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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23

going to advance still farther as the
| most skilled OF all workers. What ar
rant nonsense is this back to the soil
movement which would put upon the
| farm the fellow who has proven q fail-
ure in the city. The fact Is that the
man who has failed in the country
may still win success In the city. But
the rule can not be inverted. The man
who failed in the city can not so OH
the land and make good" there.
That. however. is another story. The
suggestion which naturally follows the
introduction of electric lighting on the
farms is that the country roads Will
eventually be lighted with electricity
and then the troubles OF country doc
tors or city doctors with country
patients. and OF others VINO have to
travel the country roads at right. will
be largely minimized. 1t will no doubt
add considerably to the comfort and
the pleasure Of country life when thu
roads in the country shall be lighted
as the roads in the city are lighted to-
day. But before this subject Is gone
into by any great extent perhaps II
might be in order to suggest that be-
fore we light these rural roads we
must first get our rural roads. As
long as a meeting can not be held at
Concordia school house because there
has been a bit OF rain and the roads
are impa ssable in October. so long
there will be little need Of lighting the
country roads. 1t is like the Cid story
of the bearskin, which is TO be car
/ ried to market: First get your bear"
n ny1 IL Hor
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
THE HONOR OF PARTY
tBoone News Repu bIican. ]


The socalled independent voter
beasts Of his ability to vote any ticket
he see III TO. One thing is certain.
/ is nothing to boast about. Any man
can founder from The republican TO
the progressive. or over into the dem
ocratic party from one election to an
other, and IL does net require great
headwork or moral stability. These
remorks are called forth by the state
ment that Hon. John Cownie has gone
over TO the enemy He endorses John
T. Hamilton for governor in a letter
addressed to a Cedar Rapids news
paper. Everyone used to admire Mr..
Cownie. perhaps they do yet-yet il
always causes a kind of regret when
= man who has been known as a
staunch party member suddenly shifts
over to another party for no good
and sufficient reason. Especially is
this true il man has been honored
by the party by tine gif; Of office. No
doubt as a man grows older 1t is hard
er for his party to suit him This
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
MORE ABOUT IOWA APPLES.

\ Jasper county man has, according
10 the figures he gives out cleared
something ike $500 on thir,y-fye
acre orchard this season. He sold The
apple crop Tor s5.e89 ana estimates
that the cost of such handling Of il as
must be done al his expense viii cost
him $500. Perhaps readers VIII call
70 mind another ease in Mills county
few years ago when farmer had
thirty four acre orchard thrown on his
hands This man pruned and spray=5,
and gave the orchard good care. sold
his crop tor a little better than me
price o. me land and found MS forced
investment the besr ne had ever made.
Since then he has paid as much at
;ent:on to an apple tree as ne had
formerly given brood SOW
Neither OF these instances nor the
notable success Of southwestern apple
growers thru Mills and Page and
Pottawattamie and other counties in
the southwestern part Of the state sug-
gsst that the central Iowa farmer
should turn mis- corn fields and pastures
into orchards: bu, they do make plain
that the man who owns an orchard and
permits it TO take care Of itself is
losing the best paying patch OF land
on his place. They further suggest
that good orchard. well cared for, is
a good investment for every farmer
and they proclaim the fact that per-
sons who are hurrying to some loudly
advertised "vallep' or terrace" to pay
$1,000 TO $4,000 an acre for orchards
or to spend $1,000 an acre in order to
clear off and plant with apple trees
the unimprored lands of those valleys
OF the blessed, could with much less
expenditure create as healthy or
chards and raise as many and as good
or better apples right here in Iowa.
Thirty five acres of orchard: $1,000
in cold cash for one years crop.
Sounds like easy money. No. no in
deed. every orchard in Iowa even in the
| orchard districts doesn't give an an
5ual return Of nearly 5000 an acre, it is
notable instance this Colfax orchard
and its crop; but we must also take
into consideration the fact that the
stories that come from the orchard
valleys" and terraces" with the
agents who sell ten and twenty acre
OF 1sls Is and 'r-oenecte" are notab BILE
instances very often as notable 70,
| fiction as for truth
Summed up it comes to this. Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23

