Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-07-29
Gossip Of Interest Among the
Commercial Statesmen Making
Iowa Territory
GOOD IN BUSINESS
Four Knights of the Grip Who Started
Manufacturing Plant Succeeding -
Mrs. konvaIinka Recovering From
Serious Accident = Several Men
Change Lines-Notes.

A. G. Johnson, general salesman for
Wyman, Partridge & Company OF Min
neapolis, wholesale dry goods, left
Saturday evening for the city, where
he expects to meet number Oh ms
customers and sell them their fall
stocks.
w. H. Tosney, with Wynan, Partridge
& Company, who has been making
his home in our city for the past six
months as an assistant 10 A. G. john
son, left for Minneapolis last week
and expects to start out soon to WORK
a territory for himself.
Jim Jepsen, who for number OF
years clerked in one of the large dry
goods stores at DIN, Ia. resigned a
short time ago to take position on the
road with the Iowa Cold Storage Com
pany. of Clinton. Jim is meeting with
good success. He was in Monticello
on Wednesday last.
w. ]. Eden, with the BroWn-Hurly
Hardware Company, of Des Moines,
was a caller on the trade in Brooklyn
last Wednesday, w. j. is one of the
boys, and commands many friends on
the road, as we'll as in our city.
Will Mowrey, salesman for the WOOL
sen Spice Company. of Toledo, O., was
in Grinnell on Thursday last Mr..
Mowrey has taken the territory for
merly covered by the late George r.
Wenrick, who died the Srd of July.
Dick Quinn, salesman for the Black
Hawk Coffee and Spice Company. OF
Waterloo, and Will Wren, with j. N.
B. Moos, cigar distributor, of Des
Moines, were a jolly pair who travelled
together On the Rock Island last week.
Dick, with his fine singing, and Will.
with his number Of stories, kept the
boys all week from getting blue. Any
time you wish to be entertained just
call on Dick. He is there with the
goods, being fine baritone singer.
w. NJ Hodges, salesman for Sin
clair's Packing Company, of Cedar
Rapids, has returned from his three
weeks vacation and starts out today
on his territory.
Mrs. NJ J. Konvalinka of Cedar Rap
ids, the wife of our friend, Con. repre-
senting the Pretzlaff Hardware Com
pany Of Milwaukee, met with quite an
accident some two weeks ago, by fall
ing down stairs at her friends house
in Mason City. She = reported as
getting along quite wei, but it will
take a few weeks before she is herself
again.
George Erbes, salesman for the Or
chard City Wagon Company, of Bur-
lington, is one of the Oldest travellers
making Iowa territory. He has not
will on August take the vacation long
looked for, and will start for Califor-
MIA and other western points to be
gone sixty days. We hope the rest
from duty will be a great benefit to
his health.
H. N White, of our city, salesman
for the Simmons Hardware Company
Of st. Louis, is taking a ten days rest
from road work and is spending the
time at home.
The proudest travelling man who
walked the streets of MarshalltoWn on
Sunday was Harry Comparet, with
Luther Hardware Company of Des
Moines. all owing to the arrival of
ten-pound boy at his house on Satur-
day last. He has the congratulations
of the family's many friends, and all
hope the boy when grown will make
the hustler that his father is.
The following oldtime travelling men
Of Dubuque, Al Flick, B. Gunderson,
Sam Arnold and Ira Shambaugh OPP
ened the Dubuque Paper Company and
for the year just passed worked hard
to win. Their efforts have been
crowned with success, for today they
are doing very large business.
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