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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
"PsHAW. THIS AMT COLD"

Nine or ten below isn't much. That
isn't cold. Why back in the winters
we older inhabitants used to know ten
below was just seasonable, Wholesome
and even comfortable winter weather
In those days we got out at six. hooked
ND to the hobs and started for the
grove when the mercury would have
stood at thirty below il anybody had
had a thermometer. Thermometers
were scarce those days as overshoes
and knit union suits. A fellow jumped
up and yanked on two shirts, two pairs
Of denim overalls and a pair Of COW
hide. boots that clattered like wooden
shoes, got into his "walnus'' and was
axed fer the day. Cold, nobody COM
planned Of cold those days. The race
Of pioneers got up to a cold stove ana
gained warmth by inducing circulation.
That's tho kind We were. Why people
picked out the coolest day Of the win
ter to do the butchering on. When
q washdishful Of boiling water thrown
In the air didn't drop back TO earth as
ice the day was too warm for butcher
in8.
Huh. my son, when you race from
bed to the hot air register you don't
know what your father endured. He
slept in q cold room. got up and built
the fire. fed the horses. cleaned out
the stables, MIXED six COWS, got break
fast and hauled three loads OF logs and
trimmings from the woods. Ate a
lunch in the grove, fat pork between
bread for sandwiches, snow knee deep.
loaded the logs with the team and
roll hitch with a logchain. Came home
and went a half mile into the back
forty to get the cattle out Of the stalk
field and pumped water for the whole
batch OF them. Did the milking and
the chores again and between that and
bedtime creased harness in the kitchen.
But we didn't notice the cold. a lit
tie thing like twenty below zero didn't
affect us.
Sometimes pa thinks that we are
growing too luxurious, that we are go
ing like Rome and Greece and the otner
luxurious nations We used to read
.hon+ in the Fourth Reader. Things
aren't like they used to be when folks
could stand the cold and forty beio"
zero didn't stop US hauling hogs TO
k0VN.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
TWO INDIAN PROFESSIONALS.

Thorpe. the Indian athlete, broke into
tba first ma e because he won an anna
teur worlds championship. Now ne
breaks in again thru the discovery
that he belonged in the professionals
while he was winning among the ANA
teurs. He had played baseball or ran
n footrace or done something else attn
letic for a money pr.ze. Ihat makes
the amateur a professional.
Thus one Of the American victories
IN Sweden Is blown upon. So far as
the essentials are concerned the TACT
that the Indian had been paid some
thing for playing bali really doesn't
amount to much: he was a college man
MI rteht and his professionalism was
nm fba side as Is that OF many other
colexe athletes who are playing as
amateurs. But the rule of the game
= that the athlete must come clean OF
pIayiuR for money Thorpe knew IT,
erobably others interested knew 1t
Perhaps the difference between Thorpe
eompeting for money and his com
netftors who had won valuable prizes
ana converted them into money is hard
n zee. but the one played the game and
rhorne reniged. He cut first base and
tss seen by the umpire.
The fact Is that when any person
a.votes his time and energies ane
-.nx his ambitions around sport he
n-cS.ssionaltzes himself and should
thus be classified. The difference ISM
- much in the character of the prizes
i. win. as in that it is his business
The thing he works at.
Thorpe IS a very noted college mar
beeause he is an Indian and the winner
~ = xreat athletic meet. But thf
Nusouakie whose neat frame house
mod barn and fine horses and fat cattle
msy be seen from the Northwestern
RAIN between MarshalltoWn and Tams
4 = considerably more valuable man
Ne works at farming and wins. He i:
Z neoSessional whose example is worth
4 ,.nen 70 his race than Thorpe's success
n Stockholm. And we don't hea
snnch about the Tama winner.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
THE ROAD QUESTION.

