Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-02-10
Local Comment

A good time to test the motor truck
for fire service would be on the un.
paved streets during the last OF MaSca.
II 1t can do business then it always
can.
The school election on March II
should not be overlooked. Two exceed
ingly competent and valuable directors
will retire In the persons OF J. L. Car
ney and c. c. st. Clair. and their posi-
tons should bs filled with care.
q
II State Center should suddenly land
q factory employing seventy-five men
the enthusiasm OF iier Boosters would
know no bounds. town lots would jump
in price. and there would be . boom
on for sure. but the pay roll would
not exceed the $4,000 paid out this
last year by her creamery for cream to
nearby farmers, such 10 the value OF
a creamery as an industry to town.
At least two townships are organised
and ready for next springs road drag
sins as required by law. and 1t II prob
able that more Of the trustees have
taken action than have been reported
to this newspaper. The new statute
requires that trustees shall meet on
the first Monday in February and APP
point a superintendent Of dragging.
and If any Of them have failed to COM
ply with the law in this respect 1t
would be we'll for them to meet right
away and do their duty. Farmers in
.erested in having their roads dragged
next summer should have a friendly
talk with their township trustees about
getting ready for the work as the law
provides.
The letter Of the Waterloo building
and loan secretary suggests one Of the
things that has helped to double that
city's population in twelve years. With
four loan associations carrying over
100000 on homes built by the owners.
and being paid for on the ten-year in
stallment plan. the building and loan
associations must have had a great
deal to do with the growth Of that city.
A wage worker can start without
cent by taking out twenty shares III the
Marshalltown Savings and Loan Asso-
citation at so per month At the end
Of three years the association will loan
the money is used to buy house and
lot or build home. and mortgage Is
given on the new home. BY keeping up
the payments Of $40 per month on the
shares for about seven years longer.
and by paying the interest on the
money borrowed, the whole loan will
be paid and the home free OF debt
when the shares mature. which Will
be in about ten years from the time
they were first taken out. In the long
run the interest cost will be less than II
borrowed on a straight loan at current
mortgage rates.
The Chicago & Northwestern Rail
way Company is making a needed i'm
provement to its passenger station by
redecorating the interior which neces-
sarily becomes smoke begrimed from
so many passing trains. Now II the
powers that be will only instruct the
local agent to replace the cuspidors in
the mems waiting room. so that to-
bacco chewers and spitters will not use
the floor, another progressive step will
be noted with a law of the state
board of health effective prohibiting
the use of public drinking cups on
trains, it would seem that big rail-
road like the Northwestern should also
be willing to provide a sanitary waiting
room for its patrons at an important
transfer point like this city. 1t is any
thing but sanitary, however, when the
dust from a spittle covered floor Is
breathed into the lungs of patrons, and
taken into the threats Of babies who
play about the floor while their par
ents are waiting for late trains.