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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07
The NEW PAVING MATERIAL

The citizens of every town in Iowa.
village or city, and farmers as we'll
should take a lively interest in the
new paving material that is coming in
20 use with the beginning of this
cement age. Heretofore brick has
proved the only all around satisfactory
paving material but brick pavernents
have cost approximately $500 per
square yard and the price has prohi-
hited much street Improvement which
would otherwise have been done, espe-
cially in the smaller towns and cities.
Concrete offers a pavement fully as
durable ar price close to s1.oO per
yard and at this price it is going to
sweep the country with it's popularity
during the next ten years.
Concrete payements are no expert
ment in fact for they are now in sue
/ cessful use in such cities as Boston.
/ Lynn. Troy. st. Joseph. Knoxville.
Tenn, New Orleans. Portland, Ore and
Gary, Ind, under one form or an
other but the cement mills of the
country have now taken up the duty of
promoting their use and the last two
years have seen a new impetus given to
/ the use Of concrete for paving.
/ At Gary, Indiana, the model city built
by the steel trust and named after its
! president, has been completely paved
with concrete, the steel magnates being
interested financially in the manufac-
ture of cement. and a finer street pave
ment can not be found anywhere. The
cost was si.65 per squarc yard which
included boom prices for common labor
and a patentee's profit for a patented
formula for mixing the concrete.
At Mason City the Northwestern
Cement Mills have succeeded in having
twenty blocks or more of concrete paw
ing ordered and the contract has beer
let for s1.19 per square yard.
At Fon du Lac, Wis, under in.
spiration from the Marquette Cemen
Company, of La Sale, Ill, some fiv'
miles of concrete paving is now under
construction at a contract price of s11!
and 1892 per square yard according t,
the amount Of excavating required.
!. Concrete paving at the above price
Il offers saving in expense to propert.
- owners of 1850 per; city-.block and %
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07
Topics of the Times

Vermont is Directing to an assign
ment of negro troops to Fl. Etiaii
Allen When Massachusetts and Yer
mon. close their doors TO the negro and
raise the color question the colored
mans case is indeed serious. The
thing 10 do, however. is to send I. S.
troops of any color black, white. or
yellow, where they are needed and let
Vermont or South Carolina kick with
out avail a u S. soldier need not
and should not answer questions as TO
mis- color.
Down at Beverly the passage of the
tariff bill simply started business
booming.
Well, let's get back TO Theodore and
the hippopotami. The season has
closed on tariff
The higher tariff on lemons didn'r
prevent Mr.. Cannon handing selec.
specimens 10 insurgent congressman.
II Thaw talks like crazy man what
are you going to do with the alienists
Any way Beveridge. Cummins, Dolli-
Yer ct al. have earned their salaries
The cross examination tariff iegisia-
ton underwent under them was cam
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07
Mn NOr2
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IWaNerl1- Indanendent.

GWaverly Independent1
Did you do anything this week
that is worth while9 This question
was suggested the other day while
this writer called at the home of one
of the good farmers in Bremner
county After We had looked abou,
the place in company with Mr.. and
Mrs Farmer for some time. Mr.. F.
said: Il want you to see my hay
and grain stacks After the barn
was filed with hay, there was enough
left to make large stack outside
The stacks of hay. rye, barley and
oats were SO we'll built and so neatly
combed, and everything about the
yard was SO we'll cleaned up that the
farmer took pride in calling attention
to his work. He felt that he had
done something that was worth
while. Then Mrs. Farmer said: Il
want You to see our new strawberry
bed" They had planted 800 plants
which had made a fine growth; tbs
stand was right. the vines covered
the rows and there were no weeds
If next season is as good for berries
as the last was. them these people
will have thousand or more quarts
of berries She said the husband
prepared the ground. helped 10 plant
and did the cuitivating. and Mrs
Farmer and the daughters did the
hoeing. They took delight in calling
attention to their strawberry bed
because they felt they had done
something that is worth while
The next time we were asked to take
notice was when Mr.. Farmer said
See this niger head basement
of our barn!" And there was a
wall substantial and good to look
upon. There was variety Of
charming beauty in the face of those
rocks. The niger heads" in the
wall had all been taken from tbs
farm The farmer had done some
thing TO which he called attention
with satisfaction. When we left he
said: Please don't mention oul
name in connection with what sou
say about our visit" Have Vol
done something that is worth while,
Are you doing your work and dur,
wel2
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paign of education by which the people
OF the middle west profited for the
future.
Some times it is hard to distinguish
by the sound whether 1t is the phono-
graph running or the wife trying to
escape.
If Spain is to have republic Alfonso
should read the BUSY Life of Nelson
Aldrich." Sometimes republic is a
bigger snap than kingdom for a ca
pable and earnest man.
Time was when the western cry for
laborers would have been heard and
noted. Just now every section is hol-
lering for help so loud that it can't
hear any burt its own voice.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07
r1Es-REPUB1ICAN MARsHAl1TowN, IOWA, AUGUST Z,

