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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
A Brewer. 1Iunder.

The "wets" showed their usual BAD
Judgment recently when they made an
attempt to get the supreme court to
declare the womans suffrage law UNI
constitutional and thus disfranchise
every woman in Illinois.
1t Is true that women are more ire
quently opposed TO saloons imam men:
because women, more than men, feel
the evils which result from liquor law
lessness. 1t is not true that women
wage an unreasoning war against the
LIQUOR business. There are fourteen or
fifteen prohibition states in this coun-
try, and only one of them is suffrage
state. On this question. as on others,
women vote, not as sex, but as citi-
zens: intelligent. responsible citizens.
who have peculiar interest in protect
ing the home and upholding the law.
Yet here come the "wets" and delib.
erately fiout whole sex, try to turn
back the clock Of progress, and put our
mothers, wives and daughters In
class with Idiots, criminals and In
dams not taxed" as creatures who have
no right to vote!
No one but brewer could make such
a blunder. Unless women are much
more forbearing than their brothers.
they will find a way to teach the VETS.
their mistake.-Chicago Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
MINNIE HANNAH AND THE DIFFERENCE.

When a wealthy Iowa woman died
recently it was found that she had
left nearly $4,000 to Miss Minnie
Hanna who had worked for her seven
teen years. Miss Hanna lives at Hum
boldt and one of the first things she
wealthy was to offer the town of Hum
boldt a beautiful fountain to be COM
memorative of Mrs. Colby and to be
placed in the city park. In other ways
she proposes to assist materially in the
Identification and general welfare OF
her home town.
1T won't hurt her any?" Certainly
not. she ought to do il? sure
enough. But that isn't the point. She
is going to do it. She thought of it,
Any how she fell heir 10 the for
tune" True enough but it seems that
she earned it also by seventeen years
of service that was companionship and
sisterhood.
There are thousands of men in Iowa
who owe as much to their home towns
and communities as Minnie Hanna did
or does to hers. 1t appears that Min
ME Hanna had worked hard for her
living. She made no profit from the
general community. She depended
upon her wages. On the other hand
thousands of men have grown rich
thru direct profits from their neigh
bors Thousands OF them have mace
fortunes as the Colby fortune was made
by the Increased price of real estate.
a profit that came directly from the
community and most of which might be
termed unearned increment.
There's a rich man or two in every
community who has been favored and
honored and made much of and to
whom all that has come has been as
money in the bank. They might if they
chose donate few acres Of land for chill
drens' Fairgrounds. They might spend
fe wthousands for public welfare.
Minnie Hanna proposes TO do so out OF
the fortune that lell 10 neF. lueSo
men had this fortune left them by the
community They haven't worked any
harder than Minnie Hanna, They
haven't given any surer or more faith
full service. Why don't they loosen
up?
Minnie Hanna, working girl, knows
when she has enough and TO spare.
Evidently she doesn't intend to sit on
those bags OF gold and devote her life
TO putting pennies along with the doll
lars. Folks ought to Ike Minnie Han
ma. The chances are that they do. that
her good fortune is thing folks are
glad over And there are thousands
whose wealth gets them nothing except
their clothes and their board. But they
aren't like Minnie Hanna They fail
to feel gratefulness toward the COM
munity and God sufficiently to consider
good fortune as a responsibility and
debt TO be repaid.
That's the difference between Minnie
Hanna and some other rich folks.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
TOP DRESSING FOR IOWA LAND.

