Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-16
Topics of the Times

If Taft is nomiEa. sd, smother Ohi,
porch threatens to become as famous
as McKinley's did at Canton in 1896.
-aft's por il Is annexed to his Gaicin-
natl home, and he expects to spend
much of his time there this summer.
At Lake City, Isaac Manhoff, Rus,
sian. who has smoked forty cigarets
a day SO long that he estimates his
total consumption at million, cost
ing s$s,191, will quit, and advocate to-
tad. abstinence.
Mark Catlin, Iowa teams foot ball
coach, has become the father of boy.
andswill no doubt soon take to four
wheel coaching.
Des MONIES recently had fine May
festival with some noted singers She
is going to hear some more fine voices
this week, for the Iowa State Auc-.
tioneers' association meets in the cap
ital city.
Talk as you will, the horse is still
king of the road in and around Mar
sihalltown. He is frequently seen in
single harness pulling buggy with
three people on one seat, sometimes
four.
"A Pittsburg detective says If Carrie
Nation isn't CRATER, she must be
crazy Is this all the choice allowed
in Pittsburg?
Indeed, why should Governor Hughes,
a comparatively poor man. accept the
for vice president, when
John Flags Hammond stands by ready
with his bar'l?
At the state university at Iowa City
this week the commencement will have
as ssneakers and guests two unusually
prominent men. One, the Chinese min
lister, WI Ting Fang. is regarded In
this country as the most advanced man
of his race, while DR.. Washington
GLADDEN., for many years head of the
Chic State University at Columbus. is
the foremost opponent Of tainted
money" in the United States.
"Good morning said the claim
agent cheerfully to the patient with
broken leg and head in bandages. ~
have good news for you. Yes, sir. The
company feels sorry for you. 1t is
willing to forgive and forget. Soulless?
Why, man, it's all soul"
Ready to pay about five thousand?"
"N-no, not exactly that But l am
authorized to sign it's agreement not to
prosecute you for letting yourself get
thrown on the right of-way and block
ing rush-hour traffic."-Philadelph
Ledger.
AT a Duquesne, Pa. steel works a
crowd of workers, as practical joke.
inflated with air the. body of a COM
panion, with fatal results. 1t seems
more like a practical murder.
The mayor of Tampico, Mexico's
noted surf bathing resort, has barred
bathers from wearing suits of the
American cut That shows you that
the United States is the real land of
the free-too free, as to some bathing
suits.
With all the presidential timber
available at Chicago the republican
platform should lack nothing in the
way of planks
Looks like Pennsylvania was hope
iessly graft-ridden. The five men ac-
cused of the capitol crookedness have
been freed and there appear to be no
other suspected culprits available on
whom to fasten the guilt
Chicago is naturally noisy place
now with all those presidential
booms.
If silence is golden, lot of people
lose money in their sleep.
The button sewers may be the whole
thing in the household, but the button
sower is going to have considerable
sway this campaign year.
1t is appropriate that the nomination
of Frank kellogg. for SO long Mime
sofa counsel of the United States Steel