Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-12-14
Local Comment

The council las hit on the right plan
for solving the milk inspection prob
lem. 1t will do we'll to employ some
competent veterinarian whose duties
shall be exclusively the care Of the
milk supply. making he inspection OF
the herds, seeing hat sanitary meas
ures are enforced about dairy prem
Uses, making regular tests for butter
fat and temperature, to see that the
milk supply to fulfills ev-
cry requirement; and also to take
charge of the meat inspection n mu-
nicipal slaughter house. There is no
doubt but that a regular city officer
could do more in making the milk in
spection thorough, and at the same
time lessen the cost to the man who
has to pay for the inspection of his
COW or COWS.
That a meat inspection ordinance is
coming is evidenced at each meeting
Of the council, but it is not likely that
much will be don with it until the
milk ordinance becomes operative.
City Health Physician Chesire in
formed the board of health at it's last
meeting that meats that he felt sure
would not pass. a government test
were being sold daily on the streets
of MarshalltoWn to private consumers.
While the doctor does not make any
direct charges, he say he knows from
experience that some people, either
thru carelessness or ignorance, dispose
Of animals by slaughter when the meat
is utterly unfit for eating. He believes
{Lot D,o1x ;Dcrp1fo1 .,,Nn%, all I>o
sold in Marshalltown.
If the new city directory does not
show a. nice increase in population for
Marshalltown, it will be entirely the
compiler's fault. MarshalltoWn people
will not be satisfied with any hap
hazard enumeration, but will insist on
the most careful work Of experienced
men. Any business man, or one con-
versant with business conditions,
knows by every reliable sign that there
has been a large increase in popula-
ton here within the past two years.
There are too many conditions that go
to prove this increase, and now we
want the figures to substantiate them.
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Mr.. Wallace Munro, a New York
theatrical manager of wide experience,
who has handled some of The leading
stars of the country and is now in
charge of the tour of Mr.. Louis James,
the eminent tragedian, is a firm be-
lever in newspaper advertising. Mr..
Munro was in the city this week max
ing arrangements for his stars APP
pearance here. He said that the old
method among theatrical men. of maxi
ing the bill board the principal mean
of advertising their attractions, was
fast going out of vogue. Now the
newspapers are left to exploit to the
people the merits of the productions.
Mr.. Munro said that where one per-
son might see a bill board, five would
read the advertisement in the news
paper, and he wasn't sure but that the
percentage ought to be placed at a
higher figure. For this reason Mr..
Munro, for one, is using far more
advertising in his business
than he is btl board space, and he
says that results hav demonstrated
that his method is correct. you take
the merchants of u town, for in
stance" said Mr.. Munro. "Take them
one side of Main street and down
the other, and show me, the successful
merchant today, inc / will show you
the big advertiser. There is abso-
lutely no doubt in my mind but that
printers ink, is by far the greatest
advertising medium in the world, and
always will be, providing it is used
j~udiciously."