A boy over in Illinois planted an
acre. Newspapers reported that he
sold $3.50 worth of cucumbers off Of it..
A girl planted an acre of onions. or
her the papers said she sold almost
$3.50 worth of onions. But they didn't.
The boy didn't sell cucumbers or tha
girl sell onions. They marketed brains
and hard work. Those are the COM
modities they made their profit on. 1t
doesn't make any vital difference
whether they raised an acre of cucum-
bers or onions or went after any other
proposition where profit awaits thrift
and pluck and purpose it all amounts
to the same thing. Those are the
qualities that cash in at profit. They
made most of their acreage.
There's a lesson not only to other
boys but to every farmer in Iowa in the
record breaking acre of the Illinois
boy and of other boys from Georgia to
emphasize again the possibilities OF
thrift and efficiency when applied to
an acre of ground. The hint is especial
ly strong to Iowans who are living on
land which runs to q price equal to
the gross the Illinois boy took off his
acre. The hint is that better farming
on less acreage will get more in the
icrg run than wild ar operations care
lessly conducted. If. that boy had
planted corn on an acre Of rich iows
land he'd have husked 100 bushels Or
more to the acre. And if he had been
buying the land he'd have mad his
r,dyment ready II ne had owned the
land he'd have had the profit n the
bank or in some thrifty invest nent
Iowa is doing pretty we thank you;
ru1 she could double her prospsf!;" by
better farming The farm lands CT
Iowa are naturally the most fertile on
the face of the earth and stand ready
10 pay any debt they owA to thrift and
skill and brains. What Iowa land
needs is a mixture of brains, deter
mination, red clover and barnyard
manure. With that dressing applied
the farmlands of the state, thu acre
price would go to $500 in ten years.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
HELP THE KIDNEYS.
MarshaIItown Readers Arc Learning
xhs Way.

MarshaIItown Readers Arc Learning
ths Way.
It's the little kidney ills
The lame, weak or aching back
The unnoticed urinary disorders
That may lead to dropsy and Brights
disease.
When the kidneys are weak.
: Help them with Doan's Kidney Pulls,
"A remedy especially for weak kid
neys.
Deans have been used in kidney
troubles for 50 years.
Endorsed by $4,000 people-endorsed
by citizens of this locality.
James A. Filler. retired farmer. Mel.
bourne, Ia. says: II have used Doan's
Kidney Pills and am satisfied that they
are reliable kidney medicine. had
occasion to take this medicine for pains
in my back. The results were so satis-
factory that Ilhave never had to use
any kidney medicine since. Deans
kidney Pills cured me and have re-
manned cured"
Price soc, at all dealers. Don't
'uimply ask for kidney remedy-get
Deans Kidney Pills the same that Mr..
Filler had. Foster Mlburn CO., Props.
Buffalo. N. 7.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
COMMITTED TRADE EXPANSION

Trade expands at speedier pace,
and reports, especially from the east
ern half of the country, are more salts
factory than for three years past Ac-
tivitv in Industries, many of which are
sold far ahead. is accompanied by
sitter commodity prices, broader dis
tribution by jobbers, good sales by re-
tail dealers, enlarged road orders, in
creased railway traffic, improved COM
merciai demand for money. plethoric
supplies of funds, largely increased
bank clearings, better collections and
reports that many houses have in
creased their travelling forces.
Stocks Of staple wearing apparel at
practically all points are light, the re-
suit Of long practiced conservative
buying, and the uplift in trade seems
to have developed a rush to cover re-
auirements Most of the goods are
wanted Immediately, thus crowding
manufacturers.
The New England, the middle states,
the central western, the southern and
southwestern sections, all join in the
chorus Of good reports. manifestations
in those zones being the best witnessed
since October, 1912, or just as the first
Balkan war began. War orders. MAX
ing for large pay rolls, high quota
tons for cotton and Its products, and
profitable prices for wheat, provide the
vehicles for speedier movements In the
sections just named. Labor conditions
are infinitely better than for years
past.
It is true, however, that there are
some more or less discordant notes
rainy weather at the northwest having
retarded marketing Of grain, checked
fall buying and reduced collections
while reports from the Pacific north
west, barring the mining districts, sug
| gest that depression in lumber still
hangs over that territory, but it is con
coded that stocks Of general merchan'
disc are low.
Things to eat and to wear lead II
point Of activity, but at the same TIM
coal mining Is more active. southern
lumber markets continue to exhibi
Improvement and could do more wer
it not for the scarcity Of export IA
ciiities, car shortages are predicted
and, indeed, have actually arrived Il
some sections, demand for jewelry !
somewhat better, the furniture indus
TRY continues to expand. coke, stee
pig iron and flour are being produce
lat record or close to-record level:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18

