Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-07
GRUB 4 GRuB---FARMERS.

DR.. Cuuttem's son Will is home from
medical school, full tiedged physi-
clan and surgeon. Is thinking OF grow
ing whiskers and is looking for wife
For years Old Doc has been looking
forward 10 this day and has even an
ticipa,ed = by having a new sign
painted. II has been ready fer months
and Will go up across the sidewalk at
the stairway entrance as soon as the
village smith can make the irons. Ii
will announce to the world -'Drs. Cut
TEN and Cut-ern: Physicians and Sur
geons' The card will be changed in
the Weekly Beacon and Old Doc viii
step around as light footed and happy
as he did on that memorable morning
years ago when the men
down town Slapped him on the Shout
der and congratulated him upon his
success at home or wisely warned him
to cal, a good doctor and & nurse: by
all means nurse.
Lawyer SINNERS boy James IS
home, too. He finished law school at
the state university and is already
criticising the board of supervisors and
speaks loudly OF that assinine bunch at
the legislature. But Old Skinner has
been waiting long for this day. II has
seemed long, long road TO him but al
last he has won the biggest case that
has come into his practice. Tomorrow
g, new single will reach forth from
above his stairway. The First Ma
-ional Bank was told about it conf
IDENTIFY yesterday. The new single
will announce skinner and Skinner:
Attorneys at Law, Collections Spe-
cialry, Money to Loan" And court
will be recessed during The forenoon
while everybody gathers round the old
man 10 enjoy his pride and congTatu-
late him upon the rare judgment he
has shown in choosing a asood partner.
The court will solemnly predict that
the new firm ought to win acase now,
with due accent upon the now"
And down on the corner next TO the
postoffce sign painters are at work
over the windows of the big general
store Colonel Sellers boy Bill is home
from school. Graduated from the
commercial course and took a cores
pondence course in salesnaanship on
the side. Will go to the wholesale
market with Dad next week, but all
the women in town learned from a
confidential friend of Mrs. Sellers sew
eral weeks ago that the new Arm is to
be Sellers & Son: General Mer-
chandise." Old Samuel Sanders could
not get his article into the Beacon this
week about Leaf Beetles and Their
Progeny" because it required a fun
column on the local news page TO
write up the new firm.
But Farmer Grub's boy has been GO
ing to college, too. This was not al
ways SO. He is home, too, for the sum-
mer. Has completed course in ami
NAL husbandry and agronomy. Spe-
cialized in dairying but nobody on r
F. d. No. has hired any sign paint
ers yet Tom Is blowing corn in his
college pumps. He does not know what
| he is going to do. Just behind him
trails q team driven by some foatel
picked up for the rush season. Dads
| land is worth 5000 per acre and 1t is
Dads. No use trying to buy anything
across the road for It Is not for sale
and anyway what is man going tc
| buy with. Up and down the corn rows
go young mans ambitions only Il
| turn around at the end OF the row
when the team turns. At supper
mothers heart chills and Old Grub's
chin drops To his chest when they heal
that the boy is thinking Of going ou
west to look around
/ why shouldn't he? What Is Their.
for him at home? Who wants to b,
an educated hired man? Education
that fires ambition III a man units hin
for hired mans job. A college mar
wants an opportunity. II it is no
waiting for him at home he will b,
off hunting 1t before fall. Farmer
Grub needs lesson in sign painting
II he wants to keep that boy on til,
old home place where Doth I've Ant