Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-01-27
Big Festival Week Will Be Held
Beginning Feb. 2, and Last
ing Over the 9Th
CHURCHES LEND ASSISTANCE
Ladies' Aid Society Will Serve Meals,
and Schools ond People Of Town Will
Provide Entertainment - Fire De-
partment Thirty three Years Old
Water Problem Solved.


it's big firemen's fair and festivals,
which will take place at the opera
house at State Center next week, Feb
2 to g. inclusive. Every five or six
years the fire department of the town.
which is made up of about forty OF
the younger business and laboring men,
put on one of these money raisers,
the proceeds Of which go to better the
fire protection of the town.
Probably no town in Iowa Of the
size Of State Center can boast of as
good and efficient fire protection. In
1875 the volunteer department was or.
ganized and for thirty-three years the
greatest enthusiasm has been shown
in adding to the protection from time
to time. The citizens have always re-
sponded literally when called on to
aid the cause, with the result that at
the present time the town has nearly
twenty blocks of water mains, and L.
200 feet of standard hose, enabling the
reaching of almost any dwelling inside
the city limits. A steam pressure pump
at the electric light plant puts on city
pressure at a moments notice. and two
hose carts, each having a separate
company, handle the hose Besides
these a chemical cart and hook and
ladder truck, with a fifty-foot extern
sion ladder, are kept in readiness at
all times.
Water Problem Solved.
Recently the city council solved the
water question by sinking large we'll.
twenty-five feet deep and sixteen feet
In diameter, just at the west outskirts
of the town, striking an abundance of
water which is pumped to the city
supply tank by an electrically driven
pump Of the latest model. For all this
the fire department has supplied
great majority of the funds, raised
mostly by firemens fairs, such as is to
be held next week.
The committee having the present
fair in charge consists of b. c. White
hill, E. L. Hansen, L. F. Rohde, l.. H.
Schaper and J.. E. Malloy, and it I'll
ready feels greatly elated with the sue
cess 1t has had thus far, the cash do
nation list alone having gone above the
500 mark.
Churches Contribute to Success.
The fair proper will start next Tues
day, when dinner and supper will be
served by the ladies of the Methodist
church. On Wednesday the Presbyter-
ian ladies will do the work, and on
Thursday the ladies of the German
Lutheran church will serve one of their
famous German diners and suppers. On
each evening an entertainment will be
given by the different grades of the
school, assisted by the ablest enter
tanners Of the town.
The booths will be supplied with all
the fancy work that the ingenious
needleworkers Of the town can devise,
and wholesale houses doing business
with State Center merchants have do
mated most literally to this department
of the fair.
On Friday the floor of the hall will
be cleared, and all preparations made
for the great dremens ball that even
ing A big feature Of this ball will
be the basket lunch in which each lady
attending the dance will be invited to
bring basket, filled with lunch for
two, which will be sold at auction and
the maker OF the basket bringing the
highest price will receive as a prize
one Of the most valuable donations of
the fair.
State Center is extending a cordial
invitation to everyone to join the peo-
pie Of the town in their week Of mer-
riment, and already several people
from this city are making plans to at
tend. The train service could not be
better, as everyone attending from
can go to State Center at
5 o'clock and return at 1880.