Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-04-25
LOCAL COMMENT

AS those new street car tracks go
down on Main street wide enough apart
and heavy enough to carry interurban
cars Marshalltown Is given sugges-
ton that breeds hope. Engagements
at the power house, the gas house and
all over the property. too, suggest what
is being done for the public service
without issuing the city's bonds. We
will pay for it in the end in our rates
but we had been paying so much mere
before without getting the improve
ments. that most of us are pleased with
the new deal up to date.
The next thing will he extension OF
street car service to other PARTS of the
city and the upbuildng of new resi-
dental sections. And these things come
fast. Most of the Highview neighbor-
hood has been built within the past
seven years. All OF North Seventh
street has been improved in five years.
Almost everything south and west OF
the Arnold school has been built within
ten or eleven years and about ftteen
years ago the COWS We're turned INTO
the Electric addition tract thru gate
in front of Judge Cummings residence
property at the corner of Main ana
Tenth streets. a forty acre tract now
we'll improved to Thirteenth and north
to the soldiers home grounds. In fact
It was less than fifteen years ago that
houses first began to appear south ana
east of the old glucose works.
The present board of supervisors IS
building a public monument which Will
CONNIE morate their administration Tor
100 years or more. The boulevard
about the public square in which the
city administration participates is part
of it but the planting of the court
house lawn under the supervision or
Mr.. Rubee is the climax. The Gene
terry grounds today testify to the Wis
dom of people who did things forty
years ago and the court yard is TO
rival that beauty spot in few years
to come AS thousands of transcontl-
mental tourists from all states and
foreign lands pass down Main street
on the Lincoln highway they will mar
vel at the stately trees, the aristocrat.c
Colorado blues and the picturesque
groups of shrubbery around the coun-
tvs capitol building. Let Mr.. Rubee
make a record for himself in this work
and paint for all time to come pic
ture in natures own colors that will
perpetuate his name as no canvass
could ever do.
Dirt is 70 begin 20 move on the new
Y. NJ. c. A.. site Monday and local men
are to do the work. The policy of the
general contractors is to sublet all the
work possible to local men and the
prospects are that all of the actual
work done on this building will be done
by Marshalltown workmen. the super
vision only coming from Hannibal Mo-
Councilman w. f. Nicholson. In
charge Of streets. is looking for a com
petent man to take charge of the drag
ging of the citys unpaved streets just
as the county and townships have
of dragging The drag
ging law applies to the city az we'll as
to the county roads. Some man who
has team and can employ another
should apply for this work.
The city of Marshalltown shows up
as a business enterprise of some mag
nitude It's bonded indebtedness is
s12s,360 and its operating expense is
s133,154 per annum or very nearly
$500 for each business day. Under the
plan We elect board of
three directors to manage this bust
ness and the next move should be the
of high class business
to run the business. This is
what we would do with private enter
prise of the same r"agnitude.
A Marshalltown lady of musical
raining and refinement of judgment
SAYS that she enioyed-the Elks home
.alent minstrel fully as much as she
lid Fields professionals. 1t was an
entertaining performance.
good in it's humor and in its music and
so careful as to leave no apologies be-
1ind Regardless of what the Salvation
Army gets out of i; the people about
own have had fun enough to make IT
all worth while.