Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-08-17
Local Comment

Councilman Herman. with daughter
of manageable age, is now accused by
the bachelors.
Al good indication that Superinten-
dent Palmer, of the public schools
considers Marshalltown real estate a
good investment, lies in the fact that
the superintendent will be the first
one since the late C. p Rogers to have
home of his own. School jobs are
so uncertain in this age that a school
man hardly considers it worth while to
make an investment in the town In
which he happens to be temporarily
located. Not so with Mr.. Palmer, how
ever. He believes in having his own
home while he is here, and will trust
to fortune that he will remain in Mar
shalltown a little longer than some OF
his predecessors. If he doesn't he be-
lieves that his investment will prove
good one, in view of the prospective
rise in property values.
II
II the city council could only realize
that a great deal of useless discussion
takes UP more valuable time at its ses-
ten reach home before the hour at
which respectable people are supposed
to be in bed. At the last meeting 1T
was IL: 80 in the morning before the
council adjourned, a session four and
one-half hours in length. There is not
enough business talk and too mucn
harrangue for a session of a business
body. For instance, Herman's bach
elors' license ordinance, while joke,
required as much time to dispose of it
as tho it were bona fide statute.
Altho it took the council an; hour to
dispose of the overhead sign ordinance,
still there is no ordinance le-
gally adopted, even tho it was
declared adopted, and the title agreed
to. In order to suspend the rules, pass
an ordinance to subsequent readings,
and dispose of it in one evening, a
three-f ourths vote is required, which
would mean eight of the ten votes of
the council There were but eight
members present Monday night, and
one of these voted against the sus-
pension AS it now stands, the ordf-
nance is only on its first reading.
Mayor Ingledue declared before the
council this week that the weeds,
chickens, dogs, and pigeons within the
city We're a source of more trouble to
him than all other city matters put
together How about Kennedy's goat?
"
1t is up to the school board to adopt
strict regulations as to admittance of
children yet in the communicative
stage of whooping cough. Carelessness
in this will endanger the health of
hundreds of children who have escaped
so far and will bring into many a home
a curse and a terror which few can
realize until they have had from one
to three cases. A rule should be laid
down and physicians certificate de-
manded
One Marshalltown man recently in
vested $4,000 in wild land as a specu-
lation. If he could have put that sum
into a Marshalltown manufacturing en-
terprise he would have added employ
ment for twenty men, created de-
nland for twenty houses and sent Wom-
en- to the stores for purchases to the
amount of $1,000 per month. IL the
Marshalltown men who are now in
vesting in land far from home would
all invest in Marshalltown in the pro-
portion of three parts factories to one
part city real estate, the three parts
would SO boom business and real estate
as to make millionaires out OF some
OF them and fortunes for all of them.