Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-01
Topics of the Times

OPSNS " WV
Secretary John Simpson. of the state
fair, has offered the stock pavilion for
| the state conventions of democrats and
republicans, provided they are held
| there fair week. This would be
| doubly thrifty stunt if he were to
make them pay admission to the
grounds.
The Des Moines newspapers now in
sist that Des iMoines should have a
second draw at the pockets of conven
ton delegates by putting the convention
over until September. One trip for
both state fair and convention is con-
demned by the boosters committee.
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Attorney General Hadley, OF Mis-
souri,. has not yet overcome the habit
of pursuit. He is adding to the fame
he got in chasing the Standard Oil
Company by trying to break up lum-
Der combine. Folk and Hadley APP
pear to he pretty good team.
With the opening of the steel mills
at Gary, Ind, the steel trust can
claim one city which it has made with
it's own hands. has named after it's
own president. and owns in fee simple
from public square to cabbage patch.
y1,o i1,N1 ft,e,
story that he said a dollar a day is
enough for workingman. has now
been sprung on Taft, after having
done service for a lot of slanderers in
previous instances. Everybody had
hoped that this ancient lie had been
stored for keeps No sensible man be-
lieves Taft ever said such a thing.
Farmers sweating at the harvest
should take comfort in the thought
that the banker in town is sending his
wife and children to the country for
rest and relief from the heat.
Another peace conference is on in
London. AS these gatherings in the
interest Of tranquility have never been
able to gain their end. it might be
suggested to them that they go to
war to attain 1t.
thrill Of unpleasantness to that threat
ened coal shortage at Mason City.
AT Keo'lsuk a young man tried three
times to throw himself under the
| wheels Of passing trains and thus end
his life. He would give no reason.
Probably he had no good one.
| Mason City has. a tremendous new
| cement mill in operation and an in
| f1ated census as a result. Des Moines
| is now boasting Of a million dollar
are fast returning to the stone age.
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| Professor Holden and a corps of
| Ames teachers. have just completed
| a demonstration in agriculture and
| domestic science at a teachers insti-
| tute at Sheldon, the first ever held.
| It is their object to have these
branches introduced in the public
schools, and the aim is a laudable
one IN no state in the union is agri-
cultural learning more appropriate
or advantageous than in Iowa.
He was assigned to a seat in the
coach which obliged him to ride back
ward thru the Black Forest. At the
first stopping place he asked the post
! master to give him another seat, say
ing 1t made him i'll to ride backward.
"Ask the man opposite to change
with you,' said the postmaster
gruffly.
But there Is nobody opposite to
me-" complained the Dutchman. so
cannot ask him.''-Youths Compan
| ion.
If Wade Ellis is slated for first as
sistant attorney general, will some
l ,body please look up his record and
let us know whether he is an EN-
forcer" or not We have already
learned that he is a politician.
There's a Sunday closing war on at
Cedar Rapids and the openers con-
tend that there's only a difference of
honest opinion between the opposing
sides in the controversy. We would
like to refer them to their family bibles
and their city ordinances, and hear
what they have to say on the. subject
after they investigate those exhibits.
The up-to- date farmer in Iowa is
getting to be Ut in the very largest
style of type. With his modern nome
and all late conveniences, including
! his auto, he is comfortable beyond