course, is an important discovery. The
specifications in all cases are very
nearly the same. For instance at
Mason City and Fom du Lac the
foundation is laid five inches thick
mixed one part cement, two parts sand
and five parts crushed stone at Mason
City and 1-21s-5 at Fond du Lac. At
Gary the foundation is made 51a inches
thick mixed LIST. On top of the
foundation is laid a top course or wear
ing surface of concrete Of various mix
lures. At Fond du Lac it is made i1s
inches thick mixed one part cement,
one Of sand and one of crushed granite
chips. AT Gary it is the same thick
ness but mixed one part cement to 11s
parts Clipped granite with no sand
while at Mason City the wearing sur
face is made two inches thick of one
part cement and two parts sand with
no granite. AT st. Joseph, Mo-, Boze-
man, Montana, and fifty other cities in
the United States the wearing surface
is mixed one cement, one sand and one
of crushed gravel or boulder rock
Everywhere the top Of the pavement is
grooved into blocks of rectangular or
diamond shape to prevent slipping and
expansion joints of wood or tar filler
are placed at intervals of fifty feet or
more.
Wherever laid right and of good ma
terials the concrete paving has proved
durable and will eventually displace
all other paving material as it is now
displacing stone in railroad bridge and
abuttment work and irrigation dams
Contractors, of course, are on the
ground early with their attempts to eX-
tort royalty profits for alleged patents
For instance suits were threatened
against the builders of the Bozeman
pavement but We're successful laughed
at The contractors at Mason City are
now held up temporarily by threat
ened usit for infringement in the use
of the growing and expansion joints
but this will amount to nothing in the
end Fond du Lac seems TO have gone
ahead with sl10 paving without trou-
bic from patentees but at Marshalltown
recently with almost identical speci-
fications as Fond du Lac patentees ol
-granitoid' or concrete with no sand
in the wearing surface, were on the
ground with a bid OF 50 cents per yard
higher than other bids claiming royal
ties from whoever should lay concrete
paving. Experienced contractors and
lawyers assert that under the Fond du
Lac and Marshalltown specifications OF
ILL in the wearing surface no pat
entee can successfully claim royalties
and since Fon du Lac is actually lay
ing over five miles of it mostly at SLID
after experimenting with a mile of i;
last year, the success of concrete as a
cheap and durable paving has beer
demonstrated hey all Question.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07
THE LODGES.
II MASONIC NoTlcEa
x&Visitors always welcome.
"Hau over lO6.7 West Main.

I y MASONIC hoTIcEa
xHVisitors always welcome.
"NHau over 106-7 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE lOs A. F. & A.
NJ. regular communication Friday eva
ening, Aug. Is, o'clock.
q. Hoeclk, W. ~.
H. S. Lawrence. Sec'y.
sIGNET CHAPTER No. IS, r. A. II.
Stated convocation Monday. Aug. 1e.
q. II. Boggie, II. r.
L s. Willard. sscy.
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL r. 4 r.
M.-Stated assembly Monday. Aug. 1eA
8 p. m.
A. ID. Mesksr. =. I ~.
/ r. Forbes. Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR coMAlANDERY NO,
80 K. T.-Stated conclave Tuesday evS
enfng, Aug. II, at o'clock.
F. M. Wilbur. e. G.
Fred Wallace, Rec. Y
CENTRAL CHAPTER No. 81. o. :.
S.-Regular meeting Wednesday, Aug.
II. at p. m.
Mrs. Geo. Downing. W. II
Edna G. Fularton. aecy.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07
Iona Newspapers
THE POP CORN MAN.
ISpencer Reporter. /

