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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
HIGHLY CIVILIZED.

\ bridge was needed a1 Medora,
across the little Missouri The Red
Trail route passes that way and Me-
dora was the only ford left on that
route. The towns along the route
wanted the auto road AMI desired TO
Keep. Sixteen of them Clipped in and
built that bridge, towns in North Da-
kota and Montana. They thought tie
road was worth it, And 50 they huii;
the bridge.
1t was worth it. All it cost. The
money thus expended will come back
hundred fold if only from the tour
lists that pass on that highway But it
will come back other ways The bridge
was worth the money as a step in line
with modern progress.
And only few years since We were
considering North Dakota and Mon
tana as out of the world spots where
half civilization prevailed.
Sizing up those states against Iowa
in the matter OF good roads and bridges
and ability TO build them North Da-
kota and Montana do not seem so
semi civilized after all
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

lacked the viriiity Of youth. 1t held no
promise. They saw 1t deserted Of those
who had made II home and glanced
sidewise at the cemetery as they passed.
They foresaw the end of the home. And
there is no sorrow like that which
foresees the ending of a home where
life and love and happiness exist.
And pain came into their hearts
and stayed there.
And at last the inevitable call came
to that house at 1t comes to every home.
A shadow passed thru the hall and
stopped at chamber door. When it
went another shade passed with It,.
Where there had been two there re-
manned one. And that one lived on in
an infinite loneliness. That one waited
alone the time when the dark shadow
should come again. and dreamed and
hoped of a reunion and the return of
love and hope. And then the tender
care that Joe's son gave his father, the
watchful affection for her mother that
Mrs. Soandso's daughter, grown ma
tron. the chatter and love of grand
children who grouped about the knees
of other men and other women became
n burning pain, sense Of infinite loss.
And then the lonely one knew the
depths of loneliness and learned that all
the wealth in the world can not buy
love and content in old age.
At Ottumwa in home established
by kindly people little children are
stretching out pleading arms to the
childless home They need love and
care now as the childless shall need
and crave love and care in the day
when the strong become again like little
children. And of the two the child
less home is in the direr need.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
CINE MAN AND ONE WOMAN.

There was man and woman who
lived alone together Tney were
wealthy beyond all their needs and de-
sires. All that they wished they might
have that money could buy. Their de.
sires were reasonably modest. and
while they spent as they chose, the Sc.
curities multiplied and the holdings
grew and they became richer year after
year. They lived happily though they
had no children. People pointed at
them as those who should be entirely
happy and carefree. To certain de-
gree they were. But when Joe's broad
shouldered boy came rushing in to find
his father and hint of financial strin-
his own and when Mrs. Soandso's bud
ding daughter happened along a pang
rent the bosom Of the woman, She
wished the girl were hers to guide and
Dress and love and depend on. But the
years passed and the man and the
woman made themselves content with
each other.
They grew old The pleasures that
had occupied them pnlled. They hadn't
learned any others and life began to
drag. The neighbors dropped in now
and then. but the house was lonely. It
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
THE ENGAGEMENT.

The engagement Is a verbal contract
between two people of the opposite sex
who are not sure that they can put up
with each other until the wedding day.
1t is the preliminary heat in the matri-
monal race, and sometimes results in
withdrawing one of the entries In a
coy and subdued manner.
There are two kinds of engagements
long and short. The long engagement
is variety much favored by parents.
who would rather wait until the
groom-elect shows a disposition to for
sake the pool hall for the haunts of
Industry. Under such circumstances,
if the engagement is strung out long
enough the prospective bridegroom Is
liable to need the Clipped diamond
engagement ring with which to buy
cigaret papers, and becomes willing to
release his fiancee without asking
damages from her father for alienation
of the affections and $4,000 worth of
mental anguish.
The short enga cement Is used by
young people who are perfectly sat
isfied with each other, and is just bow
tinted marriage as the one which starts
at the age Of Is and eliminates in the
double ring service at 35. The most
successful form of short engagement is
that which takes place ut a seashore
resort, which gets under Roadway on
Aug. Is and dies naturel death as
soon as the screens are taken off the
summer hotel. This arrangement is
usually entirely satisfactory to both
parties as each generally. has another
pre-nuptial contract in cold storage, at
home.
first place in order to ties. the durabil-
ity Of the affections Sometimes the
party Of the first part discovers that
she can do better, and returns the ring
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

