Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-16
LOCAL COMMENT.

q LUCAL COMMENT. s.
Observation-Disclosures
Those members of the city council
who were so persistent in favoring the
purchase of an electric plant for the
sewage disposal plant now wish they
had lined up on the other side OF lne
question. The contract with the cleo
trio company has been the source oil
constant nightmare to the aldermen
There is mourning among the poiiti-
clans who are always anxious TO attend
the state republican convention as dele
gates, because there Will not be chance
for some of them next year. Because OIL
the greatly reduced republican vote cast
at the last general election the number
of delegates to the state convention VIA
be greatly reduced. Marshall county,
which is one of the banner republican
counties of the state. will be affected 10
4 greater degree than many of the 9TH
ers, because only a little more than one
half of the total vote was polled. III Is
estimated that Marshall county will be
entitled to fourteen or fifteen delegates
in the next state convention instead OF
twenty five, the number accredited 10
this county this year. AS the appor-
tionment of delegates to the congress
sional and judicial conventions Is based
on the vote of the preceding election,
Marshall county will have about the
same number OF delegates III these con-
MENTIONS as her smaller neighbors, Tana
and Benton.
The closing down of the glucose fac
tory jus; as the city is making every ef-
fort to complete its 100000 sewage plant
is aggravating, to say the least. The
councilmen accept the sitlation phiio-
sophically and express the belief that
the factory will reopen Wien the sew
age plant is once in operation. The ac-
ton of the Chicago glucose officials IN
closing the factory just as winter is ap-
preaching and the 800 employees have
contracted clothing and fuel debts on
the strength of promises of steady en-
ployment until spring is not relished,
however, by either business men or EN-
ployes and is bound to work more or less
hardship One of the reasons assigned
the shortage Of corn--is accepted with
a grain of salt in this community, where
corn is the chief product of the farm
and where the crop was larger this year
than in any other section OF the corn
belt. The management will have to
guess again for an acceptable excuse.
Marshalltown has many desirable
manufacturing and industrial institu-
tions. else other cities would not be
reaching out a greedy hand to induce
them to leave the city in which most OF
them grew from small beginnings en-
and fostered by the people OF
the whole community. There is little
vicious satisfaction in the thought tnat
the only large establishment that ever
left Marshalltown for larger neid
found the competition so strong ana the
industrial environments such that II
vas compelled to go out of business
within a few years. 1t requires some-
thing besides tempting bonus to make
y business pay in new field where its
prestige is lost in the whirligig of COM
petition.
Marshalltown takes pride in the fact
that every one of the larger manufac-
turing institutions of the city with one
execution is owned and controlled by To-
cal capital. The Rhoades -Carmean bug
ry factory grew from a small repair
shop and retail store to its present large
under the guidance of Mar
shalltown men, who made their money
as the business grew. The Lennox Ma
chine Company. whose plant now occu-
ries whole half block of ground, mad
its beginning in small repair shop ana
the inventive genius of Dave Lennox.
The Britain Packing Company, tho
aided in its establishment by foreign
capital. has now passed into the hands
and management of Marshalltown men
and has grown under their wise control.
The Shorthill company's foundry. ma
chine and bridge shops have grown and
by the expenditure OF energy
and brains of Marshalltown men. And
there are other growing institutions that
are passing thru the same stages OF de-
velopment and expansion, such as the
Marshall Candy Company. the Flexible
Wire Mat Company, the Fisher Govern
er Company. the Kurtz Wagon Com
pany.. the canning companies and sever
al Others. The Marshall Oil Company,
whose big plant was burned last tues
1ay morning. had a phenomenal growth
in few years from small beginning.
furnished the brains and
The capital necessary to accomplish TINS,
and all the friends of that company are
proud of the young men who, in the face
81 disaster. intend to build bigger and
better than before. The glucose factory
was originally built by Marshailtown
ren. but the venture proved an unfortu-
nate one and the plant later passed into
ether hands, only to become source OF
constant worry and incessant endeavor
10 mollify the management under the
ownership Under the
ownership of the trust the factory has
not been so troublesome, as the trust
,as not resorted to bulldozing tactics,
,nly failing to operate the plant during
be major portion of each year, as the
,;ty has a right to expect after
naking al! extraordinary concessions
experience proves that
,ome- grown industries are far prefera-
lie to others. At the same time the city
8 willing and anxious to assist every IN
.ustry seeking a favorable location for
egitimate business and that does not
iepend upon bonuses for its dividends.
MOTHERS MEET TEACHERS.
PATRONS Of Woodbury. School Hold
Mothers Meeting" at the School
Building.