Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-02
Local Comment

| Auto accidents this week near Rein
beck and in this county all emphasize
the necessity for wider road grades. A
party of Chicago people went into the
ditch near Lamoille because they mis-
calculated the edge of the grade at
point where the road is very narrow.
! Then Mr.. Bailey wrecked his auto
| truck because with q heavy load on
down grade he could not make the turn
| with only narrow road. And al
Renbeck Mr. Bern killed his own
daughter and injured other members
! of his own family while trying to pass
F; another auto which would never have
happened had the road grade been
much wider. We are now we'll into the
age of the automobile. There are IL
censed in this state one to every square
mile of territory now with more COM
ing next year and the next. We must
build our roads for them. Our bridges
should be twenty-four feet wide and
our road grades thirty feet wide. The
weeds must be kept down where road
entertainments have been thrown up so
drivers can see where the jumping of
place is located. These things must be
done right away while we are getting
ready for grave!ed surfaces and paved
centers. Our people are being need
lessly killed for the lack Of 1t.
&
Marshalltown is to be congratulated
that the carnival failed to arrive. The
Perry Chief comments as to its APP
pearance there that The best thing
about a carnival is that it is gone"
and that is true almost universally
as 10 carnivals. They are cheap and
usually coarse if not really dirty shows
and do no good in any town. The car
nival as an institution is a good thing
for the public to freeze out. The pic
ture show which we now have with us
always is a vast improvement and
then, occasionally, we can have real
circus.
Any one driving to Chicago in an
auto will marvel at the milk industry
IN the vicinity Of Sterling and Dixon,
ILL.,, where the Borden condensed milk
plants furnish an immense market for
the product. Marshalltown stores
could reap the benefit Of double our
present population and land in Mar
shall county could receive a 80 per cent
advance in real productive vaiue ii we
could develop such a milk industry as
exists near those Illinois towns. Hol-
stein herds double and treble farm
ing population. They build immense
barns, magnificent farm homes with
we'll kept lawns in front and create an
industry that never knows crop fail
ure For a town they are worth more
than factories because they create real
factory wealth while the increased
population is usually Of the land own
ing class. II would be good invest
ment for commercial club to bonus
The Holstein COW.
We now have plumbing inspector
at $50 per month to inspect the work
of plumbers done at so cents per hour.
II it should ever SO happen that the
inspector was friend to plumbers
combination it would be an awful JOB
for an outsider to get his plumbing
passed and it might follow that the
time would come when we will have to
get along without plumbing
With automobiles lined up at the
curbs on each side of Main street and
street cars running down the center
OF the street it leaves mighty little
room for other traffic Let's get busy
at extending the pavement on South
Center SO as to provide place for
these autos. They belong mostly to
the farmers any way so the county can
we'll AFFORD to do the work.
&
What provision is the school board
making for improvement of the ath-
letic park? The fall school season Will
soon be here and thousand kids are
ready for the park now. 1t needs thing
and filling badly which we would all
like to see done as soon as possible.