Want. Something For HI. Money

Editor Times-Republican: After liv-
ing in the city Of Marshalltown nearly
one and one-half years and riding over
much territory by auto, what are
called good roads?" 1 wish to say
few words. l have recently lived in
California where real roads are fore
most, over which one may ride. Cat any
time of day or night and enjoy its
luxury, for such roads are built every
where and one is not blinded by dust
from other drivers or mud covered
conveyances. There is very little pleas
ure derived by driving anywhere
around Marshalltown. New York state
too, where I've lived many years IL fast
becoming noted for It's stone surfaced
roads. Now my sentiments are as
wrote the secretary of state, l would
rather pay s25 per year on such roads
as l have driven over in California
than nothing in Iowa.
Where does all this auto tax money
go?
What good is brought about by pay
ing to the secretary Of state the enor-
nous tax?
I A bit of dragging Of roads, which
amounts to practically nothing.
Good roads benefits the farmer as
well as the city man to get his produce
to market easily. 49,
/ do not wonder California draws
heavily on Iowa, on account OF its
boulevards. While lived there / saw
as many Iowa licensed cars as was
going to say all other states included
Hope to see some start on improved
roads such as some other states pro-
duce. w. Lacey.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
THE QUALITY OF MERCY.

In trial of woman under charges
of a serious infraction of the moral
laws and statutes of the state her at
torney made an effective plea by
throwing the defendant upon the char
ity of the jury by stating that he knew
of but one precedent whereby her
case might be settled that where the
wisest judge OF all said to another
paid verbal attention to the fact that no
woman had raised a hand for this wom-
an who of all women needed sisterly
comfort. and told the court that in all
his practice he had never seen a man
however criminal who had no friends
as was the case with this woman. The
tence and suspended both telling the
woman in that century Oh command
go and sin no more
Now Mike Healy had cause and rea-
son for his verbal heat and indignation.
1t was shown that this woman had
borne seven children. THAI the man to
whom she was married haG given her
nothing was poverty. She had borne
children and toiled and finally she ran
away with another man
Why hadn't she any woman to pity
and speak for her? 1t is not uncom-
mon for men to desert families and fol-
low other women. But zone of these
as the lawyer averred and as we all
know lacks some one to lend some sort
OF countenance to him and offer some
sort of aid or comfort. This was bad
woman. She had fallen. After years
of hopelessness perhaps she grew des-
perate. We all grow desperate under
stress. But why, even with all her sins
upon her head, had she no froend, none
to pity while they blamed?
There are women in every larger
town of whom those who see and OBJ
serve wonder by what strength of soul
they bear their cross and wait the end
of their crucifxion? Women who find
all light fading out of their lives. Who
live as beasts of burden live. And
when now and then one Of these and
plunges surely in a whole cityful some
one, somewhere should be pitiful.
The Fort Dodge judge will find
agreement with his leniency. A wom-
an without friend, with history Of
hopelessness behind her and a CEN
serious world to face needs and de-
serves somebody's pity.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

particular in great haste and have the
wedding written UP in the society COLI.
umn at heavy expense to the brides
father.
Nobody should begrudge young peo-
pie the engagement time, forsit some-
zines happens that it is the only period
they get ready to celebrate the golden
wedding. Many weary housewife has
looked back upon her engagement and
tried to imagine what It would be like
to get up in the morning without the
fear Of three meals day in her heart.
so let the young folks make the most
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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
Masonic Meetings.

