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have qualified. The following persons shall constitute said Board until their successors have been elected and quail fled on the first Monday in January 1909: Kenneth M. Jackson, Robert Scott, John R. Hulet, Henry Kempe- nich and H. H. Scorse.
 Article VIII.
 The officers of this corporation shall be President, Vice-President, Secretary and Treasurer who shall hold office for a term of one year. The officers shall be elected by the Board of Directors annually on the first Monday in Janu- ary commencing the first Monday in January 19O9 The following persons shall be the officers of this corporation until their successors are elected and have qualified: President, Kenneth M. Jackson, Vice. President and Treasurer, John R. Hulet, Secretary, Henry Kem- penich,
 Article TX.
 The private property of the stock holders of this corporation shall be ex- empt from corporate debts of every kind whatsoever.
 Article X.
 The highest amount of indebtedness. direct or contingent, to which this cor poration shall at any time subject itself shall be two thirds of the amount of it's capital stock subscribed and fully paid in.
Holbrook argus., 1908-04-07
Cure for Drunkards.

St. Paul.-In Revere, Minn., they take drunkards and give then. what is locally called the high dive cure by ducking them in a large tank of water situated in a convenient location in town. A couple of dips is all that has been required in any case yet, and one chronic offender from Walnut Grove who was immersed one evening has never shown up in Revere since.
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Remarkable Sentence.

Perhaps for concentrated inaccur- acy of statement nothing can surpass the following sentence, which oc- cured in an account of a burglary given a short time back in a paper: After a fruitless search in all the money was recovered, except one pair of bootS."
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Too Polite to Complain.

'It seemed to me that Miss Hard ing ate rather sparingly last night at dinner" unused the Flat Dweller. T wonder why?" q know why" re- turned the girl. You filled the salt cellar with sugar and she sweetened her chicken"
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In witness whereof the said incorpor- ators have hereunto set their hands and affixed the1r seals this second day of March, 1908.
 Kenneth M. Jackson Seall W. H. Daum Seal] John R. Hulet [Seall Henry Kempenich Seall Robert Scott [Seal1 H. H. Scorse [Seall
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Simplified Lanuuaue.

He Gin Boston)-Do you walk around town very much?
 She Ca native)-No, I never walked around the city in my life, but I walk about the streets a good deal-Chi- cago Daily News.
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The Doctors Agreed.

Skeptic-Did you ever know two doctors to agree?
 Medical Student (after refection)- Yes, once.
 Where was it?''
 At post mortem."-N Y. Weekly.
Holbrook argus., 1908-04-07
His Little Scheme.

How do you manage to sell so much stock?" asked the president of the mining company.
 "Oh,' replied the successful agent, '1 throw gold dust in my victims eyes."-Chicago Daily News.
Holbrook argus., 1908-04-07
A Confession.

Lady-You say your conscience never troubles you. Have you nev- CT done anything you were ashamed of?
 Tramp-Yes, ma'am. I once work ed for a living
Holbrook argus., 1908-04-07
New Worlds Seven Wonders.

The seven wonders of the new world are generally considered: Niagara Falls, Yellowstone Park, Garden of the Gods, Mammoth Cave, Yosemite Valley, Giant Trees and Natural Bridge.
Holbrook argus., 1908-04-07
A Wooden God.

'They say the Chinese women are idol worshipers."
 Well, so are some Americans. I know a woman that just worships a stick of a man!"-Detroit Free Press.
Holbrook argus., 1908-04-07
Finishes 1t.

When you have written a story, do you not go over 1t and give it a finish ing touch.
 No; the first editor I send it to usually does that. ."-Houston Post.
Holbrook argus., 1908-04-07
TERRITORY OF ARIZONA)
 County of Navajo, DE

SOohCJ Oi ANoNoJOs
 On this second day of March 1908 before me, Thorwald Larson a Notary Public in and for the said County, per sonally appeared Kenneth M. Jackson, W. H. Daum, Robert Scott, John R. Hulet, Henry Hempenich and H. H. Scorse known to me to be the persons whose names are subscribed to the foregoing instrument and they sevsrally duly and respectively acknowledged to me that they each severally and respec- lively executed the same for the pur- poses and consideration therein ex- pressed.
 Given under my hand and seal of office this second day of March 1908 at my office in the said County of Ma vajo.
 [Seal] Thorwald Larson
 Notary Public. My commission expires August 25, 1910.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
a DANGEROUS TRICK.