The fact that the soda water man Is
making such fizz these days is no
evidence that the pop corn man is not
still in the game. We seldom pause to
think as we stop on the corner to get
a sack of fresh buttered just what an
amount OF business the pop corn man
is doing. My what mountain OF
whiteness it would make il all the pop
corn which Mr.. Lewis has popped in
the past year was piled up in one
pile. Why during the past year Mr..
Lewis paid out 1881 for butter alone,
with which to turn out the fresh but
tered The peanut is a good side part
ner for the popcorn and would amount
10 a considerable sum.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07
The BACK FORTY TELLS III.

Many years ago old Gov. Dick
Oglesby, Illinois famous executive,
riding overland between two towns on
the common stage which carried mail
and passengers amused and astonishei
persons who had acquaintance along
the line by reading the character #
every farmer by his farm He
hit them off particularly we'll,
even to their peculiari.ies and eccen-
tricities. Something about the house,
the barn or the farmyard gave the
owner away. If Oglesby had been
speaking from personal acquaintance he
could scarcely have been more &C.
curate
The stage is gone but the farms lying
along the railroad tracks afford oppor-
tunity for those who desire to test tie
accuracy OF their observation The
countryside tells the story Of IS own
ers. The farmers back forty along the
tracks tells on him. 1t offers informal
ton and even scandal that he who runs
may read. It even offers the harvester
salesman business gossip that he Is
quick TO use 10 his advantage; and the
collector makes a shrewd guess as -
probable success or failure when h.
sees the weeds in the corn ana the
shock on the hill.
One thing the fields say and keep
saying year after year and season after
season and that is that the ordinary
Iowa farmer needs 10 learn that there
are other crops besides corn. All along
the line Of the Northwestern from
Clinton 10 Council Bluffs and the Tlli-
nois Central from Sioux City to d.
buque the low lying helds undrained
and waJersoaked show. long patches OF
corn yellow. stunted and worthless
Seven years out of ten the same pane
rama unfolds itself. The farmer with
a persiscency worthy of better result!
keeps on trying 10 raise corn on lanc
fit only for grazing purposes until i
has been thoroughly tiled and drained
Now there is money in those field:
when some farmer who has Learned
that dairying is one Of the most profit.
able farming pursuits gets hold o
them. They are lush in grass and quicl
TO respond after once fed off. They d,
not require the rain that do the uplant
pastures. Still the sight is common u
see cattle running in upland fields IN
nocent Of a pillow for a half dozen year
while one big crop gathered one season
IN three leases the corn farmer int
placing his dependence upon the lo7
ground
We need to learn that there is none.
in other crops than corn. He nee
to learn potato farming from III
Grundy county potato farmer who j
buying new farms annually with tn
product OF his potato fields. We nee
TO learn that milk pays and we ca.
learn i from INC farmer along the ol
K. & w, the H. & S, ana the othe
streaks of rust that the Burlington ha
made respectable in southern low
since it acquired them.
Perhaps it would be economy in n
long run if every young farmer wer
compelled TO spend a year working ove
Iowa and adjoining states after I'll
wanderyahr of the old German hand
worker. He would come back with a
idea Of diversified farming and the pos
sibilities that lie hid in every acre
Iowa soil
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07
For Sunday Reading
AN Sortsof Obinions
An Honest Prayer.
George D. Perkins in His Sioux Cit,


George D. Perkins in His Sioux City
Jcurnal)
Establish thou the work of our
hands upon US; yea, the work Of our
hands establish thou IT,"
1t is a very great comfort-if one
shall feel the need of comfort-to
turn to the goth psalm-"a prayer of
Moses the man of Cod Moses had
started out on his great expedition
with the Hebrew people TO seek the
Promised Land. He was their leader,
called of God. He had reached the
wilderness with his dscordanr follow
ing, dependent upon him, and yet
complaining and often rebellious,
Unused himself TO so great hardship.
he was called upont to take the bTunt
of all hardship. He felt himself un-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07