}" SPECIAL COMMUNICATION
Marshall Lodge No. 10S A. +. and A. NJ.
Work in Third degree Tuesday. NOV 80.
1:3O D. m John W. Wells, secretary,
w. H. Steiner, W. NJ.
slcNET CHAPTER. No. 49, r. A. NJ.
Special convocation Monday eVenlns'
Nov 90 L. S. Kilborn, h. T., Johh
w. Wells, Rec.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King solomon
Council No. 20. r. s. 8. NJ. Monday
after third Sunday. I. T. Forbes. re-
corder; George Gregory T. I. NJ
REGULAR coNcLAvE, St. Almemar
Commentary No. 80, X. T.. TUESDAY,
Nov. %, 1880 o'clock. Business anu
drill for inspection Wednesday evening
at 1880 NJ. S. Mcfarland. Rec; George
Gregory, E. c.
SPECIAL MEETING Central Chap
ter No. 81, o. E. s, WEDNESDAY, De
/, 7S0 p. m. Initiation. Anna Down
ing, secretary; Mary Black Coii'hs'
w. NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
whitfield 10 . Point.

Lots Of infant industries never
grow up.
He who never does wrong never does
very much, anyway.
Many a mans phenomenal success IL
a surprise to himself.
In trying to dodge the issue candi-
date may wait a lot Of time.
long sentence doesn't worry =
reader as much as it does criminal.
A man seldom does anything the way
a woman thinks 1t should be done.
Some girls imagine that every url-
married man they meet Is looking for
wife
While waiting for q dead mans shoes
you could probably earn better pair.
Anyway, doctors keep lots Of people
from having money to lose on 9 fool
scheme.
Spending a dollar before 1t is earned
il like eating an egg that Is to be laid
tomorrow.
There is at least one thing women
can DO that men cant--and that Is say
good bye" gracefully.
improved machinery enables a man
to accomplish almost as many things
as a woman can with hairpin.
Satan cares nothing whatever about
q mans attending church on the Sab
bath Ii he gets his services the other
six days In the week--Chicago News.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
SOD HOUSES AND DIRT ROADS.
[Dubudue TELEGRAPH Herald


| What would you think of the owner
of an unencumbered farm who built
a sod house upon it, and each year
spent nearly as much money in keep
ing 1t repaired. rather than mortgage
his farm to build suitable dwelling
and pay of the mortgage in easy in
stallments? Would you hold very
high opinion of his business ability.
admitting, of course, that building
materials were handy and cheap and
that he was not forced to his course
| by lack of either?
OF course in pioneer days in the
southwest sod houses We're quite the
proper thing to build, because ma
lterials were hard to get. but even in
the southwest it is not customary
today to build sod houses. For an
Iowa farmer to build a sod house on
his farm on the plea that it was
cheaper would be inexcusable even in
the early days.
What then. is the difference be-
tween building sod house on the
farm and a dirt road alongside the
farm? Neither is permanent, both
arc continual aggravation, neither
Is satisfactory and both are a source
of continual expense.
To build dirt roads in Kansas is ex-
cusable, because materials are scarce
in the southwest . But to build dirt
roads in Iowa is not to be condoned
for the same reason, for here ma
terials are plentiful.
The state of Iowa and the counties
of Iowa have not. as yet. mortgaged
their property, the open roadways,
but they have continued. year after
year, to build dirt roads, at a COM
stantly growing cost, rather than is
sue bonds with which to pay for per.
manent road building. The analogy
between the dirt road and the sod
house can not be escaped. =
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
DECEMBER

another year Is at the door Decembers loud rude
burly, with slush his beard is wet; he
bids do shopping early, lest forget, lest we
forget He wrought to bootless Madness the
last month the dying year. fills old peoples hearts
with sadness, reminding them they're gray and sere
When skies blue and soft winds blowing. the old
folks may feel young again; they dwell the.
thought going this bright glad world Of men,
But every below Of December that seems to come
from throat BRASS only them to remember
that time speeds on, and flesh Is grass. DEFENDERS
grim and fierce sury brow obscured by gloomy
clouds; bids do shopping early and buy our
Christmas biers and shrotlds @
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
Topics of the Times

