Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-06-02

Now is the time to get your watches
and clocks put in order. Go to George j
Aliens for good work, II East Main
street.
We are prepared to 10 all kinds of
turned work. Call on us when in need
CT mill work o. M. Brsluer. 206 South
First avenue.
Safes. warranted fireproof, fifteen
inches high inside 500 pounds, $50 and
s24. Other sizes at $3.50, Sill. sl3 and
SIC. Schmidts Hardware Store.
Reynolds & Sheldon are selling ber-
ries today from ten to eighteen cents
per box. They received their first case
of home grown berries on Monday,
June LIST.
| Rev. S. Skogsberg returned Monday
evening from Alburnett, where he had
been to fill his pulpit on Sunday. Rev.
| Skogsberg will move to Alburnett in
about two weeks.
A person with no eye sight is in a
sad state. Don't wait until you need
a dog and string before having your
eyes fitted correctly with glasses, go
lat once to George j. Allen, II East
Main street.
! Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Brott and the
formers mother, Mrs. NJ. f. Stillman.
will leave this evening for California
and will locate at Santa Monica. where
Mr.. Brott and his brother Fred, will en-
gage in the restaurant business.
1
! r. W. Chamberlain and A. d. Meeker
went to Waterloo this morning TO at
| tend the Masonic grand lodge. Mr..
| Chamberlain was chosen as alternate
for Worshipful Master A. C. DAILY, who
was unable to attend.
| Owing to the watery condition of its
| right of way the C. r. I. & p. has been
using the line of the Northwestern east
| of Omaha for some of its trains. No.
AZ, the east bound limited on that road,
passed thru the city this morning over
the Northwestern.
The last meeting of Chapter BIB, of
/ p. Il. O., for the year. was held Mon
day afternoon with Mrs. c. E. Patter-
son. Reports of the annual state con-
vention, held recently at Iowa City.
were given by the chapters delegates,
Mrs Cady J. Moffatt and Mrs. II. a.
Kinnan. Miss Aleene Patterson gave
piano numbers during the afternoon,
and Mrs. w. H. Burrows was made a
member of the chapter. Monthly So
cial meetings will be held during the
summer months.
Word received by relatives in this
city from B. G. Falls. until recently
tranmaster of the Iowa Central, with
headquarters in Oskaloosa, now of Nor
folk, Va, where he is employed in
like capacity with the Southern, states
that he got moved Thursday Of last
week to Norfolk from Lawrenceville,
where he was assigned to duty when he
first went south. He is much more
pleased with conditions at Norfolk than
at Lawrence, which is very small
place and inhabited largely by ne
groes.
Mrs. w. j. Irvine. Miss Bertha Han
son and Miss Nora Wheat, delegates
from this city to the annual conven-
ton of the Woman's Foreign Mission
airy Society of the Marshalltown dis
trict. at Iowa Falls, arrived home
Monday evening. Mrs. Irvine who has
been district secretary for the past
four years, continues in office for an
other year. Miss Wheat took part in
the program. giving the reading The
Relief of Lucknow" The convention
began Saturday night and closed Mon
day.
John Whitaker. of Clear Lake, was
in the city Monday looking after bust
ness matters for his father, "Commo-
dore" Isaac Whitaker of the Lake
Shore Hotel. Mr.. Whitaker says that
fishing at Clear Lake is improving
each week. and during the week just
closed was very good indeed, especially
in regard to catches of croppies and
pike. The bass are biting some. but
not as they will when the weather
warns up. Mr.. Whitaker thinks fish
ing will be better at the lake this year
than for several seasons.
The monthly meeting of the Humane
Society was held Monday evening. and
while no definite action vas taken the
matter of the horses purported to nave
been left in the pasture north OF the
river was discussed. representative or
the Associated Charities met with the
society and the two organizations VIII
work together in an effor: to place I'M
der proper care the ten Swedberg
children, whose mother was recently
adjudged insane and taken to hide
pendence An attempt will be made to
place some Of them in the Odd Fellows
Orphans Home, and suitable families
will try to be found for the others.
Mr. Thomas Pollock, of Gearing, was
in the city Monday, en- route as far as
.Centerville with car of horses be-
longing to his son, Thomas Pollock, Jr,
of Flagstaff Ariz. The car contained
three head, Aunty Shucks, the we'll
known pacing mare. recently purchased
by Mr. Pollock from London, Ont, par
ties and two saddlers. After arriving
here with the animals Mr.. Pollock
found that he could not get thru to
Centervile, on account of the condition
Of the Iowa Central's tracks between
here and Oskaloosa, and returned to
Gearing to await more favorable
weather and track conditions.
Owing TO the delay in not sending
word to the Northwood high school
baseball nine regarding the conditions
of the local diamond in Finlile's park,
that team arrived in the city MONDAY
evening and the game will be played