Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-07-10
Local Comment
Observation-Disclosures.

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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
I der which men are to be admitted 10
1 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 il 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 interurban.
while an extension of the gas plant
and street railway with cheaper power
rates would make great city out Of
ditions heretofore asked are reason
able and should be insisted upon.
Twelve saloons as the limit would
be vast Improvement over twenty
one should it be true, as the mayor
says, that a majority Of the voters do
not favor none at all. However, the
suggestion of a compromise at this
time sounds like an expression of
weakness. The city council could long
ago have reduced the number to twelve
if il had been so inclined. In fact the
T.-R. suggested several years ago that
il should be done to temporize with
the storm of protest which was sure
10 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 employe. himself was in dan
ger of losing property which belonged
to the brewing company.
That portions of the new Masonic
temple should prove to have been gu
of plumb, is something of a fraterna
joke. If anything is plumb it shoule
be a Masonic building.
, In two days this week the Times
Republican has announced the arriva
Of fourteen people as new residents 0
+. Marshalltown. Incidentally these nev
people are looking for desirable homes
!, ana are compelled 10 board and robin
!, With friends or relatives until thei
: wants are realized. Others are lookin
: for homes to buy, into which they ma
a move at once. and not be put to tn
. bother of renting and the risk of be
q ing moved out at the landlords com
q 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
II club. Strangers in the city and travel
6 ing men comment daily on the chang
3 in conditions here at the present tim
n in comparison to a few years ago. Wit
a a big hole on East Main street, whe7
II is being built the elegant new Elk
II home; another on South First avenu
l. about ready TO receive the steel for tt
l. imposing five-story Masonic temple
J. with work about to begin on the 1925
le 0t0 plant of the National Denature
ID Company, and directly across the sire
= will soon be built the new $4,000 rla,
O1 ItC i1dIs-ll Is no WO1
lie der that strangers comment on mo
good Marshalltown looks" There a
many other improvements also und
way. The site is now in readiness f
the new automatic telephone exchang
e. plans are ready for the new Centr
Church of Christ, to cost 100000; Il
s. Baptists are closing their $4,000 ful
oil for improving their church propert
IN St. Paufs church is undergoing an e
" tensive remodeling; and the Meth
ne dists are nearing the completion
nj their 10000 expenditure The z
+ company is making a $4,000 improv
I'd ment and the pottery plant is addil
=, extensively to both plant and equi
D. ment. The new garage Of the Johnst
- Automobile Company is finished, al
., workmen are about thru with the e
n tension to the Marshall company's ga
% age The addition to the Central sho
81 is under way and the new fat buildi
- of B. F. Cummings, on South Seco
street, is ready for the cement venee
ing. Then everywhere in the re-
dence district the same story is tol6
new houses are going up. And tod
a group Of capitalists have landed
'' build an interurban railway II til
,rs can.
low With the large amount Of work U
N. der way it is quite natural that help
nal scarce. Everywhere there is a dema
,ch for not only skilled, but common
The Dor. At least one large concern in
the city is planning an Improvement
v this season, but Is afraid the work '
md have to be postponed another seas
ie- because Of the scarcity Of labor. 7
ay Men Wanted sign is out in Marsha
,ti- town.