Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-04-16
LOCAL COMMENT.
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One man. while perhaps not a master
of The kings English. has the prope!
conception of tht. situation. and at tbs
lunion station the other evening came
Eout fat footed and announced his in
tention of voting for the new Iron
Ribbon road.
Just one month from yesterday and
the man who ordinarily prefers the So
lace OF his couch until after the sun has
begun its duties of the day, will beat
Old Sol many hours and be ready for
the first streak of dawn, that he may
wet little silk line that has been idle
since the first day OF last November
Fishermen have an extra fifteen days
in which to angle for the game varieties
of fish this year. under the provisions
of the new Iowa law.
The new base ball association isn't
the only Boosters Club being form
ed in the city. It took less time and
hard work to raise the necessary CAPT
tai stock for the base bali association,
perhaps, than in fostering any propo-
sition of equal proportions that has
been presented locally in some time.
i Those interested in the chautauqua
movement however are another set of
boosters" and those who have helped
4 and are helping the new Y. NJ. c. A.
building fund belong to the same club.
/ Those who. by their signatures. and
who will, by their votes, assume the
public equity in the new interurhan to
Grundy Center. are the biggest
boosters" OF them all, for the interur-
ban is by far the best proposition, in
every way, that has been before the
public in many years.
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The Council Bluffs Nonpareil observ
es that Council Bluffs Is to have golf
/ club this summer, and says: But what
| is a golf club compared to a good ball
| team in live league, with red hot
rooters' club to support it q Marshall
town has both. ard already active pre-
parations are being made by the Coun-
| try Club to put golf team in the field
| that can win laurels as is also ex-
| pected of the new ball team.
The next proposition that will he pre-
scented to the capitalists of the city is
that for the buggy company. A. B. G..
and very successful buggy manufacture
err, has made to the Commercial Club
n good proposition in writing. whereby
he will invest $4,000 in the Rhoades-
Carrnean factory. provided local capital
in the same amount will be subscribed
as preferred stock. Mr.. Hardy guar
antees an annual dividend of s per cent
on the preferred stock, and there is no
question hut that with the right kind
OF management Marshalltown buggies
may continue to be sent turnout the
word at a good profit to their manu-
facturers. Buggy men all admit that
the factory here is the best factory for
its purpose in the west. Here is
chance for Marshalltown men to make
some money.
Marshall county is to have complete
rural mail service, a condition that
exists In but few counties in the United
States. Iowa has always been a bar
ner state in its rural mail service ever
since the department created the serv-
ice. The routes out of MarshalltoWn
carry more mail and are used more
generally by patrons than almost any
other routes in the state. The general
use of the rural rnail service is a large
factor with the government In estab-
fishing new routes, and 1t Is mostly on
this account that complete service
has been ordered established here.
ass
1t is now UP to the city council to
show why it disregarded the law in its
appointment OF some other than a
veteran OF the civil war; having an
honorable discharge, as city clerk. The
new Iowa law is to be tested in Mar
shall county. where. it seems, other
Iowa laws not having been decided.
come for an initial contest.
The petition of resident free holders
election be called to submit to the vot-
ers the question of whether or not a,
per cent tax shall be voted to aid the
construction of the new line OF in
terurban railway from this city to
Grundy Center, has been received and
favorably acted upon by the council.
There We're but two dissenting votes.
and they We're not unexpected. Now that
the question is ready to go before the
people. on May 9, 1t remains only for
the voters TO QPCIQS Tile late OF the
new road. 1t is the duty of every man
interested in the future welfare of Mar
shalltown to go to the polls ana cast
his vote in favor of the proposition.
There win be some, who are active in
opposing anything that helps
the town in general, but perhaps, does
not materially benefit them individu-
ally, who will work against the voting
of the tax. Happily this class is in
the minority. There appears to be a |
OF the question relating |
to who is entitled TO vote. Some think |
that only tax payers, or free holders
alone, are included. This is not the I
case, and there Is no exception to the |
ordinary rule. Every qualified elector,
a male citizen over Fl years of age,
is entitled to vote.
Citizens of Marshalltown of recent
years have been RECALLED with discout-
aging comparisons between the boom
said to be in progress in a sister town
ana the conservative conditions exist
ing here. The exchange editor of the
F-R, who reads carefully the daily
newspapers from that so-called boom
own. says that hardly day passes In
which one of those papers does not
announce the Closing out" of stock
IF goods. The reflex of boom some
lines leaves a town worse off because
If its prosperity, while the steady
1aca forward even of thp snail co.,