Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-07-31
LOCAL COMMENT

Score one for the police who have
caught what they have reason to be-
lieve is chronic bootlegger. They
! have spent many a sleepless night and
at last have been rewarded. 1t is
easy enough to arrest the booze but 1t
is another thing to catch the vendor.
1t is to be hoped that the penalties
will fall heavily upon conviction for
men who do these things are deliberate
in their intent. There are no eX-
tenuating circumstances. Things
have been getting wild here of late in
the Illicit booze trade and it is time
for a cleaning.
The board Of supervisors should en-
ploy a special agent to go after the
Bookkeeping class for the fines all go
into the county treasury. The county
was enriched to nearly $4,000 upon the
investment the ministers made in
special agents along with some work
of the sheriff's office and it is time the
county board was doing some special
enforcement work in its own name.
incidentally it is to be expected that
there will be no more licensing of peo-
pie to violate the ciSaret law by "tacit
understandings" What is done in
other cities is no standard for Mar
shalltown when it comes to the en-
forcement Of a law and the payment of
a mulct tax should not be permitted
| to excuse merchants for violating the
law of their state. 1t is the duty OF a
county attorney to enforce the cigaret
law according to the oath he took. II
the dealers do not want to obey 1t.
send out special agent, prove viola
tions and enforce the law anyway.
Marshal! county car congratulate 1T
| self that. generally speaking it is an
upland county and vii enjoy good
crops upon the average Swamp land
| counties this year are going to suffer.
| TIE coming Of the Joyce Lumber
! Company with q desire to enlarge the
ole Kreutzer & Waser. mill will add
| a dozel new families &c Marshalltown
| in very short tins The opportunity
! has long existed there to do a good
! business n a sinai, way in mill work
/ CONSTRUCTION. Marshalltown should be
q center for loca; district in the mill
WORK line. This mill standing alongside
tie electric power plant of the city
ought to get its power " right.
| So many complaints are being made
to the T.-R. office about roads that
have not been dragged that we must
repeat the announcement that the T.-R
| is not in the road dragging business
lie. r. Lynch. of the board OF super
visors, whose postoffice is at Green
Mountain. has charge Of this depart
ment Of the county work. When road
/ is not dragged the neglect should be
reported to him. Furthermore. the
/ weather so far has been SO bad that
! the T.-R. has not been willing to ex-
pose derelicts but when the settled
weather arrives these columns will be
open to reports Of roads which bear
evidence Of the fact that some con-
tractor has shirked his work.
The immediate response OF the kids
Fin attendance at the new Fairgrounds
on South Second avenue and the high
school should convince US OF the pub
Ilic need for playground service. How
ever, there must be organized effort
What Is the woman's club doing fol
it's country? Why not drop the his
tory of art for a season and tackle
the child problem?
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In this connection the 7. NJ. c. A
should learn of the success OF tn
municipal bathing beaches and pool!
conducted at Dubuque and Ottumwa
Dubuque fell down on her new Y. NJ
C. A. campaign but her city council
built swimming pool for the public
Marshalltown for $1,000 can have al
out door pool at the city park ant
the city should put up part OF thu
money and the Y. NJ. c. A. should
supervise it. Subscriptions can b.
raised about town. All 1t needs ii
organized effort.
Several prominent farmers nav
taken the trouble to tell the T.-R. t
keep up an agitation for public com
fort stations at the court house bu
this is a waste of effort. The T.-R
is for them already. The farmer
should write to or visit the board Q
supervisors. They can build toilets !
they want to: in fact they will DULL
them il the people will make 1t know
that the public wants the toilets built.
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