narily supposed to have influence In
such matters:, but the protestants are
getting little encouragement" says the
Nevada Representative. The truth Is
that the Wilson administration in
general and is postmaster general from
Texas in particular do not care
whoop for Iowa republican senators
and congressman nor for Iowa consti-
tuencies, and as Senator Kenyon Is
quoted as suggesting, the only known
remedy for the present trouble lies in
change Of administration"
1T is said that Governor Clarke
wouldn't mind another term. Well, the
people Of the state might do worse by
a long way" observes the Iowa Falls
Citizen.
ut is believed that the liquor in
terests are preparing to oppose the
equal suffrage amendment and also the
enforcement Of the prohibitory law. 1t
is claimed that they are already rails
ing large fund for this purpose. But,
the harder they fight the easier it will
be for the amendment to carry, and it
is hardly possible that the vets can
find any weakness in the law provid-
ing for statewide prohibition after
Jan. 1. says the Coon Rapids Enter
prise. why can't the vets see that
their cause in Iowa is deader than a
door nail"
Noting that the Des Moines Register
announces the withdrawal of Frank S.
Shankland from the attorney general
race, the Hampton Chronicle says:
This will be news to a lot of people
over the state who never knew that he
was in. He did, however, come to
think about it. send out letters about
two years ago saying that he would be
candidate, but everybody had for
gotten about that. He makes wise
move at this time"
Last year the strongest democratic
campaign issue was 1.-The sad and
lonely, heartbroken man in the White
House: next fall il will probably be
'Lo, the bridegroom cometh.' Politics
is no respecter of sentiment" remarks
the Knoxville Journal.
"Of course it would be too much to
expect the nomination of Senator Cum
minis without opposition" says the
Boone News-Repubiican yet it must
be admitted that with each successive
political move his chance becomes
better"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
Topics of the Times

The new missile in use over IN
Europe discharges gas which puts
out the eyes of the force attacked.
And the boy in the history class reaos
today Of the savagery of ancient wars
and the cruelty O fthe American IN
dian. Nine 'rahs for civilization.
Well. If the government concludes
to raise the tax on large incomes some
If us will try to bear it with as much
resignation as possible Its a better
way than monkeying with the mali
routes.
Moreover, if preparedness includes
couple of months vacation on pay, as
suggested by the outline pubished as
part Of the administration. empowers
will not view it with such great dis
favor nor will there be a strike against
militia CONSUMPTION.
While certain other counties ana
g communities are quarreling over the
mere suggestion of permanent roaos'
Greene county is putting down the
gravel at the rate of $500 loads per
mile.
The western farmer who must walk
half mile to his mail box will not
feel repaid tcr his trouble and annoy
ance merely because another big bat
tleship is being built with the money
thus saved and powder manufacturers
growing millionaires over night.
The Dayton Review predicts that
Iowa roads in the end will be good
roads Sure. And In the end the
millennium. But we are supposed to
hustle things along a little aren't we!
Villas methods of enforcing disci-
pine remind much of THOSE employed
| by Diaz. And Diaz was the only
president that ever got anywhere in
Mexico.
| Young Perrin goes to the peniten-
tary for five years and the incident OF
the biggest bank robbery in Iowa is
| over. The public and the banks ana
the bank clerks will forget it until the
same thing happens again.
II we have spent as much as Ger
many for a navy and haven't got 1t,
one of the items Of general prepared
ness should be preparation to find
somebody who knows, how to spend
the nations money with judgment.
i The combination Of gasolene and
match is not more dangerous than the
combination of booze and an auto
| mobile.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18

manned a matter Of life unions until
the Cleveland administration was
reached. and considering the long
lapse OF years without a second mar
riage. 1t is surprising what q number
involve men or women still living.
Cleveland only married once. but his
widow, Frances Folsom, Is now MRS.
Thomas ]. Preston. Her husband -
connected with Princeton University.
The Harrison presidency contributes
second wedding on each side Of the
family. Benjamin Harrison married
Miss Carrie Scott. and many years
after her death, he was united with
Mrs Mary Lord Dimmick, widow of q
former attorney general Of the state OF
Pennsylvania. She is still living.
Theodore Roosevelt has been twice
married. His first wife, Alice Hatha-
way Lee, died in 1854. and in 1886
Roosevelt married Edith Kermit
Carow Of New York, the ceremony be-
ing performed in London.
President Wilson. accordingly. finds
abundant precedent for the step he IS
about to take. And presidents Of the
United States seem to have had par
ticular penchant for widows.
But there is also a reverse side to
the Story. MARTIN al buIeii WI"
died at the age OF 81. and altho Van
Buren, survived her fortythree years.
he remained true to her memory. No
president ever suffered more bitter per-
sonal attacks than Van Buren,, but his
worst enemy was ready to pay tribute
to him as husband, and for the rever-
ence he bore his wife after her death.
James Buchanan is the only bachelor
president the United States has ever
had. He entered politics to escape dis
traction over the death of his betrothed.
but never sufficiently effaced her mem-
DRY to find solace in another.
And in American annals. there -
nothing to surpass the lifelong de-
votion Of President Mckinley to his in>
valid wife.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
inquiry for the proper sort of tract and
located a quarter section at s125 the

