Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-02-21

Greene county have offered the board
| Of supervisors 5000 Of donation money
| and the board has agreed to appro-
pirate half OF its entire county road
money for this year. or $4,000, which
will make $50, 900 to be spent on the
Lincoln Highway thru Scranton. JEFF
ferson, and Grand Junction this year
1t is. their plan to put that road to
perfect railroad grade twenty feet
| wide. ready for permanent hard sur
facing. Boone county, next east, and
Story county, next east Of Boone, put
| their Lincoln Highway to grade last
year. having spent $4,000 Of local
money and $4,000 bonus received from
the national government In the two
counties. This brings the improved
grade across three counties and up to
| the Marshall county line. Tama, east
Of us, put part of her Line DIN Highway
to grade last year. and will complete
it this near. Out near Council Bluffs
they purpose to cut down one big hill
at cost Of $4,000. 1t is UP to our
local boosters to be doing something for
Marshall countys section of this ma
tional highway, for it is now estimated
that 10000 automobiles will travel the
Lincoln Highway in 1915. If this is
true it will mean 900 tourists per day
passing thru Marshalltown. about the
average travel Of one interurban car
each way on two-hour schedule.
1t is time the women's club and
the mothers clubs of this city eN-
pressed their minds to the school board
as to a new building in the First ward.
/ The board wants to do what the public
wants done, but the board is too timid
in asking for money enough to do the
best for the future. Marshalltown has
outgrown it's high school unless the
grades are housed in a new building.
The new building which is to be
erected will serve Marshalltown for
fifty years, and it will cost the tax
payers approximately per cent per
annum. What will Marshaltown be in
fifty years? 1t is certain that the city
will grow, and in time wings must be
added to the present high school build
ing It would be folly now to place
ward school on the present lot and
have it in the way of high school ex-
ransion.
Practically every village in this
county is consolidating rural schools
with it's town schools. Marshalltcwn
must do the same. and that will mean
r1"re grade school buildings and more
high school accommo dations. Every
city of any consequence in the United
States is providing Fairgrounds around
its school buildings. Marshalltown,
with the best school system in the
United States. can't lag behind as to
Fairgrounds. What the present schon!
boar does in locating building viii!
never De changed, hence the crisis is
here now.
Let more grounds be provided in the
same block with the high school. There
are six lots north to be had, and place
the new building there. L this prop
erty is prohibitive, acquire a square
block of ground between Third and
Second avenues, north Of Lincoln, or
secure a square block from Mr. Bin
ford on the knoll al the corner Of Third
avenue and Marion street. Either Of
these sites would front on the new
boulevard and park which is to extend
to the city park. When the First ward
grows It's only outlet is TO the east and
north, and even on the corner of the
Binford farm the school building would
be located four blocks from the ex-
IRENE western limits of the district and
five blocks from State street on the
south. 1t would in fact become the
center Of school population for its dis
.r!ct in very few years. Grinnell
College. with 500 students. enjoys forty
acres of beautiful campus in the heart
Of its city. Des Moines College within
the past week has purchased forty
acres in Des Moines for athletic
grounds, in addition TO its college
campus. and it has less than 400 stu
dents The Marshalltown high school
now has 500 students, and they are
entitled to at least three acres for
campus even if they do have to chase
down to the fair grounds for their
games.
Marshalltown is to have baseball.
having taken her place as a member
OF the Central association. hired
manager, and secured grounds. Base
ball is the standard outdoor amuse-
ment in this country, the best liked
and widely understood of all the sports
that have been CONNIE ,cialiZed. 1t is
good clean amusement. and if any
professional sport is worth the money
baseball Is the one. II. has stayed clean
while other professional sports have
degenerated Ii is a democratic sport.
MarshaItcwn was always baseball
town, from the days of the famous
| team that. spres the proves of Mar
shailtewn across a continent and pro-
duced for the future comnsercialization
of the sport that sturdysoid veteTan OF
the aIncFi, Arson. and th9t Sex-
cellen and speedy player 80 II now
hittinft ose $50 as an yangelist-
! Billy Sunday. The tdwI a,As plenty
to live up TO an baSebs Keep the
game clean krons and attractive