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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02

more in money to do business at home
than away from home. This will moi
be true; as to many items, and only OF
some, and in the cases where it is true
the explanation will not be the greed
of local dealers, for their margin is
about the same as the margins of the
dealers out of town doing business on
the same basis. This excess cost, or
premium, is a contribution indirectly
to a larger, more prosperous city. 1T
means that what local people buy local
people will profit from. The more soap
that is made in Dubuque that Dubuqu-
ers use, the larger the demand upon the
factory the larger the number of men
employed, the larger the floor area
needed. The more lumber bought here
the more will be cut, the more men en-
ployd locally, the larger the contribu-
ton to local wealth.
Suppose everybody pursued the prin-
ciple of buying in the cheapest market
regardless of local dealers. In that case
perhaps, good deal of the local trade
might go out of town; tens OF thous-
ands Of dollars might go out annually
for dress goods and mems clothing
enabled them to reap large profits on a
margin smaller than local dealers could
live from, the bulk Of the business
would be done out of town. Then there
would be many empty grocery stores,
and innumerable empty buildings.
If it would cost the builder 10 per
cent premium to do business with a
local contractor, he would get the 10
per cent back with interest. Because it
is costing some one else, ambitious to
help build up the town. 10 per cent
more to do business with him than it
would cost if the business was done
with somebody out of town.
So that while it may appear that the
increased cost of doing business with
local people is unfair, on closer exam
ination it takes on another aspect, for
the 10 per cent comes back with inter-
est, as we have said, and the good will
of fellow townsmen, and the town goes
ahead.
1t Is well to have it understood that
there is reciprocity in the matter of
premiums for building up the town
Everybody pays the premiums And it
is we'll to have it understood that we
ought to do business with our neighbors
when they can give US what we need
and their higher charges are accounted
for by the fact that they can't afford
ia do business on lower margin.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
ELECTIONS TODAY,

Three governors are to be elected to-
day in the states of Rhode Island. vir-
ginia and Massachusetts. Two of thse
are most likely to be republicans. vir-
ginia is still conceded democratic
despite the efforts of our one time gov
ernor Shaw to disturb its equilibrium.
However. the republicans claim a for
lorn hope and expect TO increase the
republican vote in that state. Rhode
Islands presidential vote gave repub-
lican plurality of close TO 20. 600 and it's
state election is predicted to come close
to duplication of the presidential fig
ures. Massachusetts is confidently and
concededly republican. The situation
an Virginia is one that in a northern
state would be considered ticklish The
democrat is running on a prohibition
platform while the republican candi-
date is pledged 20 local option.
Seven other states hold elections TO-
day Maryland is voting on an amend
ment TO the constitution DISTINGUISHING
negroes, the disfranchisement 10 be ac-
complished as in South Carolina and
Louisiana by a test of interpre tation of
the constitution. The negro who salts
hes the judges of election of his under
standing Of the constitution will be ner-
united to vote The plan simply mrs
the process of Acknowledgement into
The hands OF election judges, a des-
perate battle is being waged and the
outlook is for the defeat of the amend
ulent
In three cities important and inter
estin9 elections are in progress. Ton,
johnson is running again for MAYOR O,
cleveland and with excellent prosoects
OF success. Heny is a candidate fo,
district attorney in San Francisco an,
the significance of his election ar da.
feat needs no explanation. New yorl
is carrying on three corneraa fob,
with Hearst in the center strik;,e ,+l
ways. Gaynor represents Tammanv
Barnard decent government and H..s
represents Hearst.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02

public neglected their duty and lodged
1t when petty boss gave orders. Hun
dreds Of children died because their
mothers knew absolutely nothing of
proper feeding and proper nursing. Be
cause these mothers We're overworked
Because their parents were diseased.
They died from hundred preventable
causes.
1t is time we were thinking of i'm
proving human beings as we'll as hogs 5;
of raising the standard of human kind
as we'll as of cattle When you come
to think of it we all notice stray calf.
pig or colt and wonder why its owner
doesn't care for it while we pass a
dozen strayed and straying children
with Indifference. But We ought to
give babies a fair chance TO live.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
Looker-On In Iona

