Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-13

me to marry mimi!
How did the other escape ?"-Hous-
ton Post.
I IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
"Des Moines has most delightful
river front--in the pictures now being
printed by the Register and Leader,
, the Newton Record observes Anyone
who went to that city for the first
time and beheld the high mud banks
and piles of scrap iron and the majes-
tic weeds waving in the breeze where
the elegant stone walls and prim
grass plots are marked out in the pic
ture would be little taken back"
4 "This paper has not now and never
Ibid have any sympathy with the hiss
| ing or hooting of any name and such
demonstrations should be condemned"
says the Webster City Freeman Trib
une. ut is in bad taste and leaves a
rancor that cannot be easily over
come"
The Castina Times concludes that
after all the conventions have been
held the Iowa voter will be glad to
see politics laid on the shelf for a
couple Of months.
The Sac City Sun says that If it
were to be done over again the ma
ljority in the senatorial contest would
be reversed IL the election We're held
4 today.
49, &
The Boone Independent says: Mar
shalltown has had municipal light
ing plant for go years. 1t has paid for
itself half dozen times and they have
twice as many lights as Boone at
about the same cost. In addition they
have lights whenever needed without
! regard to what the schedule says
] about the moon. There is not a resi-
dent of Marshalltown who would con-
sent to selling the plant"
"The commanding influence of Gov
ernor Cummins,' says the Odeholt
Chronicle, will not diminish with his
retirement from the executive chair:
and. despite the opposition of his enc
mics, he will be chosen to fill the va
cancy which Allison's death will leave
in the senate. No legislature hostile
to Cummins will be elected within the
next six years"
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says
that some day some temporary chair
man will achieve undying fame by
making keynote speech about twen-
ty minutes long.
The DEBORAH Republican observes
that the republican and democratic
state conventions at Waterloo and
we'll, and 1t suggests that perhaps
that Des Moines is the only place
where state conventions can be sue
cessfully handled"
The Knoxville Journal says: Mean
while candidate Holly, also Of Des
Moines, is feeling quite clipper. He is
dreaming dreams and seeing visions Of
himself In a frock coat and plug hat
on Pennsylvania avenue"
"Mr. Bryan is altogether too much
agitated over the republican PLATFORM
according ta the Mitchell County
Press. "He should conserve his ener-
giles and save his gray matter for the
defense Of his own platform. as that
will probably keep him busy"
1T takes q pipe organ and a choir
to induce a little handful of people
to come out once week and hear a
preacher help lift some sinner up but
people will fight for seats to see one
bully knock another down." says the
Belle PLANE Union.
Governor Cunimins is one of a very
few prominent men in Iowa who is !
large enough to accept defeat grace
fully" the Mitchell County Press de-
yclares. while many others have been
exhibiting their political wounds for |
years and have kept the party in tur-
MOL by seeking revenge on some real |
or imaginary enemy. the governor. al
tho he had been subjected to more |
SANDER and vilification than any other
man within the state borders, came
promptly forward at the state conven-
ton and asked the support of the |
whole party for his late opponent, Sen
ator Allison
Rear Admiral Evans is an expert
with knitting and crochet needles, and
his embroidery is said to be as wonder
full and varied as is his vocabulary"
according to the Cedar Falls Gazette. [
Some of his most intimate friends
have been favored with gifts, the pro-
duct of his skill at embroidery, which
~, h icI, 1u AS
the etiquette of the navy provides for
a considerable degree of privacy for the
admiral. he has lot of time when his
expert fingers can be at work at the
same time that his brain busies itself
with naval problems"
If the Boone Independent is correct
a girl always feels that she ought to
scream when young man kisses her
but she's afraid some one will hear If