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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
Iona Newspapers

The Illinois Athletic Club has called
off its swimming contest because the
Eastland disaster made the river a
graveyard Over in Europe that much
sentiment would stop everything for
Europe is becoming one great grave
yard
ahe Funk will move to Des Moines.
Wonder what a DE has in mind politi-
callyo And If politics is bothering him
why didn't he try Fort Dodge first:
If fifteen Americans can whip sixty
Mexicans, as dispatches indicate, how
big an army would it take to stop our
southern neighbor from breaking up
the furniture?
Big incendiary fires have been start
ed in San Diego. According TO OBJ
servant tourists the insurance money
on San Diego is the best thing about
the town Who should worry?
-
A lot of people who trust Wilson are
disturbed over the manner in which
Wilson seems 10 trust McAdno.
One very capable observer says that
IL the frost holds of until late Septem :
Der Marshall county w1ll crib one of
the largest corn crops in the history OF
the county.
It isn't 50 hard to isolate Germany as
to maintain the isolation against Ger
man objection.
Well, after all the fuss and worry
the farmers can go to the state fair in
happy and cor;ented mood The only
! drawback will he the fact that they
will have to pay full first class passen-
ger rates for accommodations that
! were antasq;is.ed twenty years ago.
An Okiaion1a vw7oo.nea recently wrote
to the secretary Of the treasury ask
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10

any community where he behaved him.
self, without having to buy good fel-
lowship with registering bouts with
reckless companions. Both would have
to get higher conception OF extstance
than an every night at some place
OF amusement and a cultivation OF the
ambition to be the Mr. and Mrs. YER
non Castle of the town. They can't
make ends meet II they want to make
out OF their time a life OF folly.
These young ladies can learn much
OF the grandmothers whose experiences
run back TO the time when the houses
wife knitted all the stockings and nit
tens and made all the undergar1nent8
for the family-and some of them the
outer garments too-not that we would
advise the doing of all such work now.
But they should get far enough into
the spirit of the old time industry and
economy to feel II a religious duty to
take care of the clothing bought. Tho
young woman who darns her stockings
neatly every week and mends the
breaks in her clothing as soon as they
appear: who refuses to be begutled into
sweeping the bargain counters Of the
things she does not need. Is pretty well
started on the way of becoming .
frugal help meet to young fellow who
wants wife to help him keep wtfhin
$1,000 a year.
When, however. We see 80 many
young men spending from month 70
month all they make without any
thought Of the morrow, An8 with no
effort to save a little capital =!
business Of their own. the qnestion
crowding itself into the mind. 10 what
OF the days after marriage? Once In
a while such a one qr1ickens himself
into sense Of responsibility. under
the guidance OF sensible and saving
woman. But more often the tempta-
ton IL strong to follow tho old inclinA-
ton. and when the wife IL Of the same
kind the expenditures are ltnnited only
by the income, and 1t matters noe
wneGilea Il he twelve h..ndred or hvea
Thousand At Will no moro than meet
the expenses OF the pace, with nothing
left FOR the rainy day"
The estimate Of what young couple
can live on depends more upon them
than the prices Of the necessar1es~ Of
life
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
No Observation-Disclosures.

by want all the road" shouted m
irate motor driver footing for all he
was worth in a narrow country lane.
Pull aside and let me pass by!"
Whoa. steady now!" grinned the
farmer from the top of the load of hay.
Il dunno as I'm in any hurry
You are looking for trouble, my
mani" spluttered the fellow IN the car
as the motor throbbed and fumed im-
patiently. Are you going to move or
not ?"
II don't know as be in any hurry
t morning.
Seemed in hurry enough to let that
carriage pass just now" smiled the
angry one.
ooh. ay! But that horse wuz eating
my hay. There isn't no danger o you
eatin' it. l reekon-you don't look
hungry!"-Tit- Bits.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10

the future may receive hourly bulle-
tins of important news events the
world over?
Already he can stand in his sitting
room and talk to Cousin John or Aunt
Lizzie a thousand miles away. AL
ready he can gather with his family in
his parlor and listen TO the singing of
Caruso OF the playing Of some world
famed soloist or musical organization.
Already he can preserve both the voice
and the moving likeness OF his baby
boy or girl against that day when he
shall be old and gray and they shall
be dead or moved away and he can get
out the records and the film. the phon-
ograph and the protector. and see them
smile and wave their hands and walk
and play and hear their voices calling
him or shouting for joy or perhaps
singing some childhood song
In the light of these achievements,
who can predict the future? Who can
laugh at those who do predict?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
lus1 LISTEN TO THEM,

