Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-20
LOCAL COMMENT.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS

Nothing that has occurred in Mar
shalltown for long time has created
such stir in business circles as the
assignment OF the Rhoades-Carmear
Buggy Company for the benefit of its
creditors. While the assignment is baG
enough at best, there are many of the
most influential men in business who
| do not look for the embarrassment tC
be permanent. 1t is easy to understand
how the trouble came about. The de-
sire to do all the business in sight
| without sufficient capital has swamped
many another business whose margin
of profit has been safe one. Brad
streets statistics have shown that of all
the failures occurring In the last ten
years 6S per cent have been due to lack
/ of capital. The wet season has greatly
reduced the sales of buggies all over
the west and 1t becomes particularly
unfortunate when it strikes a company
that has been trying to do more than its
resources would carry. There is little
likelihood of the plant remaining idle
and Marshalltown suffering thereby.
Marshalltown is too well known as a
buggy center, and the Rhoades- Car
splendid article, for the property to suf-
fer, and by the time the assignees have
fulfilled the requirements made of them
plant.
Work has already begun on MARSHALL
towns new $4,000 pottery plant. which
is to be the largest concern of It's kind
in Iowa. The fact that the managers
of the concern have begun so soon after
the final closing of the deal is an indi-
cation that they mean business and are
anxious to begin active operations. The
more recent tests Of the clay on the
company's land near Clifford have been
gratifying indeed. Very much more SO
than the preliminary ones. Manager
Mathews. who is to have charge of the
business, is a pleasant man to meet and
one who is thoroughly conversant with
the pottery business. A matter of In
terest to laboring men is that the COM
pany offers permanent employment to
those who assist in erecting the plant.
The Barber Asphalt Company has
shown itself to be very considerate
concern, even tho part of an immense
trust. The company was in a position to
dictate to the city, in the matter of the
Third avenue paving, and could have
gone ahead with the work, as planned
and outlined in the contract it holds.
The street car company, of course, is
the one most benefited, but both the
city and the asphalt company would
have been concerned had the paving
been put in and then overhauled next
spring because of the transit company's
work in laying heavy steel, which 1t
has been impossible to get from the
mills. The asphalt company is far
sighted, however, in conceding to the
wish of the street car company and the
favorable concurrence in its request by
the council committee. 1t realizes that
Marshalltown Is to do $4,000 worth OF
paving next year, and that in all prob
ability the bulk of it will be asphalt. 1t
will be on the ground next year where
it would not have been had Third ave-
nue. been completed this fall. With it's
plant on the ground it will be In bet
ter position to bid on the work, and IL
it gets all there is to do there will be
sufficient work for an entire summer.
ss*
The election of Secretary j. q. Trot-
ter of the school board, for the twen-
ty-third time, is an honor that comes
to few men for so long a period. Mr..
Trotter knows school affairs perhaps
better than, any one else in the city,.
and figures and statistics pertaining to
the general trend of events of years
past are at his fingers ends. There are
very few men in Iowa, or any other
state, for that matter, who have held
one position for almost quarter CEN
fury.
The change of the mid-week meet
ings of the churches does not seem to
be as popular with the masses as was
supposed it might be. Marshalltown
churches have always held their mid
week meetings on Wednesday and peo-
pie have become so used to that night
that it does not appear natural to ac-
cept any other. Many other organiza-
tions in the city, in order to avoid con-
flicting with prayer meeting nights
have arranged their plans to suit the
churches, and now another change is
necessary. AS stated in the news col-
umns when the change from Wednes-
day to Thursday was announced, the
ministers determined upon Thursday
because of therei being so many we'd
dings on Wednesdays. OF course this is
not altogether satisfactory. AS one
woman said, I've gone to prayer meet