Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-12-04

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It will pay you to see the Gregory
kind OF fuel. They have the best and
all kinds
] Twenty pounds OF granuIated sugar
for 81 with a purchase of 81 or over in
any department Thursday, Friday and
Saturday only. Bee Hive.
Tomorrow (Thursday) from 8 to 10 a.
m. we Will sell fifty -six-inch habit cloth
in blue. green, tan and castor at AZ
4 cents yard. The Hawkeye.
Mrs. Graham j. Smith and Miss Ger
1 and expect to remain in that city during
the greater portion Of the winter.
A little snow is all that is lacking To
make this ideal winter weather. The
| temperature has been lowering near the
zero mark for the past several nights.
We offer tomorrow, and as long as
they last. 100 dozen ladies' imported
handkerchiefs. The regular price is s25
cents: our price. Is cents for your choice.
The Excelsior Aid OF Marshall r. D.
Lodge, No. 40, will hold q bazaar at /
| o. O. F. hall Thursday, Dec. 5, after
noon and evening, supper from to s.
4 is cents. Admission free.
Mr.. and Mrs. T. B. Turner, Of Brom-
Hey, departed Tuesday evening 70,
southern California, where they will
spend the winter. They will make their
Headquarters at Pasadena.
Il VT 4 tpo0 ., r
morning from an over Sunday visit with
his family. He reports considerable
fall Of snow in that city and the storm
was in progress when he left Chicago
| this morning.
| The members Of the Wortenda Club
were delightfully."- entertained by Mrs.
S. w. Rubee assisted by Mesdames
F.. w. and w. r. Rubee at the 8. w.
Rubee residence on North Center street.
None but club members were present.
Carroms and refreshments We're en-
joyed by the party.
Sheriff Shoemaker received Tuesday
| evening a telegram dated at Melbourne
and signed by Mel Ross, asking him to
| meet the Great Western passenger train
due her at 1910 p. m. The sheriff made
| the train but could fnd no trace OF Ross
or gather any information from the con-
| ductor or train men.
| The evidence in the ase cot Augustine
VS.. Lodency Childs, involving the title
to tract of three and half acres on
| West Main street between Ninth and
Eleventh. was submitted before Judge
Pratt of Waterloo, Tuesday at the court
house. The attorneys will make their
arguments in writing during the pres
ent month and decision may be looked
| for about Jan. /.
The Forty-eighth Regiment band Of
| Scottish Highlanders. the headquarters
OF which are at Toronto, Canada, was
| in the city this morning, en- route from.
| Mason City to Boone. The band Is on a
| concert tour In this country, and the
Iowa Central provided the forty mem
bers with special car to this city. The
queer uniforms OF the members OF the
organization attracted considerable at
ltention.
There promises to be a large field Of
candidates for county recorder. Among
| the later candidates to enter the contest
are Mr.. Mark Moler of Timber Creek
township, resident of the county for
! forty-eight years, or since he was one
| year Of age, and who recalls the time
when the present court house part was
a corn field. Miss Ida Evans Of this
| city, has also decided to become a can
didate, at the solicitation Of friends and
she is assured Of the support Of a num-
Der Of influential republicans.
ION Monday evening of this week the
ladies of the Wimodaughsis Club ban
quoted the husbands OF the club.
Prompt at 1880 o'clock, the members,
with their husbands as guests, as
sembled at the Bricker restaurant
Covers were laid for twenty-five per-
sons. The table was adorned with pyra-
mids of fruit and the various relishes
OF the feast. A delicious five course din
rcr was served, after which the party
repaired to the Sherlock home on West
Main street, where the remainder Ut the
pleasant evening was spent at carroms
and crokinole.
A circular issued by the various ex-
press companies Of the country was
made public recently. 1t announces that
the executive officers Of all the leading
express companies have decided to dis
continue the issuing Of franks for the
transportation Of packages over their
respective lines after January 1, 1902
except to high officials OF the different
railway lines over which they operate.
This order will strike influential ship
pers and others who for years have en-
joyed the frank privilege for personal
shipments. 1t will also shut off state
and city officials. Whether the or
der agreed upon Jointly will be strictly
enforced remains to be seen, but on the
part OF the express companies merely
indicates the growing predominance for