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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05
Topics of the Times

Why not duck in between showers
and drag the roads over just to keep
in practice?
And now they are figuring on send
ing Maurice Connolly to Haiti. See
how q dancing reputation stick to a
man?
The worst Of II is that the average
Mexican soldier lives better and has
more fun soldering than when peace
fully sweating under the eye of the
land owner.
Most of those who are frantically
anxious TO go down into Mexico and
clean EN- up would have hiccoughs
at the sight of recruiting officer.
When Story county sends the Lin
coin Highway under the Northwestern
tracks this side of Nevada as will be
done by an agreement between the
company and the county that county
will not have a grade crossing on the
highway from side to side. And that's
another distinction for Story.
Eleventh district republicans are
seeking a candidate worthy of its
Steele.
Do you suppose that 100 years hence
students Of history will have to go to
museums to see what sort OF weapons
men made war with, in the dark age
when war existed? Or will one nation
| smother another by pressing a button
thousand miles away?
There Is considerable mystery con-
nected with the bank robbery at Cedar
Rapids. The robber seems to have been
of exceptional capability in his line.
Generally the yegg who grabs funds at
| tibet muzzle OF gun lacks the appar-
ent intelligence and systematic prep
aration displayed by the person who
got the big sum in Jig time and got
away leaving no trace OF himself
Rather a peculiar affair and one that
may tax the trailing scent of the
sleuths. The outcome viii be awaited
with interest by amateur Sherlocks
who have formed theory.
sls
Now really as judged BY Iowa stand.
ards why should democratic paper
wipe John Garrison Of the face Of the
earth as Q possible candidate for gov
ernor? Garrison was the leading demo-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05
Iona Newspapers
GIVING THANKS FOR WEATHER

shenandoah ""os!a.l
Let US be thankful for the weather
for there are kinds Of weather worse
than this. Twenty-one years ago
Tuesday the weather was somewhat
different It was hot. Early in the
morning the thermometer stood at 80
degrees and at 2: 80 reached los. Along
with the heat came a scorching hot
wind The kind that curls corn leaves
until they look like cigarets. makes the
pastures look as if they had been
ironed with a hot iron. 1t lasted six
hours and this six hours brought hard
times to the farmer. Poverty ruled
everywhere. Farmers had to sell their
hogs and cattle for almost nothing FOR
the corn didn't make fodder. They
mortgaged their places. This affected
the cities and they suffered from loss
OF business. This condition was gem
eral just as the wet weather is this
year. 1t extended over Kansas, Ne
braska, Iowa, Missouri and into Hi
nois The wind took everything. The
rain is doing some body some good and
iniuring few. However. we think all
will say it is better to drown than to
burn up.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05
HARDING IMPOSSIBLE.


1t should be plain to the most en-
thusiastic adrnirer of Lieutenant Gov
ernor Harding that however hopeful
didacy for the republican nomination
for governor is bound to dwindle be-
fore the June primaries.
II nothing else would defeat his nom :
inatton the circular sent out last fall
by the liquor dealers association in his
behalf would be enough This circular
was sent too late In the campaign and
was too closely guarded by those who
received 1t to get into much publicity
before election. But it Is bound to see
the light of day the moment the lines
are drawn in the present contest.
This call Of the liquor dealers to
stand by Harding as the liquor mans
reliance in Iowa was followed by a
vote In the counties where liquor senti-
ment is strong that surprised every
body. 1t was then seen how effective
ly the liquor men were organized and
how religiously they followed instruc-
lions.
Mr.. Harding's course in naming the
senate committees and IN directing &c
far as he could the course OF legisla-
ton was wholly II, keeping with his
support. Only those who were watch
ing closely know how effectively he
planned to block anti-liquor legisla-
ton.
It is out OF the question to ask the
republicans OF the state to name any
man for governor who has behind hin
such a circular as was sent out las
year by the liquor men, and such
vote as was cast In the liquor counties
To name him and to stand by the rec
ord of the legislature at the same tin1t
would be to make farce OF the repub.
lican campaign.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05

