Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1914-03-24

Oskaloosa Herald: A Boston editor
insists that notwithstanding the bad
reputation of the skunk he should not
be recklessly exterminated. Noting
this remark a western editor says that
anyone who has recklessly tried to
exterminate a skunk knows that the
Boston editor is right
Council Bluffs Nonpareil: Keep
your eye open for the candidate who
is all things to all men when he has
them in separate groups. When they
are together he is noncommittal. You
find these fellows in all parties and
under all flags. They are politicians
playing the game.
Des Moines Capital: The gushing
Washington correspondents assure us
that the fifty-year-old Mr.. McAdoo
Seems as young as man of thirty"
Could anything be more delightful!
Marshalltown Times Republican:
Three years ago Williamson county,
Texas. began spending 100000 Of
bond money on $50 miles of graveleG
roads and today her roads are COM
pleted for service. Everybody in this
county will have hard surfaced main
travelled road to use for the rest of
his days and even after that he will
have a better chance at finding easier
travelling than had he been content
with hell of a road on earth.
Cedar Rapids Gazette: It's funny
how little attention some people pay
to matters of government. Would you
be surprised to know that there were
in Cedar Rapids men who, up to Sun
day, did not know, or at least admitted
they didn't know, that there was to be
primary election today. And they
are supposed to read the newspapers,
too. ..
Waterloo Courier: 1t may be dis
tasteful task for Colonel Goethals,
but when the proper time comes the
American people will insist that he
take part in the celebrations incident
to the opening Of the Panama canal,
and that will be all there will be to It,
except that the celebrations will be
little larger and more joyous and
more truly indicative Of the import.
ance of the event.
Iowa City Republican: The Repuh.
lican has been rather free in urging
people to put out suet for birds, and
the writer took his own advice. A
chunk of suet was kept nailed into the
crotch of an oak tree two feet from a
porch corner, and in the past few
weeks it has been visited by the fol-
lowing birds: Blue jay, nut-hatch,
red-headed woodpecker,
hairy woodpecker, downy woodpecker,
red bellied woodpecker, crow, English
sparrow, junco, brown creeper. Scarce
ly a minute passed during the day that
some bird was not at the suet
Muscatine Journal: The opening
gun in the spring clean up campaign
was fired yesterday when City Health
Officer Hustled sent out thirty notices
TO property owners in the business
district to clean up their back yards
court ways and the alleys abutting on
their premises. The clean up campaign
in Muscatine this year starts with bet
ter prospects than ever before. A
educational campaign
waged during the winter months has
many citizens to the wisdom,
economy and healthfulness of cleaner
premises. Organized support has
been enlisted in behalf Of cleaner
Muscatine But the campaign, despite
it's favorable beginning and it's for
midab1e backing, cannot succeed
unless accorded the willing
cooperation and support of the aver |
age citizen.
Cedar Rapids Republican: When
Falls enumerated the long list
of Americans murdered, 1t transpires,
he named many who were killed be-
fore the unpleasantness broke out in