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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11

bee lights on posey had you turned
up your nose at horseshoes. They were
both famous pitchers. Perhaps both
have confessed as much within your
hearing. The game Of horseshoes
brings memories to them OF rainy days
in husking time and other days when
the threshing machine broke down and
the crew went down to the blacksmith
shop and the cross roads store to walt
for repairs. Then somebody hunted up
couple of harrow teeth and two sets
of shoes. If there were no old shoes
about a kindly smith who pitched a
good game to his own hand turned the
corks on four new shoes and the game
was on. Ringer after ringer fell true
and encircled the meg, ringer AFTER
ringer was topped or driven from it's
place, Hubbers flew with protesting
clash from their vantage. The gallery
cheered skill and nerve as sincerely as
any that ever applauded thirty five
put by Chick Evans or a volley in a
close tennis match. Some Of the boys
pulled sticks, some wrestled, on crossed
planks perhaps game of seven up or
cinch or four-handed eucher prog.
ressed 1t was a sort of eXtempore
Why my dear boy yorl wouldn't have
lasted long in that hardbitten COM
pany either at the shoes or the stick
pulling or "sideholt." For they were
hard handed. strong muecled, he" men
There was little quarrelling and less
fighting, for quarreling led by a short
path to lighting and fighting was
fighting then. They fought as they
pitched right to the meg and looked to
score with every blow. Ask your grand
father about horseshoes Perhaps he'll
tell you of that famous game he and
your uncle. John Wesley, pitched
against the fellows from Barclay Cor
ners in the summer of 1862.
That horseshoe game is as old as
Greece and as young as the fall OF
1916. It's a poor mans game and
millionaire's. Why out in Pasadena
where good Iowa farmers hope to go
when they die If not before, it is
common sight to see half a hundred
pitching horseshoes on a vacant lot
They rent those lots and maintain
them 70 pitch horseshoes on. Many a
man is pitching horseshoes in Pasa-
dena today who couldn't carry his
money in $1,000 bills-maybe.
Go ahead with the horseshoe tourna-
ments. Drive the megs. Pick a pair
Of good shoes. Put the right whirl
on them and see them settle PUNK
about the pin for a ringer. Pitch EN-
with the right twist to bring EN- back
to top the other mans ringer and take
the count yourself There's been a
thrill in horseshoes ever since Assyrian
kids pitched flat stones at a jack and
folks will keep at it as long as the love
Of contest entudes. It's a good game
Ask granddad.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
HORSESHOES.

Over at Nevada the other day they
ment. Interest appears to have run
high. Entries came from afar. Thor
sent its Norsemen to compete, Eldora
sent forth entries tested and tried thru
years of contest back OF the square
and from Lamont, town Of the Latter
Day Saints, came competitors perhaps
conlbing long boards and bearing under
their arms the Book Of Mormon. All
the long afternoon they struggled until
the night came wherein no man may
pitch and then they put it off until
the next Saturday. SO sayeth the
Representative. It seems to have been
a horseshoe olympiad.
Now this ancient and honorable
game Of horseshoes is not to be
sneered at or beIittled by any person
with a crooked stick or gutstrung
paddle, neither by golfer nor tennis
maniac. It has history and tradition to
back It, It requires nerve and skill ana
close calculation. It takes as much
nerve to pitch to the hub with an op-
ponent's huber hanging on the mes
as to lay an approach dead to the pin
or meet a swift return with Law
ford. It needs as complete judgment
of distance and as sure hand and eye
to pitch shoe over that, of an opPo'
| nent that lies corks upward and ready
| to ring at a touch and to triumph with
| a point or perhaps three as to hole FOL
O. birdie over a stymie. Do you gel
that? Don't sneer at horseshoes. IT,
| a great game and calls for the skill
determination and courage that wins
all games. Bet you that was som'
| tournament at Nevada.
Your father would not sheer q
! hc,seahoes, young man. Your erann'
| father would have landed on you as
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
WAITING FOR ELECTION.

