Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-09-03
Local Comment

| When the board of supervisors and
| city council come TO the point of de-
! terminng the channel to be dug in
order to straighten the river just above
the dam, they should seize upon an
! opportunity to give Marshalltown
beautiful drive as an extension OF Its
park system. BY digging chanrel
| south of the present river bed the dirt
excavated would form broad dixie
| 100 feet wide or more along the shore
of thu new channel. Let Mr.. S. w.
Rubee, of the cemetery association, lay
out the new channel with some grace
full curves and landscape the boule-
ward An automobile speedway on one
side and carriage drive on the other
with trees and clumps Of shrubbery
and 81 lawn extending down to the
waters edge would make a beautiful
! spot for public recrea ton. In time this
! channel could be widened by public
subscription the old channel preserved
| and an artificial lake dotted here and
| there with wooded islands formed. Tho
old mill is coming down. \ park circle
should be formed where it stands. 1t
would then be but a step to the north
west corner of the cemetery. Let the
new riverside boulevard extend past
the pumping station TO the cemetery
grounds. thence thru the cemetery
long that picturesque drive under the
bluffs and out at point on Third
| avenue very close to the city park Or
what would be better still: let the city
purchase right of-way for continue
alton of the river front boulevard with
| its trees and grass and ornamental
shrubbery all the way along the river
| down to the city park and, in years to
-, Pi,oTn-5 riy7hnr
| to the Country Club. This is the
dream of Councilman Clark and has
been O.k.'d by Mr.. G. F. Kirby which
| is a guarantee of its practicahility.
All of us can not always agree With
Mr. Clark's public policies but in this
one Clark is certainly on the right
track
The general impression that there
is very little money in Marshal!town
I seeking investment is about TO re-
ceive a serious jolt from the experience
of the Lennox Furnace Company, which
has found d cash sale for almost halt
of its 100000 issue of 7-per cent pre-
ferred stock in about ten Gays time. NO
one has been personally solicited TO
buy. The company sent out It's CIR
culars and after thoroughly Investigate
ing it Messrs. French and Turner
agreed to offer it for sale TO their
clients All purchases We're made VOL
unfairly and several Of the most care
full investors in the city took some very
large blocks of it. The time will come
when every successful manufacturing
enterprise soundly financed can ma All
Of the additional capital il needs in
Larsha!ltoWn TO conduct its business.
Eldora this week let contract for
twelve blocks of concrete paving at
1886 per yard. The successful bidder
was the sa me firm that is now laying
concrete paving in Usage at Sl.39 per
ward and it is the same firm that was
in Mars haIltown expecting to bid on
concrete paving but went away with
out bidding because the specifications
We're loaded with requirement for a
$4,000 bond with every bid before the
contract had been awarded. Loaded
specifications With a hostile admins
tratioa at the trigger did not look in
wiling in Marshalltown, but at Eldora
the price is 1886.
The fact that the Marshalltown pub
lie schools Won the second prizes for
general and industrial exhibits at the
Iowa state fair should be a source of
much satisfaction not only to the
teachers and pupils but to the public
in general. Marshalltown was in COM
petition in the display with the numer-
Gus Iowa cities having population
over 1000. and in this large number
the capital OF the state, furnishing Its
exhibit at nome and at a minimum ex-
pense and risk of damage. was the only
city which excelei Marshalltown. The
awards at the state fair in the school
display pay a fine compliment to the
Marshalltown schools their superin-
tendent teachers, and pupils.
Ny Brown, an advertising expert,
who has paid close attention for sew
eral years 10 advertising in general
and municipal advertising in particu-
lar told Marshalltown business men
this week why they should advertise
their town, and how to go about it, In
cidentally MI Brown told the business
men that he could tell who We're the
live business men Of Marshalltown by
glancng at its daily papers. In other
words the live merchants are the ones
who are doing the advertising; the
others are content simply to exist.