Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-01-20

LOCAL COMMENT


sG.ne people may ,n.lh tnaL II IS not
wise To boom Marshal!loWn, but the
I.-R. believes Ill ADVERTISING every
thing that mas merit. ror unls purpose
cl,lzens Were invited to Write ayout
their own CITY and uhese columns have
contained some very Interesting read
.ng as a result. OUT OF nearly 100 let
ters not one expressed note OF dis
appolntment with present conditions.
All agreed THAI business had been eX-
ceptionaliy good in Marsnaiitown and
most of them We're looking for some
thing even better. We all of us knew
that we had good railroad facilities,
prosperous factories, extensive pave
ments, excellent water fine schools and
beautiful city, but we like TO hear
each other say it again and it will do
no harm to keep on saying it in the
public print.
However, when a town is alive it
wants to go forward and to this end
these letters contained some sugges-
tons. In the first place nearly every
man considered that Marshalltown
property was as cheap today as it will
ever be in the future, and while all did
not look for building boom within
the next year a good many do believe
that we are on the very eve of upward
prices for adj city property, and several
hard headed business men advised in
vestors to get out of western and nor
thern land on the top of the present
boom and get into Marshalltown prop
erty before the upward rise begins.
Today there is a strong demand for
more houses of modern type. Several
families able to pay from $25 to $50
per month rent have been looking all
winter for desirable houses which are
not to be had. If someone would put
up several blocks of strictly modern
flats they would be spoken for before
ready for occupancy and such build
ing might result in bringing to town
many new families of travelling men.
OF all the letters not one failed to
express confidence in local factories as
Offering profitable field for invest
ment. The response to buggy company
stock was an evidence of it. More will
follow in time, but the citizen who said
that the man is what is needed comes
nearer to the truth than anyone There
is plenty of opportunity in MARSHALL
town. Factory sites can be purchased
here of $1,000 that woul cost $4,000 in
large cities. The railroads are here
and fuel for power very cheap. The
success of local factories demonstrates
the practicability of the location. There
ixspdenty of money here and it Will in-
vest in factory enterprises. What is
needed is the man. Show us a man
who can make something successfully
and sell it at a profit and Marshalltown
will take care of him. All we need is
a car load of such men and our city
would jump to $4,000 population.
Let our Commercial Club or Retail
Merchants Association inquire of every
travelling man, write to every jobbing
house advertise in the eastern press
for men who can do things Get the
men here who can make things, the
men who can manage the enterprise
and Marshalltown will build the neces-
sary factories. Organization. as Mr..
Ingledue and score of others have
suggested will help do these things. A
factory employing women would be a
me uillIlS, oul III 81 lLt IItu IuSl COIile
who can manage the plant with sue
cess An opportunity is now open to
secure a college with 500 students who
would spend 100000 per year outside
money in our city. but man is need
ed with a genius for organization to
bring it about. So is it with every
other scheme suggested. If MARSHALL
town would spend $1,000 per year adj
vertising in the east "wanted-A
Man." to do this and to do that faibu-
.lous results would ensue. In the mean
time it is good to advertise our city
by boosting. This is advertising of the
best kind.