Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-12
LOCAL COMMENT

fuDIC appear Is 10 De fldue III MIL
shalltown for the American Red Cross
society. We are at war and nurses
must follow the soldiers wherever they
go. Those of US whose age or domestic
responsibilities relieve us from service
in the trenches have the Red Cross and
Y. NJ. c. A. work among the soldiers
as our bit" to perform. Let every
man in this county enlist as con-
tributor to both. The Red Cross so.
ciety sends men and ambulances into
the thick CT the fight to bring the
wounded back of the lines where the
doctors and the nurses can save lives,
and its work must all be paid by vol
unteeEs. The Y. NJ. G.. A. sends men,
amusement. literature and instructors
into the camps to keep young men
clean while they are away from home
influences and subject to the tempta-
tons which have destroyed the morals
and health of more soldiers than were
ever killed in battle. Its work, too,
must be paid for by volunteers. Weigh
yourself beside the young man of
twenty one who marches away to the
hazards of battle and dig for these two
branches Of military service. He is
luChS WIZ Cohll il iioult SoiIi
pared to the man who bleeds at the
front.
Again there is work for volunteers
to do, altho it is small and Of short
uuT alton. The registration boards which
are to enroll the men of military age
are to be manned by volunteers. The
governor has called upon the sheriff
TO mobilize Marshall county and the
sheriff is calling for volunteers TO sit
for few days on a registration board.
Enlist.
Those who join the local cavalry
troops should first prepare for enlist
meut in this war. The government is
in need Of two armies Of half million
men each. Ii is planned to draft men,
but volunteers. will always be received.
Men from Marshalltown are going now
but they are scattered from coast to
coast. There is no Marshalltown unit,
no piaoe FOR the boys to be held to-
gether where they may receive aid and
comfort from home. A cavalry troop
from Marshalltown offers Marshall
county boys an opportunity to go to-
gether with the cooperation OF this
behind them. The draft is
coming. One man In twenty will be
drawn from those between twenty-one
and thirty years OF age and within .
few months after that second man
in every twenty must be taken from
the same class for the second army.
One hundred and fifty will thus be
taken from this county on each draft.
The cavalry offers them an opportun-
ity to go as q group.
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Marshalltown failed to hold the gem
eral offices Of the old Iowa Central
when that road was purchased by the
NJ. & ST L., but after years of travail
the merged companies have come back
to Marshalltown for their president
and vice president. william Bremner,
known as Billy Bremner here, ana
Frank Townsend were boys in our
public schools during the good old
days OF the Iowa Central when the
general offices were here.
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1t is interesting to know that Mar
shall county spends $4,000 during
year for charity, but upon reflection 1t
appears that the sum is only 800 per
capita for its population. The insane
cost us 20 cents per capita, the county
farm costs us SO cents per capita,
while 80 cents apiece is spent by our
people for widows pensions and PEN
sions for the blind. Inasmuch as near
ly half of us have an automobile in
the family, there being one for eleven
persons, we can afford 800 per head
once a year for charity.
The present council has boosted as
sessments of property for taxation
right and left and it Is up to the coun-
Gil to see that the millage levy is re-
duced. The county and state levies
will remain unchanged, SO that prop
erty will have it's county and state
taxes increased whenever its assessed
valuation is boosted, but the city levies
are within e/control Of the same
council which raised the assessments
That places an obligation upon the
council to do what it can to equalize
the taxpayers burden.
Plenty Of wall paper for everyone,
expert mechanics to hang it and work
done on short notice. Get your order