Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-07-25
LOCAL COMMENT.
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS,

The sum Of $685. raised for the Y. M.
C. A. building fund by Wednesday S
trolley day" will be a help, of course.
but when 1t is realized that such sum
is only a one hundredth part of the
amount needed to erect 4 new building
1t can be seen that there is yet need
OF help from those generously Inclined.
At a recent meeting of the carnival
company 1t was voted nos to sell priv
ilege to a gambling enterprise of any
kind and it gives this newspaper pleas
ure to announce that MIR. Il. >. Peck
ham has pledged his word and honor,
as an upright citizen, that no gambling
device or game or immoral show OF any
kind will be permitted en- the carnival
grounds. Mr.. Pechham has always been
g. man of his word in his private bust
ness, and if he can manage carnival
by the same standards as he sells gro-
ceries the carnival will be a permanent
fall festival for Marshalltown, in which
her citizens can take personal pride.
The carnival itself will tell the story.
Mr.. Peckham has personal charge of all
the bookings.
We believe it was Judge Caswell who
pointed to the Patterson building and
remarked, There's the work of young
man who has nerve enough to invest
money in Marshalltown." 1t Is true and
should be looked upon as an object les
son, The structure is a credit to the
town. We regret to hear that his eff
forts to locate desirable tenant In the
building have been discouraged by the
jealousy of other realty owners, but the
combination he has finally formed mas
been engineered with good judgment
and should give to Marshalltown the
exceptional store needed to give the
city an exceptional reputation as a
trading center. Instead of bringing one
new store to town to further divide
business with those already here, ms
plan consolidates two of the leading dry
goods stores into one, which should
elicit the friendship Of existing Compel
itors.
We understand that the Masonic
lodge failed in its undertaking to raise
funds for the building of a temple.
What sort of a scheme would it be to
cooperate with the Y. M. c. A. and
erect one or two stories on their new
building for the exclusive use of the
lodge? 1t Is not an unusual thing for
the title and ownership to the upper
portion of a building to be vested sepa-
rately from that of the remainder. The
Fort Dodge Elks have elaborated a
scheme to cooperate with new hotel
enterprise and own the two top stories
,a,y hotel hNi11inC
Oskaloosa had a Spencer to give So
600; Muscatine a Musser to give $10.-
900 to Y. M. G.. A. building funds; Iowa
Falls an Ellsworth to give hospital
and an opera house entire: Grinnell
Stewart to give library and a Spauld-
ing to give most of an. opera house.
Marshalltown, as yet, has not produced
such a citizen and her benevolent en-
terprises must depend upon the aggre-
gate generosity of the little fellows. The
800 subscriptions have always done the
business here and there is no town on
the map that can show as many of this
class per thousand population. Mr..
Wright professional solicitor for the Y.
M. c. A.. will find work here different
from the usual situation.
Evidently the merchants of Dunbar
and LeGrand know more about the ben
Gifts of an interurban than some OF
their soothing brethren IN other towns.
They seem to have learned of the great
amount of interurban traffic from The
large town to the small one. In talking
with DIR. Fry, yesterday who manages
a hotel at Colfax. that gentleman was
telling of the inadequate facilities for
handling the Sunday crowds that come