erous other calls from folks who would
think they were entitled to the big
show as much as the Buckeye state.
No doubt that fire, at Jamaica made
the towns name more realistic than
usual for short period.
The question is where can we put
this senatorial issue SO as to let other
republican candidates out from under
it.
If. you want a house in Marshall
town and can't find one, and have not
sufficient means to buy or build one
independently, just make a noise. like
a building. association and it may not.
be long until you can get what you
are after. :s
After Independence bid $21,5oO for
the property of the Independence Mills
Co., which it would have used for mu-
nicipal lighting. and water pumping
the municipality got chill
in the pedal extremities and another
bidder carried away the plum at S22,-
900. =.
Every standpat daily in Iowa is
boosting for big attendance" at the
conference. What's the game, anyway,
boys?
AboveS the grave of a notorious lazy
man in q southern churchyard are the
words: sAsleep CAS- usuaD.'-sunday
Magazine.
M. d. Morgan, formerly owner of the
Butler County Tribune, and later
resident of Oregon in other business,
has re-embarked in the newspaper
business in that state. One finds 1T
mighty hard to break away if one has
been raised in it, and the call of the
wild is not a circumstance to the itch
ing that gets over a fellow who tries
to stay out of the scribbling game at
ter spending years at it.
There will be more excuse for loud
talk at a coming Waterloo convention
than at most such gatherings. The del
egates are to be deaf men.
William Williams barley field in
Boone county produced over so bush
els to the acre. 1t is probably safe to
assume that Mr.. Williams is not busy
talking politics just now.
Jim Blythe would rather have Claude
Porter for senator than Cummins and
plenty of Cummins republicans are
willing to let Porter have it if that Is