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

recently organized Grape Growers as
ISOLATION, of California, has formulated
plans for campaign of education to
show that the moderate use of wines
is beneficial to the human race. The
movement would perhaps exert some
effect with thinking people If it in
Guided sure means of preventing
the moderate user from becoming an
excessive one.
Let us have peace cries LATE and
at the Chicago convention he pro-
tested Delivers promotion for fear OF
political anarchy in Iowa il another
opened to Cummins.
Several hundred descendants of John
and Priscilla Alden have just cele-
brated the eighth annual reunion Of
the family association at DuXbury.
Mass. 1t was great day for DuX-
bury when John concluded to speak
for himself.
While the hard -working apple grow
er is selling the product of his orchard
at prices which will keep him forever
poor the cold storage man is getting
ready to see that apples are not too
cheap next winter.
If you want to sell COW or a
horse, use a fifteen-ce sale ad, Your
sale will be attended by fully $4,000
possible buyers.
( The new steel bridge for the use Of
all the railroads crossing the Colum-
bia river between Portland and Puget
sound, while not the longest bridge in
the world has not it's equal in the eX-
panse of it's steel work. The steel work
on$the bridge was commenced about a
year ago.ApproXimately $4,000 tons OF
steel We're used The cost is about
s2,0OO,0OO. The entire structure Is
about two miles long.
A few democrats will turn to their
party organ with their newspaper sub
scriptions. but the most of them VIII
have to recorder their old-time favor
ties to get the news.
The elderly matron with the bundles,
who was journeying to a point in Wis
consin and occupied a seat near the
middle of the car. had fallen asleep.
Onxthe seat in front Of her sat lit
tile boy. The brakeman opened the
door of the car and called out the
name of the station the train was app
preaching The elderly woman reused
herself with a jerk.
where are we, Bobby?' she asked.
81 don't know, grandma answered
the little boy.
Didn't the brakeman say something
just now.?"
'.No. He Just stuck his head inside
the door and sneezed."
Help me with these things, Bobby!'
she exclaimed, hurriedly. This is
Oshkosh. It's where we get off, -
Youths Companion.
Will somebody explain how it was
that as prominent man as Senator
Allison lay unconscious in Dubuque
from Saturday to Tuesday without an
linking of his condition reaching the
press until after he had died?
Pittsburg is suffering from an cpl
demic of suicide. Merely living in that
city seems to be sufficient excuse for
committing crimes, and If people can
not do something to one another they
commit crimes against themselves.
- y
H. &C. Stevens, special Washington
for the Minneapolis
Journal, writes to his paper that Last
December Senator Allison is reported
I'd have. said:
4 81 am not seeking reelection to
the senate. | am too old, and know
it. u shall not live out another term
if elected. I should not think of al
lowing my name to go before the peo-
pie. but for my friends. the men who
have stood by me for years, two score
years, and are demanding the use OF
my name, because without it they feel
that Governor Cummins will snow
them under at the primaries.
The most important thing that hap
pens during the conferences of Mr..
Bryan and his political managers
appears to be that candidates an
of the manner in which
he proposes to conduct his campaign.
ssA
Don't let pride make you foolhardy
and lead you into strange waters II
YOU are not good swimmer. You Will
have Just as good fun if you are care
full, with better chances Of future en-
joyments.
IL YOU want to move to MarshalltoWn
and cannot find house, remember
there are some rooms to let which
you might be able to use until you
build home.
The daily sermon to the republicans
of Iowa now preached by the Des
Moines Capital is Let US have peace"
If the Capital and Sioux City Journal
would now accept 'Cummins there
would be peace.