Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-09-07

appears, blu, 1t remained for the Lit
erary Digest to reprint the following
from the Delhi Bazoo:
In Ioway. - Mildred Halsey gave q
piano recital in her studio over the
kleinert meat market last evening. She
had quite crowd present to see how
those ST. Louis piano lessons had i'm
proved her. They found a great
change in her. Miss Halsey wore a
filmy dress. very stylish, high heeled
shoes, and gold-looking bangle in her
hair that cliEked when she shook her
head. 1t was all new to Delhi and Gre
ated much talk among the music lovers
present. She played half dozen
pieces by old German masters better
! known in New York than here. She
got her bigs est rise, tho, when she
knocked out ''Hitchie Koo," for tur-
key trot thai was enjoyed by every
body. Larson Keller, however, stepped
on the train of Mrs. Cyrus Perkins
Walker, wife of the mayor. 1t was him
the stairs. The trial comes up tomor-
row.
| The town Of Thompson Is building a
S2S.000 scnoo. house and & S12,ono
electric light plant owned and operated
by the city. And this town sets good
example to some other towns in the
way of sidewalks to the station. The
main street from town to station has
been graded. a wide cement sidewalk
put in anc wire fence runs
along the side and keeps pedestrians
| in the vide path This is mentioned
here because many towns neglect such
eli
Noticeable, too, in Thompson, are the
nicely kept lawns. And it all goes to-
gether, civic PRIDE The writer has
| in mind town in which the depot
! is built a mile from the postoffice and
hotel. Some years ago a park was
evidently laid out between the depot
and town: but today it is neither park.
COW pasture nor childrens play
ground 1t is a weed patch. and if the
people of that town could hear the re-
marks of the travelling men going by
1t daily in the bus. somebody would
get a hustle on himmself Like begets
like. The bus line and the hotel agree
in appearance with the park And
some Of the old settlers wonder why
the town does not grow"
BultAlO center pIoodDiS buiil l'c
first consolidated school in Iowa, If
not in the United States. 1t was COM
pleted in 1896 and from that day to
this has been an unqualified success.
From four to six buses have been
used 10 haul in the children of the
consolidated district. Not an accident
has occurred, not "a little tot" been
injured Some go so fer as to say not
"a young one" has taken a cold on
these hundreds of trips: and there
would be first class riot If n serious
attempt were made to go back to the
corner country school house plan. And
this town is building also municipal
electric light plant. $4,000 to $4,000
being the amount of the investment.
On the first of the month numerous
hunters were out after chickens and
ducks At Swea City one crowd
brought a nice bag OF ducks, but chick
ems were few and far between. It is
generally said the law giving Sept
as the first day of an open season is
a farce. in so far as enforcement is
concerned. The chickens are killed off
before that date or become so wild ii
is useless to hunt them. And curl
ously enough not hunter kicking on
this Illegal shooting would inform on
any one breaking the law unless an
outsider happened to be the law
breaker.
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