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Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

Wanted-Intellient person may earn
SO to $25 weekly, during spare time
at home, writing for newspapers. Send
for particulars. Press Syndicate, 1442,
Washington, D. c.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
BUSINESS OPPORTUNITIES

An unusual large and choice list Of
small farm and timber tracts for ex-
change on city property. Mowry, over
1916 East Main. -
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

To Rent-Store building at 100 East
Main after April I. II. c. Lounsberry.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

To Rent-Large house at EOS East
Church street. suitable for morning
house: SS2. 80. l.. L. Carney.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
MISCELLANEOUS,

Oregon and California railroad com.
pany Grant lands. Title to same r..
yssted in United States by act OF CON.
gress dated Juno ., 1915. Two mil.
hon three hundred thousand acres 20
be opened for settlement and sale.
Power site. timber and AGRICULTURAL
lands. Being classified. Containing
some Of best land left in United States.
Large sectional map showing land and
description. Price 81. Grant Lands
Locating Company Box Go. Portland.
Ore.
Southwest lows IL fertile flsld for
the man with anything to soil that has
merit. Seventy ave thousand people
In southwest Iowa read the daily None
pareil. It r. the great want nd medium
Of this section. Il IL known far and
wide Ms a producer OF results. II you
have land or anything else to sell o.
trade. get IN touch with southwest
Iowa thru the Nonpareil Council
Rluffs. iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
Tri-C City Barber College Tool.

Tuition $g5; electric message. by.
draulic chairs, strictly modern; catalog
\ free. XstS Mulberry st. Des Moincs.
Iowa
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
FoR sALE-AUToMoslLEa

For Sale or Exchange-Moline car
in first class shape. Would make a
good delivery car. Phone 1871 or adj
dress J. II. Ball, 300 South Fourth
avenue, Marshalltown, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
FOR SALE
TO RENT
TO EXCHANGE
BY "HOP''

and machinery Possession at once.
J. II. Long. r. D. s. city.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

To Rent-Fifteen acres. ssven- room
house, good barn and outbuilding8:
seven acres work ground. rest In pos
ture. l41e South Center street. Mr..
Sarah II. Paul.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

Wsnted-Position as housekeeper, in
city, by woman with small child. Small
wages. Write W-15, care Of this office.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
I've STOCK, HORSES, ere.


LIVE STOCK, HORSES, ETC.
For saIe-At Marshalltown March g.
fifty head Poland China bred sows. big
type, big bone and big litter kind.
Write for catalog. ]. 7. Molloy s. Son,
Albion, Iowa.
For SaIe-Good driving horse, also
surrey and light wagon. Phone red
SS4, 14O6 West Church.
For Sale-One hundred head Of cat :.
tile. II you want to buy cattle and want
time on them, we will take security on
live stock and let you have all the
cattle you want II you want us to
furnish you cattle, cali Plumb Bros,
phones yellow 1916 or green 1456.
For Sals-Ten choice Duroc Jersey
Ibrsa sows, for March and April far
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

Fer oale-Iowa farms: the beat corn
land. 80 10 $40 per acre. Get large
list. spAuldine q o'DonnslI DlmA
Howard county, Iowa.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

Wanted-To rent by April l. four or
five-room house, close In ADDRESS
G-15, T.-R.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

Wanted-Housekeeper on farm near
town: four in family. no small chill
5dren. F-9, Care Times Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
IOWA LANDS

For sale or Rsnt--oao acres, we'll i'm
proved farm. Inquire f. E. Northup,
over Iowa Savings Bank.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

Wanted-To rent from forty to sixty
acres of pasture. Phone John
Mead, Narshalltown, Iowa, Route 8.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
Company department so4, Omaha
SITUATION. WANTED

Wanted-Position by gas engine ex-
pert. T-13, care this office.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
HELP wANTED-MA.E

!, Wantsd-Two women not under 20
years to do general cleaning work at
Deaconess hospital. Phone so or 1926,
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

To Rent--Ffve room partly modern
house. Phone 1888.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
WANTED

