Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-01-26
LOCAL COMMENT

There is need for the lyceum course
in this community and we all want the
best there Is in wholesome entertain
ment Cooperation in securing seven
good entertainments for $3.50 or not
much more than 90 cents Cor each eve
ming Is distinct community saving
over the SO cents charge that would
have to be made for The same enter
tainments II sold sngly.
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Those who have % use the roads and
those whose business prosperity "oes
up and down according to the condition
Of the roads will rejoi,e in the es;ah-
lishment OF a patrol system COR the
care Of the roads. Dirt roads REQUIRE
attention every day AMI Men VINO have
their farming to do can't be expected
to work on the roads whom their crops
arc in urgO.t need Of attention. The
road patrolmnn will hav, nothing e.se
to do. On the almost perfect sraveled
roads Of Vermont and New Hampshire
the patrolmen traverse their divisions
in one horse carts carrying wheel
barrows, scythes. shovels, slip scrapers
and sometimes two wheeled tar tanks
and heaters behind. Tho number nj
their division and sometimes the name
OF the patrolman is posted on Il sign
board by the roadside. Tra"SierS who
wish 10 report bad pla,e in the road
can do so at the next VILLAGE by scrd-
ing 4 postal card. When Prentss Ran
som made himself -amuus as road Loss
in Jackson township. Hardin county.
he did II largely by the posi- card
method. Every doctor, mail carrier and
stncSbuyer was provided with post
cards on which to report TO Ransom
when roads needed mcndlns and the
reports were promptly acted upon..Dirt
roads will always go out OF comm.s-
SION when needed the most; that is
when farmers can't go into the fields
but they can gives 100 per cent rorc
service II properly cared for, patched
and smoothed and fused ovc.' every
day during the soft weather scasop.
MarShalltown has sold $4,000 worth
OF government war savings stamps
without much OF a campaign. Name
apolis per capita has not done half so
we'll but there must ne a house to house
campaign beforei our citizens Will have
Done t!leir Iuii OulS. w Ut SAVINGS
stamps are Liberty bonds in baby sizes.
Wage workers, salaried people. children
and everybody whose bank account is
not sufficiently large to take $50 and
500 Liberty bonds in one lump sum
owe It to their government 10 pay
themselves poor on war savings
stamps. They are IN fact better invest
ments than the bonds for the reason
that the interest at per cen. Is COM
pounded quarterly and kept for five
interest while on the bonds simple m
terest Is paid twice year in cash and
usually spent by the holder. Again the
war savings stamps mature and are
payable In five years while the bonds
must be sold on the open market at
their market price II they are to Re
realized upon In less than thirty years
and II the savings stamp holder de-
s!ree to draw his money out he can
surrender his stamps at the post
office. Uncle Sam has really gone into
the savings bank bushes for the per-
iod OF the war and Is receiving money
on deposit at the postoffice at per
cent compounded quarterly. However,
people fall to do a patriots part who
draw their money out before the emo
Of the war. What the government
wants its people to do Is to save
something out Of their wages by Civ
ing up some form, OF expenditure and