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The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-06-23
DENlSON FIRM SHOWS GROWTH
Hill Bros. Monument Works Installs Latest
Granite Cutting Machine

Because the business of the firm
warrants it Hill Bros. have recently
installed the latest improved machin-
cry for cutting inscriptions in granite
and marble. A gasoline engine is
used to compress the air by which the
cutting machines are run. The air,
at pressure of from sixty to one
hundred pounds to the square inch,
is conducted through hose and is used
to pound upon the chisel with quick
powerful strokes. The rapidity and
uniformity Of the strokes are the
salient features of the machine. Hill
Bros. have two cutting machines and
they can do the work of three men
efecting q saving Of from fifteen to
twenty dollars week over hand cut
ting besides doing better and more
even piece Of work. The new machine
costs the firm about four hundred dol
lars and its purchase is but another
evidence of the good reputation of the
firm. The Review editor has found
them perfectly reliable both as work.
men and as business men. We be-
liese they will not misrepresent their
goods, that they will do good work
and will charge fair prices only. This
is not paid advertisement but word
of endorsement to which we think Hill
Bros. are entitled tor their enterprise
and fair dealing.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-06-23
BRAND new REAL ESTATE FIRM
eastman and Son Is Tie New Partnership
that Promises to Msaspolne Denison
Real Estate Business

w. w. Cushman has done the SEN
sible thing and has taken bis SOD,
Arthur. into partnership in the real
estate business. They will have their
Office in the Review building and are
preparing to make things hum. Mr..
Cushman has purchased q new E.
NJ. F. automobile from the Denison
Auto Co. This car is similar t,
those now owned by E. Gulick and
A. D. Herrig. Mr.. Cushman has
sold his horse and buggy and intends
to use the new machine in showing
lands. Arthur is bright. attrac.
tive young man who will develope
into a tirst-class business man If be
puts his mind on it. The new firm
has our very best wishes for q sue
cessful career.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-06-23


The attention of the 4eview is
called to the condition of the grounds
on which the West High School build
ing is located. The street on the
North side Of the grounds. is being
put to grade has been exehvated. 90
that the lot is 2 or 3 feet above the
street. A row of trees stands near
the street and on account of the earth
falling away, the trees are liable to
be undermined and be injured we
think it would be we'll for the School
Board to take notice of the conditions
as they exist and to terrace the ground
and prevent it's caving into the street.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-06-23
MORE TINE CARD CHANGES
The Northwestern Puts on New Local Trail
u Improvement u Service


It seems to be dull day when the
Northwestern cannot get out new
time card. The card has been changed
for three Sundays in succession. The
card at present reads as in another
column Of the Review with these ex-
ceptions:
No. u Local from Carroll to Mis-
souri, Valley, TOP q. m.
No. 18 Local Missouri Valley to
Carroll. 1902 p. m.
No. 6 East Bound, 1929 .. m.
No. s West Bound, S 90 a. m.
The remainder of the card is as for
last week.
The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1909-06-23

6V0ut O0tOEO0y 0uN 0OuO0y al V0Is
The members of the Royal Neigh
bors of America lodge and their fam
lies are planning to hold picnic in
the Paine park June "a and have q
basket supper. Members attending
are requested to bring baskets.
A daughter was born to Mr.. and
Mrs. Maurice Farley, Sunday. June
IL. 1909.
The dance here last Friday night
was very we'll attended and all pres
emit reported good time.
John Mortenson took his departure
last Wednesday evening for Sweden
where he will visit y couple of months.
The sad news of the death of the
four-year-old daughter of Mr.. and
Mrs. John Odien of Arcadia. who
formerly lived here was received here
Tuesday. The remains were brought
here Thurday and laid to rest in the
Vail cemetery.
She was bright little girl and the
Oldest daughter of Mr.. and Mrs.
Odieus. Mrs Odieu h daughter
of Mr.. and Mrs. Ben Wahlin's of
this town. The parents have the
sympathy of a host of Vail friends.
Mrs. j. Il. Jones visited hele a
part Of last week.
Charley Dempster and wife of Man
nilla and Mrs. John Vennink of West
Side were over Sunday visitors at
the Mrs. G. Vennink home here.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
Cheap Credit for Waee-E:arners.