Wanted-Missionary Workers Band
wants clothing Of all kinds for needy
families. We appreciate any help. Ca'l
yellow 731.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

Wanted-All your sick shoes to doc
tor. Robinson's shoe hospital 10
South First street.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
FOR sALE-MiscELLANEoUs

For Sale - Rug factory and rug
cleaning business. Write ELS, Times
Republican.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

For Sals-Ten choice Duroc jersey
BIRD sows, Tor, March and April far
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15
6 Brownaiono !"
Tints Your naf
II 4 0laulo


The stfaiGhtsst ROAD and The sAsetest e1
ful appearance - the .use q ..usownatsas'
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-02-15

TRANSFER AND MOVING.
Phone 4l2. the Merchants Transfer
Company. for all kinds OF light and
heavy drawing. Barber & Hyatt, pro-
prietors.
The day book., 1917-03-24

hen"
q know, mother, you like the little
patch of ground and the chickens
but l do want some Of the good times
other girls have. l could go with the
people around here-but you know 1
don't care for them"
mo, dear, you wouldn't be your
fathers daughter if you did"
A fashionable neighbOrhOOd meant
more to the dwellers in this small
city than a cosmopolitan can well
understand. 1t was the sized place
where one calls on the new neighbOr
when she moves into the same block.
Holly street with the small, poor
houses, in which the Bennetts lived
was well-nigh a reprOach to mention
in the good society Of BrentfOrd.
Poor little Florence Bennett, pretty
bright and well educated, felt the Os-
tracism caused by the neighbOrhOOd.
On her fathers death, three years
previous, thew had moved to Brent
ford, where an old friend had given
Florence employment in his Office.
She was now 20 years old and saw
little prospect beyond the stenOgra-
piers small wages in her future.
Office work was not to her taste. She
was essentially the hOme-lOving
woman; but she took up her task
cheerfuIly, seldom letting the inward
rebellion come to the Surface as it
had today.
Yes, I suppose" sighed the moth
er, you might get to know some
peopIe-some of our own kind-if we
lived in a different street. But 1 al
ways believe, dear, that what is ours
will come to US"
Yes, I know you love that old
poem"
d" For 10! my own shall come to
mep " quoted the mother.
But not by way of Holly street. "
Eyes, even Holly street. Still, if
you want to move into one of those
The day book., 1917-03-24


Copyright, 1917, W. G. ChapmanD
For 10! my own shall come to
me"
The little thin woman in the rock
er, darning stockings, kept saying
this over and over in spite of the
protest on her daughters face.
well, why don't it Gomez" asked
the girl starting to set the table.
Perhaps l haven't had enough
faith. But I keep on trying" And the
calm, sweet face again bent over the
work with just the faintest shadow
across the patient lines.
Il know, mother, you are a dear.
I wish, too, I had more faith. But
some day l get just desperate. The
little mean So a week l earn at that
typewriter only keeps us alive. And
this street is enough to give me ner-
VOus pTOsTatiOn."
My dear, l thought it was very
quiet and decent"
Yes, but I'm ashamed to ask any
one here. If we could only move into
4 better neighbOrhOOd."
But we couldn't afford it, dear"
q know of some new flats in Ben
ton place for no more than we pay
here"
How much room?" asked the
mother.
"Ob, two rooms, a kitchenette and
bath
But we couldn't do with that"
I'VE could manage. And it's just
swell entrance"
But here we have a little garden
and"
and chickens" finished Florence
disgustedly. Chickens that are an
awful bother"
But they furnish us with nice
fresh eggs, and"
And get into the yard next door.
It's all right as long as no one lives
tbnra P1t inst wait until there's a
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-14
Coal For Bin-Filing
Purposes Hard to Obtain