Tama. Nov. 2.-Joe Cannon's speech
es not only in this state, but elsewhere
have made the man a subject of gener-
al comment here in Iowa. It's almost
unnecessary to say he is very unpopu-
lar with the Cummins' crowd and to
this can be added he is thoroughly dis
liked by temperance and religious peo-
pie. His public profanity disgusts all
decent people whether republicans,
democrats, populists, socialists or pro-
aibitionists. The latter feels that with
Cannon as speaker Of the house no real
temperance legislation is possible. Add
TO all this the open opposition, of nearly
all women that are interested in public
affairs and it would seem that if the
same conditions prevail outside of Iowa
1t will be difficult thing for him to be
reelected as speaker.
Theirs no question but that the
standpatters of Iowa are "bracing up"
than three months ago. Not only has
Mr.. Lacey began to sit UP and take
notice but others from standpatterville
are now once more saying few things
This in every town. Some of the good
4 bicLuSlS IlldI were IOIIneInY SIaNuDdl-
tiers and were converted to a mild form
of progressiveness now show signs OF
back sliding. And adj this in Iowa
dates from President Taft's Winona
speech. When at Sioux City during
the national campaign Mr.. Taft spoke
of revision downward" as being g
part OF his creed, others hearts besides
the editor of the Sioux City Journa,
ached. But now with Taft for US who
can be against US say these conserva.
tives. Unfortunately for the good O.
the party, with so large majority o.
the voters being of the progressive
class, it is easy for our democratic
friends to see great possibilities fo
them, as a result Of our republican diff
ferences of opinions.
And there's more rank iieresy ops.
loutspoken statements not in ACCORD
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02

had great faith in it and laid out 121
blocks-an immense town for those
days in Hamilton county. Its streets
were named after the presidents, be-
ginning with Washington and ending
with Buchanan, who was in the chair
the year this town was born.
Paris was located in Marion town
ship and was of the very earliest settle
ments in the county, having been plat
ted in 1855.
New Saratoga, too. was one Of the
county's earliest settlements, having
been laid out in 1856, the same year as
it's sister town of Paris. 1t was located
in Webster township upon the present
site of what is known as Saratoga.
Hawley was plated in 1857 in Will
liams township, it having been laid out
as rival town to Mettamora.
1t is more than likely that some of
the older settlers of the county, those
who came in the fifties-if their mem
DRY is goodnight write columns of
interesting matter upon these old town
sites, which have now been abandoned
so long their very existence had been
forgotten.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
A WIDE OPEN FIELD.
LCherokee Republican. l


Any Iowa farmer, if he wants to en-
gage in raising fruit or vegetables by
particularized or intensive methods,
need not go far away to the irrigation
or dry farming" regions. He need not
move out of his tracks.
He can just take a patch or q, few
acres of his own land and do it. That
all he will work if he goes to California.
There he will pay $500 to $500 an acre
for land. Here the market is right at
ha nd-no shipping at high rates across
continent.
And if there is no trouble about irri-
cation here, if you want it. 1t is a rare
Iowa farm on which irrigation for few
acres could not be cheaply supplied.
Drainage also could be provided easily
for such patch. Both safeguards are
to be had here at a 1.-THE of the cost of
scant water in California.
| And the Iowa farmer would still have
his farm left. Certainly he would have
to learn new methods TO handle such a
patch. So he inevitably will, if he goes
to the irrigation country and stakes his
all there.
| It is not because we cannot. but be-
cause we will not, that Iowa is not to-
day one of the greatest fruit producing
countries in the world. We don't take
the pains, the labor. the expense neces-
sary here as elsewhere to produce and
prepare fruit for the market. Our
farmers have simply preferred or are
in the habit of raising other crops.
But there is absolutely nothing in the
| nj pslr
tnons to prevent any Iowa farmer. OF
any Cherokee county farmer, from spe-
cialized efforts along these lines. The
field is wide open. And it viii require
only a small fraction of his farm.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
Building Roads in York State
journal Automobile Club of America.1