American wage-earners and small
producers have formed unions for the
protection of wages, for sick and death
benefits, and for many other purposes
but not as yet, to any extent, for the
loaning of money to one another
Those who are able to save have to
put their money in savings banks
where it is practically unavailable TO
those of their associates who need to
borrow. Nor is it any reflection on the
savings banks that this should be So
for they are performing their particu-
lar Junction with remarkable success
and f'dolity.
In Europe, however, for fifty years
unions for savings and credit have
been authorized by law, and in some
of the countries have had marvellous
growth.
Thru the medium of these banks IN
avenue of credit has been opened to
persons to whom credit was formerly
inaccessible. The credit is purely CO.
operative, offered directly (tho i'm
personality from one to another, with
out the intervention of any outside
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
REVISE THE TAX LAWS.
Cedar RAPIDS Republican,


One Of the crying needs Of this
state is revision of our taxation
laws. For the most part. our taxa
ton laws are antiquated. This sub
ject Is too large e. subject, perhaps, to
be dealt with in one session: but a
substantial beginning looking to a
thorough revision of the laws govern
ing taxation ought to be made; and
when this is done. one thing that
ought to be especially insisted upon is
a change in the laws governing the
taxation of moneys and credits. AS
the laws of this state now stand. a
very small proportion Of the moneys
and credits OF the state are taxed,
and In nearly every instance where
they are taxed the result is double
taxation We have permitted old time
prejudices and the fear of what
demagog might say to prevent q
change In the laws which men who
have given the subject thought long
ago agreed ought to be made.
Theoretically the possessors OF
moneys and credits are expected to
make return Of them to the asses
sors. but they do not do IT. The Sc
verely honest man does it, and suf-
fers much thereby. Then boards OF
supervisors hire TAX ferrets to COM
pei those who have sought to evade
the laws to disgorge; and some not
cute enough to cover their tracks
we'll are caught. The sum total OF
the result is that, in spite of all eff
forts put forth, moneys and credits
on the whole are not uncovered for
taxation purposes. Money is driven
out Of the state; interest rates in
crease; and the very people who are
supposed to benefit by such legisla-
ton as we have long upheld really
suffer by reason Of it.
This paper, SO far as mortgages
are concerned, is inclined to favor
the New York statute, which provides
a fee for the recording of mortgages,
which is not very high, SO cents per
hundred dollars 1t is, if we remember
correctly. This is the only tax paid
on mortgages. OF course the .bor-
rover pays the tax in nearly every in
stance; but he pays this tax and a
great deal more every time he bor-
rows on real estate thru the in
strumentality Of high interest rate.
The tax ferret law has increased the
rate on farm loans In Iowa. from one
half to one per cent. The enactment
Of the New York statute would put
home lenders and foreign lenders on
an equality, and would lower the in
terest rate from one half to one per
cent within year after it's enact
ment
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09

City, then called Fairview, located on
the west bank of Skunk river, with a
J portable saw mill which soon furnished
us with native lumber sufficient to
build 14x16 foot house, a luxury not
enjoyed by previous new corners.
| Dan and Henry Mccarthy, now Of
Ames, were engineer and head sawyer
fifty three years ago last spring. Dick
Jennus had the first store In F'airview,
size about. 12xl4. l first met Peter
Dekop with others June 10, 1855. Sc
lecting their future home where Peter
still lives. That same year Peter and
his father saw twenty-four deer In one
flock in what Is now our calf and hog
lot in front Of our door yard.
In the fall of 1856 ! shot a wolf
while in the act of running down one
of our few hens. A. few days later l
shot a prairie wolf in his sleep sun
ming himself in a dry spot in the bed
of Kegley branch. They would visit
our melon patch and select the choicest
ones to eat. Mr. Doolittle killed two
wolves in one night by putting poison
on the carcass of an OK which had
died for him. Prairie chickens. wild
ducks and geese. brants and sandy hlll
cranes were very plentiful here before
the numerous big ponds were tiled and
before the invention Of breech leaders
Elk and buffalo were once numerous.
but were game of the past when we
located here.
The only complete railroad then was
branch from Muscatine to Wilton
Junction. Iowa City was the capital
OF the state. Merchandise was hauled
by wagon back and forth from the
Mississippi river, All expensive meth
cd. The nearest grist mill was In. Des
Moines Buildings were mostly made
of logs Eggs were three cents per
dozen in Nevada at one time. The win
ter of '58-'57 was very severe. billiards.
prevailing much of the time. The price
of prairie land was about $1.25 an acre,
timber land s12 an acre.
God ruled then as now in this ;air
land Of ours, in educational progress.
in material prosperity and spiritual
blessings for the benefit Of man."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
Iona Newspapers
TROUBLED BY LICE.
Manson Democrat.)

