Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-10
Topics of the Times

The editor Of the Traer Star Clipper
complains that free oats from Canada
will bring 25-cent market in Iowa
Let's see, the only editor in Iowa who
owns private railway coach left over
from the days of the Canadian land
boom lives in Traer or Whereabouts.
The League Of Iowa Municipalities
Will convene in Council Bluffs while
Billy Sunday is at work in Omoha
Just as tho Billy did not have diff
Guilty enough with Omaha without add
ing TO his troubles that Iowa league
OF city officials.
! When women can vote road that
Will enable the doctor to reach the
I bedside at any hour upon any night
will be built by our county super
visors or the supervisor will soon cease
to supervise
If anyone thinks that to dispose of
a second hand automobile is a problem
let him try to sell a family driving
horse.
Speaking of the death OF a citizen
the Council Bluffs Nonpareil says that
Good brakes, a clear head, steady
nerves, eternal vigilance and moderate
speed are vitality essential to safety
when travelling by auto. Mr.. Plummer
had all those" What then caused his
car to turn over and kill him? Moth
ing else but road grade so grown to
weeds that he could not see a ditch at
the side. In these days of auto travel
and night travel we have a new kind
of problem on our roads. We need
road patrols such as they have on
New England roads and in Europe
Even the Sioux City News has
caught the spirit of the age when 1t
remarks that the 100000 to be lost
in saloon licenses will not be a drop
in the bucket to the hundreds of thou
sands now being wasted over the bars.
To be exact the Sioux City newspaper
might have put it al million per
annum over the bars of sixty saloons.
| Providence, r. l., is apparently at
| tempting to Guido Mason City as a
murder center, having landed two in
the date-lines within week. The
chances are, however, that Providence
will get more publicity than Mason
! City, as eastern murders are naturally
supposed to be of little higher class
| Altho George Washington wouldn't
have believed it would ever come to
pass it is said that Russia realizes
her mistake in not supplying herself
with sufficient air craft to cope sue
cessfully with Germany in the recent
| fighting around Warsaw. Lack OF
aeroplanes and aviators, and their in
experience in not having Unanswered
with the troops before the war, placed
Russia at great disadvantage, it is
claimed. Had aeroplanes been dreamed
Of in Georges time, it is likely that
that celebrated trip across the Della
ware would never have been taken.
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Western theatrical managers should
take cue from Little Old New York, u
where the manager OF burlesque
show and two Of his actresses were
arrested and jailed because Certain
lines in the dialog of production were
a little raw" New York has a Law
which places a ban on performance.
that are broad. II show-men can moi
get by" with questionable lines in New
York, they certainly should not tr,
them out in the country, where people
are not looking for smut in the theater
The New York City board of health
, has demanded health certificates from
all walters in public eating places
Hereafter a waiter must be sound a.
a dollar in wind and limb, and mus
have no coy typhoid germs lurkin,
around his system. Government in