Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-04-24
Local Comment

ficiently Interested, or deem IL worm
while. 20 re- check the city's popula-
ton figures. the way has been opened
by the census bureau, which an
rounces that It is anxious that the
city he satisfied with the count. RI
Marshalltown can show misses
amounting to per cent. the bureau
will check the figures OF the enum-
orators against those which the city
may submit.
Ten years ago. sixty days before
the dccennial census wac taken, the
Pettibone Directory Company es-
;imated the population of MARSHALL
town as IL 3e3. The census returns
showed 1894. At the present time
the same directory company Is work
ing ON n new book here, and so far,
as compared to the 1918 population
estimate of the company, at 10, 20,
tho figures now show an increase OF
700 names. with the territory south
of Linn creek not yet taken, ana
absent calls TO check turnout the city.
In other words the directory estimate,
based on ratio OF "a per capita, is
going to show about 1900 popula-
ton for Marshalltown instead of TO-
73l, the government figures recently
given out OF course II must be un-
derstood that the directory estimate
is liberal. even tho it is but half OF
the ratio used in the big cities, yet
in 1910, locally the figures were
II, tho
count showed sixty days after the
directory estimate was made.
II also must be remembered that
the general tendency in all cities and
communities is to overestimate popu-
lation. However. in Marshalltown,
with practically an actual count of
542 new houses built in five years:
all of them filled at the present time;
all rooming houses and hotels filed;
and in SOME instances two families
! doubling up in homes which nor
malIy would contain but one. lead
| the most conservative to believe
that there r. something wrong with
comparison of five years ago, which
shows Il falling Off of 90 people. II
| the present government census was
| even approximately correct, the 1915
! state census must necessarily have
! been very eXtravagant in its count.
and business men who had "A hand
in the count know that no fraud was
! pra cticed. and that only people ac-
tually residents of the city were
counted.
For the fact Anne that Marshall
town is entitled tn the hest showing
she can make in population and TO
show to the country that she has
gained in population in ten years 10
q greater extent than the census
fcurea show. the Marshalltown Club
sh, u'd get back of q movement to
take the census as # Jan. !, 1cia ss.fy
show. If il is then seen that the :
! per cent of misses is not shown, the
task is ended If > per cent of the
reputation Is shove to have been mis-
| sed by the government enumerators,
/ the figures can he sent tn Washing
| ten for the consideration Of the
! bureau and the reCheek that has
| been promised under those eircum-
I stances.
| The experiment OF the city council
| IN m; irtainins q municipal play
| around on The old country club
grounds. will ne watched with in
( terest II it is shown tkat there are
suff. cient people Interested in tn"
sports activities affnrded at place
so inaccessi' le to the public. the eX-
pertinent will be worth whiic. for II
viii prove that new city parl; To-
! cated on h:ah ground and EuiIt to
provide "nis. tennis. baseball ard
: other sports hs il demand. and
should ne established. The old
country club grounds. however. are
IN the amc position as the present
/ ru'Iic pcrk in"ofar as being sub
iect to overflow from tire river and
the sooner this city sets buy il
! providing n new park. hieh and dry.
the sooner will il ena lie its citizens
ito entity the great ut-of doors With
some degree OF y nsure.
:.
County Treasurer Cause has taken
occu.!on to present on his ra'E page
i,is d t;i.cment of the lag on
( r.ght-of- way for automobiles thai
; IL worthy If careful study. Ma. Cause
quotes the state law. which prov. des
that " hen motor vehicles meet at an
J intersection, the one approaching 10
the right of the other driver has the
riG BIT Of way. In other word a car
going ncrth has the right of way over
> "ne going east; one -oInz eats; over
one going south: one going south
/ ever one going west, and one going
est over enc going north. If all
drivers remember that the car ap-
preaching an intersection to mis-
right has the road. there will be few :
err accidents at intersections. At any
| r.ta there are collisions at in