Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-09-02
LOCAL COMMENT

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So far as the city levy for next years
| taxes is concerned 1t will be 1.5 mills
less In fact, altho 1t appears as 3.5
mills more. The difference is found in
the bridge fund. Heretofore the coun-
tvs levy of mills has applied to city
property and the county has adminis-
tered the bridge fund. When Mar
shalltown passed into city of the first
class with the last census the city
came into possession of its own bridge
monies and the city council has levied
3 mills for city bridges instead Of the
5 mills which the county had been
levying. The city levy for the past
year of 1916 mills plus the mills for
bridges in the county levy has been
44.5 mills and for next year the city
levy plus the bridge levy will be only
43 mills. This has been possible in
spite of an increase of half mill in
the park fund for improvements and
new levy OF 1 mill to pay the city's
share of street paving.
$50
Marshalltown business interests and
railroad employees will rejoice in the
prospect of G. w. Huntington beconl-
ing president of the M. and st. l.. Rail-
way Co. Mr.. Huntington is a favorite
in Marshalltown among railroad work.
ers and merchants and his success is a
matter of pride to this community.
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The building of another unit in the
new factory of the LennoX Furnace
Company will give to Marshalltown the
largest factory in the world devoted
exclusively to building furnaces of riv-
eted steel type of construction. That
this Marshalltown product has won a
national reputation was evidence by
the effort of a competition in Des
Moines, aided and assisted by a foun-
dry company in this city to duplicate
the LennoX furnace and offering it as
a facsimile of the goods that had be-
come established with the furnace
trade. Judge Dudley. in the district
court at Des Moines. in written opin-
ion, has granted an injunction restrain
ing such practice as unfair trade COM
petition.
of the Marietta albion road. both on
the Swearingen land and on the James
Andrews farm, suggests that there is
vastly more road surfacing material
available in Iowa than now appears.
Mr.. Osborne, of the Marshalltown
Buggy Company, tells of an experience
in road crawling near his farm in In
diana where gravel was shipped by
rail to surface a road and later an
abundance of gravel was uncovered
when that road grade was cut thru
hill. 1t is said that there is gravel
in the north part of this county near
the North Third avenue road which
can be had when needed.
Every farmer in central Iowa should
see the state highway commissions
road models at the Marshall county
fair. With $2.000.000 invested in au-
tomobiles. in Marshall county, with
$4,000 paid into the county road funds
by auto owners this year. besides $780,
600 by property owners for county
roads. $4,000 for township roads and
nearly 100000 for bridges it is time we
were getting something Tor all this
money besides mud.
Those cut-offs at the corners on
Twelfth avenue now provided by the
land purchased by the Marshalltown
Motor Club will furnish ground for
small parks at each corner and there
are plenty of shrubs growing in the
nursery of the Junior Marshalltown
Club to plant these parks as objects Of
beauty greeting the Lincoln highway
tourist from the east as he enters the
city.
w. II. c. Woodward, owner of q
farm west OF town and parent whose
son is man full grown and managing
the farm, writes to the Marshailtown
Club favoring the idea of consolidating
the rural territory contiguous to Mar
shalltown with the city in some man
ner so as to give TO the children OF
the farms the advantage of the mag
nificent system of graded schools with
in the city. This is a problem in civic
expansion and betterment which
should elicit the careful consideration
Of group of strong men from both
within and without the city. What is
the use in this day and age of compelI-
ing a farmer to sell out and move to
town in order TO give his children a
modern education. The bus service is
bringing the city graded school to the
farmers door just as the rural carrier
delivers the mail and it is time the