Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-05-31

city have just come to realize, and the
result will be that the athletic organlz-
ations of the school will receive more
| substantial encourag cement in the fu-
| ture. Regret is being expressed that
| the organization can not be maintained
| turnout the summer, as the citizens
would enjoy more of the kind of ball the
| team has been playing this season.
|
The service of the street railway
company in carrying the crowds to the
| Soldiers Home for the Memorial day
exercises was inadequate, and many
citizens We're Inconvenience by the
| failure of the company to provide cars
The trailers were not placed in service
until the middle OF the afternoon, and
| by that time many had walked to the
| park or had abandoned their plans and
| returned home Crowds stood on the
street corners waiting for cars to carry
| them, only to find every car loaded. The
use of the trailers earlier in the after
noon would have relieved the situation
to a great extent
After all are not the school board and
same experience as the individual who
builds? About the only difference is
the two boards insisted on keeping
within the limit, While the individual
would have gone ahead, paid for the
friils as extras
The T.-R like most citizens, would
like to see Third street paved, even If
some individual should make some
money out of ii. Paving is always
good public investment. but friendly
discussion and caution in letting the
contract should not be read as OPPOSE
ton to paving itself. There are some
men active in this enterprise whose
past careers have demonstrated them
to be men that need watching. Yet it
would be even better that their self
seeking public work succeed than for
paving to fail. The council should not
be afraid to reject all bids if figures
are too high and try again until good
paving is provided for Third street The
property owners have petitioned for 1t
and the public wants it.
The announcement that DR.. f. w.
Parsons has resigned from the pastor
ate of the Baptist church and has ac-
cepted n call to the Baptist church of
Mason City will be received with great
regret by the citizens of Marshalltown
both inside the church and out of 1T.
For eleven years DR.. Parsons has Ia
bored in this city and in that time he
has not only been considered the
strongest preacher in the local profess
sion, but outside of his church as man
and citizen DIR. Parsons has exercised
an influence for right living as great if
not greater than any other one man in
the city. No republican party council
or citizens conference among the laity
has been considered complete without
his presence. In his church he has at
tracted many citizen to hear his
preaching to whom church going is not
q habit and perhaps an effort. The
plain common sense Of level-headed
man has won the respect of the bust
ness men for DR.. Parsons everywhere
and many would contribute, as some
have already DONE to the church funds
if DR.. Parsons could thereby be re-
tanned, but the money consideration is
net what governs his action. The
church stands ready to pay him all the
salary he asks but he feels that the
time has come for q new man to take
IDS place and for him to seek new
field. He feels that he himself can do
better work with a new congregation.
that he has pleaded and eXhorted until
his leadership in this field has become
stale and that his duty demands a
change. That this condition eventually
arises with the ablest preachers is adj
mitted by the ministry everywhere and
some church societies make the trans
Ter of preachers to new fields periodi-
cally compulsory. However, be this
view of the situation right or wrong, !:
when a man feels, himself, that it is
lime for him to go. in justice to himself !.
lie should go, and this is the decision
made by DR.. Parsons. No man ever
illed pulpit who preached more abso-
tuely from a sense of duty than does
Or. Parsons, no minister of the gospel .
aver preached to higher ideals of life :
md few have more sound, common .
sense to make their preaching effective. ,
rhe Baptist church of Marshalltown
will lose an able pastor when Mason
5ity gains one, but greater than the
oss or gain of either will be the loss of
n exceptional citizen to the people of
and a corresponding gain
o Mason City. S