Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-09-01
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LOCAL CO MMENT


pleted and proven to be successful Mar
shalltown citizens ought to combine In
one great and grand Jollification. This
would be the most effective means OF
publishing to the whole state that we
have the most important necessity of
growing and prosperous city-a pure
water supply.
The Marshall county jail neve. con-
tanned larger or harder lot OF crim->
lsinais than 1t does at the present time
and the grand jury has a big grist to-
grind. Murray, one of the State Center
safe crackers, is among the jolliest OF
| the big bunch awaiting trial, and re-
gently remarked. when another prisoner
was brought in. that MARSHALL county
1 would be compelled to run a special ex-
8cursion train to Fort Madison for their
I special benefit. Murray. used an ex-
I preston new here, and, when asking
now long II would be be fore the court
1 would dispose of his case. remarked
1 that the quicker the better. so he could
! be "hittin the grit meaning that he
4 desired TO commence TIE serving of his
4 sentence as soon as possible instead of
wasting time in the county jail,
\ Some means ought to be found of re-
ts,ricting the sales OF liquor to the hobo
7, element that has infested this city dur
til ing the past two years. While the ex-s
4 tensive railroad improvements been in
progress in this vicinity this community
has been overrun with vicious ee-
hment. The railway company is not to
4 blame. as enough good and steady men.
i can not be procured and every one is
\ hired who comes along and shows a
1 disposition to work. This condition has
4 caused an unusual number of ttamps
4 and toughs to come this way They
/ work a few days or a week, come TO
Il town and With companions invest in
4 several kegs of beer and then raise ali
# kinds ofgdisturbance. The vacant space
5isnear the stockyards has been a favor
$ lite rendezvous and the scene of drunk
!. en- revelry almost daily during III. past
! summer. If the police rounded them uD
I3or drove them away, there would be
33pthers to take their places. 1t would
4 require a whole company of soldiers To
4 properly police that section of the city
Il and keep I free from drunken ramps
land drunken crooks. who. under the
Eguise of tramps. steal and rob, and
\, murder if8they find 1t more convenient
n IN do so. The only means at hand to
sicause this class to give Marshalltown
81 he go-by Is to prevent the wholesale of
4 5liauors to them. This may not be al,
easy atterto do, but since the murder
y of thecolored man last Monday Mayor
a Pierce has taken the matter up and
4 may find some means of bringing about
5this result. While hobo's money, in
ithe opinion of most saloonists, is as
tgood as any other mans money. this
Il self-respecting liquor dealer ought to
3 Hesitate in making sales in large guam
Titles until he knows where and to
whom the liquor is going. The dealer
lscoultl be prosecuted under the
habitual drunkard section Of the
ltnulct law, as a majority of
Z these tramps and crooks are habituals
because they get drunk every time they
get the opportunity or a little money.
n If femayor Will take the bull by the
q horns he Will have the moral backing
fgof nearly every citizen of Marshall-
town. Anotherscrime like that of few
!. days ago mig hit make a lynching mpos-
4 sible to prevent, and Marshalltowr
II doesn't desire the free advertising such
= a regrettible incident would be sure to
bring.
4 a druggist who resides on East Main
4 street has lost his reputation as COW
faneier. and his friends now declare
a that he doesn't know COW from a
4 horse. They think he would claim as
4 his own any old cow The other day
4 the source of the household milk supply
A got loose and strayed away. The owner
4 set out to find her and Was gone some
n time. During his absence man of
4 whom he had made inquiries appeared
4 at the kitchen door leading bovine
4 land reported that he had found
4 the lost animal. The druggists
4 wife told him to tie the COW
Il in the barn and gave him
A a quarter for his trouble. Soon the
Il owner returned from his unsuccessful
u search ana was pleased to find that her
Il Jerseyship was safe and sound. Desir-
4 ing TO sand the COW away for the day.
Il he employed a eoinred man to take
4 3chargs of her and instructed him TO
Il stay close to her all day long and he
a would be justly rewarded. The T.-R.
regrets to tell the balance of the story.
4 bur is called upon to do 50. In the eve
Il ming the druggist was surprised TO see
4 his Jersey walk leisurely into the yard,
a linaccompanitd and satisfied with her
4 days grazing in the pasture, and not
I5unt!l then did il dawn upon him that
4. he had hired the colored man to take
charge Of the property of some one
a else and had paid a quarter toa man
. for bringing him COW that he had no
4 sclaim to. He is now considering the
4 advisability of buying milk from "A
4 dairynlan. as he says keeping a COW in
s town has its disadvantages as we'll as
Tits advantages.
citizen has called the attention OF
4 the r n. to The fact hat while our
4 town possesses a commercial club there
a|has been little effective work done TO
increase the towns employing institu-
a stions and said citizen wants the TER.
TO roast the club. Upon discussing
a the question withsthe citizen he amend
4 ed his suggestion to read that the IT,
= r. roast, the method on which our
y commercial club Is trying u do busi-
Iness and he proceeded TO make some
4 very sensible criticisms. He cited the
q axiom that what liz eyerNbody.s buai-
lness becomes nobody's business and
4 that To this fact more than any other
Twas due the present inactivity of our
4 commercial club He thought that in