! However it is rather hard to see just
! how the belaced opinion OF the allies
that the Serbian campaign isn't ended
| is going to help Serbia as much as an
army corps would have done a few
wee ks ago
| The decision that public work must
be done in this country by citizens oil
| the United States is due to put nick
in the shovels of Messers. Giovanni
Tettralazina and Marco Anthraxa-
poulos
The receipt column advises wipins
the hands with celery to kill the odor
of onions. But suppose you like celery,
too?
a man has been arrested in Burling-
ton for hitting policeman in the
mouth with a whisky bottle" Was the
, bottle empty or did he hit him with
the wrong end of it,
Tha, Canadian Seizure of wheat and
consequent rise with probability of a
sudden drop any time the Canadians
release the grain in large quantities
would delight the soul Of "Old Hutch"
as IAN opera ton in wheat OF course
no Canadian got anything out Of it in
| that way. however.
The women in Des MoineS answered
the question whether women want to
: he,
questions of local Importance by voting
on the street car franchise and the
municipal court proposition in consid-
cradle numbers.
Frank Woods is a mighty good poiit-
ical scout and he comes back from the
west with the assurance that Cummins
chances are good.
The state department. Of agriculture
declares the corn crop of the state is
$50 per cent. That Is probably very
close to the true percentage. Reports
! of practically complete damage are ut
terly false and calculated to do the
state an injury outside of Iowa. In
Iowa we know better and that the par
tial loss of corn has really affected the
state and its business to a very slight
degree Iowa had plenty in the bank
and has dismissed the late crop and
consequent loss as an unavoidable ac-
cident and one that isn't likely to oc-
cur again within lifetime and Is going
right or building and trafficking as of
yore
Please note that the Cummins' move
ment is gaining momentum at every
revolution. 1t has already acquired
sufficient speed to stay in the race un-
til the winners number goes up on the
board.
Starting in on the last lap toward
Christmas step on her" and speed up
Buy 'em early. Buy plenty. Buy
enough and mail it out as you buy it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
ONE OF IOWA'S BEST.
burlington Hawkeye.I1

Webster county is paying widow
pensions at the rate of $4,000 per an
mum. No doubt. some of the citizens
look at the total and wonder If 1t IS
money well expended. They are wrong
even if they concede the point For
the widows pension Is not an expen-
diture, but rather an investment and
perhaps the very best that the coun-
ty is making or could make. 1t means
the keeping together of little flocks in
the very best place where they could
be kept--in their own homes and un
der the care and supervision Of moth
err There is opposition to the pension,
here and there. but in the course Of
time. almost everybody in the state
Will have reached the conclusion that
the widows pension is one of the best
things that has ever come to the
Hawkeye state.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
WHERE WILSON FAILS

Lies MOiHes Register
More comment has been occasioned
by the failure of President Wilson to
take notice Of the death OF Booker T.
Washington, among those vitality in
terested in the work OF the dead negro,
than in the matter OF securing Sue
cessor at Tuskegee. important as Sc
curing successor is recognized to be.
Altho the president as college man
himself has known more Of the great
work at Tuskegee than anyone in pub
lie life. and as college man must be
presumed to have felt keener interest
in that work. he has made not the
slightest comment. either on Washing
ton, on his work, or on the future Of
the school.
And this neglect on his part seems
to have been the neglect also Of Of
fetal Washington for with the single
exception Of Secretary Lane nobody
connected with the administration has
sent a letter. or given public expression
of appreciation
Just why the president should have
felt constrained to this silence nobody
Is able to explain. for the newspa pers
of the south and the public men OF the
south have not held themselves in any
such restraint. Neither the prejudices
OF a southerner, nor political expe-
diency would seem to be enough to ex-
plain or excuse this singular neglect.
OF course. everybody will form a
speedy Judgment in his own mind.
The president as an educator can not
have been Indifferent to the great
work Booker Washington did, nor as
a lover Of his country can he be In
different to the advancement Of the
negro people. But the president has
shown singular inability to measure
up to certain occasions since he has
been president. and this would seem to
be one Of them The president has
some very marked human limitations.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
The Sick seeisty.
nc OWN S0S'oty
Prom the NorW egian of Ipsen by

