The Denison review. [volume] (Denison, Iowa) 1867-current, 1915-03-24
WHAT PAPERS SAY.

newspaper reports MONDAY morning
stated that the United States treas.
ury funds were the lowest since the
cleveland administration. That's what
comes OF chasing off after Roosevelt
during the last presidential campaign.
There are a number who have repent.
ed of their acts at that time and the
twenty three and one.half months left
of the democratic administration will
bring most of the rest of them to com.
lplete repentance.-Logan Observer.
The Hon. Leslie NJ. Shaw drops into
print to say that he should like to sup.
| port Theodore Roosevelt for the presi-
dency, not as a progressive" be it IN.
derstood, but as republican of the
simon pure brand. When the Teddy
brand of the simon pure agrees with
that of Leslie M. there won't be any
lrepublicanism. o, pshaw.-Carroll Her.
aid.
The telephone charges in Crawford
county have been raised by local com.
panies, and patrons are holding meet.
ings over the county to protest against
the "extortion." 1t has been found
that the charges have been very low
and not compensatory for labor and
investment. Those who protest are
for the most part prosperous farmers
| who are getting the highest prices
ever received for their output. Can 1t
be that they are opposed to letting
others live while they share in un.
iprecedented prices? We dislike to
believe anything of the kind.-Carroll
Herald. ~
Do you suppose that the bridge men
OF the state have anything to do with
the proposition to repeal the highway
law as enacted by the 35th General
ASSEMBLY? A bridge man told the OBJ
server few years ago, before the new
law went into effect, that there was
no use trying to sell bridges and make
anything on them in this county, that
the board was too careful in looking
over the bids, but not all the counties
have as efficient members OF the board
as this county has had for the past
twenty years, or since the big cleanup
took place. There are doubtless q
good many bridges in the state OF Iowa
that would come in under the $1,000
price, on all of which the boards would
have the say so in conjunction with
the county engineer.-Logan Observ-
er.
| A merchant in neighboring town
states that his advertising thus far
this year cost him "a cents for every
500 worth OF goods sold He used
| a h2lf page of his local newspaper
each week for his business announce
ment, and says as long as people read
newspapers he will continue to adver-
tise. There's man possessed of a
good head. Just as soon as merchants
begin to look upon advertising as a
branch Of the business which requires
as much care as any prt of it, then
will advertising pay. Honesty, force,
originality and persistency in advertis-
ing make it a paying Investment
Coon Rapids Enterprise.
''The Iowa parole law would be a
most ridiculous thing if it were not
for the evil there is in it" declares
the Fairfield Ledger.
at is just little curious that those
who damned the mulct law when it
was enacted, are weeping when it is
repealed" remarks the Iowa City Re-
publican.
"Will the next great morallegal
crusade be against tobacco. coffee or
pie?" wonders the Sibley Tribune.
"Well. If the teachers are not to be