Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-05-07


school board The board should not
say that one price shall be a limit for
certain grade, and then compel one
teacher who may be more efficient
than another in the same grade, TO
teach for the same amount that the
less efficient one receives. 1t is true
that jealousies are apt to exist among
grade teachers where one is receiving
more than another but that can not be
helped If teacher is especially en-
dowed. and is more competent than an
other who has the same kind of work,
she should be paid according to her
worth. The SUPERINTENDENT is Judge
and it should lie with him to recon-
mend what the teacher is worth to the
schools. Mr.. Moore says that he is not
competent to judge OF a teachers
worth. and he does not believe that the
board is.
Now that the interurban has carried
in Marshalltown. the principal city IN
yolved in the securing of taxes to aid
the building of the road between this
city and Grundy Center the other
towns are to be prepared for the work
of canvassing the petitions. and hold
ing their elections: A correspondent OF
the T.-R. at Grundy Center recently
wrote the paper, saying that the peo-
pie there We're very anxious over the
outcome there. and We're ready to vote
the per cent tax. I'VE want some
way to get out of town besides going
half way around the county" the COR
respondent says.
1t looks very much as IL MARSHALL
town retail merchants got out of the
snare of the trading stamp trustiat the
proper time. Trading stamps were ta-
booed in Marshalltown some time ago,
after an experience that cost mer-
chants considerable money that would
otherwise have gone into sources of le-
ultimate advertising. Sioux City mer-
| chants have decided that they have had
enough, and Assessor Wales, of that
city, has made the statement that the
decrease in valuation of personal prop
erty, as shown by the rolls of 1904, is
due to trading stamps and other
| schemes resorted TO by the merchants
during the past year. Valuations of
stocks of goods and other personal
property have decreased materially.
80
| The CITY council of Marshalltown is
| not the only body in the state that IS
being jumped upon by property own
ers because of paving. In Fort Dodge
open charges of graft are being
made, and in protest filed the council
| is charged with having practically sold
| the contract for $4,000 worth of paw
| ing to the Barber Asphalt Paving Com
pany Only one bid was received, and
| the property owners assert that the
| Limitations of the contract were SO ar
ranged that all competitive bids would
| be excluded.
| The first working day Of this week
saw the dawn of new era In the COM
nlercial welfare OF this city. More than
| lilo boosters" went TO the polls and
boosted" for Marshalltown when they
voted for a tax to assist in building an
| interurban road. When this road is
built, with the power house located
here. it will become the nucleos from
which will grow, in a very short space
of time other lines radiating to Tama,
to Eldora, to Newton and the Milwau-
kee road. Such has been the history OF
interurban development in all other
1 IIe VI oAAS AifiS Sill . S1AS
citizens Of other localities until they
VIRTUALLY rise up in an organized effort
and drag a road out into their part OF
! the country.
| The men who have undertaken the
/ task of interurban building for Mar
| shalltown have assumed no light re-
sponsisility, however. The vote of two
| to one given them is evidence that the
| Marshalltown public has voted them
carte blanche confidence and 1t is up to
1 these men to be true to their trust II
| they protect the city at every hand,
even to the sacrifice of their own pock-
etbooks. if necessary. this community
thereafter will back them in every en-
Iterprise they may undertake, and they
will have it In their power to make
Marshalltown. II they can protect the
city's interest and at the same time
make profit for themselves the COM
munity will rejoice In their success.
| The T.-R. could not have selected a
more trustworthy set of business men
had it possessed the privilege and this
newspaper believes in them implicitly.
| Whether they will succeed in building
| the road time will tell We are all hop
| ing that they will
We have it upon the authority of the
| local democratic organ that the recent
county convention of democrats was
scene of gag rule" and 1t is also evil
dent that a man very close to Mr.. DAILY
admits that DAILY ruled the convention
in the high handed manner of "dicta-
| for" We also saw by the records that
llocal democracy's erstwhile leader and
chief stalked from the hall in high
dudgeon. So the conclusion would seem