Greene county began it the other day
| when she sent out story relating how
Frank Harding who lives near Jeffer-
son. threshed a47 bushels of oats from
! 10 acres and at that left 100 bushels in
| the straw which. if in the gTanaIy,
would have Just balanced up the 100
1 bushels to the acre: Greene added to
i this story another asserting that Cap.
Head threshed Is acres OF winter
wheat, fine. plump wheat too. that ran
81 bushels to the acre. All this sup
| posedly machine measure. oats will
probably over-run four or five pounds.
You know the way the threshing
stories go.
The slight but fatal mistake Greene
county made was in speaking first. On
the crop reports from the farms the
farmer who tells the first story never
has the best chance. But that doesn't
matter
What does matter is that the farm
ers who were predicting calamity and
crop failure a week or so ago are now
matching threshing returns against
each other with 100 bushel oats yields
and wheat yields of 5 bushels an acre.
Of course those figures may be a little
high. A 10-acre field never gets bigger
after tt1reshing time and instances
have been known where IS or % acres
in blowing time dwindiet 10 IS Taherl
the wheat was measured. Same with
cornfields: they never swell al husking
time. -Four rows eighty rods long"
sometimes shrink to so rods when the
Dragging begins But that IS a minor
matter. The noticeable thing IS how
suddenly the rnourners change from
crop failure pesslr7ists before harvest
10 full. 100 hushel optimists after the
threshing machine has pulled away
from the straw stack
Same thing with the corn. The man
who ten days ago was sure that the
crop was beyond redemption is grin
ming like a Cheshire cat To hear him
talk nobody would imagine that he had
ever held doubt or had a suspicion.
III the fros, holds off we'll into Sep
TENDER were going 10 have one of the
best corn crops we ever had now. Why
the ears are SIMPLY jumping out Of the
stalks. OF course some very low fields
are not up to the time Of year but
what in thunder does a man want TO
plant his corn in a swamp <ore You
can't beat ir-Iowa soil. We never
have had a crop failure. It always
comes CIT" Nc, he never thought the
crop was gone He knew. But ten
days ago when you met him IN the
road ne looked and talked and acted as
though he had been arrested for MUIR
der.
Make EN- big. The probabilities are
that most Of them are pretty close 20
the fa,cts-Within a few bushels any
how. One hundred busheI Yields OF
oats and 81 bushels Of wheat to the
acre are not extraordinary in Iowa,
merely notable. They are indications
that a good farmer has been farming
good Iowa land. That's all
OF course that long, rainy spell was
unpleasant 1t bothered us some. But
as concerns the crops-just listen to
the symposium that Greene county
started when she broke in Dragging.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
THE PUBLIC WORKMAN
TParkersburg Eclipse.I

