Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-28
Topics of the Times

"Poor Mildred is worried over her
commencement Grafton, I know" said
Murray Hillson to his wife the other
evening. I'VE must help her all we can
and do everything to cheer and en-
courage her, else she may break down"
ut is not that at ALL" replied Mrs.
Murray Hillson. 'what is bothering
the poor girl is to get oxfords that
will match her gown"
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The battleship Mississippi is at New
Orleans after making 275 miles in four
teen hours up the river. However, no
modern battleship is likely to beat the
record made by a certain fleet Of
wooden ships that steamed up the riv-
er nearly a half century ago and was
received by a very different crowd in
very different fashion.
Senator Smoot is having more trou-
BILE with Cummins as he ever had with
all his wives.
An alleged news story says that
Paris women are seriously considering
wearing the hair cut short. Rats!
Timely interest is given to the cur
rent issue of the Atlantic by the pub
LEGATION of paper on "The Socialism
of G. Loves Dickinson" by Paul E.
More. Mr.. Dickinson has recently been
/ lecturing before large and sympathetic
audiences in this country. Another dis
/ tinguished Englishman of letters who
is much in the public eye at the mo-
ment is John Galsworthy. who makes
one of his first contributions to AM
erican magazines in a story called
''The Novelists Allegory."
Congressman Lands urged on De.
troit audience a plan for ship sub
sidy. One might inquire why the con.
gresham is not in Washington doing
something for his salary and ash
whether mis- ilautauqua dates Il. the
west are part of his ship subsidy
plan. The middle west has had abou
all the ship subsidy plea it cares for
Lands better write chautauqua lee.
ture on some subject nearer the ap.
prevail of the western chautauquan.
From the number of suggested can.
didacies for congress in the Ninth i
may be suspected that the report o.
those shameless secret service men ant
Judge Smiths denunciation of Roose.
Welt didn't do Walter I. Smith an,
good.
Hardin county is claiming the oldes
real estate dealer in the state in tn,
person of w F. Andrews. of New
Providence. aged So 1t might be wei
to call Hardin county's attention t.
Joseph Tuffree, of Marshalltown, VIII
hustles real estate every day and VIII,
voted two or three years after NJ,
Andrews was born. Joseph Tuffree wa
six feet high when the Hardin count
man appeared upon the scene an
when it is added that Mr.. Tuffree re
Gently took out a ten year lease o.
his real estate office it may be sur
missed that he intends to remain i
, the business for some time to come.
Perhaps that quake was only Sena
tor Aldrich trembling in his boots.
The number of Iowas insane ha
Q
: haps it would be we'll to cut out drinl
. bridge whist and other excitants fo
a few years until we get back to nor
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Under the head "old Offenders Re
Elected" the Sioux City Journal print
the names of the officers-elect of tt
e NJ. E. women's Home Missionary Sc
2 ciety. What? When they stood ps
e and elected the same "old offenders
perhaps the reason that Billy Sur
day is not better pleased with result
{ at Marshalltown is that the people L
II there arc SO good TO begin with" sus
gests the Des Moines Capital. and IL
Waterloo Reporter says: BILLY SUI
= day can hardly expect as many col
+ verts in nice moral town like Ma
q shalltown as in some of the wickt
Y cities he has visited"
= Now aren't these nice neighbors?
st Will the man in charge please tul
q on the sunshine?
u From appearances Senator Lorim
>. will be in plenty of time to get in
n the tariff discussion.
), Everyone smiled but the hyena VIII
J. Kermit shot one Of those ANNA
Ut But the hyena quit laughing.
did you secure tickets for the pla
l. hubby?' inquired the New York wi
at 81 hear they are in demand"
-e "They are. But I managed to e
e. seats for two months from tonigl
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in "Well?"
1y "You might begin to get ready nov
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