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The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-01
Former price S2o7.oo
 for S157.OO

Odd Pieces of Bedroom Furniture
 group of separate pieces embracing dressers chiffon ers dressing tables and various chairs gathered for clear ance. $ 4ss A.x1e ssss sS$ssl Less IS to 25 per cent from original prices f4 Fourth floor.
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-01
Gas Ranges and Cookers

The sVulcan" line, black enamel, all cast parts, < requiring no polish; free connections.
 Three.bwner top, and broiler, , s sale price X11 65 z Fourbmnes top range one broiler, broier pan and white enameled crumb pan, ! Sale price X18 35 Fo,r-buzner Cabinet, elevated broler, white en- | ameled crumb pan and door panels
 sale price S26 05
The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1916-08-01

Summer Neckwear Large Organdie Collars, were 50 cts.
 Organdie Vestees, were 50 cts.
 39 cts. special. Oraandie and Georgette Collars, regular S1.OO, S1.25, S1.5O and S2.OO,
 89 cts. special. Georgette Collars Dainty styles that were 50, 75 and S1.oo,
 39 cts. special. Organdie Embroidered Col lars, were 5, for 20 cts.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
Ripping Rhymes
BY WALT MASON
Last Investment

Before / buy my gasolene, l pay the
grocer for his prunes. the druggist for
his Paris green, the clothier for his
l wouldn't much enjoy my
car. If merchants watched it. as it goes,
"Twould be better, far. If he
would. pay us what he owes" While
scorching up the village street. behind
the walnut steering wheel, I'd hate it
much II should meet a man / owe
for buckwheat meal I'd hate to drive,
in pomp and state. across the markets
paving stones, and run across some
needy skate to whom / owe eleven
bones Ny car may rust n yonder
shed before PHI send it on it's way, to
meet the chap who sold me bread and
had to whistle for his pay. ! pay the
barber for his shave, the newsman for
his magazine. the sexton for his hand
made grave. before buy my sasolere.
] pay the butcher for his veal, the tin
ner for his soup tureen. the learned at
torney for his spiel. before l buy my
gasolepe. pay for soda, salts and soap,
for my supply of nicotine. for surgeons
saws and druggists dope, before buy
my gasolene.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
RA!NEl!D0!M' REELS
IL &kziTp !! . IL 1 Ram - k
!. OF Shoes ald SINS gn0 eahS u5x. Il cabba6e,. Nn
ELECTION LAY.

Election day is method of choos-
ing presidents which would be more
popular if it came oftener If the con-
stitution could be amended so that we
could vote for president every few
weeks, think how much more money
would be put in circulation by the
pcrspiring, open-faced candidate. The
constitution is all right in its way, but
it is a little lacking in this respect.
The object of election day is to
purify our national life and at the
same time improve the postal service
by removing large hordes of per-
nicious partisans therefrom by the
scruff of the neck. If postmasters were
appointed for life, a presidential cleo
ton would arouse about as much ex-
element as Joint debate on the
authorship of the Pentateuch This is
proven by the fact that all over the
country today candidates for the post
office are dragging the reluctant voter
TO the polling place in rented touring
cars, with one eye cooked anxiously
il the direction of the quarterly pay
check
Election day is also held for the pur-
pose of settling great issues. Every
four years a new crop Of issues spring
up and when vigorously advocated by
some intrepid, iron throated candidate
can be made to last for several weeks.
The successful candidate is one who
can manufacture new, intlammable
issue and keep it on its feet until the
polls are closed. There is only one
issue which does not need the oxygen
treatment from time to time, and that
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
Topics of the Times

