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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
As TO FIRE maRsHsLls.

State Fire Marshal Ole Q. Roe has
issued a bulletin of appeal arguing
thar his office shall be continued and
calling attention to the fact that twen-
ty-nine states now have state fire
mrashars department. The usual argu-
ments are put forth and it is shown
that the department has made total
of more than $500 inspections in the
four years OF its existence besides
gathering certain statistics and assist
ing in the prosecution of a number o.
persons accused of incendiarism. The
cost of the fire marshars department
for 1916 was s1S,500
Just haw valuable TO the state the
fire marshal has been in the past four
years is not readily to be come at thru
the statistics offered. In those four
years the average cost of fire insur-
ance per thousand has dropped from
s11.61 to $9S7 but there are other in
fluences aside from the marshal de-
ure in support of themselves. The fire
loss in 1913 was S6,292,000 and in 1915
1891 900 but the bare figures lack
complete connection with the fire mar
shall and his office. The fact is that
the average citizen of Iowa is neither
we'll informed nor holds a definite
opinion based on knowledge OF the
efficiency or its opposite of the office
and department under discussion.
However in general way all will
agree that such an office might De
made of great usefulness and value to
the state The usefulness of such an
office however rests mainly upon Nle
activity and good judgment Of the in
cumbent. There is not the least doubt
that fire inspection of the right charac-
ter would result in the prevention of Il
great many fires and in vast saving
to insured and insurers. Local inspec-
ton by those charged with the duty IS
invaria ply slack and accommodative
a fire marshal who should insist on a.
monthly inspection Of the business dis
trict at least in winter and who had
the power and the inclination to see
the work properly performed would
meet general approval and create
real demand that himself and his office
should be retained.
The way to make an office worth
while and to stay in it is to work at it.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01

AT length Willie Wind, seeing that
he couldn't blow the old silk hat on
the Snow Mans head, called out to
Snow Flake and Snow Drop to come
along with him. So they left the Old
Corn Field and ran over to the hillside.
They filed up the bushes and thickets,
the blackberry bramhles along the
roadside. hid the roots of the wild
grapevine and danced along the Old
Snake Fence. playing hide-and-seek IN
and out among the knotholes.
At last they came to the orchard. For
a moment they stopped at the gate.
Then, In whirling cloud they rushed
thru, covering the twigs and branches
with their frost laces.
There's Robbie Redbreast's nest.
Let's fill it up" they cried. Next they
swung up and down in little Mrs.
Orioles nest that hung like an empty
stocking from the Old Elm Tree near
the Farm Yard
IF it's going to keep on showing like
this said Bobby Tail as he and Billy
Bunny reached the Friendly Forest,
1--WE had better turn around and go
home
But we haven't shown Prof. Crow
our Snow Man." said Billy Bunny. Be
sides. we don't care how hard it
SHOWS"
1t wouldn't have mattered so much
if Willie Wind had only been quiet
But, YOU see, he wasn't. He liked to
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01

ways and the farms that sold for -
an acre are aristocrats at 5000 and the
old straw stable has given place to
a fine big red barn with the name OF
farm and owner painted in the gable
and the lakes are dried and the chick
ems gone and folks are classy and
"cliques" accumulate and--well it's
1917 instead of 1878 and instead of the
stage with tbs dusty top and bedrag-
gled team pulling up to the two story
frame house that served as house OF
public entertainment the porter meets
the trains at two railroads to lead the
way to modern hotel room with
bath at Clarion and the brakeman
calls Clarion, Clarion, change here for
Chicago, Omaha and points west and
north" for Clarion is a big town with
a new hotel, railroad division point
and the capital of one of the best
counties in Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01

