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The herald and news. [volume] (Newberry S.C.) 1903-1937, 1908-11-10
Greetings From Wofford.

luel1 lut clltllS E)ldIll' elll1i tAlS otA w
which was then a long road dotteo
with a few scattering houses is now
an avenue almost lined with resi-
dences leading to the college. And it
gives me great satisfaction to set
that the prosperity Of the town has
been shared by the college. It has
grown to Importance, and to me one
thought on this occasion is that moth
ing could be better and for the higher
interest both to the city and the col
lege than that tthe property Of New
berry should always be reflected in
and shared i'm by the college, and thai
the great, deep, broad work of the
college ought to be reflected in the
higher, better and stronger life OF
the city. The democratic candidate
for vice-president. Kern. recently
visited the city Of Spartanbrug ana
in speaking to a citizen he said as
lie pointed to the towers Of Wofford
COLLEGE: There is the best thing l
nave seen in this town. I live in a
college town. So one could come
and stand on high site near New
berry and pointing to the towers OF
Newberry college say: There is the
best thing in this town. As [ sat
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
Topics of the Times.

Governor Hughes expresses the
idea that Bryan would cease to be
great in politics the moment he ceased
to be repudiated. Governor Hughes is
an extremely thoughtful man. This Is
true Of Mr. Bryan. His political pop
ularity is built on f1imsy foundation.
! The latest traveller to traverse Thib-
ct evidently knew where to Hedin.
1t would be redundant to, recall Sen
ator Foraker's bitter opposition to the
rate law and other square deal meas
sures. Every one will think Of ii with
out reminding. The worst is people will
say II told you So" Even Roosevelt.
1t is going to be decent senatorial
campaign because there isn't flaw in
the political, congressional or private
character of Major John r. Lacey on
which to hang a word of personal
criticism. Burlington Hawkeye.
1t is going to be decent campaign
because things have come to the pass
that the newspapers which have slam
dered Cummins are either afraid, or
under orders not to do it any more.
Mr.. Bryan still believes in the old
and heaven born ratio. But he isn't
urging free coinage now. In fact 1t Is
to be presumed from appearances at
Lincoln that Mr.. Bryan is daring the
government to keep on pressing the
thorny crown of accumulated prosper
ity down upon his brow and only
winks the other eye at a golden cru
cifixion.
Mr. Taft will soon be in Iowa Come
on, Bill we're glad to see you and you'll
be pleased with the crops. The repub-
lican majority in Iowa has been out of
the way of the frost for two weeks.
When an aviator comes down he
lights Just as hard as common hot
air bailoonist.
The aeroplane opens the season as a
dangerous competitor against football
for top of the casualty column.
Speaking of American enterprise
what do you know about that organi-
zation for the purpose of robbing. har-
vest hands returning from the Dako
tas?
Giles-Poor Lambly is badly Grip
pied Had an operation performed on
him.
You don't say. Was tho oper-
alton successful?
Giles-very 1t was Wall Street OPP
GRAFTON. Chicago News.
The October number Of seribner's
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
yuie+ e,atira1 rslalltorut iul1 srptenher y 1908