| According to dispatches from the
Eighth district, the various postmas-
tiers appointed by Mr.. Hepburn are
planning to resign their offices in a
body in order that Mr.. Hepburn may
secure their reappointment for four
year term before his congressional term
expires. Mr.. Hepburn and Mr.. Lacey
have controlled patronage Of this sort
in southern Iowa, but Mr. Lacey's lease
has expired and Mr.. Hepburn has but
a few weeks more to serve. Hence the
suggestion of a trick to continue the
jobs of the present postmasters.
1t seems unlikely that the story is
bid for an extension of salary at the
expense of the credit and good name
Of the republican party. 1t is unlikely
that the president would assist in any
such open and fragrant attempt to
evade the spirit of the civil service.
President Roosevelt is not prone to
trickery and the proposed program is
plain trickery of low order, even in
trickery,
1T is not question of patronage
and postoffices; of who shall receive
and who shall deliver, but Of deceney
in politics. The scheme is little enough
to disgust the district sufficiently to
re-elect Jameson.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
WHEN IT TURNS COLD.

The children run faster laugh louder,
display pinker cheeks and redder noses
and the man on his way home or to
business, swings along at a brisker
gait. Pretty ,middling sharp says he.
Coolest yet" say you; food tastes bet
ter, home seems cozier, life takes on a
keener tang under the tonic of the
biting air when it turns cold.
1t is the spirit of the north, the spur
to activity, the menter of economy, the
parent of thrift and the agent of pneu-
1nonia and tuberculosis. this sharp
wind from the northwest. 1t whips
sluggishness. into action and drives a
goad into laziness. June. with roses and
bees and bloom and all its summer
consciousness, must stand aside before
the clear bright days with keen winds
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
BUILDING PEOPLE OVER.

A surgeon within the Rockefeller In
| stitute for medical research promises
great things If we are to credit his
assertions and conf1de in his predic-
TONS the human being will be sent to
the hospital for repairs and changes
as an old sofa is hauled away to the
upholsterer to come back with the bill
thing Of beauty. DR. Carel has it is
asserted, successfully transplanted or
gans from one of the lower animals to
another Arteries, kidneys and even
stomachs are switched about as by in
cantation within the mysterious cham
bers of the Rockefeller Institute until
tributed all over the premises to per-
form physiological functions for 9TH
ers. And this system we are given
to understand is likely to be applied to
patching up humans. Like the boy
whose knife had worn out four new
blades and a new handle and was the
same good old knife yet" we shall
wear out an organ. get another at the
shop while we wait" and go on ad
infinitum?
This is certain to be a handy state
Of affairs. 1t settles so many difficult
ties. The glutton can stuff himself at
liberty providing he saves up for a
new stomach. The lunch counter will
have been robbed Of all it's terrors
When he has come to the end of the
road the drunkard will go to the in
stltute for new kidneys instead of to
the Keely cure. Consumptives will sim
ply order new lungs of the surgeon
as the toothless buy store teeth. The
laws of health will be suspended. Who
cares for liver, lights stomach and kid
neys that really don't belong to him
anyway?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
ADJUSTING THE MACHINERY.

Those who ina gined that the pres
dent-elect would content himself 40
stand as a peacemaker between the
Roosevelt policies and the selfish III
| terests to whom Roosevelt and his
policies are particularly obnoxious, are
likely to be rudely awakened The
signs of the times point to a plain jul
dicial and straightforward carrying out
of the important policies of his prede-
cessor. not crusade accompanied by
waving of flags and blowing of trunl-
pets but a steady march forward on
; the broad lines of Rooseveltism.
Mr. Taft will enter on a work we'll
begun but not by any means accom-
plished. His task is not less import
ant because it is likely to be easier
He follows to till and improve where
Roosevelt almost an unanimous choice,
his policies. And there is every indi-
cation that he intends to raise the crop.
To complete and perfect the machin-
cry installed by the uprising that MADE
Roosevelt almost an unanimous choice
to smooth off rough corners, strength
en-. adjust and operate is task enough
for one presidential term. If President
Taft accomplishes this he will at the
close of his first term meet the same
popular demand for, his retention, that
greeted Mckinley in 1900 and Roose-
welt in 1904 and came near sweeping
Roosevelt into third term over prece-
dent and tradition. Taft is big man.
He will be big president.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
FRATERNAL SOCIETIES.

