Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-02
LOCAL COMMENT


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Fathers and sons and mothers and
daughters will find it worth while to
attend the boys hobby show at the
~" next Friday and Saturday. If you
have a lad in your own home You have
always been interested in the things
that he has liked to do most. His
! hobbies have been your pleasures but
YOU do not know what some other lad
! has been doing. \ hundred mothers
sons have entered nearly 500 things of
! their own creation or objects or their
own care for the hobby show, and be-
sides there will he n home talent
vaudeville and picture show, all for
| % cents for grown-upS and 10 cents
! for kids. Some electrical devices ana
wireless apparatus are remarkably IN
Eenious in design and some of the pets
arc wondrous to behold. BE a hoy once
more and so to the boys show. Believe
me. guy it's going to be some snow
The manufacturers of Davenport
pooled their plants and captured Sow
Cral million dollars worth OF war con-
tracts to he distributed among their
various factories and handled coop
cratfvclv That $500 0hN order for
screw drivers offered the Narshalltown
TrOwol Works ought not TO 10 permit
tod to set away when there are half
dozen machine shops available and
finr factory huildng standing idle that
could no used for an assembling plant.
vi that is needed = an organizer.
\ veteran coal man who handled fuel
IN Laurel for many years. remarked
that in his day if the word got ou'
that Patton was ont OF coal everybody
would then make a rush for his coal
hin He thinks that most people ar"
loading up or coal now before they
really need It and that If they would
0rd,r only as they needed there would
he plenty of fuel. He also says that
few people rcaliA, how much fuel value
there is in wood. The government re-
norts one cord Of hard, dry wood
equal in heat units TO one ton or
soft coal but this fuel man says that
green woods of the right varitics hay"
great fucl value. Tho moment n mild
spell Of weather comes people should
turn temporarily 20 wood and the coal
shortage would promptly be relieved.
coke TOO can he burned in the aver
no. furnace ar boiler, All that is need
- is = d,mpor in The smoke pipe 20
rhcckLho waste OF beat up the Chin
rrr. Most OF the gases have been re-
novel from coke hcnre tho need for
less smoke pipe capacity Choke down
n,o rh,ro,cv araf, and coke is clean,
cfi.io,- fucI
,rl- >-,rsL,11ta.v,, ,I1N c0uId we'll
,o;.o o,.or ,bc ,.,r1nn canna;grsan1 if
,r., viii div ca Senator Cummins and
Conrrcsar,an Good will contribute n
s7c, y. government seeds. FIRST. list
.ryory vacant lot in town that is avail
in s,et.n,tic uav President Will
so,, bolie,cs that the severe test OF
st-crrth !, the war Is 10 come this
-o,r II yn co, keen ou- allies fed
u.h,ra :ho enemy goes hungry next
u.;c.cr will eaa Germany and Austria
hreoL, and -he war will he won with
o,,t ,,,oro eIouyhter of men.
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Tho rorl,-,. dissertation has suggest
Cd a nracticablc and workable plan FOR
r~oi,ahlc Do,IJtrv production. People
t., town t-irls and bows. can raise little
,.h;rLrrs NJ, the hack lot and they will
r.,a i n ne a real pleasure The poul-
.r.,-. -oisrrs of the town have offered to
ana o,,. them 10 work Matching young
chicks 10 he sold AZ cost. The plan has
unlimited possibilities if organized. A
committee should canvaes for orders
A. Drirc fixed By the public commit
too and ,hon the poultry association
ehou,d no responsible for organized in
cuha-or nroauc;ion. Al present prices
many people will never taste, poultry
during the period Of the war unless
they rajse il at home.
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