Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-12-30
~ transferred to Marshalltown. "Pete's"
sympathies are inspired by not alto
gether impersonal motives.

| ~ ~ Pa Lilies are lHSElIeu Dy not allO-
gether impersonal motives.
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If the board of supervisors keeps on
Iretrenching, the usual scramble for the
office of sheriff will be thing of the
past. With the beginning of Sheriff
McPhersons term the office was put
on an entirely different basis from that
of former administrations. He was all
lowed salary Of 5000 per year and in
addition $1,000 from his fees. provided
they amounted TO enough to pay that
sum and his deputy hire. Further than.
this he was allowed 12ls cents for each
meal served to each prisoner, and 2la
cents per day for care and washing.
\ Time was when the Marshall county
sheriff, IL he was any sort of a business
lofftcial, retired from Office With a small
sized fortune to his credit. But re-.
| trenchlnent has been the rule during
the past five or six years. Capt. Mills
In his two years incumbency did not
| find the position very profitable. A con-
sentative figure on the amount that
Sheriff Mcpherson has been able to
realize from the Office is $4,000 per
i8year, which is not a large salary con-
siderirg the unpleasant and at times
DANGEROUS and arluous labors the
lsheritf must assrme-eternal yigilence,
frequent days ard nights without
sleep and constant worry over the safe
4 keeping of his dangerous wards.
asa
! And now, with the beginning Of the
isnew year and of the new adninistra-
ton, a further. cut in the fees of the Of
/. tics is To BIZ made. The, board some
time ago reduced the allowance for
i meals from 121a to 10 cents, or total
Production per day for each prisoner
| from 52l. cents 10 431s the amount for
care being increased ! cent. With the
| stone pile in full operation and the
/ consequent reduction In the number of
/ vagrants have been coming this way to
FALL into a warm Jail il Will Keep Sher-
| iff Shoemaker hustllng TO make very
much above his allowance of 5000 per
year. While economy is all right. there
| Is some danger, if further reductions
should be made. of deterring the best
| qualified men from trying for the posi-
ton, as it costs something under our
| present political system to secure a
nomination and an election.
Mr.. r. Kali, of Conrad, asks the t.
X. to give him information regarding
1.-The course to pursue to obtain free
mail delivery in the country districts.
| The first procedure is to circulate Il
Ipetition to the postoftice department..
securing the names of those residents
of a prescribed territory who would be
| benefited by such a route. The depart
fnent aims to make each route twenty
| five miles-that is, a circuit of that
many miles starting from and return
| ing to the county seat postofffce. The
petition could be presented through the
! postmaster. Communities in this Viz
lcinity desiring free delivery should act
1 at once, as petitions are pouring in
from all parts of the country and in
most instances the first in are first
served. provided the route is practical.
The time is not far distant when every
/ farmer will receive his mail at his
doors. or near them, daily
Business is assuming normal con-
ditions. after the holiday rush. The
Lin many years all lines receiving a
goodly share The toy dealers, the
dealers in useful and ornamental arr,
/
chants, the snoe merchants and the
grocerymen alike report an excellent
business during the past three weeks.
| One merchant, on being asked regard.
ling his holiday trade. said: You do not.
realize what a merchant and an effici-
ent force of help can accomplish in a
rush these good times. providing one
! has the stock. I have been in the same
line of business many years, but was
! surprised at the amount of the trade
this year Marshalltown merchants
| never before carried better or more
] useful stocks, and the trade not only
| of this city and county. but of sur
\ rounding towns as we'll, showed It's ap-
probation by a liberal expenditure of
money. 1t is not out of place 10 re-
! mark right here that the liberal adj
| yertisers did business commensurate
1 with their efforts to attract trade.
The tendency of the Iowa courts
seems to be- to follow the lines laid
tdown by the supreme court in several
| recent decisions on paving and other
assessments, and it is probable no
more paving will be done in Marshall
4 town until the state laws are made TO
4 conform With those decisions. 1t is not
at all probable. however. that any new
Ilaw enacted will be made retroactive,
as that would bankrupt many cities.
lone citizen, in discussing this question,
| said that while he had paid all his
paving assessments ard did not expect
| to benefit by legislation past or future.
The believed that If the Legislature
] enacted law compelling all paw
4 ing to be paid for from the public
funds he, with others who have borne
1 the burdens of paving streets in the
past, should be exempt from taxation
| for this purpose until such time as he
would gain by such exemption at least
| half the cost of paving already done
In other words, he should not be COM
! PEELED to bea, the burden of paving in
| front of his own property and then to
assist in improving the balance of the
/ streets of the city. There is both just
ness and common sense in his argu-
ment.
| The board of control, in its work of
accommodating evidence against the
county care of insane. has found one
county hospital that it is compelled to
commend, and where county care is a
1 success. That is in Marshall county
/ Judpe JSinne's report on the same APP