Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-09
Topics of the Times

What good will it do the Germans
70 lick one Russian army when there
are SO many more armies left that can
come back?
Sioux City newspapers are busy now
trying 70 prove that their census was
not padded. Like the neighbor who in
sisted on proving that he did not steal
the chickens the rest of US can't re-
sist inqu.ring as TO who said You did?
Those republicans who are referring
10 Mr.. Marsh as a miniature Henry
Ford should remember the refrain,
And still the darned thing ran
Iowa cannot expect 10 increase her
rural population until living on an
Iowa farm is made more pleasant than
living elsewhere at the expense Of the
farm.
\ travelling salesman for Des
Moines hardware firm is responsible
for the statement that when $4,000
people crowded the streets Of that
city to see the Liberty bell Wednes-
day not a case Of intoXication could be
found in the crowd. The lid tempo
rarily is on tight in Des Moines. This
| is more than could be said of Mar
shalItown al the present time.
The Cedar Rapids Republican can
get ready TO line up with the state
bankers association for road bonds
and hard surfaced roads. The resolu
s,::c.a;s adopted - each called for bonds
which should be paid we'll within the
life Of the improvements and this
should put up the bars to thirty year
debts for fifteen year roads which the
Republican pretends to fear.
There is nothing new to this old
man controversy that is going the
rounds of the press. When q man is
forty he is sure that he ought to re-
tire at fifty or therea bouts. When he
reaches fifty he realizes that he meant
sixty to be the proper age for retire
ment and when he is sixty he discovers
that he is just as young as he ever
was and decides that he Will never
need TO retire or pass away. There
once lived man in MarshalItown SO
years old who haggled with his land
lord for ten year lease on his Office
when the landlord offered TO lease for
one year at q time.
With commercial paper OF the high
est class selling in Chicago below
per cent it would seem that the oc-
casion for any Iowa bank to plead
tight money has passed. There is
little TO be lost in accommodating
customer at per cent when any bank
can get money in Chicago under
per cent
The Linn County Enterprise has cut
out its editorial comments and substi-
tuted column Of cooking recipes. Not
bad The world is much more il need
Of better cooking than OF editorial ad-
vice.-Cedar Rapids Republican.
When is the Republican to practice
what it breaches?
When Kitchener said that the war
would begin in May, he meant the war
in Russia.
If this scrap over the governorship
gets any warmer next year than it is
now who will ever know anything
about that suffrage amendment that Is
to be voted upon?
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The time to worry about the corn
crop is between Aug. Is and Sept. Is.
Jus: nov the problem is to get the
hay into the barn between showers.
The state ought to be safe from an
other Ben Salinger scare for some time
at least. He writes to the Mason City
! Times that if he ever asks for the
voters suffrage again it will be after
| our people have said, well done, thou
Sod and faithful servant"
With frankness and candor the dry
goods merchant advertises: This Ia
dies bathing suit attracts attention
He knew what ladies' bathing suit
was for and advertised it for that
purpose.
| The pension for widows. Who are
the mothers Of helpless children, and
who are unable to cope with the bur-
den of keeping their young together
under the mothers care, has been
| adopted by most of the progressive