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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-02

is elected the interest of the people of
the county will be looked after in a
way they should be. This is very
important office and the voters of the
county should give the matter their
fullest consideration before they cast
their ballot Tuesday.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-02
TAKEN TO HOSPITAL.

NJ. R. McClintock, who is working
for the Western Union Telegraph
Company, was taken to the Davis Me-
mortal Hospital Wednesday night
where he will be operated upon today
for appendicitis.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-02

You all know Mr.. Bennett and if
you want the finances of the county
looked after in a judicious manner you
can do no better than elect him.
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Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-02

The schools of this county is one
Of the greatest problems that con-
fronts the citizenship of the county
and they should be under the supervi-
sion of man that is competent and
we are very fortunate in having Ira
L. Dadismarf as candidate for the
office Of County Superintendent of
Free Schools.
Mr.. Dadisman has spent most all
his life in the school room and knows
the needs Of the country, as well as
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-02

There is not the least doubt in the
world but that Hon. R. f. Talbot will
be the next State Senator from this
district and it is up to the people Of
his home county to give him big
majority next Tuesday. We all know
him to be an honest straightforward
man and we have confidence in him.
He is not the man who will sell his
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-02

Aquilla Ward, of Volga, is the man
that you should vote for to represent
you in the Legislature. Mr.. Ward
is well qualified for the position and
if you elect him you will be helping
to rid the county of chronic Office
seekers" He is a man who will do
all in his power to have measures
enacted that will benefit the taxpay-
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-02

Taxpayers of Barbour County, we
appeal to you to vote for Charles w.
Brandon, for clerk of the circuit court
Mr.. Brandon is well qualified to hold
the position as you all well know and
Re is your friend. He is now making
SIGHT to save you from paying out
$4,000 for the erection of a new
Jail at Philippi, which Jail is wholly
uncaled for and you should show your
appreciation of his efforts. He has
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-02

H. B. Thompson, of Philippi, was
in town on business Wednesday.
Belington progressive. [volume] (Belington, W. Va.) 1912-1927, 1914-11-02

agreed to put up the money to make
the fight against the building of a
new jail but the Republican members
of the county court have SO far rife
fused to take any action against them
that was brought in the circuit court.
Stand by G. w. Brandon and re-elect
him to Office. He has been tried and
found to be there with the goods. He
is competent official and knows how
to conduct the affairs Of the office.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
WIN AND WITHOUT BONDS.

The taxpayers OF Clay county have
voted a bond issue of $4,000 for the
building OF a concrete bridge across the
Little Sioux river at Spencer. The
vote shows that in the judgment of the
voters the Improvement was necessary
but the voting OF bonds for its fnanc-
ing suggests What could be done by
the voters of this state with their roads
If our laws were brought up to the
standard Of other states.
II the voters of Clay county had not
heen permitted ny law TO vote bonds
for that bridge the $4,000 involved
would have taken every dollar out Of
the bridge fund OF that county for one
year and the bridge would never have
been built. for no board OF supervisors
would ever have spent all the bridge
money Of one year upon one bridge.
They would have kept on smear!ng it
around over the county little here
and LITTLE there. like they ali do with
the county road money
AS 1t is, the bridge will be built
without increased taxation When
built !. Hill last anywhere from 100
to 500 years and 1t will be paid for in
easy payments during twenty years or
Whereabouts. The county's credit is so
good that people with money to loan
down east will pay the bonds at 5 per
cent interest while the taxpayer might
It up now when money is worth per
cent TO most farmers. The taxpayer
| saves 3 per cent on the interest cost
Of the money. somebody's else money
| builds the bridge for the people OF
Clay county and the people who are
to enjoy the use Of the bridge in the
years TO come will pay back this money
in easy annual installments somewhat
as they use the improvement.
Contrast this with our archaic meth
| cd Of financing road improvements.
The Lincoln Highway Association this
summer offered four counties in Iowa
each present of s2,7oo worth of ce-
ment IL those counties would each put
up $4,000 Of their own money and
build a mile Of pavement on the great
exposition transcontinental route. 4
| was expected that there would h
fierce bidding for the prizes but whez
the day arrived there was one poo
lone bid from Marshall county. No 9th
er county dared even to accept tn,
free cement because no beard OF ssz-
pervisors dared to spend 5000 o
county road money out OF one year.
tax money upon one mile Of road. Mar
shall county boosters took short GU
and Tapped about two-thirds Of thei
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
THE RIGHT ATTITUDE For IOWA.

