Evening times-Republican., 1914-02-07
!; LOCAL COMMENT

! ! LOCAL COWlME1N / 7
The people living in the vicinity OF
Rhodes and of Liscomb and OF van
Cleve have now decided to hold an
election for the purpose OF consolidat-
ing their rural schools in the villages
as the people in the vicinity OF Clemons
, and Melbourne have done. Hereafter
the children of the farmer are to have
the advantages of the same graded
schools that the children Of the people
within the village have and it is nos
going to be necessary for farmers to
quit profitable employment and move
to town in order TO educate their fana-
lilies. The schools are to be bigger ana
better for both village and rural school
populatione. It 10 now up to the people
living in the vicinity OF Gilman. State
Center, LeGrand. Albion. Green Noun
tain. Laurel and Ferguson to get busy
at the same kind Of school improve
ment. The time should come in Mar
shall county when tho little shanty at
tho cross roads will cease TO be
known az q rural school.
Two cooperative creameries at
Clemons and State Center this last
year paid out to the farmers in their
membership a total Of $11o,0e0 for milk
products. This IL equal to the average
pay roll Of a factory employing $50 men
and is the kind Of industrial develop
ment which deale in q product which ID
Indigenous 1t ssis production which
comes up from our soil and gives pro-
ftable employment to high class OK
people. The tin,e. Should come In this
county when everf village enjoyed its
CO. operative creamery There is no
| branch OF farming that offers q more
profitable cash crop than that har-
| vested by the milking machine, human
OK mechanical.
The announcement Of the candidacy
of Judge Cummings to be elected to the
district court where he is now serving
under appointment, calls to mind
the fact that this year We are to
elect our court Judges under new
dispensation. lnasmuch as the judge
Of district court is elected to inter-
pret the law and to adjudicate ques.
tions between people largely over bus
iness matters. we are not going to ask
whether he votes the democratic or re-
publican tickets for president or gov
ernor. All We want to know is as to
whether he had made good Judge. We
| will quietly ask the best friends we
| have among the lawyers as to what
! they think about 1t and il we can be
reasonably assured that the candidate
| has made a good judge We will con-
| clude that it will be good public policy
to keep him on the Job.
.
| The way people are rushing to the
new hospital for care and attention in
! their afflictions would indicate there
| was large need for its service. The
building has been erected modern and
| fire proof of steel and concrete and will
probably continue to serve the people
! Of this community for fifty and perhaps
hundred years. Elderly people with
an estate for which there are no inn
mediate heirs should remember that
! this hospital can make use of their
money. They can loan it now to the
/ hospital and receive per cent interest
| being relieved Of ali care and worry Of
| the management Of their property and
| when they are gone the money would
| become beqnest to the hospital and
go on forever afterwards helping other
/ people to relieve their suffering. 1t is
| the finest opportunity ever afforded for
+! people to serve the public after they
are dead and gone.
The fans of the town are enthusiastic
/ for baseball and if there is franchise
to be had within the league 1t is al
ready apparent that Marshalltown will
have team, but it should be recog-
(, nized from the start that II Mara shall
(! town is to have q team somebody will
, nave fn fpr nd al NJ thn
pense can not be collected at the gate.
| A baseball team in town of this size
furnishes wholesome entertainment and
! sport but it costs more than it earns at
the gate and the fans who are putting
up the money now can depend upon 1t
that they will have their pledges to pay
and in later years will perhaps pledge
| over again, but as one fan says,
Whats the difference what It costs IL
We can have the fun"
A new hotel modern and fire proof
would be fine thing for the town,
to be sure, and the average man about
town is hoping that It will be built
| There will be difference Of opinion az
to where 1t should be built and some
there are who are wondering why the
Pilgrim Hotel Company does not build
It on its north lot. Others have hoped
for new hotel facing the court house
square and still others think that it
ought to be built on the Abbott cor
ner Of Center and Main streets. The
6toddarts, however. have ideas Of their
own and they not only believe that It
should be built on their own corner but
they are willing to, invest the property
which they have and pledge Il - q