Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-22
Topics of the Times,

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| The Abba Union suggests that Ma
jor Lacey. who was retired from
the Sixth district to give place tt
| Congressman Hamilton, Is the natura
candidate for successor to the late
Senator Allison. But what Of the PEG.
pie who retired him? Did they no.
mean to make it stick and if they "re-
tired him from the lower house is il
reasonable inference that they want
him for the upper?
There must be something popular
about the insurance of bank deposits
in Oklahoma, for eight national banks
have surrendered their federal charters
in order to become state banks and
come under the insurance feature of
the state law.
Canned oratory seems to be cutting
d considerable figure in the democrat
ic plans this year, for the very good
reason that 1t is cheap and the demo-
Gratis want to purchase defeat in
November as economically as possible.
But as a regular diet for the future
1t is very doubtful if embalmed elocu-
ton is going to be a slayer. People
don't care to travel to hear that kind.
especially if they have to pay for the
privilege, when they have been used
to getting theirs fresh, and brought
almost to their doors without charge.
If Funk would be acceptable to the
standpatters why not let Funk arbi-
trate the present difficulty?
This is rapid age, but with all the
automobile innovations we have not
heard of any fellow trying to introduce
hearse propelled by anything but
horse power.
The weather is becoming such that
a man can once more return to sus-
penders with the consequent abatement
of the grudge he harbored against the
tailor who put only three belt loops
on his neither covering.
$50
Haugen has decided to wait until he.
knows whether there is to be another
primary or a free-for-all legislative,
fight before he announces his candi-
dacy formally. -
&
Il The trick mule sent to Bryan from
Minnesota has been reduced to the
ranks and set to pulling lawn mower.
But some one ought to whisper a
friendly word lin the brute's ear to
the effect that 10000 mules couldn'.
cut down the tall grass that fnpedes
Bryan's path to the White House.
Governor Johnson is being forced ITO
run for third term, and even If he
is defeated, it will have to be admitted
that he did pretty we'll to stay by
the party when he could have made
more money outside of politics.
If they have good day at the state
fair in Des Moines there will be almost
as many people there as read the
Times Republican.
I within month there have been
two new banks organized in Marshall
county, Mason City has added another
to her string, making five all told for
that municipality, and at Vinton next
week the two canning companies viii
begin their annual corn pack, which
will be unusually large even for that
town. which ships more canned corn
outn of her borders yearly than any
other. burg on this terrestrial ball.
These are very striking items, indhat-
ing ais they do that Iowa country is
going ahead despite the melancholy
which is known to exist elsewhere.
There was man in our town, and he
~ was quite case,
He Jumped into a bramble bush and
81. badly scratched his face;
Forthwith he sought a barber shop:
The naughty barber said,
The while his razor he did strop, you
shave yourself sometimes, don't
= you?" Washington Herald.
"A man missing for ten years and
mourned as dead by his relatives at
Mason City, has just turned UP among
them. He has been located in AN adj
Joining state There must be some-
thing mighty queer in a man@to grieve
his people so, and yet he living but
800 miles away.
The prosperity that is rampant in
Iowa now may fairly be regarded by
the democrats as pure insolence. Even,
the railroads are getting a good share
of 1t. Passenger trains on the Bur
lington road out of Alton have for
weeks been so crowded that people
have had to stand in the aisles and
on the platforms.
An Iowa Falls man went to Llscopb
to attend a picnic and got there a
day too soon. His business would not
admit OF his staying an extra day and
he had to return home to his duties.
This is hard luck with vengeance.
Up at Fort Dodge Mrs c. I'll. Han
son owns some apple. trees that seem
tn have almost human intelligence.