Ihere Is talk OF a congressional in
vestigation into the start toward a gem
eral infection of the livestock of the
whole country by the foot and mouth
disease. There seems TO be a suspi-
clon that government officials whose
duty il is TO inspect and Immediately
crush any outbreak had been ignorant
or negligent or worse in the inspection
Of the herd from which all the present
danger and expense started.
It will be we'll TO trace this case back
to the beginning and give the public
the full facts. Whether an official has
been ignorant or yielding the story
OF how the entire livestock interest Of
the United StaIes may be inperiled by
carelessness or graft or the anxiety of
an owner to preserve his fancy animals
viii be valuable reading for those who
have just been thru a scare that kept
them UP nights wondering wha, the
outcome was 10 be. The vigorous
measures under way viii probably
avert general spread of the disease.
The stockyards are open to receive
animals for slaughter and the worst
immediate pressure will be thus re-
lieved. But the country can not learn
the lesson too well that eternal Wig
lance and honest inspection are neces-
sary ard that the saving of few
cattle to a single affected herd may
mean inconceivable loss to the whole
country The stock feeder and breeder
needs larger view poin, on livestock
disease He needs TO learn that the
shipping OF cholera hogs is not only
legally bur morally criminal. that the
retention OF tubercular cattle in his
herd whether II be a herd of com
mon mich cows or a fancy herd of
high priced stock is a crime against
society. He needs a shock which shall
teach him that the careiessness or
greed of another 500 miles away may
mean disaster 10 his herd and his in
terests.
The livestock industry is one mutual
" dependent for protection upon the
range with It's big herds and the little
farm with its carload. We bring sheep
from the far west into Iowa and draw
our feeder cattle from a half dozen
states. Iowa is in more danger than
most other states because Iowa de-
ponds on finishing with its corn the
| feeders that cheaper lands produce.
Iowa then rs most interested in the
enactment and enforcement of string
ent laws protecting against diseased
livestock
Begin now to demand and prac-
| tice inspection that inspects. Clean
| out Of Iowa all diseased cattle. Go over
Your own herds. Test them thoroughly.
Stand the loss of a few tubercular
COWS if You must. Make the livestock
industry and the lives and health of
consumers safe
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
EsREPUBIICAN. MARsHAILrowN NOVEMBER ls 1Nx

improvement over into the city where
tho Iowa laws permit pavement I'M
provements to be assessed to nearby
property whenever 1t can be shown
that the property has been benefited
as much as the amount of the assess
ment
Had the law Of Iowa as to bond is
sues for bridges. court houses and
school houses been broad enough to
include road improvements the people
could have voted bonds. They then
would have received the cement free
from the Lincoln Highway Association
and the rest of the money would have
been furnished by the rich people who
buy county bonds. The pavement
would have been laid without an i'm
mediate draft upon any taxpayer
pocket. 1t would have lasted thirty
years or more without much OF any
cos, for repairs and if the bonds had
run for approximately the life of the
Improvement so the people could pc
paying for the pavement about as they
used it the cost would have been re-
duced 10 s420 per annum per mile OF
pavement for interest. maintenance
and sinking fund to pay off the debt
q; the end of the thirty years.
With bonds the people Of Clay coun-
ty got their bridge.
Without bonds the people along the
Lincoln Highway could not even get
cement when it was free for the ask
ing
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16

Goodness knows we've plenty to be
thankful for this year over what ~
haven't as well as for what we have.
Will some one point out any one
except Its author--who isn't anxious to
see that non partisan judiciary law on
its way to the dump?
If We are doing Vera Cruz as much
good as the dispatches state. why
hurry away?
So far there has been no mention
of Judge Taft as a possibility for the
presidency in 1916. And it is to be
noted that those who mentioned Teddy
10 it because it's habit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
Topics of the Times

When the paragraphers VINO sing the
glories of a November morning in Iowa
got up this morning they found more
goose pimples than gIories.
Arizona voted on the abolition OF
the death penalty and kept it. But she
abolished booze and thus saved more
lives than she took.
County fairs absorbed a little more
than $4,000 Of state money last year.
And they rendered the best return for
the money of any state aid provided.
There should be more county fairs in
more counties in Iowa. The county fair
is one Of the best investments Mar
shall county ever made.
The fortunes Of war vary greatly.
There's Meredith who was frisked of
his democracy during the primary
campaign counting up his gains while
Connolly is busy checking up what II
cost him in cold cash and credit
This is greater Iowa week. During
the hurrah and good feeling and gen.
eral Joy of the coming seven days
would be mighty good time Tor Hamil-
ION and the rest Of the retrogression-
lists to grab torch and get into the
parade.
This country should bring thankful
hearts to the tablew neither It is graced
by turkey or with common plain beef
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
The cosvlc1s At 1HE FOOTBALL CANE

