Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-20
Local Comment

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Observation-Disclosures
No end of labor and large sums OF
money are being spent to hold an eN-
perience meeting of instructive value
to farmers at next weeks short course
1t now remains to be seen how many
farmers have enterprise enough to
attend a convention devoted to their
own business. Hardware men travel TO
distant cities to attend the conventions
OF their class; so do the doctors, tho
lawyers, the lumbermen. the grocers
the coal dealers. the BARRIERS. the edi-
tors and engineers. Why not the farm
erS?
We will now give the ambitions of
local statesmen just four weeks In
which to rise and fall. Candidates for
mayor for two councilmen- at-large
and for one from each ward are want
ed 1t is to be hoped that we will not
have to advertise for men.
The paving OF Thirteenth street to
the soldiers home gate would be de-
cided public improvement. This street
has been almost impossible for five
months in the year and 1t connects i
village of over 1000 inhabitants with
the city OF Marshalltown. Concrete
paving at maximum cost of $1.25 per
yard with a seven foot strip in the
center paid by the street railway COM
pany, would not prove a 'burdensome
expense to any property owner. In fact
there ought to be a general paving
movement this spring. West Church
street should be paved, also North
Seventh street, North Second street by
all means, and several blocks on Sec
ond, Third, Fourth, Fifth and Seventh
streets should be paved. connecting the
pavements on Church and State
streets. There is block on Jerome
from Fourth to Fifth streets that
ought to be paved and 1t is possible
that Park street. property owners
from Third to Fifth would like
ito have paving. Let's do some paving
this year.
The subscription paper for stock in
the new public service corporation mas
been left at the First National Bank,
where investors in a gilt edged enter
prise can sign for stock. 1t ought not
to be necessary to canvass the town
for stockholders in a venture Of this
kind. 1t has merit enough to command
several $4,000 subscriptions and bank
ers have said that the stock would
have value enough at the outset to b9
good as collateral on loans to individ-
uals. idle capital which ought to be at
work should seek an investment of this
kind. '-'--,---. !.
The gentlemen who are starting a
discovered long felt want. There is
trail point like Marshalltown to oper-
ate mill employing 60 to 100 work
men. Cedar Rapids, Dubuque. Clinton,
Davenport, Muscatine, Des Moines. all
have them, why not Marshalltown? All
1t requires is management and capital.
There appears at present to be an
era of hotel building in Iowa. Many of
the larger cities have recently built,
or are planning to build, fine hotels
that would do credit to even larger
cities. Some Of the smaller towns are
also falling into line noticeably Ames,
that has just organized a $4,000 local
stock company for hotel. If Mar
shalltown's rapid growth, now in prog
ress, is going to continue, 1t will not
be long until a new hotel is going to
be a good investment here. A fine
modern hotel, conducted as it should
be, is one of the very best advertise
ments town can have.
The Herald, Of this city, urges local
capitalists to build or buy an electric
light and gas plant, saying: Gas the
case now stands, the net earnings of
the corporation, and they are very
large, are taken out Of the community,
and the drain on the financial re-
sources of the city since the present
owners of the plant have been oper-
ating it would amount to a handsome
fortune and would have done an inn
mense amount Of good had they re-
NAMED in town and entered into the
avenues Of trade. All public service
corporations should be owned in the
community where they are operated,
not only for the reason that the money
is kept at home, but when the enter
prise is operated by local men they are
interested in the upbuilding of their
town and take pride in its growth
and expansion, and will therefore be
more likely to extend the service and
keep it up to the needs Of the commu-
nifty, and this the foreign corporation
will never do. It Is solely interested in
getting all the money possible out Of
the business with the least possible
outlay. This is the situation Marshall
town has been up against with refer
ence to the street car, light and gas
service for good many years. The
ownership of the street railway, light
and gas company, lodged in a local
corporation, is an absolute essential
to the future growth and development,
or if not in a local company then in a
company that will be obliged to give
frst-class service at reasonable
rate"
Count the cups and count the cost.
Much is saved by using "Salada' Tea.
Sold only in sealed lead packets to pre-
native ,,urif1y and delicious