Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-07
LOCAL COMMENT

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/ This summer will see the street car
lines extended west on Summit street
from the soldiers home gate and east
] TO the Linn Creek bridge on East Main
street. Next summer will see a new
line in the Third ward and an extern
! sion over the viaduct into the Fifth
ward which will have more than
doubled the street car mileage in this
| city during the past five years. II this
season sees six out of eleven main
highways paved to the city limits and
/ the remaining five paved next year and
real autonlo bileS now in the $500 class.
what may we expect for the growth OF
this city in the next five years to
come?
LeGand and Greene Mountain
neighborhoods which are still in doubt
as to the consolidated school should
figure UP what state aid for ten years
at $3.50 per year would amount TO.
What is the use letting others pick all
of the fruit?
In order to settle some doubts on the
part of supervisors as to who should
put in public comfort facilities let it
be understood that the people who live
in town seldom have Use for public
toilets They are too near to their
own homes or are too we'll acquainted
about town to find much discomfort.
but people from the country are like
travellers away from home and must
seek public places. On days of large
crowds they actually suffer Let's not
delay this public necessity in a quarrel
as to whether city or county govern
nent should Go the building. The court
house belongs to the county and the
county government should improve or
remodel it. City property pays one
fifth of all county taxes and the city
can furnish free water as its additional
contribution. We need the toilets and
we need them now, before the county
| fair begins
Patrons of the public schools who
/ petitioned a former school board for
ventilation of the old school buildings
| should renew their pleas with the pres
| ent board which contains several new
and progressive members. So far this
summer nothing has been done toward
| rem odenng any OF rne OLD iea tins
plants to provide fresh air for the
school children and the same debilitat-
Ing effects will have to be suffered
again this winter. The only excuse has
been lack of funds because of the cost
of new buildings and it will require
demonstration to Justify the board
! over-reaching upon its funds to pro-
vide ventilating plants. 1t might be
repeated here that patrons will be
| ~, tina ~ ta11 hn p
what they think about these things for
| the T.-R. is in favor Of ventilation
now. Talk 10 the school board, Messrs.
Ralch. Kemble, Wilbur, G. W. Law
renceand Willard Hull.
The Park street neighborhood and
West Main street residents are deter
mined to stop the speed and cut-out
nuisance and their efforts will have the
sympathy of the entire city. A plain
| clothes officer on a motor cycle could
/ do the business in a few weeks II his
arrests were hacked by vigorous fines
| In the mayors office. It can be done
| so let's do it,
While we are prone to criticise and
demand more and more in the way Of
road inprovernenr in this county be-
| cause we can see with our own eyes
that Cfr-lndy. Hardin and Story cot1n-
! ty roads are better than ours, we
| should recognize that ours are infinite
lily better than those to the south OF US
/ in jasper and Poweshiek counties.
| Thursday Of this week when Marshall
county roads were uniformly excellent,
not a mile Of road had been dragged
south of Gilman To the city limits of
Grinnell. several culverts had been
washed out or rotted out south OF
! Newtr1rg, and half dozen mud holes
| had to be forfed by every passing We
sfcle. The uniform neglect OF the
| Grinnell Gilman road should stir the
| Grinnell community to mob violence
but it does not.
Our board of supervisors replies to
the suggestion that they employ spe-
cial agent and clean up the bootleggers
by saying that the fines do not go into
county funds uIt into county school
funds. 1t is a distinction which may
enbarrass the board somewhat in find
ing money with which to pursue prose-
cutions hut it is a distinction without
a difference so far as the public is con-
cerned The county taxpayers and
| ScnOOl t9xGiy StIS dIi L1lb sS<tdIle lSGfP-
ily. Whether their money is spent for
groceries or for rent matters little in
the end for 1t is all spent anyway and
lust now there is need of ridding the
premises from rats. We need a ferret
II the plans of the Times Republican
managemen& materialize the purchase
Of the Marshall Printing Company will
add to this city the employment of a
new factory. A great deal Of printing
has been going to employees IN Water
loo. For Dodge. Des MotneA Cednr
Rapids and Chicago which could have
employed heads Of families In Mar
s1alltown II there had been more ade-
quate machinery and equipment here
1t u now planned to put in the ma
cftnery and there should be no reason
why the printing plant could not EN-
ploy thirty hands and support thirty
families here instead Of six or eight
If At turns out that way Il WIN have