Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-11-06
Local Comment

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Mr. Wilson'S talk before a mass
meeting Friday evening was as inspir-
ing and as sensible an address upon
boosting as was ever delivered, but the
Y. NJ. c. A. secretary has hit the nail
squarely on the head when he reminds
our citizens that the Searchlight Club
first discovered MIR. Wilson's talents
as lecturer and that our citizens
would not have been compelled to dup
licate or repeat the lecture had they
been boosters enough to appreciate the
opportunities which the Searchlight
Club offers. 1t is essentially business
mems club. 1t meets twice each month
for social dinner and an hour or more
of mixing" together. Then comes a
whole program of good talks like the
one by the Dies Mones man. Congress-
man Good addresses them next Tues
day. The premier of Manitoba is to
journey all the way from Winnipeg to
address them. Then comes "Lafe"
Young, and others. Any citizen who
will walk down to the Y NJ. c. A., pay
SO for the Searchight course, or take
out sustaining membership to the
Y. NJ. c. A. at 81 per month, becomes
a member Boosters ought to see their
the Wilson address.
Marshalltown now has it's first three
story store with passenger elevator
service. Fred Wilbur has led off for
Gifted equipment, In a few years an
office building or two will be erected
with elevator service. We are Just
about to outgrow two-story town.
Let the county board of supervisors
remember that, if the architects first
estimate on the cost of the hospital
for the insane now exceeds the appro-
priation, the final cost will come nearly
doubling it. The Times Republican is
'able to speak with more or less ex-
perience upon subject of this kind.
If you were tagged today for the
Y. w. c. A you probably got off with a
quarter. but if every legal voter in
this city had been tagged for the same
amount. the Y. w. c. A. would still be
short Of the necessary funds to operate.
With Young Woman's Christian AS
ISOLATION offering attractive and COM
Portable rest room accommodations in
the center of the business district a
permanent support fund Of some con-
sequence ought to be offered.
This kind of weather makes the fur
coat merchant impatient, but it fixes
the farmer so that his corn in the crib,
like money in the bank, makes collec-
tons easy
The season of year has again rolled
around when travellers out Of MARSHALL
towns union passenger station wonder
whether they will ever live to see the
day when the station platform will be
properly lighted 1t is shame that a
good town like Marshalltown, with a
nice passenger station, should have to
submit to a poor lighting service for
that station. If there were only an oc-
caSional passenger or two to arrive and
leave on trains in and out of this city
the light deficiency would not be so
noticeable, but Marshalltown is one of
the busiest railroad points in the state,
and one where a vast amount of trans
ferring is done. Eight little incan-
descent lamps under the shed of the
passenger station furnish all the light
ing for an entire block These are so
old and covered with the CRIME Of
smoke and SCOT, that they do not fur
nish nearly the amount of light that
they would ordinarily. But if they were
of extra large size, and renewed every
day, they would not be adequate for
the amount of surface they are sup
posed to cover. Women, loaded with
bundles, and sometimes carrying babies
and leading small children, stumble
around in the dark trying to find trains.
Some day there is going to be an ac-
cident, and the railroad company will
pay more in a damage suit than prop
er lighting for many years would cost
The annual holiday rush is not far dis
tant, and hundreds of strangers will be
transferred from one train to another.
They should be able to see their way
about without cropping. The Chicago
Great Western, altho not making so
many pretenses in the way of a sta
ton, has the larger Northwestern beat
en- a hundred times when it comes to
lighting it's depot platform.