Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-12

have bought the entire county. Now
that vast sums represents q few scat
tered chunks of her area of splendid
farm land.
| A bill before the legislature provides
for the expenses of patients at the dip
somaniac hospital commonly known as
the state jag cure. There Is d growing
opinion and conviction that these pa
| TENTS should he made to earn their
expenses at such labor as they are able
to perform and that if any appropria-
I ton is to be made it should be for the
expenses of the families left destitute.
Set the booze fighters at work. There
| is altogether too much maudliniZing
over common drunkards. Good honest
hard work is one of the best cures on
feebled muscles Of the booze suicide.
The house committee is making wry
faces over the expenditure of $4,000 by
| the board of regents of the university
| to build house for the president of
| the school, 1t seems to have doubts of
the good judgment of the board, a
doubt that will be shared by others.
| The rent ought not to be greater than
| the salary.
| Senator Gilliland seems to be OBJ
sessed with the desire to get back at
the cities and the members from the
| nj To- to fo
over on the Des Moines statesmen"
Some Des Moines statesmen have made
some of Senator Gilliland's friends I'M
comfortable in the past. incidentally
there is promise Of comfort for these
same friends in the public utilities bill
which claims Gillilands closest fealty.
When ,Maybray is brought to Des
Moines lock the chicken coopsl and put
the subscription lists under armed
guards.
The insurgents are reported. to have
Spoiled Taft's lunch" by their insist
amended. If the Iowa congressman who
may naturally be expected to stand for
the revisional anti Cannonisrn fail to
stand for the revision there will be
scanty appetites among them when
they come up for reelection. They
should look forward to spoiled lunches
two years from now rather than break
their hearts over the cooling of the
presidents coffee. More than one dis
trict in Iowa is dependent upon the &C
ton of republican congressman from
this state in the coming contest on the
rules.
A March blizzard is littlealess de-
sirable than a January thaw.
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Iowa people hereafter who take a
train must not take drink after talk
in gthe train. One or the other must be
omitted. Which is most necessary?
The man who is simply getting the
most railway travel possible for a
given sum will probably now tell the
conductor to put me off at the Mis-
SQUIRT state line"
Cedar Rapids sold its old city hall
the other day at auction for SAT and
really got the money. And yet the i'm
preston had someway gone abroad
that property down there was on the
advance.
While some Iowa people were fuss
ing and Tuning about the discomforts
of the recent snow storm other people
were being killed and MANNED by a
tornado in Arkansas. Iowa is not the
worst on the map in any respect.
The weather may be as frigid as
,midwinter in Iceland, but all the same
Ottumwa will have one of the hottest
municipal elections in it's history, I'M
less all signs fail.
"Trade opened with a brisk demand
and we'll Sustained prices a week ago,
said a local dealer in marbles today
but there's nothing doing this week.
look for a still more active market
when WedJHGF COuulllOuS
however The kids will all have money
They're making it now shoveling
snow"
| AS it looks now, if you should be
south of the Iowa state line, want to
go further south, board a train and
hand the conductor SO, expecting to
1
ride twenty-five miles, that individual
will have authority to kindly but
firmly remark-"Tm from Missouri;
show me more money"
In the event that Inauguration day
should be changed, say to May 4
would it be necessary to hold the ex-
ira session first?
The defense rested in the Jones
murder case at Muscatine without
having introduced any testimony, de.
PENDANT having hanged himself in Jail
The state probably would not have in.
fiictel so severe a penalty.
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