Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-03
Topics of the Times

Des MoineS city politics are being
conducted on most too high plane.
They now ask how much money would
YOU invest in an enterprise which this
candidate or that is to manage. lmag-
ine IL possible, city government put
on Il business basis.
The newspaper at Council Bluffs
which the preachers OF that city be-
lieve to be protecting vice finds occa-
sion to sheer at jim Goods fight for
90-cent gas in Cedar Rapids. There is
II water works fight on in Council
Bluffs. and the newspaper is on the
side of the water company
Railroads should not get scared at
the a-cent fare until after the land
rush is over. When whole train loads
of land agents guests pay their fare
instead OF presenting passes and
semi passes the net result will be to
help the average.
Mr.. Mcclure (to hospital attendant
-Phwat did We say the doctors name
was?
Attendant Fitzpatrick.
Mr.. McGuire--Thot settles 1t. No
doctor wild thot cognomen will git Il
know it.
Attendant--Why not?
Mr. McGuire--Well, you see. my
name is Patrici.-Judge.
1t is estimated that every third
member of the United States senate is
millionaire. and the others are either
trying to be, or appear as attorneys
for the milionaires.
Cheap a beautiful rug
May ask how much it cost YOU
Three hundred dollars worth OF
furniture to match 1.-THE Hebrew
Standard.
If Judge Prouty's threat of law
suit could always have as visible an
effect AS it has had in suppressing the
tissue ballot charge he ought to
have all the law business in the state.
When grand opera comes to town 1t
will be shown what comic opera could
tie if more attention We're paid to the
quality of voice among the stars.
| The New Jersey senator who would
put a special road tax on wheels has
no designs upon the machinery which
evolves the average standpat election
forecast.
Perkins has gone way back to 1887
! to gather clippings from the newspa-
pers which were sore at Cummins
| The idle rich have been mighty
busy since October % trying to borrow
pin money ON the evidences of theii
| investments.
see if you can miss man who does
not think Roosevelt is to be the nomi-
| nee after all.
The fractional lineup in the delegate
convention will merely serve to make
the primary fight the tiercer. If the
Cummins fellows lose, they will re-
double their efforts at the primary. anc
| if the ants lose, they will seek to re-
| cover their losses.
| When George Clarke lamented the
fact that men of high ability woulo
| not enter politics, he had in mind the
abuse that has been heaped upon Cum
mins-enough to deter almost any
man.
A buggy manufacturer by the name
of KEYS, from Council Bluffs. has en-
tered the race for railroad commits
sioner against ketchum. He claims
to be the candidate of the manufactur
ers. and yet ketchum was wager
manufacturer himself
The easiest way to sell anything i:
TO telephone an ad to the Times-Re-
publican. No need to worry about The
writing of it.
The poor seed corn used by thi
farmers of Iowa during the year 800
cost the state $45,0OO000 according t.
tests and figures gathered by Member
John Cownie of the state board OF con
troll, who is conducting an interesting
lot of experiments for the state lnsti'
t1tions. Mr. Cownie shows by
the samples ofg seed corn the
experiments in the testing of vltallt!
of corn used turnout Iowa by the av
erage farmer that out of the 9,OOO,OOS
acres of corn planted last year. bu
about the product of 100000 acre:
was actually harvested The waste
900 900 acres was due entirely, &C
oording to Mr.. Cownie, to the poo
seed corn used turnout the state by tn
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