1t is predicted by those close 10 the
conferees upon the Mexican situation
tha, Carranza will have his way in the
conference conclusions so far as the
withdrawal Of American troops f.om
Mexico is concerned. CarranZd made
that a condition whe7 ne acceptei the
Trc -: ton OF Conference lie will
sti-k and there is little doubt that the
conferees will consider that it was
thus accepted by this government as
enc of the questions outside of the
powers of the conference.
In the game between Wilson and
Carranza the Mexican has had the
best of it. He ordered the limit of
American advance and by threat of at
tack controlled the movement Of
American troops. He did attack at
Carrizal and got away with it.
Now what will Wilson do? The
chances are that he will yield as he
has yielded before. 1t is scarcely pos
s.ble that he failed to realize that
Carranza's condition was a demand
and that if the conference was to
settle anything definite the Mexican
order to get out of Mexico must be
obeyed.
The effort seems to be to string the
conference along until after election.
Perhaps that was the plan and scheme
when the conference was arranged
For the president must know that a
huniliating withdrawal under threat
Of attack would lose him votes from
one end Of the country to the other
When a president plays with fire and
sword and national pride In the game
of politics and subordinates matter Of
the greatest importance to the success
of his own candidacy it is time for a
change We have serious problems to
face in the next four years. They
should be handled by man of courage
and patriotism rather than by poll
ticians
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
BRINGING OUT THE FACTS.

The facts are rapidly coming to
light in this campaign. Today brought
a big grist of them. At New Hampton
yesterday Meredith and Harding
cIashed Meredith was evidently irri-
tated at the constant reiteration Of
the false charge that he was a drink
ing man along with the slanderous
charges Of NJ. W. Fitz, of Manson.
whose letter was being circulated in
Harding's interest. for he dared Hard
ing to tell that audience that he,
Harding, had not drunk liquor in pub
lie places. Harding did not dare to
answer SO Meredith sprung an affi-
davit by James r. Gillis. of Mount
Pleasant. to the effect that ellis had
seen Harding tipsy at an in
surance agents jamboree on a Mis-
slssippi river steamboat and another
of Let's. that he had seen Harding
drinking liquor in Des Moines. At
Bloomfield this week Gardner Smith
Interrupted Harding in a speech to ask
him to sign a statement that he had
not used intoxicants within the last
sin months and Harding said II can
rot say that have not" altho he had
told chautauquas at Vinton and Oak
land that he did not drink liquor.
In contrast Meredith comes back at
Fitz in a signed statement today de-
claring that Fits charges are false and
malicious that the alleged beer party
in Manson was nothing more than an
invitation by Jack Dalton to inspect
his printing plant, where Jack, who is
VIGOROUSLY wet himself served liquor
without consulting his guests and Mere
dith refused to partake.
We have seen John Kelly's exposure
Of the forged telegram which has been
used by the Harding crowd and Hard
ing himself used reference to the
false accusation Of Kelly while admit
ting at Waterloo that he, Harding, had
voted to keep saloons in Iowa City.
Harding at New Hampton, admitted
that he wrote the letter to Del c. Hun
toon, political agent for the saloons,
in which it appeared that he and
Huntoon had been planning Harding's
candidacy for lieutenant governor but
he explained that it was all because OF
personal friendship between Hun
toon and himself and then he explained
that the reason Hubbell. millionaire
democrat and public utility magnate,
of Des MONIES, had contributed to
Harding's campaign in a republican
primary was because Of Hubbelrs
| friendship for Harding's father.
Meredith called him right there, say
ing:
| "Mr. Hubbell told me that he gave
| that money to Harding because his
lawyer had advised him to do So"
| And Mr.. Hubbell, today admits that
he told Meredith that
| Then we have Harding's banking
connections under cloud. He has
been touted as a banker when the
bank of which he is an officer has
never been admitted to membership in
the clearing house association of banks
III Sioux City and now 1t developes in
a suit brought by a stockholder against
1.-The former president Of the bank thai
Harding's law partner mas been named
! trustee for certain collateral to pro
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11