u have always had most of my trou.
BILE with head lice" remarked re-
spectacle looking man on the train the
other day. to his seat companion. "bu
l found nothing so good as Kerosene
A lady sitting back of him dropped
her magazine and an expression OF
horror overspread her face.
i've had 'em come clear around
under the jaw here" continued the man
coolly, and indicating with his fingers
where the parasites had iourneyed
and they would eat clear into the
eyes"
The lady began looking around for
another seat and started to pick uI
her luggage.
Did you use the kerosene raw or
mix It with lard?" asked his seat com
panion.
Pretty nearly raw" he replied, and
it always did the business"
BY this time the lady was just about
ready to flee from the awful proximity
of the man.
yes" he continued, head lice arc
the worst things to contend with in
the whole business and I'd rather have
cholera any time"
The lady gasped in horror.
Mercy sakes. man! What in the
world are you men talking about. any
way?" she finally managed to ask.
Chickens, madam" he replied calmly
and the lady said, "Oh, beg your
pardon, SIR"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
ROADS. saaRks7s AND SCHOOLS.

The advocates of consolidated schools
must take up another movement IN
timately connected with that one
which they are particularly urging
good roads. There can be no practical
consolidation of districts where the
highways preclude reasonably RAPID
transit at all periods Of the year In
deed good roads are absolutely necea-
sary to successful consolidation of
township schools. No mother will he
willing to put her younger children into
a wagon for a two hours trip twice
day. If the rural schools are to he
centralized and amalgarnated with each
other the roads must be not only pass
ible. but faily good at all seasons.
Bad roads to the school house have
precisely THE same effect on schools
and patrons that bad goads to market
have on buyers and sellers. The condi-
to haul their products to the nearest
market rather than to the best market.
The same rule applies to the schools.
They must send their children to the
nearest school because it is impossible
for them to travel the muddy high
ways to the best schools.
The question of roads and rural
schools is the farmers own. When he
gets ready to bear his share Of the ex-
pense he can have the willing help of
the city to make real roads Until he
gets good roads he must live in u
narrower environment, remain content
with crossroads schoolhouse and the
nearest market. And he doesn't seem
to realize how much he is losing by his
Inactivity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09

stakeholder or middleman to take his
profit from the transaction, and with :
out any of the degradation and embar-
rassment connected with borrowing
from an Individual. There being no
middleman, 1T Isl also cheap credit. and
this is essential, for the aim of CO
Operative banking Is to make the rates
for loans as low as may be done con-
sistently with earning fair dividend
for their shareholders, many of whom
are also borrowers. Cooperative credit
may also he said to be friendly credit.
Most of the members are strangers 10
the managers OF the banks of discount
and hesitate to- have transactions with
them. But at their own cooperative
bank they feel at home. They are
among friends who are interested in
them, and their relations with the
banks are of an entirely different kind
from any relation which could exist be-
tween them and the ordinary bank of
discount
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
Heresv "a Cure"

