Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-08-11
Topics of the Times

men and their automobile fandcars on
the icago-Savanna division. The
next thing we know publishers will he
compelled to accept autos on subscrip-
ton accounts
Ben Salinger has been carrying the
K. P. lodge into republican state con-
ventions for fifteen years. This is his
Pythian purpose so far as one can
observe who has seen the conventions
in progress and who knows nothing Of
the inside of the lodge.
Joke if you will about the expense
bills which come home from the sum-
mer resort but suppose she should
come back unexpectedly just as lit
tie stag party was in progress.
What will the next state republican
convention of Iowa say about the tar
if billo
Wheat harvest is on in the Canadian
northwest this week The average yield
is said to be about twenty bushels and
the total 1s0,0OOOoo
If the insurgents would really cut
ice as to the tariff let them spring
some insurgent candidates for the per-
manent tariff commission The stand
patters have a full quota ready now.
perfected a plan of fraternal life in
surance and old age pensions at mini
mum cost of operation they will have
pioneered for union labor and shown
the union man the thing that will
cause his union to endure forever
The day of the land lottery ought to
have passed. What land the govern
ment has left should be sold to actual
settlers on the ten year payment plan
and the money used for irrigation
works or natural forest reserves.
iMarshalltown has just closed week
with another carnival promised to be
Clean" The usual following of sloven-
ly women living in tents and engaging
in bra'wls and the customary midnight
specials" were prominent features. City
authorities who license carnivals are
pandering to coarseness and are en-
couraging indecency.
| You people of Iowa who think it is
hot should imagine yourselves on the
tenth floor Of a dirty Chicago fat, in
side room opening on a ventilator, a
sick baby in the crib and milk sour
ing in the bottle despite formaldehyde
/ A Chicago school teacher tells of a
1900 mile trip by trolley from Wau-
keegan to Boston for s2475. People in
Marshalltown would gladly pay that
price for thirty mile trip from Mar
shalltown to Grundy Center.
1t is said that the image on the penn,
doesn't look like real, live Indian
anyway. Possibly not, but since op.
portunity to make the comparison ha.
become so rare, that image represent.
will be carried along in memory, in
stead of undergoing correction.
Mayor Dahl1nan of Omaha dare
Governor Shallenberger to try to Gus
him. If the mayor gets too fresh, tn,
governor may call in the bouncer o.
that Sioux City opera house.
The weather bureau has transferred
forecaster from Tampa, Fla. to New
York City. Now they will no doubt be
gin growing pineapples on Broadway
The Cedar Rapids Gazette says tina
Congressman Good will spend his va
cation getting better acquainted witt
his constituents. Does the Gazet.,
mean to imply need along that line:
Connecticut towns are threatene,
With milk famine because of tn
drying up of pastures. The dairymel
of some communities will regard thei
brethren of Connecticut as a naive lot.
After all, considering what we llay
done to the Indian generally 1T is no
wholly incongruous that we should kic
him off the penny also.
Congress didn't have everything t
do with fixing the tariff on zinc. Work
ers in the zinc smelters at Pueblo hay
struck for 25 per cent Increase fl
wages.
The conventional consequences OF
naughty spirit and of pride seem t
have no terrors for the stock market.
1t is said that Thaw's sister, actin
. as his business agent, has obtaine
contracts to the value Of $40, 600 for he
brothers literary output. 1t is the pub
,, {lic, not Thaw, that is crazy.
It is said now that the outlook "a
appropriations for public buildings a
, the next session of congress is slim
, lcBut the exigencies of the congressions
E campaign will be more easily estimat :
later on and maybe then the outloo
will take on a more robust aspect.
IOWA OPINIONS AND NOTES.
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