tect the bank which collateral 10 In
volved In the law suit and the at
tcrney for the brewing interests OF
Sioux City and for the traction In
terests is the attorney for Harding
law partner ana the officers OF Hard
i;,g's bank of whom Harding il one.
Such association Is In line with Hard
ing's wet votes and corporation record.
Claim will be made that this is a
political suit altho there is no evidence
OF 1t but the fact remains that when
Meredith was threatened with a polii-
cal suit for his connection with an
16aho land speculation he promptly
obtained complete certificate Of good
character in that deal from the gov
ernor of Idaho, himself.
The average voter in Iowa has no
conception of the kind Of man which
1t has been proposed to make governor
CT Iowa on the republican ticket. Only
those with intimate knowledge of state
affairs can know and most of them
nave bolted their party nominee Both
republican newspapers in Des Moines,
where editors and reporters know pub
lie men intimately, are against him.
The speaker Of the house in which he
served and the doorkeeper are against
MIN. Members who served with him
H.
denounce him. Governor Clarke, who
Knows him, will not campaign for him.
Ex-Governor Garst who knows him,
condemns him. Altho Methodist by
profession the Methodists nearly all
denounce him. The entire ministerial
union and one influential newspaper in
his home town have abandoned their
town pride in having a governor from
Sioux City and they denounce him.
Republican newspapers of conser-
vatism and party loyalty like the Mes
senger, at Fort Dodge, and the Courier
a, Waterloo, have abandoned him.
The rockribbed and standpat republic
can Hawkeye, at Burlington, is
as named TO defend him. Independent
and fearless republican newspapers are
lighting him. Practically every church
society together with the Methodists is
opposing him. The republican state
central committee has been unable to
present a defense of the charges made
against him so sits discreetly silent in
the campaign while Harding is forced
t. admit one by one the facts in his
tcplora BILE public record.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
Ripping Rhymes
BY WALT MASON
MANS PLANS.

He sat beside me by the fires and
chartered while creased my Tyre. I've
toiled," he said. "for thirty years, like
Adams team Of brindled steers. And
now that I have made my wad, I'll do
some travelling abroad. 1 want to see
this good old globe before don long
white robe. My wife and for years
have planned journey to the Holy
Land; next year we'll see the stored
things of which the pious psalmist
sings. And if the war shall ever cease,
we'll jog thru Italy and Greece. and see
the Spaniard train his vine. and have a
Joy ride on the Rhine. hope to CLIMB
the Alps and see the moonlight on the
Zuyder Zee. and tread the ancient
streets OF Rome-but now, methinks,
must 20 home" He took his ratnstick
and his hat and vanished from my
humble fiat, to seek his home, which
wasn't far; and on his way motor car
came up behind and climbed his frame,
and he forever quit the game. Alas.
poor chap! He went abroad, and
didn't need to take his wad.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

'Tf John c. Kelly sent no such tele-
gram Mr. Harding ought to publicly de-
nounce tue men who are responsible
for the groundless charge" declares the
Webster City Freeman Tribune, which
has been a -ociserous Harding paper.
would a police chief be praised be-
cause his department had not made an
arrest in over three years. during
which time citizens of the town had
been murdered, women attacked and
homes robbed?" inquiries the Davenpor.
Times. And yet the Democrats, after
discussing Mexico, ask that Wilson be
re- elected because he has kept us out
Of war Anyone could do that the
way he has done it,"
auto owners are more tolerant to-
wards thieves than horse owners were
in the pioneer days" remarks the Sioux
City Tribune Otherwise, few i'm
pressive demonstrations would estab-
lish a rule OF extra hazard in auto
thieving.'
The Manson Democrat is quoted by
the Des Moines Capital is saying
everybody who says he is dry is moi
necessarily a dry. Harding is wet anc
may as well admit it." Then the Cap.
ital puts 1t up to it's readers. Here's
statement that Harding won't dare
dispute. II Jack Dalton says Harding
is wet, Harding is wet
The Dubuque Telegraph Herald says
IF Mr.. Harding had his way about Il
you would be paying just such pre-
MUM on the insurance Of your house.
hold or other goods or property as the
insurance combines desired to fix. bu
fortunately Mr.. Harding did not have
his way"
Now says the Sigourney Review
'.is the time for all you men and WON
en- who have been talking dry for |
quarter of a century to come to tn
lrescue Of Mr.. Meredith
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
Masonic Meetings.
visitors always welcome