The conviCtS who have been EN-
ployed at road making and on the
foun6a tons of the state buildings at
An,es broke a prison record SATURDAY
when the gang attended the football
game between Iowa State College ana
the University OF Iowa in a body the
report says they were the happiest
spectators at the game. And that Is
probably true. For il meant more TO
them than the moments enjoyment
of the spectacle staged between the
goal posts. 1t was acceptance OF their
humanness and evidence of a change
OF public attitude toward the man VINO
has gone wrong and seems anxious TO
these men felt all of that and went
away from the football game better
men with new strength, not because
they had seen good game but because
they had touched again the ground OF
a common citizenship. Some may de-
cry the judgment of those in authority
and suggest that these men are con-
victs under sentence to suffer for their
misdeeds; but these are behind the
newer and better understanding which
is that these men are to be reInade and
encouraged 10 become what most OF
them have never been-good citizens.
Tests OF the mentality OF convicss
both men and women in penitentiaries
/ of various states disclose the fact that
the average convicts mentality scarce
! IL reaches the average poise and 5udg-
mer,t of a youth of Is. Physically grown
| they are still mental and moral chill
dren. Severity imbrutes them. Kind
ness and trust and a new chance lifts
| them. All work and punishment and
no play and amusement makes the con-
vicr Jack maniac or brute or both
The men who saw the football game
SATURDAY. had earned their little hour
| of pleasura5le excitement by hard
work and self restraint. They had
earned it And they will be fhe bettes
for it all their lives.
It's a question Of desert. Purely so.
The man who has gone wrong is of all
/, men the one who hungers for recogni-
! ton OF his attempts TO reform. Such
recognition Is part Of the retormatory
! process. We have been fifty centuries
| finding out that punishment alone does
! not reform but hardens erring men
whether it is football game or a
i baseball nine inside the prison walls or
| a decent sui, OF clothes on Sunday
or any OF a hundred signs of recogni-
ton and encouragement o. the new
purpose all coun, in the remaking OF
the unframed. uneducated, unreoog-
nized men whose lowered mentality
| and moral strength have been unable
/ TO resist the downward pull, which
| every man, no matter what his mental,
moral and financial equipment, feels
that undertow that sweeps beneath the
surface Of every human life.
/ Firmness first and kindness after
wards is the golden rule OF government
over children. And these are for the
main part overgrown children.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
uN1NTELLIGENT VOTING.


The returns from almost any cleo
ton of errors in marking ballots.
illogical oddities.
The mistakes of the ballot box are
by no means confined to uneducated
persons. Down in the back street OF
the city where recent immigrants
prevail, you might expect to find
laundering voters.
The chances are that their politi-
cal education has been well attended
to. Some worker has taken his pupils
one by one and has shown them that
even an ignorant man can mark a bal
lot correctly. For such citizens the
mediate over their lesson with great
searchings of heart. enter the voting
booth, ard are apt to mark correctly.
Meanwhile the hurried business man
enters the polling place, his mind cen.
tered on problems that he left at his
office. Before he knows it, he may
have marked two candidates where he
could vote only for one.
| In the states where the law does
not permit one to vote straight party
ticket by single mark. the tail end
of the ballot usually shows q lower
total. Yet the contests most vitality az
fecting a community may come at the
| end. It seems but trifing effort To
mark ballot from end to end. Many
i voters seen &c become wearied by This
strain on the massive intellects.
! At primary or other elections where
candidates are arranged alphabetically
| without party designation. the poll
ticians always say It 10 a great adj
vantage to have your name begin with
A or b. so that you can head the bal
lot. II your name begins with q w OF
Y, you are handicapped. There are al
ways a number Of Indifferent voters
who on many contests will mark the
first name that they read. They would
add to the average intelligence OF the
electorate by going fishing election day
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
Masonic Meetings.
SPECIAL coMMUNicA

