Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-09-10
Topics of the Times.

Early corn Is said to be safe from
frost but only one farmer in ten is
willing to admit that his crop doesn't
need two weeks more
NIuscatine's new directory shows an
increase in population OF 1000. The
temperance wave doesn't appear to
have killed Muscatine.
1,he Des Moines Capital Is convinced
that the party has for several years,
been headed for destruction. However.
the. Capital has appeared to prosper
on the conditions.
The Register and Leader should sus-
pend publication of the Brutus Advo-
cate.
Sometimes 1t seems like cnoWding
the mourners for am editor to insist on
publishing the story of his travels. The
subscriber who has paid In advance
has neither recourse nor refuge.
'rhe assertion that Mr.. Bryan now
weighs 227 pounds is probably a DEM
octatic attempt to make him show In
the Taft class 1t won't work. Mr.. Taft
is a bigger man every way than Mr..
Bryan, and the people know It,
According to the Sioux City Jour
nails news columns, gambling still
fiourlshes in Sioux City. What has
become OF the gambling move
msnt headed by the mayor of the city?
49,
When the other fellow holds trumps
Cummins takes defeat with the cards,
but when Cummins holds trumps the
other fellow refuses to play
Neither the primary nor yet the
caucus can hold the dyed in the wool
corporation controlled standpatter in
OF out OF the legislature. It's a business
matter with him.
Distressed at his sons refusal to en-
ter the ministry and his preference for
dealing in horses, worthy farmer was
telling his sorrow to a neighbor. ON,
said the latter, don't take 1t too much
Il, heart. / believe Tom Will lead more
men to repentance as horse dealer
than ever he would as a minister"
The records Of vital statistics in the
German empire are so complete and
accurate thai they may be taken as
authority upon the movement of the
population. According to these reports
there were 2,OSa,739 birts in 1905 and
l,174464 deaths. The margin on the
side of life was, in round figures, s1o,-
900.
Frank Carroll, standpat candidate
FOR governor at the head of the repub-
lican ticket, had about as much intiu-
,ance on the strained situation at Des
Moines as jelly fish, but he thought
1T unwise to exert 1t.
A new era in education for CONNER
,,ial life in America is marked by the
announced opening on Oct. Of the
school of business administration at
Harvard University, for post-graduates
only. That is, in order to enter this
school it will be necessary to have the
bachelors degree, the conditions being
the same as those for entering Har-
yard law school The new course will
lead to the degree Of master of bus
mess administration
"Well, wonder who's going to win
the base ball championship"
81 won't know for an hour or So"
What? How can you know then?'
I'm going down to get shave and
a haircut now."-Catholic Standard
and Times.
Not long ago Police Sergeant r. d.
Fulks met a negro on the street who
had been sent to the penitentiary a
few years ago.
Il thought you were at Jefferson
City, said Fulks.
YES sab, but All served nah time"
GLOW long was you sent up for?',
asked the sergeant.
"Ail don't remember. Hit was either
seben or leben years. All know 1t was
some craps number."-St. Joe Gazette.