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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
Women as jewellers.

One of the uptown schools In New
York recently has admitted several
young women to it's gem.cutting class,
and the girls are making as much
progress as the young men. A Jew.
elry shop has been opened OH upper
Seventh avenue, and none but women
are employed there. A woman menda
jewelry that is brought in. woman
sets stones, woman makes all the
wholesale purchases and still another
waits on the customers in the shop
Several Of The large diamond-cu
firms have lately employed women in
their workrooms, and when women
have once taken good hold on the
business, there's no telling where
they'll end. Certainly there should be
some startling ideas brought out in
new Jewels.
Chamberlain's Cough Remedy is not
a common, everyday cough mixture,
1t is meritorious remedy for all the
troublesome and dangerous complipa :
tons resulting from cold in the head,
throat, chest or lungs. Sold by all
dealers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
THE CHEAP AUro...Nor YET.

The cheap automobile? Not yet. The
demand is TOO great, too far in advance
of the supply Moreover. prosperity is
in the saddle The buyers have the
money. They'll appreciate their ma
chimes if they have TO pay good price.
The manufacturers are aware of this.
The cheap auto will come when times
tighten. The $500 10 $1,000 worth of
ginger bread that adorns the auto Of
today will then disappear under the
demand for cheaper machines
For time it was the talk that 1910
might witness a considerable step in
the direction of the lower priced auto.
but now it is said that instead Of striv-
ing TO get the product down to the
market as seemed to be necessary a
year ago. the market now looks so diff
ferent that the product is being pushed
upward both in quality and price. Even
many of the makers who were build
ing or looking with covetous eyes on
the motor buggy as a product for the
lower market. have abandoned it and
are marketing the conventional auto
mobile. The country buyer who feared
to buy, or had not money to buy the
pneumatic tired touring car year
ago was then looking for some cheaper
substitute. With the return of pros
perity, high priced wheat, corn, cotton
and beef, the buyer is looking for SER
vice, style and luxury and everything
that is best in motor car construction.
Still another element enters. The
foreign market has been undergoing
more or less of revolution, and
France, once the center of automobile
activity, has given way to England and
turned her attention to aeronautics
and other sports. England in turn has
set new pace in introducing a num-
Der of novelties not likely to cheaper
the product, but rather to add to the
cost and righteousness
So long as the trade demands the
fancy auto at fancy price that will
be the order. It's more profitable. The
profit is more easily hidden in the
complicated and formidable touring
car than in the sim plified buggy auto
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
STAY BY THE POTATO.
TGrundy Democrat.l


The Gladbrook paper says that many
farmers living in that locality are go
ing to cut out the raising of potatoes on
a large scale this year and will devote
their acres and their time to the rails
ing of corn, oats and barley. The Glad
brook farmers are lacking in both
faith and sand. They will permit one
bad potato year to drive them out of
the potato raising business and by that
they show d lack of confidence in the
producing power Of their land that they
hold at $3.50 an acre. We have been
raising potatoes extensively in this To-
cality for the past four years. During
some of these years the crop yielded
an average of $50 an acre and in many
cases the returns were above 500 an
acre. If potato raisers will take their
average returns from potato crops the
past four years they will find that they
are much higher than corn at fifty
bushels to the acre would have made
them. We have had poor corn years in
Iowa but they did not drive Iowa farm
ers out of the corn raising business. a
poor potato year is more than likely to
be followed by a good year that will
cover a previous loss and will leave a
good margin of profit. Stay by the
potato.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
AN IOWA PUBLIC SALE.
washington County Press.

