Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-04-28

ten lnCn II.
While the city is testing or boring
for water tests should be made of the
relative hardness Of the water from a
20-foot we'll as compared to that from
a 50-foot depth. Ten years ago our city
water was softer than it is now and
Imuch more satisfactory in the laundry
and bath ROOM: Now it is so hard that
lmany a patron is being forced to a
separate rain water supply at addi-
tonal expense If we can provide pure
potable water soft enough for cleans
ing purposes we will have better SER
vice than to go deep for water ana
have nothing but hard water in the
city mains.
Everybody wants to see the tractor
with it's road drags prove successful on
our city streets. 1t looks like a bust
ness method for dragging roads.
The county engineer is to be encour-
aged in his efforts to open up clear
view Of the Milwaukee railroad at the
South Center street road crossing. IL
is badly needed and the purchase OF
land so as to cut away hill Is wise
There is another at the crossing OF the
Great Western by the Green Mountain
road at the point at which the Messfs.
Lynch. father and son, were killed that
needs the same kind of treatment.
| The Green Mountain neighborhood
will have another opportunity next
! Tuesday to abandon it's position al the
| tail end of school progress in Marshall
| county and consolidate n district large
enough to support good high school.
lie Grand. Gilman. Ferguson. HaVer-
| hill. Van Cleve, Melbourne. Rhodes, La
| Noble. Minerva. st. Anthony. Clemens.
! .ibsrtv township and Albion have all
! consolidated their school districts and
Green Mountain is the last commuhFS
| left in the county which is so far re-
moved from a good high school th;lt
students have to move away from nome
| to attend The state Center and las
comb neighborhoods have not CONSOLE
dated but students can attend the town
high schools within short distances.
T, P. Lows experience should be
warning to every parent in the Green
Mountain neighborhood. He has sent
| four daughters to the Marshaiito"n
high school and all have lived in town
away from home while they attenoeo
For the last three years the hftn
daughter has been driving TO the high
school in MarshaIltown. She began her
daily trips over an eight mile route
at the tender age of thirteen ana every
wear has forded the flood waters OF the
Iowa river alone with the swoiieh
stream of water up to the buggy oox
over the highway. Anxious parents
would phone in TO the feed barn To MAKE
I sure of her safe arrival and the chlid
has now driven 1000 miles IN three
years because Green Mountain had no
high school. Mothers Of beloved chii-
| dren have this ahead of them unless
! things arc changed.
The nlan is to consolidate thirty two
| sections twelve in south Vienna and
Twenty in northeast Marion townships
r. The school board which Will plan LOT
a building later should attempt "A S3o,-
ooo building with twelve full grades
land seven teachers there Will De -V''o'
acres plus the town of Green Noun
tain to share the expense. The state
subsidy or aid in the first ten years
vii, return nearly $4,000 and the re-
lmaining cost will approximate 81 PEI
lacre split up into payments OF ten ceh.'
per acre over ten years or rEe ceh''
ner acre over twenty years Tor the
principal. It is estimated That sever
TEACHERS at the consolidated school VII
cost no more than eight now cost az
Tho cross roads. The fuel will be less
and when the cost OF tuition is consid
cred the consolidated plan should MOI
increase taxes very h'gh'
4
Under the new law school districts
will be compelled to pay all the cos
or tuition whereas they now pay Only
a 20 ner month for each student. Ihis
same law will permit Marshalltown 10
charge as high as $500 and the rura
districts will have to pay 1t all wnat-
ever the price is Tuition costs are go
ing ND If consolidation is not accom-
nlished. On the other hand necessity
demands that new buildings be erected
at the cross roads II not at Greer
Mountain. Joel Nicholson is said te
have voted for Lincoln the first time
In the same building which now serves
as School No. in Marion township
Some people think it Is time 70 ouiio
a new one there. Number ~ vienna
township is a new and modern coun-
TRY school, but most OF the others are
in need OF replacement or repair.
But the large question Is not one o.
EXPENSE. altho that is the cry OF those
who oppose. The big question Is as te
the kind of schooling people want foi
their children in the Green Mountain
neighborhood. If the log house methods