Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-25
LOCAL COMMENT

The campaign for the German
Evangelical hospital will be on next
week. The hospital is good thing
and needs the money. People who
have heretofore refused to contribute
to the Y. NJ. c. A. or churches because
of their lack of interest in religion can
have no excuse when 1t comes to a
hospital. Let the response be gener-
Gus. The doctors who are profiting
most should head the list, financial
statement should be published so that
people may know what has been done
with money in the past and what will
be done with the new money raised.
Our citizens should know whether any
money is coming in from outside as
was promised in the first campaign.
The new hospital has been magniti-
cent thing as well as a beneficient in
stitution for which it deserves support
but we should all know just where it
stands financially.
The sudden death of Emmett Hole
VIII be regretted 10y an unusually large
number of citizens of the county and
town. He had lived one of those lives
which approach our ideals in so many
ways that all of his acquaintance are
prompt in a Willingness to adjudge
him as good neighbor and fine
man. Columbiana county, Ohio, has
done much for Marshall county in its
contributions of stalwart characters
and Hole was one of the best Column
biana has given to us.
Recent floods should convince our
city and county boards that we need
more outlets for flood waters across
Main street. Linn creek is damned up
and its floods sent over the fair
grounds by the Main street grade.
There should be large flood water
openings east of the Linn creek bridge
on Main street. Likewise al the river
floods are held back by the Main
street road grade and more bridge
openings are needed for flood waters.
Those things cost money but floods
destroy property.
The extraordinary growth of the
fair promises need for enlargement for
the future. y small tract of ground
east of the cattle barns and across the
creek can be obtained very cheaply
now. With it the creek channel could
be scooped out much wider and the
earth used to fill up around the barns
so that new barns could be built above
high water. while the enlarged creek
channel could carry the floods with
less tendency to overflow.
Mr. Rubee would go farther by re-
all barns to new land south of
the hog pens and convert all the
ground along Main street into
park so as to afford picnic
grounds for the people attending the
fair. Still another suggestion is to
plat the fair grounds into building
lots. move the fair TO larger tract
IN the timber alongside the city park
and lay out mile track where there
VIII be room enough for the auto
mobiles of the future to get inside the
grounds. Marshalltown can have a
district fair or Central Iowa Fair al
most as large as the state fair If it |
is pursued along present lines. If our
roads are paved ten years from now
there will never be any Interruptions
from rain.
A fireproof erandstand is suggested
as another necessity and it might be
we'll 10 provide more exits to the pres
ent one. Larger exhibit halls must be
built as we'll as additional barns, The
fair is going to grow Next year clean
river gravel should he spread over the
stone walks as the clay in the crushed
stone does get muddy when wet.
How quickly private enterprise fol
lows public Improvement is illustrated
by the activity along Boone Church,
foil N q
the paving Dozens of good houses
have gone up and are scheduled for
next spring in that section of the city.
Greene, ST.. is plating part of
his farm into lots and is surveying
park residence district. since il was
concluded to pave Twelfth street.
Homes of the better class follow the
paving and the sewers. Public money
is never better spent than in sewerage
and paving on such streets as Boone
and Church brings immediate returns
to the property holders. We have
been learning some things in the past
few years and one of these is that
public Improvement is a general
private advantage. When the street
car company builds its line thru the
Third ward as it is said that it will
do next year that part of the city will
rival the Second ward in the beauty
and permanence of it's improvements.
And as the paving creeps out on the
Lincoln highway and other roads in
Guided in the paving program good
residences will follow, acreage tracts
develop and the progress OF the city
within the next decade will astonish
those who live to see it. Marshalltown
has been years building the solid
foundation for a real city. She is now
ready for the super structure.
A commercial club down In Arkan-
sas has as its motto: Get acquainted;
maybe You'll like him." That's good
motto and excellent advice. 1t con-
tains most Of the value OF clubs OF one
kind and another. The most useful
office of the club is to bring men to-
gether and afford the opportunity to
like and respect each other. When we
get down to brass tacks in most OF
our organizations. especially in smaller
cities and towns that is the active
principle of effectiveness, the get to-
gether and get acquainted feature.
Men who have tried to dislike one an
other find that they can't do 1t when
they meet and understand characters
and purposes. Most enmity Is built