A Montana statute provided that q
person not a member thereof who wore
the badge Of insignia Of any fraternal
association should be guilty Of mis-
demeanor and subject to fine or impris-
onment. The wives, daughters, sisters
and mothers of members were excepted
from its operation. On the sground
that it denied equal protection Of the
law, this statute was assailed In state
vs. Holland, So Pacific Reporter, 719,
Holding it unconstitutional for the rea-
son alleged, the supreme court Of
Montana said: THE women who are
excepted from the operation Of this
statute bear exactly the same relation
towards the subject of the legislation,
as all other women in the community
as we'll as men not members Of any Of
these societies. There is no possible
reason, except sentimental one, why
they should be exempted from the
penalties of the law"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
s7ssen,ty ntsiu1Hnnns anaua Nnuen,hrr III 1908
sssslns a c'noh y LATE Young win
probably have soHething to say about
it later. on or after March S.

sesslng cinch Of t. LATE Young will
probably have soHkathing to say about
it later, on or after March S.
| The senior senator was not present
to hear the remarks of the "falsir" who
juggled a senatorship out of an Iowa
| legislature In les Moines Tuesday.
Doubtless a copy will be mailed to him.
Let's hope that the new senator's re-
marks as to the pressing need of con-
serving our resources of lumber, coal
and iron will include the removal Of
the tariff therefrom.
Professor Sham baugh's selection for
curator of the historical department of
Iowa elevates a man to task for
which he is not only fitted but which
gives him work which he loves
$50
1t is said that nearly all of the post
masters in several entire congressional
districts have suddenly become vocifer-
GUS Cummins men, much to the amaze
ment of people at home
Why can not some wise legislator re-
quire public utility corporations to
make public their earnings for the
benefit Of city councils desiring to fix
fair and reasonable rates?
The new auditor Blealley. has
served notice that no Cummins man
need apply for a job in his office. This
is unimportant except as definition
of policy, but Bleakley got out of the
last political stockade with noncom-
batants in front of him which pre-
vented the fire of those who might not
be so effectually restrained in the flu
ture.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27

tempered by chilly sunshine that come
after it turns cold
1t is all bracing, strengthening. de-
lightful, when there is heat in the home
and warm clothing for out Of doors, but
poverty freezes when it turns cold. Let
1t not be forgotten that hunger and
cold come with the northwind to the
homes Of the very poor And let 1t be
remembered that none may escape per-
sonal responsibility by referring his
brothers keeping to God and the over
seer of the poor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
Topics of the Times.

