Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-10
Local Comment
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First the mayor and city council and
then the business men are once again
TO consider terms and conditions I'M
der which men are to be admitted to
the privileges of collecting gas electric
light and power rates in MARSHALL
town. Heretofore the stand taken by
the city council in its ordinance and
supported by the mayor has been a
reasonable one and it Is to be hoped
that any new deal made will be con-
sistent With the position taken in the
past. Marshalltown business interests
should welcome an interurban. Moth
ing could do so much for the extern
sion OF our manufacturing industries
as a connection with other railroads
by means of cross-cut nterurban,
While an extension of the gas plant
and street railway with cheaper power
rates would make great city out of
our town However, the rates and con-
ditions heretofore asked are reason
able and should be insisted upon.
Twelve saloons as the limit would
be vast improvement over twenty
one should 1t be true, as the mayor
says, that a majority Of the voters do
not favor none at all. However, the
suggestion OF compromise at this
time sounds like an expression of
weakness. The city council could long
ago have reduced the number to twelve
if it had been so inclined. In fact the
T.-R suggested several years ago that
it should be done to temporize with
the storm of protest which was sure
to follow and which has come, but the
council, even up to last week, has al
ways been willing to rush into extra
ordinary session to grant transfers OF
licenses from one salaried agent of a
brewing company to another under the
false and ridiculous representation
that the employee, himself. was in dan
ger of losing property which belonged
to the brewing company
That portions of the new Masoni,
temple should prove to have been gu
of plumb, is something of fraterna
!, joke. If anything is plumb it SHOULD
be a Masonic building.
, In two days this week the Times
Republican has announced the arriva
of fourteen people as new residents O
Marshalltown. Incidentally these ney
! people are looking for desirable homes
and are compelled to board and room
, with friends or relatives until thei
wants are realized Others are lookln
for homes to buy, into which they ma
4 move at once, and not be put to tn
q bother of renting and the risk of be
. ing moved out at the landlords com
e mand. The solution of the difficultie
is more new houses.
&
you can't stop Marshalltown." Tha
n might be a good slogan for the booster!
n club. Strangers in the city and travel
c ing men comment daily on the chang
s in conditions here at the present tim,
n in comparison to a few years ago. Wit
a big hole on East Main street wher
Il is being built the elegant new Elk
IL home; another on South First avenu
: about ready to receive the steel for TIL
: Imposing five-story Masonic temple
: with work about to begin on the 1925
g 600 plant of the National Denature
d Company. and directly across the stree
: VIII soon be built the new $4,000 plar
of the durham company-it is no won
e der that strangers comment on "ho'
good ,Marshalitown looks" There Al
many other improvements also unde
way. The site is now in readiness fl
the new automatic telephone exchange
J. plans are ready for the new Centr;
Church of Christ, to cost $1,000; tt
+ Baptists are closing their $4,000 fun
d for Improving their church propert,
n st. Pauls church is undergoing an q,
y tensive remodeling; and the Methe
u dists are nearing the completion
II their $4,000 expenditure The gs
company is making 100000 improve
q ment, and the pottery plant is addin
: extensively to both plant and equir
ment. The new garage of the Johnsto
> Automobile Company is finished, an
- worknen are about thru with the e,
tension to the Marshall company's ga
:, age. The addition to the Central sho,
. is under way, and the new fiat buildir
: of B. F. Cummings, on South Secor
street, Is ready for the cement veneer
ing. Then everywhere in the res
dence district the same story is told.
new houses are going up. And tods
:. a group Of capitalists have landed
y build an interurban railway IL tn.
>, can.
~ With the large amount Of work u,
J. der way it is quite natural that help
al scarce. Everywhere there is demar
n for not only skilled, but common !,
,e Dor. At least one large concern in Il
,e city is planning an Improvement
a this season, but is afraid the work w
ID have to be postponed another seast
e because Of the scarcity. Of labor. TT
Y, Men Wanted" sign is out in Marshal
t. town.