the names Of few dead men on the
Review list. We admit 1t and we are
glad of it and proud of it.
The Review is the old--old paper
Back in its file you find the wedding
notice that told of the forming of a
new home out on the prairie. 1t is an
old home now. but once 1T was the
honeymoon nest of happy lovers.
| 1t was soon after the wedding no.
tice that the Review gained a new
subscriber. Both his family and her
family took the paper, and when
they set up housekeeping for them
selves 1t s1amed mighty lonesome,
after all, without the old paper every
week. and then. too, it. lent new dig
nifty to the young folks to have the
paper come in their own name.
BY and by there was a birth notice
in the Review and as the years passed
there were others Once there was
death notice. and mother has that pa
per laid away with lock of sun
shiney hair And the years passed
and the good old paper kept on com
ing. The boys and girls got married
and kept the paper themselves in
their own homes but 1t was a comfort
to father to have a paper of his own.
And finally, in the fullness of time,
father died 1t was noble death
after life CT goodly deeds. And the
old Review had fathers picture in it
and said some things that were, after
all, a comfort, because they were true
and because the Review had sort OF
grown up with father and knew him
from the old days; knew more about
him than a stranger could, who saw
in him only a broken down old man,
a stranger who knew nothing of the
splendid youth. the valiant middle age.
Since father died things haven't
been the same to mother. She seems
to be living in the past and to be
waiting with a patient sweetness for
the end to come. And sometimes In
the evening she sits out on the porch
with the paper in her hand and as she
sees the dear old name on the yellow
label, fathers name, that has never
been changed, tear of loving memory
CLEANS an instant, then trickles slow
~ down her withered cheek. Some
times we wonder IL she does not see
father sitting there in the chair just
opposite, his slippered feet up on the
rail, reading with solemn affection
the sonorous sentences of the kindly.
thoughtful editorials Of his friend and
advisor old ~. Fred" No, they
would not have the name changed
for good DEAL AS long as mother
lives the paper will come in the dear
old name, and as long as mother lives
1t will be paid in advance the same
week of every year. Yes, yes. 1t is
true, the names of the departed. God
bless them, have not all been stricken
from the roll of the Review.
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ing to do with them? Certainly with
the knowledge of what they are ana
the possibilities of disease and death
they carry he does not dream of selling
them for food or as mich cows
One more question: How many such
cows are spreading the horror of the
white death unknown to their owners
and their patrons? How many are be-
ing shipped or sold as soon as their
owners discover that they are IN
fected? How many are bought and
blocked by butchers where inspection
is not the law of the city? What shall
the harvest of death and suffering be?
(One-tenth of all deaths in the United
States are accredited to tuberc,ilosis.)
And how shall the men who sell hui
man lives for the price of pound OF
flesh or of pint of milk answer their
consciences and still their fears when
they lie down to die?
One of the historical horrors asserted
and denied of the great civil war is
the charge that southern sympathizers
sent clothing infected with yellow fever
germs into the north. The utter saw
agery of the alleged act has caused 1t
to be disbelieved. But in comparison
how does he stand who deliberately,
in peace and for pitiful profit scat
tiers tuberculosis among those who
have given him at least part of their
confidence?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
HEALING FROM The INSIDE.

A cartoon in the Philadelphia Record
which is doing good democratic service
turnout the land is a picture Of Joe
Cannon huge and magnificent, filling
the speakers chair of the house of rep
resentatives while he holds his thumb
securely on the diniutive figure of Vice
President Sherman squatted III the
chair of the president Of the senate.
The argument is that Sherman was
one Of Cannons lieutenants in the
house and may be expected to make
the senate as much standpat as the
house was In the thick of the cam
paign the democrats look upon the re-
dictionaries in the republican party as
its most vulnerable parts.
The diagnosis Is Incorrect in that 1t
is assumed that the republican party
has not within itself the recuperative
power to correct most of its own weak
nesses For instance at the very mo-
ment that this charge of Joe Cannon's
control Of both branches of congress is
made the people at their primaries are
retiring members of Joe Cannon's
phalanN and putting in their places
progressive republicans fast enough to
put Mr.. Cannon in danger of losing his
control Of one house to say nothing of
both And at the same time the face
of the senate is changing by the re-
publican process. There will be enough
progressive republicans in the senate
next year with Taft to lead them in
the White House to make the whole
republican program progressive one.
The democratic cartoon is based upon
an unWillingness to see the new con-
ditions which have arrived. If we had
nominated Joe Cannon for president,
and had adopted standpat platform
at Chicago, there might be room for
the argument. The republican party is
progressive now and the democrats
ought to recognize it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
Outside Point of Wen

