Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-02-04
KNIGHTS Of The GRIP
Mr.. Shove Finds Boys From
Other Towns Boosting Worse
Than Ever
INrERuRBAN OF INrEREs'
Many Items of Personal Interest Con-
corning Men Travelling in Iowa, and
Some Regarding Travellers Who In
tend to Move to MarshaIltown to
Make 1t Their Home.

tend to Move to Marshalltown to
Make 1t Their Home.
Boys, we must not forget to boom
Marshalltown. while the fever is on.
Look at Des Moines, never in It's MS
tory have the boys of that place work.
ed SO hard as at present. You meet a
Des Moines traveller, If you are not
careful he will have you wearing a
boosters button. The same with Wa
| terloo. / happened to be in a crowd OF
Waterloo boys and they were talking
their city as the greatest city in Iowa
| to live in. but think we have them
beaten. am surprised to find lew
Of our class knocking the interurpah
making remarks, Don't think you Will
see 1t go thru ETC.. and / also find a
good many kickers in the city. Why is
it? You will always find the most
clubs under the best apple trees ana
so it seems with Marshall. Our motto
ought to be if we can not say some
thing good, keep still. There is one
thing sure, if we do not act and act
quick, the interurban roads will be
built all around US. There is hardly
a city in Iowa half the size of Mar
shalltown but what they are talking in
terurban roads. Quite crowd of trav-
elers were gathered at Brooklyn on
Wednesday evening last and for two
hours two of Marshaltown's boys held
the boards We talked as we never
talked before to interest number OF
eastern travellers, should they want to
locate west to be sure and visit us pc
fore locating in Iowa. We can do good
if we will talk Marshalltown every
spare moment we have. No reason why
we should not
]. A. Andres, Of Waterloo, for over
thirty-one years with Rider Wallace
Dry Goods Company of Dubuque, has
retired from the road and will move on
his fruit farm at Nampa, Idaho. Be
fore leaving for his new home, the
travelling men of Waterloo on last Sat
urday evening presented Mr.. and Mrs.
Andres each with very fine suit case
and grip. The presentation speech
was made by c. H. Rohde which show
ed the friendship they held for both
Mr.. and Mrs. Andres. While the gath
v,1a at
also a sad one owing to the parting
with long time friends, whom all had
learned to love as one of their own
family.
Roy Roberts with Let's, Fletcher
Co, after an illness of two weeks, is
again on duty.
It has been rule with the railroad
companies in Iowa for number OF
years, to issue to travelling men per-
mits which would allow them to ride
on all trains to and from stations where
the freight trains stop. But new
ruling has been made by all roads not
to issue any more permits. With the
taking away of these, and not stopping
the fast trains, it has worked a hard
ship on a good many of the boys.
Should the 2-cent fare pass, from
what superintendent of one of the
leading roads said to me the other
day, We ms expect to see a great
many changes in the train service that
will work great hardship on all COM
mercial travellers
o. W. Waldman an old Marshall
town boy, visited the trade and re-
newed old acquaintance on Friday.
II. B. Hartjens, general salesman for
the Eagle Lye Works of Milwaukee,
left for a two weeks trip thru north |
ern Iowa.
No doubt a great many of the elder |
grip carriers, will remember and also
be panied to learn, that L. j. Beason, |
formerly of Marshalltown vicinity, and
for the past 20 years travelling for
Clark Quien and Morse, of Peoria, Ill,
wholesale hardware has been forced to
resign his position on account of i'll |
geles, Cal. All his many friends hope
he may recover.
A. w. McGregor, of Rock Island, 1lli-
nois visited the trade in Grinnell on
Thursday last in the interest of the
Ganset Candy Manufacturing Co. He
Joined the ranks of the Fl. G. M. A.
and will make another booster for
C. H. Rohde, one Of the leading trav-
elers Of Waterloo, visited the trade in
our city on Friday for Lampher Skinner
& Co. Mr. Rehde is one of the state
officers for the U. c. I. and is one of
its hardest workers.
John Petty has changed his line from
coffees. with the Mclaughlin Coffee
to registers, with the Nc
Caskey company, of Alliance Ohio.
John is we'll pleased with his new line. |
Harry M. Rogers, one of the old trav-
ers, after an absence of six years, has
to his old territory. Harry is
general salesman for the we'll known
firm, the Van Camp Packing Company,
Of Indianapolis, Ind. He visited his |
friends in Marshalltown last week.
E. A. Waller, of Columbus, Ohio,
with the Clark Grave Vault company, |
called on the trade in Iowa last week.
Mr. Waller is fine gentleman to meet,
and thinks we'll of orr CITY Shou1d he