Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-10-16
Topics of the Times

Topics of the Times
A gown which comes only to the
knee is called the Gaby gown. This is
one time that fashionable nomenclature
jibes with fact, such gowns are for
gables.
AS Mrs Pankhurst gets closer Jane
Adams feels more and more nervous.
Miss Adams has no anxiety to see
bombs in the city hall and hammers
busy along State street. Miss Adams
should suggest to the militant lady to
go jump in the lake"
has been declared n outlaw. Any time
Mrs Flagg desires to spank frat out
of existence the Illinois supreme court
will back her hand.
Somehow the democratic senatorial
talk doesn't seem TO have as much
Pepper in its as usual.
What a splendid thing a road that
half hours rain wouldn't affect would
be to everyone who drives on the
highways. Like the Arkansaw Trav-
eler the rainy day is when we think
of how good roof sheds water
A Seattle lawyer challenged the right
of a man and his wife to sit on the
same jury on the grounds that man
and his wife are one. But the wise old
Judge refused to entertain or support
the challenge He knew he would be
called upon to decide which one and
shrewdly concluded that times have
changed since Solomon.
A sucker is born every minute but it
takes him lifetime to Gle.
When the defeated players in the
world series draw down $3.50 apiece
as their share Of the games perhaps
the tendency Of athletic college youth
toward baseball rather than the pulpit
or the school house may be better
understood The members of the teams
salaries a mighty good salary for the
ordinary college professor as profess
sional salaries go. What would you
do if you We're college athlete and
Mack came at you with contract
calling for $4,000 year and perquis-
ties. preach prof. or play?
The police and fireman situation in
Dubuque is rapidly approaching a
state which shall call for armed inter-
vention.
Senator Penrose wants to be re-
elected to the United States senate
from Pennsylvania and the new pri-
mary law makes it necessary for Pen
rose to adopt the popular side Of some
issue so he is boosting the proposed
| fifty millions of state bonds for good
roads. Imagine a statesman trying to
| be reelected in Iowa on q proposal for
state bonds.
| The mother Of a large family in
Marshautown has bought butter Of the
same farmer for thirteen years and her
i mother before her bought butter Of this
/ farmer. The point is that farmers liy-
! ing fifty miles away can advertise un-
! til they establish customers in Mar
! shalltown and they may then continue
! to serve them by parcels post for the
res: % their days.
Hobson and Underwood were both
| good democrats until they both wanted
| the same election as senator, then
Hobson calls Underwood the tool OF
the special interests and the saloons
Underwood should have replied that
! the charge sounded like another Jar
| invasion.
| 1t begins to look as tho Presiden,
Wilson had sized UP Huerta abou,
right.
The doomed Volturno teiegrapheC
into the air for help and ten steam
ships responded, some steaming from
200 miles away. but the waves were SO
high that life boats could not bs
launched SO another telegram was sen
into the air for an oil ship to come
from somewhere and the Narrasanset
responded AS the Oil was poured upor
the waves they subsidized and 521 peop1,
were saved who would have been log
ten years ago.