Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-14
Topics of the Times

Mt. Pleasant has a moss-back mer-
chant who would backslide from the
early closing movement. There is no
other place in town for the experts to
play checkers.
Who is the better fixed" the 500
per month travelling man who owns
nothing or the $50 per month travel
ing man who owns a $4,000 residence
property? Forty shares of building and
loan stock will mature at $4,000 in
about twelve years and cost only the
$40 per month difference.
A man who knows he is going to
build either this year or next can make
money buying his lumber and mill
work at present prices.
Many a farmer will decide to retire
and move to town this fall so his fam
4 lily may enjoy the town mans luxury
| and comfort Of furnace heated house.
| The government has removed the
restrictions which formerly prevented
Indians from selling their lands. but
would-be purchasers in Oklahoma are
finding that Poor Lo has learned some
thing about land values since Peter
| Minuits bought Manhattan Island for
$24 in 1926.
| The barber paused in his fretwork
Operations. will you have a close
shave, sir?" he asked.
| 1T looks like it, returned the VIC
tim, moodily cat present the odds
against me getting out of this chair
alive seem very heavy, indeed don
| don Globe.
| Financial depression since last fall
! is responsible for decrease of 6.54
per cent i'll the revenues of the New
York postoffice for the fiscal year
ended June 80. The net revenue Of the
general postoffice and branches for
| the twelve months was $11,815,l37,
compared with $12,643.s67 for 1907.
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Emperor William has concluded to
make few suggestions to Count Yep
pelin concerning certain improvements
and devices to be made use of in the
construction of another airship to re-
place the one recently destroyed by
lightning. Wonder what would hap
pen if the Count should see fit to dis
regard the Kaiser's advice?
President Roosevelts efforts to start
movement looking to the betterment
of rural life will meet with opposition
from the class he seeks to aid and
those most in need of relief will be the
ones from which most of the resent
ment will come.
Love will find way. The Duke of
Abruzzi has overcome the objections
of the King of Italy to his match with
Katherine EIkins. 1t Is TO be. presumed
also that the grip Of old man Ellsins
on the bar'l has been loosened suffice
iently so that fine Italian hand can
be shown in it's vicinity
The Shah of Persia is shut off from
his own harem by the wild tribesmen
whom he summoned to his aid. 1t must
be humiliating for the protector of
the poor to have to go into the kitch-
en- and get his own breakfast. with as
many as hundred wives in the fam
lily.
With corn at so cents and live pork
at z cents there IS some excuse for the
wage worker to vote for Bryan if he
is sure his salary will not come down
with the price of produce.
Yes we all want harmony but the
question is "now are we going to get
it?' 1t is apparent that the democratic
newspapers want us to fight for it.
The learned scientists are discussing
the question Can fly see? Whatever
the discussion discloses one thing is
certain; the varmints have no feel
ing.
The straw hat is passing into the
sere and yellow stage, but the straw
vote is Just budding and promises
heavy crop.
At Mandan, N. d., boy was carried
three blocks by the wind of cyclone.
If he. was a messenger boy we can all
take off our hats to the cyclone.
! So
Bryan having been notified and the
fear that he might refuse the nomi-
nation having been dissipated by his
acceptance, all the entries for the fall
race are now closed and everything is
ready for the starters gong.
Editor w. D. Jamieson's i'll advised
remarks about Mrs. Alice Roosevelt
Longworth in the Shenandoah World