Heresy in the Christian church was
held up as a cure for present day ten
denotes toward merely orthodox and
respectable" religion by Rev. DR..
Frank Crane of the Union Congrega-
tional church Of Worcester, Mass, in
a baccalaureate sermon to the mem
bers of the University of Chicago
graduating class at Mandel hail.
Mr.. Crane defended heresy and
heretics and urged revolt from estab-
lished religious doctrines as the best
means of fostering the growth of a
new religion unhampered by traditional
and accepted opinions. Churches in
which the fullest liberty of free
thought and scientific investigation are
allowed were characterized as "dodder-
ing with senility, half-heathen and
moribund."
That the modern church has wholly
nlisinterpreted the teachings of Christ,
that Christ had no intention of found
ing religion and that Christianity lis
merely one Of the cults, like Judaism,
Mormonism and positivism.' were some
of the assertions made by the Massa-
chusetts pastor. He termed the theory
Of absolutism of church doctrine Gin
adequate, scrappy and temporary"
Mr.. Crane declared the modern con-
ception of success to be a process of
"monkeyizing' and initiating other
people and likened the trend of church
events to this simian acceptance of
secondhand movements.
"a so-called Christian church in
which the widest liberty of thought is
not encouraged is already half-heathen
and moribund," he said This ex-
plains why new religious movements
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
For Sunday Reading
Ill Sorts o,fObiniiens
Defends Dancing and Cards.


DR. Fisher, president of Lombard
college, in letter to the press de-
Tended against the city pastors his as
sertion that men and women can play
cards. dance and go to theaters and be
Christians. He says:
"A Christian man Is the only free
man. He can do everything In Gods
universe that he chooses. He can be
trusted anywhere. Done in Christ's
way, dancing, card playing and thea
tergoing hurts no one.
For many years our students In
Lombard have been permitted to dance
on our premises under the pleasant
chaperonage of our teachers. have
yet to hear OF any harm being done. If
Christian men and all parents made
pleasant homes for children and per-
mitted the cards and dance and thea
ter parties, properly guarded, and built
no unnatural morbid human ordi-
nances around these things, there
would be fewer fallen men and women.
When the young people are tired let
them dance bit or play game of
cards or go see lively bit OF acting
once in a while. Go with them, keep
young with them. Then back to the
Masters business OF making this old
world wise. sweet and clean, refreshed
and recreated."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09

veys the facts of Jesus; Mary bore
Jesus. but bibliolatry is little better
than Mariolatry
The purpose Of Jesus is to develop
the individual. You have something In
you wholly distinct from what anyone
else has 1t is this something that is
of infinite value in His eyes. When
ever a child is born, some one says,
a new universe is created. To be saved
is not to move from Wentworth ave-
nue. to Evanston. 1t Is to move others
to yourself CurlousiS enough, the
church has turned the teachings OF
Jesus squarely about. IT has made SAL
walton to be matter of conformity,
which is the sure way to lose ones
soul. Whenever the cry Of an institu-
tlon is Get in and be respectable It
is already doddering with seniltty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
JUDGE SMITHS aITACK.

Judge Water l. Smlth' congressman
from the NINTH d1strlct mace MS muct
touted attack on the presidents mes
sage Yesterday. Judge smith was ext
tremely caretni 10 avo'a appearances
direct aatacK on hooseVelt. he PAID ms
alte'iti ION 70 tne ABUSES OF the secfe'
service system ana largely 70 oisereu-
lung 50 isi as possible 'eie esiue'ics
On stne secret service man VINO Seems
10 nave Deen making some INQUIRIES lll as
70 WIG - WIZ III '~oulie'i Bulls
Judge snlth addressed the jury
Ihose VINO nave heard MN
IN CRIMINAL cases nave heard
MN make greater speeches 1han
ne made yesterday Perhaps the appar-
ent fact that ne was yesterday max
ing a speech poth deIeAslVe ana pros
ecutory handicapped MIN. The secret
service man. VINO came to Council
BUTTS seems TO nave Deer about OF the
class OF the ordinary anti-saloon de-
tectlve as regards ability and Judge
smith Wlth dexrerlty porn OF ms years
OF legal pracuce MADE tine most OF MS
falllngs.
AS to the feionies" officials OF
the service are alleged TO nave COM
mttted by certifying detectives from
one department to another they seem
to nave been well known and understood
by older members Of congress whose
Indignation never burned Into a name
Of exposure and outraged rectftude I'M
til these same detectives had unearthed
land thieves and found q congressman
or SO among the thieves and number
more looking on with their hands In
the pockets and voices mum while po-
itical friends and bosses looted the
public domain. The indignation now
expressed over these "felonies" comes
too late to be highly effective before
the jury.
Judge Smith IL to be commended Tor
his discretion In keeping away from
personal attack on the president. How
ever, there We're others retained on the
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09

