Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-02-15
LOCAL COMMENT.

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The recordershIp lists can safely be
said to be closed. The next candidate
would be the thirteenth.
The city council that sold forty
foot strip off the south side of the city
lots was penny wise. The land was
good thing to keep until 1t was needed.
The district manager for Armour &
Co, Mr. G.. L. Balm, is authority for the
statement that Marshalltown has
proved the best location in the state of
Iowa for their business of buying,
packing and shipping poultry and frod-
uce With several large establishments
engaged in the same line of business
and competing in the purchasing mar
ket, the farmers from far and near are
finding this city is a good place to dis
pose of their fowls their butter ana
their eggs. AS shipping center In this
line of trade Marshalltown is taking
high rank.
Two years ago when this city was
unfortunate enough to possess thirty
or forty cases of smallpox. the Sioux
City Journal. with other papers of the
state, circulated with glee exaggerated
reports that there We're several hundred
citizens afflicted with the disease. Now
that system of isolation of every case
has been adopted by sending every one
suffering with smallpox to large de-
tention hospital, built and equipped for
that purpose, and the disease has been
driven out of the city entirely the Jour
nal seems to doubt the claims made of
freedom from the disease. A para
grapher in that paper says: THE boast
is made that Marshalltown is free of
smallpox. The claim has not yet been
entered, however, that Marshalltown is
free Of liars" The fact must be adj
mitted that Marshalltown possesses a
few liars of ability, but they never sue
ceeded In padding the government GEN.
sus to the extent that ten years later a
fair count developed the greatest aggre
side of Fort Dodge.
Horse owners in general, as we'll as
the coming members of the paid fire de-
partment. will be under the necessity of
doing little horse breaking themselves
soon. When those fire wagons get
started once they won't stop for nerv-
Gus horses they may meet in their peri
odical spurts about the city.
The city of New York, which has
been held up as a model for municipali-
ties maintaining clean streets, but
which has held to the system of hand
sweeping, is trying an experiment that
Marshalltown was going to inaugurate.
but for some reason did not do so. This
is the installation of machine that
makes no dust, but elevates the refuse
into receptacle that permits none of
the dust to get away
One of the candidates for county re-
corder submits the following figures,
which may or may not indi-
cate anything this year. The total vote
cast for recorder four years ago was
3,177. OF this number Mrs Packer
received 1851. There We're four
old soldiers among the candidates
at that time who received total of
1,246 votes. There We're two other can
didates who received total of no. BY
u system of dividing these figures the
submitting them attempts to
demonstrate that an old soldier will be
nominated this year, and by dividing
the soldier vote of four years ago by
two, the number of veteran candidates
this year, gives each of them 623, while
the woman vote this year. divided by
four because there are four women can
didates, gives each only 29S. This leaves
the other fellows, six in number, with
759 votes to divide between them, or
l26ta each. However, none of them has
the race.
The veterans are preparing to give
Governor Cummins fitting welcome
when he visits this city and the SOL
diers' Home Tuesday and Wednesday.
Messrs. Willett and Ebersole, two of
the Tama candidates for the district
judgeship nomination, We're former
in the practice of law. When
the convention is over they may want
to renew that partnership, as Judges
caswell and Burnham don't propose to
see one old friend defeated by another.
The split in the colored Baptist
while 1t has had some results
rather unusual. will have the usual end
ng-another church society is being or
gained.
If any one could show us a district
Judge whose opinions have been more
upheld by the supreme
court of Iowa than have those of Judge
caswell there might be some excuse
for trying new man in Caswells
place. 1t is true that Judge Caswell
has some personal enemies. but his
friends would think much less of him
II he didn't have a few enemies. No
Judge can follow fearless, honest
course on the bench without making
some enemies. Even newspapers meet