Struggle and strain, hustle and heave
"a una!
The strong must bear what the weak
may leave, a una!
All with one and one with all.
Bend your backs at the foreman's call
"a una!
The shovels gnaw at the steep divide
"a una!
The drills bite deep in the mountain
side-a una!
The blast roars out, and the rock falls
free,
Rafting the echo from sea to sea
una!
Tustle and toll, clamor and curse
war Is he'll, but II might he worsa
una!
Those that stay with the bloody ditch
Will get medal and dhobie ditch
una!
When Pharoah finished his pyramid
una:
He said: Look what I've done gone
and did-a una!
I'm jiggered if this don't beat tht
Dutch
But we'll show Pharoah he amt 81
much-a una!
Greek, Gallego and coolie man:
Niger and spig and American
una!~
Parson and pimp. scholar and scamp
a una!
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07
or.nuIated sor. Eye. curl

For twenty years ! suffered from q
bad case of granulated sore eyes says
Martin Boyd. Of Henrietta, KY. I'm
February, 1903. q gentleman asked md
to try Chamberlain's salve. bought
one box and used about two-thirds Of
It and my eyes have not given me any
trouble since" The salve II Tor sale
by all drusgistS e.,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07

It's a health resort-so the doctors
tell-a nua!
A salubrious spot it is-like hell
una!
With lungs for you and liver 70,
Bugs for some, and for some D. t.
a una!
PUT an egg In your shoe, you damned
sore head una!
And beat It," John f. Stevens said
una.
A steamer sails most every day,
IF you've got any kick, you dom
have to stay''-a una!
The Colonel don't use any talk lik
that-a una!
But the same idea is under his hat
una!
He puts it in circular x. Y. a., an
works it out the same for you and TO
Some of US like it and some of u
don't-a una!
Most OF us work, but some OF us won
"a una!
Still the dirt comes out by shove
and dredge,
And the dams rise up from the water
edge-a una!
Bill says we must finish before h
goes out-a una!
Big Bill knows what he's talking abos
| "a una!
Wen be there on time II nobod
] shirks.
And lick the Japs to show how
2 works. una
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07
Chanty of the Ditch Diggers

following poem
rails position
calls heard long the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-07


lis the reflected light of the sun.
Moses did not pray that he be re-
heved from care and anxiety. He did
not complain of work. He was willing
to work. All he asked was that he
might be led in the right way and do
the right things. He looked forward
to a time of gladness for his people,
not because of special favor, but be
cause they had made themselves free
| in the Lords service. He did not ex-
pect for them that they would reap
where they had not sown. He did not
expect the Lords way would be made
! subordinate, but he had great hope
that his people would make the Lords
way their own.
Establish thou the work OF ou1
hands upon US: yea, the work OF oul
hands establish thou It," Moses die
not feel he had right to ask for more
and we may conclude that no mar
has right to pray for more. II the
work of the hands be evil, no one Is
likely 10 pray tiiat ttiiis work OF iiii
hands be established upon him. It Is
only when one is looking toward God
and when ne is feeling for the touch
lpi lnc uiN'he iIdHu, th0l He wall OBJ
remembrance according to his works
Moses went to the Lord with tree.
dom OF conscience. He had doubt o
his own wisdom, but he had unlimited
faith in Cod Hex sought to apply hi:
heart unto wisdom, and therein n.
was great. He knew his own integrity
land that he presented in token Of tn,
lsdncerity Of his service. He was al
the time looking for work-the LORD,
! work
LET they work appear unto tn.
servants, and thy glory unto thei
Ichildren. And let the beauty OF tn
Lord our God be upon us; and es
ltahiish t4,na. the work of our hand
tlupon us; yea, the work of our hand
testablish thou It"
The Coconino sun., 1909-08-27
Our Business to Help Your Business

There many who know it and have used our service to their advantage We believe there are many who do not know it and ought to-for their interest.
 The point to bear in mnd-by help, it does not mean it's the banks business to furnish all the capital but rather to help out your capital and ability.
 The thing to do is to accumulate some capital by opening bank account which will also establish credit. It's hard proposition to start anything all at We appreciate the fact that everything must grow, and small accounts grow into big ones.
The Coconino sun., 1909-08-27