Won Buelow handed the kaiser a
speech and the kaiser read it meekly
| But Won Buelow had handed him
something else previously
The safest plan is to spike Joe Cam
non
Senator Cummins received a great
wild goose for Thanksgiving from one
of his admirers. However, he has not
been engaged in wild goose chase for
the past fifteen years.
To be sure the purchaser may wait
until the last day in the afternoon to
buy Christmas presents, but it isn't to
his credit on the books of record where
A sale bill whispers where a T.-R.
ad shouts.
When a man starts out to rent a
farm he goes into a farming country.
IIle L I'll HIS liipIG SOOi VIA
it's lists than any other daily paper in
Iowa. Try the want ad.
A special from Grundy Center ex-
plains how farmer narrowly escaped
losing a heavy sum to sharper. Had
you noticed shat of late the three card
expert, the thimble rigger and the
soapman who sells $40 bills for S., have
given way to the man after the big
money? When farmer gets touched
up nowadays it costs him thousand
or so.
If China wants to get there il sh ,ul':
should engage T. Roosevelt for short
term. He would enjoy it almost as
well as tiger hunting. The yellow peril
and the big stick would combine to
make world politics hum.
If any farmer is making denatured
alsohol he is keeping still.
The final report of the department
OF agriculture eSllI1ldilGS lIlG COIIl crop
for 1908 at 2,642,6s7.O0O bushels. This
figure has been exceeded only three
times-in 1899, when it was $780,
100000 bushels; in 1905. when it was
2.7O7 ,993, 0oo and in 1906 when it was
a,927,416o0O The crop of 1907 was
2,59232O000 bushels. These figures are
respectfully submitted to the consider
alton Of the commission to inquire into
farm life conditions, The price is so
cents a bushel at the elevators. If the
commissioners walk out to the farm
to Investigate, the farmer will take
them back in his automobile.
The sickest man since election is the
democrat who was so sure he had
caught a sucker in the republican who
wanted to bet on Missouri.
It must be admitted that there are
some standpatters who are good los
ers
For wears we have heard Of that fell
low WHO liad Aol SpSt9ii iiiote 'iio'i ''0iiiS
Of us ever knew, and now we have
finally located him under the given
name of John D.
Ottumwa can boast Of a citizen Of
real public spirit, one who has donated
fifty acres of land for park purposes.
Men Of this type are rare and should
be generally applauded wherever
found
Captain Hull says he intends to run
again. Harvey Ingham is positive that
this will prove the captains last mis-
take. Judge Prouty has announced his
intention to run for the nomination and
Cash Dowell feels confident Of pos.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
Williams in Philadelphia Ledger.

to a hotel in Hoboken. Other members
of the agency having watched them
forced the door and found defendant in
bed with one of the men. The court
of chancery Of New Jersey in Rade-
macher, 20 Atlantic Reporter, 6s7, held
that while this outrageous performance
was not authorized by complainant
himself it was conducted in his inter-
est by his agent, and he was not in
a position to take advantage Of po-
sition brought about by his agents
acts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
wIFE'S ADULTERY.

Complainant who sought a ground
for divorce against his wife, employed
a detective agency to secure evidence.
Thereupon it sent one of it's employees,
a woman, to compliments house, who
engaged board there. Having been
there a few days, she invited defendant
to accompany her to New York. There
they met two men provided by the
agency, who accompanied them to the
matinee, to wine room and finally
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Noting that many plans arr, beins
made by the different Legislators o
the state to correct some of the law.
of the past few years, the Mason Cit,
Times-Herald suggests: The work OF
making some of the laws more eff.
ficient is commendable. There is moi
very great demand for crop of new
ones"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27

1T may be easier for congressman
to vote against Mr.. Cannon as speaker
than 1t will be to explain to his con-
stituents why he voted for him." OBJ
serves the Council Bluffs Nonpareil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
Decisions
[supplied by West Publishing Co, ST.
Paul, Mimi
REMOVAL OF JUDGE.


The city charter of Greater New
York provides that justices Of the
court of special sessions shall not carry
on any business, but each justice shall!
devote his whole time and capacity
to the duties of his office. The petit
ton in Re Duel, III New York supple
ment, 500. charged defendant, judge
of the court of special sessions, with
carrying on the business of owning,
managing, editing, printing canvassing
and selling certain printed publications
known as Town Topics" "The Smart
Set" "Fads and Fancies," and that 1t
was part of his duty to read and
modify the articles used in them for
publication. Altho he was vice pres
ident no evidence was introduced which
established his active management or
conduct of che business. The supreme
court of New York held that the
charge of violating the statute was not
sustained.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
DIsBARMENT OF ATTORNEY.

The supreme court of New York de-
cided in the case of In re Leonard, III
New York Supplement, 905, that the
fact that an attorney had secured his
admission to the bar without examina-
ton by presenting a forged certificate
of entrance to the bar of another state
warranted his disbarment altho nearly
eleven wears had elapsed.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27

however. the people another chance to
appeal on the question whether inor-
dinate wealth may override public
rights and disregard the laws of the
land as lesser people would not dare
do"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27