There are indications that the en-
tire Russian lines in the east are fall
ing back toward their new positions
approximately on a straight line thru
Kovno. Grodno. Brest- Litovsk and the
Bug river IN Galicia- It was reported
that the Russians were retiring before
General Won Mackensen's forces in the
south, which would be in. the direction
of Brest- Ltovsk. The civil evacuation
of Warsaw seems to have begun some
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05

time ago, when the industries and cit
liens which made Warsaw the third
city Of the Russian empire were sent
eastward. 1t is understood that all
the heavy guns from the citadel which
with Fort Siliwick in Praga, across the
river. protected the railroad and the
Alexander bridges were removed, and
It Is stated that the work Of dismant-
ling the thirty-two smaller fortresses
surrounding the city proceeded at a
feverish pace
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Inc ram makes the WeeCS grow
the rain makes the weather cool, and
the weather being cool. promotes in
terest in state politics. Between the
weeds and the politics. Iowa is hav-
ing a time, but even weeds and poll
tics will not down old Iowa" trium-
phantly concludes the Iowa City Re-
publican.
But cheer up" says the Knoxville
Journal. Iowa never went hungry. 1t
will be found that the wheat is not all
bad, that there will be a fair crop OF
corn and that on the whole the year
has been a fairly productive one. Think
Of the poor devils in Belgium and Po-
land and Mexico and thank your lucky
stars you live in Iowa
To the Mason City Globe Gazette at
looks good 10 see so much paving IN
der way A well paved city is always
a desirable home city"
The field as it stands today con-
tains two men allied with the dry
forces and one candidate backed by
the more liberal element. The last
legisla ture demonstrated that temper
ance sentiment prevails by large ma
jority. Therefore the efforts OF the
TWO candidates will be directed toward
securing the support of the temperance
votes. Attorney General Cosson and
State Senator Allen have records that
will commend them to the anti-saloon
voter They should go into the pri-
mary upon the strength of those rec
ords and their policies for the future.
is the way the Des Moines Capital
sizes up the situation.
IF they are offering even money in
London that We'll be at war with
Germany within six weeks, it must be
because they are nearer Berlin than
we are No one has heard Of 1t over
here" says the Davenport Democrat.
"Old King Corn is going to have
good track in August and Wen wager
dollars to doughnuts that he'll come
down the home stretch in September
with head and tail up says the
Charles City Intelligencer."
The Iowa state highway commits
sion in its service bulletin says that
if the roads of Iowa are not properly
dragged il is the fault of the people OF
Iowa" asserts the Iowa City Citizen,
who lack either the courage or energy
Of insisting that their public officers
carry ont the law"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05

cottonseed meal, corn silage and oat
straw made a profit of 1902 per head
on a 1S0-day feed recently closed at
the Indiana experiment station. The
result was announced at the annual
spring gathering of the Indiana Cattle
Feeders Association. This lot of steers
made profit OF $19.05 when the value
Of the pork was taken into account.
Gains on this lot were produced at q
cost OF $7.74 per cwt. There were seven
lots Of steers in the test All but one
received silage. In some cases the
silage was the only form of roughage
fed. In others it was supplemented
with clover hay or oat stray. In every
case where silage was fed the profit
was greater than in the lot that was
fed a ration Of shelled corn, cotton
seed meal and clover hay.'-Indiana
experiment station
Prepared to Utilize Soft Corn.
TT is settled that every farm should
have q silo. The silo is a good thing
when the corn is horse high by the
Fourth Of July. 1t is an absolute me-
cessity when the season is short. Corn
Is behind this year. OF course Iowa
may furnish one Of her long. ripenins
autumns and the corn on tho io"=
COLlO " COHlRlCtS AAAoIAA'$Ss
That's hope and faith in Iowa soil. But
the wise man who builded on rock
would order silo material now and SEQ
the silo in place long before frost time.
That's Judgment Joined to hope and
faith and combination that leaves
big money for the heirs to fight over.
Between Marshalltown and Omaha
there are hundreds Of corn fields that
will never get ready for frost. Also
there are hundreds OF fields OF good
corn that will be out Of the way when
the freeze comes. And that Is the case
all over the state. Soft corn in the silo
means efficiency. 1t Is 5000 an acre
farming. Shriveled and fermented corn
in the crib or turned over to the cat
tie to pick isn't Iowa farming In these
days. It's $25 an acre farming.-F. A.
Moscrip. Iowa, in Marshalltown Times
Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05
A. Masonic Meetings.
. STATED COMMUNICATIONS

