Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-09-08

terprise was simply that an ambitious
town wanted t. do something. Fac
tories are sometimes built IN the same
way and they usually go the same way.
Pat Murphy, the late state printer.
suggests that the editor of the Register
and Leader Is made unstable by read
Ing the Springfield Republican and
New York Times. Pat obtains his
stability by reading the American
Economist hence when he looks at the
Register and Leader he is sure that
the moon is moving.
When all these new families get back
from the arid west the state of Iowa
ought to take q new census.
Since the city council at Cedar Rap
Ids laid q stretch of concrete pave
ment at the entrance to Beaver Park
at the remarkably low cost of IS cents
per square yard, the city's own work.
men doing the work, property owners
on Fifth avenue are petitioning for
concrete pavement Cedar Rapids
should do more paving with concrete
than any other city in the state. She
has several stone quarries nearby to
furnish cheap aggregate for the base
and with an abundance OF clean sand
In the Cedar river there should be
nothing else bat concrete laid on the
streets Of the Farlor City. The price
should never exceed 1925 per yard.
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Suppose 5000 people wanting die
tionaries should all cooperate in their
buying and send a buyer direct to the
factory. wouldn't they get bargain?
That is what has been done in the
Times Republican dictionary offer.
1t Is somewhat difficult to follow the
logic of those standpat newspapers in
Iowa which nave been raising such an
alarm about Canadian reciprocity and
which now declare that President Taft
is stronger with the people than he
ever was.
The Charles City Intelligencer Is
about the only newspaper in Iowa that
has it in for Ed Chassell, state binder,
who aspires to lie secretary of state
The charge is that he should get his
feet out of the trough. Chassell. of
course, did :erve in the legislature, be-
fore he became state binder but that
was because no other republican could
be elected in Plymouth county and no
one can complain about term in the
legislature as crowding in the trough
Chassell is giving up the latest thing
the state has when he retires from
state binder and he should be credited
with some generosity when he does not
try to hold on to that. In seeking nomi-
nation for secretary Of state he seeks
the honor of the position and the OPP
portunity to serve the public at sal
airy about half what CHASED could
command in private employ.
The automobile funeral Is here for
Cincinnati has car in actual service
Those who have harbored an untitled
desire thru life may get an automobile
ride after all.
The fact that the Davenport Times
has moved into new building is moth
ing to blow about. 1t would have been
impossible to keep man like Pub
Usher Adler out. Next year he viii
probably buy a new press and then he
will get another new building and
larger. You can't keep a man like
Adler down.
We have not yet reached the point al
which there is any considerable envy
Of the purses being won by aviators
Most of US have feeling that the bird
men are welcome to all they can get in
that way.
It is hardly deliverable that many
men seek membership in the senate to
promote their personal business inter
ests asserts the Sioux City Journal but
what about the special interests which
put them there?
Timothy seed profits estimated ex-
coed the most fabulous tales ever told
about ginseng. Some real estate agent
could sell Iowa farm land by the square
foot Of area on the strength of it.
II the presidential primary were ii
operation there would be little diff
Guilty this year in voters making VI
their minds as to who they would pre-.
fer for nominees.
Council Bluffs is letting contracts fol
sidewalks at * cents per square foo
which should sllrgest to other cities [,