Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-08-22
,LOCAL COMMENT

Eldora built bridge across the Iowa
river Because it was big bridge and
required $4,000 of public subscription
money its dedication was as big an
event as that of Y. NJ. c. A. or a court
house and 1000 people attended bridge
day. The incident illustrates what
might happen in Marshalltown for
$4,000 in Eldora is as big a subscription
as $4,000 would be here. We have been
offered $4,000 worth Of cement as q
Christmas present If we will build
certain milage of cement paved road
way and in the absence Of county bonds
we will have to raise some OF the
money by subscription. 1t will not re-
quire $4,000 and yet II we should raise
that amount it would be little enough
for roads as permanently improved as
is Eldora's bridge.
Walter Merryman, formerly Of this
city, but now living in Fort Dodge, was
telling his friends in Marshalltown this
week that Fort Dodge is building q
seven-story business block to contain
a four STORY department store. Is there
q merchant here who is planning for
four-story department store. Fort
Dodge fails to roll up the registration,
vote, or school census that MARSHALL
town does, but she built her new Y. NJ.
c. A. before we did, and has just COM
pleted her Y. w. c. A. building, and
now has her department store under
construction. The evidences of growth
and Of faith in her own future are
there.
After seeing a grading contractors
gang at work moving 1000 yards per
day and loading three dump wagons
per minute on the Binford boulevard
contract the suggestion is forcibly pre-
scented that the board of county super
visors had better start out it's survey
Ing squads now, take elevations and
chart the cuts and fills preparatory TO
having all hill cutting done by contract
next year. The way this man moves
dirt is. a revelation. To contract a. whole
rowing from the experience and wis
dom Of railroad management, anyway.
Freed from the direct labor of grad
ing the county could then operate lev
elers and drags and put one man, one
horse and-wagon patrol at work upon
the bridge and culvert april caches,
something that is almost Universal
upon the state roads of eastern states
but seldom seen in Iowa.
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Mr.. T. Binford. lawyer -horticulturist !
has estranSed many California |
booster by growing Ponderosa tomato
vine in his back yard which measures
eight and a half feet from the ground. |
Mr.. Binford has had his picture taken |
while in the act Of picking tomatoes as
high up as he can reach when stand
ing. II it were not for the aversion
which he has had ever since he was a |
younger man to giving away photo |
graphs of himself promiscuously he
would let the Greater Iowa committee
publish this one alongside that Of one |
Of Wilbur Marshs $4,000 Guernseys. |
AS it is Mr.. Binford expects to celebrate |
his golden wedding in Iowa this fall
and make several Of his brothers come
back from California when he can
then show a Californian what real
tomato vine should be.
II division superintendent at Eagle |
Grove can do business up and down the
Chicago and Northwestern railway
lines with a Ford automobile on rails
and equipped with special fang ed
wheels what could we not do with an
auto bus on paved road to Grundy |
Center.
Our people should not be too harsh
upon Mr.. Farber for resigning as coun-
ty attorney just as he had the town
beautifully cleaned up. His excuse that
he did not have the time to devote to
the countys work can be better appre-
ciated when it is known that Mr.. !
Farber is remodeling a dwelling house. |
There is a suggestion to the new
automobile club in the stints performed
at the business mems picnic held at
Marietta this week. A. A. Moore
equipped his Big Six with shovels. A. F.
Balch who had accepted an invitation
to ride hastily excused himself to go
back to the bank and then climbed in
with G. H. Ruth and w. G. Stricken
whose every appearance promised an
absolute absence Of shovels, but. L. G.
Abbott and c. C. st. Clair climbed in
Moore's car with the shovels and the
perfect condition Of railroad crossings
and bridge approaches between here
and Marietta gives evidence Of the kind
of a picnic they had. c. J. McCombs
made just as much dirt fly with his
shovel but you can't find it because he
persisted in expanding all of his effort
on the approaches to the John. Tim
mons pasture.
Supposing now that some day half a
dozen auto loads Of volunteer shovelers
were sent out on each of the main roads
to Marshalltown with a definite pur-
pose to repair roads and rendezvous at
some natural park for a picnic. Wei
would get some much needed road work
done, have good time and inject some
life into the farmers along the route as
to their road work. 1t is far more
practicable than Missouri's good road
days that get 100000 men out on to the
roads all on one day.
&
Without reference to the frightful
accident of Friday evening is it no.
about time to clear our streetsaof all
merchants who mount their store
buildings on wheels and pay rent for
the use Of the public streets on5which
to conduct their business? The people
Of this town are spending $1,000 to
roN 4 ARE RI ~ AaaGEN