Travelling by balloon is all right,
says the Davenport Democrat. 'if yo
don't care where you are going"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27

lHlS is no llne IN winch to undertake
further expansion and new enterprises
at the expense of the general govern
ment."
| "Some of the daily newspapers that
| break the Sabbath by issuing comic
supplements ae beginning to explain in
an apologize way why they do it," re-
marks the Iowa Falls Sentinel zone
publisher seems to take satisfaction in
the discovery that the artists who COM
mti these weekly violations of good
| taste are evidently getting to the end
of their string, and that at no distant
day their talents will have to be di-
rected into some other channel 81
mo man ever came to the gover-
nor's chair in Iowa who. was more
genial and impartial than Warren
Garst," AYERS the Des Moines Tribune.
(dem)
The Rockwell monograph thinks "It
will require time to again bring the
Iowa delegation up to the point, of in
f1uence it enjoyed during the palmy
days Of Speaker Henderson, but in
time the new blood will make it's inn
press"
The vinton Eagle says: "Bro. Jaqua.
Of the HUMBOLDT Republican, and the
editor of the Eagle are together now.
Both of us are for A. 3. Cummins for
United States senator, and both of us
are for tariff revision as declared by
the party in national convention"
The DEBORAH Republican says:
Judges Groscup. Seaman and Baker.
who reversed tho decision of Judge
Lands fining the Standard Oil COM
pany s29,ooO,ooO Indignantly refused to
give Attorney General Bonaparte a de-
cent application for appeal from their
decision to the United States supreme
court-the court of last resort. They
did SO with discourtesy and tiippant
rebulxe that is somewhat surprising. 1t
raises the question Of whether that in
termediate court is we'll and truly a
servant Of Standard Oil wealth. 1t gives
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27

Such glorious weather we have en-
joyed this November up to present
writing" exclains the Ottunlwa Re-
view. iowa climate is so salubrious
and so healthful in the three-quarter
season that we do not believe it's equal
is anywhere on the globe. Iowa is a
good place to live all the time and new
er more so than in November"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27

Really it is to be hoped that 1t may
not develop that Congressman Dawson
was knowingly acting with the powers
that be wfen he proposed Walter l.
Smith for the speakership of the
house." says the Sioux City Tribune.
These disclosures that Walter I. is to
play the role of stalking horse for I'm
Gle Joe are so significant that the con-
gresham is in danger of being sus
pected as willing tool of the movers
in the frame-up. And suspicion of that
Sort unremoved. might be expected to
retire him to private life two years
hence"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27

ITO keep the deficit within limits,
the present congress at the December
session will have to practice earnest
economy" declares the Dubuque Times.
This is no time in which to undertake
further expansion and new enterprises
at the expense of the general govern
ment."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
DUTY OF ATTORNEY.


In the case of People VS.. Maughs.
SO Pacific Reporter. 407,. an appeal
from judgment and order refusing
one convicted of murder a new trial.
the court of appeal of California criti-
cized the failure Of the prosecuting
attorneys and the trial judge to famil-
iarize themselves with prior decisions
involving the points of contention say
ing that altho judges may have little
time for reading decisions Of higher
courts, yet practicing lawyers are sup
posed to watch the reported cases, par
ticularly where they dispose Of ques-
tions with which they have to deal in
impending trials. that it is the duty Of
the. states attorneys to apprise the
judge Of such decisions, and that If
such conduct had been prejudicial to
appellants rights reversal would be
ordered without hesitation.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-27
DAMAGES FOR ELECTION.

During a yellow fever epidemic while
two boys were in the last stages Of
consumption, were travelling to their
home, the train was stopped by a
quarantine officer, and the boys being
too weak to protest and the conductor
not doing so, they were put off. They
were delayed thirty-six hours and one
of them died within three days. His
administrator brought action for dam
ages. The railroad company contend
ed that the quarantine officer was
acting under an ordinance and the
conductor was ignorant that the boys
had health certificates. The supreme
court of Mississippi in st. Louis & 8.
F. r. Co. VS.. Roane, 46 Southern Re-
porter, I'll, held that under the con-
tract Of passage the law gave them the
right of full protection, and the COM
pany should not have allowed them
to be put off the train, especially as the
physical condition of deceased entitled
him to the greatest consideration. Ex-
emplary damages were held not recov-
cradle. and a judgment for $500 was
reduced to $4,000.