Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-04-16
Local Comment
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Marshalltown will have so close to
$4,000 people when the final enumera-
ton is completed that we might as
we'll call it SO and settle it now.
The banquet of the Marshalltown
Club, While disappointing in attand-
ance considering the size Of the MEM
bership, was success for all those
who did attend 1t brought men to-
gether and they enjoyed contact with
one another 1t has always been SO
with commercial club banquets.
Some people are oecoming enthusi-
astic over the idea Of a river 20 river
good road across the state for auto
mobiles TO travel. 1t is a worthy pur-
pose but it only start in the right
direction Every one of the eleven
highways leading into Marshalltown
could be kept as smooth as race
track nine months in the year and
eight miles out in each direction for
81, 900. Beginning March ] these roads
should be dragged once every week
until July /. then once IN two weeks
until Sept Is and then once week
again until Dec. 1. The Commercial
Club should raise more than half the
money and get the land owners along
the roads 70 put in a part of it. Men
and teams should be hired by the seas
on or districts contracted TO farmers.
The Times Republican once kept
mile of highway in perfect condition
for a season and knows what the ex-
pense is. Today there is hardly road
drag in the immediate vicinity Of this
city. Why does the new club not at
tempt something practicable?
&
When a citizen of Mr.. G. F. Kirby's
long experience as a railroad engineer
and of the foremost success as a bus
mess man appears before the city
council advocating concrete paving the
average citizen and councilman should
sit up and take notice. There was
time when Mr.. Kirby might have been
suspected of personal interest ana
yet the same amount of lime stone is
always used in brick pavement with
concrete base as in a concrete pave
ment but now Mr.. Kirby has sold his
quarry business What he has to say
| is from the knowledge of man who
knows and who is free from personal
interest. He is supported on his pub
lie committee by such men as Rev.
T
and J. E. Stanton. Suppose that Mr..
Kirby and any two of these men should
constitute the commissioners for Mar
shalltown under a commission form
of governm emit, would we have an i'm
proved Administrations Would We?
Concrete paving was let in Clarinda,
Iowa. this week at $3.50 per square
yard to J. S. Mclaughlin & Sons, con-
tractors. OF Topeka, Kan 1t is men
toned have merely to show how other
towns get away from 81 per yard for
brick paving which soisie people think
is the only paving ? possible
City Engineer Steiner has offered a
| good suggestion when he proposes to
provide more lights for Main street in
| the business district. Marshalltown is
not as we'll lighted as other cities,
owing to the prohbitive commercial
rates always charged for electric lights
and anything that Mr.. Steiner can sug-
gest to overcome the difficulty should
| be welcomed.
=
| If Superintendent Mack persists in
urging that the water from the old
Pierce galleries be turned into the city's
water mains he ought to be removed
! from his office for if he is Of that mind
there will always be the danger that
| he will turn this water into the mains
| without the Formally of the councils
permission. Marshalltown is entitled
| to pure water and she has had it ever
1 since the river water and the drainage
| from the river has been kept out Of
| the mains. We do not want any moro
| typhoid fever epidemfcs. We had bet
| ter sink some more wells but the first
thing to do is to meter every water
service in town and stop the waste of
the pure water we have. Mr.. Mack
does not so intend it but he is propos-
ing what is likely to kin somebody with