Corn will weigh Just the same tomor-
row as today Whoever shall be
elected can't change the marks on the
scale bars But it may make diff
ference in the size of the check.
The man who didn't register doesn't
count in the citizenship census of poll
books today. And unless he has
mighty good excuse he ought to be
penalized for another year or so until
he gets it thru his head that voting is
a duty as well as privilege. ~
Well. well. never mind; somebody
must lose in order to make horse
race.
There will be cakes and ginger hot
i the mouth whoever wins. And the
chances look good for the ale also
Pshaw, this isn't extraordinary eX-
element" You ought to have seen an
election just after the war. The fell
lows who never marched in torch
light procession or belonged to the
Garfield cavalry" don't know what
real excitement is.
The morning papers will come out
tomorrow with election returns but we
will never know who Is really elected
until tomorrow evenings papers and
it will be remarkable If we know then.
This Is a year Of scratched ballots all
over the United States and there, are
going to be more of them in the fu-
ture. Men will vote with their heads
instead of with their fingers more and
more as time goes by. 49,.
People in France, England and Rus
STA have learned to meet the high cost
of necessities by going without the
things that are not absolutely neces-
sary to life and happiness. AS the
effect of world war reaches America
1t is time to begin a serious study of
the European lesson.
Out OF possible 1000 voters in Mar
shalltown at least 500 have deliberately
DISTINGUISHED themselves by failure to
register and yet 1t has been said that
women should not be permitted to vote
because all of them would not vote If
they could.
Had woman suffrage carried in June
the saloon crowd would have had more
serious trouble at the polls today They
evidently were wise 10 the situation n
June.
So far the Iowa farmer is concerned
the high cost of things is not troubling
him so much because ne has the corn
Last years loss on the corn crop of
Iowa would pay much of the advance
in groceries.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
WHY IS kEOkUkl

Down at the southeast corner Of
Iowa the state line makes Z dive south
from the Des Moines river and en-
closes Keokuk. II came about thus:
the Usage Indians had coded their
lands but the corner remained in pos
session Of the Sacs and was not TO be
ceded by another tribe. So the line
stopped at the channel Of the river.
This notch out of the corner OF Mis-
souri, later became the Half Breed
Tract" when a delegation Of Sac and Fox
chiefs after consulting with the presi-
dent Of the United States ceded their
lands 70 the state Of Missouri with
an attached condition that the small
tract referred 10 above lis intended for
the use OF the half breeds belonging to
the Sock and Fox nation"
II Is related in very interesting
series Of articles running in the Iowa
the white fathers of half breeds were
instrumental in securing the condition
and that the Indians themselves were
not particularly DESTROYS Of the grant
"Keeokuk" a trading point in Iowa
been started with the building Of log
cabin in which DR.. Samuel c. Muir,
surgeon al Fort Edwards on the Hi
nois side and graduate of Edinburgh
University, sheltered his Indian wife
and Ave children "keeokuk' grew TO a
village of about twenty Indian families
grouped about a store and trading
post Of the American Fur Company.
and boosted a tavern" The tract be-
ionged to forty-two half breeds. Con-
siderable activity was created at that
point from the necessity of unloading
steamboats, below the rapids and re-
loading them above. I.
Later the half breed tract was sur
veyed and divided among the claim
ants.
The articles referred TO in the Iowa
| historical journal are especially inter-
esting. Moreover the dates given illus.
trate the rapid development of Iowa
| Dr. Muir builder of the log cabin anG
parent of the first half breeds of tn.
tract. died at "Keeokuk" Of Asiatic chol
| era in 1892. Men are alive in Iowa
4 who can recall that date. Even hi:
death and It's cause is historical of ths
| epidemic of cholera which swept ths
Mississippi valley in that year.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
THE CUT IN OUR WAGES.
1Waterloo Courierl

Some Of our bankers have figured
that the buying power of a dollar now
is only 81 cents, as compared with
two years ago when the war began
This means that q man who has dol
lar now can buy only 81 cents worth
OF flour, meat, potatoes or clothing at
the prices obtaining when the war
broke out.
Here is graphic representation OF
what the so-ca!led war prosperity
means to the wage Garner. He has
had his wages cut just one-third, Sup
pose one was earning $40 week two
years ago. II he has had no raise In
wages since-and this is true in thou
sands Of ca ses---then his weekly pay at
present, figured in terms OF two years
ago, amounts to Just 31340. That is
what our "unexampied prosperity" has
done for him. And II the wage-earner
has got a raise in the past two
years, II it was not 50 per cent raise,
then his earnings have actually been
reduced by the war.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
The WAIT FOR TINE RETURNS.