inquiry for the proper sort of tract and
located a quarter section at S125 the
acre.
John Cownie, of Iowa county, one Of
the best known farmers of the state,
member Of the official board, consid-
cred the price too high.
Iowa land was becoming too good for
the state of Iowa to own.
Mr.. Cownie's mind was fixed on the
times when the United States sold this
land at $3.50 per acre, and made pro-
fit over the cents per acre, paid to
France.
Recently the owners of the $50 acres
selected by Mr.. Murphy refused $3.50
per acre. They have expended about
$1,000 on improvements. so that the
property represents an outlay of $25,-
900. The present minimum value Is
$4,000, profit of $4,000. or SO per
cent within six years. Meanwhile the
land has undoubtedly carried itself and
paid dividends of some size. the
amount Of which should be added to
the annual 10 per cent.
The price Is strictly farm price.
Vinton is not plating expensive addi-
tions.
If there Is another line of invest
ment anywhere that is as good it is
not known, and it is not believed TO
exist.
Iowa farmers make money that en-
ables them to go anywhere and pur-
chase what they desire. Not many
have been known to make enough
money in the boom sections Of the west
to come back and repurchase the farms
they sold when under the influence OF
the Wanderlust
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
WAR;.

War is form of violent activity
by which two nations decide who shall
pay the fiddler after the janitor has
turned out the lights. This kind Of a
settlement is termed an indemnity,
and enables the successful nation to
replace everything but the lives Of its
men and boys.
The people are not usually con-
suited about the expediency of max
ing war until they are in it up to
their hips. The war-making preroga-
tive is lodged in q limited circle of
high-domed dignitaries who are past
the age limit and do not have to
fight anything but the national debt
If there were law in effect which
placed combative statesmen in the
front rank Of the first line troops. the
nations Of the world would disarm
faster than discouraged disthiery
after a dry wave.
History teaches us that war does
not settle anything but the per capita
tax. which is paid for several hundred
years by loyal citizens who were not
present at the time and had no voice
in the proceedings. The people OF
England are still paying for the War
Of the Roses, which was fought with
great determination and elm CLUBS.
There Is no more expensive pastime
than engaging in war, unless 1t -
owning $4,000 automobile on a s4o0
income.
The ultimate aim Of most wars is to
secure valuable farm land which has
been brought TO high state OF cuiti-
walton by other people. This results
in great deal Of classification on
the part of the original owners, who
proceed to load up with machine guns
and armored cruisers and try to quiet
| the title by mobilizfng between supper
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
Filling Hollow Trees.

In some parts Of the country the
practice Of filing hollow trees with
coaerete has been superseded by one
Involving the use of a mixture OF
asphalt and sawdust II Is claimed
tits mixture costs less FOR both ma
ter3al and labor Of handling and 10
fusk a durable. Il certainly 10 not OF
euual strength with concrete, unless
fhere b fosud some method Of max
ine Il more soaid than wsuld be the
case With Z loose mixture Of the two
rnAfsriels named. 0ood paving blocks
Are made Of sawdust and asphalt, but
they are produced under great pres
sure. Their use for tree filling has
not yet stood the test OF time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
BETTER THAN ANY BANK.
TCedar RAPIDS Gazette.l


A news item from Vinton illustrates
the truth that Iowa farm land is abso-
lutely the best investment known. A
fortunate dealer may make a heavy
winning in the lots of boom city, but
for term OF years this line of bust
ness has not proved profitable in any
case that can be called TO memory.
Iowa land is certain. If there is the
feature of boom it is not present
because population Is clamoring for
space.
Some six years ago the state Of Iowa
thought it required about 100 acres of
land adjacent to Vinton. AS one ac-
quainted with the local situation and
with the officials, Bernard Murphy.
publisher Of the vinton Eagle, made
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18