travagance that is complained of. Blu
Mr.. Brant might be fair enough Il
admit that Governor Clarke did Lo
pass that bill and did not have vote
IN the legislature to cast for 1t, but tia,
twenty-six democrats in the legisla-
ture did vote for it. as large a pro-
portion OF democrats as of republi-
cans voted for it and 1t was not re-
garded then as a party issue, which II
has been made since. And the records
show II single democrat on the APP
preparation committee had voted for IL
there would have been a reduction IT
over % per cent in the area purcha sed.
But at best or worst that purchase rep
resents no wastage. for IL the state
finds that il has more ground than II
needs it can dispose of it for more than
il has paid for it. for Iowa real estate
is not going down, but up. Tho whole
matter Is not worth one column of
broadsides.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
THIS CITY. SIOUX c,rY AND soorlseetas


To sons persons . half dozen whisky
bottles in an alley. left behind By alley
rats and those who do their drinking
out OF bottles and in the shelter of
the darkness is complete and con-
elusive evidence that the town is
worse off than If we had saloons"
that more liqror IS being drunk than
II We had saloons, etc, exc. up and
down the ganlut Of expressions used
by those who wish the saloons were
back and those others who are not
satisfied short of accomplishment ina,
nlnst await the millennium. To be sure
there are not many Of ei.,,er left in.
MarshsllIown but some.
Now Sioux City is sa,oon town
The majority there wants saloons. At
least one minister signed The saloon
petition in tha, city with the others
who wanted SALOONS for business. as
Z business, for convenience Of appetite
ard because the town would he over
-un with bootlegge-s II I wen, dry
while under wise regulation" there
would he no bootleggerS and law would
ae supreme ete- and The rest Of ii.
Turn We now 10 the Sioux City
Journal most reliable purveyor II
news and newspaper. which If j, IS
against the retention OF the saloons
n its own city. has failed 10 say 50.
Listen 10 the Journal
Il half the ingenuity used in devising
hiding places for liquors. or plants"
IS they are called, were expended in
some legitimate business ii is hardly
possible that II would fail 20 bring sue
cess. according 70 Sioux City police
men who have dealt with t,ootleggers.
Some Of the places III which the police
have found beer and whisky in recent
raids have been 50 well concealed
that il was only ny the most careful!
examination that they were discovered
Then the Journal goes on 10 describe
the w!ies and ingenious hiding places
used by bootleggers in this saloon
city. one was closet fun Of e.. thes.
The garments were made with numer-
ous pockets and each pocket held lis
pint A trap door in hen house coy
cred 8 hole in the ground which was
rot the less hole in the wall" Il was
necessary 10 move stove TO raise the
trap door. a bo:t hidden Under The
paper Of pantry shelf opened q Sc
crer closet where JOY juice in profusion
awaited the open sesame Of dollar
bill. Secret panels in 5he walls. fake
chimneys, cisterns and wells gave up
their alcoholic treasures 20 the police
men. 4 lavatory in a woman's bed
room swung aside revealing passage
way to a cave whence bottles were
brought forth with a pair q long tongs
especially adapted 10 the purpose. Five
hiding places were discovered in one
house.
Going over the Sioux City situation
the dry towns may ind much comfor,
IN the comparison And after having
v-swed the paraphernaiia and proper
ties Of bootlegging IN a saloon town, all
that fuss over whether an outside door
os bootlegglng establishment in
Cry town was locked or unlocked takes
on an added righteousness.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23

seems to be the universal result. but
here is snch thing as loyalty a
man of real mettie will think a long
time before he comes out publicly
against the party whose faith he has
held for many years. John Cownie
might at least have kept still. His
endorsement OF John T. Hamilton will
not change the result
The real secret of the fading away
of Colonel Roosereit's popularity Is
the manner in which he treated the
political party which brought him all
OF his fame and honor political
party may become hnmbled and tram
pied in the dirt, but 1t III behooves a
man who has been beneficiary of
this party's days of success TO kick
the carcass.
Talk as you will about blind sub
serviency 10 party. real honor and
real integrity demand that a man who
has been honored by a party have the
stability to stick TO it unless it COM
mits some very reprchensible act or
fails longer to represent the people.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23

trip Of six weeks her husband was arr
rested on a minor charge at Monte
Carlo and was recognized as naA
wanted for theft from his employer in
Paris. He was taken there and con-
victed. but sentence was suspended, as
he had been in jail some weeks before
his trial. The wife Is q sister of John
H. Hanan, the wealthy shoe manufac-
turer. This was her first marriage
She says that she has not lived with
her husband since his arrest. tho she
has given him an allowance. Before
their marriage the youthful nobleman
signed a document relinquishing all
claim to his wife's estate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23