We are due for long wait this year
as to election results. That there will
be more lodging from one ticket to
another than has been the case in
former years is certain. Election
boards are still comprised in many in
stances of those unused to rapid cler-
ical work. The count will require
time. Meanwhile we shall wait
Voting machines in many places
where they had been adopted have
been set aside. In other places the
machine is approved or at least is in
use. If machines that can be depend
ed upon to work simply and with abb
solute certainty We're on the market
the machine way is the ideal way of
receiving and counting the ballots. The
count is over when the last voter has
pulled the last lever. But there is
complaint against the machines and
return TO the old system.
Splitting precincts would solve the
problem to a considerable extent.
Smaller precincts would, hasten the
count. But smaller precincts would
double the number Of clerks and judg-
as to be paid. And the question Of
cost becomes always a serious one in
public affairs.
Sometime We shall find a quicker
and more satisfactory method of
wait until Uncle John and the rest of
the board finish the count and bring
the totals to agreement And our job
Of waiting is an easier one than theirs.
They earn all they get and then some
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
A DISGRACE TO THE CITY.
IAneS Ti1nesl

The city Of Ames has been getting
som. very undesirable advertising N
the newspapers Of the state, thru re-
ports OF speech made by Genera.
James Rush Lincoln, in which he fay
ed the city for the disgraceful treat
n1ent given to the stars and stripes by
permitting two tattered strings 10 ny
from the flag staff OF the municipal
building. The. advertising is not unde-
sirable so far as the remarks OF the
venerable general are concerned, he
probably did not go half strong
enough, but it is most undesirable from
the standpoint Of city administration
and populace that will permit such
disgrace 10 the flag.
Ames should be to great extent a
model town for Iowa Three Thousand
young men and young women are get
ting their educational training here.
They are at an age where Impressions
cut deep. and il the city Of Ames per-
mits an impression Of disrespect for
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
THE TEACHING PROFESSION
[Council Bluffs Nonpareil.I

Iowa has $1,000 school rooms. In each
of these teacher. To this number
OF active teachers there should be
adGed ABOUT 2,1Gj teachers working as
superintendent, principals and general
instructors. These include the active
teaching force in the state. The total
number 3t persons holding teachers
certificates il 1900.
Of these 1900 certified teachers 49,
600 have less than five years expert
ence. Nearly third ot our entire
teaching force is made up every year
Of beginners.
These facts are significant. Iowa
pays her teachers lower wages than
surrounding states. We have no annu-
tty or pension system. Thirty three OF
our forty eight states have some
method OF caring for teachers who
spend their lives in the profession.
This, taken in connectiorS with better
wages in other states, WORKS to the
detriment of Iowa. 1t keeps up a con-
slant emigration OF experienced teach
ers from the state
We have one of the best teachers
colleges in the country. The college
at Cedar Falls has earned nation
wide reputation. Its graduates are
eagerly sought in every state in the
country where education is, empha-
sized. Some of these start in Iowa
and a few remaiRs but a large number
of them go TO other states. This out
side demand for the best and a will
ingness to pay for 1t forces US to ac
cept every year a larse-crop of mex
perienced teachers. IL
We are just now beginning to real!
ize that these conditions are eXercis-
ing a potent influence on the charac-
ter of our boys and girls. Il requires
high class teachers 10 develop high
grade pupils. Some good students de-
velop under mediocre teachers. Some
good students would develop withou.
the aid of any teacher. But there il
a law OF averages in these matters
just as there is IN vital statistics A
high class teacher will get better
average results than low grade one.
A good teacher will frequently make
a good man Of rather inferior boy
prospect while a poor teacher not in
frequently makes a poor specimen OF
manhood out of a good boy prospect.
Iowa needs to get grip on herself
in these matters. No state in this
country can afford better schools and
better teachers than Iowa for no other
state is so well able to pay for the
best to be had.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
ANOTHER BOOK BY STEINER.