[Grundy County Republican,
So tar as we are concerned we favor
the permanent pavement plan if 1t can
be secured along common sense ideas.
1t is useless. however, to increase the
road funds if they are 10 be spent un-
der the present system. There is too
much waste and lack OF system in the
expenditure of the funds now, and
conditions will be no better so long
as the funds are parceled out TO
townships TO be made the center Of
some local political scrap. We are
wasting the larger part OF the pres
enr road funds thru just such meth
DDS.
On the other hand We do not think
it wise TO turn the money over 10 a
state commission unless there is some
plan worked out which Will insure i'm
partially in the expenditure OF the
funds. No one or two cross state
pavement will be acceptable to the
people over the state: permanent roac
must be brought home to the individual
on some common sense economical
plan of the county and state working
in conjunction. We used the word
plan" and we want to emphasize that.
Permanent, or even good roads Will
never come by following the theories
Of whatever man chances TO be in
office. There must be a practicable
plan to work on and unless that is Sc
cured a one mill tax, or any other
road tax, is wasting money.
Other states have tried various
methods in building good roads SO let
the legislature study the matter out
and adopt the plan nearest to Iowa's
needs. Much else than that is wasting
both time and money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
Topics of the Times

The difference between Joe Bailey and
10 Cannon since election is all in favor
of 10.
We shall soon see baseball game
and learn the names of Wilson's cab
met. The season for both approaches.
After a careful perusal Of the Mar
shalltown Times Republican one is led
to believe that the title has had It's
tail cut off.-Perry Chief.
The Chief improves. Heretofore il
inclined TO snap the head off this paper.
Keep in mind the upkeep Of the road
after is is built. New York finds her
crushed stone roads quick 10 gutter
under the automobiles. Cement is
cheapest in the long run.
President Taft is estimated to have
travelled seventy five miles day dur
ing his term. Perhaps if he had stayed
closer by his business office that second
nomination might have come walking
in asking for job.
How would it do to give every man
who marries London sufragette one
of those Carnegie medals:
1t will be hard TO come down from
$4,000 and $4,000 travelling expenses
TO $1,000 and no transportation fund,
bur perhaps 1t viii be happier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
Van Orman & Van Orman
General Insurance
Over 116 West Main Street
Narshalltown lows

Probate Notes.
orice Of the clerk of the district
court, state Of Iowa, Marshall county.
IS. District court, January term, A. ..
1918.
To Whom it May Concern,
You and each Of you are hereby noti.
fed to appear at the courthouse in.
Marshalltown, Iowa, In said county. At
10 o'clock a. m, on the 18th day Of
February, 1918 to attend the proof Of
and probating an instrument in writ
ing purporting to be the last will ands
testament of Carrie N. Lane. late Of,
Marshall county. lowe, deceased AZ;
which time and place you, will appear
and show cause, II any why said VIII,
should not be admitted to probate.
In testimony whereof, have hereto;
subscribed my name. and AFFIXED the
sea. of the district court this. the. 1Jth
day of January. A. p, 1918. ne
8. n. REILLY, .9
Clerk Of the District Court.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
Iona Newspapers

PARCEL POST AND POCLTRYMAN.
[Des Moines Register and Leader]
THE parcel post is proving great
aid to poultrymen." said Thomas
Stohrs. 1.-THE poultry fancier and
breeder can ship his Matching eggs up
to the number of fifty and give his
customers q delivered price. No live
chickens of any size can be shipped by
mail. Many breeders thought that baby
chicks could be shipped this way, but
it is not true, and if looked at in
common sense light will be seen to be
impracticable, as all mail matter is
shipped in heavy duck or canvas bags.
However, the time may come when
the postoffice department will furnish
large hampers or baskets to take par
cells as they do in England"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
AZ to Woman Suffrage.

lSt. FduI blSpdtCu.J
Woman suffrage is the special or
der in the state senate tomorrow. and
there is every probability that it will
come to a vote. The senate is not pro-
posing to give woman suffrage. 1t Is
merely deciding whether the voters OF
Minnesota shall be permitted to give
or withhold from it's women the right
to vote.
For the purposes of the vote tomor-
row, it Is not necessary to go deeply
into the merits of woman suffrage
One need not consider whether the best
educated half of the population, with
high ideals of public service, unspo!ied
by political scheming and unhampered
by allegiance to dying parties, Will ADD
a valuable element to the electorate
1t is sufficient to know that states
which are awake are giving their peo-
pie an opportunity TO vote upon Wom-
an suffrage. Nine of them have granted
suffrage, and they are among those
in the forefront Of political progress.
Three others, since the Minnesota leg
islature has been in session. nave au-
thorized a vote upon il, or made pro-
gress in that direction.
Woman suffgrage is one OF the most
thoroughly alive issues in the whole
world today. Even in Europe. where
it has not been granted, the issue is
acute. 1t has survived and overcome
a half century of ridicule, the most
deadly enemy of any cause. Today II
is a sober, serious. vital issue.
Are thirty-two or thirty-three mem
hers of the Minnesota senate going to
stand across the path of progress and
refuse the people who voted them into
office. an opportunity to vote upon
woman suffrage? That is the issue
which will be decided by the senate
tomorrow. Senators who vote against
the amendment will say in effect: the
men who elected me are too ignorant
and prejudiced to have a voice in say
ing whether the constitution snail De
changed to give women the vote.
No senator can dodge this question.
He must say tomorrow whether MS
constituents are fiji or unfit in his opin-
ion to vote upon a vital issue. He viii
DO we'll TO have a care before he puts
the stigma of political unfitness upon
men who gave him office.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
THOSE DES MONIES SALOONS.
llama News.

