Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-08
Topics of the Times

Iowa is the spot at which crops are
noted for finishing always strong on
the home stretch.
San Francisco sends out word that
her fair Is out Of debt. She means that
her borrowed money is paid and that
the promoters who put up for the
equity have no claims.
The news item to the effect that
thirty-five college newspapers in this
country and Canada have decided to
causes surprise. Not surprise that they
are driving out the whisky adds but
surprise that they ever let them in.
II the language Of teh race track,
''They are of at Omaha" Billy Sunday
has opened a nine weeks revival cam
paign.
Ambassador Dumba thinks that
there is nothing undignified in a
diplomat becoming walking delegate
to foment strikes in the factories Of
the country to which he has been Off
cially delegated as peaceful pleni-
potentiary.
What this town needs" began the
reformer.
rs team" broke in the fan, that
can hit the ball when there are men
on bases"-Life
The thing that made road booster
of B. Murphy, of Vinton, has finally
been located. 1t was a mile and half
of concrete on an exceptionally bad
piece of road north Of town. Watch it,
Pat, and if under reasonable main
tenance it gives promise of lasting
thirty years Benton county could cover
its entire county road system with it,
replace every temporary bridge in the
county with masonry and pay off the
debt and interest without increasing its
present county bridge and road levies.
If Connolly gets that place in the
state department it will have aided an
awfully narrow escape. Some of us
had begun TO fear that Connolly was
not going to land before the democratic
administration fell from power.
Gallant Maior-"Its glad am to see
ye about again. me dear lady; but
what was it that was troubling ye?"
Convalescent-"I was very. very i'll
major thru ptomaine- poisoning
Major-"Dear dear, now, What with
that an deiirium tremens you never
know what to eat or drink nowadays
Punch.
Omaha he will find that it is little
bit the worst job he ever tackled.
School principals should acquaint
themselves with the new child labor
law which is now operative in Iowa.
II provides that all children must re-
main in school until IS years of age
or until they have completed school
work equivalent to the sixth grade. No
child shall be allowed to remain out
of school unless the sixth grade has
been completed and then only under
a written agreement with the en-
ployer.
Few of us pure Iowans are going to
get excited over 800 per acre being
taken from Iowa land north of Mason
City in one crop of onions until we can
get few Japs or some other alien race
to do the wedding. Any man whose
boyhood was spent in the vicinity OF
the family garden knows too much
about wedding onions to bite on that
kind of land agents bait. Keep your
onion money.
Austria's ambassador to this country
explains that there was no conspiracy
on his part to interfere with the man
ufacture Of munitions in the United
States but that he was merely plan
ming in public way to call upon work.
men Of Austrian and of Hungarian
birth in this country to quit their work
upon munitions designed for the de-
struction OF their fellow countrymen
in the fatherland.
Commercial clubs thruout Iowa
should take up the fire insurance prob
lem under the new law. Organized de-
Tense will go very long ways toward
forcing the insurance companies to be
in the demands they think
they can make under protection of the
new statute.