Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-02-27
Local Comment

| The second annual short course of
Marshall county ended today, and can
be termed success in every way. The
only disappointing feature was that
the attendance was not quite UP to
last year. While this same condition
has been found in all other short
courses,,and the second year is termed
| the critical stage of short courses, the
promoters, and others interested in the
success of the meeting, had hoped for
a gain even in attendance. The Ames
managers of the short course declare
| that the history of short courses shows
the second year to show decreases in
attendance. The first year attracts
many out of curiosity, and this once
satisfied they are content to sit around
1 in bad weather rather than come to
| town and study. It would appear to the
!layman that the one thing to do, on
the part of short course local man
| ayers, is to engage in a more systemat7
ic effort to guarantee an attendance
/ before the meeting begins. Short
course tickets beat trading stamps all
| to pieces, and merchants might be In
duced to invest in tickets as trade
stimulus. One holding ticket Is far
more likely to attend, regardless of
weather, than one who has yet his
ticket to buy. The same rule holds
good the world over.
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With three new churches planned for
Marshalltown within a month, and ex-
tensive improvements announced for a
fourth, it does not look as tho the
churches were a losing proposition in
this city,.
The Elks have financed their build
ing project, and Marshalltown bank
has invested 100000 in the building
bonds, a transaction which marks a
new era in local development BY
the arrival Of the warm days of spring
building operations will have begun.
New homes for the coming building
season are announced in the, T.-R all
most daily. Nearly every day the news
columns tell of some new family NOV
ing to town. The result, general COM
ment: "Marshalltown never looked bet
ter to me-
The Iowa Central management has
tried working night force in dts Mar
shalltown shops, and given it UP AS
unsatisfactory and not productive of
results commensurate with the cost.
The efficiency in night work is not
over about 60 per cent, the company
finds, and 1t Is an impossibility for
men to do the best work and make
time with artificial light, and espe-
cially after they have already done a
~,,Sr, IL Low iYoon
is an Industrial verify the world over.
Whether or not Billy Sunday hurts
business the fact remains that cities
want him to the tune of large sums.
Chicago offers him 100000 cash to
hold a mission there. Seattle makes
him the same offer. San Francisco
has made the offer of $250,000, to do
with as he pleases, if he will come
for five or six weeks. Fresno Cal, has
an offer of $4,000. Spokane gave him
1000 as a free will offering, but the
meetings spent $4,000 in the town US
expenses.
1t is to be hoped that when reforms
are adopted in the local street car
system, it will adopt an iron-clad rule
prohibiting young women from riding
on the front end of cars with the mo-
torman In the first place it is as nec-
essary for a motorman to keep just as
sharp an eye in running street car
as it is for an engineer of passen--
ger train. Running a car or an engine
is a business, and not a social obliga1.
ton. Secondly strangers on Marshail-
town street sars, who are not in the
habit of witnessing such sights at
home, are led to wonder what kind of
a street car line Marshalltown has.
There seems to be an extraordinary
effort on the part of our local saloon
interests to induce respectable men to
run for the city council. Now why is