Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-17
LOCAL COMMENT

Il b.
The newspapers Of Iowa are com
menting quite generally upon the near
tragedy of Marshalltown showing
loss in population which has just beer
| escaped. Had a recount not been taker
| a calamity would have befallen the
| city which it would not have deserved
but which 1t could not have explained
away until another census could be
taken five years hence. Confidence II
! this city has not been shaken but vim
dicated. Property values will be sus-
tanned. Eyes will continue to be
turned this way for place OF resi-
dence. We will keep on growing.
| Colonel Dows of the Iowa Railway
& Light Company. predicts that Mar
| shalltown will pass the 10000 mark in
the next census five years from now
Mr.. C. C. ST. Clair, president OF the
| First National Bank, observes tna'
| Cedar Rapids and Waterloo seemed te
stand still or to grow very slowly un-
! til they passed 5000 and then they
shot upwards very rapidly. He thinks
! the time has arrived in Marshalltown
! to make money in plating additions
| W. II. Arney, president of the Iowa
4
I The T.-R reioices in the success OF
4 the county auditors recount assisted
as he was By the Marshalltown Club
/ for it vind!cates the TBS. assertion
i that there should be nearly $4,000 peo-
/ ple here. The T.-R. is engaged in
Z business which enables it to know
/ something about the population. Its
circuiators call at every house for new
/ business several times each year and
its carriers cover the entire city each
! week day. From 1905 to 1910 the
! T.-R's. city circulation by carrier in
! creased 10 is per cent and the census
/ of population showed an increase OF
I 10 per cent. Between the last census
I and this one the T.-R. city circulation
-! had gained % per cent and now the
! census shows a gain of 20 per cent
/ II had to be so because the T.-R- held
(! the evidence as TO the facts. Auditor
! Dohson and the Marshalitown Club
have rendered public service OF great
value TO this community and every
loyal booster should turn out to the
clubs tollification meeting next week.
Nobody will feel sorry for the con-
tractors who have to go out OF town
10 find labor. 1t is vastly more
satisfactory to have everybody at
home busy in our own town than To
have carpenters from Marshaltown
looking for jobs elsewhere and the
same might be said of paving laoorers.
4
The street railway company is to be
welcomed to the ranks of boosters In
its willingness to extend its tracks on
East Main street to the fair grounds.
AS il has been the distance from the
amphitheater to the cars has been far
TOO grea; for convenient service and the
extension viii better serve baseoall.
circus and fair crowds. 1t VIII also
serve the rapidly growing residence
district to the east.
Z
A new freight house for the NJ q ST
L., and one close UP town within hVe
blocks of the court house will be
decided public improvement as well as
OF grea, private advantage to the
road. Factories will have to haui
| farther than before for OUTGOING local.
! shipments but the incoming goods
/ which 60 to the stores and places IN
| the business district VII now De
| handled with half the haul and no rail-
road tracks 10 cross TO delay teams
The new v:aduc, now building. the
new freight house and extension OF the
| switch Yards are all in line with the
growth and expansion OF the town. Let
| the MarshaIltown Club now go after the
/ Great Western and induce II TO ehte!
! the union station under the vlaouc'
| and we will have rebuilding OF the
| station with all trains in and out o.
Marsnalltown from the same waiting
/ room.
The playground is a fact instead o.
q fancy. All there was to it was or
ganized effort on the part OF lew
Generosity abounds in our people Al
it needs is intelligent direction. Tel
all the kids in town to frequent tn
playground. Crowd il. fill it to over
flowing and people will be SO enthns
iastsc that they will build more
them. An excellent place for anothe
would be or North Third street Wher
Miss May Chaplin. formerly a news
paper woman, of this city owns Vacah
lots. The boys are using It now 10
baseball but it should be supervise
and Improved until the grounds aroun
the Rogers school are vacated an
4 ready.
We have not tackled the windo'
Z boxes yet but other towns are taKin
i, up. The Burlington Gazette en-
,huses over it in Burlington saying
i zone of the prettiest downtown I'm
proyements made recently are IN
window boxes filed with flowers an
vines on the windows of the Mel
chants Life Association offices. II
pretty old style architecture OF tn
building is particularly adapted to
display OF this nature and the fors
display makes this corner one OF tn
: prettiest business buildings in the CIT.
Unconsciously the eyes Of stranger
: visiting the city as well IS the a.E
dreds OF people who travel this bus
section during the day are attracte
TO this refreshing and cheering di.
, play and many will applaud the ente'
, | prise and public spirit Of Mr. kuhlt
I meier, who provided this novel attrat
t ton"
Paving Of main highways leading OF
: of town will have something to
. with the extension Of the residence dis
4 trict.
, MARRIED.