" STATED COMMUNAL 'oN
Marshall Ledge. No. los A r. q A. ao
regular meeting Friday, Aug Is, e'vV
p. m. John w. Wells, secretary; W. d.
Steiner, w. NJ.
sIeNET CHAPTER, No IS, R. a. NJ
Special Convocation Monday evenIns,
Aug. 2, for work in Past ana 40
Excellent Degrees. l.. 5. hilooFh' u
p, John w Wells, Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King solomon
Council No 20. R. s. s. NJ. Monaa s
after the third Sunday. ], l.. %
recorder: George Gregory, I. l. a.
SPECIAL coNcLAvE, St. Aldsmas
Commanders No 80, X T. Ioesa as ~
Aug 10. 5 oclocq. Work IN order &c o.
the nes Temple en- N. s. Mcfarland Rec
George Gregory, z G
REGULAR MEETING Central cnap-
+ar No. 81. o. E. s. WEDNESDAY avg.
II D. N. Business and inlll,''iola ~
p = Nations. Anna Downing, seeFe-
tarv: Mary Black Collins. w NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05
How to Kill Mustard.

In the last issue of Farm and Fire.
side is an article on weeds, ana Things
are said on the subject Of wild-mustaro
eradication which are so erroneous that
J must protest have had many years
of experience in studying the eradica-
ton Of wild mustard in grain fields by
different methods, and out OF my ex-
perience I wish to correct your cor.
respondent.
The destruction Of wild mustard In
grain fields by the use Of chemicals ap-
piled as a spray, or in the form OF pow
der. ia sure, Inexpensive and practical.
The proof Of this assertion are the
hundreds of thousands OF acres OF
small grain treated each year IN All
parts Of the world
To spray an acre. OF grain Win su!s
phate of iron, for example. to efam-
cate wild mustard, costs about $l.ss
per acre per year. and IN some IN.
stances more, and this expense - war
ranted by the increased yield OF gram
the year OF the spraying. BY sooo
work and the use OF clean seeo II y
possible to clean perfectly naoiy IN.
tested field in a few years Time anu
raise good crops Of grain every year
Of the cleaning.
Your cOrfe6pon0enLsp edhS Va - 49,;
ing down the crop and infers injury.
Does she not know that beginning IN
very early times in Thessaly. and con-
tinuing to the present time. fields OF
small grain have been and are pur-
posely cut back? Has she never seen
nor heard of the European practice OF
rolling grain fields? It is not neces-
sary to 60 to Europe for this practice
I refer the correspondent to New Eng
| land OF fifty years ago, where tho
tramping down and rolling OF grain
was practiced.
Many persons think wild mustard
can be eradicated easily by cultural
J methods, but this is not 80.
On my own farm have no mustard
at this time, and have no fear OF this
pest. Chemicals have done the work
for me.
do not recommend az a farm prac-
1 lice the use OF chemicals for the de-
struction OF all kinds Of weeds. but
from many years experience DO know
| that wild mustard ID best handled py
the use Of chemicals -sulphate OF IRON,
copper sulphate, and cyanamide =.
z. Horton.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05

"Old King Corn is going to have
good track in August and Wen wager
dollars to doughnuts that he'll come
down the home stretch in September
with head and tail up says the
Charles City Intelligencer.'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05

To the Mason City Globe Gazette q
looks good TO see so much paving I'm
der way A well paved city is Away;
a desirable home city"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05

IF they are offering even money in
London that We'll be at war with
Germany within six weeks, it must be
because they are nearer Berlin than
we are No one has heard Of 1t over
here says the Davenport Democrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05

Why not duck in between showers
and drag the roads over just to keep
in practice?
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-05