L
Now, when you talk of sales the one
Joe Smmerman pulled off at his farm
near West Chester, Wednesday, Jan. .,
will be referred to as the biggest thing
of its kind ever held in this county 1t
was a mammoth one Had anything
ever held in this section of the state
skinned a mile and a half. The re-
ceipts of this big sale amounted to
S20,413.76. When you come TO think of
it $4,000 sale is some sale, and then
Joe had the stuff to dispose of. The
weather was bad but if it had been fine
it is doubtful if better sale would
have been held. A big blizzard was
pulled off the day before the sale and it
was as cold as the north pole on the
sale day. This didn't matter for all
kinds of people We're there. Some from
Chicago and Buffalo, n. Y. They know
good stock when they see it and made
the bidding go some. Seventy eight
horses Were sold at this sale, this num-
Der of course included colts and mules.
This bunch brought on the average of
S207 per head. There were teams of
horses that sold as high as $500. They
We're good ones and will go direct to
the eastern markets. One pair of mules
brought s525, and another S457.50. The
horses and mules sold for over $4,000.
This big sale was cried by Col. Charles
Brown in less than four hours. Ralph
Dougherty was the clerk
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
THE EvANGEL1sT's MONEY
IAlgona Repuhlican. 4

lAlSona RepuDllcan.1
While treating the financial side of
this question it might be well to notice
that evangelists who are classed with
the millionaires are pretty scarce, in
fact there is some doubt if there is one.
At any rate there is no other profess
sion that, on the surface appears to
be as remuneratiye as an evangelist's
which has as few money kings in its
ranks. On the other hand if the evan
gelist IS willing TO do mis- work thor
oughly and well, for whatever free will
offering the public may see fit to give
him. why should he be held account
able for what use he makes of the
money SO long as he does nothing dis
graceful or dishonest with the means
placed at his command. Do employers
generally attempt to demand state
ment from their employees as to the
disposal Of their salaries?
But there is another motive behind
the work of the majority of evangelists
that is far above and beyond the money
consideration. and no persons entering
this profession can make a success OF
his work, without he has that divine
motive predominant in his heart. We
refer to the christian evangelizatior
of his fellow men. One who had listen
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
DELIVERING THE GOODS.

4 Polk county official believes the
time is not far distant when the state
legislature will appoint commissions 10
regulate telegraph, telephone and eN-
press companies in this state just as
there is now railroad commission to
regulate railroads" He fears that con-
solidation Of telephone companies will
result in boosting rates high and says
there is nothing TO prevent it.
The Polk county mans suggestion
voices a general apprehension. We
have learned TO expect a squeeze when
consolidation of public utilities COM
panias takes place; and there is general
desire that any threatened squeeze Of
telephone users may be headed off.
But the suggestion OF commissions
comes at rather a ticklish time. The
state is beginning to disbelieve in COM
missions; especially as constituted. In
most cases they fail 70 deliver the
goods and in some particular cases de-
liver them at the wrong doors.
Perhaps the legislature had better
enact just law and turn its enforce
men5 over 10 the Department of justice.
That department seems 70 be in the
way actually delivering the goods at
the RICH, place.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17

mixed as any other concrete would be
mixed in proportions one cement, two
sand and five crushed stone. The top
or wearing surface is made two inches
thick mixed one part cement to two
parts sand. This pavement has expan-
sion joints every fifty feet running
diagonally across the street and the top
is scored or grooved off into blocks
approximating 41axs inches to prevent
slipping. Mason City got bid on this
pavement last summer at s1.19 per
square yard.
An ideal pavement for city or for
the business district of county seat
town would be concrete pavement
laid according to the Mason City or
Fon du Lac specifications but with a
base six inches thick instead of five
inches. This would add not to exceed
10 cents per square yard to the cost
and would increase by 20 per cent the
thickness of the arched base which
carries the weight of the traffic
Eldora, Eagle Grove and other Iowa
towns are going to pave this summer.
Let property owners warn their town
councils to beware of the patented
pavements. Any one of them will cost
property owners $500 to $500 unneces-
sary and additional expense for every
block OF street pavement twenty-four
fet wide and from s7oo to 5000 per
block bonus to patentee or promoters
for street pavements thirty feet wide
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
Into my shop and see how we do things
in my part of the countryl