/ their experiments for some years yet
before it is settled how to build and
maintain roads to meet the conditions
under which they are used,
The New York highway commission
was this year given an appropriation Of
about 81 ,500 900 for maintenance, about
$500 mile for the 1897 miles of state
aid roads now built. Contracts have
been let for resurfacing in the most
neglected and bad places. These pro-
vide for several different methods Of
resurfacing, most of which is to be
done with an elastic binder, tar, asphalt
and oil being used. The balance of the
money will be used in employing pa
trolmen to have charge of from eight
duty to fill holes, etc.
AS the law provides that the state
roads must be equitably distributed
among the counties, only a small piece
of state road, some five or six miles.
can be built in any county in any one
year. For this reason 1t will be impos-
sibe to build one thru route immedi-
ately, but it is the intention of the
commission to complete the road from
New York to Albany and Albany to
odAA<AiO sAo AsbPioly cS t1iO A0W w III PCA :
NIT. 1t is estimated that this route will
be completed in about three years.
The state of Massachusetts, next year
will practically complete a state road
from Cape Cod across the middle por-
ton of the state to near Albany, N. Y,
and when our state road is completed
from Albany to Niagara Falls. we will
have from Cape Cod to Niagara Falls,
distance of about 700 miles, a state
road which will be the finest and long
est stretch of state road for automobil-
ing in the United States.
The people of the state of New York
are to be congratulated on the fact that
the Empire State leads every state In
the union in road construction, it hav-
ing at this time more state road than
any other state, and is the only state of
the union which has bonded itself for
the purpose of highway improvement.
1t is folly to spend money building
expensive macadam roads unless they
can be maintained, and We know that
| the highway commissions of this and
other states are doing everything they
can to find out how to build and main
tain good roads, but this question is
not yet answered.
When we drove horses it was not
considered good form to have a car
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
MASSACHUSETTS, "eood Roads. /"


The State Roads" of Massachusetts
are models of what the country high
way should be- 1t is said there are as
many miles of really good" roads in
that state as in all the other states
r. H Windsor in the October Popular
Mechanics. the experience and exam
pie of Massa chusetts is being felt thru
out the east and communities which
formerly fought road improvem ent are
now rapidly changing their minds, for
thousands of motor cars are touring
thru New England and scattering
tourist money in their wake. Not only
New Englanders'. but hundreds of cars
from the central west are there. The
good roads influence is even crossing
the line and the countries in Quebec
bordering on Vermont and New Hamp-
shire are waking up and inviting tour
lists from this side by good roads
In those local sections, especially in
the middle west where road building
is expensive on account of scarcity of
suitable material. we believe some tenn
porary help might be obtained by
erecting a box in which contributions
COuiu ne pldCtu ny users vi cars SOlUS
over the road. A notice over the box
stating the road commission was hand
icapped by an insufficient appropria-
ton and that every cent contributed
would be spent on that particular
piece of road might call out some
quarter and half dollars which in the
course of season should help consid-
erably The success of the plan. howev-
er. would depend on the road commits
sioner showing results. The contribu-
tions would not be expected to do more
than repair some of the worst places.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
NOT THE BEST MAN ALIVE"
Manson Democrat


