Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-29
Topics of the Times

! Alter the lnNestlgatlon into the nlSl
| cost of living has finished the con-
clusion will probably be that 1t is
caused by the high price Of everything
and the amount Of everything each OF
Us thinks he can't get along without.
Take the turkey business in Pitts
| burgh; folks qquit buying for a day or
! two and saw a drop of ) cents a pound.
| In short if we can't afford turkey we'd
better eat what We can buy. See Ben
jamin Franklin and Poor Richards
| Almanac.
The accident TO Captain Mumma of
the Iowa cadets. who was badly in
tured while a spectator at a football
game, is another instance where peace
| is more dangerous in Iowa than war
at Brownsville.
Speaking of Mexico and MeSicans
isn't it the truth that Villa crushed TO
earth and dead and buried can rise
gain TO beat the band? BY compari-
son Jesse James was a mere piker.
A man at Lake City took S3,u00
| worth of crops from twenty-five acres
of land this season. not counting his
milk, butter. live stock, eggs or field
grains. He averaged $l66,70 per acre.
The crops were melons potatoes ana
other vegetables. some kaffir corn and
few squash. VIII some one with a
| taste and talent for figure please fig-
ure up" what the market price 9th
land ought to be?
An announcement that will fall with
dull thud is that the manufacturers
OF stogies have been forced by the war
and perhaps the shortage of the cab
bake crop TO cut an inch off their ropes.
Any arrangement that brings the
lighted end of stogie nearer the nose
OF its smoker is to be deplored by
those who patronize the product of
Pittsburgh and Wheeling.
And the goose that laid the golden
eggs didn't have much over nickel
a throw on producing biddy of the
present day.
The man who has eggs in the cold
storage house and the farmer whose
las years corn is still in the crib both
claim the right to keep il there.
In Marshalltown family the young
er folks had a horror of butterine ana
simply couldn't eat it. With butter al
present prices however the housewife
colored some butterine and made tria:
on her table. The youngsters laid into
it freely for several days until an in
cautious remark advised them that
they were and had been eating put
terine for the better part OF week
That's all. Every family can make its
own comment
The Dodge brothers, owners Of 10 per
per cent Of the capital stock in Foros
automobile company, are in court Try
ing to compel Ford to distribute the
profits Of his business among the
stockholders. Ford is starving his
minority partners by keeping inc
money in the business for development.
He says that ne must buy iron mines
Of course, he could buy some lro"
mines in his own name with the prolps
that would come to him but ny keeping
the money in the company treasury
he prevents any OF 1t being useo ~
finance the Dodge car. Ford Is Dig
enough 10 granGstand as 10 50 MINI
I, IN
70 rise TO his responsibilities as trus-
tee for his partners share OF the pus'-
ness, The Dodge brothers had peter
sci. TO Ford.
II the editor had now all the potatoes
he sprouted that winter when ne was
a hoy and saw them shipped to Dakota
sufferers in the spring because they
were not worth over 10 cents per
bushel ne could retire. Think OF get
ting those Is cent potatoes back from
Dakota now a, 81 and they have mao
the use of them all these years.
The Home Finding Association at
Ottumwa has forty children on hand
awaiting the coming Of childless pa
rents who would Ike 10 have BABY
in their home. Girls and boys from
to IS years OF age, bright and promis-
ing, standed in life from no fault OF
their own. often from parents who are
victims of misfortune rather than from
defects in character, motherless babies
CRYING for someone to love them and
TO be loved in return. This home has
800 children to it's credit placed In
homes mostly in Iowa and employs
experienced agents to watch over those
children in their foster homes until all
are OF age She who wants a baby need
yearn no more for here are babies for
the asking. '.-. ...
In some quarters it is held that Rus
sia is the greatest single field in the
urorl5 <or pou- h,,cirosc