Efficiency in the conduct Of public
business should count for as much as
II does in private business, but for
unexplained reason 1t does not witk
the average taxpayer. How many OF
the taxpayers in given community
ever think of the business qualidca-
tions of the men whom they elect to
office? AS a general rule it can be said
with safety that the voters are more
often moved by prejudice than COM
mon sense in election matters. They
too often allow the widest and most
absurd rumors regarding candidates to
affect them at election time. and for
this reason too often incompetent and
unfit candidates secures the plum over
the more fit man. How many times in
the past has the writer witnessed just
such things and we have wondered
how the voters could be so blind to
.!..o!!: material interesfs. It is oftlmeS
the case that man will vote for candi-
dates for public office whom they
would not place in charge OF their
own business affairs, be cause they
felt they were not competent to handle
it Yet this candidate may have the
spending Of thousands OF dollars,
which. II not rightly spent. means a
loss TO the men who pay the bill. The
Eclipse has believed for several years
that our election, system is not what
it should be, especially In those offices
which have direct charge Of the spend
ing of public money. We believe that
each county should have business
agent employed permanently, whose
business it would be to purchase all
supplies for the county. make the al
lotments for the spending of the vari-
GUS funds. The man capable OF hold
ing down such q Job should be paid
good wages. wages large enough so
that he could feel that he was getting
all that his services were worth. We
would have this done or else retain in
office for a longer series Of years the
men who have proven their worth as
business agents for the taxpayers. A
man who knows that he is on the job
for four or six years has no incentive
to proficiency in his work. He skins
the surface and usually does just
enough work to show the taxpayers
that he is doing something to earn the
salary the law allows him to draw.
There are thousands Of good officials
who earn their salaries by trying to
save the taxpayers money. Unfor-
tunately there are other thousands
who make no effort 60 save money.
because they do not know how. II tax
payers took the trouble to look into
the business qualifications of the men
whom they vote for 1t might mean the
saving Of money for them.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
will not tempt us to leave the Hawkeye

will not tempt us TO leave the Hawkeye
state
All Of which goes to show how easy
i; is to find fault. 1t isn't necessary
for Cole TO join Alex Miller's army OF
kickers. 1t is just as easy to join the
army of constructionists. 1t is just
as easy for Cole to assis. in finding
the paving material as it is to poke
fun at the fellow who is trying TO find
il. No one wants to issue thirty-year
bonds for fifteen-year paving material.
While Iowa IS chewing the rag over
and about paving material, Louisiana
has gone to work to find il, has found
It, and has her paving about COM
pleted No one pretends that Iowa is
less progressive than Louisiana. The
Eagle couldn't get out of patience with
Brother Cole if it wanted to- hence, it
invites him to join the better roads
people and help find the materials
which will give Iowa good roads.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
SETTLING UP.
rSar Sim


The Sioux City Journal wants to
know whether some of the present day
admirers of Senator Kenyon need a
reminder that w. L. Harding of Sioux
City is entitled to consideration be-
cause his vote and influence at the
critical time helped in the choice OF
Mr. Kenyon for United States senator.
The Sun scarcely thinks that they need
to be reminded, for most of ft.e.n recall
the fact that Harding cashed those OBJ
legations within a few months when he
came out for lieutenant governor
against a better man and was given the
support Of Kenyon's friends out OF
gratitude for his vote on United States
senator. The Sun believes. that the
score is even and feels sure some bet
ter excuse will have to be found if dry
republicans give their support to Sioux
City's suave but Enthusiastically can
didate for governor.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
THE PHONE coMPASY.s STAND
IDubuque Times-Journal. ]

dubuque Times Journal-1
The Iowa Telephone Company makes
the announcement that If the Dubukue
city council undertakes to enforce an
ordinance imposing wire and pole
tax agains, the company there Will be
retalia;ory measures in the shape OF
increased rentals for telephones. In
other words if the company is COM
PEELED to pay tax the tax W. come
out OF the peoples pockets. The COM
pany holds it is entitled TO a margin
of profit and that when its operating
expenses are increased II must increase
its revenue by raising telephone rates.
If the threat made by the company
can be carried into execution it is time
that some legislative measures be taken
TO protect the people. II d corpora
ton can make the public pay for every
increase in the cost of operation there
is something wrong. Small wonder
tth. s1a.: big corporations are locked upon
with suspicion by the people.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
COMPLEMENTARY.
ISioux City Journal

If Governor Clarke didn't want to ap-
point big commission to investigate
the road question. he could turn the
job over to Fritz" Norris. of the Mar
shalltown T!mes-Republican, and con-
fidentIy count on receiving report
embracing all that Iowa would want
TO know about ways and means Of at
tanning permane roads. But of course
Pat Murphy, Of the Vinton Eagle,
ought 70 be on the commission because
he made the proposal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
EQUALITY AT TUSKEEGEE.
rHu-pho1dt RepuhIicar

