Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-04-14
LOCAL COMMENT'.
Observation-Disclosures

lin all kinds of building material. The
larger jobs will give employment to q
great many men. so that the demand for
labor should be brisk. while the number
of residences that are to be built would
indicate q growing population.
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Unless the business men take hold Of
the beet sugar proposition ii will Ger
talnly fail. Those who have been goiic-s
|iting acreage And 1t very difficult to in
duce our farmers to devote a small corr
ner of their farms to the cultivation Of
sugar beets. The small farm and the
small farmer are not known in Mar
shall county. 1t now seems that the only
|fway that the required acreage can be
secured is fora number of men to form
a stock company and rent the land
somewhere near town, where the beets
can be raised In 100 acre tracts or more.
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A plan has been proposed to form
stock company OF about $1,000 capital,
business men putting In about 500!
apiece. rent 100-acre farm somewhere.
near town and raise the beets this sum
mer as an experiment. The progress
the work and the final results could be
published, which would demonstrate in.
a practical way the ability Of Marshall;
county land to raise the sugar beet.
Mr.. Emery. of Des Moines, who offers
TO take the beets at $500 per ton, agrees
to furnish an attendant at $50 per
month for every 100 acres contracted,
and he also. agrees to have an expert.
/ beet raiser visit here every two weeks!
during the growing season to direct the
work. The expense to the company
would be in renting tools and employ
ing labor, and the farm being located
near town, there should be no trouble
In getting plenty of boys to do the
wedding. C. G.. ST. Clair, who had oc-
casion to post himself on beet sugar
culture when in the employ of the
Firmenichs, estimates that consider.
able money could be made from the
lsventure, and stands ready to invest in
lat along with others. Fifteen tons oil
5beets to the acre Is a very low yield
which at $500 per ton, would make a
product sufficiently valuable to afford
4 considerable expense and still leave a
large profit. The plan should be tried.
for If the beets can be raised success
fully here the market is already provid-
Led and the enterprise could easily res
1.-THE vicinity of Marshalltown. as we'll as
value of farm lands. The merchants
Should take hold of it.
IT is curious that the men who have
been spending their time and labor in
this enterprise are men who can profit
livery little by its success. while the mer-
| chant, the man who wants people to buy
boots, clothing, dry gods and groceries,
has lent not a hand. We find this too
often the case when some public enter
Iprise is started. The tradesman VIII be
the first 10 profit by the city's prosperi-
Fly but he is often the last to put his
shoulderto the wheel. He is busy, al
ways very busy. He must stay at the
store early and late that not a customer.
Is allowed to escape. but often he is pen
my wise and pound foolish. A few
hours time and few dollars spent in
IA united effort for public enterprise will
/ going in Marshaltown at such lively
ling on Easy" street.
1t Is queer how ideas once estab-
lished in the public mind viii! stick.
Some one somewhere said that Frank
ICummings was a possible candidate for
congress against II. c.. Cousins. Cum
Innings himself has publicly announced
This intention to support Cousins and de-
nieti any connection With the sc-called
Cousins opposition. yet good citizen
| of this city tells the newspaper men in
Des Moines that Cummings will be
Marshall county's candidate.
$50
The stranger who has read so much
of the saloons and saloon troubles in
Marshalltown might receive the Inn
preston that this was perhaps a God
less town, but let him notice the prep
arations for Easter services that are
sbeing made by the churches of our city
and let him observe on the morrow the
thousands who will attend those SER
vices and he will realize3that good and
evil Influences do exist side by sillf
4 The churches Of A1arshalltown are all
lin a flourishing condition. In no city
bin Iowa is their work more earnest,
more harmonious or more effective
Perhaps not so liberal in its views as
some yet in the main the work of the
4 Marshalltown church is telling every
day in the cause of righteousness and
correct living.
Since the terrible labor disturbances
lin Chicago many manufacturing con-
lcerns of that city have begun to look for
liother locations, where they can escape
the annoyance. Of such troubles. So
marked and 30 general has this feeling
become that the cityof Aurora held a