Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-11-02
Local Comment

The best news that Marshalltown
people have read in many years was
the announcement this week that tho
Iowa Central car shops would be re-
built Immediately, enlarged and per-
manent. Fully 500 homes in this city
are maintained by the 100000 month
ly pay roll of this company and at
least 1000 of our people are directly
dependent upon the Iowa Centrnrs
wage. Many others feel 1t in their
business when the wages Of $50 men
are spent in the town. General Man.
ager Day deserves credit for manly
business conduct in not using the ex-
cited bids Of other towns as club
with which to exact tribute from Mar
shalltown. Business men who are ina
position to appreciate the presence of
a pay roll aggregating 100000 per
year should now do the square thing
by the Central with their freight BUS
mess.
For many years Marshalltown has
been overcoming unexpected disasters.
industrially. Its glucose factory was
closed and employment for 800 shut
off. 1t required several years for 9TH
er factories to grow and absorb the
labor The Iowa Central general Of
fees were moved away and 1t re-
.quired more years for the Central to
make up the loss in it's pay roll which
1t has done and better. Then the
Rhoades- Carmean Buggy Company
failed and it required some time to
start the factory under a new COM
pany. 1t would seem as tho MARSHALL
town had been filling up one hole as
fast as some unexpected misfortune
would dig another and yet houses have
been built all the time and filled up
with families and today the city is
larger than it ever was before, with
more people employed. If anybody
should start new employment for
twenty-five men somebody would have
to build more houses in which they
might live. So it seemed that the city
was at the very moment of expansion
The fire came to the Iowa Central and
out of the smoke came news of newer
and larger shops. Nothing can hold
the old town back now, interurban or
no interurban, and we may get that
too.
A reader of this paper has written
a communication which covers the
milk inspection matter more fully
than could be done in a column of
space. When men talk about a Slip
fee being permitted to threaten every
family in town with consumption I'M
patience is difficult to restrain. AS
basis for higher prices for milk it be-
comes ridiculous.
Marshalltown people have lost a
kind friend, an able man and strong
force from their community this week
in the departure of Rev. e. b. Jones
from the pastorate of the Baptist
church to a similar position at Cedar
Falls. DR.. Jones has been a preacher
Of strong sermons in MarshalltoWn.
He has been the kind Of preacher
that business men liked to know and
to talk with. Both he and his wife
have made their influence felt socially
much above the average. His brother
preachers have given him a dinner to
evidence their appreciation of his work
and their regret at parting, but it re-
mains for the newspaper to speak for
the Marshalltown public and say that
DR.. Jones' work here has accomplished
results. His personality has been en-
joyed and admired Marshalltown
people are sorry to have him move
away.
The growth of the Marshalltown
public library during the past few
months being remarkable is a strong
commentator for our city. Intelli-
gence and education among a people
will solve almost all of our problems
and difficulties and after one leaves
the graded school the library re-
mains the one great educator of the
community. If we could be as
sured that every citizen was regular
patron Of the public library we would
need have no fear for the republic or
its institutions and we would be as
sured that as q people we were fast