Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-19
LOCAL COMMENT


That portion Of the sixteen foot
pavement being laid on Twelfth avenue
which is now ready for service shows
that this narrow pavement is going to
be an unqualified success for traffic.
Owners of abuttirg property desiring
toscomplete the street Improvement in
front of their residences can put in Il
combination curb and wide gutter az
cest of Sal or thereabouts for a sixty
foot frontage to complete half of a
twenty-four foot pavement. However
there is a much cheaper method of i'm
proving to the curb line by using
gravel. Three loads at cost of Sc
would provide hard surface for that
four foot strip in front Of sixty foot
lot until such time as the entire street
IS to be completed with additional
pavement and curb.
The county fair is to be more inter-
esting than ever and the night attend
ancc will increase. Has any one in
vestigated the movies as an attra ction =!
If an Island Park can use movies to
draw crowd why not the county fair?
Mason City is to have beet sugar
factory costing millions Of dollars AMI
land all around that city will support a
denser population, but Marshalltown
could beat it for quality if 1t could Sc
cure condensed milk factory. I'm
ported peasant labor will raise the
sugar beets and the factory will OPP
crate only part of the year. A con-
densed milk factory would operate
turnout the year and the milk pro-
ducers would be of higher type of
citizen. Perfhps theWestern Grocer
densed milk and then a candy factory.
The playground at the fair grounds
is being used to such an extent that
it has been a success from the start.
II, is located on the extreme eastern
edge of town. The school board should
begin at once to improve the grounds
at the Franklin school and give us a
playground on the western edge OF
town. The grounds recently purchased
adjoining the Rogers school should also
be improved for the north end of town
and the alley closed to traffic and dedi-
alley but the coal teams and in this
block there is lately enough without
permitting teams to pass thru the
school grounds.
Twice as many concrete bridges as
could have been built and paid for
out of current revenues is all the adj
vanCement of our county road i'm
provements obtained from the road
convention held in the spring. Altho
the decision of the delegates was
unanimous that permanent grading
should also be done. two members of
the board backed ont of their agree
ment to carry out the conventions in
structions At Waterloo the same
kind of a fizzle occurred. A conven-
ton as large as the one in Marshall
town voted unanimously without OBJ
lection and without argument in favor
of issuing bonds for grading, gravel
ing and bridging but the supervisors
got cold feet. After summer wasted
in indecision the board has finally
called for bids on one mile Of gravel
ed road in each OF the five supervisor
districts. Bids will be opened Mon
day for gravel construction twelve
feet wide with depth of nine inches
in the center and six inches at the
sides laid in trench and rolled
These detached pieces of road will
cost a great deal more than the same
mileage of continuous road and will
serve traffic far less effectively. 1t
| will be about as useless as a railroad
| built in five units of mile each in