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


Marshalltown has finally found a way
in which to get sewers built when they
are wanted. This year sewers have
been put In on the assessment plan
| like sidewalks and paving. The cost
Will average $50 to the lot front divided
| into seven annual assessments of little
more than $3.50 each with 8 per cent in
tercst. This S30 however, includes the
laterals from the main sewer to the
lot line which were always assessed to
the property and averaged IS or there
abouts, so the cost of getting sewers
when they are wanted Is running about
$3.50 per annum extra for seven years.
The council has reduced the general
sewer levy by one mill which on q
$4,000 property assessed at $4,000 and
| taxed on $3.50 would reduce the prop
erty owners general sewer tax Is cents
per annum in perpetuity and eventually
this general sewer levy may be abol-
| ished altogether. Hereafter the person
who gets the sewer pays for it and he
| gets 1t when he wants it. He pays for
seven years and is done with his sewer
expense.
The visiting nurse association is in
| need of funds to carry it's public SER
vice thru the year. Many prominent
individuals and business firms who give
to everything are contributing s25 per
| annum 10 this cause and others are
giving $40. The trouble Is that there
are so many others who are not giving
| at all. The visiting nurse is trained
| nurse who visits cases Of sickness in
l q Ypt1foS yyb off q
| trained nurse at their own expense.
They are aided when a life hangs in
| the balance and they pay whatever they
| can afford The nurses regular salary
| is guaranteed by the association and
the difference met from contributions.
1t Is a real charity which no person
can perform except thru organization.
Hundreds and even thousands ought to
be regular contributors who are not
| The thing for each citizen to do Is to
walk into the Fidelity Savings Bank
and hand over a check for the use of
| the visiting nurse association. 1t would
be better than any conscience money
ever returned.
An increase Of 227 pupils in the pub
lie schools is an evidence of our con-
slant growth but it is not up to ex-
pectations. The gain last year over
| the year before that ives much greater.
1t suggests, however, that most of these
| new houses are being occupied by
people largely of retired class who
| have few children of school age Our
growth does not seem to be in factory
employees whose homes are alive with
children so much as it Is in the class
! of people who are far enough along
| in life to buy homes of the more ex-
pensive class. These people as a rule
| have more automobiles than children.
We have been building 200 new houses
year or Whereabouts and nearly all are
occupied. A gain of 227 in school at
tendance would account for not to ex-
| coed seventy new families MARSHALL
town is fine city in which to live, so
clean, and wholesome and beautiful
and those who can afford to select their
town in which to live are coming this
way. What we need next is more en-
pioyment for those who arc starting
out in life and whose families are
growing.
The fact that 1882 visits would be
made by kids to a playground in two
weeks would indicate that there is
plenty OF business here for Fairgrounds.
Let's have we'll equipped playground
In at least four parts Of the city.
&
Local interest in those facsimilelet-s
tiers used in the disclosure of Hardinss
connection with the saloon interests in
| politics was keen by reason of the fact
| that Frank Gifford's name figured in
the correspondence. The Dubuque
Brewing Company writing to the
political manager for saloon interests
assures Huntoon that it regrets to
learn that ''Mr. Clifford is being blamed
for not taking more active interest in
Marshalltown politics" This was
written in October, 1911. and the
saloons had been put out Of business
in Marshalltown in July of that year
Clifford had probably found himself in
somewhat dazed condition for that
saloon petition fight was no pink tea
affair. However. he evidently had not
given up for the brewing company's
manager continues in his letter by
saying: There must be some mis-