Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1904-06-18

The weather man will have to hurry
iif he delivers as wet & June this year as
during the two previous years. Farm
leis claim dry Jure Is desirable for
good corn, and SO far this month there
has been a rainfall OF only rs, or a
| trifie over quarter of an inch.
| Ii. two more days the fate Of the in
lterurhan railway VIII be definitely
known. Conrad. Beaman and Grun-
| dy Center, and the townships in which
they are located Will hold their cleo
tons Monday. and after O'clock Mon-
day night the result of the ballots Viii
be made public. A news story today
estimates the vote at 2 to l. in favor
of the interurban. II is to be. hoped
that this estimate is conservative.
While there are few people In the dis
tric,s now ready for a vote, who cp-
pose the intern han strenuously, ,hare
are more VINO favor il, a,.d it is ex-
Iected that the latter element viii take
Sufficient interest in the proposition to
get out and vote for the tax. The op-
| oil unity OF a lifetime, to develop the
towns in question and the sur
rounding farming communities is now
open to the people of Grundy county.
and it is thought in Marshalltown that
they will be alive To that opportunity
and vote to aid the building OF the
road.
Waterloo came to Marshalltown to
get pointers this week, and a joint
committee, of the city council and citi-
zens will recommend to the city to
emulate Marshalltown in more ways
than one. In the first place the coun-
Gil will be asked to purchase the water
works plant, now operated by indiyid-
uals, and operate it under the plan of
municipal ownership. A reservoir, such
as Marshalltown has built, will also be
recommended in time, altho there are
some doubts at the present time wheth-
er or not Waterloo is in a position to
contract for both, because of the stat
utory limit OF her Indebtedness. A
third proposition will be the installa-
ton of paid fire department. Water
loo suffered severe loss by fire last
Sunday, and few weeks ago lost her
buggy factory. Last winter fire losses
were numerous. as hydrants were not
of proper inspection, and were frozen
when needed. Mayor Martin and those
who accompanied him to the city this
week were greatly pleased at the Sit
uation In Marshalltown. While a
neighboring city and only few miles
distant at that, the Waterloo committee
was surprised to know that Marshall-
town had owned her water works sys-
tenn for thirty years.
The board of directors of the indie
pendent district of Waterloo has pre-
pared for next year teachers contract
that gives promise of causing an end
less amount of dissatisfaction among
the teaching fraternity. Waterloo has
had the same trouble experienced here,
with teachers leaving in the middle of
school years. to take better positions,
thus leaving the superintendent in a
bad way, at time when teachers were
hard to secure. The Waterloo board
has now adopted an iron clad contract.
One fourth of teachers salary, for q
period of four months, is retained by
the board and this is declared forfeited
if q teacher violates her contract. Last
year the teachers in Marshalltown were
put on their honor at the time of sign
ing their contracts. and the result was