Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-05-20
LOCAL COMMENT.

n MTS. AiDertlne flCkerlHB Is NlSALiAio
Marshalltown this week upon her reg
ular trip of inspection and solicitation
for the American Home Finding Asso-
| citation at Ottumwa. She reports that
1 the fifty homeless children who were
cared for at the home last winter have
all been placed In foster homes except
| nineteen and that the home has re-
| Gently received an endowment Of 1000
from an aged bachelor in Creston who
had long been an annual contributor.
| He made the provision in his VIII
which became effective upon his death.
This Ottumwa home stands as high
among the people Of Ottumwa as the
Y. M. C.. A. does In our own city and
some OF our own private homes IN
, MarshalltoWn resound joyously with
the laughter Of little children who have
bean supplied TO the aching hearts OF
foster parents by the home finding as
ISOLATION. There can be no worthier.
cause among all the charities Of man
kind than the finding of homes for
homeless children and Mrs Pickering
should be welcomed as friend as she
goes about our city. r
~ &
Marshalltown made an Investment
this week in good will and esteem
which will be working for us long after
some of our individual citizens are dead.
1t is needless to compliment any few
persons in particular for a few Who
were called upon to lead on their COM
mittees necessarily carried the most OF
the load but it can be said that Mar
shalltown gave to the visitors from all
over the state demonstration In
efficiency. From the moment visitors
arrived until they departed the local
arrangements moved like clockworh. At
the banquet just 33s plates were pro-
vided and S3S guests sat down with
none left waiting. The meal equal to
the service Of the finest home was
served at the hour appointed, the pro-
gram. happy and helpful. neither failed
In deficiency nor was 1t overdone. The
games and the fun were genuinely en-,
joyed and business went on without
| interruption. In arkind note OF appre-
citation for what was done for the
women g. Des Nfoines man writes that
"They were shown Marshalltown in
such way that both of them are
are not located in Marshalltown with
our factory When you can SO thor
oughly sell your town to the women
wives, you certainly have some town
and some craftsmanship" "
l. :.' &
We are going to have other con-
ventions and larger ones yet this sum-
mer and it wilf~pay us to see to it that
we invest some more of our community
efficiency for the admiration of visitors
from outside. Next year we will have
q convention Of bankers to impress.
Announcement that there are to he
more boys than girls in the graduating
class at the high school Is important
as well as new. 1t evidences a grow
ing appreciation Of the value Of a high
school education for young men ard 1t
mamfests. degree of prosperity so
generally diffnsed that young men no
more than young women are drafted
for bread winners before they are pre-
pared for an even chance in the world.
When large things are to be done in
business or community way it Is soEne-
times regretted that, there are no mil
Eiionaires living In Marshalltown but q
general average Of citizenship which is
able to keep all OF its children in
school even thru the high school period
Is far greater community asset.
4 N "
With the amount OF paving that Is, to
Ebe done in this city this year there is
an opportunity for someone to make
big money pumping gravel from the
strata underlying the river valley Con-
tractors find that the two local pro-
ducers will not be able to furnish gravel
in the quantities needed and it will cost
70 cents freight to ship gravel In. That
margin of freight will pay for the cost
of pumping and washing and leave a
profit besides. Men with land on the
river bottom had better Investigate the
possibilities OF the gravel business.