Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-09-15

We have too many lace curtains and
commencing tomorrow morning we will
make prices to move them at once. Lee
& Benedict.
Max Hoffman will give test seance
at the stone church corner Second ave-
nue. and Church street, Tuesday eve
ming. Admission, 10 cents.
Come to the new photograph gallery
and get your picture taken. First-class
work at reasonable prices, at los North
Center street. Mrs. c.. j. Swartz.
The Tuffree Music House has been
here for twenty-five years, and we are
here today. Buy your piano of me and
you are sure to get a good one at the
lowest prices.
Hundreds of Emerson pianos in use
in Marshalltown and county. We defy
you to find one but wha is giving per-
feet satisfaction. We Sell them. TUT
free Music House.
The Chicago Great Western is the
short line to Des Moines, and by using
this line for the special excursion
train next Wednesday leaving at $50
a. m. you will have no bus fare to
pay, and no change of cars. Fare $1.25
for the round trip.
Pianos that retail regularly from $500
to $500 are being sold this week only by
the Eadie Music Company for $40 to
$685. These are the most celebrated
makes. Other good eastern made pi-
amos. sold regularly for 1925 to 1925, are
going for s157 to 1926.
e. e. Harlan, stiles manager for the
Central Iowa Music Co., is the only
person who has handled the Everett
in this vicinity for the past five years,
others have tried to get the agezcy, but
failed. Such instruments as the Ever
EFT are not being dropped out of piano
houses these days.
The citizens of Albion are proud, and
Justly so, of the success which has at.
tended the opening Of their school. The
school has now been opened for two
weeks and there are over 200 students
now attending. Pupils nom four of the
school districts of the township attend
and about fifty of them are hauled to
the school every day by wagons hired
for that purpose.
John Woodbury. will leave the city
week from today for Chicago, where he
goes to join the DeBaugh Concert Band
for a southern tour Of twenty-five
weeks. Mr.. Woodbury. will play a clari-
net in the reed section of the hand,
which is said to be of very high or
der. Jacksonville. Fla, Memphis, Tenn,
New Orleans and other prominent cities
Of the south will be visited, and the
band will travel in a special sleeper.
Mr. and Mrs. A. Coffman, of Adeline.
ILL.,, and Miss Marian Slower. Of Free
port, who have been in the city a few
days visiting at the home of Mr.. Coff-
mans sister, Mrs. S. w. Griff1ths, left
for Faulkner Saturday evening, where
fore returning to their respective homes.
Mr.. Coffman, who is a wealthy farmer,
and owns 1000 acres of fine improved
land in Ogle county, Ill., has just re-
turned from South Dakota, where he
purchased 5000 acres in Brown coun-
ty.
The travel to the sovereign grand
lodge of the Odd Fellows, that meets
in Des Moines this week. began in earn
est this morning over tie Great West
ern, with the Odd Fellows of Minneap-.
oils, st. Paul and other Minnesota
points on board. Passenger No. S, on
the same line, carried three coaches
containing Odd Fellows from Anderson,
Ind. Queen Rebekah Lodge No. LOG and
Canton No 25, of Mason City, came in
q special car on the Iowa Central and
were transferred at this point to the
Northwestern.
Mayor Jones is going to see what can
be done with the Chicago & North
lightning speed l.,u the city. Sat-
urday evening No. 132, a fast stock
train. rushed thru the city shortly after
o'clock, at a time when the station
platform is filledswith people waiting
for incoming passenger trains. The
train gave no warning OF Its approach
and was on the platform before almost
any one was aware of its presence. II
could not be seen after it got there, for
the cloud of dust that arose on both
sides, and 1t was gone before almost
any one realized what was happening.
Railroad men who witnessed the flight
of the train say 1T could not have been
moving less than thirty miles an hour.
CITY Marshal Nicholson and Officer
Clark each witnessed the circumstance
and the former reported it to the may
or, who will take it up with Superin-
tendent Slifer.
Nicholas Hanson, whose death near
Marion was mentioned in the IRIS
dispatches a few days ago, was quite
we'll known in this city, where he for
merIy lived. Mr.. Hanson was at work
LAYING foundation for building about
seven miles west OF Marion when a
large stone fell and struck crowbar
that he had in his hands. The iron bar
glanced and struck him in the pit of
The stomach, injuring him internally
so that he died from the effects. Mr..
Hanson married his wife, Miss Bertha
Wescott, in this city on Aug. %, 1900,
the ceremony having teen performed
before the members and In the hall Of
Electric Lodge No. 331, r. D.. to which
both the bride and groom belonged. Mr.
Hanson was So years of age and leaves
besides his wife a 15-months-old son.
Relatives of Mrs Hanson living In this
city are Mrs. j. B. Duncan and Mrs. Ed
Mcdonald and Messrs. Charles, Myron,
Fred and Arthur Wescott