One of the noticeable enterprisins
businesses of Des Noines is her sa-
looms The saloons seem 10 be more
numerous than most anything else
and in walk from the capitol over
to West Seventh street we passed so
many that we lost track of the count.
And they all appeared to be thriving.
We didn't take the trouble 10 step in
all OF them TO see just how much BUSH
ness was being done but noticed con-
slant procession of men going in and
out from them. When we went TO our
hotel at 10 o'clock the saloons seemed
to be right at their busiest and as We
left on an early train and took a street
car for the Northwestern depot at p
o'clock in the morning the only bust
ness houses we noticed open and ready
for business were the saloons. II Des
Moines, instead Of licensing her sa :
looms would put them under munici7
pal ownerhip plan and turn the pro-
fits of the business into her city treas
ury she could pave her streets with
gold in a short time. SO far as we
know and have noticed the saloons at
Des Moines are we'll regulated, we'll
kept and orderly. and as saloons go are
models but my. What lot of them
she has and how busy they are. We
have wondered if il isn't because there
are so many places in the state that
have none.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
Times.Republican
Three MonthSFree'

Enclose regular price for any Of this
list Of magazines scoring twenty peints
and we will send the Daily Timss- Re.
publican. (ruraI route edition), three
months free as a Christmas present.
Enclose regular price for magazines
scoring twenty-five points and we will
send the Evening Times Republican BY
mail tho Same.
Enclose regular price for magszinss
scoring thirty points and we will ssnd
tho city edition by carrier three
r,onth. the same,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
Naturally.

At a religious meeting lady per-
sisted in standing on bench, spolilns
the view of other spectators. tho re-
peatedly requested to sit down. AN
old gentleman arise and said sraveiy:
81 think if the lady knew she mao
a large hole in both Of her stockings
she would not exhibit herself in TINS
way"
This had the desired effect she I'M
mediately sat down in her seat. a
young minister standing by blushed &c
the temples and said:
ooh, brother, how could you say
what was not q fact?
Not fact?" replied the old gentle
man. If she had not large hole IN
each one of her stockings, / "oulo
like to know how she gets them on.
National Monthly.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
h.aIth WARNING,

Chilled and wet feet result In con-
costing the internal organs, and m
f,amma ton of the Kidneys and BLADDER
with rheumatic twinges and pain IN
back. generally follow. Use Foley kid-
new Pills. They are the best medicine
made for all disorders OF the KIDNEYS
for bladder Irregularities. and for back
ache and rheumatism. They DO not
contain habit forming drugs. Tonic IN
action, quick in results. Mcbride q
Will Drug Company.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
Pulnit. a Free Platform.

DR.. Abbott is not among those VINO
believe the minister is SO coerced by the
pew that he does not feel free TO SPEAK
his honest convictions:
That there are preachers VINO are
echoes Of the pews I do not DOUBT; put
an, inclined to believe that any min
lister who is a slave 20 his vestry. mis-
presbytery, or his congregation does
not greatly desire to be free
Having been a lawyer. an edltor'
.lyceum lecturer. and preacher 90
not hesitate to affirm that the pu!plt
is the freest platform in Amreica. me
lawyer must consider the pre)udices
of his client, the editor the opinions Oh
his readers. the statesman the convic-
t;ons Of mis- constituents, the preache1
the belief. Of his congre cation. But
neither need be an echo. Neither VIII
si,cceed if he is merely an echo.
"American congregations ana
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01

