Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-31
LOCAL COMMENT


toSh history ds the most HiprcsSi'N
observance OF its kind ever known,
Interest In the observance vas taken
by the veterans of another war, ana
TO those veterans and those OF the
war preceding. soon will come the en-
tire responsibilities OF perpetuatins
the day in which, the soldier and sailor
dead are honored by the strewing OF
flowers. Veterans of the civil war fast
are approaching the time when they
can not march In review: they are now
the reviewers, while before them pass
their sons ami grandsons. themselves
veterans. The general participation oy
the world-war veterans in Friday $
parade betokens the deep interest OF
future years on behalf % these young
er preservers OF the independence OF
their country.
But as tina. procession passed the
center of the city and the crowd yes
head, scarcely head vas uncovered.
Despite all tina. the men and the COLI
ors mean TO this day in 1919 no out
ward manifestation OF courtesy ana
respect was paid TO them. II was an
exhibition Of civic boorishness of which
this community should re ashamed.
The suggestion is in order that the
organizations OF soldiers who have
dared and suffered for the colors and
for what those colors represent should
take il upon themselves to teach
Marshalltown crowd the primer OF re
spect and courtesy to the colors on
the next occasion presented. Incident
ally they shoald frown upon any at
tempt TO advertise a business in
Memorial Day parade.
Complaint has arisen from the prop
erty owners o: South Third avenue
over the burden of bearing the eN-
pense of -epaving the street OF
course no one denies that the street
needs repavinS, end il is quite natural
that those who will be assessed for Il
should want the city 10 share in the
expense, for the property has been
taxed for two improvements already.
The property owners, however. may
forget one thing that IS likely 10 have
bearing on the case, and that is that
the responsibility OF paving Third ave-
nuc with asphalt, at the time the pave
ment was laid, rested with the proper
ty owners and not with the city coun-
Gil. The council had determined upon
brick paving ever the old niacadam
foundation. Specifications had been
prepared and the ordinance drawn. II
was ready for its first reading, and
passage had been agreed upon. Then
the property owners appeared with a
cd he -nri-v M the
front foot owners, asking that the
street be paved with asphalt. 1t took
only a few years for the property
owners to realize that they had made
grave mistake; that the traffic 10
and from the depot district was too
heavy for asphalt. Soon the paving
began to disintrgeate. For a period
Of years it was kept in repair by the
company which laid ii. but since the
PAYERS responsibility for repair ceased
the city has been compelled to patch
with concrete. The paving has out
lived its usefulness, and now must b
replaced with something more durable,
regardless Of who must pay for 1t.
.
The Iowa Railway and Light Com
pany has agreed to build an extension
of its lines from the Minneapolis &
81. Louis railway tracks to Thirteenth
street, and from Thirteenth and Sum
init to build line into the soldiers
home grounds, following the west
driveway TO the main building. BY so
doing the state will show a large saw
ing annually IN haulage of coal and
other supplies that now have TO be
carried by teams. The public. and es-
pecially the soldiers home members,
will be benefited by having street car
access to the soldiers home grounds,
thus avoiding the long uphill walk
from the entrance gates. Without
doubt a future Improvement will re-
suit from the extension to be built this
season, and that will be the connect
ing up of the Nevada street line at
Tenth with The Thirteenth street ex-
tension. While this will depend upon
the growth in population OF the sec
ton to be improved, it is more than
likely that within a period of few
years the territory that could be served
will have increased in population suf-
ficiently to make ii an inducement to
the street railway company to make
another three block extension.
The death Of Joseph NJ Cooper
marks the passing of real pioneer of
this county. To have spent the allot-
ed life of man in one community, and
to have died on the farm where he
took his bride sixty years ago. are
incidents of life that are intensely in
teresting. When Mr. Cooper came to
this county a boy in 1s4s there was no
Marshalltown. To go from his home on
Timber Creek 10 where Marshalltown
now stands was TO go long ways
from home. AR. Cooper, as a boy,
hunted the wild game of the wood
land at poilt no farther north than
where the Norris Shove. and other
homes of the territory tributary to
Jerome, Fourt. and Fifth streets, now
stand That was native timber in
those days and some of the same fine
oaks and elms are still standing. To
go a short distance farther to the river
afforded Cooper ana mis- brothers tine
finest fishing imaginable. To get
north of the river was to reach the
| wilderness in those pioneer days. Mr..
Cooper lived from the days when the
Indians were 70 be feared as possible
foes, to the day when the county In
which he settled is one Of the most
populous and wealthy in the great
Hawkeye state. 1t is no wonder that
TO talk with Mr. Cooper of pioneer