Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1906-07-09
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THE CITY IN BRIEF

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Dance at Forneys hall Wednesday
after band concert. Electric fans.
| Put your fur coats away in a Tarine
moth bag. M. +. Andrews sells them
| We have few wash suits left tc
sell at extremely low prices. NJ. r
Andrews.
White and colored tam shanters
duck caps and hats in the newest
shapes for outing. A. H. Simon, 80
East Main.
w. a. Jacobs, sociaistic lecturer
of Davenport, will speak I'M the court
| house park this evening on subjects
Of interest to the party.
Attend the lawn social given by the
Congregational Ladies. Aid Society on
the Balch and Sears lawn tonight. Ice
cream and cake and music 10 cents.
Misses Louise and Mabel Miller left
for Clear Lake this morning to attend
the International Sunday School Train
ing School, which is in session there
this week.
Rev. j. A. Huffman and son. Paul,
will give sacred concert at the Con-
gregational church Tuesday evening.
July TO- Admission 35 cents. Every
body come.
;e, a. ia To fry c1,
if in Chicago. People demand sub
stantial furniture at fair prices. That
is why A. g. Wilbur & Sons are
flooded with orders.
Engine No. 40, which has been In
the Central shops for an overhauling,
was. turned out Sunday to be limbered
up for the pass ger service. The en-
CINE will be placed on runs Nos. and
6 and / and 2.
Mrs. Frank Moran, 107 South Tenth
street, who was taken quite violently
sick last Wednesday, is much inn
proved, altho she was seriously i'll for
a time. Mrs. Moran has been suffer-
ing with symptoms of typhoid fever.
Mr.. Harry Arnold went to Marietta
Saturday evening to spend Sunday
with Harry Shannon, of this city, and
his brother, james Shannon, of Chi
cago, who have been camping on the
banks of the Iowa river near there for
a few days.
Our office viii be open Tuesday
evening, July 10th, until 8 p. M, to
accommodate all who wish to take adj
vantage OF this discounts allowed on
all bills when paid on or before said
date. Marshalltown Light, Power &
Railway Co.
Master Mechanic Thomas NJ. Feeley,
of the Iowa Central left for Peoria this
morning to attend meeting of the
master mechanics and master car
builders of the roads that enter Peoria
The purpose of the meeting is to make
uniform rules governing the inter-
change of cars at Peoria.
Miss Harriet Hinchliff, of Rockford,
ILL.,, arrived in the city Saturday even
ing and is guest at the home of her
aunt, Mrs. e. r. Lay. Miss Hinchliff
will be in the city for several weeks,
and will also visit with Miss Josephine
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College, before returning home.
A team belonging to Ferneau Bros.
house movers, which was left standing
on Linn street near Second avenue
this morning, ran away. and racing
west thru the alley below Linn street,
dashed into telephone pole west of
Center street. The horses were not
hurt, but the wagon was slightly dam
aged,
A letter received Saturday by rela-
tives of Mr.. John M. Speer, who is at
Excelsior Springs, Mo. being treated
for dropsy, says Mr.. Speer continues to
improve with gratifying rapidity. He
has reduced in flesh so that he is no
longer able to wear the clothing he
took with him, and for the first time in
months is able to sleep lying down in
bed.
Charles Winters. formerly of this
city, who for about the past year has
been foreman of the iowa Central
roundhouse at Oskaloosa, will be trans
ferred back to this city Tuesday, and
will be given a position in the shops.
He will be succeeded at Oskaloosa by
j. H. Martin, of Cedar Rapids, who has
been in the employ of the Chicago,
Rock Island and Pacific.
Miss Harriet VanDeveer, of this
city. and Miss Maxine Kelly, of st.
Joseph, Mo-, former teachers in this
city's schools, who have been teaching
in Seattle for the past two years, are
in the city. Miss VanDeveer will re-
main during most of the summer with
her parents, Mr. and Mrs. j. w. Van
Deveer. Miss Kelly is visiting with
Miss Grace Farrand and other friends
She will remain for short time, and
will then go to ST Joseph, Mo-, to
visit at her home, returning here be-
fore leaving for Seattle. Both will de-
part to resume their work late in Au-
gust as school commences In Seattle
Sept. 3.
The expectations of a burglar who
entered the L. w. Robbins home, 206
East State street, Sunday night, were
sadly disappointed, as the booty OBJ
tanned was only a 50-cent pocket piece
carried by Mr.. Robbins. who had plac
ed his other loose change in his vest
pocket, which the unknown burglar did
not modest. The man first attempted
to enter the house by means of kitch-
en- window, the screen being found on
the ground this morning, but failing
there. went around to a north bed
room window. which he found open.
and gained easy entrance by cutting
the screen. The room was unoccupied.
So he was l1pIooleSte1 and evidently