Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1903-03-21

! snanks. OBITUARY resolutions. and similar
uotlSes Will be charged at tho rate of Scents
per Inc Tor each Insertion.
THE CITY In BRIEF
Chamberlain, optician.
DIR. Phelps, opthamologist.
DR.. Burkart. osteorath. 300 West
Main.
Mrs. A. w. Dudley is i'll With typhoid
fever.
S. G. Bentley. real estate broker "a
East Main street.
Pearl buttons for shirt waists, cents
per dozen. Archie Parker
Special display of spring millinery
at Miss Middlekauff's next THURSDAY
and Friday.
Socialist Club meeting next Monday
evening at o'clock. Every one is in
vited. Over Oppice's store.
Mrs. J. W. Swander,. of Minerva, is
quite seriously i'll at her home, on the
Jared Elliott farm, suffering an attack
of erysipelas
1t is time that you called and selected
your Easter hat, as our new styles are
arriving daily. Get in line for Easter.
Sizer, West Main.
One of the best places in the city for
rent cheap. Eight rooms, all modern
improvements; with or without barn
Delano I. Smith, court house.
The Marietta township C. c. C. Mus
steal Club met this afternoon with Opal
and Robert Shewalter at Hartland
After the program Mrs. Shewalter
served light refreshments
The members of the N. II. Club of
the high school entertained their young
lady friends at dancing party in the
Odd Fellows hall Friday night About
twenty couples We're present
The young people OF the G. w. S. T.
Club We're entertained at their regular
bi-weekly social session at the home of
Mr.. George Fletcher Friday evening
The evening was spent with various
amusements, including billiards. at the
G. F. Kirby home.
The ladies of the W. r. C. Aid So
ciety spent Friday afternoon with Mrs.
h. Jennie Smith. S12 West Church
street. The guests brought their lunch
and needle work and spent a most en-
joyable afternoon. The affair was a
complete surprise to Mrs. Smith.
Quite a party of Eldora lovers of
music are making arrangements to at
tend the Theodore Thomas orchestra
concert in this city on March 81. Sec
rotary rockingham, of the Y. NJ. C. A.,
having received this morning a request
to reserve twenty seats for the party.
Mr.. +. r. Gilman, who will be re-
membered by IA number OF Marshall
town friends as having formerly been
connected with the circulation depart
ment OF the Inter-Ocean, spent Friday
in the city. Mr.. Gilman is now with the
Royal baking powder people, and is
making his first trip turnout the west
His territory has heretofore been con-
fined to the east and south.
Mrs. A p. Thayer. who has beer
making her home in this city with her
son. Mr.. George F. Thayer, during the
evening for Sioux City, where she will
remain until June with her daughters,
Mrs. H. A. Knepper and Charles Null
Ian. Mrs Thayer will go to okoboji for
the heated term and expects to return
to Marshalltown to spent the winter.
Mrs. Mary Chapman. of Des Moines,
mother OF Miss Lulu Chapman. who
is known to many Marshalltown
friends, ended her life by suicide Thurs
day evening. Mrs. Chapman was de-
spondent owing to i'll health, and while
alone in her home hung herself to one
OF the rafters in the garnet. Mrs. May
Chapman Adams, of Waterloo. passed
thru the city today, en- route to Des
Moines to attend the funeral.
When the furniture and carpets are
piled on the porch, and the man of the
house takes his meals down town, it
is sure sign that the spring cam
paign of house cleaning is on In earn
est. Many Of the household goods are
too much Worn to use another year.
and as we have everything you need
in the way OF lace curtains, rugs and
linoliums. and at prices that will sur
prise you. Marion Gard.
Mr.. George E. Adams arrived home
Friday from Ashby and other Massa-
chusetts points, where he has been for
two months. in company with his wife
and son, John Edward, and father, Mr..
George L. Adams. While at Ashby, at
the old Adams homestead, Father
Adams celebrated his 18th anniversary,
by relatives and old friends
in happy reunion. Mrs. Adams and
son and Mr.. George L. Adams will be
home within the next few weeks.
Fancy neck ribbons 10 cents per yard.
Archie Parker.
The best duck shooting obtained in
this locality during the present flight
is reported from Liscomb. where j. II.
Drummer, of this city, and j. d. kibbey.
Of Liscomb, bagged fifty-three in one
days and a mornings shootinga The
anticipation of the change in the
weather, sending the birds hurrying
southwark again. put the sportsmen
in their blinds Tuesday night. The
fight did not begin, however, until
Thursday, when several flocks We're
lured to open water in the Liscomb
bottoms. by a dozen live decoys, over
which the men shot. Shooting was
very fair all day and again Friday
morning. The birds We're largely fine,
FL