Booker T. Washington sprung quite
joke on his audience. He started a
sentence thus: AT Tuskeege we be-
lieve in woman's rights" here the
audience broke in with cheers. After
the cheering had subsidized he added
this: and when we send the boys
to the field 10 hoe we send the girls
along The last portion of the SEN
tence caused more laughter than the
first had caused cheers. But in his
remarks he stated that Tuskeegee be-
lieved II equal suffrage.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
HELP FIND THEM.
[Vinton Eagle.J


One, by rubbing up against Cyrenus
Cole, editor OF the Cedar Rapids Re-
publican, would not gain the impress
sion that he Is a nonconstructive. Yet
on the road question he Is 30 skepti-
cal that he has become useless. He
doubts everything. He has gone back
to the fables. and asks about the bas-
ket OF eggs on the maiden's head.
After quoting the Vinton Eagle and the
Sioux City Tribune on good roads. he
says: That looks good. The only
question that now remains is to find
a paving material that will last as long
as those bonds (thirty years.. II we
can find that, we are off in bunch.
But .re should not issue thirty year
bonds for fifteen-year improvements.
for that would mean fifteen years pay
ing for dead horse. Let's find the
materials and then let's away and all
ride on paved roads in Iowa-Tands then
the golden streets of the new. Jerusalem
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
poWN Of THE Farm.

/ v
First we had the mail runner, sack
on back, then the star route" and the
pony express. then the little green
wagon and the mail box at the door:
and now comes the motorcar mail car
r,er. The mail deliveries by aeroplanes
may he only little ways in the fu-
ture. Some experiments with that end
In yiey are already being carried on.
Who can predict the equipment OF
the farm in the future? Is 1t far
fetched to predict that some day each
farm will have aero-landing stages,
and wireless stations where the daily
weather predictions will be flashed to
the moss remote parts Of the country:
Is It wild guess to imagine that some
day cities and town will be provided
with powerful chemical fire trucks
ready TO answer any telephone call for
helm from some farm? Is It dream
to suppose that some day farm houses
will be equipped with some sort Of
new tangled apparatus that win en-
able the family to sit by the fire OF
winter evenings and witness the pro-
ducfion OF moving picture at some
theater in q neighborins town? Is 1t
presumptious to say that the farmer OF
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
DIFFERENT EXPLANATIONS.
lanes Times

ATeS Times
The Gearing News recently contained
an item telling abou; a trip over the
Story City branch Of the NJ. & st. L.
by special train bearing officials of
that road and Of the Northwestern.
adding that the North western is nego-
tiating for the purchase Of the branch.
But the Story City Herald replies that
there were no Northwestern officials
on the train but that it carried only
" r st L. officials who were trying
TO relocate the track which had been
lost in the weeds.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
TsE4FCHdYg roe B0OEs IY.sFEWIN sIREEI FFIeHal

by the rushing waters will take sew
eral months to rebuild. Hundreds Of
volunteers. with the police, are search
ing the ruins for bodies. The city
itself presents a scene of devastation.
Houses and stores have been wrenched
from their foundations and piled topsy
turvy. The lane OF ruin runs straight
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10

ing for $1,000. She wanted to buy a
COW, set of false teeth and Ford.
And really those seem to be the main
modern necessities. sj'
That preparedness that digs q cy-
clone cave before the twister comes is
merely good judgment. And a few
subs and some ammunition and men
who know how are in the cyclone cella-
class
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
CAN'T AFFORD 1T.
Fpoca honfa Pecnrd