The revolver is handy implement
which is sometimes used to deprive
strangers of their jewelry breath and
other yaluables. There are six shots
in every revolver, any one OF which,
when accurately located, will prevent
the deceased from testifying at the
trial of the accused.
Revolvers are bought In large guam
titles by timid husbands, who take
them home in order to discourage
burglars from entering the house and
carrying off the hall clock. AS a rule,
the revolver is always hidden in the
lower left hand drawer Of the library
table, where the husband cant get at
it without attacking the burglar with
his bare hands,. Revolvers are called
concealed weapons for the reason that
the contents are usually concealed in
somebody else.
The toy revolver Is a playful form OF
spontaneous combustion which does
most of its confusing on the Fourth
OF July leaving bandages, splints and
other mementoes in its wake. Some toy
revolvers explode with so much zeal
and earnestness that people who LOOK
down their throat just before pulling
the trigger can hardly tell them from
the sudden uprising Of key Of giant
powder
The horse pistol is an adult revolver
which let's go of a bullet as large as q
billiard ball. After midnight marau-
der has received three or four of these
bullets into his system. it will begin to
dawn upon him that he has been
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
3s- ssle ~ N "a 80 gsSNfsaS. 80
Billy Bunny and His Friends

play with the snow just as much as
any little boy does, SO he whistled ana
blew and made great drifts that were
almost as high as the Old Snake
Fence. Even Billy Bunny couldn't
jump over them. No. sir. He had 70
hop around and find places where the
snow wasn't so deep. So that by ana
by he and Bobby Tail found themselves
long ways from the Old Pine Tree
where Prof Grow lived and a very
long ways from the Old Brier Patch.
Willie Wind blew harder and harder.
The snowfiakes whirled in great clouds
and Jack Frast nipped Billy Bunnys
nose and pinched Bobby Tails little
toes.
Lets go home!" said Billy Bunny.
.'You had better. If you can get
there said Bob White, who with his
large family were sitting in a tree just
overhead. It's going to be bad
night"
Before Billy Bunny could answer he
and his family dived head first into a
snowbank to keep warm for the night.
He knew they would find it much
warmer in the snow away from the icy
breath OF Willie Wind.
(Hurry, hurry. Billy Bunny!
Bobby Tail. please hurry. too!
or you'll find that Willie Wind
Will freeze you black and blueo
Copyright, 1917, Evening Mail Syndi-
cate.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
BEAR TRACKS.

The broker thru whose firm the leak
tip came out can't remember whence
it came to him. He says it was Cos
sip. Also he assures his examiners
that the brother-in-la business had
nothing to do with the admission Of
Boiling to the Connolly firm. Mr.. Con-
nolly's recollection is clear and his
memory firm as rock that Mr.. Boiling
never said word or made motions
regarding the peace note.
Mr.. ConoIly's failure Of memory is
unfortunate and shows how the Keen
est traders in d business that calls for
strong memories and keen minds may
of memory. Those unfortunate inter-
walls are not uncommon. Sometimes a
married man has them and arrives
home after days or weeks Of absence
utterly blank as to the elapsed period
He can remember up to certain time
and then-flooey. The alienist usually
can explain them; that is the alienist
employed by the forgotten always
knows just how it happened. The 9TH
er alienist on the other side Of course
has a different explanation.
The leak investigation started out IL
beat the bushes for a rabbit may have
started a bear. At any rate there are
plenty of bear signs about. The I'M
willingness to take the trail at all sug
gests that somebody had seen beai
tracks at the beginning.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
Rippling Rhymes
TWAS EVER THUS
sy WAIT %aso~

When am we'll | josh the doe, and
say his pills are made Of chalk, which
never cured human ache; that all his
science is fake. roast him bitterly
because he is too handy with his saws.
and seems go anxious to remove ones
backbone from its old time groove. But
when my organs all go wrong. and I'm
no longer hale and strong. but doubled
up with grievers pains, elenr from my
fetiocks to my brains. the doctor Is my
only hope: / clamor for hts pills and
dope. And il he brings his saw and
spade, and says he thinks he'll have to
wade all thru my system with the
same. say Go on, and hew my
frame!" And when I'm lying on my
bed. with poultices upon my head, |
murmur softly to the nurse. The good
old doc no more I'll curse. HIS sell
ence kept me from the grave. and after
this / will behave. s. But when In, on
my feet once more. + hang around the
corner store. and say hedoctor is a
fake who couldnt siiaoSaway an ache.
Thus. when our cares have taken wings.
we boot and jeer Mt solemn things.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
A. CLiHi0E, i1Ma.

