Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-24
LOCAL COMMENT

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| 1t will be good news in this COM
munity to learn that the plans of the
managers Of the NJ. & st. L. Railway
Company for financing their property
have been endorsed by the stockhold-
ers. 1t will mean increased activities
in the local shops preparing cars for
the fall rush at crop moving time
Marshalltown has not only stepped
into first class as cities are rated and
comes into possession of it's own bridge
funds, but a site has been purchased
| for an apartment house. Tomorrow we
will have traffic police at street inter-
sections and during the convention this
week we even had rubber neck coach
Seeing Marshalltown" for 25 cents.
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Those ardent spirits of the Marshall
town club who donated so much of
their time and energy and gasolene to
the service of our convention visitors
certainly advertised our city and es-
tablished its reputation for efficiency
among several thousand strangers this
week 1t is a matter of pride to the av-
erage citizen about town to know that
whenever people from outside come
here to attend a convention they are
sure to return with respect and ad-
miration for Marshalltown and its peo-
pie. \ few always do the work. of
course. 1t is SO at the church supper
but the many can at least rejoice in
the fact that the job was well done.
Marshaltown will probably not have
a "look-in" on the new Baptist COL
lege, for it seems to be the determine
ton of those in authority to keep the
old one and give it new site in Des
Moines, but the incident has its les
sons. When the college committee
came here a local committee without
question or hesitation proceeded to
show sites of forty acres and upwards.
No man so much as thought for even
"a moment that anything less than
forty acres would do for a college and
yet it was not contemplated that the
college should have for many years
more than half the students that are
now in attendance at the Marshalltown
high school,. Now. what is there about
a college that should demand forty
acres "a stadium, athletic park and
campus of beauty when we can not
afford so much as full city block for
our high school? Where is the differ
ence except in custom and habit?
And again if a town could welcome
an opportunity to dig down into its
pockets for 100000 for a college what
is it going to do for the Fairgrounds
which its own children need every day
Of their young lives?
Mr.. Rubee. superintendent of the
cemetery association waited on the
board of supervisors this week with
an offer to grade the, first hill on North
Third avenue at half what it will cost
the county to do 1t. The city needs
some clay to mix with gravel in the
work along the cemetery on North
Third avenue and the city was will
ing to split the cost of cutting a coun-
ty road hill with the county for the
material and this material will have
to be moved some day. II the board
had accepted it would have saved half
the total cost of cutting this hill to
grade and would have accommodated
the city which contains half the popu-
lation of the county. Mr.. Lynch re-
piled that they did not intend to grade
that road this year and Mr.. Nichols
nodded assent to what Mr.. Lynch said.
A few minutes after Mr.. Lynch had
turned down this offer to get half of
one hill cut for nothing the board list
ened to a demand for damages from
Justus Schmidt because this same
county road, which is under the per-
sonal supervision of Mr.. Lynch, has
been permitted to become dangerous to
life and limb. When the county gets
thru with Schmidt Lynch will have
cost us more than it would have cost
to have put every hill on this road to
permanent grade from the city to the
county line. All we will have to show
for it will be Schmidts broken bones.