The ether day merchan. said he
couldn't afford to advertise in his
home newspaper. II the mans views
were not distorted, he would see that
he couldn't afford not TO advertise.
Refusing to advertise is his most ex-
pensive extravaganza. That same
merchant will spend hours telling Of
the unfair competition of the mail
order houses who are his most agrees
sive and dangerous competitors, yet
the methods employed by the mail
order houses which succeed are the
very ones which the merchant refuses
10 use The mail-order house first OF
all is an advertiser. Advertising is the
life o! its business. Every magazine
that enters the small town and rural
home carries the ad of the mail-order
house. Expensive catalogs are printed
showing the illustrations of the actual
articles Occasionally sheets are scat
tered broadcast over the country as
special "come-on'' for the bargain
hunter. Instead of doing these things
in a smaller way through the columns
of his local paper. the merchant who
can't afford to advertise sits down
and "cusses' his tough luck and Won
ders why he can't get the business.
He never thinks he has a better OPP
portunity to reach the people in his
neighborhood than the mail-order
house has It doesn't cost him az
much as it does the outsider; he can
draw the people to his store and show
them the actual article he is advertls-
ing. and when they buy, they can take
their purchase home with them instead
of having to wait for several weeks FOR
If Advertising is an investment. 1t
should be charged to your selling
cost. Figure what percentage you
have TO pay to advertise, then base a
fifty-two weeks campaign on the COM
nutatfon. You can't lose. You can't
afford not to advertise.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
A. Masonic Meetings.
" STATED COMMUNICATIVE

" STATED COMMUNICATION
Marshall Lodge. No, los A F. 6 A M D.
regular meeting Friday. Aug 10, 80
p. m John w. Wells. secretary; W. D.
Steiner, w. NJ.
siGNET CHAPTER, No. IS, r. \. NJ
Special Convocation Monday ever1lns'
Aug. 9. for work on Royal Arcn Desres'
L. 5. Klborn. H. P, John ". "elis'
Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King solomon
Council No. 20. R & 8. M. MonoaS
after the third Sunday. 7. 7. FORBES
recorder: George Gregory. T. l. N.
SPECIAL coNcLAvE. St. Aldena
comnanoery No. 80, K. T. Iuesoaas,
Aug. 10. o'clocq. Work in oIoes %
che Temple. N. 5. Mcfarland zee"
George Gregory, E. c.
REGULAR MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81, o. E. S, WEDNESDAY. avg
II. s o. N. Business and initiation pS
Past Matrons. Anna Downing, secFe-
AIRY: Mary Black Collins, w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
l;'..zs.

) King Constantine Of Greece has en- :
tirely recovered from the illness which
for time threatened his life. When
1t was announced that he had been re-
stored to health great religious fes-s
tiyai, presided over by tho AHchbishop
Of the Greek church and attended With
great military pomp, was held 70 cello. !
brate the event. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
Topics of the Times
WASN'T THE /. P. A THERE,
IVin,on Eagle.l

The christians will meet in Des
Moines next year. Ii is about time
that something of that kind should
meet in Des Moines.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10

Fries toll Of dead that came in the
wake of the cloudburst that smashed
the city may reach seventy. according
to the latest estimates by the authori-
ties. The property loss will easily
reach $4,000, 900 and the slice of the
business center of the city cut thru
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10

The Fairfield Ledger says being SEN
fenced to an Iowa prison isn't much of
a punishment in these days-that con-
victs are carried to their jobs by the
state, have their own tents and camp
ing outfits and have as much fun on
their outing as the average man on his
vacation
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10

thru the main arteries Of business
Erie, and scores OF men are at work
trying to bring order out Of chaos.
Thousands OF sightseers throng the
territory where death and destruc-
ton came tumbling down In the rush
OF waters.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Nothing will come of the Bedford
buried treasure case as a political is
sue predicts the Iowa City Citizen.
"Cosson was brought into it by the ac-
tivity of a local attorney and he dis
missed it when he found the accusa-
tons We're based on vague and uncer-
tain evidence"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10

The biennial joke about Carl
Kuehnle, of Denison, running for gov
ernor is going the rounds. but Carl
never sees the point. remarks the
Paullina Times
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10

Senator Allen is said to have decid-
ed to resign his senatorship in order
to give all his time to his race for the
gubernatorial nomination. Not to cast
any insinuation on the senator" COM
nents the Humboldt Republican, but
wouldn't it be we'll to keep one hand on
the senatorship in case the quest of the
governorship miscarried?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10

Question tby the Sioux City Jour
nab Would the president be spend
ing so much time in the cool breezes Of
New Hampshire If there hadn't been
change in the cabinet a while back?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-10

What local sentiment there is that
we have been able to discover inclines
toward Senator Joe Allen says the
Upton Advertiser