Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1899-09-16
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LOCAL COMMENT.
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ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
From all indications there are enough
victims in this city to organize branch
of the hay fever association. Most of
them would have no trouble in proving
their eligibility.
The county officials are going to do
their best to put out of general circula-
ton some of the fellows against whom
indictments have just been returned by
the grand jury. Several of those to be
tried for various offenses are familiar
figures in the police courts and have
been for years. The penitentiary has
been their ultimate destination for a
long time and 1t has been only ques-
ton of time when they would land
there. The police and the taxpayers
will be about the only persons who will
miss them.
What has become of all those good
intentions of the Marshaltown Com
mercial CLUB They seem to have been
forgotten as easily as the New Years
resolves of an old topper. Ottumwa has
just secured. through organized effort,
the Balm Manufacturing Company and
lis laying the corner stone for the plant
of the largest jewelry factory in the
world: Cedar Rapids, Waterloo and
other cities are searching for and
securing new industries all the time
and Clinton has just recently stepped in
and taken a manufacturing establish
ment from under our nose-the bed
spring factory at E,ldora. While in
NJ tI1r
established several industries that
promise much in the future, they have
come of their own accord. While every
one recognizes and appreciates fully the
fact that the city is growing, she is
much like a lazy boy-she can't help it.
A larger and healthier growth nigh.
be brought about, and the Commercial
| Club is the instrument through which
to accomplish it. a dead club, however
lis worse than no club at all. Let's wake
up and do as our enterprsing neighbors
do We might go them one better.
The proposal to extend the street cal
Alline east on Main street to Finkie'.
i Park is generally accepted as a goot
/ one although some of the RES tents o
! that thoroughfare don't exactly like TIL.
/ proposition to operate the line but sis
:. months in the year. The old line for
merly extended to the fair grounds. bu
1 was not operated all the time. rhi:
brought forth such a protest from the
4 property owners along the street thai
1.-The council ordered the company to rur
4 cars all the time or take up the tracks
/ At that time the east emu of the tow
4 was not as thickly settled as now, ant
4 as the operation of the line except oil
4 days when people We're attracted to thu
1 fair grounds would have been at los
i to the company, the track was torn up
4 Since that time the absence of a car t
/ the grounds has occasoned wonde
i among visitors to the city. AS rapis
/ transit is one of the requisites of ;
growing city. the more lines we hav
4 the better the impression will be OF
visitors and prospective residents.
The ladies have given us a home tai
ent minstrel show. citizens of the mas
culine gender have done as well b.
treating us to an up-to-date bur'esqu
circus. and now the suggestion is mad
that the ladies and gentlemen combin
forces and talents and give the publ
an opera or something of that sort. TIL
first entertainment mentioned was TO
> the benefit of the Federated Clubs O
the city, the second a testimonial
Manager Speers. AS the city needs
5 weeper for the paved streets. variet
: could be added to the objects of thes
home talent entertainments by donatin
. the receipts to the purchase of this use
full article.
Announcement is made that siou
. City and LeMars are going to try fo
honors on the links. and that the team
from each city will be composed Z
eight gentlemen and four ladies'. TIL
match is for the championship of wes
ern Iowa. AS Marshalltown has nun
Der of ladies who can play with neat
ness and accuracy. and as a team frol
; this city has recently defeated one frol
Des Moines, it would not be out of plae
for the golf club of this city to cha
, lenge the winner of the Sioux City-Lt
Mars contest.
People hold varying views Of I'll
motives of others in their undertaking
even when 1T comes to expanding
!, small fortune in improvements. A eli
! izen who has had much to do wit
/. building up the business section of II
3 west end was heard to say the oths
day, during a conversation in whio
:, the remark was made that the new res
!, dences going up on the corner of Ma
!, and Second streets were big improv,
:, ment. but would retard the bushes
:, growth in that direction, that the oil
/, ject in erecting the buildings was fl
:, that very purpose. This brings to mir
!. the statement made by Charles LePlal
!, soon after he purchased the lar
= on which these new residences are b.
!. = ing erected. He said he had receive
: many suggestions as to what he ougl
to do with the lots, but as he was worl
!. ing in Charley LaPlant's interests
!. had decided to do with them as
thought best.
Marshalltown.s mayor will find hin
self in pretty big company at Syracu
: next week, where he attends the col
vention Of the League of Americs
n municipalities and reads a paper on Il
: topic. THE Municipal Ownershop
n Public Service Industries. Govern
= Teddy Roosevelt, Hon. Robert
i Porter. Mayor Sam Jones and a host
{ llesser lights are on the program.
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