Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-09-20


ready TO come again will not be much
afraid OF a $500 budget for the SAL
walton Army. When the workers call
a week from sunday let everybody be
ready with S. to $50 and have at least
a pleasant smile for the solicitor. IL
you have any doubt about the sin
certify of the Salvation Army work ask
a doughboy.
Marshalltown has voted TO build it
self n $4,000 office building and
will borrow SO per capita for the pur-
pose. Some people wanted an ornate
building like the court house but 1t
really was not needed. A $4,000 office
building for city employees will be
nearly as good an office building as
the Marshall Oil Company has and
better one than the Western Grocer
Mills feels that it can afford. why
lavish more public money on OFFICES
for city employees than successful
private industry, finds profitable for
itself?
An investment company has been
launched in Marshalltown to deal In
safe and sound securities such as are
listed on the stock exchanges or are
handled by investment bankers OF
established reputation. When the wild
cat. speculative peddler approaches
your pocketbook remember that most
of the oil wells, mines and far away
lands fail to materialize on the
promises made, that safe securities
must be based upon real estate or the
companies back of them must have
passed their experimental stage in
order to be sound. Buying shares In
something not yet developed. whether
1t be. a manufac curing enterprise, an
oil we'll, a mine or land is not an in
vestment. 1t is a. gamble. Men who
deal in real estate mortgages and
soundly secured bonds are doing their
community a definite public service.
e
Constable Duns received vim
dication of his theory as to auto
license delinquents when he landed
man who owned two cars each with
only one number plate and both plates
bearing the same number. He has
contended that If autoists were per-
mitted to operate cars with only one
number plate anybody could operate
two cars on one license by putting one
plate on each car. Most delinquents
have plead that the other plate had
been lost and often the constable has
had his doubts about the defense but
this time he found the two cars stand
ing side by side and when he tagged
them for appearance in court it de-
veloped they belonged to the same
man and that he was actually operat-
irSg two cars on one license. More than
81 and costs should have been as
sessed. ~, -.. fs
Buy your coal now II You are not
already supplied. Nobody knows what
will come out of the coal miners
strike. 1t is notorious that the miners
are loafing on their jobs now and coal
production is at low ebb. The win
ter may be "a severe one. In earlier
days nobody dared to go into the win
ter without his wood pile stored or his
coal In the bin. That was also true
then as to meat in the barrel and foods
lin the cans but nowadays everybody
seems to want somebody else to do the
storing OF goods for the winter season
while we rush off to the picture shows
and burn gasolene. -
The county fair was a huge success
as to attendance and exhibits but it
has outgrown its equipment. The time
has arrived for a reorganization. Let's
sell the present grounds for COM
munity house building project and
buy sixty acres somewhere else. Then
let's build a brand new set of build
ings large enough for all Of the ex-
hibits with room for more in the near
future. Let's have mile track and
district fair that shall serve half
dozen nearby counties. The main
roads are going to be paved within a
few years and we now have one auto
mobile for. every seven people. The
fair at Marshalltown during the next
twenty-five years should serve the
territory for forty miles around. Get
the vision and build for the future.
vested $4,000 in new county fair
plant. At Fort Dodge much more has
been raised for the reorganization and
rebuilding Of it's old fair. Marshall
county should raise $4,000 and borrow
$4,000 more We could make the state
fair go some with a 100000 exposition
plant
&
Adding more than 100 students to
the high school which was already
crowded will compel the school board
to rent school rooms for next yead un-.
less new building is projected soon.
If the schools can't hold all the chill
dren the town must be growing. If the
town will keep on growing It must
keep, on building. Let's have bond
issue and a brand new half million