She said she wouldn't marry the best
man in the world. That was ten years
ago. She was young and buXom and
fresh as buttercup then She kept
her word We saw her the other day
and she had faded like a woman's com
plexion at a Fourth of July celebration.
She wasn't buxom any more She
was buxomer and there was more gray
than any other color in her hair. She
was living in town and they told me
she made her living and that of her
husband and children by washing. In
stead of marrying the best man in the
world she married one of the worst, a
big hulking creature with not an am
bition in the world except to shirk all
the duties of manhood and citizenship
and live on the fruits of other people
labors. But she was not altogether to
blame in marrying him, maybe. 1t is
possible that she thought he would
make good. She is not the only girl
who wouldn't marry the best man in
the world Other girls have said the
same thing and they always have kept
their word-if they got married at all
1t might be we'll for ordinary girls to
be satisfied with ordinary men. for there
is only one best man in the world' and
he is already married TO some other
woman II you don't believe it, just
ask some woman who is stuck on her
husband
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02

with party doctrine heard now In Iowa
than for the past twenty-five years.
Taft is already q very unpopular pres
ident with a large number of repubN-
cans in Iowa and this expression so
general with only public record as
president little of six months, Car
rail- as governor of Iowa, elected by a
republican majority. stands more than
an even chance of not being named
and elected for second term. And
here's a strange condition. 1t is ALMOST
safe to assert that if popular vote
was taken inside the democratic ranks,
Roosevelt would have more votes for
president than William B. Bryan. So
that in the next congress if party
lines should be broken to unseat Cam
non or to amend the latest tariff law
it would not shock everybody in Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02

rage which made noise; all parts
that ratified or squeaked were PROMPTLY
looked after, but today few autono-
blllsts drive with a muffler cut-open.
and make noise which is disagreeable
to others on the highway and annoying
to their passengers.
Some automobiles allow their en-
glnes to smoke because they use too
much oil. A smoky exhaust smells bad
~, wastes Oil, scots the spark plugs and
is unpleasant to everyone 1t shows ig-
nerance or carelessness on the part of
the chauffeur.
In Paris the driver of smoking au-
tomobile is heavily fined, and there it
is seldom that the air is polluted by
| the exhaust of motors.
Many macadam and dirt roads are
rutted by the automobile and show two
parallel ruts frequently extending for
miles, the driver of an automobile who
cares for the road, and for the comfort
OF his passengers does not drive in the
rut except where the road is very mar
row and he must drive in it,
| 1t is proof of incapacity or ignor-
ance or both to drive in ruts, EXCEPT in
| rare cases.
| III VIII help maintain our roads if we
make II a rule not to drive in the rut,
The driver of an automobile should
not forget that he has no more right
on the highway than any other vehicle
or person. The road is common prop
erty and is for the use of all. The auto
mobllist who sounds d siren or a hiaa-
ton and frightens horse into the
ditch, so that he may rush by at a high
speed in the middle of the road. has
forgotten that the road is common
property. The automobilist who passes
others on the road at a high rate Of
speed and covers others with mud ana
dust is taking more than belongs to
him of what is common property. The
driver who rushes thru towns and
rounds corners at dangerous speed.
frightening people, even tho he does
not run them down, is using the road
| improperly.
The question is asked, are automo-
bilists who do these things gentlemen?
What is the answer?
| The great majority of Automobiles
drive with consideration and kindly
feeling for others on the road but we
are often judged by the actions Of the
4 minority. who need some good auto
mobile sense beaten into them.
80 much is being done in this and in
other states in highway improvement
that our roads are becoming better
each year, so that the facilities and
comfort of touring by automobile are
greatly increased. and large part Of
the traffic on the roads in New Eng
Ian and the central states is by auto
mobile-certainly in the summer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02

good deal OF confusion and be a big
help to the press if all swindlers would
follow that plan.
Did you ever notice that the airship
as means of transportation doesn't
seem to engage the fancy of Hill. Nor
gan. Hawley, Levitt, etc? Nor is it
recalled that the late Hartman ever
took such flights.
If you are one of those who often
have been called lazy and have your
self half believed it, why, it isn't so.
It's the hookworm.
If man steals. he needs a surgical
operation; if he is indolent, he has
hookworm. Present. we will have soft
terms for all of our vices.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
A Religious Authors Statement.

