Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-12-17
Local Comment

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| If it shall prove true that the officers
have at last caught the persons who
have been stealing mail pouches from
the station trucks and mail wagons 1t
Is to be hoped that the transfer OF mail
will be improved for there has not been
time in years when there has been so
much trouble with the dispatch OF mail
to the trains leaving this city. Amid
the changing OF baggage men and of
wagon drivers and with crooked work
going on the confusion in the dispatch
Of mails has been exceedingly and un-
precedently annoying.
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The State Center commercial club
ought not to stand in the way OF i'm
provenents a t the county fair which
are designed for the comfort and con-
venience Of all the people. The patron
age Of the county fair does not come
from Marshalltown. That has been
fully demonstrated at the gates. The
people who attend the fair are largely
from State Center and other towns of
| the county including the farms lying
adjacent These people are most Wit
ally interested in agricultural exhibits.
The suggestion that the board of sup
ervisors build a public comfort station
with county money was made in the
meeting by a State Center man, Mr.
Wentworth. and carried unanimousIs
in a meeting in which two thirds Of
those voting resided outside OF Mar
shalltown II the State Center business
y, t. II
investigation they would see the wis
dom of their fellow townsman's sugges-
ton.
Who would ever have thought that
Central left Marshalltown the Office
building would ever a-ain be filed with
railroad workers but now the old rock
cry is very largely occupied by the
Gesks Of division officers Of the road
of the road II Marshalltown has far
exceeded what it was when the general
offices We're here owing to increases
in shop employment bat row il seems.
we are to have the Office building itself
filed as before.
1t is to be hoped that the city coun-
ell this wear Will make some provision
for the disposal Of garbage about town.
.rarshaltown has grown far enough
into the likeness OF city to have a
garbage problem which. while small. is
nevertheless exceedingly annoying 20
those who dwell on single city lot or
less. II garbage car be hauled away
for 70 cents per north or less the SER
vice would be worth the price to many
a householder
The Marshallto~n Club held smoker
Friday evening and it is needless to say
It was a success. Commercial club ban
auets in Marshall.own have always
been successes when held and many
have been held ia times past The
only trouble has been that they were
too few and too far between. No par
tieular purpose other than to get to-
sether for good time with traffic men
seemed to inspire the smoker and. of
course. no specific object, Of large mo-
ment, was obtained but our business
and professional! men came together.
spent pleasant evening. entertained
some bright and able railway officials
and felt good over il. In future opera :
lions of their roads by the high officials
present and in the years to come when
these travelling freight agents have
been promoted to positions of authority
II the railroad world remembrance of
On evening spent in Marshallfown NAV
help to enlarge the spot our city makes
upon a railroad map. 1t has alrea dv
promised a brighter light at the union
station for our travelling public and
RAY result in saving a life from acci-
dental death.
There are only two weeks left now
before we will learn again why the
city council is unable 10 obtain from its
superintendent OF mains and sewers the
charts of pipe construction which are
required by ordinance and which should
be on file The city employs city
engineer at 500 per month who is a
surveyor ard craftsman and who offers
to prepare the maps on city time free of
extra cost. The Superintendent OF
n aims at 800 per month claims to have
the data in his possession. II the
mayor would give the command the
superintendent of mains would cough
up his data the city engineer would
draw the maps and the city would Sc
cure the records which it ought to have
| and which every we'll regulated city
does have II the superintendent Of
mains really has the data why does not
the mayor order 1t recorded upon maps
and whether he has the data or not why
does not the mayor see to it that the
superintendent OF mains performs the
work for which he was employed?
What hold has Mack upon the mayor,
anyway, that he can defy with impug-
nifty all demand to do the work specifi-
cally required by ordinance adopted six
years ago and repeated several times