While the actual need for domestic
coal for current use has lost much OF
its urgency in recent weeks, there has
not been a corresponding let-up in the
demand for stocking purposes, accord,
ing TO THE New York Market Review.
"Retail dealers" says this journal,
"have more bin-hlling orders on their
books than they ever had before at THIS
time of the year and many OF their
customers are pressing for early de-
liveries. Naturally. under the clrcum-
stances. the retailers are using every
means at their command TO get more
coal. but with poor success. The com
panes will not increase their tldewater
shipments. asserting that fair dis
tribution is being made as between sec
tions as we'll as between their custom
ers individuality And when an effort
is made to buy independent tonnage
local dealers find that there is very lit
tie TO be had for prompt loading at
any price.
This is one Of the fruits Of govern
ment regulations. The individual oper-
ators were asked 10 sell less coal 70
middlemen and more TO the retail deal
ers direct. They agreed TO do so. Now
everybody familiar with the anthracite
market knows that this change Of pol
icy would naturally bring about shit
ing of tonnage from tidewater 10 the
line trade, since middlemen have always
handled a large percentage OF the in
dependent anthracite shipped to this
market, whereas they are less OF FAC
TOR in the all-rail trade. Quotations
are lower, it is true, but coal is scare
err and quotations without coal are
of no use either TO the retailer or con-
sumer. One might as we'll try &c salts
fy his hunger by reading the menu.
"Such few odd lots OF independent
domestic sizes as do come on the mar.
ket from time to time can command
from 81 10 s7.75 {. o. b. Chestnut is
the easiest size and egg the strongest.
Steam sizes are steadier, prices having
changed but slightly during the past
week. The range is about as follows:
Pea, s5G5.5O /. o. b.; buckwheat,
s5G5.25; rice, s4d425; barley, s39
325"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-14
Private Consumers
Face Steel Shortage
Runaway Market for Pig Iron
Presents New Problem
for Government

From % 70 30 per cent OF the coun-
,rv's steel output, il is now estimated,
will be required 70 supply the demands
of the United States government and
its allies. The governments most seri-
Gus problem now, according 10 The
Iron Age" is how to give its allies all
the steel they ask for without Gripping
domestic industries. which last year
got all the steel they needed in compe-
tition with foreign buyers by paying
the price.
'In the shipbuilding programme
says this authority, rapid strides have
been made in the last week. and the
project for yard in the New York
district for which large steel interests
will carry on fabrication on an unprec-
edented scale is rapidly taking shape
under the lead of the Submarine Boat
Company. II all plans are carried out
as now indicated the governments
plate demands will soon be more than
can be met except by curtalling opera
tons of other plate buyers.
"The War and Navy departments
continue TO give out large orders. The
shell contracts will total 100000. half
shrapnel and half high explosive, TAX
ing $4,000 tons of steel. The orders
for $4,000 escort wagons placed last
week with fifteen Central Western
wagon makers will require 10000 tons
of finished steel. For each of the can
tonments 10000 kegs of wire nails are
wanted total of $500 tons. The
rivet inquiry for vessel work amounts
TO 10000 tons"
The runaway market for pig and
scrap iron has raised the question
whether the government in the effort
to determine equitable costs of pro-
duction with regard to its own pur-
chases will find il necessary TO exercise
greater control over the raw material
end. In the opinion of trade authori-
ties this might prove difficult. Says
THE Iron Trade Review: ut is APP
parent from a consideration of the com
pick structure of pig iron costs that
any supervisory policy in that product
opens the broad and difficult problem
of integrated operations in which labor
figures prominently. Pig iron has got
ten completely beyond control of the
producers
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-14
1916 Revenues of
Colorado & Southern
Show Big Increase

The report of the Colorado g. South
ern Railway lines covering operations
in 1916 was issued yesterday. showing
total revenues of s16,469,27S, an in
crease of 81, 1854 over 1915. while net
operating revenues of S6,3S3.947 repre-
sented an increase of s1,709,559 over
the preceding twelve months.
Net income of S3,0l1,227 after allow
ing for full dividend requirements on
the preferred stocks, showed an IN
crease of 81 ,9O3,07S over 1915, and was
equivalent to s7.52 share on the com
mon. compared with S4.74 earned on the
same stock in 1915.
Hale Holden, president Of the com.
pany. said the 1917 earning figures Will
reflect the more recent increases IN
cost of locomotive fuel and materials
and supplies accruing on account OF
economic and other conditions affecting
the country as a result of the European
war.
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-14
Money and Credit