Into my shop and see how we do things
in my part of the countryl
"I'ye got shop that's every bit as
modern and up to date to the last lin
it as anything you've got in New
York, but out there we utilize our
plant. What do you suppose we do
when man comes in that's In a hur-
~ to catch a train? Think we all lie
down and take nap?
why. we put one barber to cutting
his hair and another to shaving him.
and two manicurers tackle his hands,
one on each side. We take of his
shoes, and two boys work ON them.
each backing a single shoe, while two
chiropodists get at him, each taking
a foot, and at the same time we have
one boy brushing the customers hat
and another brushing his overcoat,
while another dusts the clothes he's
got on with vacuum duster.
You put three people on a man at
once and think you're doing something.
We put on eleven and think nothing
about it at all, and our town amt q
quarter us big as New York-not a
quarter.
why. honest, this New York at
mosphere makes mo sleepyv'-New
York Sun.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17

Our attention was called to this sub
shalltown Times Republican, headed,
"Old Fashioned Winters" However
this article only took one back TO the
los. There was a great change from
1855 and 80 it was cold from the lat
ter part of November until the latter
part of February, when the two feet
of snow began to melt and before the
18th of March wheat sowing was over.
The winters of 1856 and 81 still occupy
a place in history for being the coolest
winters in the history of civilized Iowa.
On the Goth day of November. 1856,
the snow began to fall about 10 o'clock
a. m. and continued to snow until
about noon the following day The
snow was quite damp and light SO that
1t lodged upon the dry leaves which
were still on the trees and remained
there intact until the 18th day Of Janu-
airy, when stiff wind from the north
west relieved the bushes Of their burd-
ems.
In those days there was not stove
in the neighborhood, a great fireplace
in one end of the log house capable OF
accommodating back log six or eight
feet in length was where our cooking
was done. Who can forget the andirons
and the old crane that hung In the fire.
place, which mother would swing out
and hang her pots and kettles on? They
used to say of this crane: ut hangs
and bears but never blossoms" Their
mother would take the iron bake over
with its cast iron cover. shovel some
live Goals out on the hearth. set the
oven on the Goals and shovel some
more Goals on the cover and better
bread was never eaten by man thar
that taken from this old Dutch oven
Then when mother would hang up 9
spare rib or nicely stuffed turkey be
fore the fireplace with q dripping par
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
think It must be anything but bless
ing to mankind.

think It must be anything but a bless
ing to mankind.
sim, 1t wouldn't matter so much II
the hens would only begin to lay.
Will the proposed law against high
capitalization be operative, as to flying
machine corporations?
If you have railroad merger in the
family you would better take it around
to the back door Of the White House
and have the nurse tie a bit of asa
fetida about its neck
A New York playwright became in
same after writing a vaudeville sketch.
Most of 'em become insane before
writing their sketches
AS the moving picture man under
stands it, the more pretentious show
man and the writer and publisher of
books give him his cue. It's the wild
craze for something different. Merit
lies dusty on the library shelf white
tawdry trash is devoured with avidity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
After the Snakes.

Nearly all the rattlesnakes seen In
the ZOOS of this country and in most
of those of Europe are captured by In.
dian boys and girls on the western res
ervations. They locate spot where
the snakes come out to sun and then
creep up with squirt guns charged
with ammonia and spray the rattlers
and render them helpless When the
snake revives he is prisoner and
worth three dollars to his captor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
Topics of the Times

One Of the political parties of Eng
land promises governmen insurance
against non employment if given
power The promise that gold dollars
will be made to grow on bushes is yet
to be made.
Before We can expect the announce
ment from Joe Cannon that he will not
be candidate for reelection to the
speakership. we will have to see him
go on the operation table and have
his egotism pared down a trife. ;,
Walter Wellman says that good
many members of congress wish Cam
non would let go. Wouldn't wonder a
bit Most Of these gentlemen are look
ing for reelection and many of them
will have plenty to carry even if Cam
non were unloaded.
Maybe the anti primary people in
Illinois ought to eGt Uncle Perkins OF
Sioux City to go over and help them
out. But possibly they don't care to
be helped out in the same way that
Uncle Perkins helped out the anti
primary folks Of his own state.
In Chicago they are clarnoring for a
lower car step. "They" doesn't in
clude the street corner loafer, we
imagine.
Clara Morris wants to know whether
g woman who swears is really a lady
If she is fit, Clara. to be called a
woman. she certainly may be called a
lady. Lady! What word. Woman.
How much finer.
The freight rate on hogs, sometimes
thought to be quite an issue, will have
10 move UP some presently if it means
to sustain anything like an intimate
relation to the price of hogs. Hogs
may be travelling at cents mile
pretty soon and enjoying the comforts
of Pullman cars. But, come to thinl
of 1t. that wouldn't be anything new
! would It?
Carrie Nation has recently had {
proposal of marriage. Whether thi!
goes to show that she isn't so bad aftel
all or that taste is that thing of inf
mite variety which we SO often hea,
it is, we venture not to say.
Tom Watson wants to debate foreig1
missions with William Jennings Bryan
Watson must feel that both Bryan an
himself have nothing to do with hom
missions. and with ample reason.
If this stevaine stun is going to adj
anything TO the relish of the doctor
for cutting, then we're against 1t an
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
THE LODGES
MASONIC NOTICES.