currency Of small denominations. popu-
larry designated in the days in which
they were in vogue az shin plaster
currency.
The currency consists Of three cent.
Ave cent, ten cent. fifteen cent, twenty
five cent and fifty cent donations. Four
of the pieces Of paper show age and
wear but the other two are in excellent
condition and every letter Of the en-
craving stands out distinctly.
The size OF the paper on which the
shin plasters" are printed, is small.
The largest OF the ones in possession
of Mr.. Carlson measures +x1S inches.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
Make Il Thorough.
VN~tt,,,nn

"A bill should be passed by the legis.
lature." says Mr.. E. J. Raber, assistant
states attorney, 'to make it jail pen
atty for fortune tellers to take money
for their services, for advertising SER
vices in exchange for fees, for prom
Using to reveal the future or locate
missing persons or treasure"
Admirable-if the prohibition against
advertising service" is to operate also
against newspapers willing to aid the
fraud by publishing the advertisements.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01

''Our legislature must take a broad
view of This road question and pro-
vide for all phases of the work. from
engineering to construction, says the
Usage News, The state has been tenn
PORTING for some seventy-five years
It is time for permanent work.
Iowa has gone steadily ahead in
the matter Of temperance sentiment
until the end of the saloon is in sight,
nc, thru impossible legislation but By
the growth OF true temperance senti-
rent. There should be no retreat, in
sisrs the Knoxville Journal
The Manson Democrat insists that
The negro should no, be permitted to
vote. He should be disfranchised in
every state in the union. SO should all
members of the Monaghan racee.'
THE hunters license brings 70 the
state treasury $4,000 year. Why not
build permanent roads with the mon
ey?" asks the Oskalosoa Herald.
The Parkersburg Eclipse says: The
man who won't allow his children 10
spend 10 cents at the county fair to
see the only living mermaid viii very
often spend a thousand dollars on d
blue sky proposition and after 1t Is all
over thank his lucky stars it was no
worse
The Eldora Herald devouteiy hopes
that "the movement for permanent
roads will develop into something
more tran a salaried commission whose
duty it shall be TO spend the FUNDS
raised by taxation. The people want
roads not fat jobs for a few
ct may be taken for granted that
all public spirited citizens are IN fav-
or of good RAIDS; and as all 1oWans
are public spirited, good roads are
sure to come, in time says the Smell
don Sun. But hor-headed enthusiasts
can not force matters until the farm
ers. who are the heavy taxpayers, un-
derstand the situation and know what
it is going 10 cost them. If the iesls-
Iature will devise some scheme Wnere-
| by the money appropriated Tor ROAD
work can be expended judicious!y in
practical road building, it will have
taken a long step in the right direc-
ton. The system Is n worse shape
than the average Iowa public high
way"
at may be some consolation for MI.
Wilson to reflect that If Wall street
| were wholly pleased with him he prob
ably would have to lie awake all night
to do the worrying ne didn't find time
| for during the day. says the Sioux
| C-ity Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01

To him the orthodox faiths are SO Tar
wrong as TO be totally untitled Tor
carrying the gospel torch to the lands
of darkness, yet the orthodox churches
are the very ones who are invading
foreign lands in full force. while the
liberal churches are the ones who SIT
at home and never lift
finger In an address before the
Unitarian, Universalist, and Congrega-
tional clergy of/Boston he declared that
the orthodox churches are 'handi-
CAPPED with an unpreachabie faith in
foreign lands" and yet with seheT-
GUS gifts of money and splendid enter
prise and devoted self-sacrifice tney
are working in foreign fields and DO
ing the very things needed to be cone
even while they contradict the very
elements of their own faith. On the
other hand, the liberals, with magni-
ficent Ideals. rwitha glorious concepts
with the truth Of chtist in all its purity
and simplicity. sH,in SNUG content OIL
fering the world Of missions, IN the
hour of its hunger, only the dry bones
Of criticism of those who already
serve" This is the summarized report
of DR.. Eliots words printed IN me
-Cniyersalist Leader. With careful dls-
elimination we are told, the speaker
revealed the intellectual characteristics
of the japanese and Chinese mind
showing how utterly impossible 1t Is
for the intellectually honest mind to
accept any of the old. mysterious, and
cruel dogmas of orthodoxy as supply
for the genuine need Of religious light.
IF christianity has nothing better to
offer these peoples than such dosmas
as the atonement, original sin, the
trinity, and an everlasting hell. tnen
the missionary task is futile
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
THE SPEAKERS SPORTING DAYS.
Manson Democrat

