Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-30
Topics of the Times

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How can Hull tie up the Dallas coun-
ty returns from Prouty without tieing
them up for himself?
Governor Johnson's refusal to seek a
third term will help his future chances
as presidential timber.
The weakest thing about the sug-
gestion of insurance for bank deposits
is that it is to be recommended in a
democratic platform.
Hackenschmidt is not literally dead,
only figuratively.
The reader of this newspaper who
finds in 1t something that interests him
should remember that thousands Of
other people are just like him, and such
paper makes an ideal medium thru
which to tell them what he has to sell.
That 1O4-year- suicide In Ken
lucky had more cause to be tired Of
earth than some of the younger fool
ish ones.
Never in seven years have we had SO
much real harmony in the newspapers
Of Iowa: The progressives are good
losers, and the other fellows need the
votes.
Roger Sullivans aunt showed his
auto guests that hospitality in the
family dates away back among his an
cestors. 1t must have delighted the
travellers when the good woman COM
PEELED them to- rest and refresh them
selves in her home. It's the Iowa way.
The boy orator of the Platte has
lived to become grandfather, but he
is still engaged in the same line of
business. ~
The package handed to the Waterloo
police seems to have been quite harm
less. Usually the presentation of
packages to the guardians of the peace
is accompanied by more or less feel
Ing.
If the democratic party would raise
up more strong men and run somebody
besides Bryan, there would be more
hope, but the trouble is that the strong
men do not seem to be forthcoming.
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That shortage in Sac county has
caused the former treasurer's arrest.
It's a case Of Sac being sacked.
The gift by DR.. Wilson S. Lewis, re-
Gently elected Methodist Bishop, of
his $4,000 home to Morningside Col
lege, is a substantial tribute of his love
for his home institutions
Advocates of good roads ought to
buy the road supervisor a new auto
mobile There would be more i'm
provement during his administration
than twenty years of indifference could
produce.
Those Turner's did not upset Daven-
port. They merely stirred up the good
old town.
The talk of an Iowa man for second
place on the democratic ticket will
serve to make it known that there is
a lawyer living in Des Moines by the
name of Sullivan.
First the American heiress seeks the
count, and later she asks the courts
to give him the count.
Every town in Iowa Is watching
the growth of Grinnell and the enter
prise of her citizens with interest. The
move to build business mems club
out of the residence of the founder of
tine town eXcites admiration, but It
strikes as an universal regret that a
meaningless name of "Poweshieks" is
to be substituted for the name of the
stalwart and rugged character who
founded town, made his imprint up
on the history of ante-bellum times,
and led in the pioneer development Of
central Iowa.
The leaves will fall more than once
before LATE and the others will hear
the last echo of that bad break at
Chicago.
Wonder how Young, Perkins & Co.
Hike the return of the boomerang they
threw in Chicago?
Editor S. S. Sherman, of the Thorn
ton Enterprise. who has had at the
head of his editorial column for nearly
a year. For president-W. II. Taft"