Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-04-01
MANY IMPROVEMENTS uNDES
WAY on CONTEMPLATED,
INCLUDING PAVING.
OILED STREETS KEEP
ROLAND OUT OF MUD
Plan OF Highway improvements Keeps
Roads Dry Altho Not Always Smooth
IRELAND Rural Mail Carrier Makes
Record Of Not Missing a Trip All
Hinter-oid Il With Two FIivVers.
TO Times-Republican.

Special 10 Times hepublcan.
Story City. April with a $50, o0G
schoolhousse in process OF construction,
a $4,000 Eght plant under serious
consideration, extensive additions TO
the canning factory planned, several
modern dwellings recently built, ono
OF them at a cost of $4,000. and con-
tracts made for several more. with
nearly a mile Of paving OF unusual
street width and a settled purpose. 10
follow this up soon with as mach
more like improvement, Story CITY an
presses itself on the visitor as one o.
the very progressive little towns o.
this state.
Towns OF class that UP TO the
present time at least have been con-
sidered too small 20 warrant any paw
ing projects have suffered for several
months along with farming districts
in the matter Of transportation facih-
ties. Some Of the worst stretches O.
travel frequently have been the streets
within towns or that portion OF the
public highway adjacent A notable
exception to this IS said TO be Ro-
land. another Story county town
where ic Is declared that the principal
Streets have been in condition every
day for the past year for vehicles %
every description, cars included. Some
time ago the principal streets Of this
town were oiled and later a second
treatment was administered. 4 thirC
Is 10 be given during the coming
season. Before oiling sand IS placed
on all crossings and this is afterward
removed and distributed over the
streets with the results noted. AboL'
the only objection made to the oil!ng
plan is that indentauoras made by the
wheels Of heavily loaded vehicles are
almost impossible 70 smooth perrna-
nently and a somewhat uneven street
Is the necessary result.
Few indeed OF the rural mail routes
Of Iowa have enjoyed uninterrupted
daily delivery since last fall but the
thirty mile Roland route IS one Of the
few that Is said to have been covered
entirely every mail day turnout that
muddy period, Toilet T. Thompson IS
the man who was able to get over the
territory while plenty Of good men
failed in their like tasks. He uses
two Forts ore or the other or both Of
which he drove all except six days
when nothing except horse travel was
possible. On one single occasion he
had TO be pulled in" Thompson ex-
plains his ren,arka bic record by saying
tnAt he is naturally of lazy DISPOSE
ton and hates to deliver two days
mail at once. evading this ordeal by
soing thru rain or shine"
1.-The world is growing better" de-
clared the commercial traveller, 10 the
landlord of the hotel. who didn't know
that ne could detect any great i'm
provement with the passing Of the
years. Well. il is anyway insisted
the other. who proceeded with Illus
trations. In the first place. the great
advance over old days in the quality
Of the reading matter available to the
young. He had a whole trunk full
Of old paper backed trash that no re-
spectacle heads Of families would on =
slider for a moment allowing their
children TO read in these times. Then
he called attention to the days when
for a trifling consideration the town
authorities would permit shell
man" to work his swindl!ng devices
on the unsophisicated citizens until
they became riotous and drove him
away to other fields of like endeavor
He went on and on showing how con
disions today are so improved over
those Of yesterday and finished W
with the travelling man comparison
Years ago the coming to town Of the
drummer meant a wholesale spree
There was a big supper. 2 bunch OF
hall drunken merchants and !nvolun-
tary order giving and the later ship
mert of a lot Of goods that those
merchants never thought of buying
In some OF the Zig hotels there were
nights where q man in each place
was kept busy putting drunk travelling
men to bed. A man in the occupation
of commercial traveller had to have {
wonderful constitution in those days
to keep going at all. Yes sir in
sisted the old man, 1.-The world is get.
ing better all the time"
A restaurant man called attention