New York-The Duke de Majo Dur
azzo. who is - years old. says that
he will bitterly fight the efforts OF his
wife, who is fifty three, TO have their
marriage annulled. He is stopping at
l. Eas, Twenty fourt': street. His
principal defense * that he is ci;i-
zen of Italy and that his ife shares his
citizenship and that therefore Anleri-
can courts have no jurisdiction. He
also denies the statement that his
wife's petition TO the effect that ne
was criminal when they were mar
ried in this city last February. In fsr
petition she says that after a bridal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
4 COMING IMPROVEMENT
IBurlington Hawkeye.

In many sections of the state Of
Iowa farmers are beginning to light
their homes. barns, etc. with electric
ity and they are also beginning to use
the electric current for various pur-
poses. such as the driving OF many
kinds of machinery. And thus. the
farmer is going to add fair working
knowledge Of electricity to his other
attachments. and is going 20 increase
his knowledge. his general efficiency. is
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
PUBLIC SALE ADVERTISING
[Iowa city Republican,


Las; year well known Johnson
county farmer came 10 the Republican
Office TO advertise a public sale At
Ter talking over the conditions, he
concluded to use newspaper space foI
MS advertising except few bills foI
local use He said afterwards that his
talk and changed plans ne,ted him OYER
$1,000. Several OF his best bidders
came from distance OF over twenty
miles. They never say RS Bills
Some people persist in taking Up
Bills in feed barns ana on telephone
posts. hut the best bidders travel in
autos and they cannot read the bills
as they pass along the highways and
they do not put up 4, feed barns. In
southwest Iowa the auctioreers have
discarded sale bills. They use only
newspaper space. Eac, sale is adver-
tised To the extern. Of about s25, and
the results are such tina; nobody could
get the farmers 10 - back to he old
sale bill plan. The farmer who sticks
20 sale bills loses money.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
GOOD STRATEGY AT THAT.
TStN.,x- tSy,. I

Our office strategist digresses from
his job long enough TO remark that If
he were owner nc 2 textile mill il stead
OF shutting down in the hopes % beat
ing down the price Of raw cotton he
would buy all the cotton ;le could har-
die 3; the present fair price and turn
out goods as fast rs i.e could 10 store
away against that da. in the near flu
tu-e when there is going 70 he an un-
precedented demand for cotton goods.
and less goods .han ever before.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
REPUBLICAN, MARsHAILTowN IoWA OCTOBER .,

can raise as good apples as any other
section OF this country. When they
are grown with care she can get the
price for them and she Is foolish that
she doesn't raise more of them instead
of paving fancy prices for fruit that
pays freight from the two seahoards
OF America
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
Topics of the Times

There's no economy IN Parting your
Nhiskers in me middle
Ard in the meantime Ahiie waiting
drag the roads 10 the polling places
Perhaps the movies are to blame.
also for the fac; tina; democratic 20
litical meeting can't draw as big a
crowd as Saturday stree: sale.
So far we have had no terrible s,or-
les Of atrocities perpetrated by the
Cossacks And Yet wherever Cos
sack goes in arms at-ocity has al%ays
accompanied MIN.
Across the water Jack Johnson has
gwen his name 20 shell used mainly
FOR knocking Notifications about. The
only s1ell game Jack was ever inter
ested in in this country vas the Thin
plerigging pursuit Of pugiiis'n.
The Iowa CITY Republican iuagines
that It is firing dunn dugns az l,e re-
publican state administration when i,
is shooting paper wads
All is SMOOTH sailing with the good
old democratic snip This year-no
shoals, nor icebergs. nor rocks 10
threaten disaster-LeMars Globe Post.
Hons this? Plymouth county Ell
IDENTIFY isn't as dry" as has been re-
ported.
1t viii not be a breach Of neutrality
10 send that big cargo Of Christmas
presents 10 the children of the nations
a war Neither viii the cargo be con-
sraoand OF war. Christmas and war
are very distinct from each other and
without any connection save pity.
The Davenport Democrat is cut Of
rapport with the administration on the
proposition 10 put rural delivery on q
contract basis. 1t wants 70 know why
Burleson takes a whack at the far
;ners and why he doesn't include the
city carrier service in the contract
proposition. The democrat has swal-
lowed a good deal without making
faces but it gags at the contract pro-
position.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
Masonic Meetings.
SPECIAL COMMUNICATION