Mrs. Farmer and daughter, Miss Maggie, of Springfield, Mo-, ar rived Wednesday mornining and will spend two or three weeks with her daughter, Mrs. George Coffin.
 Miss. Isabella ]. Hay of New South Wales, Australia and Miss Olive K. King of Sidney Australia, were stopping a few days this week at the Commercial, and viewing points of interest.
 Hon, K. H. Cameron, wife and son Ralph, returned Monday night from Washington D. C. on the limited. Ralph is glad to get back home again after his long seize at the national capitol.
 R. s. People of Holbrook was here Monday on business. He claims that within the next ten years Holbrook will be the largest town along the line of the Santa Fe in Arizona and that it is now booming.
 Fen $. Hildreth, of Phoenix, who makes a speciality of land, mining and irrigation laws, will hereafter conduct the business alone. He has had a number of years experience as register and receiver of the land office and has been very successful in handling these cases.
 Father Vabre returned from Santa Fe Friday, where he at tended the ceremony of the receipt of the Pallium by Arch Bishop Pitival. Owing to washouts and delayed trains he arrived too late for the banquet, which he regrets very much, as he was the only speaker from Arizona.
The Coconino sun., 1909-08-27
Local and Personal
Rains still continue.

Mrs. Wm. Willis departed tor Phoenix Sunday to visit friends.
 Mir. Larry Doyle of Phoenix came in last Saturday and is visit ing old friends here.
 Frank Beasley left Sunday for Phoenix to look after his ranch for couple ol weeks.
 Superintendent Maxwell of the Indian service was in the city from Leupp Saturday.
 Gustave Reimer, who speaks init sheeps as friends, was in from Williams Saturday,
 M. c. Smith and A. l.. Dickinson two prominent Clay Park cattlemen were in the city this week.
 Mrs. Walsh of Seigman, was the guest of her daughter Mrs. Geo. Newman a couple days last week.
 C J. Spellmire and Jack Lyons of Winslow were in Flagstaff Fri day interviewing the board of equa- lization.
 Ed Waddles, who waddles for St. Joe dry goods house. was in town Friday doing his share of the business.
 Mrs. Passie who has been visit ing friends here the past month, returned to her home in Phoenix Saturday.
 Charles E. Howard, one of the pioneer sheepmen of Northern Arizona. was in the city from Ash Fork Friday.
 Mrs. Chas. Howard of Ash Fork accompanied by Mrs. Holt of New York, are in the city for a couple of weeks stay.
 Miss Helen Merritt who has been entertained b Y friends in Williams the past week, returned Monday evening.
 Ranger c. A. Daniels who has been member of the Forest Ser vice force for a number of years, resigned August goth.
 J. c. Grim left Friday morning for his home in Santa Barbara. Cal ifornia after a pleasant two weeks visit with old friends.
 Kaiser" Frankforter, the Phoe- nix liveryman, came in Tuesday night from the south and spent several days with friends here.
 The choice residence lots, held out of the market for so many years by F. w. Sisson, are adver- tised for sale by the administra- tor. If
 August Lindstrom. superintend- ent of the Saginaw & Manistee lumber camps north of Bellemont. | was in the city Friday looking for men.
 Miss Winnie Persach of Law renee, Kansas. arrived Friday morning and IS the guest of Mrs. T. J. Coalter. She will remain for several weeks.
 Chas iaeger, Al Sims and Rang CT c. A. Daniels came in from Long Valley Friday where they have been building ranger cabin and making other improvements.
 MT. Hugh C. Kennedy, of Je- rome, spent the week with Alex McDermid MT. Kennedy was born and raised in the home town of MT. McDermid, in Ontario.
 Miss Alta Hubbs, who has beer the guest of Miss Zella Jones ion sometime, left for her home in Kingman Sunday. She will teach | in the Kingman schools the com ing year.
 Ed. Walker and Billy Croning, the latter better known as Curly" left Sunday for Seattle and expect to remain among the big trees on the coast. Both are we'll known loggers who have many friends here.
 Cab. Wolf, a prominent cattle man of Williams, was in the city Tuesday. Speaking of rains he said his section of the country near williams had been visited with the heaviest rains in years, though they were too late in the season to help his ranch crop.
 Miss Martha Garnett. a charm