Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-10-29

The Ladies' Auxiliary of the Railway
| Y. NJ. g. A. is planning for rummage
sale. t., be given the week commencing
Nov. L. Donations may be left at the Y.
NJ. c. A. rooms.
4 Mrs C. NJ. Norton and Mrs. Wilbur
G. Davis arrived home Monday evening
from Sioux City, where they have been
/ in attendance at the grand chapter
meeting of the Eastern Star.
! Mrs. Swain, wife of q government ru-
raj route Inspector, who. with her hus-
the past four months, leaves tomorrow
for Madison, Wis, where Mr.. SWANS
| headquarters will be for an indefinite
time.
O. o. Hall, who has accepted position
in the office of General Auditor z. s..
Benson, of the Oregon Railway & Navi-
cation Company. left this morning for
Portland. He was accompanied north as
far az ST. Paul by his wife and family,
of Mrs. Halls mother, Mrs. r. o. Trip,
formerly OF Liscomb.
Peter Shearer, father of Mrs. Thomas
Kimball. Of LaMoille, who has been i'll
with creeping paralysis, is not 80 we'll
and has been compelled to take to his
bed His condition is considered serious.
Billy Williams, of LaMoille, one of
the older residents of the town. who has
been III some time with Bright's disease
and ether serious complications. is not
so well.
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Marshall county pensions granted
during the week just passed are as fol-
lows: Alvin White, Company g. Seven
tenth Iowa infantry. Soldiers Home,
Increased from SIS to $40, commencing
May 3, 1901; Patrick Hagan, Company
d, Fifty-first Pennsylvania infantry,
Soldiers Home, original, $6 per month.
beginning March II. 1901; Mrs. Mary A.
Mech, Marshalltown, widow of Abel
Mech, Company X, Twenty-third in
fantry, IS per month, commencing April
4, 1901.
Ward & vokes and their big extrava-
ganza organization will be seen at the
Odeon next Thursday evening in The
Head Walters" It is doubtful II in the
past few seasons anything one-half so
slightly as this attraction has been Of
fered. 1t is promised to be typical
Ward & yokes entertainment and that
means fun and plenty of it. All the
music, all the songs. the conversation
dances, the funny business, the seem
cry, the costumes, the electrical effects
-everything-are bright and new.
A meeting Of the directors of the
Western Grocer Company. the head
quarters Of which are in Marshalltown,
has been called to meet in this city to-
morrow, at the directors apartments in
the Let's Fletcher Company building.
President F. c. Let's will be here from
Chicago, and representatives from the
branch houses at Albert Lea, Mason
City. Oskaloosa, ST. Joseph and Kansas
City will be present Business of gen.
eral nature is to be talked over, but no
particularly important matters are to
come up.
Mrs Henry White, of North Fourth
avenue, was hostess at 6 o'clock dinner
Monday evening in honor of Miss Mary
Shepard, of Dunellen, N. j. Mrs. Whites
guests were largely old schoolmates OF
Miss Shepard, who had not had the
pleasure of meeting her for many years,
until her present visit to the city. The
hostess was assisted in serving by her
daughter, Miss Vera, and Miss Hulda
Westling. The guests We're Mesdames
Emmett Waters, w. w. Doolittle. Ella
Baker-East, Emma Weatherly and John
w. Wells, and Misses Jennie and Jessie
Pentland.
In honor of District Deputy T. B.
Going, of the supreme Court of Honor,
Springfield. Mo-, and C. L. Simmons, of
Bloomington, H., special deputy and
of A. L. Hereford, SUI
preme representative. the members of
Central District Court No. 223, Court of
Honor, of this city, held reception at
their hall Monday evening. A school of
instruction was conducted and lodge
work INDUCED in, after which a social
time was enjoyed. The ladies of the
court served refreshments. Mr.. Sim
mons left this morning for Webster
City, but Mr.. Going will remain for sew
eral days.
The time honored custom of tieing the
trousers legs of an unsuspecting bather,
a custom that has been in vogue with
boy life for many generations, was sup
planted with a new and more unique
idea yesterday afternoon at the Railway
Y. NJ C. A. swimming pool. Just be-
cause boys are swimming in Y. NJ. c.
A. pool is no barrier to a little innocent
sport and that is what a crowd of
had with Fred Jones. son
OF Mr.. and Mrs w. H. Jones. Fred was
In bathing and while his back was
turned some Of his friends distracted
his trousers from the pile of clothing
and, taking 1t too the front of the build
ing. fastened it to the flag staff pulley |
and run them up to the top where they /
floated to the afternoon breeze as proud |
rs any Union Jack. Young Jones
in vain for his wearing APP
parel when he had had his plunge, when
some one suggested that perhaps it |
might be up on the Flagstaff. After be-
Ing convinced that 1t was Jones was
to get out on the roof in q
partial robe de mutt condition, where he
rescued the pantaloons mid the laughs
Of his friends. j