STATED OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES
shall Lodge No. 108 A. F. & A. M. FIJI
day. Oct. 10, 1880 p. m. Regular busl-
ness. John W. Wells, Secretary b. "
Frazey, w. NJ.
sicNET CHAPTER. No. 80. r. A. M
Stated convocation Monday evening
Oct. 1s, 1880 o'clock. Regular business
Car, Shaffner. H. P; John w. Wells
secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY. King Solo
mon Council No. 20, r. & S. M mon,
day, Oct. IS. Regular business. l. ~
Forbes. Recorder. George Gregory l. M
STATED coNcLAVE, st. Aldemar
Commandery, No. 80. K. T, TUESDAY
Oct, IT. Regular business. 1. L. oroes'
Recorder; H. c. Mueller, Commander
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. g. o. <
s.-Regular meeting for business. Weu-
nesday. 1870 .. m, Oct. IL. Eliza .. oa.
tin. secretary; Cora NJ. Mcdowell W.
NJ.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
The Name Doesn't Fit.

The Philippines are rapidly becom-
ing Americanized. The s00-year- old
bridge of Spain" that spans the Pasig
river at Manila has been renamed
Jones bridge in compliment to
Chairman Jones of the insular affairs
committee. But IL would pe uiffof
tupate II the process should stop there.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
Amount saved ............$ 8.7s3.00
Aavad on Corruoatod CuIxorts
Public Lettings Save Money.

It has long been understood by COM
mercial men that the large corpora
tons can place orders for material at
more favorable prices than can the
smaller concerns. That this same
principle applies to the purchasing Of
materials for highway construction
has long been urged by those in apo
sition to know. The following table
not only justifes their contention. but
also demonstrates that better prices
can be secured by the counties at pub
lie lettings than by placing Drivateor-
ders. The table shows the prices Of
corrugated culverts in Marion county:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11

There e sonething anomalous in
Jones bridge crossing the Pasig river.
The stream ought certainly to be re-
named, and it would be a graceful
tribute to the chairman Of the military
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
Dubuque Saves s2o,4o2.

affairs to call it Hay creek. It would
be all right for Jones bridge to cross
q Hay creek. Somehow, that is just
hat you would expect it to do.-Kan-
sas City Times.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11

The culverts bought In 1917 are
heavier and better than those bought
in 1918, but the 1914 prices are lower,
due to competitive bidding The 1913
orders were given without public let
ting.
Dubuque Saves $4,000.
On March 10. 1915. a contract was
let in Dubuque county for the con-
struction Of 1872 bridges and culverts,
most OF which were small concrete cul-
verts. The work contemplated required
2,s14.6 cubic yards Of concrete The
average contract price was s11.72 per
cubic yard. It was stated by members
of the board and county engineer that
prior to the road law. the lowest price
they had secured on this quality OF
material was s13 per cubic yard. and
that the highest price which had been
secured was from $2s to $2s per cubic
yard. 1t was their Judgment that the
price for concrete was at least 81 per
cubic yard below the former prices.
At this rate, the saving to Dubuque
county on this one letting was $50,
402.02.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
Amount saved $40, $751;
Tama Saved $5,044.
$l0,5S1..10