own people he has lost by the COM
pany he keeps" and the disclosures
that have been partially made remains
to be seen. The country is in sus-
picious mood and for coed reasons. 1t
has seen some of the men 1t trusted
and honored exposed as paid agents Of
Standard OIL and seen some sent to
prison for completely IN land frauds
Mr.. Smith will do well to keep away
from the crowd he has been forced
into of late. Tray. innocent and con-
tiding Tray good old dog that he was
suffered for lack of judgment not for
completely
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
A PIONEERS STORY.
cstory City Herald.)


Mr.. and Mrs. James F. Brown cele-
brated their fifty-third wedding ami
versary last Friday, New Years Day.
AS this couple were among the first
settlers of this part of the country we
prevailed upon MIR. Brown to give rs
some of his early "reminiscences, which
he kindly did as follows:
81 came to Iowa the first time in
1854. In June, 1855, I entered the S. r.
Il Sec. 26, Lafayette township Story
county, Iowa. Went back to Pennsyl-
vania and got married New Years
Day, 1855. March 5, 1856, we started
for our intended home in Lafayette
township, where we have lived ever
since and raised our children, four boys
and one girl, trained to honesty and
industry.
Our travelling outfit was team and
muslin-cove wagon, with plenty Of
warm wraps We arrived on our plot
of land April 10, without shack for
shelter. About the same time Mr..
House and his family came to Story
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09

are SO vigorous, and why when they
become successful and respectable,
they become paralyzed and impotent.
At the first they draw to themselves
the power of individuals in revolt, the
strength Of souls in touch with reality;
at the last their appeal is solely to
conformity.
"Heresy Is not a disease OF Chris
tinnity; heresy is Christianity itself.
Christian heresy differs from heather
ish orthodoxy, whose object Is confor
nifty Jesus stands for the principle of
revolt. rebellion, for the supreme i'm
portance of any one soul as against
the world and all It's powers. Jesus
comes not to bring us into an inclos-
ure called heaven, but to bring us into
Il state called heaven.
and In heaven the angels wear no
uniforms. Sanctity is not sameness.
Heaven i.S the collection of all souls
who have found themselves thru love,
and hence infinitely interesting. There
we meet real people. Hell will be
stupid. because men go to the devil
in herds. They go to heaven only by
the straight and narrow way
Wlul tHe rise OIL psycHOlOBy a new
light has dawned upon the meaning of
Jesus. Jesus had no intention what
ever of establishing a religion. Nor had
His apostles. He did not establish
Christianity Christianity is a set of
opinions; what Christ stood for Is
state Of personality. Jesus has no test
ing code of beliefs, no form Of rules
of conduct. There are, therefore, no
permanent doctrines in the real
church. Doctrines are passing phases
in the Development Of life.
"The absolutisn Of doctrine we must
decline, not because it is false, but be-
cause it is inadequate. scrappy, tenn
porary, good in its place. but the mere
scaffolding of the building. The church
is not founded on the Bible, but upon
the personality Of Jesus, as revealing
the personality OF God. The Bible con-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
Churches and Reform.

Churches should back up all the
necessary reforms that will make our
political life better, and also the edu-
cational methods that will alone right
many of the evils that exist and make
things cumbersome today. Americans
try to do too many things at time
and he told the story of the man who
was asked if he played the violin, who
replied that he had never tried, but
he supposed he could. That man was
probably an American.
President Luther said he did not be-
lieve in a state church but he did be-
lieve in a religious state where there
was a church that interests itself in
state matters. He did not like to see
people all thinking alike, for that
stopped human progress, and only
backward steps could be taken In this
manner. Disagreeing about many
things brings out truths that are val
liable to both churches and politics. He
hoped the churches will see to it that
their members are all very active in
politics, and that all the members do
not belong to one political party.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-09
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