DR.. Steiner, of GrinneI College and
the continents of America and Europe,
has brought out another book Ma
tionalizing America" II is of all his
works the most plain speaking and
written in far seeing spirit of prog
ress by an American citizen born alien
but whose American patriotism is of a
type beyond party and ahead of expe-
diency.
The book and its ideas are as cath
Ollie as humanity. The latitude and
longitude of its thought encompass all
the world. 1t argues from beginning TO
end the common welfare. Its democracy
is political but not partisan, religious
but not UNCONVENTIONAL. Christian but
without creed The plea is for
genuine naturalization of all the d.
verse elements that make up the con-
tents Of he great modern melting pot #
citizenship. It must be read to be appre-
ciated as its author Is TO be known TO
be fully understood and appreciated.
It is enough TO announce new
book by Steiner. No more is needed in
this section Of Iowa where Steiner and
his work and open mind are known
and understood. The new book Is
Steiner sermon on the citizenship to
be. For none with faith in their coun-
Try and the purposes Of Providence can
fail TO have faith that the Mississippi
valley was Kept until an appointed
time that the leaven of a more splendid
citizenship might leaven the globe.
Steiner's book is not a dream but an
outlook.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
BOOST IN SOFT COAL PRICES.
-TTnIar . q


The astounding reason of car short
age" is given for the advance TO s.
OF the price of soft coal in the cOho
field Usually a car shortage which OPP
crates to withhold a product from mar
ket has a tendency to reduce the price.
Soft coal in the hill" that IS still
in the veins of bank mines, is worth in
Ohio 5,hhotit : cents the ton. No attempt
will be made TO quote The exact cost of
mining, but II will probably not bring
the price of lump coal on cars higher
than 81 % the ton. Common prices at
the mines in the past have been; Lump.
$3.50: nut. - cents: slack tsteam coaD
delivered free on board cars set under
the screens or sold a I. 20 cents the ton.
II s1.25 is the fair vaiue of coal, on
the platform or on the cars. then the
mine owner. made % cents at sl.5o the
ton. They would be making 1878 the
ton now. or one ton of coal today would
be worth 10 the mine owners as much
as fifteen tons would have been worth
at an earlier date. Moreover. the own
ers would still have fourteen, tons OF
coal in the hill"
How would YOU like 10 have fonr-
foot vein of coal made into a sixty
foot vein by a car shortage? That is
about the application of this boost, in
price T1E @ -r
The trouble is with the railroads OF
that reg ion. more specifically the Balti-
more and Ohio Southwestern. the
Hooking Valley. the Norfolk and West
ern, the Toledo and Ohio Central and
their 'jerkwater' ASSOCIATES in. mis-
demeanors coal roads" that own
no allegiance and whose business is
manipulated as an appendage Of the
conduct Of mines. -
Owners of accessible veins of coal
are denied side tracks rand shipping
privileges: ears Will be supplied only TO
accredited buyers, the cash of an indie
pendent citizen not being good. and
coal in transit to the west is routed TO
suit certain forwarding lines. regard
less of time or the convenience OF the
buyer. -
The coal mining business has been a
hold-up game and presents one of the
next jobs that should have attention at
Washington The owners do not appear
to have granted to; their miners vol
urtary wage advance commensurate
with the proportions of their swag.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
A POOR WAY.
IBuriinRton Hawkeye.l


There was a time when in the old
world. people who had run counter to
the law were sentenced to deportation
to the United States or to Australia or
to some foreign country. The Ameri-
cans soon objected to such procedure,
and after these objections had been
voiced the modus was either abated,
or it was done in a manner SO secret
that there was little known OF IT.
In our own country there was time,
and !: is &c: &c long ago. that young
sters who hod gotten into serious mis-
chief were given the choice OF going to
prison or enlisting in the army or the
navy. 1t was taken for granted that
protests against this method had
proven successful and that the custom
had been abandoned.
Yet, only a few weeks ago II was
reported in Iowa newspapers that
young men who had been guilty OF
crimes that would result in impFison-
ment were given the option OF enlist
ing in the army or the navy or going
to state institution for an indefinite
period. 1t may be argued that this Is
a good thing for the young criminals.
But there is more to be considered.
Uncle Sam has difficulty in keeping
his army and his navy supplied with
the necessary number. Of men En-
listments are very slow. as rule, ana
desertions from both branches OF the
service are numerous. 1t is little Won
der that such is the case. The pay II
ridiculously small, and the service
never just what it is pictured to the
young men who are gathered in - she
recruiting officers. The latter are
scarcely to blame. Their orders are to
get recruits, and they have to obey or
ders. as far as lies within their power
1t has been source OF congratu!a-
ton among our people that the army
and the navy were improving rapidly
SO far as the material of Its member
ship is concerned. The physical ex-
animation has been stiffened until none
| but men Of good size. and in perfect
physical health are taken. The educa-
| tional status Of the recruit is given
more attention than Was formerly tne
case. In many ways there was prog
| ress that was noted and pointed 70
with qualification.
| II our courts are to, take the posi-
ton that service in the army or thu
navy is to be considered about tbs
same as service in q prison, and II evil.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
/ Beating M.mn. Up.

