Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-03-25
KNIGHTS OF The GRIP.
Travelling Men Will Cooperate
in Efforts to Make MARSHALL
town a Sunday Town
CHANGES AND PERSONAL NOTES
Several Well Known Commercial Men
90 to Other Firms-c. II. Russell
Succeeding as Manager Of Whole
sale Hou.s-A Poetic Tribute to the
Knights Of the Grip.
The TRAVELLING Man.

The Travelling Man.
compliments Of Midland Hotel, Kan
sas City, MOI
Could drink OF the nectar the gods
only can,
would fill up my glass to the brim:
And drink the success of the travelling
man
And the house represented by him.
And could I but tincture this glorious
draught
With his srailes as think Of him
then,
And the jokes he has told and the
laughs he has laughed,
I would I'LL UP the goblet again
And drink to the sweetheart who babe
him good bye
With tenderness thrilling in this
Very hour, as he thinks of the tear
in her eye
That saddened the sweet Of her kiss.
TO her, truest Of hearts and fairest of
hands,.
would drink with all serious pray
era,
Since the heart she must trust is a
travelling mans
And as warm as the ulster he wears.
I would drink to the wife, with the
babe on her knee,
Who awaits his returning in vain,
And breaks his brief letters so trem-
ulously,
And reads them again and again
I would drink to the feeble old mother,
who sits
BY the warm flreside Of her son,
And murmurs and weeps Ger the
stockings she knits,
AS she thinks Of the wandering one.
I would drink to the strangers ana
friends,
Who have met him with smiles and
good cheer,
To the welcoming hands that good fell
lows extend,
To the wayfarer journeying here.
And at last when he turns from this
earthly abode
And pays the last fare that ne can,
Mine host Of the inn at the end OF the
road
viii welcome the travelling man.
have noticed articles in the T.-R.
that have appeared from time to time
IS regards arrangements being made to
entertain visitors who might happen to
spehd Sunday at the hotels in our city,
nv taking them out riding In the after
noon. The time is now ripe to make
some such an arrangement and should
the Commercial club wish to undertake
s II. they will find the travelling men
ready to cooperate with them in the
undertaking. Mr.. c. n. Fogate, pro-
prietor Of the Newcombe hotel of
Quincy, Ill, has adopted plan of this
sort, and has made Quincy one of the
leading Sunday cities In Illinois.
G.. n. Russell at one time salesman
for Let's, Fletcher Company, Of our
city. but now manager for the William
son, Halsell, Frasier Company, whole
sale grocers OF Chickasha, I. T.. spent
last Wednesday in Marshalltown visit
Ing his friends. Clarence for years was
one Of Iowa's successful grocery sales
men, and is meeting with splendid sue
cess in his new position.
1 ~ E <
n. l.. Miller, the Iowa representative
chants of Chicago, was looking after
business in the towns on the Milwau- |
kee last week. n. L. spent Sunday in
our city with his parents, Mr.. and Mrs.
w. A. Miller, on North Fourth street.
E. E. Peck, representing Reid. MUIR
dock & Co, wholesale grocers Of Chi
cago, took his usual number OF orders
from the trade in Marshalltown on last
Tuesday. Mr.. Peck is covering the
territory formerly looked after by o. NJ.
Boyles of Marion He lately moved his
family from Deadwood, S. D.. to Des
Moines, Iowa.
Jim Hartman, who took the territory
for c. c. Prouty, wholesale grocers of
Des Moines, formerly worked by w. j.
Van Derveer, was writing large orders
on the towns on the G. N. w. Jim says
he is having dandy business, and it
was a lucky strike for him when he
was able to gets Vans old trade.
Art J. Keyes salesman for P. G.
Frick, wholesale grocers of Cedar Rap
ids, was at Grundy Center on Thurs
day. Art is today one Of the Oldest
grocery statesmen on the road, having
been with the above firm over thirty
years. He commands large business.
mr.. George Harris, who for years
represented Arbuckle Bros. in Iowa, but
for the past two years was in busi-
ness in Waterloo, has again taken up
the grips for E. B. Miller & Co., whole
sale teas and coffees, Of Chicago, and
will cover the territory formerly COW
cred by the late David ]. Paige.
George Ely. the well known sales
man for j. H. Bell & Co., wholesale
teas and coffees, of Chicago, was all
smiles on Thursday last, because Of
the honesty Of the employees of the
windsor hotel at Reinbeck, Ia, who
to Mr.. Ely his pocketbook,
containing over $50, which they found
under the pillow in, room occupied by
him the night before.
It is with sadness we chronicle the
5ootb IF o,,r fr;and and fellow traveller |