Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-06-26
local Comment

A man was struck by an auto this
week on Main street and has been in
the hospital ever since. He is lucky
because he was not killed for Main
street with autos parked along the
fcurbs and double track street rail-
way in the center is a veritable death
trap Even tho drivers use care and
go slowly people are bound to be run
down. Other cities enforce a thirty
minute parking rule on their main
business street. Why not here?
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With cars parked in the center or
some streets at right angles with the
traffic and parallel to the curbs on
other streets 1t Is exceedingly diff
cult to inform the public to park d.
lagonally along Church street. A sign.
informing people to Head in" may
help some but the thing that is need
ed is to paint stripes on the pave
ment. This would keep people from
parking across the intersection at
South First avenue and Church
street where they do not now know
when to stop adding their cars to
the line. Painting stripes on the
pavements also causes people to park
closer together and enables more
autos to be accommodated.
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Narshalltown will extend the glau
hand Of welcome to the Durham
Company which plans to greatly en-
large It's factory buildings in this
city. This company employs men Of
a high type and they make good cit
liens. Much of the company's capital
stock is owned about town which
helps to center local interest in it's
welfare.
The Marshall county conventions
Of both parties will meet next Satur-
day. The republicans will have To-
cal candidate for state senator to Sc
lect and delegations to judicial and
general state conventions to name. In
the contest for senator the selection
will be made between the three high
men in the primary, Lounsberry,
Scott and Stansberry. The two latter
will draw largely from the same class
Of delegates which will give Louns-
berry an advantage. Should the Scott
and Stansberry delegates get togeth-
er and center en- one or the other
they could control the, nomination.
When the delegates go to the state
convention they should see to it that
a candidate for governor is not Sc
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else our home candidates for lieuten-
ant governor and auditor will stand no
show. A convention will not give two
places on state ticket to the same
part Of the state. This county should
really support Kendall as he was
preferred in the primary vote by.
more than half the voters with three
other candidates against him divid-
ing the remaining minority vote.
Kendall pulled 1887 to Deems 554,
Moore $50 and Havner 1913 in the
primary.
Now that the state law prohibits
open privy vaults in towns where
sanitary sewers are accessible the
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officers out on an inspection tour to
condemn all vaults that are in vio-
lation Of the law. It is unfair to the
citizen to ask him to complain about
his neighbors and thereby incur their
enmity and yet the unhealthfpl privy
vault should go. 1t is the duty Of pub
lie officers now to enforce the law
without asking the private citizen to
do it just as it is the duty of the po-
lice to suppress violence and law
lessness without asking the private
citizen to attack offenders with
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