Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-08-10

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Master Mechanic Thomas NJ. Feeley,
of the Iowa Central. was in Peoria
Thursday on company business.
Better get busy with our educa tonal
contest. You may be the lucky one.
$3.50 piano free. Eadie-iWard Music
Co.
Far selection still left in the very
best wallpa pers at Dinges & Everist's
at prices of the cheaper grades. Get
in Saturday.
Eighteen pounds of granulated sugar
for $1.00 at the Co-Operative Grocery.
10 North First avenue. All orders
promptly filled.
John Boggie, 400 West Boone street.
passenger brakeman Of the Iowa
Central, has been confined to his home
for few days by AN attack of illness.
No discounts allowed after the 10th,
but to accommodate patrons our office
will be kept open until p. M, August
10th. Marshallton Light, Power and
Railway Co.
Mrs. c. H. Hull and Mrs. L. r. Will
lard, who have been in Chicago for
few days, while the former has been
receiving treatment for her eyes, re-
turned home Thursday evening.
"A mass meeting of the w. c. L. Y.
will be held at the Prairieville church
next Tuesday. Aug. a. good pro-
gram is being prepared and a number
of unions in this vicinity will be rep
resented.
Superintendent r. l.. Coffeen and
daughter Catherine went to Mason
City this morning Mr.. Coffeen will
deliver an address this evening before
the teachers institute of Cerro Gordo
county, which closes today.
The regular meeting of the Excelsior
Aid Society was held Thursday at the
home of Mrs. Minnie Crawford sos
West Nevada street The afternoon
was spent in the usual way, and re-
freshments were served by the hos
tess.
Mr. and Mrs Joseph MCGEE, of near
Lincoln, Neb.. arrived in the city
Thursday evening for a short visit with
Mr. McGees brother, Mr.. S. B. Chap
man. Mr.. and Mrs. MCGEE have been
visiting with relatives in Dubuque. and
stopped here on their way home.
Mrs. Elizabeth Miller returned
Thursday evening from Waterloo
where since Monday she had been in
attendance at the convention of the
supreme lodge of Highland Mobiles
Mrs. Miller went as supreme officer
of the lodge and was re-elected chap-
lain.
The educational word contest con-
dslctei by the Eadie Ward Music Co,
is attracting vice spread attention. The
firm is being delayed with inquiries
from remote parts of the state, all be-
ing anxious to secure the first prize,
beautiful $3.50 piano.
A large number from this city are
arranging to go to Minneapolis next
week to attend the national encamp-
ment of the G. A. r. Low rates have
been granted by the various railway
lines and many who are not affiliated
with the Grand Army will take advan-
tage of them.
Iowa Central combination mail and
baggage car No. II, which has been
in the local shops for several weeks
being repaired and reprinted, has been
completed and was brought out Thurs
senger trains Nos Is and 16 between
Oskaloosa and Peoria.
Mrs. George A. Turner left for Min
neapolis this morning to visit for about
two weeks with her sister, Mrs. E. A.
Arnold, and with Mr.. Turner's daugh-
ter. Mrs. +. C. Goodman, who is living
al Lake Minnetonka this summer. Mr..
Turner will go to Minneapolis in about
a. week.
The frame buildings at 80 and 81
West Main street. for many years an
eye-sore are being torn down to make
room for modern building. The old
custom of inducing patronage by Of
fering a fictitious cut in prices, is
never practiced by A. E. Wilbur &
Sons sellers of modern furniture at
| modern methods.
Mrs Diana Mason, accompanied by
her daughter-in-law Mrs. Addie Ma
son. and the latter's daughter, Miss
Florence, arrived Thursday from Ster-
ling, ILL.,, and will visit several weeks
at the home of her brother. Mr. Merritt
Greene Mrs. Dr. Ralph, of Omaha, is
also a guest at the Greene home
Mr.. and Mrs. W. H. Burrows and
family, who have been spending two
weeks at Spirit Lake, have returned
home. Mr. Burrows and son Lowell
| went to the lake in Mr.. Burrows tour
ing car, but the car was shipped back
as the continued rains of the past few
days made it impossible to use it. Mr.
Burrows and his son made the trip of
about 200 miles from here to Spirit
Lake in little less than ten hours.
Mrs. Lee Moran and daughter Err
Vile, of Walla Walla, Wash, are Wis.,
iting the formers sister-in-law, Mrs.
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