Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-09-03
BANQUET Comment.

L.: so. q vote of thanks was offered the
Pilgrim management for the banquet.
Banquet Comment.
The absence of oratory cid not mar
the program for it was 1850 when the
feast was done and the remaining houf
waa just plain business.
The motion for three big fan festi-
walls carried without q dissenting voice
and fifty-seven signed UP on the spoi
A spirit of this kind kept up will DO
The business for Marshalltown.
A number We're heard to remark
upon leaving, The two last schemes
We're the best we have yet heard One
dry goods merchant exclaimed We.
get the most good out of that chautau-
qua scheme" 1t was encouraging to
hear the number of comments favor
able to the chautauqua DR. Jones has
managed chautauquas very successful
ly. He is a professional lecturer of no
mean ability himself. II he could Sc
cure the cooperation of II man like
Superintendent Crane and business
manager like Secretary Fellingham the
talents of the three, with the big
guns they could secure would put
on Il Marshalltown chautauqua that
would eclipse anything like it ever hell
in Iowa. Then there is the president 81
The Iowa State Federation of Women
clubs living in Marshalltown who Nigh.
be able to influence movement to give
the chautauqua great support. q chau-
tauqua does the same thing for the
good of business in a town that a car
nival does except that one is car
nlval of literary and educational pleas
ures attracting the better elements Of
society while the other appeals to those
traits in human nature which our moI-
eln. moral agencies are battling to sup
press. The chautauqua as rule lasts
two weeks or more while a carnival is
good for one week only. BY all means
let us have Il chautauqua and the T.-R.
makes a prediction that we will have
one in this city next summer.
The $4,000 Improvement company
will come. too. The first fifty signers
are ready now. 1t will take hard work
to get the rest. A few business men
will have to work day after day away
from their own business and swallow
ing their wrath in great chunks as they
brush up against the selfish, unpro-
gressive, knocking" sort OF a citizen,
but. after they have been repeatedly
the improvement COM
shalltown will begin to do its promoting
on business basis and with bank
account.
The rest room was not pushed be-
cause everybody seemed to hang back
and want to know where it was going tol
be located before he signed. Some even
wanted to fight it on principle. The
rest room. however. is coming because
it is needed. Yesterday noon business
men on Main street stopped to gaze
on q young woman leaning up against
the First National Bank building on the
east side rocking a baby In her arms,
while two little boys, probably three
and five years old, We're squatted flat
on the cement walk. All were dead
tired and waiting probably, for their
man to show up. Since the rest
room had been agitated several business
men asked one another where's your
rest room?' but others say that the
sight was not unusual, that women and
children almost ready to drop with fa-
tigue will often st down on the walk
In front of their stores. The rest room,
with chairs, screens and lavatories
must come and will come. Leading
stores will put them in and the first
to advertise one In his store
will get the advantage. In Rochester
Minnesota, a town of 5000, the Wo-
mans Club has maintained rest rooms
for eight years at an expense of $4OI
per month, the women taking turns
half day each, in charge and the mer-
chants paying the cost. New the city
council has furnished building, rent
Free besides 5000 for furnishings andI
rooms above have been fitted up for a |
matron. Mrs w. w. Fowler PRESIDENT
of the Woman's Club, writing to thel
T.-R. says, that the rooms have been
well patronized all of the time and that
the merchants would not think of l.
them now. Eight years con-
tinuous operation speaks fer itself as
to it's success.