Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1905-05-27

during the busy season, are afraid to
come to Marshalltown. OF course the
au:o-car is here to stayA just as the
bieyc came under protest and staid,
but auto drivers should take these
things into account and do everything
in their power to stay public antipathy
toward their vehicles. One inconsid-
crate person with an auto car can
cause storm of opposition to all driv-
ers, yet no one can have as much in
fuence with such a person as the auto
drivers themselves. sit on his neck
is the way the foot ball boys express
it and that is about what ought to be
done.
The Glucose Sugar Refining Com
plny has served notice on the city,
demanding of it the repayment of $25,-
OCO that the company advanced to the
city several years ago. to build the
sewage disposal plant The city
greed to rebate the loan in the way
O.. taxes and water concessions. and
the company in turn agreed to operate
its plant. The plant was shut down
nd has been closed ever since, never
having been operated since the sewage
disnosal nlant was finished, so that
the extra expenditure that the city en-
tailed in it's building has been money
tied UP, without the least sign OF get
ting any returns on the investment.
II is not likely that the city will pay
much attention to the demand OF the
company. and will invite suit rather
than refund the money. The city mas
ro need of a sewage disposal plant
unless the glucose company operates
its factory, and would never have bullt
the plant had it not been that the
glucose factory needed it. An opinion,
given some time ago by Former ol'y
Solicitor Van Law, is to the erect that
The city's. obligation under the con-
tract amounts practically to nothing.
An illustration of the care lnat
should be taken in suspecting one OF
crime, and causing an arrest Wlthoul
knowing to a certainty or the gullt OIL
the defendant, was shown this week IN
Justice court, when yong woman was
arrested on a charge OF obtaining
money under false pretenses.
housewife had paid 81 to young wo-
man collector on account, and, either
forgetting what the dollar was for, or
confusing it with her regular monthiy
telephone account, caused the arrest
of a former collector for the telephone
company, whom she was sure collected
the 81. The young woman. upon her
arrest clearly established an alibi. hav-
ing been out of the city when the
transaction occurred. Nevertheless she
| was subjected to more or less undesir-
able notoriety thru the publicity that
necessarily came about. The woman
4 causing her arrest afterwards discov-
cred that the dollar she supposed had
been spent for the telephone rental was
to pay another account.
After repeated trials In the district
court it would appear likely that the
Barber Asphalt Paving Company will
be made party to the suits brought up
by the property owners against the
city. Former City Solicitor Van Law
attempted to have the paving company
made a party defendant when the cas-
es first came to trial, but his motion
was overruled. Another motion has
been submitted and the court has In
timated that if he finds the law Will
| sustain him, he will bring the paving
company into the case.