,TTUHl tTt NUFWegAn OF IDSen Dy Olt
9. Lien.
1t is the sick society
That from it's ailments must he free.
You would but trifle, sport and spree,
Believe a little, but not see
The world Of sin and misery.
Then pile your load OF guilt and
shame
On Him who 10 rhe res III. came.
And took the Fathers wrath and
flame.
Cross. crown of thorns and piercing
lance.
He had to bear, that YOU may dance.
Dance on, but where that dance will
end,
That is another case. my friend.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

New industrial enterprises involving
scores OF millions Of dollars Invest
inent are being organised thruollt the
country. and since NOV. 1 extensions
and expansions for well established In
dustries looking to greater capacities
I'm, outputs have ben reported to an az
Egresate of expenditures Of more than
3sO, SOC, 600. 3, ~
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

The Eleventh district has no more
able man than r. F. Faville," declares
the Storm Lake Pilot Tribune, and If
he is candidate for congress. Storm
Lake and Buena Vista county republic
cans will be more than pleased to take
the field in his behalf"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

One of the show places Of Lehigh
county, Pennsylvania, Ii the 30O-acre
peach orchard Of Col. Harry G. Trek
Ter, which was started six years ago
from abandoned farms. bought at $50
an acre, and now Yields 5000 baskets
Of: fruit q day during the height Of the
picking season.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
REPUBLICAN MARsHAILrowN iowa NovEaBrR 80 1915

and the party but TO Governor Clarke
himself. that he announce definitely
whether he will I'll candidate for
third term as chief executive OF Iowa?
Is there any real reason for delay?" in
quiresf the Rockwell City Advocate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

Medical men are interested in the
case Of Tyrolean soldier who was
shot thru the head In battle along
the southern front in the European
war. The bullet passed clean thru the
brain, yet the man was not even
stunned and was able to walk without
assistance to field hospital. Sur
geons announce that he will ne ready
to return to the front in short time.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

The Perry Chief says there may be
a few of the old radicals who will OPP
pose the movement" referring to the
Cummins candidacy, but they are so
few no one will consider them serious
~. Iowa for an Iowa should be the
motto Of all republicans"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

Cali together and up and at them
that is the proper slogan for republic
cans in Iowa and in the nation" ex-
claims the Cedar Rapids Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

The Tama Democrat gleefully notes
that "a staunch standpat exchange ia
vors Senator Boies Penrose's nomina-
ton for the presidency and says it's
"fine!"
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

The Council Bluffs Nonpareil says
the only objection republicans possibly
conId urge against Ed Meredith - that
The is not Of our faith III memory
serves correctly. in 1914 Maurice Con-
molly, Nick Reed, ct al, were disposed
to deprive them of even that Objec-
ton" responds the Sioux City Journal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

ION tho surface Of things. the diff
ferent factions sof the republican, party
in Iowa seem to have declared truce
admits the Davenport Democrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

= Pittsburgh wo41IASe fais:::ss sse zoe
for club house sf66r their New Future
Association.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

Isn't 1T fair and just. not only to the
republican gubernatorial candidates
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
SPEAK TO HIS WIFE.

The Chicago woman who recently
had an ordinary table knife removed
from her stomach by surgeons appar-
emily had something to learn about
table manners.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

in the greatest calamity that has ever
afflicted the earth. These little French
lads, in a city Of Alsace held by the
French, are bearing wooden crosses
marked with names and other details
to the newly made graves Of fallen
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

In a letter containing considerable
hauteur and few misspelled words.
This causes the party Of the second
part to marry somebody who is not
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
Iona Newspapers
ROOFING VS.. ROUTING.
rSloux Citv Jo,rna,,

Just at present It's 4 lot easier to
excite the Iowa farmer over the rural
route than over the candidatorial Root.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30

Please note that the Cummins' move
ment is gaining momentum at every
revolution. 1t has already acquired
sufficient speed to stay in the race un-
board.