2 sWSNSSsNtS NNtIAG0s
Ky Visitors always welcome.
NHall over 105-107 West Main.
MARSHALL LODGE 1os, A. f. &
A. M.YVork on second degree. Friday.
Jan. Fl. 1910. at 1880 p. M.
r, w. Chamberlain, w. n.
a. 5. Lawrence, Secretary.
SIGNET CHAPTER No. So. R. A. NJ.
stated convocation Monday. Jan. II,
1880.
George H. Boggie. E. H. p.
l. s. Willard, Secretary
KING SOLOMON COUNCIL, r. & 8.
M.-Stated assembly Monday. Jan. II,
1880 p. m.
A. ID. Meeker, T. l. NJ.
l. I. Forbes, Rec.
ST. ALDEMAR coMMANDERY No.
80, K. T.-Stated conclave Tuesday ev-
en1ng, Jan. Is, 1919! Visiting Sir
knights always welcome.
F. M. Wilbur, u. c.
Fred Wallace, Rec.
CENTRAL CHAPTER. No. 81. o. E.
S.-Meets in regular session Wednes-
day evening, Feb. 16, at 1880.
Mrs. George Downing. w. M,
Edna G. Fularton, Secretary.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
SOME INSTANCES OF "TIL1NG
OUT"
I,Sigonrnex Reuie,,,

lSiSourllty Review.
We heard the best talk one evening
last week upon the subject of farming
and incidentally thing that we ever
heard anywhere. And by the way the
lalker was just a plain farmer and he
didnt know he was making a speech.
The conversation occurred in the Re-
view office and we want to say that
for real down practical suggestions in
our opinion mono OF the professors of
an agricultural college whom we have
ever heard could hold a candle to it.
rms man was started out by some one
aSklhg nm what sort of a corn crop he
aad TINS year He said he had eighty
oushels to the acre and then went
on to tell how he got such crop.
ut was due principally to thing and
partially to the rotation of crops and
fertllizing. \ number of years ago
this man purchased the farm he is now
on. He went into debt heavily The
farm was a -producer-too wet.
This man purchased lot of tile
bought it on long time he said-put it
in and Went TO farming it. He rotated
the crops, got it i'll clover and after
two years put it in corn. Since then
- Ais>-' paw liiS IIl pun lilt
one next to him and this year says
| he had good corn crop. He says no
farmer can afford to do without tile if
his farm is low and level. BY reason
of the tile he is able to work his corn
when other folks without the tile can't
get into the fields. He has tile he says
twelve inches in diameter on the farm
ana says one great mistake is made by
getting them too small.
In that conversation we learned of
another man of this county who sew
eral years ago purchased a farm giving
big mortgage on it. In the course of
a couple of years he found he was
swamped-couldn't pay the interest.
He told moneyed friend of his predic-
ament and said he would have to give
| up the farm. He took his friends adj
Twice and all that fall and winter when
the weather permitted he hauled and
put in tile. He paid off the mortgage
ana too bought the farm adjoining him.
We give these Illustrations because we
believe the day is near at hand when
better crops must be produced and the
solution may be found in the above
statements.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
TIE PUnA AND IT'S PREY.
Ease With Which a Pataeonian Lion
Killed q Colt.

