Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-11-17
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LOCAL

The wholesome respect Of all clessest
OF people for your Uncle Samuel was
exemplidsd recently in this city, The
mail box ct the conner Of Main and
Center streets was Knocked from It's
~fastenings and broken by q runaway
team. Nearly every passer-by stopped
and looked at the wrecked mail recepta-
Gle. but not apiece was touched by any
one until, several hours afterwards, the
proper authorities gatnered UP the fras-
ments.
The supervisors have sufi1cient reason
to claim they have a good Joke on cer-
tain democratic judges and clerks Of
election Of this county. Those printed
protests served on the republican mems
beers OF the various election boards on
election day and signed by the demo-
cratic officials. objecting to the ballots
because DR.. Brady's name did not app
pear thereon as a candidate for coroner,
finally came before the s~upervlsorsi
when the work OF c%anvassing the rec
turns vas commenced, and 1t was found
that in every precinct where the docu-
ments were filed, with one exception. the
democrats also protested their own bills
for services as judges n clerks. Had
the supervisors obeyed the demands OF
the protestors, they would have been.
under the necessity Of refusing to allow
the judges and clerks pay for three days
of hard work, which is usually allowed
where election boards serve more than
sixteen hours. There would have been
some sore election officials II the super
visors had deemed II their duty to heed
the democratic demands.
The good ladies' Of the City Federation.
OF Women's Clubs have not developed
the commercial instinct to the extent
that their husbands and their brothers
have, else they would not persevere in
their efforts to secure the adoption of
the anti-spitting and loaing ordinance.
Gould the municipality enforce such q
law, and do 50 without driving business
to other towns, every citizen would say
amen. Strictly enforced, II would be a
sanitary measure that would be univer-
sally approved. Blu how to enforce it
without increasing the police force
three-fold, hus causing expense that
would be ~burdensome, and how to en-
force 1t without offending the surround
ing trade that Marshalltown business
men are catering to, are questions that
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answered before proceeding further
with the ordinance. It was because OF
these unsolved problems that the ordi-
nance was killed by the council in May,
1899, and not for the reason that the
proposed law had no merit. II the
measure could be so framed that 1t
would reach the habltual loafer and his
general habit Of e~xpectoration, the trail
ing skirts that fashion DEGREES feminin-
ity may wear would not need to be held
so high to escape the filth made by the
to~bacco-eating loafer and the unfortu-
nate and careless victim OF catarrhal af-
Elections. Perhaps the active minds of
the federation members can evolve some
solution Of these objections, but when it
comes to a choice between business and
more or less loafing and expectOration
on the n hand or no business and ex-
IRENE cleanliness On the other, the COM
mercial man will choose the former CON
dition with its attendant Objectionable
features and a business council will see
to 1t that his desires are compiled with.
Without attempting to defend or ex-
cuse the vile habit of expectorating on
public walks, the T.-R. wishes to
recommend to the city fathers another
ordinance, perhaps just as impractical
BILE of enforcement, but aimedatanother
custom just as inexcusab1e and just as
filthy as the expectorating habit. The
T.-R. would make 1t a misdemeanor
punishable by ten days street sweep
ing with a broom on Main street be-
tween the Methodist church and the
Pilgrim hotel for any woman to wear
outside OF a drawing room a skirt that
drags on the ground when the wearer
Is walking. The TER. can conceive of
no more filthy habit than is now fol-
OF dragging their skirts along dirty
walks, across muddy streets and thru
all the CRIME tina man has been accus-
toned to escape by wearing thick soled
shoes with rubber protection. In Berlin
the other day a committee OF German
doctors marched a woman in modern
stylish long skirt for half a mile thru
the streets OF that city, when the gar
ment was aiken to the laboratory and
the collection Of filth analysed, with the
result that bacteria of several con-
tagious diseases were found therein.
The city council as q board Of health
should enforce such an ordinance im-
medlately.
Boys will be boys. and once in every
four years q goodly portion Of the men
of his great country insist on being
boys, or at least in acting like them.
Men who are digniled on every day OF
The four years between presidential
elections have their very natures
changed on this day and the succeeding
one II the election goes their way OF
thinking, and their cultivated DISPOSE
tions go back to the conditions Of their
youth. 1t was this spirit that was re-
sponsible for the questionable acts
committed during the 3ollification in this
city a week ago, and It was this same
spirit that condoned the offenses perpe-
trated on that occasion.
It Is now certain that cold weather
will prevent the completion of the sew
age disposal plant until spring. Tama
county people need not worry, how
ever, as the flow OF water in the river IL
Il sufficient to take care of the city sew.
age and will be sufficient all winter
long. Then by the time the spring
freshets@ are past and the river has beer
given a thorough cleaning thereby. the
plant will be in operation. Work could
be prosecuted the entire winter were Il
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