Grinnell.-The selection of ex-Con-
gresham Lacey as the man to defeat
Cummins is the most harmonious prop
position vet offered. 1t is body blow
for the democrats who where to con-
troll the next legislature. In this local.
ity IT virtually ends the knitting of
candidate Grier which was seriously
talked of a week ago. Democratic can
didate Platt's great hopes are blasted.
The standpatters now will not vote for
the prohibition candidate for the leg
islature in hopes of beating Cummlns
by defeating the republican candidate
Grier Why this great change of heart?
Simply because the standpatters have
hopes great or small that Lacey will
win the primary and il he should win
out it will be necessary to have a re-
publican legislature, since under no
circumstances will the democrats vote
for Lacey for United States senator.
If this condition exists all over the
state. Major Lacey's nomination was
strategic move greatly to be COM
mended. And it must be said to the
credit of the Herald, the standpat
semi weekly published here, that even
before Lacey was brought out, both ed
itors, Ray and Haines, were open in
their decision to support Grler for the
Legislature, "even if he did vote for
Cummins" And sanguine repub-
licans hope for Nate KendalPs
election His action in the leg1s-
lature should commend itself to both
wings Of the republican party. There
is a great big republican majority In
the Sixth district if they all get to-
gether.
Never before were the flowers in the
Grinnell park as well arranged or
causing so much favorable comment.
Some one is running the flower show In
Grinnell city park who knows how.
Passengers on the C., r. !. & T.. rail-
road trains especially notice them and
tell their friends what a nice looking
town Grinnell is But somebody col
-lectively or individually is much be-
hind the times and the flower show in
the park In not providing seats in the
park for strangers and town people.
They have fine shade trees, a we'll kept
sod, nice paths, nag pole, band
stand but many of us would like to
sit down and stay a while.
M+
The trunk show at the depot the day
the students return is a striking sight
and suggests the origin of much of the
prosperity of the city of Grinnell. The
platform for two hundred feet is piled
two to four trunks on top of one an
other No ordinary baggage room hold
them, ard SO they remain out on the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
peDDliNG THE WHITE DEATH.

The experience OF the mayor OF
$ MarshaIltown in his effort to secure
.ow known to be affected with tuber-
sulosis, furnished the most complete
praise and justification for the ordi-
nance compelling inspection of all
meats and the tuberculin test for all
herds supplying milk to residents OF
the city AS reported, the mayor To-
Gated cows which had been tested and
condemned by the test. The farmer re-
( fused to sell one of these cows, unfit
for food and a present danger on the
farm and to the community, at the
price she was worth as fertilizer and
q, big bonus added to the Offer The
iowa, state veterinarian suggested pro-
CURING a hog that had followed these
cows. One was secured from the far
mer who refused to sell the COW. Elk
animation confirmed the expectations
Of the veterinarian. The hog was put
rid with tuberculosis.
The incident naturally arouses COM
ment and question. The first horrible
suggestion that presents itself is; If
pig following these cows is practically
certain to be infected what chance has
baby against the milk from tuber-
culous cows? How many little children
are being fed from living cesspools of
tubercular infection? Into how many
homes is death being introduced and
dallfed with morning and night by the
milkman? 1t is terrible thing that a
mother must fear that with her own
hand she may be poisoning and de-
stroying the child she would give her
life for.
Another query that irresistibly sug-
gests itself is: why does that farmer
keep those wells of infection refusing
to sell them for an extraordinary price
where they can be used for good in
stead OF fer harm What rs he intend
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
Iona Newspapers
HIGHEST PRICE FOR A FARM.
(Dysart Reporter)

This week the deal was completed
Whereby Andrew krambeck of ED
ridge. Scott county. purchased Of F.
G. Welben his S0-acre farm west of
the Dysart Brick and Tile factory.
paying therefor $3.50 per acre, This is
an excellent piece of land, with a fine
large house on 1t, but the other build
ings are only ordinary. The new own
err, who is half-brother to Frank
Kuehl, will take possession the first
of next March, and will begin making
improvements on the place at once.
He is a first class farmer and will
make this model farm.
As an instance of the rapid rise In
land values in this section of Iowa,
this particular farm shows up in the
lead. Twelve years ago Oscar Casey
bought the farm from Claus STACK,
paying $50 per acre for it. Mr. Casey
owned it four years. putting on nearly
all the improvements which it now
contains, and then sold 1t to p. C..
Weber for 500 per acre. which was
considered an enormous price then.
Mr.. Weber has owned the farm eight
years, has put on no improvements
ment besides his crops. In other
words the farm has just doubled in
twelve years--from $50 to $3.50 per
acre. And this isn't the limit-s200
per acre land will prevail in this gar
den spot of the world in less than ten
years. Land values have increased
near S25 per acre within the past
year. The owner of a good farm near
Dysart hardly dare put a price on 1t
--$125 per acre for the best farms Is
being repeatedly offered, and refused
by the owners, who don't care to sell.
Hold on to the good farms-the top
price has not yet been reached.
THE VACANT CHAIR.
(Denison Review
Just for the benefit of all concerned
wa GRO uoinr 40 admit that there are
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
.MacauIey in New York World.

