Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-09-23
REPUBLICAN, MARsHALLIOwN IOWA.

acute demand for rooming houses and
apartment houses. In fact anybody
With vacant lot to sell had better
put up house of some kind and 1t vii!
be sold before the plaster is dry. That
has been the experience OF j. L. VIII
liams with the houses he Is building on
| South Second Avenue. He originally
planned two cottages to rent and to
remodel the old home mansion. Work
| men are Still! at work on them and one
cottage is sold with q deal pending for
the other and tenants are waiting fo-
f.! the large house TO be completed.
| With profit OF nearly $4,000 earned
and ready to be invested in improve
ments the county tair board can shake
hands with itself over its success in
putting on a popular fair. Now that
it has the money there should be moth
ing 10 proven, ample extensions Of the
amphitheater at both ends for next
year Altogether TOO many people were
unable 10 see the entertainments this
year 10 allow this condition to prevail
much longer
For the Country Club to move to a
site near the street car line is but a
step in the progress Of a greater Mar
Shutdown The present grounds nave
been occupied for nearly fifteen years.
Little did the original promoters think
that their club was to last that long
when they planned it and had they
bought their ground then at $50 per
acre their profit today would build the
needed street car line of their own or
would reproduce their entire equipment
o. i'm provements upon a new site. Inc
thing to do now is to build for the fu-
ture and buy the ground, Expense OF
moving should be viewed in the light
OF another fifteen years use. II 1t Is
necessary TO move 70 the west end OF
town. move but locate on street car
line where twice the present member
shin can be accommodated and II pos
sib,e plan for an artificial lake with
boating lagoon and bathing or wading
beach for the kids.
The city council is now discussing a
public improvement which will serve as
a monument to the useful public SER
vice Of the present administration, II
Il is contaminated. of scarcely less I'M
portance than the boulevard AROUND
the court house square. 1t is nothing
more than a public comfort station.
Public lavatories have long been need
ed in this town. This newspaper mas
mentioned the fact repeatedly for many
years and Ed Mack once had plan TOT
the city to build an architecturally or
namentai building of stone south o. the
court house in the court yard Dut inns
would involve too great an expenol-
ture. The place for public lavatorles
is in the basement of the public's own
building, the court house. Ihere IS
nlenty of room where the council
chamber once was and another en-
trance could be provided on the east
side The county should furnish the
room and the ianitor service under the
supervision OF the rest room matron
and the city should install the plumb
ing and provide police regulation Tor
anv abuse of the place. We nave at
last secured public comfort stations at
the fair grounds let's now have one IN
the court house.
The increase in road monies carries
with il an increase in responsibility
on the part of the board Of super
visors 10 expend the money wisely A
complete survey of the Lincoln High
way should be made this fall ana pro-
files for permanent road bed prepared
and the necessary grading. cutting on
sharp turns and bridging should De
started in the spring. The board shonid
! not be backward about asking for 40
atoms of team labor ana lana at the
corners either. for the paving OF th!s
road will advance the value OF every
quarter section of land along the roao
not a cent less than $4,000 each. Prep
aration also should be made for gray
cling other roads. The city's discoV-
erv OF a gravel bod on the Center street
road merely confirms the theory that
the Iowa river valley is practically nh
derlaid with fine road building gravei.
The city found it there for Its city wei
water. 1t is being pumped up at Mar
iet.a. North Third avenue and is known
to exist at the East Main street bridge.
4 systematic plan should be laid out
for three years ahead and work started
on road Improvements which VIII ag-
crexate 100000 in the three years
Taxes are due this month and must
! he paid or the delinquents will be aa-
vertised and penalties charged. Tax
PAYERS should get out their last springs
receipts, note the total tax thereon
subtract the amour, paid them and the
h,,,,oo -,-il1 nc tho n9vne0t due now.