Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-18
/ LOCAL COMMENT

ACKNOWLEDGEMENT
The kids will rejoice when the city's
skating rink is ready to use. Munich
pal skating Kinks are quite the thing
nowadays as well as municipal bathing
beaches. Many a town has flooded
somebody's vacant lots for the perfect
~ healthful and clean outdoor sport OF
skating OF all that Is good, Marshall
town reaches out for the best and she
usually gets 1t in time.
However somebody must wake up to
civic responsibility or many a mothers
boy from out of town will be walking
the streets Of Marshalltown without
place in which to lay his head at
night when the boys state conference
Of the Y. M. C. A. is on. Marshalltown
Is to entertain 1000 lads of the clean
and wholesome type. So far accom-
modations for 200 are all that have
been offered. 1t is time others came
forward with shelter for 500 more.
Lodging for three nights, Dec. 1928,
and six meals is requested and it is
all to be donated or invested in the
good work which the Y. NJ. c. A. is do
ing among boys turnout the state.
Those who have boys can well afford
to enjoy whole troupe of them for
three days and those who have never
known the joy Of boy life in their
homes can reyel in three days of new
and valuable experience. 1t has been tho
experience of other towns. that these
boys are gentlemen in conduct. They
n r nrfh INT hut
they are coming for they have been in
Vited and it Is up to our people to see
that they are entertained. 1t will be
far more gracious on the part OF every
hostess to give her decision to the
committee in time for each boy to have
her card and address in his pocket be-
fore he bids his mother goodbye at
home. The mother too, will feel much
easier in mind. What is the use Of
waiting until necessity compels a So
iiciting committee TO back US UP
against the wall? Let's be volunteers in
any cause and not wait for the draft.
Marshalltown can gain some salts
faction in her concrete paving from the
experience Of Grinnelt The average
Grinnell critic who sees our concrete
congratulates himself on better look
ing paving at home and some of our
citizens often remark that the asphalt
in Grinnell is a better paving than
ours. In the same year in which We
laid our first concrete paving at Sl.1S
Grinneil laid patented b!tulthic at
s2.13. We laid concrete seven inches
thick. Grinnell laid concrete five
inches thick and placed on top or 1t
two inches Of asphalt mixed with stone
chips and sand. For the eighty square
yards in front of a sixty foot lot When
the street is paved twenty-four feet
wide the paving In Marshalltown cost
s94.40 exclusive of curbtng and $1,000
in Grinnell. The Marshalltown paving
has cracked in places which makes 1t
look bad but the cracks, when filled
with tar at very slight expense, have
proved to be no serious defect at all
and there has been no cost for main
tenance so far that is worth mention
ing TIE cracks that came in the con-.
crete under Grinnell's asphalt are COW
cred up by the asphalt but the asphalt
itself has begun to show wear and this
year Grinnell has been renewing or re-
pairing its high priced paving with
flush coat of asphalt at cost OF 10
cents yer yard This expense OF main
tenance viii have to be met every few
years, but II will prolong the life OF the
asphalt pavement for many years. So
far Marshalltown's concrete has been
the cheapest to build and the cheapest
to maintain. II 1t begins to deteriorate
that same expense of 10 cents per yard
can cover it with a wearing surface
Of asphalt and sand half an inch thick
and be renewed at intervals almost IN
definitely Here is the difference. Grin
nell has come TO the EXPENSE of re-
newal sooner with her high priced pat
ented pavement than We have with our
cheaper concrete. We saved SIS per lot
front on the original price which al
per cent interest will earn for US this
10 cents per yard Every two years. AS
compared to the high priced pavement
we have money in@the bank.
A great many people have supposed
that the farmers were opposed to
paved roads and most of them are OPP
posed to paving the other fellows road
but farmers living near Lamoille seem
to be willing TO dig down into tneir
own pockets for $500 for paved
road The county is asked to change
the public highway to high ground so
these farmers can pave their own roao
at their own expense. Naturally this
movement is quite surprise to most