w SPECIAL COM NJ ONlSS' ioiN
Marshall Lodge. No. los A. F. A M.
Friday. October IS, $50 2. m.
for work. first degree. John W. Wells,
secretary; /. 7. FORBES ". II.
STATED coNvocATioN, signet
Chapter No. IS, A. 4. NJ. Monday
Oct 10. $50 2. N. Regular business.
John w Wells. secretary: A. D. Meeker,
e. 81. P.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solomon
Council No. 20. r. & s. n. Monday
after the third Sunday. Regular ousi-
ness. T. Forbes, recorder: a. u.
Neeker. T. I. II.
STATED coNcLAvE Tuesday. Oct
20 Regular business. F. N. NNou1'
E. c.: ". S. Mcfarland. Rec.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81. o. E. s. Wednesday, NoveTIl-
Der y. 1880 p. m. Anna Downing. sec
retary: Mary Black Collins. W. NJ
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
IOWA oPPipNioM AND NOTES.

1T would be a good idea for the peo-
pie who are investing in this cotton.
from patriotic motives. to invest IN
stocks To create funds for the construc-
ton of factories 10 convert the cotton
into CLOTH" suggests the Weoste~ City
Freeman Tribune. That would Ne a
movement worth while and enc that
would eventually make the south irae-
pendent OF the Eurpnea.l market
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23
Iona Newspapers
a. z'-7.~A
AN IOWA CITY "BROADsIDE.'
rCedar RaY,sd@ R~n,1h1fczn

tCedar Rapids Republican,
The Iowa City Republican has done
it at last, come out with a broadside
edition against Governor Clarke as an
extravagant administrator of the state.
incidentally Mr.. Brant calls the editor
ns the Des M0ines Register and
Leader liar on three or four counts.
The whole broadside IL devoted TO
capitol extension which Is the ex-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23

Our own advice to Portugal would be
to initiate Denmark and let the world
forget just where she is.-Milwaukee
Journal
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23

What can be done to reform our
jury laws 10 an extent tina; Will make 1t
Well nigh impossible fer the purchase
able juror 20 saeaa his way into this
important branch OF the auolic SER
wise, inquiries the EDS Mcines CAPITAL.
The Cedar Falls Record says; If
veer the roads of the state needed
dragging that time is right NOW. The
week Of rain and uninterrupted ,raf-
iic have played hob wiki every high
NAY in the country. Chucil holes from
eight to eighteen inches deep arc 10
he found on practically every h;el,N ay
and the road drag IS tie only instrm
nav.gable. In spite of the provisions
OF !Ae road laws road dragging has
been a MUS quantity in this vicinity
this summer complains the Record
/. feels a 10, better to march out
with the bands playing than it does
coming back in u coffin. asserts .he
Cedar Rapids Republican.
The indications are strange TO say
that the more Roosevelt stirs ~ the
voters the worse i, VIII oe for Rouse
velt" says the Waterloo Times 4apub-
ican.
Taxes may he high says the Boone
News Republican bur never before
did Iowa have so much money TO pay
them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23

and the demand light. Buy a ton an,
put 1t away.-Cincinnati Commercial
Tribune. F
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23

Armor plate i. down to $40 ton
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-10-23

So far we have had no terrible stor-
les Of atrocities perpetrated by the
Cossacks. And YET wherever Cos
sack goes in arms atrocity has al%ays
accompanied MIN.
The Cordova daily times., 1914-12-18
CORDOvA'S TERMINAL ADVANTAGES
 TO BE WELL LOOKED AFTER

