Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1920-08-05
CITY MEN REBUILD
BAD COUNTRY ROAD
MORE THAN FIFTY FROM MAR
SHAuLTOWN CLUB TACKLE
HIGHWAY JOB.
WORK NEARLY FINISHED
WHEN RAIN SETS IN
Road, However, to Be Finished at
Once and Farmers, Have Promised
to Gravel it-Farmers Busy at
Threshing, Unable to Give Much
Aid-CommendabIe Job Well Done.

Threshing, Unable to Give Much
Aid-CommendabIe Job Well Done.
The butcher, the baker, and can
dlestick maker met on common
ground Wednesday. The ground was
two miles of Taylor Marion township
road badly in need of improvement
in order to provide q better highway
for traffic originating in the Green
Mountain neighporhood.
Fifty members of the Marshalltown
Club, armed with shovels. axes. and
$40 bills, swent to work early in the
morning, Knocked off, an hour for
lunch. and quit only when the down
pour OF rain became so heavy by
$3.50 that it was unsafe for horses to
work longer and it was impossible to
move and grade the earth.
Practically all the retail businesses
in town We're represented in the I'M
dertaking, and the days labor showed
results. Conspicuous by their alb
sence were the bankers, physicians,
and dentists. The program was ar
ranged, for Wednesday-the dem
lists holiday-and it was thought
that the woods would be full of
profession able to make painless ex-
fractions and do bridge work. It
was explained, however, that dem
lists have to be very careful with
their hands, and rough work has its
hazards, and only one took chance.
Equally conspicuous by their pres.
ence were father and two of his
sons-the Hulls by name Sam
Hull imagined he was out in the
sand hills of Nebraska chasing the
festive blue bill until the floods
descended and the newly worked
road looked anything but like a sand
hill. "Ab" Hull headed the ak bri-
gade, and in his minds eye was back
In France climbing trees and cutting
Off limbs and doing the Human
Fly stunt, much to the admiration
of his helpers. lrhe other Hull
Frank-worked both with the tree
extracting gang and the dirt shovel
ers and put in a full day without
batting an eye.
The honorable court lent dignity
to the occasion, and filled and
dumped scrapers as tho he always
had been used to it and no one was
fined for contempt, even tho they
addressed the court Familiarity as
Frank The undertaken was as
polite as he could be and had no oc-
casion after the lunch hour to ask
If anyone wanted to view the re-
mains. In fact it was a day of hard
work and good cheer and MANY blis-
tered hands.
Grade West End of Road,
The greatest ,effort in road i'm
proVement~was centered on the west
end of the road, between the point
where it runs from Third avenue
east and the bridge over Burnett
creek. There has been bad low
place here ever since the road was
putt, and the shade from trees aided
In keepingt the road bad in Wet
weather. The trees were blown ont
and removed, and the road nut tn
grade. A large culvert was nut in
at point, where the creek winds
closely to the road. The coming of
the rain made it impossible to COM
pete the grading, and also DELAYED
the putting in of culvert on the
east end of the road. One culvert
was placed toward the east end. and
tne grading over the culvert COM
pieted before the>rain came.
Work to Be Finished.
me work is to be completed at
once. and it is the intention To grave,
the road. The farmers interested in
the upkeep of the road are planning
TO DO the graveling. The farmers were
SO busy with their threshing opera
lions Wednesday that they were nm
able to join the work.
Fred DERRICK, foreman of the street
department, had charge Of the work.
and city street gang with scrapers
and teams did the work OF ha,,Iinp
tractors were furnished by the Rude
Auto Company to do the heavy haul /
ing of the trees after they had been
blown out by the roots. The Rude
company also furnished trucks for
hauling earth. The D. H. Denmead
Company closed it's place of business
and had four of its men on the work.
Q. 1. 1ngledue, who. with F. NJ.
Wilbur and H. A. Weisman, origi-
mated the plan and became a self
constituted committee of the club to
launch the road-improvement pro-
1ect, has been made treasurer of the
fund. This will be banked in a special
fund of the club to be used for road
work, where townships
lacking funds. and in need OF road
may call for assistance.
1t is the plan to investigate such re-
quests and have committee pass on
the merits of the necessity for i'm
1t Is likely that the finishing up
OF the road that was improved We'd
nesday will be turned over to Fore
man DERRICK and his crew, to get the
highway IS shape for the graveling.
Club Serves Lunch.
The Marshalltown Club sent out
lunches for the hungry road builders
who ate the picnic dinner alongside
the road. Mrs. Maude McGlasson. who
has charge of the club cafe, was as
sisted in serving the lunch by Misses
Lena Vogt, Kate Timmons, and Hazel
McNair Eighty-two sat down for the
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