In Tama county, three advertised
bridge lettings were held during 1914.
at which bids were received for four
teen box culverts. five 1-beam spans.
and eight steel pony truss spans. The
estimated quantities OF concrete and
structural steel in these twenty seven
bridges is as follows: Box culverts-
concrete, 477.7 cubic yards; I-beam
spans-concrete 1854 cubic yards;
structural steel, 1860 pounds: pony
truss spans-concrete. 947.4 cubic
yards: structural steel ZOO 700 pounds.
The blanket contract for 1913 pro-
vded price Of s12.25 per cubic yard
for concrete in abutments for steel
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11
lner Of state Highway cn.s.en wsau1s Z w.n.,. ya-.r

apans. The price for pony truases and
l-beam spans includes the concrete,
moor. 10 determine the pound price
for the metal In steel spans, the cons
crete nOors were deducted at tho rate
q $1126 per cubic yard, and tho re-
manning amount was divided by the
estimated weights Of the various
spans. Tho unit steel prices Of thu
blanket contract thus determined vera
per 100 pounds:
Pony trusses 800. i. -. !. >. !. .36, -
I-beAm spans -. i. i. -. a, !. -. Z. a.lO
From tho informal ton ct hand, It IL
impossible to determine tho unit prices
Of the blanket contract for concrete
culverts. For this reason, the culvert
prices can not be compared with this
years prices for such work. The cost
of the steel spans built this year; when
figured under the 1918 blanket contract
price, is as follows,
Concrete. 1zsS.8 cubic yards,
at $12.A per cubic yard. ]. .S15, soo.0S
r-beams. $1,000 lbs, at 3s1s
per 100 pounds 2,d41.SS
Pony trusses, 2oo,70o Ms., at
$3.50 per 100 lbs. .......... ID 90
AVtoa, uuuCT AvI0 pIIC0. $1V,oVl.Uo
Total, under 1914 price, OBJ
tanned at public istting. 81. 34,15ss7
Amount saved .......,. e 6.044.7S
Woodbury. County Saved es,7es.
Bids were received in Woodbury.
county, on March 10, 1914. for thirty
one bridges and culverts, Ave Of which
were steel structures with concrete
floors end abutments. The low bids
on these dve steel bridges amounted to
$14,018. As this was materially above
the estimated cost the board, upon
Of the engineers, re-
jected bids, and re-advertised. On
April It'll, bids were again received for
these five bridges, and the low bids
amounted to $10,742, saving Of $3.276.
A suggestion by one Of the engineers.
on March 10th, that a 4o-foot concrete
girder bridge be substituted for one Of
the 48-foot steel spans, resulted In .
further saving OF $493,
Low bid on I'VE bridges,
March 10th ..a........... .SdA, 0l8.00
Contract price. April 7th..... 100000.
Amount saved ............$ 8,76a00
Saved on Corrugated Cuivsrts.
The following table illustrates the
difference in corrugated culvert prices
In Cherokee county. under the 1913
contract, let without competi-
ton. and the prices obtained att a pub
lie letting for better and heavier cul-
verts, in 1914:
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-10-11

Now says the Sigourney Review.
'is tine time for all you men and worn
en- who have been talking dry for a
quarter of century to come to the
rescue Of Mr.. Meredith"
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Tulsa daily world. [volume] (Tulsa, Indian Territory [Okla.]) 1905-1919, 1916-02-11
If Too Fat Get
More Fresh Air
Re MODERATE IN YOUR DIET AND RE
DUCE YOUR WEIGHT WITH
OIL OF KoREIN.

Lack Of fresh air weaken, the oxy ygcu.
carving power of the blood. the liver be-
cones sluggish fat accumulates and the ar.
lion Of many of the vital organs are hind
cred thereby The heart action becomes
weak work is am effort and the beauty of
the figure is destroyed.
Fat put on by indoor life is unhealthy
and if nature is not assisted in throwing
it Off by increasing the oxygen carrying
power OF the blood serious case of obesity
When You feel that you are getting too
stout take the matter in hand at once.
Don't wait until your figure has become
a Joke and your health ruined through car
rying around o. burden Of unsightly and un.
spend as much time as you possibly can
in The open air. breathe deeply. and get
from any druggist % box Of oil of kOrDin
causules take one after each meal and one
before retiring at night
Weigh yourself every few days and keep
up the treatment until you are down to
normal Oil Of koreiu is absolutely harm.
less, is pleasant TO take helps the digestion
and is designed 10 increase the oNygen-cur-
ryiug power Of the blood
Even a few days treatment should show
noticeable reduction in weight. There is
nothing better. ReXall drug store can sup
ply you.-Ady.