Killed a Colt.
The puma is so fond of horsefesh
that in Patagonia it is difficult to
breed horses. as the colts are killed by
this American lion. A native told the
author Of '"Tba Naturalist In La
Plata" that on one occasion while
driving his horses home through a
thicket a puma sprang out OF the
bushes to the back of colt following
behind the troop.
The puma alighted directly on the
colts back. with one fore foot grasping
its shoulder, while with the other it
seized the head and, giving it violent
wrench, dislocated the neck. The colt
fell to the earth as If shot
Next to horsefiesh, the puma prefers
mutton. He does not like veal, al
though he will kill calf upon occa-
sion. q cunning puma which on cloudy
nights raided a sheep ranch used as a
place of concealment the pen where a
dozen calves were kept while 1t was
waiting to attack the sheep, but 1t did
not injure calf.
ASS WdCh AL Aul &c uCINS OGAS tA0
puma by massing themselves together
and presenting serried line of tusks.
The ass also reSists successfully the
puma's attack. When assaulted it
thrusts its head between its fore legs
and kicks violently until the puma is
driven or thrown of.
One day an Indian while riding saw
young COW watching his approach.
Fer manner showed that it was in q
state of dangerous excitement, and the
Indian conjectured that some beast Of
prey had killed its calf. He began
searching for the Calls body. While
thus engaged the COW repeatedly
charged him. Presently he discovered
the calf lying dead among the long
grass and by Its side dead puma with
large wound lst behind the shout
der.
The calf had been killed by the
! puma, for its throat showed the
wounds of large teeth. The COW had
driven one of its long, sharp horns into
the puma's side while it was sucking
the calf's blood.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
Iona Newspapers
\ o1,nsn1oN OF Policies.
nMt Vernon Record. /

I,
In some quarters it is considered
sacriligious for Webb Byers now at
torney general of Iowa, to oppose Con-
gresham Smith in the primaries. Why ?
Mr.. Byers and MIR. Smith represent two
distinct types of republicans. One
stands for certain reforms. the
other against them. The peo-
pie have had no chance, In
that district to register their views
on these reforms, for it is the opinion
of the voters on the reforms rather
than the men that will decide. If they
decide decisively in favor of Mr.. Smith
and his policies there can be no objec-
tons raised by the friends of MIR. BY
ers, and the opposite is true. But why
should not the people be given
chance to register an opinion on these
important questions?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
An Old Machine.

The Tubingen Morgenblatt OF Oct.
81. 1920. contains description of such
machine as then in use in the Lon
don coffee house. 1t was in the shape
of tobacco jar. which stood on the
table and had slot into which pen
ny had to be inserted to obtain pipe
full, Of tobacco. The weight Of the coin
depressed lever and released lock.
The writer adds that halfpenny
would not do the trick. and the would
be cheat could not recover his money.
London Notes and Queries.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
SLOW NEW YORK.
It Actually Made the HustIing Westsr,
Barber Sleepy.

1t Actually Made the Hustiing Western
Barber Sleepy.
"Why, say" said visiting barber
from the wide untrammeled west, ''you
folks here in New York are narrow,
limited, shackled. contracted, far be-
hind the age. Yqp think you are the
human limit when really your gait is
very slow.
II went into one Of your shops here
yesterday. Nice shop, good equip
ment. everything fine and elegant but
when saw how slow you were here
on the work 1t made me nervous. A
good plant, but not worked to capacity.
''They had a man in chair with a
barber cutting his hair and mani
cure fixing his hands and bootblack
backing his shoes all at the same
time, and ! suppose you think here
that that's going some to have three
people work on q customer all at once:
lat goodness me, yon ought TO look
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-17
The Judae AGREED.

1t is recorded that Lord Mansfield.
the famous English Judge of the Sec
ond half of the eighteenth century. lis
tened impatiently to an argument OF
Sir Fletcher Norton upon case in
volving certain immortal rights.
my lord" said Norton, who was In
sufferably dictatorial, II can instance
the point in person. have myself two
little manors."
I'VE are we'll aware Of that" re-
sponded Lord Mansfield, selling his
opportunity.