Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-02
Topics of the Times

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| If Elihu Root had delivered to the
| Chicago convention the speech he
made in the Albany convention Roose-
Welt would have been the republican
nominee for president
Mr.. OSterman, of the Lincoln High
/ way Association, after making the trip
/ by auto from New York to the coast,
/ is quoted in the New York Times as
saying. My family and 1 have toured
turnout beautiful southern France,
! but we are all agreed that there is
nothing in rural France that can COM
pare with the great, rolling country Of
! Iowa for real beauty" There is a
scenic auto route in New England
upon which tourists are said to spend
s40,000,000 for travelling expenses in a
| estimating how much might be spent
in Iowa were the Lincoln Highway
paved as the roads are in New Eng
land
The Des Moines Capital has joined
the Waterloo Courier in the eight coll
umn class. With no intention Of cit
ing it as another instance of the
Times Republican trail being followed
with success by these esteemed news
papers it does remind US that some
six or seven years go the Times Re-
publican was the only eight column
daily in Iowa. After enjoying that dis
tinction for a few years a new press
was purchased which set the T-R back
to the conventional seven column page.
A few reactionary supervisors are
receiving entirely too much attention
when the state convention of bankers
and the state bar association Of Iowa
in favor of bond issues and such hard
surfaced roads as other states are
building. The vote among the super
visors even as to paved roads was
carried only after a fight and by
small majority
And now the silver tongued orator
Of the Platte" has branded Colonel
Roosevelt as horrible example" for
his Plattsburg speech. 1t doesn't re-
quire a very old historian to remember
when Theodore was too much of a
problem for William to solve
An eastern physician has placed on
the innocent watermelon the RESPONSE
bility for a typhoid epidemic If the
state Of Georgia has to suffer for the
watermelon, it will be adding insult to
injury.
The Virginia man who bought
and killed dog in order to recover
diamond ring. might prove public
benefactor If his example were fol-
lowed by all dog owners looking for
little easy money. There is no telling
what there Is in a dog.
Yuan Shih Kai has decided not to be
| an emperor because his sons are not
competent to be even non-commis-
stoned officers, and succession by here
dity would be a curse to China. Yuan
doubtless views his progeny with
lightened American fathers
Well. anyway there hasn't been any
deaths from sustroke in Iowa this
| summer.
That Hamilton county farmer was a
resourceful cuss. His oats were down
SO he mounted his binder on a stone
boat and put gasolene engine aboard
for power. Then he hitched eight
horses to the boat and harvested
huge crop successfully, then he went
over to a neighbors and repeated the
trick.
reads a news head. A lot of it certainly
would be if it were in the cellar and
paid for.
Life in a saloon town is evidenced
at Cedar Rapids where twenty five
| divorce cases have been fled for the
fall term of court alleging intoxication
as the statutory grounds for separa-
ton.
Unprecedented prosperity in the
near future is the prediction of William
A. Law, president of the American
Bankers Association who has said that:
When the bank reserves which are
greater now than they have ever been
in the history Of the country are dis
tributed, the nation Will enjoy almost
unbelievable prosperity. The volume
OF money on hand Is so great that it
can not find a natural outlet At this
juncture another potent bull factor
appears in the nations banner crop
The movement Of the tremendous
crops with the attendant financial ac-
tiyity, will still further increase the
bank reserves"
The greater Iowa committee has
road bill already written and proposes
TO build fires under enough members
of the Johnson bill legislature to sign
up q majority in favor and then re-
convene that bunch for enactment.
Governor Clarke's plan was to have In
formation carefully compiled by q
commission TO be laid before the NEXT
regular session of lawmakers.
In the course Of a year about 1900
species of birds are imported into the
country.