Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-24
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| is IN receipt OF letter from q young
man IL Ohio asking how to go about it
to take up a homestead in Iowa Let
the official inform the young man that
II Is just as easy as it ever was. Tell
| him TO come out here and marry one.
Muscatine newspapers has dis
covered that people have not been
drowned SO often in the Mississippi this
year because cool, rainy weather has
kept them from going in swimming, but
there is no record of those who have
died from anxiety as to crops.
Cato Sells says that the North
times as much seed this year as ever
before. Now the question is as to
whether he is selling it or planting it.
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Fort Dodge had far better put that
100000 into paved roads than into
dam of very doubtful value as a power
generator. The roads would be a sure
thing while the dam is a gamble with
the public on the other side of the table
from the gambler.
The Cedar Rapids Republican which
believes in wet town and has no use
for state agents, should reform Linn
county's deputy sheriff who thinks the
state agent is needed to enforce the law
even in that well regulated saloon town.
nj. CT
who demand that the janitors must not
do repair work on the school buildings
are demanding public pay to which
nobody is rightly entitled. If the
janitors have time in which to do the
work and they have been doing it, to
pay somebody else to do the same work
would be robbing the taxpayers.
Dean A. Marston, member of the state
highway commission. in conference
with Governor Clarke Thursday, stated
that the move to organize a voluntary
commission to study the road question
in Iowa, has the hearty approval of the
state highway commission. State Of
ficials are pleased that the two COM
missions will work in harmony and
that all friction will be avoided.
Il believe" said the impatient man,
as he put aside the telephone, that I'll
go fishing"
II don't ordinarily. But it's the only
chance have of finding myself at the
end of line that isn't busy."-Wash-
ington Star.
The United States census reports 2s5
Indians on the Musquakie reservation
and not all of them, as yet, have auto
mobiles.
The volunteer hose companies in
Muscatine which were raided recently
for booze now threaten to disband. It
will soon be up to the drys to fight the
fires as well as to enforce the laws and
whoever heard of dry fight against a
fire?
Are you unmarked" inquired the
census man.
"Oh. dear. no." said the little lady,
blushing: 1--WE never been married.
Ladies' Home Journal.
The county road and bridge levies
which We are now paying IL Bonded
for thirty years would pave all Of our
county roads and bridge all Of our
counties completely with masonry.
Will they do it without bonds7
Nobody questions Mr.. Marsh's fitness
for candidacy for governor on the
democratic ticket but the first thing
necessary to be done is to get him to
run.
Iowa has 32s,56S men Of military
age who could take the field II the
United States became involved in the
world war. The assessors reports for
1915 have been completed and Adju-
tant General Guy E. Logan states that
the above number could be called upon
from Iowa to enter the army.
'Mr. Norris will not mind, we are
sure, IL we point out that this use
OF the old car calls for good country
J roads. Undoubtedly the old auto, with