Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-04-27
LOCAL COMMENT.

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If Ed Sears can not make a success as
a hustler for the Commercial Club and
for Marshalltown it will be clearly
demonstrated that no one can.
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Without casting reflections on either
Mayor Jones or City Clerk Shaw, it
must be admitted that the city council
misses the whip held over it by the for
mer mayor and the sound advice and
familiarity of law of ex-Clerk Jim Trot-
ter which was always sought in matters
of moment when the presiding genius
who lately occupied the mayors char
did not see fit to apply the lash. Noone
has vet assumed the leadership of the
present council, and it is somewhat like
a ship with a lost rudder.
When 1t comes to matter of spend
irg as much money as last years coun-
Gil, the present city dads think they are
Well qualified for the task. Otherwise
there would have been no necessity for,
booming the appropriations to a point
Practically equivalent to the extrava-
gance of last year. When the money is
Ionce in the treasury to spend this or
any other council is pretty sure to
spend 1t.
The statement made in this column
last week to the effect that the district
judges We're to be elected this year was
Wrong, as the terms of the present.
judges do not expire until the close of
next year. Nevertheless the campaign
is on. From present appearances Judge
Caswell will receive a stronger support
for the nomination than he has ever re-
teived before, as he has grown in favor
With both bar and litigants and also
with the general public. who have
watched his record in the supreme
court. When he assumed the position
Judge Caswell was handicapped by the
| fact that he had been in practice in the
local courts for many years, and while
\ his legal learning and ability We're ac-
knowledged, he was known as a fighter
III behalf of5his clients, and some of the
attorneys assumed that he was still ops
posed to them. A few Of them have been
\ slow to grow away from this assump-
/ ton, but Judge Caswell's record in the
/ supreme court alone disproves tina. he
has either sought or desired to decide
4 matters before him on other than legal
grounds. That record is not eScelied by
/ that Of any district judge in the state,
\ and few there are that equal it. Judge
caswell is strong in both the other
counties of this district. as is Judge
1 Burnhan and 1t is probable hat both
| the present Judges will be given at least
another term, and perhaps more.
The closing down. of the glucose works
for the summer, just at a time when
| the $4,000 sewage disposal plant is
more than half finished and people We're
beginning to hope that the years OF un-
oasiness and effort to retain the insti-
! tuition and keep it in operation We're at
an end, has caused a general plant TO
| go up from the business men and the
leaps the council in its efforts to, COM
\ riete the sewage plant at an early day.
as the supply of cinders for the filter
/ mittee of the council has promised TO
/ stances. but there is little encourages
the work.
The shutting down OF the factory has
4 corning the contract and agreement en-
tered into between the Glucose Sugar
Refining Company and the city when
the building of sewage disposal plant
4 was undertaken. This contract was en-
4 tered into on Feb. q. 1910. after lengthy
negotiations. and is not as binding
i relative to the operation of the plant as
4 many suppose 1t to be. There were two
i of the money for the construction of the
\ plant and the other relative to the build
ling Ola syrup mixing plant as part of
the consideration for the erection by the
city of a sewage disposal plant The
little to the land and the sewage plant
lis to remain in the trustee, ID. T. Dem
mead. until the $4,000 advanced by the
I glucose company has been paid back
thru the rebating of water rents and
! taxes. but in case the company closes
DOWN the contract says "the trustee
shall have the right TIC transfer to the
said second party dhe city of Mar
shalltown) the title to the land and
j property herein mentioned IL the first
4 PARTY should voluntarily remove the
factory from the city OF Marshaltcwn
i or voluntarily permanently abandon
/ Operating Sdlu lldHt anu business In u ne
said city" The contract says nothing
about temporary shut-downs and there
/ fore no penalty attaches, unless the
works are closed permanently. The sec
i end contract calls for the erection OF a
syrup mixing plant to employ not less
/ than 150 men within one year after the
construction of the sewage plant By
i the city. The thing to do now is to
:. hasten the work on the sewage plant,
put it in operation and then see that
the provisions of the contract are OBJ
served.
/ The first issue of the Catholic Trib-
une. published in Marshalltown. made
its appearance today Mr.. Emil Seleine,
a young man Well known among print
4 ing circles. is the publisher, and the
first number shows promise of making
the venture a successful one. The paper
is five-coumn quarto, and starts off
! with a good advertising patronage and
with its news columns we'll filled with
local and general news of interest to
4 Catholics and with comment thereon
The publication will be non-political.
In the first number is reproduction of
the T.-R's recent cartoon, depicting
Archbishop Keane as the modern ST.
Patrick.