Now really AZ judged BY Iowa stand
ards why should democratic paper
wipe John Garrison OF the face OF the
earth as Q possible candidate for gov
ernor? Clarkson was the leading demo.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-26
DICK HOBLITzEL, % TODAY,
 A NATIONAL LEAGUE CAsroBB

Dick Hoblitzel first basenan of the worlds champion Red Sox, will pass his 18th milestone today, having been born in Parkersburg, w. Va, Oct %, 1889 pr. Richard is one of the req sons why the red-hosed bunch are now basking in the nmaIight as the stellar baseball club of the habitabIa globe Incidentally, whenever they think of Hobby, eight managers of National league clubs look about for the nearest wall on which to bump their beans, in the assurancs that no injury will result because of the os- seous protection provided by nature for said knobs For Dick, as you may remember, is a, National league east off, and every team in that circuit waived on him last year.
 Hobby broke into the professional ranks in 1907 with the C1arksburg w. Va, club, where, for the purpose o6 preserving his social and amateur standing, he was known as Dick Hof- lister The next year he was with the Reading team in the Union league an outlaw circuit which had been widely advertised coming rival of the majors, but which went on the rocks after a few weeks. Dick then Handed job with Newark, in the Eastern league, but he lasted only three weeks in that company, and was then sent to Wheeling, in the Central league With the Stogies he made a great reputation as a first sacker and batteG for .356 with the result that toward the close of the 1908 season he9 landsd# with the Cincinnati Reds. In 19OS he became the regular first basenan oE! pha Cincinnati club, and swatted thei pill for .3o8. From the first he was al good fielder and a strong hitter. Af-i ter the close of the 1913 season he ap- piled for the Job of manager Of the Reds. < In this connection it may. bal stated that Dick is usually a. sane clear-th thinking chap, and above the or dinary- in intelligence and education, and that little mental lapse should noE be held against him. Since then he has recovered the full possession. of his intellectual faculties, and the fact that he once wanted to pilot the Reds seems to him but bad dream
 Last year the Cincinnati manage ment decided that Hobby was no long@I CT good enough for their cellar agsrs-i gation, and turned him, loose. All though at least four of the National league clubs needed first saekerss a1El of them waived on him, and Dick landed with the Red Sox. His acquisi- ton was a great factor in the great$ race made by the Sox last year. for he batted at a .319 gait, and filled thSi weakest spot in the Boston indeld. The development of Scott at short an6i the addition of Jack Barry sItA second base, added to Hobby's play at first and with Larry Gardner already 4si pillar of strength at third, the Red sox rounded into championship form With Boston Hobby has had his ups and downs, but as a general proposf- j ton he has played a great game, ana has been the regular first basennanu although Carrigan has another star, Del Gainor. for that position.
 
 The German Bank Of Chicago. cap itaI $2oO, 900, opened for business
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-26

changed it. to my uthir hand ana pritty soon that arm felt the sana way and I put the sootcase down.
 blocks, not half bad. Inn serprized, sed the man. Being Arties tern now. and he carried it 2 and a hafc blocks and sed they were lawnger blocks than wat mine was, and we was ar gewing about who had carried 1t the ferthest and the man sed, Well, this is awl the farthir I go and heer comes my ear, heers the prize, split 1t up, declare the contest a draw. And he picked up the sootcase and got avn a car with it and me and Artie stood thare rubbing our arms and looking at the sent the man had throo avn the pavemint and started to think that if anybody had asked us to carry a soot- case that far for a haf a sent we woodent of did it.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-26
SIR FREDERICK DONALDSON.

