Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-17
LOCAL COMMENT

The idea Of using young lads Tor
guides when the old soldiers are in
town is q good one. Why not mobilize
the boy scouts in their uniforms and
give the encampment u military color?
&
Enlargement OF the Fisher Governor
Company's buildings looks good to
Marshalltown. This is factory which
was born in tMarshalltown and its
growth and development gives satisfac-
ton to everyone who has pride in his
town.
Messrs. Lynch and Nichols ought to
find congenial company with the Ar
kansas cracker who would not patch
his leaky roof because it was too wet
to do the work when 1t rained and 1t
did not need patching when there was
no rain. These gentlemen will have
about SAG, 1000 to spend on county roads
this summer and they refuse a request
from farmers northwest Of town to
gravel even four miles of road for fear,
as Nichols said, that II they graveled
one road everybody would want their
roads graveled. On that theory our
board of supervisors Is to refuse ever
to gravel any road so as to keep people
from wanting too many roads Sraveled.
Lynch, too, is about as progressive as
Mexico when he arg CUES that no money
should be spent for gravel out of cur
rent funds because the road conven-
ton was not willing to bond for gravel
If we are neither to borrow money nor
use current funds for gravel what are
we going TO do with $4,000 of road
money every summer? Sink it in the
mud, probably. Just think Of it. This
is the third summer of this kind Of
expenditure on our county roads and
NOT one single mile has yet been put
to permanent grade and approved by
the highway commission.
The gravel!ng proposed Oil the Mar
ietta road ought to cost less than
$1,000 per mile for the material is
nearby, In Greene county the super
visors pay farmers 50 per day for man
and team to haul gravel, the farmers
most benefited doing the work at that
price as their contribution. At this
price 1000 loads could be hauled for
a mile of road at a cost of $3.50 to the
county. I'm Clay county the board paid
so cents a load to farmers for hauling
gravel and then decided to let big
Job by contract paying with bond
money. L A railroad contractor with a
fleet of auto trucks each hauling seven
tons and trailing two wagons besides
bid the work at 80 cents per cubic yard.
There Is money enough in our present
taxes to put gravel on our county
roads. The only thing that stands in
our wayis the men who do not want to
get out }of the mud.
Marshall county in the last primary
voted nearer right than the rest of
the state It's people went on record
for law enforcement, no saloons and
woman suffrage. Marshall county is
to be congratulated upon its vote.
Merit and efficiency, too was recog-
nized and rewarded in the nomination
Of Supervisor Jones who carried the
county outside Of the city as we'll as
the city itself.
II something could be done by the
police to curb lawlessness on the part
Of vandals who steal flowers. a public
good would be accomplished. Just
now there is widespread movement
to beautify lawns with flowers and
shrubs. The same motives that in
spire window boxes are the incentive
to floral displays in yards, which at
tract the attention and favorable COM