William Rockefeller, Henry K. Me-,
Harg and nine other past or present
directors of the New York, New Haven
and Hartford railroad company ap-
peared in the federal district court in
New York to stand trial before Judge
Hunt and jury on charge OF hav.
ing conspired to violate the Sherman
law by seeking to monopolize all the
transportation facilities Of New Eng
land. In the eleven defendants and
their counsel Judge Hunt had before
him q collection of individuals the
personal wealth and ability of whom
probably never before had been equaled
in any courtroom. Mr.. Rockefeller not
only ranks as one of the wealthiest
men of the world. but has been one OF
the important railroad men Of tho
country. The ten other defendants also
are men of wealth and Importance in
the railroad or industrial worlds. Their
attorneys include some Of the best
known lawyers.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Were for the judge who 'soaks' the
bootlegger good and hard" avoWs the
Logan Observer. THE trouble with
the whisky element would have terml-
mated long ago If courts and police OIL
GERS had done their duty"
The Cascade Pioneer (Dem.) says OF
the rural route reorganization" at
that place: The changes are sweep
ing and ridiculous and q protest has
been made by the patrons. The postal
department may make . perfectly
useless record for economy at the ex-
pense Of the efficiency and usefulness
Of the service, but what will II get
them? Absolutely nothing but loss OF
confidence and support Of the admin
istration by hundreds of patrons A
postal deficit Is about on parallel with
a coal bill The service II necessary
whether it shows profit or loss"
"The protests Of rural residents who
see their rural delivery about to go
glimmering are being heard and are
being forwarded thru channels ordf-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
Masonic Meetings.
SPECIAL coMMUNIcATloN

~ SPECIAL COMMUNICATE ION
Marshall Lodge, No. los, A. F. & A. NJ
work in first degree. Wednesday, Oct.
90. 1880 o'clock. John w. Wells, sec
rotary: w. H. Steiner, w. NJ.
SIGNET CHAPTER, No. SO. r. A. NJ.
Regular Convocat!on Monday evening.
Oct. IS. L. S. kilborn. H. p, John w.
Wells. Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King solomon
Council No 20, r. & S. M. Monday
after third sunday. / T. Forbes, re-
corder; George Gregory, T. l. NJ
REGULAR coNcLAVE, st. Aldemar
Commandery No. 80. K. l.. TUESDAY,
Oct. 10, 1880 o'clock. Regular business
NJ. S. Mcfarland Rec; George Gregory
E. c.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81, o. E. s. "Wednesday, Nov
II. 7:3O %. M. Business. Anna Down
ing, secretary; Mary Black COINS
w. NJ.
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money Is moving to the grain districts
more freely, exports of wheat continue
heavy, growers are not especially anx-
ious to market wheat or cotton. ana
reports that the forces Of the Triple
Entente may be withdrawn from the
Dardanelles stiffen views as to future
prices for wheat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18

It occasionally happens that war is
preferable to other and greater calami-
ties, such as kicking the flag around,
and the man who can sit still with IN
rufled pulse and cry peace" under
such circumstances knows nothing OF
the spirit which shone at Monterey
and Manila. If to be unprepared IS to
be afraid, America is the readiest OF
all nations to meet such peril as may
not with honor be escaped.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-10-18
ALLEN AND cossoN.


Report has gained currency in the
state that Senator Allen, candidate for
the republican nomination for governor
of the state. would very soon make a
proposal to Candidate Cosson to arbi-.
trate the question of which should
withdraw from the race. In an inter-
view in the Des Moines Register and
Leader Senator Allen denies that he
has any int ntion of submitting any
such proposal to Cosson He init
mates, however. that so far as he is
concerned he is perfectly willing to
c..er into a caucus or conference &C
representative republicans and put his
own candidacy in the balance. agree
ing in advance to accept the decision
OF such council as binding, providing
Mr.. Cosson agrees to do likewise.
Both Allen and Cosson have good
political records. Both are faithful
workers on temperance lines. 1t is a
matter Of regret to many good repub-
licans in the state that both have en-