Sir Hay Frederick DonaIdson, who. it was recently announced, would as sist in the work of sorganizing the intuition and gun manufacturing plants in Canada, has been chief su- perlntendent of the Royal ordnance faet6FEes at Woo1wich for a dozen years He is in his sixtieth year, and is 2 son of the late Sir Stuart Alexander Donaldson, who was the first Premier of New South Wales
 After completing his education at att Eton, Cambridge. and the universi- ties of Edinburgh and Zurich, he be- came an engineer, and for a time was enaployed on aanstract on work by the. London 6 Northwestern railway. In 1884 he went out to India.g and for three yeArs was employed on tn e railway and harbor eonstTuctien at Goa He returned to En ngIand in 1887, when his services were enlisted on the Manchester ship canal@ From
 1892 to I s97 he was chief engineer of the London India. docks. He enter- ed the service of the government in 1928 as deputy director general Of
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-26
SECRET WORRIES OF SOME
 SINGLE WOMEN.

T wonder did you ever count
 The value of one human fate;
 Or sum the infinite amount
 Of one hearts treasures and the
 weight
 Of Life's one venture, and concentrate
 purpose of a soul
 Fen Love has daily peri1s such As none foresee and none control
 And hearts are strung so that one
 touch,
 Careless or rough. may jar the
 The woman who not the strong arm of a husband to lean upon often imagines worries that have. existed in the past and never will exist in the future Many ah entertainment the single woman would like to go to of an evening, but hesitates because she has male escort. If she is sufn- ciently independent to make her way to the aforesaid place of amusement, she must stand in line with the men, while the dainty women these afore- said men have escorted stand back, out of the throng, which is pushing and scrambling to secure the best at tention at the box office window.
 The ticket seller, nine times out or ten, gives the lohe young woman the poorest seat he has to dispose of. There is but one draw back to her en- I'joyment of the entertainment-the worry over the lateness of the hour when it will be over, and if she is to reach home in safety. She must walk four lonely blocks after she leaves the street car. The people in the audience, she believes, seem to single her out and comment upon her isolation. 1 After a few such. contertempts, the bachelor girl feels that the joy she has not been commensurate with her l worry
 | It's a mistake to think the girl in the department store is worrying and thinking whether she will reach the height of the business ladder More may meet the right kind of man to marry. There are girls who worry as to whether she will be able to hold fast to the beau who will cross her path. She worries ger whether this imaginary mans folks will like her; mother-in-law, should she attempt to step between her husband and her self; last, but by no means least, how she is to bring up her children. No matter how long or how many are the years that slip by she has these tcret.
 Many such dreamers are not des- tined to become wives, have mothers in-1aw to contend with or children to coax or scold. The wise girl, healthy of mind. lives in the present, and lets the future with it's worries take care of itself. During business hours she attends strictly to her calling. After it is over, she gives herself up to en- toying the relaxation of pleasure. She does not worry about a man, having faith to believe if the good Lord has one in store for her He will send him along. She won't have to exert her self to wed him Whatever one wor- ries over pertaining to the future sell dom or never comes to pass.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-26
ToDAx,s POEM
ASPIRATION.

Wonder a sail flies to the burning moon,
 And here a, silver moth, with frightened grace, Circles my lamp, and there upon the A lover looks into his 1ady's face. I. too, have. wings that struggle into flight,
 Blind as the white moth at the lam terms bars, I. too. drawn by that yearning for the light,
 Have sent my soul to beat against the stars! The mariner will never touch the
 moon,
 The moth will die; and love against loves eyes Will search in vain for some peren-
 niaI June As I will search in vain for Para
 disc. And yet when sails are furled. like
 wings at even, And love lies dead upon the sands if trod, The old desires shall light us into
 heav'n, Old failures shine upon the face of
 God. Dana Burnet in Harper's Magazine.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1915-10-26
YOUTHS AND GIRLS
 AT ENTERTAINMENTS
Dear Miss Libbey::-

Dear Miss Libbey:-
 As q steady reader do aid. please. Which should speak first. if boys and girls meet at gatherings or on the street? What is 3, girl to say if a boy asks to see her home, or. escort her to a, gathering and she expects his com pany? tHow old should a boy be to tip his hat at the girls? How is a girl. to draw boys attention?
 LONELY l.. G. Tiff both meet, girl bows and youth generally speaks first.
 2-Answer, ''yes, thanks" to his re- quest. Boy at all ages tips his hat tc girls.
 S-A girl simply has to be sweet and 1adylike to attract boys, and the re- spect of all.