Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1907-10-21
KNIGHTS Of The GRIP
Travelling Men Find Much to
Complain Of in Service Pro-
vided BY Railways
HOTELS ARE RAISING RATES
HOTELS ARE RAISING RATES
saIesmen's Expense Accounts Growing
Roy Roberts Leaves Let's Fletoh-
or Company and Goes to Pacific
Coast to Accept Good Position-To
Visit Local Factories Next Saturday.


admitted that the increase in passen-
ger business is 90 per cent over the
year 1906, is it not about time they get
busy and give us q little better train
service? They have tried long enough
to play even for the tWo-cent rate IL
they do not do better, as has the C.,
II. l. g. p, the travelling men OF Iowa
will have to get busy and see that
there is law compelling them to help
is an outrage the way we are used by
some of the roads.
The manufacturers Of MarshalltoWn
are making arrangements to receive
the travelling men of our city Satur-
day, October g. 1t liz the wish of the
committee in charge that as many OF
the travelling men as possible be on
hand at the council rooms by $3.50 a.
M, in order that we get an early
start There is not travelling man IN
our city but what can afford to put in
at least part of the day inspecting the
factories. 1t will be quite surprise
to many of us to know of the goods
that are being manufactured in our
midst.
Roy Roberts for the past nine years
special salesman for the Let's, Fletcher
Company OF Marshalltown, has severed
his connection with the firm and will
leave Thursday for Portland, Ore,
where, on Nov. 1, he will enter the en-
ploy Of Lang &; Co., wholesale grocers,
as assistant sales manager. Roy is one
of the most upright and trustworthy
travelling men of Iowa, and by hard
work and faithful attention to bust
ness, has made his services valuable.
He has great many friends, not only
in our city, who will regret to see him
leave, but we all wish him the success
he deserves.
B. M. Cleveland, salesman for The
Fowler Grocery Company of Waterloo,
owns and operates one of the best no.
tells in Iowa at Usage. 1t has been d,
50 a day hotel until Oct. 1, when the
rates were advanced so cents to 70
cents per day. 1t is not appreciated in
the least by the travellers who are GUS
toners of the hotel, and from what is
being said by the boys, it surely will
not pay. The majority of the travellers
do not feel as if they are able to pay
over 81 per day.
NJ v. watrons visited his old friends
In our city last week. A few years
ago NJ " was one of the travelling
men working out of Marshalltown.
The travelling men who make Max
well appreciate the interest the land.
lord, Charles Dearman, takes in them.
It is quite customary for a great many
of the boys to run to Maxwell on the
late trains to stay over night. One day
last week the rooms in his hotel We're
all taken by six p. m. so Mr.. Dearman
telephoned to the nearby towns for the
boys to stay where they were, as he
could not accommodate them. The boys
truly appreciate his interest in them,
for if there is anything traveller re-
grets to do after hard days work, is
to have to sit up al might.
j. w. LLOYD, salesman 1OT u chicago
type foundry, arrived home from two
months trip in Wisconsin. j. W. has
changed his territory from Iowa to
Wisconsin and will move his family to
Milwaukee in a few days.
H. S. Benjamin, of Waterloo, is out
in the interest of e. B. Miller q Co.,
wholesale teas and coffees of Chicago.
Mr.. Benjamin will cover the territory
formerly covered by the late Mr.. Paige.
H. S. was calling on trade in Traer last
Friday.
George Rapp, salesman for the G. L.
Percival company, of Des Moines, was
in Reinbeck on Friday. If there is
anything George enjoys it is to have to
wait for a c., G. w. train. They are
seldom on time and when they do ar
rive there is standing room only.
w. M. Isham, one of the Oldest shoe
statesmen covering Iowa territory, spent
the day last Friday with his trade in
Traer. A few years ago Mr.. Isham said
good by to road work owing to poor
health, and for a year or more was
not expected to live, but today he is
looking better and feels younger than
he did ten years ago.