They have just discovered, down
Des Moines way, that Speaker Gun
ningham is something of a horseman.
He is more than that, for he is an eX-
pert horseman and one Of the most ex-
pert racshorse drivers that ever sat
on the tail OF favorite and urged him
on TO victory down the home stretch
TO the cheering Of the thousands on
both sides OF the track. He has salut-
ed the starter a score OF times to the
number of times that he will ever
recognize the gentleman from Po-
dunk" and he has always had the rep
utation of being clean and absolute
~ square driver. He drove for the
love Of the game and always let the
other fellows do the booze fighting and
rough neck work. There isn't speck
of yellow as big as gnat's ear in all
of Ed Cunningham's makeup and
everybody that knows him will swear
10 il.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
SHIN PLAsTERs.

Madrid Register-News.J
While rummaging thru his private
papers Tuesday Supervisors j. NJ.
Carlson ran across some interesting
souvenirs Of civil war days. The
souvenirs were in the shape OF paper
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01
For Sunday Reading
Ill Sorts Of Dbini0nr
M;niste 70 at the Theatsr.

A clergyman is quoted as saying
that he goes 10 the theater occasions
ally, and would like to 90 oftener, but
refrains for. the sake of the young
people 10. whom he has SO act as
guide. aAbistsrs, who attsnd the the
ater from whatever motKs. must be
more or less common in these days.
for not infrequently we hear of per-
fornances al which they make up, by
invitation. the entire audience. The
motive OF this particular, one for not
going oftener seems Very incongru-
Gus" to Of. 4. c. Dixon, who writes
from London TO The Examiner. He
takes the position thatt'it it is right.
and profitable for him to go to the
sheater ar~a!l, why should he not 80
often, rather than occasionally, since
ne frankly confesses his desire to do
so?" The Inconsistency of the min
listers attitude seems TO Dr.. Dixon to
lie in his desire for his own pleasure
and his wish to guide the young into
other channels for theirs. DR.. Dixon
does not show himself warm friend
of the theater, but he puts an old
position in a fresh light. Merely the
restatemcnt OF such an old position
helps US to see the question as mile
POST along the way we are travelling
He writes:
The min lister doubtless means that
he would guide them in selecting the
best plays and would take them TO
the best theaters. Well, there may be
some good plays. SO far as acting a
, part can ever he good; but. SO far as
we have been able to learn by rather
careful investigation, there are no good
theaters. Sir Henry Irving tried to
make the Lyceum a good moral theater,
and failed. Edwin Booth determined
to make his theater in New York SUCH
place morally that parents might take
their children to it without fear OF
contamination, with the result that the
enterprise went into bankruptcy and
the building was sold for warehouse.
Hannah Moore wrote some good plays,
full Of christian sentiment, but they
did not pay.
I'VE have been searching for a the
alter on earth in which a play which
appeals to the baser natures of men
and women is never acted. and VIC
have not yet succeeded in finding one.
| The theater as an institution is bad,
as is admitted by its friends, what
lSSCt LIoS De LIE quality Ol OCCdStOIldI
performances. When orr ministerial
| friend leads his young people to the
theater occa sionally, that they may
| enjoy together what he considers a
good play, he may be assured that he is
t leading them 10 the bait which is al
| most certain to allure them to the
/ bad play also; and even il they do not
| he has linked himself and them in as
ISOLATION with an avoW eddy bad in
| stitution, and has violated the principle
which the Apostle Paul adopted ir
dealing with the question of eating
meat offered to idols. Paul refused
to do SO, not because 1t would hur,
him, but because it linked him with
the great evil institution of idol wor.
ship. and would thus Lead to his loss
Of influence for good"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-02-01

the VIE .. our lrAndtathets Samuel
Knc~.scn, an4e vhsr We were Boy
we made ours hoMe on the old farm
down in Union township. Yes. we were
once q hayseed and are proud of 1t.