Clarion has finished and opened d
good new hotel, one entirely adequate
to the needs Of the travelling public. 1t
is a modern house and a credit to the
Wright county capital.
1t is a good thing for the town. A
good hotel Is an asset to the commun-
ity. Often it pays q much larger divi-
dend to the community than to those
who have money invested In 1t, for
hotel property is not always good in
come property. But it pays the town
and paying the town It pays the in
vestors who are usually men with in
terests very closely identified with the
growth and good repute Of the town.
Clarion has progressed long way
since Simmons kept hotel in the
frame building and Joe Rowan wa.
county treasurer, DOC" Garst the
principal practitioner and Deacon
Hathaway the editor of the only pa
per. Then Wright had no railroad
and the stage line to Webster City was
clarion's most convenient connection
with the outside world. 1t Is Ions
time since the squat old court house
long since olbliterated. was the social
es.isr aas: :::5Es :.v=:. e: as ::::::;s-
lions of society and fraternities. 4
was in those days that strong mar
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
Masonic Meetings
Visitors always welcome.

MARSHALL LODGE, No. 1903 A. F. q
A, M.-Stated communication. worn
in third degree Friday. Feb. :, ';So p
m. John w. Wells, secretary; w. II
Steiner, W. NJ.
SIGNET CHAPTER, No. So. r. A. NJ.
Special convocation Monday evening
Feb. 5. 7:30 o'clock. Mark Masters de-
gree. Carl Shaffner, H. P; John '"
Wells, secretary.
STATED ASSEMBLY, King Solo
mon Council No. 20. r. & s. NJ, Mon
day, Feb. 10. Regular business. /. l.
Forbes. Recorder; George Gregory
l. NJ.
SPECIAL coNcLAvE, st. Aldemar
Commandery, No. 80, X. Tnesoas
Feb. IS. for work, 1880 p. m. L l.
Forbes, Recorder; H. C. Mueller, com
mander
CENTRAL CHAPTER NO. 81, o. E.
Especial meeting for initiation wed
nesday, Feb 7, 1880 p. m. Mrs. George
Downing. secretary: Mrs. ]. +. Fredef-
,ck, W. N
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
Topics of the Times

OF course II below was pretty chilly
indoors and out last night but think
what it would have been in the
trenches.
Submarine warfare is to include ev-
Ierything in the blockaded zone and
Americans are given warning to stay
out 1t sounds like blamed good adj
vice too.
The death of Captain Merry removes
an Iowa landmark Of Iowa and grasses
a familiar name from the chronicles of
current events in Iowa but leaves it on
the permanent records of the state.
for Captain Merry was a useful man.
When so much is said the best obitu-
airy Of any man has been written.
The bankers Of Iowa went on record
again as favoring good roads. The
bankers of Iowa are body of sensible
men who see business questions from
a business standpoint and know that
the men and the states that get ahead
and have things do so by anticipating
revenues" in a sane and business like
way.
If the president can talk freely to
the senate on peace without serious in
ternational complications it isn't en-
tlrely clear why discussion OF what
he said should be so fraught with war
like potentialities.
Mr. Boiling, according TO Mr. Ccnnol-
ly's testimony seems to have acted as
a social "steere," for the brokerage
game.
Speaking OF the sentiment in favor
Of universal military training in Iowa.
just what is meant by universal mill
tary training? II some definite plan
were advanced the sentiment OF the
Iowa press might be expressed as 10
the proposition. What in sam hill do
we mean by universal military train
ing?"
Two dollars and a half bushel may
incline some people 10 rent a vacant
lot and raise a few home grown spuds
next summer
The presidential primary has remoy=
ed from Iowa and not even the Greater
Iowa association shed tear.
It's mighty soft south wind that
blows no good to the coalman.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
For Catarrhal Deafness
and Head Noises

