Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-08-21
LOCAL COMMENT

MarshalltOwn has filled up Its inside
plat with houses and will now begin
to build second layer of habitations
above the usual ground floor apart
ments. The flat has arrived with the
plans Of those who have purchased the
Barnhart property opposite the Baptis,
Temple. 1t has been strange that with
the residence development of the past
few years more flats and apartment
houses have rot appeared but the spell
is broken Inside lots have been pretty
well covered and hereafter we must
build up in the air or follow the new
paving out toward the edge of town.
With the Marshalltown Club and the
Rotary Club both boosting for play
grounds it may be expected that we
will get somewhere. Residents -of the
west part of town are talking about a
playground for their neighborhood
Some day the Highview Club will have
big dinner and playground will
spring up in that vicinity. The east
part of town needs one and the fair
grounds would furnish desirable site.
Go to it. Fairgrounds are worth while
and easily acquired.
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TWO more men have been struck this
week by a Great Western train at the
fatal crossing southwest of Green
Mountain and it is a miracle that they
were rot killed as we're the two
Lynches year ago.-~This crossing is
death trap which ought to be re-
moved and car be by little effort. One
year ago it was predicted in these col
umns that other deaths would occur
but nothing was done and the pre-
dicted accident came this week. Hence
it will be well to repeat what was pub
lished in this column Sept. of last
year three days after the Lynches
were killed. 1t was then said:
The people Of the Green Mountain
neighborhood should hold a mass meet
ing and organize for the improve
ment Of the two grade crossings this
side of the town which will take more
toll in human lives If they are neg
lected. The railroad management just
now following the killing of two men
will do any and all grading on its own
right of-way which may be asked of It.
But these cuts should be opened wider
yet back into the private property adj
joining and this neighborhood should
arrange thru committees or thru the
township beard. Why threaten every
body with the terrible fate which met
the two Lynches and which came with
in a hairs breadth of killing Senator
Clas and his family a few weeks
before" In view of the prophecy hav-
ing been very nearly fulfilled Sena-
tor Ga ssen should tackle this problem
himself and arouse his former neigh
bors.
An enterprising farmer residing on
the Albion :Gad is formulating plan
to get that road graveled without
waiting four or five years for bond Is
sue legislation If Greene county can
gravel upon contract at 1900 per mile
he argues that $1,000 per mile would
gravel the Albion road with gravel
wing at each end of the road. He is
trying 20 plan movement among the
farmers to donate the time of their
teams this fall and receive s. per day
wages for themselves and thereby
saves the county half the cost of haul
ing The county engineer could boss
he JOB upon specifications and plans
approved by the state highway COM
mission. The Times Republican will
predict that the business men of Mar
shalltown Will bonus the enterprise TO
the extent Of $50 per mile if given an
opportun5ty TO cooperate. Come we
farmers and county supervisors are ye
on
At a time when men are walking the
streets looking for common labor at 20
cents per hour it would seem that hod
carving had reached the skilled labor
readiness with which master plasterers
met the rise would indicate that the
consumer who pays the tax had not
been called into consultation.
Homer McBroom. by his mysterious
disappearance. has caused an aged
mother untold grief for more than a
year started rumors which disturbed
an entire neIghborhood and brought
several innocent men under suspicion
Of having committed a grave crime. II
there were am justification for young
man to disappear and neglect to let his
friends and relatives know OF his
wheraa bouts it would seem that the
consequences far outweighted any pur-
nose that there could have been In the
mystery. If 1t was all due to thought
Iessness 1t IS inequitable that the
Young man himself should not suffer
for the suffering which he has In
flicted upon others.
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