the garden of Mrs. J. O. Warrington.
in the west part of town. They were
great big, luscious fellows, and one
measured eight inches In circumfer-.
ence II such peaches will grow on a
tree which sprung from stray peach
pit thrown away in the garden, what's
the reason that with proper culture
Iowa can't raise this fruit, instead OF
shipping it in from Michigan, Ohio or
Colorado? We understand that Mr.
Oberkamper, of Franklin township!
raised several bushels OF nice peaches
this year 1t is time the horticultur.
lists had an inning in these parts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
LOAFING ABOUT THE DEPOT.
Coon RanidS Enterprise)

(CCOn fdplQS EllleIpTlse.J
The crowd of girls that almost ev-
cry evening congregate at the station
to see the wheels go round Is not
inspiring or promising sight. Some OF
them are almost roWdies and some of
them represent some of best families
in town, whose parents are no doubt
wholly ignorant where their girls are
or what they are doing. A few even
ings since the Enterprise editor saw
two girls flirting with a negro porter,
wildly gesticulating their arms at him
as tho they might be throwing kiss
es. 1T was great sport for them. An
other girl at another time said to her
girl companion as a freight brakeman
passed, "My I love that fellow and
the brakeman overheard her. And
these girls who are here mentioned
are nice, respectable girls Of good fam
lilies. How long will 1t be until some
of them will be ruined and when this
occurs who will be responsible, the girl
or the parents? Girls ought to know
and; parents ought to know that the
general opinion of girls who perpetual
ly flock about the depot is not good.
Girls have no business there unless at
the station to meet friends who are ex-
pected to arrive. They are often
nuisance to depot employees as well as
trainmen, blocking the platform to
such an extent as to being in the way.
Such girls are called girl loafers ana
certainly are such. Self respecting
girls should keep away. But we pre-
sumo this article will do little good.
Every parent will no doubt say: This
hasn't reference to our daughter Our
girls wouldn't do anything like that"
Well don't be too sure. Your girl may
be the worst in the bunch. You'd bet
ter know where they are of evenings
and Just what they are doing.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22

platform over night, sometimes two
nights before incoming students find
out where they are to stop at. Such
a business is this trunk deal that in
addition ito the regular baggage wagon
servicey students hire teams and be-
come baggage smashers for the time
being They even go out of town two
or three stations, board the trains and
secure the checks of the students on
the train. And it requires but little
Imagination, to suggest that each trunk
owner. Will leave several dollars in
Grinnell before the valued parchment
is extended. Speaking of students and
colleges. If there ever was hope
stamped on the human face, 1t stands
out on these students faces. One hears
it in the, conversation. Everything is
in the future. It's what eve are going"
to do. And not will word be added
here to destroy these Illusions. Anoth-
er thing noticeable is the change In
some things, in college government
comparing with twenty years ago. Now
a student that does not abuse the priv,
ileges can play game of billiards IN
a public room and not be expelled.
Now a student can smoke a pipe or
cigar, even a cigaret and not be sent
home. The line is drawn on smoking
on the public streets stu another
thing strikes the observer. There are
more young men and women, ladies
and gentlemen If you prefer, not go
many girls and boys in evidence. And
if clothes, general appearance, and an
easy way of spending. 1t is an indica-
AZ ,.1n,, ~. 1,,t
more money than formerly, that Is
their parents have. Grinnell gets much
trade from their manufacturing en-
ployes, they have a big out of town
trade, the farmers come long distances
to trade here. but six hundred students
in town manage directly and indi-
rectly to Distribute much money in
year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
DOES rHE SALOON "HELp Bus,nEss"a

