Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-02
Topics Of the Times

| Mr.. Trewtin's campaign literature
blandly asserts that he voted for the
Temple amendment in 1902. This was
after such furore had been raised
in the state that both political parties
had been compelled to endorse it. When
it was up i'll 1897, Trewin headed the
| list of railroad senator's opposing it,
while Funk and Garst and Cheshire
land Healy and Gilbertson were all for
It.
The Times Republican employs thir-
| ty men and women in MarshalltoWn
and $50 correspondents in Iowa to
make it's newspaper sufficiently inter-
esting to cause people to read it. Adj
vertisers get the benefit of all this eff
| fort by putting their store news along
side of the news of the days affairs.
Jim Trewin's campaign literature
bragg about his honorable connection
with the code commission of Iowa, but
Jim Good licked him to standstill
permit a gas company to overcharge
the consumers of Cedar Rapids.
When Cummins appeared before the
Elkins committee as witness for the
people, the only friend he had on the
committee seemed to be Senator Dol
liver. Now the senator would make
~ e.,
game.
The Times Republican still asks to
be shown when Uncle Sam collects the
$29, 100000 fine from John D.
asa
Really. it's funny now to see Dolli-
yer and Trewin and others claiming
lation. The facts are Ex-Governor
Larrabee got Trewin to introduce his
resolution in the state senate, and
Trewin did it because he knew moth
Ing would come of it then. Later Lar
rabee's ideas were taken up by Cum
SAINT called on Roosevelt. Not a word
had as yet been heard from the Iowa
delegation. When Roosevelt had
stirred up the country and Cummins
had stirred up Iowa, Mr.. Dolliver got
in line
And now 1t is the old fashioned snow
fence that is to be relegated to obscur-
ity It is said that the Northern Pa
ellie railroad has ordered 100000 gold
en- willows for planting at exposed
places on that line. More than twice
that number were planted last year
on the brows of deep cuts and the re-
suit was satisfactory. The Great
Northern distributed 100000 trees of a
fast growing type along it's road last
year
The publisher Of weekly sheet IN
small Iowa town asserts that 500 copies
of his paper are taken by subscribers
who formerly lived in that vicinity. or
to distant friends of those now there.
Former residents of the state seem
never to lose interest In the old home.
Men who have travelled over four
nearby counties claim that the damage
by the late freeze to fruits is not near
ly so great as many have been led to
expect. Close observation shows that
of all trees in blossom the damage is
only partial. That frequently on the
same branch part of the blossoms are
turning black, while others are not
damaged in the least. So after all it
may only be natures method of pro-
viding quality that could not be 9TH
erwise obtained.
Adaptability of farming methods to
conditions as they are met rather
than any important climatic change,
accounts largely for the fact that re-
gions once considered arid are now
under profitable cultivation. Vast
tracts in the west have been converted
into farms by the process of dry farm
ing, which consists merely in keeping
the surface of the ground covered