II An. inquisitive neighbor who has an
ipord.pate fondness for gossip recently
overheard the little daughter OF an ac-
aua.ntance talking about affairs in her
home, that seemed to have a spicy
smack
lssaSvhat was that You said, Alberta?"
she inquired.
81 was talking about papa and
mamma
Yes
And. said papa beat mamma up
the other day fE ~
"Did he, indeed?"
Yes. he did
tWeH. what did he beat her with :?
With an alarm clock.
"Ah. did your papa hit your mamma
with the clock"
NO. indeed, my papa never hits my
mamma
Then what do you mean when you
say he beat her up the other morn
ing?"
Mamma usually gets UP first. but
papa wanted to go fishing. and he set
the clock SO he could beat her up in
the morning"
"Oh h h-h-h!"-Y Tele-
gram.
rvH, = ~ nvs
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
THE INEFFICIENT JoBBER.

lCear Fails RECORD
The publishers of the smaller dailies
and the country weeklies are the vic
TINS of conditions the like of which
have never before obtained in this
country. Because of their limited de-
mands in the line of print paper stock
they are unable. to go to the mills and
make long time contracts for large
amounts and at a low price. They
must depend upon their, jobbers for
their supply and these jobberss have
been asleep at the switch. While met
ropolitan dailies are whining because
Of raise of from 80 to IS cents per
hundred pounds for print paper, the
smaller papers, of which the Record is
one, have been compelled to stand for
raise from weekSto week until at the
present time we are witnessing print
paper selling at 81 per hundred pounds
that formerly was bought for 81. And
the smaller publishers are told that
they ought to be glad they are alive
and able to get an occasional ton OF
print. 1t doesn't require a particularly
active imagination to figure out just
what this condition of the market is
doing to the smaller papers. 1t is put
ting them out of business by the doz-
ems and they will have to face a worse
condition this winter. 1t stands to
reason that one cannot pay : cents a
pound for an article for which he for
merly paid two and get away with it
The jobber has proven his inability
to serve the men who have made his
business protita BILE. The individual
publisher whose business required al
large output was farseeing enough and
has leverage enough TO buy paper at a
right price. Perhaps the jobber is do
ing it, too. and then adding a hundred
dollars per ton in the way of little
profit.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
To Keep Your Skin
Free From Hairs
(Beauty Topics)

If you are willing to spend few min
utes time in your room using delatone
paste. you can easily Danish any ugly,
hairy growth without discomfort or In
jury. The paste is made by mixing
some water with little powdered della
tone. This is then spread over the hairy
surface and after about 2 minutes rub
he'd off and the skin washed. You will
not be disappointed with this treatment,
providing you get real delatone.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
a Two.Leaoed Hat,

With wild sweep the wind tore
round a corner and removed the hat
from a respectable and sighted
citizen who CHANGED to be passing.
Peering wildly round. the man
thought he. saw his hat in yard be-
hind a high fence Hastily climbing
over he started to chase it, but each
time he thought he had caught 1t it
got another move on. Then woman's
angry voice broke on his ears.
What are you doing there 2" she de-
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-07
Iona Newspapers
USE THE VGrLANT'ES.
rTinfon 4 dyartiaar =

By way of suggestion we call the at
tention Of the anti-horsethief associa :
ton TO these chicken coop raiders.
That association, organized in pioneer
days has persisted and continues TO
hold annual meetings, but its real need
as a protection to society long since
disappeared With the lowly hen now
selling at war prices and being sys-
tematicaTry kidnapped in numerous To-
calities we feel warranted in suggest
ing to the horsethief regulators tina:
their enterprise be directed into this
other field.