Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-06-01
Travelling Men Note Disposition
on Part of Milwaukee Road
to Improve Depots
RAINS INTERRUPT BUSINESS
Road Men Obliged to Lay Up Several
Days Last Week = Travellers Taking
Unusual Interest in Politics, and Re-
main at Home to Vote Tuesday =
Newsy Notes.

It will not be the fault of the man
agement of the c., NJ. & st. p. railroad
in Iowa If their stations are not kept
neat and clean, as they are instruct-
ing their agents in this regard. They
intend that when the public has to
wait for trains that the rooms shall be
inviting, and that patrons will moi have
been the custom at some of their sta
tions. I could not help but notice how
mich the depot at Manila has been
improved, and the superintendent in
tends In a few days to change the
lights so as to make 1t much more
pleasant for the waiting public. Perry
Is another station that needs quite
little more looking after than formerly.
tsa,s
Mr.. Charles Dearman, the popular
landlord of Maxwell, Ia, has again
leased the Maxwell house an6 took
possession one week ago. The house
has been thoroughly overhauled and
put In first class shape. This is good
news to the travelling men, for Mr..
Dearman is one of the most efficient
hotel men on the c., NJ & st. P.
road.
The rains of the last few days played
havoc with the travelling men OF Iowa,
as there was hardly road that was
M u-oC in rs nf
state, causing the travellers to lay up
stand little grief, for the crops never
looked better and prospects brighter
for good falls business.
$50
Dan Marston, salesman for Let's
Fletcher company, of our city, accom-
panied by Mrs. AIarston left Saturday
last for months visit in the east
This is the first time in years that Dan
has taken vacation and the rest will
surely do him good Some of the boys
at the house knowing that Dan en-
joys q good joke, purchased everything
they could find that they thought he
might need on trip of this kind. To
see the articles one would think they
were getting them for a new married
couple.
I notice that great many of the
travelling men all over the state are
going to remain at home until after
election. No time in years have the
travellers taken the interest in politics
that they have this year, and it looks
as il Marshalltown boys would do their
part.
ID. NJ. Keefer, with the German
American Coffee Company, arrived
home Saturday night from q week
spent in Ottumwa at the pure food
exhibit, which he says was very profit
able.
John Havener, with e. -. Hood, COM
mission merchant, of Marshalltown, is.
working UP a fine business for one of
our leading industries. John will make
all the towns ON the Story City
south as Oskaloosa-
e. w. Winery, general agent for
the w. r. Soash Land Company, Of
Waterloo, for northwestern Iowa. spent
part Of last week calling on his agents.
e. W. has territory so arranged that
he needs to be away from home but
very little.
John Minor, with Groneweg &
Schoentgen, wholesale grocers of
Council Bluffs, called on his trade on
the G. & N. w. last week. John al
ways has warm spot in his heart
for MarshalltoWn and its people.
III. p. Draper, with Black Hawk
Coffee Company, OF Waterloo. called
on the trade in Coon Rapids last
Thursday. To say that H. B. did not
get mad while there, does not half ex-
press it. When In Coon Rapids he
happened to take dinner at the res
the landlord Of the hotel, who tele-
phoned H. BIS customer not to buy
goods Of him, as he stopped at the
restaurant.
n. B. Beatty, salesman for Requa
Bros, commission merchants of our
city, Is enjoying visit from his
brother and family, Of Chicago.
F. NJ. Clark, with George P. Ide &
Co, manufacturers of shirts and coll
lars, of Chicago, was doing a fine
business in Coon Rapids last Thurs
day. F.. NJ. has lately moved his
family from Cedar Rapids to Omaha,
which enables him to be at home |
every Sunday. Mr.. Clark Is; an old
Marshalltown boy and says there
never was city finer to live in.
Lou H. Sawyer, Of Des Moines, at
one time one of the G. & N. WIS best
known and most popular passenger
conductors, who resigned to engage in
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