Money rates were firmly maintained
in the local market yesterday. An ON
cial Of one of the large commercial
banks characterized the situation as
being rather tight" and predicted that
there will be little relief from the pres
ent tenseness before August /. BANK
ing funds which have been ABSORBED
temporarily by the large government
loan operations will have to return TO
the ordinary business channels, TINS
banker said, before lower rates can be
expected. And even then, according 70
his opinion, any marked lowering of in
terest rates cannot be looked for IN
view of the war conditions now con-
trolling the American credit markets
While looking for some additional I'M
ports of British gold, this banker does
not believe the amount OF such move
ment would reach large figures, OWING
10 the fact that the supply availaDle
for this purpose is limited. Russia
which in the past has contributed 70
the Allied gold pool. cannot be drawn
on for additional gold, according to his
view.
In the market for time loans based on
Stock Exchange collateral. bankers and
brokers quoted per cent as the actual
trading rate for credit accommodation
secured by the customary mixture OF
railway and industrial securities.
Scarcity of offerings continued the out
standing feature in this market. Loans
against industrial securities as collat-
eral were made at per cent.
At the Stock Exchange the ruling
rate for call loans was unchanged from
the preceding day at 4 u per cent.
Closing rates on money yesterday,
compared with a year ago, were as fol-
lows:
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-14
Vanderbilt Road
Cuts Its Dividend
Directors of c., St. p, M. & o.
Reduce Annual Rate from
7 to S Per Cent

Basing their action on the rapid rise
in operating costs, the directors of the
Chicago, St. Paul, Minneapolis & Omaha
Railway Company, Vanderbilt prop
erty. controlled by the Chicago q
Northwestern Railway, voted yesterday
TO reduce the annual dividend rate on
the common stock from TO per cent.
declaring n semi-annual disbursement
of 2l2 per cent on that issue. The
company has been paying 7 per cent
since 1904. In the fiscal year ended
June 80, 1916, its earnings were at the
rate Of 1913 per cent on the common
stock
The regular semi-annual dividend Of
3h per cent has been declared on the
preferred stock Both dividends are
payable August 90 10 holders of record
August /.
An official statement explaining the
directors action said:
THE rate of 2l2 per cent on the
common stock is l per cent less than
the sem-annual dividend that this
company has paid on its common stock
for years, but in view of the greatly
increased cost of operations, due TO the
great increase in the cost of labor, as
the result of the Adamson law, and in
the cost Of materials and supplies,
especially in the cost Of fuel, which
has doubled within the last six months,
and the consequent decrease IN the net
revenue of the company since January
|. it has seemed TO the board to be
wise and prudent TO make this reduc-
ton in the present dividend
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-14

The action Of the Steel Corpora
TONS directors in the matter of divl-
dends is criticised in some quarters
on the grounds that profits should
be used to retire outstanding bonds,
instead of being disbursed to share
holders. For instance, one writer
says that large dividends are "un-
fortunate" because practically
every important steel company, ex-
cept the United States, has actually
reduced its bonded indebtedness dur
ing the bumper period of profits or
made arrangements to do So" AS a
matter of fact, it is known that the
Steel Corporation last year pur-
chased a substantial amount of its
outstanding bonds. One block of
s25,OO0,0OO was bought from the
Scottish Carnegie Foundation. But,
regardless of that, it can hardly be
said in fairness that the corporation
has been overheard with sharehold-
ers. Dividends have not been large,
compared with earnings. Last year
it earned nearly $50 share on the
common stock, and paid in dividends
on that stock $S.75 share-a sixth
of the balance available for the COM
mon. This year estimates of the
earnings on the common run from
$50 to $50 a share, and if dividends
in the last quarter of the year are
on the same basis as those announced
for the third quarter. it will have
paid in 1917 S15.75 a share-a third
of the minimum estimate of earn
incs. It is desirable that the corpo-
ration. as well as other industrlals
which have profted hugely from the
war, should conserve assets against
the uncertain times which lie ahead.
There is, however, no good reason
why the shareholders should not par
ticipate to a reasonable extent in the
corporations prosperity. 1t should
be remembered that the purchasing
power of money has decreased so
much since the war began in Europe
that il now takes not far from 81 to
buy what 81 commanded in July,
1914. On the whole, the manage
ment of the corporation seems to
have acted wisely in the matter Of
dividends. II has built up a great
surplus, though the temptation must
have been TO disburse much larger
sums in the form Of dividends than
it has. And, after all. as a banker
remarked, "a stakeholder has some
rights"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-14
Claims Dividends
Would Impair the
Capital of D. & H
Stakeholder in Injunction
Suit Says ST, 100000 Is Bor-
rowed to Make Payment