Here in America there is much suf-
fering from catarrh and head noises.
American people woult. do well to con-
slider the method employed by the ENG
lish to combat this insidious disease.
Everyone knows how damp the English
climate is and how dampness affects
those suffering from catarrh. In Eng
land they treat catarrhal deafness and
and use an internal remedy for 1t that
Is really very eficacious.
Sufferers who could scarcely hear a
watch tick tell how they had their hear
ing restored by the English treatment
to such an extent that the tick Of a
watch was plainly aud lble seven and
eight inches away from the ear.
Therefore, il you know someone who
is troubled with catarrh. catarrhal deaf
ness or head noises. cut out this formula
and hand 1t to them and you will have
been the means Of saving some poor
sufferer perhaps from total deafness.
The prescription can be easily prepared
at home for about TIC and Is made as
follows:
From your druggist obtain ! or. Of
Parmint Double strength), about 7sc
worth. Take this home. and add to 1t
Y pint Of hot water and 4 ounces Of
graduated sugar; stir until dissolved.
Take a tablespoonful four times a day.
Parmint is used in this way not only
to reduce by tonic action the infiamma-
ton and swelling in the Eustachian
Tubes. and thus to equalize the air
pressure on the drum. but to correct
any excess Of secretions in the middle
ear, and the results 1t gives are usually
remarkably quick and effective.
Every person who has cataarrh in
any form should give this recipe trial.
Mcbride & Will Drug Co, can supply
You. ~. "
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
Mexican Constitution Signed.

Queretaro, Mexico. Jan. 31.-The
delegates TO the constitutional as
sembly, which concluded it's labors last
night, assembled at II o'clock this
morning and signed the constitution
on which they had been working two
months. All the members of the cabi-
net were present except luis Cabrera.
minister of finance. and Ygnacio Ronil-
las, minister of fonenso and COM
munfcations.
The new constitution contains some
advanced legislation. Among the pro-
visions are:
Abolition Of the office OF vice presi-
dent, prohihition Of the reelection of
the resident, stringent labor laws
providsns an eight hour day. conlpul-
scry arbitration. profit sharing free
employment bureaus. anti-.rnst laws
ard o national department 81 health
with plenory powers and compulsory
military instruction.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
AppoINrMBNr OF GRAYsoN,

MASON City Globe Gazette.I
The appointment of Or. G. Grayson
70 be$rear admiral in the navy VIII
have hard shedding in the senate.
even tho the administration may I've
able to compel enough democrats 20
vote for him to give him confi,Tna-
ton.
DR.. Grayson is 3sssears old. He has
been about twelve years in the ser
vice Seven Of those years he has
spent at the White House. He is re-
puted to have brought about the meet
| ing between Mr.. Wilson and his wife,
and he has himself since married Mrs.
Wilson's ward. He has played golf
assiduously with the president and he
| has furnished that sort of medical adj
vice and treatment which Mr.. Wilson
| has most needed of late. AT the White
House 1t is not denied that the Grayson
appointment is. personal. In the
| navy and at the capitol it is denounced
as favoritism of the rankest type.
A naval officer who is selected for
promotion is obliged to take an ex-
animation before he can assume his
new rank. Generally an examining
board is made up Of active officers of
higher rank than the aspirant7-but Or.
Grayson has been specially favored in
| his regard The board which ex
amines him is made UP of two retired
officers and one from the active list.
At the head of the board Is one Of
Grayson's fellow virginians and his
uncle, Retired Medical Director Rixey;
another is retired navy doctor who
halls from South Carolina, and the
third is an active officer from Mary
land.
1t is thus apparent that the ways
have been creased for the unprece-
dented promotion OF a Virginia doc
tor, selected for preferment by 9
president born in Virginia, approved
by secretary Of the navy from North
Carolina. passed upon by a senate
committee with a South Carolina
chairman, and put thru the final ex-
animation by his Virginia uncle. as
sisted by South Carolipian and
Marylander. 1t is delightfuiiy simple.
when one discovers how 1t is AZ
ranged.
i What has been done with DR. Gray
son and the medical corps Of the navy
lis capable Of repetition with some
other favorite Of the White House.
and other promotions Of the navy. Our
first line Of national defense may be
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
Iona Newspapers
BEER AND WINE COMPROMdS Sc.
LCedar Rapids Republican.

