Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-02-23
! LOCAL COMMENT

The school election will be held on
the 18th OF March. Let's not neglect
our own public school system in the
various war fund activities OF the
hour
In the eastern states contractors
bids on road work are running nearly
so per cent above the engineers esti-
i ates Of cost owing to war prices for
everything. II might be well to save
the road fund money during the per-
ioG Of the war and get more road work
.or our money afterwards.
II the present plan Is carried out
the people OF this community will be
canvaSsei every three months for war
savings stamps turnout the period OF
the war. The government requires an
average Of $1,000 per day from Mar
shall county for year and sales
ara not averaging that much yet altho
one days sales reached sS,6el.7o- on
last Saturday. Accountants are coins
to keep records TO show whether
people actually invest in these savings
stamps as fast as they agree and their
records will also show those who have
no. done their full duty up to the
quota Of $50 per person in the family
during year The next canvass will
Ne in The nature OF call back 10 urge
these 10 help win the war who failed
10 respond the first time.
Already people are talking about
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shculd Re none. From now until
Christmas there will be plenty OF fuel
available and the person who has not
Isid in winters supply by that time
IS 70. entitled 10 sympathy unless It
- :ha. he IS very poor and without
credit. Now IS the time 10 take &C
c.l-a:e measure OF the amount needed
for Il winters season and next sum-
r,e- : 70 be the time 10 lay It in. Let
this winters experience be our guide
The problem OF increased rates coT
gas and electricity IS now before the
city council where it ought 10 be in
stead Of the patrons for the law
charges city council with the duty
G: aN:1s rates The MerShalltown
franchise IS ne Only franchise in Iowa
w~ica grants 20 the city council the
ut to examine the books Of the COM
rany before Z: determines what the
-a-rs should - 50 me way IS open i.
Ine to-a! rom 1ary wants Its rates
changed Let :; open IS books for an
accounting.
The coal ard .aeo- COS. q produc-
~
.rcis:y. Melody questions that hut
.r-s ot me company nobody but the
courra-v's managers knows. Il was
claimed fve years ago thar S. gas was
cheap for Na-sAalltown and 90 cent
gas was the cheapest then known in
Iowa tat E, had been es-a b.ished in
Cedar Rapids. g city twice as large as
Na-shalli0wr. Il s. gas was cheap
then It is 700 cheap now but how much
too cheap the books should tell.
Five -ea-s ago when ,he present
rates for electricity were fixed the
com pany claimed that its sliding scale
would average ~ cents net per k. ".
TO generate electricity at the switch
boa-dThe margin Of s cents being con-
suned largely IN the cost Of distribu-
ton and leakage in transit over the
wires. STRAIN coal and labor has gone
ID not TO exceed 60 per cent since
then and Il would seem that only the
IL. cents per K. ". a. the switchboard
rad been affected. This would In
volre possible increase Of ! cent per
x. " whereas an increase OF 10 per
cent on the average price Of ~ cents
par K y. now collected would give the