Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-09
Local Comment

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People who want to use city gas
| just now are learning to appreciate
I what luxury some of these public
! utilities are. When a change takes
! place that will permit the extensive
| Improvements to be made that are
1 needed at the gas works the public
will welcome the improved service. J.
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| There is a very large question as to
| whether the Japs are really so much Of
| a danger as the need of receipts from
| the lecture business. For farseeing
craftsmanship Hobson has never sllone
as brilliantly as he did in the dashing
activities at Santiago harbor.
| The school board should not waste
time analyzing the secretary's motives,
but listen to the law after the statutes
have been interpreted by the courts
The question as to who gets the irlsur-
! ance, or even as to the harm In buy
ing street car tickets at the school
| children rate, are petty problems, to
be sure, and 1t would seem that laws
forbidding them were senseless, but
what is the use in taking chances
ing but honor and worry in the job
of school director, anyway.
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Several who are keeping cows for
profit complain that the family man.
has figured too large a fortune out
of the COW business. One milkman
when figured down to actual pounds
Of feed used has an expense Of SO per
month instead Of 81, and he feeds half
ration Of grain when the cows are on
pasture. Several others admit tho,
that the COW business is good for $40
per month net profit per COW, after
paying boy hire and everything.
Granted that men are not going to
milk cows and sell milk for their
health, it may be admitted that the
COW business need not attract for
tune-hunters, but the wage working or
salaried man with family te, feed,
can well listen to the advice given to
keep a COW. A certain 800 Jersey
mentioned in this controversy once
kept by a well-to-do citizen, has been
known to have furnished one Of the
finest residences in the city with an
expensive davenport and other luxur-
ious furniture, but the owner got tired
doing the milking simply because he
really didn't need the money.
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The fifth page of this issue contains
thelist of people who have beena too
careless and negligent to pay their
taxes. It also contains lists Of many
pieces Of property paving assessments
on which have been in dispute. Many
of these have been advertised twice for
sale by the tax gatherer and may this
year be advertised and sold for any
sum, regardless of receiving the full
amount of the taxes assessed. Some
people are going to find out that taxes
are cheaper than law suits.
Judge Bradshaw Is entitled to credit
for common sense in Kidding the court
docket of it's dead timber. Anything
and adjudication Of controversies is
always hailed by the public with de-
light. There is really a good deal of
public Impotence with the laws de-
lays.
If it has not daWned upon our peo-
pie that there is more than usual
building improvement going on In
town, the doubter should take drive
about the city or try to employ car
penter, stone mason or common labor
en- More Of it's must be dore too. At
least two new factories employing pos
sibly 100 people each are more than
probable for next year and new houses
will have to be built for the families
of those employed.
eff prohibition ever comes up in this
state again. said Deputy Marshal
Clark, the other day, II firmly believe
I shall take the stump and do every
thing in my power to make it win. No
one gets as good idea of the evils of
the drink habit as a police officer, and
it is utterly disgusting the way some
of our chronics act" The converse
ton was brought about in speaking of
the case of a young man who had
been taken home by the police. the
night before. Three or four arrests in
recent weeks, with hard working old