Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-26

! enable market value for it. With
| houses as scarce as they are in this
city owners put them up at auction
for quick sale and get practically all
they are worth without the delay and
uncertainty of the ordinary method
Last week house in the west end
worth probably 5000 if it were put on
the waiting list, sold at auction in ten
minutes for $500.
| "A Tot of lazy fellows who wouldn't
enlist in the navy on the promise of
a trip around the world have been sore
at themselves since they read Of the
sporting events with which our Aus
| tralian neighbors have been entertain
ing the American visitors.
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With fifty-two injunction cases filed
against Clinton county liquor dealers
and licenses of the five leading cafes
of Pittsburg revoked for selling to
minors and girls, all in one day. the
marching on.
affinity seems to have become
the accepted synonym for paramour.
THAT woman next door Is really
dreadful, john said a young married
woman to her husband. "She does
nothing but talk the whole day long.
She cannot get any work done, I'm
sure"
oh" remarked the husband, 81
thought she was a chatterbox. And
to whom does she talk?'
why, my dear, to me, of course"
was the reply. "She talks to me over
the fence. ''-Phladelphia Ledger.
In Montgomery county some land
has just sold at $10333 per acre that
was bought from the government at
$1.25 per acre This sort of increment
Is better and surer than q gold mine,
yet a lot of people prefer to specu-
late rather than invest their money
where they absolutely know it will
yield richly in time.
AT Forest City the canning factory
which has been closed for the past
two years, will resume this year, thus
demonstrating that industry has no
time to stop merely because 1t is a
campaign year. With all the good re-
publican times we have had lately the
election depression seems to be looked
on more and more as a bugaboo.
There was always something incon-
sistent about Bryan. Some time ago
he told Kern he would share the
White House with him II elected and
he has just now gone to indianapolis
to assist in notifying the Hoosier nom
inee of his being slated. This is get
ting the cart before the horse.
A Missouri hold up man was killed
in Minneapolis while trying to rob
some detectives. There will be SYM
patty for his relatives. but little for
HON.
Up near Sioux City young man
lost a leg jumping off a moving freight
train. It's always safest to welt for
a train to stop before getting on or
off, but most people will not learn the
lesson. Maybe it would be better to
impose fine on violators of the rule,
rather than let the manning and ia
talities go on.
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Dick Croker cannot keep out of poll
tics even altho he expatriated himself
and went to ireland to live, He has
lust been made honorary burgess of
Dublin. We may expect to see lili-
putian Tammany Hall over there any
time now.
Representative John Sharp Will
Jams has a new story. During the
recent Mississippi gubernatorial cam
paign the Hon. Jeff Truly was one of
the unsuccessful aspirants for the ma
jority suffrage of his felloW-citizens.
Prohibition doctrines figured in the
struggle. and seemed very important to
a Methodist minister.
Brother Truly" said the minister,
IL want to ask you question. DO
YOU ever take a drink of whisky"
"Befo' answer that" responded the
wary Brother Truly, Il want to know
whether it is an inquiry or an invita-
ton. "-Cleveland Leader.