Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-02-22
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MORE RAILROAD IMPROVES
MFNTS
'[Valley junction Express. !

MENTs.
VALLEY Junction Express.
a deed was filed for record Saturday
conveying from the Hawkeye Invest
ment Company to the Chicago Rock
Island & Pacific Railroad Company a
considerable tract of property located
between the Company 3 .%o yards ~,
west Of the present shops and round
houses. The deed also conveys the
rights of the Hawkeye Investment Com
pany in the highway crossing the strip
and which Was recently vacated by the
board of supervisors and the town cpun-
ell in considera ton of a new road fur
Their west. The consideration was 81
400.
The property is necessary to the CAR
rying out of plans the Rock Island has
for shops and improvements at Valley
Junction. as heretofore announced in
the Express. 1t gives the company ac-
cess to its shops from the west without
crossing highways and land room for
additional shop buildings When they are
needed. The plans of the company con-
template second engine repair shop. a
foundry and Il car construction shop in
addition TO the buildings the company
now has, but whether or not any of
lthese buildings will be erected this year
has not been determined. The officers
of the company have figured some with
| local builders who have done work for
the company at Valley Junction in the
past and have made some inquiries for
brick in Des Moines, but have not closed
| a contract for construction or for ma
lterial, neither have they minated that
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1 HIGH SCHOOLS FOR TOWNSHIPS.
davenport Republican,
hefarmers of Scott county at the in
stitute at F,ldrdge passed resolution
in favor of township high schools This
4 shows the interest the farmers are tax
ling in higher education. and it is proper
| that they should. They always pay
their school taxes with the patriotic
lfeeling that they are doing it for their
children. and they are willing to pay
even larger taxes to give their children
|greater opportunities to get better ed
| locations.
In the towns and cities where there
are high schools large per cent of the
young people end their school days at
these schools. They leave them with
/ educations sufficient for all require
lments outside of professional lives. A
thigh school education is fairly com
sIplete. But it is different with the coun-
4 TRY school. A bright young person soon
masters the prescribed studies, which
Iscarcely fiji the boy or girl for the flu
5l5ture. If the parents wish their children
to store their minds with further educa-
4 ton they are forced to send them away
from home to high schools at large ex-
lpense, and where they will be removed
from the good influences of home and
4 home surroundings.
The farmers realize all this, and be.
lieve the time has come when each
4 township should have a high school
where their children can obtain as fin
ished educations as those in the cities
and towns. There is no reason why
they should not. The country boy ane
girl are entitled to the best there is III
Il everything. They are just as anSiou:
to be educated as their city cousins. ano
will equal them every time II given ths
opportunity. The Republican heartily
commends the Judgment of the Scot
county farmers for the advanced stel
they took at their institute, and hope:
good resu,.s Will follow
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WASHINGTON AND LINCOLN.
IA washington Press.
The birthdays of two of America
most typical great men fall in thi
month. Lincoln's on the 18th, Wash
lington's on the 22d Lincoln was dem
ocrat of democrats; Washington was al
aristocrat in the good sense of tina
term. Neither could help being wha
each was They We're born into an,
made by their environment.
Washington was born Il patric;an.
slave holder: there was caste in Vii,
ginia. as in England. in Europe, in tn
Orient. He was born rich. and had
large inheritance. He, like all colo
nists of his time looked respectfully
rererentiv, LOYALTY TO Great Britain a
over lord. He admired courtiy man
ners. large estates. ranks in societ.
the freedom and dignity of an opuler
class having authority, weight in com
munity, and leisure. as they had all tn
time there was. He imported. of cours
by necessity but also by choice. dres.
furniture, musical instruments. har
|. ness. carriages. liquors, and even tn
! bricks in his house. England would nc
let the coionists manufacture. She va
a nation of slaop-keepets. Washingto
liked foreign-made goods. anyhow
s And he liked fine dress. beautiful color
L ial as well as courtly small clothes, hal
:. in queue, powdered locks, lace at throa
: in bosom and at wrists, silk hose. silye
q shoe buckles, and all that. He had a
= imposing figure. and it would be no 81
s If he was bit stuck on himself. Y,
J, he had such superb sense and perfe,
!. poise that he never let dignity deger
Y crate into mere personal vanity. Ari.
J. tocratic, but not tyrannical, small.
mean, but real manly man, KNOWN
his worth and his place in the seculs
order, and by custom, etiquet and eve
coldness and austerity making Peep
respect his character and his static
One can not conceive that he wou
q ever unbend in society. or allow ar
u associate to clap him familiarly on Il
q back and say How are YOU r
d would freeze such jackanapes in i
:, instant.
d. He was cold. by nature. He had i
II, small talk, and no facility in compan
land no success with pretty wome
His manner looked gracious enoug
but his temperature always markt
about 10 degrees below zero. and he p-
his contemporaries in cold storage
People did not love him. but respec
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