Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-01-14
Topics of the Times

Wonder If the same interests whose
dealings with Judge Archibald got him
into trouble had anything to do with
securing his appointment in the first
place.
Dubuque with only thirty eight sa-
looms will appear as odd as did Of
tumwa without any.
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1t is wonderful how popular the
Shankland bill is becoming in what
Moines Capital.
The Shankland bill got its inspira-
ton in Polk county, did it not?-Sioux
City Journal.
1t is not believed the present Illinois
deadlock will be opened with the key
to a bathroom.-Sioux City Journal.
Nor with a pair of jacks.
The conference of old-line republi-
cans in Washington resulted only in a
determination to prevent the election
Of Roosevelt four years hence. That's
a long road to harmony.
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What constitutes q permanent Gull
welt? Wood, gravel, steel, brick or con-
crete? What constitutes a permanent
street crossing? Wood. gravel, cinders.
brick or concrete? What should then
constitute a permanent country road?
Pottawattamie county has employed
a county engineer to look after its
roads in the person of a graduate civil
engineer who has had practical ex-
p%erience supervising railroad and
street paving work for contractors.
This means business in Pottawattamie
county. Are there any more boards of
supervisors with keen business sense?
No one need be afraid of a 1-mill
tax for permanent roads if the legisla-
ture should make the levy. 1t will cost
9 quarter section of farm land only
50 per annum and will amount to half
the public library tax in Iowa.
What a nightmare the growth of the
automobile industry has been may be
realized from the history of the Good
year Tire Company. In 1898 w broth
ers in Akron, O., bought an abandoned
factory building at a bargain and set
about to find something to occupy the
building. They organized a company
to make buggy tires. The automobile
business came and today this company
employs 5000 men making S25,OOO.O 900
worth of goods per annum and is only
"A years old. Think of how many times
it must have added on to that old fac
tory building.
A bank guarantee bill has been in
troduced in the South Dakota legisla-
ture. If it could be an insurance OF
bank deposits conducted by the state
and taxed to the banks it would be a
wise law to have in Iowa. In Nebraska
it has worked we'll. Even the bankers
like it.
1t would be wise for the state OF
Iowa to acquire that disreputable real
estate lying between the catipol build
ing and the railroad yards and convert
it into grounds for the accommodation
of future state buildings. During the
next fifty years there are to be vast
increases in state functions which will
require state buildings and a place to
put them.
The owners of the -four daily news
papers published in Bridgeport, Conn,
by arrangement have increased the
subscription price of their newspapers
from i cent per copy to 2 cents. Inc
reason given is that the 1 cent does
not pay the cost Of the white paper
used and postage and that If the adver-
| tiser must pay more than half the cost
of production he will have to have
more than half the space in the news
paper hence the papers can not be
c~reditable publications from the pub
| fishers standpoint nor satisfactory to
the readers.