On the application Of Samuel Hal
perrin, a stakeholder of the Delaware q
Hudson Railroad, Justice Greenbaurn,
in the Supreme Court, yesterday issued
an order directing the company 70 show
cause on Monday why the directors
should not be restrained from paying
81, per cent dividend on the capita!
stock next Wednesday, This stock at
mar is valued at s42 100000. Halperin
said in his petition for the injunction
that the road is not earning the divl-
dend which the directorate has ordered
TO be paid. and that 81 100000 has been
borrowed for the purpose OF making
the disbursement He alleged that the
payment would impair the capital OF
the company.
Stock Takes Tumble
In Wall Street the action taken
against the railroad excited much COM
ment. because Delaware & Hudson
stock has displayed pronounced weak
ness in recent weeks and is now selling
around the lowest price since the
Northern Pacific panic of 1901. II sol!
Yesterday from 1922 to 107hs and
closed IL points off, at 1882. 1t was
recalled in the financial district that
at the annual meeting of the company,
held early last May, l.. F. Loree, presi-
dent of the road, stated he had no
reason to believe that the dividend was
jeopardized, and added that income
from the coal department Of the prop
erty should make up any deficiency
from the operating end.
May Earnings May Record
". II. Williams, vice-president Of the
Delaware e. Hudson finances, in dis
cussing the current earning perform
ance Of the company, said yesterday:
"The various departments OF the
Delaware & Hudson Company and the
Hudson Coal Company. all the stock
of the latter company being owned by
the former. had net income over and
above all charges of S74O,5OS.23 for the
month of May, equivalent TO LA per
cent on the entire capital stock OF the
Delaware & Hudson Company.
"The earnings are the best for the
month of May in the history Of the two
companies.
For the five months, January 70
May, 1917. the net income over and
above all charges aggregated sl,f69'-
O59.s4. equivalent to 4.l6 per cent on
the capital stock Of the Delaware
Hudson Company. Only three years IN
the preceding ten show earnings equal
10 those of the first five months oil
1917"
New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1917-06-14
Wednesday, June IS, 1917

Fresh interest was injected into
the stock market by the unexpected
action of the directors of the United
States Steel Corporation in an
nouncing that an extra dividend OF 8
ner cent on the common stock would
be declared at the July meeting OF
the board. Though there was other
news of a favorable character, no.
tably the abdication of the King OF
Greece. assurance that the Steel
Corporation would continue us
policy of sharing prosperity to some
extent with the stockholders un-
doubtedly was the most potent factor
in the market. 1t found reflection
throughout the list, even IN the rails,
which were strong and unusually &C
tive. but naturally interest centred
on the iron and steel issues, and 1t
was in these that the heaviest vol
ume of trading, accompanied by SUBJ
stantial price advances, was recorded.
The extent to which the transac-
tions in steel stocks overshadowed
the rest of the market is manifest
from the fact that the combined
turnover in six issues-United States
Steel, Republic Iron and Steel, Lack
awanna Steel, Midvale Steel, Cruel
BILE Steel and Bethlehem Steel b
was equal to almost half of the days
total dealings. The average improve
ment in these issues was ia points,
which was considerably greater than
the average advance in all indus
trial stocks. Eighty-five such is
sues closed with a net gain, however,
whereas only forty were below the
previous days close when the session
came to an en-.