Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-10-07
Local Comment

quality OF gravel imaginable for ROAD
improvement is being pumped out OF
the gravel beds underlying our Iowa
river bottoms. When screened OF sand
it can be delivered on nearby roads.
spread and rolled with ten ton steam
roller for approximately 81 per cubic
yard, or Is cents per square yard OF
road surface Eraveled to depth OF nine
| inches. The cost would not exceed ~
$40 per mile Of road when graveied
eighteen feet wide More than this the
entire river bottoms are underlaid with
the gravel so that the supply is mex
haustible. At Marietta it is being
pumped up for the sand and the city
has already purchased few car loads
as cheap as 90 cents per ton. Along
the Center street road the city's water
supply comes from this same gravel
bed at a depth Of twenty feet. Back OF
the cemetery Messrs. Flower and
! Monroe have a sand pump supplying
the paving contractors with gravel, at
the Third avenue bridge another sand
pump is sucking up gravel for the
PAYERS. there Is gravel on the city's
park land. plenty OF 1t underneath the
Country Club grounds and at Ntchol-
sons ford it crops out Of the ground
at the rivers edge. Let's build some
roads that are roads
The city council is to he commended
for the businesslike reform instituted
in Councilman Lambs department Of
finance and accounts whereby employees
are now to be paid in money while at
work on the JOB instead OF being re-
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tape in the form OF city warrants.
The mayors department. too, is do
ing its part to justify the commission
form of government when ii shows in
six months general fees Of s64s as
compared 70 $40 for the same period
Of the previous administration. Cen
eral licenses Of s1.737 as against Sl.'0i
suggest that Mayor Jore. is good
collector. His record Of fines of s4l6
as compared to only so for the same
period. are difficult to understand. but
that is what the books show. The for
Nor period must have been an easy
tine for everybody in the mayors
court not TO nave returned more than
SO in fines in six months And like
wise With the officers fees showing up
ses: for six month. this year as
gainst s44 last year would suggest
that that man Mike Clark must be a
terror 70 work. He and ii. force must
re working night and day without
sleep or else things must nave been
awful quiet before. Thi. business OF
cutting of saloon license revenue must
have set the whole official crew to
hustlinC for money as was never
known before or else the books are
more carefully kept in these days Of
the referendum and recall.
1t is pleasant news to all OF us to
learn that the villages Of the county,
Melbourne St Anthony. Albion and
Liscomb have gained in population ac-
cording to the last census. Marshall
town people want Marshaltown city
to grow and it has grown, but they can
rejoice with Marshall county as
whole IN the growth OF these thriving
towns as we'll.
Someone should relate 20 County At
torney Daily the story Of the fate of
the person who attempted TO interfere
in the fight between the lrishman and
his wife Without regard TO his legal
or technical right as county attorney
to appear in the appeal case he had
far better keep out The board Of su-
pervisors decided in favor OF the Citi-
zens Association and it is fitting that
the attorneys Who p!esoated the sa-
sociation's case should nov defend the
decision. Mr.. DAILY could not hope to
enter the case at this late date as fully
prepared as the attorneys who have
tried il once. and the people who are
trying TO Gust the saloons would not
trust him as fully as they would their
own attorneys for the reason that the
other attorneys have won the case
once Even il he is justified in law to
enter the case as county attorney he
can we'll afford to waive his rights for
the citizen. would only De forced to
intervene in order to get their own at
rorney. into the case. If the county at
torney is desirious IF attending to the
duties ef his office there will be plenty
oI opportunity before long to get after
the boorleggcrs He can he as busy on
this job as he like. and is able to give
d good account Of himself. Mr.. Daily
Will remember that one OF the most
iniquitou. features proposed In the
vas that it proposed to give the at
to1ney general Il the nation charge Of
the defense OF an appeal to the SUI
prerne court from a decision Of the in
terstate commerce commission where
as the attorneys who convinced the
commission should by all odds be the
ones 70 defend the decision. The at
torneys for the losers before the COM
mission and before the board Of super
visors gain their right to appear in
the appeal hearing by reason Of the fact
that they DO the appealing, therefore
the winners should not be compelled to
change lawyers in the middle Of law
suit.
A new factory has landed in Mar
sha!ltown. Note that a new factory has
landed in Mar.hslitown not that Mar
sha!!town has landed new factory for
the men interested have asked no ia
vors Of the community. no odds nor
consent. Having conceived the idea,
they acquired the capital and started
The fact that local capital was inter-
ested was what landed this factory in
Marshaltown and that Is the way that
ali factories must come. These that we
have got here by that route in fact
much contrary to the general impress
sion, the thing that has built Waterloo
so rapidly has not been the hot air
boosting so much as the phenomenal
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