" SPECIAL ALTON
Marshall Lodge. No. los A F. & A. NJ.
Friday. Nov. 20. 1880 p. m. For work.
First degree. John w. Wells, secretary;
l. T. Forbes, W. NJ.
STATED coNvccATioN. signet
Chapter No. IS, A. A. NJ. Monday.
Nov. Is, 80 p. m. Regular business.
John w. Wells. secretary; A. d. MeeSer.
z. II. P.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King solomon
Council No. 20. r s S. NJ. Monday, Nov.
Is. for regular business and election OF
officers. 1. T. Forbes, recorder; a. "
Meeker. T. I. NJ.
STATED coNcLAVE St. Alderman
;-onnandery No. 80 * T. Tuesday
Nov. II, Regular business. F. NJ. VII
bur. e. c., NJ. S. Mcfarland, Rec.
SPECIAL MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81, o. E. s.. Wednesday, Novein
Der is. 1880 p. m. for initiation Anna
Downing secretary: Mary Black COL
Inns, w, NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16

Capital is timid. they say. but it
should not be afraid TO go to South
America or almost anywhere, consid-
ering what it has had to go up against
in this country. a revolution could
hardly be worse than the American
congress or the average legislature"
asserts the Sioux City Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
Iona Newspapers
GET THE MAN BEHIND
TTama News.l

a man convicted OF stealing ordinary
hogs was sentenced to :he prison at
Fort Madison and in his self defense
said that the day the crime was COM
mitted he had smoked 100 pills" He
endeayored to shift the blame for the
crime to the dealer in the opiate- In
this he could not legally but neyerthe-
less, II is true that the retailer was
as much TO blame AZ any one could be
and not actually do il himself. AT least
he was one OF the primary causes. The
greatest danger the worst enemy a
community can have is an unscrupu-
lous retailer Of dope cr liquor. The
man behind is the candidate for the
lorg box.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

DO You suppose tina, this fine after
election weather is due to the fact
that the republicans Won about all
there was to win in the election Of last
week." inquiries the Logan Observer.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16

With Scott county going republican
by two thousand this year. Davenport
ought 10 be about ripe for Rev. Billy
next fall" predicts the Mason City
Globe Gazette
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
rHE q. e. MONSTER.

Mason City GlObe-Gazette.J
II the first custodial farm for lack
OF available funds must be placed in
Polk county, why burden the state with
the extravagance OF other farms in the
corners of the state? Why not locate
them all close to Dee Moines?s Why
not rise to the occasion and gay. Cross
me heart, the place for the custodial
farm il on the Flynn tract for many
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
CHAPTER TX.
From the Crows Nest.


f@IHE night passed without incl
dent. except for one thing that
wewere unable to verify. At six
bells. during the darkest hour
Of the night that precedes tue early
dawn Of summer. Adams from the
crows nest called down In a panic that
there was something crawling on all
fours on the deck below him.
Burns. ON watch at the companion.
way, ran forward with his revolver
end narrowly escaped being Drained.
Adams 1t that moment f,inging down
q mariinespike, that be carried aloft
with him.
heard the crush and ioihed RHsns.
ind together We went over the deck
end both houses. Everything WAS
Quies--the crew 10 various attitudes u
exhausted Dleep, their chests aud dltty.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16
WHAT'S WRONG WITH JIMMIE
IIowa City Republican,


We have but one son. Jimmie. He
is a bright young fellow of IL. We have
three girls, good plain, girls. who help
their mother and are doing well in
school. Mary Is - and has just en-
tered the university. Helen is Is and
Geneva is IL We are just having our
first trial in the management Of the
children. Jimmie is not doing well in
high school. He has been getting marks
which indicate lack OF application. He
has been out some of evenings. He
goes with other high school boys, all
of good families. He earned some
money last vacation and put it in the
bank. The cashier told me privately
last week that half of this Is gone. I
can not understand II. l have not told
my wife yet. But there Is something
wrong with Jimmie, which l must find
out. Somehow dread it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16

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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16

The Sigourney News says: Person
ally. we don't think much of the non
partisan judiciary law"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16

Between 100000 and $4,000, 900
pounds Of walnuts are shipped to the
United States annually from France.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16

The Sioux City journal says that:
Business men out this way are blam :
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16

Every man has a right TO believe
what he pleases in regard TO religion
says the Davenport Times. but in the
exercise OF that privilege he has no
right to libel his fellow citizens who
may differ with him in regard to how
best to attain to future blessedness."
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16

But the re-establishing of republic
can supremacy will not see the old line
element in control predicts the Hum
boldt Republican. Men like Cummins
and Kenyon instead of Cannon and AL
drich. will be at the head, and the
progressive republicans viii either re-
ceive their dues or the party ship will
again go on the rocks of defeat"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-11-16

Although American business oc-
casionalIy is frightened little, it sell
dom rs really hurt" says the Clinton
Advertiser