Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-07


rained,' records the Sioux City Jour-
nal
Probably if there is any man in the
world who Roosevelt would rather be
than himself it is DR.. Cook who may
boast the supreme rough adventure of
the world" says the Waterloo Courier.
THE full name of Taft's military aid
is Capt. Archibald Clavering De Graf
fenreid William Butt. A fellow with a
name like that ought to be able to butt
in anywhere" thinks the Sioux City
News.
John D. Rockefeller says that Cor
more years than go to make UP a life
time he has studied how to build up a
Sunday school He says the way to
do it is "get many children to come 20
the Sunday school and to keep tn en-
coming every Sunday" No wonder
John Is rich If he used such wisdom in
the conduct of his own business He
undoubtedly got the people coming for
oil and kept them coming" reasons the
Des Moines Capital
THE slaughter Of birds. that would
by killing noxious insects save
American farmers and fruit-growe rs
800 millions a year. still goes wan
tonly on. II the government would
think they can't be pretty enough to
fine stroke of business" declares How
o,,I Dr., ~ LII,
The Rockford Register suggests that
Sin making his tour thru the west
Mr.. Taft should keep in mind that in a
very real sense he is a guest of the
whole people and that it is not to
members of the four hundred only
or those who sport cutaway suits and
have the price for sumptuous spreads
that he owes his elevation to Office
Complaint is made that pelts sent
back from Africa contain eggs of tsetse
producing the fly that causes the sleep
ing sickness A few presents OF this
kind should be sufficient to put some
| of Roosevelts enemies where he was
| trying to get them with his big stick,
says the Sioux City Tribune.
General ]. S. Garrison may estab-
! lsh new paper in Des Moines-an old
fashioned republican paper-it is said
| But maybe Clarkson will think twice
| before making the start. If he docs
he won't start. A paper of the old Reg
lister type would have hard shedding ir
Iowa nowadays. The old Register
was an organ before 1T was a news
paper. People nowadays take news
papers. not organs" declares the
Cedar Rapids Gazette.
1.-THE case of Father Coffin afford!
additional proof of the correctness o
the old saying that there is no foo
like an old fool" remarks the Keokul
Gate City
Erich Fredericksen recently sold nj!
eighty acre farm near Winfield TO
$3.50 per acre. Seventeen years ag'
Trederickson paid $1,000 per acre TO
that land. Nobody can say what tn
future will bring forth. But it is by IL,
means impossible that the presen
owner will be able to do as well wiei
he gets ready to sell after owning til
SEVENTEEN SediS. fhliO liz llin
be able to sell at very fine profit il
a very short time" concludes the Bur
4 lington Hawkeye
"As a man and woman killer stat
fair week was conspicuous 1t was
week Of accidents, beginning with tn
death of a Cedar Rapids woma.
Some one blundered all the time an
to the extent of street cars coliidin
with railroad trains. There were hi
: crowds to be handled. but the precau
tons should have been equally larg'
Half dozen lives is too many to pa
for six days Of an agricultural carni
val" asserts the Cedar Rapids Repub
, lican.
intricate Mechanism o. Watch.
There, are more IhanS2;9OQ kdisttne
operations in the York Of asSem bin