Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1914-01-10

That u the way Greene county got tts
roads graveled long before the new
highway law was enacted. The farm
ers did the work for $3.50 per day
for man and team. The people OF
Marshall county who are to benefit
from special projects OF road building
should meet the board part way ana
get county money spent In their To-
cality by meeting voluntarily the spec
ial benefit to themselves in the i'm
provement. When streets are paved
in town the special benefit is assessed
to the nearby property and In many
states special districts are created LOT
the assessment Of the special benefit
in rural road improvements.
The boosters of ,Marshalltown should
set I'D and take notice of the Rhodes
way and get busy themselves.
Rhodes can raise $1,000 for one road
Marshalltown and vicinity ought TO
raise $4,000 for ten roads. That much
money alongside of county money
would begin a system Of graveled ROADS
or roads with paved centers out OF TINS
city which would be worth while. IN
the meantime State Center winch
wants the Lincoln Highway cut thru
those hills on the south route hao
better catch the Rhodes idea and go 10
If Sam Myers is hard man TO peat
when it comes to improving ROADS.
1t is disclosed in the affairs OK
'Twenty-five Years ASo in Marshaii-
town." that there was pubic agi.a
ton then for d new high school build
- O. a
high school. When the building was
afterwards erected it was made a COM
bination Of high school and lower
grades but today the wisdom OF the
former suggestion has been vindicated
for the school board finds itself face
to face with an urgent necessity tor
more high school room with no place
to send the younger pupils who now
occupy portion OF the high school
building. The new Franklin school
will be filed without fully relieving the
congestion in the other ward buildings
but the same growth of the school
population which makes additional
ward schools necessary also produces
it's proportion of increased high school
population and this concentrates upon
the one high school building. new
ward school must be built soon to take
care of the lower grades now occupy
ing the high school building and the
high school will have to be devoted en-
tirely to high school classes. When
this Is done the school board should
see to it that the new ward school
occupies a full block of ground with
ample play grounds around it. Inc
time has come when play grounds
about a school building are as essen
TALLY part of it's equipment as the ven
tilating shafts and the blackboards.
Let US not repeat the mistakes OF the
mast after we have lived long enough
to know what they are.
Mr.. Stricklers progress in charging
his store room equipment will be
matter Of civic pride to US all as 1t
but sets forward one Of the units
which go to make up town. Most OF
us would like to have seen him occupy
two stores and few OF US even would
have liked to see him reach out for
q. Ave story block on the Abbott corner
but we are going to be content with
what he has done for the man who In
vests his own money is somewhat In
dependent Of the rest Of US except
when he builds new building, then
he must accept advice from all sides
for he can't very we'll get away from
It, However, the magnificent SIX story
building almost completed in Waterloo
for Mr.. Blacks new store and covering
a. quarter of a block Of ground makes
Marshalltown envy her neighbors her
merchant who has the nerve to DO
big thing. Black got his start as
merchant in Marshalltown but Water
loo gets his six-story stock of mer-
chandise. Who is going to be the mer-
chant prince for Marshalltown?
The production Of poultry at the
county farm illustrates what can pc
done toward reducing the cost or Nv
ing on a farm. 1t is endorsed by the
wife of a we'll known farmer in Liberty
township who raises 500 chickens or
more each year and keeps the family
while all the net returns from the rest
of the farming operations goes INTO
clothing. luxuries and investment LOT
old age The time will come Wnen
colonies of families will live In farm
communities merely for the sake OF the
comforts of living and for the purpose
Of reducing the cost of living. 1t VIII
be when the interurban cars are run
ming or when the motor bus is making
it's regular schedule over paved road.
, Given a paved road and motorcycie
and the mechanic can spend his nine.
hour day in a shop in town and sun
live on a farm five miles away next 70
graded rural school where butter ana
eggs and produce and play grounds and
fresh air abound.