Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-26
Local Comment

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The citizen who keeps neither chick
ems nor pig will line up heartily in
favor of the women's clubs latest idea
10 have some regular collection and
disposal Of garbage. 1t is service
which every we'll regulated city per-
forms for its citizens and one which
the board of health should insist upon
having done. If nominal fee of %
cents per month per can is necessary
the service is worth the price, but II
the city can handle it from general
taxation it is only completing its sewer
system when it does il.
According TO the chairman of the
/ special paving committee OF the coun-
/ ell, concrete paving such as was speci-
fed by the council last year with a
wearing surface one-third sand, one
! third granite and one-third cement and
which was laid last year in Fon du
Lac. Wis, for S1.32 per yard. is going
20 cost $50 per square yard IN Mar
shalltown this year. This is not
I prohibitive price but Mason City mas
I let her contract for concrete paving at
Sl.25 per square yard. She Cld II pE
specifying a wearing surface OF sand
and cement and with no granite. How
ever. al the price quoted this year for
flint rock f. o. b. Marshalltown, Ma
son City could have used the hard
rock chips in place of half the sand
for a net additional cost Of 6ls cents
per square yard Of pavement. This
should make the ILL pavement
s1311. al Mason City. Now, if the
lime stone in the base here costs s1.oe.
instead of Sc cents, as at Fon du Lac,
this would add ~ cents per yard more
to the cost or total of s1.3S. Ii the
council will figure close enough their
granite top pavement could be con-
tracted at s1.40 per yard. And It would
| be an excellent pavement when laid
altho the engineering department at
/ Anes has endorsed the Mason City
1 sand top, which Marshalltown with her
high priced lime stone could get for
/ $3.50.
George Herman. who is trying to
have the city provide a public market
4 place by converting the Baptist church
property, wants 10 know why 1t IS
that vote of the people is necessary
in buying a market if it was not neces-
sary in buying a stand pipe tank.
Herman says that he has no objections
10 letting the people NOSe Oi4 eAiO ma :
ket scheme but he would almost give
4 new suit of clothes TO see how they
would vote on the tank.
Marshalltown is stirred as if has never
before been stirred with a realization of
the uuitless blessing conferred upon
this community by Mercy hospital and
the corps of nurses which it main
tains Without it Monday nearly
dozen more lives would have been lost.
Without it many poor fellow injured
on the railroads or in the factories
would have died who has been nursed
back to life at Mercy hospital Many
and many a family now harbors the
tenderest of memories for the care
given some loved one by the sisters
and their nurses at the hospital and
the time has come for this community
TO rise up en- rnasse and do something
for its hospital. The elevator is needed
Patients on their way to the operating
table should no longer be carried up
and down narrow stairways- The eleVa-
tor should be built but that is not
enough. the $4,000 debt should be paid
and the interest charge stopped. The
movement now planned should broaden
and take in the whole needs.
Marshalltown has built $4,000 7.
NJ c. A Last year she built a $4,000
church and this year is building $40
600 church. Next year or even this fall
it is planned that she build another
$40, 900 church. As town she does not
owe as much to all of these enterprises
combined as she does to her public
hospital. And it is a public hospital
because every hospital conducted by
the Sisters Of Mercy is a public hos
pital. They have their own organize
ton separate. distinct and Independent
of the Catholic church. Our hospital is
a branch of the mother house at Dav-
EXPORT The head Of the Catholic
church here does not feel at liberty to
conduct a campaign for it's support be-
cause il is more of a public institution
than it is a Catholic institution. The
movement for Mercy hospital should
begin as a public movement and the
| time is now ripe for it to begin.
The time is now opportune for some
one TO open a new addition to the town
plat. Acreage sub divided into town
lots and new addition developed is
the need of the hour. Population is
becoming congested here. Rents are
going UP. We need more room. Where
is the real estate man with the ability
and the nerve?
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