Space is given on this page of the
T.-R. today to an extended extract
from the Dry Goods Reporter, trade
journal Of high repute, which is ask
! ing representative merchants in cities
and towns over wide area as to the
state of trade under wet and dry
conditions. 1t is not to be assumed
that the Dry Goods Reporter is con-
aucting prohibitory or even tenn
perance campaign, but that 1t Is ask
Ing a very important question con-
q tected with the trade Of which it is the
accredited journal and which 1t is
anxious to promote. It is simply the old
uuestions: do saloons help trader
'.Do the saloons pay the business
1 man?" Just a cold business proposition
i Of getting the trade and the profit on
trade. The letters from the dry goods
j men are interesting and to most of us
i will seem conclusive; for in the close
analysis of the question we are all
likely to grant that the man who
spends q dollar a day at the saloon
ran not spend the same dollar for dry
goods and groceries.
Common observation supports the
/ correspondents of the Dry Goods Re
porter To adduce one instance. the
lows town making the greatest propor-
tionate growth in population in the five
years covered by the Iowa census of
1905 has never had saloon, and the
I original deeds of lots covered by the
original town plat contain forfeit
,ure clause in event that saloons should
( be operated on the property. The city
referred to is crowded with stores filed
with stocks equal to those carried by
cities twice and three times larger, is
growing daily, has factories of national
srepute and Importance and is what
business men (.dry' goods business
4 n1an) call "a cracking good town for
trade 4 Som ething more, a drive thru
that town with some person who knows
Sit and the townspeople will bring the
same establishment that came to a
MGrshalltown citizen who recently had
this experience. Why" said he, I
asked who lived in a house that par
ticnlarly attracted my attention, a
house worth about $4,000 should
Judge. .Soandso's foreman responded
my friend. In another house another
working man, a whole lot better house
] than mine too. a, Marshalltown man
ives there said my friend -naming one
had been well acquainted with. 1t was
I cracking good house and well kept"
when knew - he couldn't get
Lhsad. He spent too much time and
! inti-saloon town he's got as good a
,ouse az I have"
The fact is that the anti-saloon town
1 sears out the reputation given it by
me merchants who write to the Dry
foods Reporter. The conclusion is in
Witable; the saloon does not help
i srade. It hurts it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22

Magazine contains number of arti-
cles of life and adventure in the open
air appropriate to the hunting and
camping season. The frontispiece. In
color, is after drawing by N. C.
Wyetla, picturing a Navajo family ION
the October Trail"
1t may astonish many, but there is in
The United States today no such meas
ure as busllel. What is regarded as a
bushel in one state is pounds short of
that weight in an adjoining state.
The Dry Goods Reporter is not a
reform" organ but trade journal
hoping to assist trade in dry goods. Its
round up of opinion from merchants
published in today's issue argues the
less met good the more dry goods.
Read If
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22

just passed, the language Is far more
explicit, as follows: 1.-The candidate
receiving the highest number of votes
Of his party in the state shall be~the
nominee of his party for senator" This
is about as strong as words can make
it, but asa candidate for reelection
the editor of the Bee is perfectly will
ing to give, in addition, a pledge that
he will be bound absolutely by the
coming primary expression, and VIII
do all in his power to secure the cleo
ton of the candidate who gets the
most votes for senator, regardless OF
who he may be. He has already signed.
in company with a hundred other re-
publicans of both factions in the pres
ent assembly, an agreement to go back
In November and elect, for the short
term, the candidate who gets the pr1-
mary expression for the long term Let
nobody have the slightest misgivings
on this score with relation to the
member from Greene county, or in fact
regarding any other man in the iegis-
lature.
PEACHES IN. IOWA.
Jefferson Bee.)
The finest peaches we have seen TINS
vaar yyera raised on a. Seeding tree, in
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-22
rHIs rs GOOD.

Cedar Rapids Republican,
Mr.. Good republican candidate for
congress from this district, has all
ready entered upon the preliminary
work OF his speaking campaign. DUR
ing the next few weeks he will try
to visit all parts Of the district ana
wherever he will speak he will make
good with the republican voters. Mt.
Good is going to place his campaign
above personalities and above fac
lions. That is the winning keynote
this year.