~ ORDOVA is particularly fortunate in having at | this time of its representative citizens at the
 / National Capital, in the person of MT. Geo. C. Hazee president of the local Chamber of Commerce. There is no person Tn Alaska better informed the conditions and needs ot the Copper River valley than Mr. Hazeet He has not only resided in this section for the past twelve but has bazed the trails to the interior when it comes to furnishing President Wilson and Secretary Lane with data for their guidance selecting the government trunk nes townsman is position give accurate in formation from personal knowledge and investigation He IS firm believer in the fact that railroad from Chna to Fairbanks IS the only route in Alaska that will afford sufc lent tonnage to make railroad paying proposition It was largely through his efforts that Cordova Chamber o Commerce compiled exhaustive report of the of this valley together with facts and figures showing the infinite advantages possessed by Cordova any other Prince William Sound port the terminal of the railroad Uncle Sam intends constructing year from this coast to interior Alaska
 few days ago Chairman Edes, of the Alaska Engineer ing Commission, wired Seward to forward to Washington full report of the of Kenai peninsula indicating that neighbOrng had failed make this showing at the proper time Coldova at work for months in the compilation of its data and the commission expects to submit its report to President Wilson within short tme the good work that has been done by local commercial organization should prove of inestmable benefit Then again. President Hazelet the ground and Cordovans rest assured that he will do all in his power to set forth advantages when to considering the merits of the different towns along this coast the terminal of that $35 100000 railroad.
The Cordova daily times., 1914-12-18
CoRDovA's RELIEF FUND TO
 BE HANDLED BY RED CROSS
T THE last meeting of the committee n charge of ras Ing relief fund for the Belgian suffe. ITS it was decid

II1f last meeting of the committee charge of
 Ing relief fund for the Belgian suffe. ITS it was decid
 ed to send the money thus raised the American Rcd Gross Society which is doing such work in the war zone ot Europe where in spite of all that money and per sonal effort can dO there is bound be suffering and distress among helpless and children than can pos bly be relieved.
 At the time of the San Francisco earthquake and fire the Red Cross accomplished magnificent work not only in re evng distress and aeviang suffering caused by that great disaster but also in the splendid in which it guard ed the health of the panic stricken people and provided itation for the prevention of disease
 It has been suggested that residents of COrova and the Copper River valley foreign bon many may have friends and relatives in the warning countries and not few have brothers fathers other relatives engaged in the warfare To such the noble purposes of Red Cross should especially appeal But all should be eresed in the despairng to humanity that is being out from the desoaed countries Aaskan particularly open hearted when relieving distress that comes under their observation and particular whether the recipients of their bounty worthy otherwse- is sufficient that they in need How much more, there ore should they heed tine call of the helpless who in the midst of misery and desttuton through act of their
 The Red Cross Societies general for societies founded for assisting the sick and wounded in time of hut its scope includes relief of all kinds of distress and suffering great caamities beyond the of local lief All civilized countries the result of nterna ona conference held at Geneva in 863 maintain Red Cross societies and the organization recognized by the treaty of Geneva adopted in 1864, which accepted and signed by number of nations Under this treaty all hospitals and hospital officials and all engaged in any i'll attending the sick and wounded in treated neutrals In Eng and Queen Victoria instituted in 1883 the Royal Red Cross reward for who have themselves in aid of the sick and wounded in In practically all the 1866 the Red Cross has played prominent and noble part
 The American National Red Cross is incorporated by act of Congress for the relief of suffering by war, pes lence famine foods fires and other caEnntes' The intro dueon and development of the the United States due to Miss Clara Barton the founder of the branch
 The work of the American Red Cross Cuba during the war; as measured by service and contributions was phe nominal The total value of the contributions was $4OOO 00 which supplemented by personal service of ncacu lable value At the conclusion of the much distress sickness desuton and starvation prevailed the island and the Red Cross continued indeagabe in it's work
The Cordova daily times., 1914-12-18

JUDGING from the large and complete stocks of holiday goods being displayed by local merchants you find any thing the of Christmas gift that desire to purchase Do holiday shopping early and gain the advantage of hay the first selection of the variety of articles offered sale
The Cordova daily times., 1914-12-18
Seward Is Placer Camp.

Seward people, while digging eel lars under their buildings, have run into pay gravel. Frank Nickerson found a nugget worth 25 cents, and J. l.. Graef, the hardware man, struck 20 cents pans. The gold was found at a depth of 2 to 8 feet below the surface.