| lA&NL Nl->E< NNDAul NsC-AA 49,.
| [Cedar Rapids Republican,
In Chicago even the Tribune seems
| to lend some sort of allegiance to the
| idea that the liquor situation in the
country can be settled by compromis-
| ing on beer and wine,N cutting out the
distilled stun. The dividing line is to
| be 10 per cent of alcohol. That is to
say saloons licensed under this ar
| ranee.nent. can not sell any liquors that
contain more than 10 per cent of al
| cohol Beers contain from 3 to
| per cent and light wines run from 70
| 5 per cent Champagnes would be
| barred with whisky and gin which
contain from IS To Al per cent of al
cohol But could not gins and whis-
kies he diluted till they contained moi
more than ten per cent Of alcohol?
That is the way most men dilute them
before they drink them and the dlstil-
lers might agree to do the diluting for
them. The only eisect would be TO in
crease the bulk for transportation and
for revenue taxes, perhaps. II sSch 4
Isolation had been proposed dozen
years ago it might have been accepted
as forward step, but at the present
the dry acitators and leaders viii hard
~ accept anything less than .uncondi-
tional surrender. Only those who see
no possible victory are willing to talk
OF ;;aace without Victory.
In Iowa. it may be recalled. we bats
exactly that kind OF a law and we
enacted il in this state before most
of us now living were born. ProhipiT
ton was voted into the Iowa laws in
the early flfties of the last century.
Then came the big German immigra-
ton ard Iowa In a rush to get her
share of that tide modified its laws
by enacting that heer and wine should
be exempted from the operation of the
prohibitory law That beer and wine
clause continued in force until ISL,
but as matter OFF, fact the saloon
Keepers OF. all the Intervening Years
paid no attention 10 it-4they sold
whisky andt> gins on their beer and
wine permits. And part of the time
no ore seemed 10 know that II was
not legal to sch whisky in Iowa,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01

used at any time under the new law,
to pay political and personal debts
and 1t Is doubtful il the outcry jover
DR.. Grayson will deter future attempts
to use the navy as a means of turning
all the departments of the government
into an instrumentality for the as-
gradizement OF the administration and
its supporters
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01

The Sioux City Journal can not see
amy good reason for refusing to per-
nit a county. or any other road build
ing unit, from issuing bonds for road
building purposes il the project can 59
supported by popular opinion within
the district. If the taxpayers of a GER
tain township or number of town
ships, or of whole county want t.
pool their interests and issue bonds for
the construction Of roads, why should
the state as a whole veto the proce-
dure?" inquiries the Sioux City Jour
nal.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01

The governor may hold back this
legislature to the past age. but he viii
be unable to hold back the next one.
Folks are next to the mud roads BUNK
now. We predict by two years from
now Harding will be one Of the best
good roads boosters in the state. He
knows the game" concludes the va
terloo Times Tribune.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
IOWA OPINION AND NOTES.

Iowa will receive s292,351 in federal
aid for highway building provided the
mud roads crowd at Des Moines does
not decide that ii IS dangerous to ac-
cept such a gift 'kremarks the Water
loo Courier.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01

home, however humble, with piaia.
undaunted female Immediately behind
Il.
II children are allowed to play with
the family revolver they should be
taught to point it straight UP, so they
will not kill anybody except total
stranger.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01

That sound that is borne upon the
breezes from Des Moines Is the giggle
of the republican legislators as they
offer their bone dry bills and think
of the solid phalanx OF wet democrats
who helped to vote Governor Harding
and an overwhelming republican legis-
lature into office asserts the Daven-
port Democrat.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01
;s.d cab e kin9s
!. of slloes. 90 aMps a. SIND Ut.
the REVOLVER.

struck by something and he will retirs
hastily for repairs. There would be
fewer burglars in this country IL Il
were generally understood that there
was repeating revolver In every
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01

Iowa corn exhibitors at Shenandoah
were skunked by Indiana and Ohio,
which clearly proves that Iowa has
rot done its best" says the Cedar
Rapids Gazette.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-01

The Des Moines Capital would b.
delighted to see congress appropriate
500, 100000" for European sufferers.