Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-31
Topics of the Times.

!! There are eleven main travelled roads
leading out of Marshalltown. Two men
fifth four horses each and twelve foot
drags could drag these roads once each
way twice each week and eight miles
out at cost Of $3.50 per month. There
are 176 quarter section farms adjacent
to these roads and more than sixty
automobiles in town. If each farm
owner would pay 81 per month and
each auto owner $3.50 per month for
eight months eleven highways for eight
miles out of the city could be dragged
twice each week.
George washington. we feel con-
WINGED, would not care to be living
now While the age is more advanced
in many respects than was his, and he
would not have to go to the front to
save the nation, yet think what dis
comfort he would have to face in the
fact that the cherry season is over.
Considering the painful poverty
which now afflicts all the railroads in
the United States the payment of that
last $3,000,O00 instalment to the gov
eminent by the Union Pacific seems
like marvellous accomplishment.
The editor of the Pioneer has row
OF sweet peas 1876 feet long that pro-
duces a half bushel of beautiful BIOS
SONS every day. IL an Iowa tourist
went to California and saw such a
sight he would rave about it for
months-Ida Grove Pioneer.
The editor Of the T.-R. has row of
sweet peas just as long and a yield of
flowers just as big and he has two
rows Of nasturtiums Of similar length
but he would like to know Of the Ida
Grove man how to keep the everlasting
blossoms picked.
You may call Taft lot Of other
names besides Bill and he will not re-
sent it. He is entitled to secretary,
governor, judge and Mister, and is
making strong bid for president. If
he keeps on he will have as many til
ties as foreign potentate. with the
difference that he will have earned
them by distinguished service. Peace
full Bill" is indeed man of parts.
Drive out in the country and see for
yourself about how long this depress-
ion following panic can last.
They may charge the directoire gown
with duplicity but not with conceal
ment.
Mrs. Leslie Carter, the actress who
shamed her first husband twenty years
ago, and has ever since used his name
for advertising purposes, and who has
been in court in New York endeavor
ing to make herself bankrupt to
avoid paying her bills. says she simply
has to live. Right there's the pity of
it.
The Green Mountain farmer who can
take 1925 worth of potatoes off from
dig I'LL ia lVO y SesAo eAAA0 SAAS AAAoA
challtown farmer who can take $50
worth Of wheat off from one acre in
one crop do not worry about the high
price of land.
Taft received the momentous news
without collapsing. In fact he was SO
completely in control of himself that
he Immediately retaliated upon the
notification committee with several
thousand words of what he thought
about It.
.sIn multiture of counselors there
is safety" an old saw has it. Yet lot
consulted President Roosevelt about
his message. No great man in politics
ever makes rule of promulgating
statements without advisory consider
alton. And, too, if Taft had sprung
his message without letting the presi-
den in on it, he would have proved
himself an migrate to the man who has
done all within his power to give the
nominee national eminence
A walnut planted on the roadside
this fall will grow q tree that will pro-
duce several bushels Of nuts ten years
from now and equal an elm or a maple
as an ornamental tree while it is pro-
ducing nuts.
Barney oldfeld has been speeding
his Green Dragon in Iowa lately
which goes to show that his announce
ment to quit the racing game, made
when he and his wife had a spill which