Rev. Joseph H. Fesperman, Salisbury.
n c., who is the author of several
books, writes: For several years
was afflicted with kidney trouble and
last winter / was suddenly stricken
with severe pain in my kidneys and
was confined to my bed eight days I'M
able to get up without assistance MY
urine contained thick white sediment
and passed same frequently day and
night. commenced taking Foleys
Kidney Remedy, and the pain gradual
ly ceased and my urine became normal
cheerfully recommend Foley's Kidney
Remedy" Mcbride & Will Drug Com
pany
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
Topics of the Times

Spiritualists have been communicate
ing with Gladstone and announce that
they learn that he is for the budget"
The budget is the big issue in England
Just now. Maybe the sunragettes
could get little encouragement in the
same way.
Il seems little unfortunate that the
football and cornhusking seasons over
lap. If the energy of the gridiron could
be applied to the cornfield the cry for
help would be answered TO some ex-
tent.
The suffraglsts will get you if you
don't watch out.
A Chicago preacher suggests that
parade in the boulevard districts of the
city might do more good than one in
the red light district 1t is needed
there as much as any place else, he
says. The allusion is to the recent
performance of Gypsy Smith in leading
parade thru Chicago's tenderloin.
The circuit court has granted a new
trial 10 defendant in Judge McPher-
sons court because the Judge declared
to the jury that the man was either
crazy or guilty But what will Nc
Pherson say of the circuit court?
Down in Alabama the anti-prohibi-
tionists are parading million dollar
deficit in the state treasury as rea-
son why the dry regime should fall.
| This would seem to preclude them
from utilizing the old familiar plea that
prohibitory laws have no effect.
| Which would you prefer as a Christ
mas gift-an automobile, an airship or
a stick of dynamiteo
The honeymoon of Anita Stewart,
the American heiress who was recently
married to Prince Miguel de Braganza
in the Scottish Highlands, is married
by question of grave doubt respect
! ing her official status. Having re-
tnounced the title of royal llighness at
the time of the marriage, the bride
groom accepted from his father that of
duke of Vizeu. King Manuel of Portu-
gal claims personal ownership to that
title and thru the Portuguese ambas-
sador at Vienna he has lodged formal
protest TO its assumption by the son
of the pretender to the Portuguese
throne. Poor Anita! Maybe the Sal
walton army could be induced to take
up her case.
o, fudge! They say the Christmas
gifts are to be same old thing. Moth
; ing new. What a humdrum world II
is, anyway.
Postmaster General Hitchcock 4.
said to love hard work. AS the polit.
ical genius of the administration. hi
ought to find what he is looking for al
the result of some things the presi.
; dent has said on his present trip.
That bigamist who was arrested ii
i, the east and can't give the official data
on all of his wives evidently wasn't a,
goodNa bookkeeper as Mabray. Mabra,
had it all down in black and white Jus
how each and every victim wa
"milked."sWe are inclined to indors
the Mabray method. 1t would save :.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
40 FERNs ADvERTIsED.

INIdTkSVIIle SldTI
Il will be noted by reading the adj
vertsing columns of this paper that
there are no farms for sale in this vi
cinity. This speaks we'll for the worth
of this class of property and refutes
the charge that people are selling their
high priced lands and going where they
can buy cheaper. When we pick up
paper and find it filed with real estate
advertisements, we feel sorry for that
community The time may come when
Butler county land owners will want to
dispose of their holdings, but it is ap-
parently not now.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
DYING by Halves.

BY falling from a cart, Chinaman,
whose life was insured for a large
amount. was seriously hurt There
was some doubt as to his ever getting
better, and at length one of his friends
wrote to the insurance company:
thong Wang Lee half dead; likee
half money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
THE LODGES.
n MASONIC NOTICES,
wv Visitors always welcome.
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II MASONIC NOTICES.
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ST. ALDEMAR CoMMANDERY NO.
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F. NJ. Wilbur, e. c.
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-02
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.

Did you ever notice how much
higher the price of corn and hogs is
when you don't have any to kill than
1t is when YOU do?' asks the O'Brien
County Democrat