Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-28
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

the fly net season put IN q good many
cases 1t isn't. During the past week
nearly every day horses were tied on the
street and left standing there for g
matter of two or three hours. o.
course the flies are at q great advan-
tage when there are no unfriendlS
| strands of leather to brush them of
and as a result the patient horse must
stamp and switch with never ceasine
vigilance, for you know a fly can bite
so that it hurts.'
Progressive republicans have been
given the lovely name of progressive
reptiles You're not that, but II
you help patters to office you might
| be called 'crawlers.' Don't crawl
Fight until the last shot in the locker
has disappeared" the Baxter New Era
tells us.
This prediction is made by the
Sioux City Tribune: Whatever of
clouds may come, the Roosevelt in
dorsement will continue to shine out as
a guide to the voters of the three
states that corner at the confluence of
the Sioux and Missouri rivers and
that they will give Taft their electoral
votes in November, seems as certain
| now as that winter will come again.
Twelve girls, most OF them in their
teens. have been sent from Waterloo
! to maternity homes in Des Moines
and elsewhere in the past six months"
relates the Ackley World. This is a
record which should be a warning to
all young girls and should stimulate
mothers to exercise a more watchful
care over their daughters. In one or
! two cases these unfortunate girls
came from eastern cities, and they
found that the young men with whom
| they had been keeping company had
been unfaithful in keeping their prom
Use to marry Them
It is judged by the Lake City News
that from the big slump in the matri-
monial market it appears that a good
many young women are refusing to
| wed during leap year for fear they
will be suspected of doing the propos-
| ing.
Captain Hobson Is a great hero,
an advancing statesman and a doubt
| full prophet but these great qualities
are eclipsed to a thousand that heard
| him at a chautauqua recently" says
| the Lisbon Herald. "The afternoon
was cool and pleasant but it suited
Hobson's pleasure and he removed his
coat, which was no breach of etiquette:
he then slipped off his vest which did
not shock any body but his occasional
iexpectorating from the platform was
, more than the audience could stand
and his greatness, to these people has
set in littleness."
Charley Walsh is being considered
as a candidate for president by the
Independence league. In Iowa that
sounds very much like a joke" says
the Oskaloosa Times.
mr. Farmer, are you making any
effort this year to destroy quack
grass?" the Stanhope Mail asks. RE
member that in Minnesota farms have
been abandoned because this grass has
destroyed all other vegetation"
"The Peerless One short time ago
announced that he would make but
ten or twelve speeches during the ma
tional campaign" remarks the Creston
Advertiser. "The Fairview farmer is
noted for his much speaking, and he
don't seclude himself in the quiet of
his bedroom chamber to do these vocal
stunts either, SO it is safe to say that
he will stretch his oratorical efforts
from ten or twelve political harangues
to ten. or twelve hundred before the
last day Of the campaign"