Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-02-28
Topics of The Times

Topics of The Times
Protection having been in force while
half the farms Of New England were
being abandoned and the balance put
on the bargain counter, let us accept
| the most pessimistic version of Senator
! Hale. put reciprocity in operation and
let the tail go With the hide.
There are but two county seats in
! the state with county seat contests
| dangling, ghostlike. before them There
are ninety-seven others, however. who
will have no objection to a little more
pinning down and this makes the case
look dubious for the two towns that
| have been narboring county seat hopes.
| An Iowa farm has sold at auction
| for 5000 per acre Tha, is not poor
land rrice-neither does 1t hold out
much hope for Il poor man.
! Marshalltown barber Is to enter
/ the ministry Having shaved sinners
! all his life he now proposes t. burn
| few OF them
I T. j. Philips. who was ousted as
| mayor of Ottumwa under the Cosson
| law, is trying to come back and now
seeks the democratic nomination. Well,
II he does come back, he can be ousted
again if ne commits the same offense-
unless he could prove that it was a
| continuation of the same old drunk.
! a statute is proposed in Nevada
| giving the man convicted and sem
! fenced 70 imprisonment for life the
privilege of terminating his own life by
the poison route if he chooses. We
guess that will be enough TO hold the
prosressives in other parts of the coun-
try for while.
/! Monday was Longfellows birthday
as we'll as that of several other more
or less distinguished Americans.
/, Australia proposes to bar the Amer
| lean meat trust from that country We
are not advised whether the solons
Of that country have had actual con-
tact with the trust octopus or whether
they have been reading the American
magazines.
The railways will not appeal in the
rate case decided against them by the
interstate commerce commission. They
evidently believe that the same amount
of energy that would be required to
~; al for
results if devoted to other channels of
railway business.
Sheehan says he is still in the race
for the New York senatorship. But he
is acting very much like boy passing
a graveyard in the night.
There is some senatorial wood being
sawed III Iowa this week.
Congress will adjourn March by
virtue of law and with a record I'M
eaualed in the way of nothing accomp-
lished
LATE viii come home next week with
an "ex" prefixeG to his title hut with
almost years salary annexed to his
bank account.
Prices of Easter millinery and eggs
have parted company
The vaudeville song Il Want Wha.
Want. md Get it, might have been
/ ch M Cod a
Rapids temperance worker has been
caught operating an illegal liquor joint
; is Offset by the dedication Of two new
churches in that city on the day fol-
, lowing.
Reports from the far west would i'm
dictate that the noble red skin holds to
the belief that some can come back
. For period Of forty days the activi.
ties OF His Satanic Majesty will be
somewhat suspended, but with an ex.
ira session Of congress in prospect II
is not to be expected that His High
ness will be entirely removed from his
job.
South American revolutions have be.
come so frequent that they are losing
favor even with comic opera librettt
makers.
Fashion makers claim that Heller
pink will supersede Alice blue. There Il
20 indication. however. that Hett!
, Green will be lost sight of.
The Episcopal church might turf
over the work Of the infringement o
the Ten Commandments to our con
gress. The chances are that the mem
bers Of that body would never get any
lwhere with the work, but the debat