Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-03-09
U. C. L. of Marshalltown Elects
Officers and Enjoys a Social
Session
ES
LIKE
DON'T
As Substitutes for Operators They Are
Not Popular = I. T. Forbes and w.
]. Ogden Change Firms-W. c. Step
henson and Bride Come to Marshall
town = Travelling Mems Notes.

l AC Tie meeting saturday GNSIIuS VI
the q. c. T. of Marshalltown, the fol-
| lowing officers We're elected: Past
past counselor, George Rapp; senior
counselor, S. B. Lusby junior coun
selor, Walter Scott: conductor, Ralph
| Scott; page, j. H. Oberle; sentinel, c.
r. Williams; executive committee. w
j. VanDerveer, Tom Healy, II. w
Shove, S. B. Lusby; secretary and
| treasurer, L. j. Jarrett. Following the
election a smoker was enjoyed.
The east-bound way freight on the
C. G. w. is made up at MarshalltoWn
and leaves our city at 6:45 a. m. This
will be a great accommodation to the
travellers.
| Some of the agents on the c. & n
w. batween Jewell Junction and Tama
do not take very kindly to the COM
pany taking out the telegraph instru-
ments and putting in telephones at
some of the stations. One day last
| week traveller asked the agent at
Written If he would please telephone
Conrad, and find out how the way
freight was. To say he got Il polite
| it, and as he could not find out any
| thing, the agent not knowing how to
use a telephone, he was compelled to
| drive. 1t will not be long before they
will get used to it and everything will
run along as smoothly as formerly.
J. E. Mcdonald of MarshalltoWn. left
Sunday for Eagle Grove, where today
he takes up the grips for the Des
Moines Drug Company. He will COW
er the territory formerly covered by
Liant Campbell, who resigned to go
with the Cash Register people. Nc
has a good many friends in Marshali-
town who wish him the success he de-
serves, and we say to the boys he will
meet in western Iowa, give Nc the glad
hand, for there is none better and he
will be one of the boys from the start.
s4s
M. G. Shove, salesman for the Iowa
Oil Tank Line Company, of Sioux City,
spent Sunday with his family in Mar
shalltown.
l. Il. Forbes, who has represented the
Jackson Corrugated Culvert Company
of Marshalltown, for the past two
years, resigned his position to take a
like one with The Richie Corrugated
Culvert Company of Oskalosoa. His
territory will be southeastern Iowa. Ike
will manage to be at home every Sun
day. w. H. Wray of Oslaloosa. will
take the territory with the Marshall
town firm, made vacant by the resig-
nation of Mr.. Forbes.
w. A. futile, general salesman for
the Marshalltown Buggy Company,
spent the day last Monday at Kalama-
zoo, where he did a fine business.
Hugh Mcconnell, of our city, with the
Defiance, Tick and Mitt Company, re-
turned Friday from very successful
two months trip in Nebraska and
the Dakotas.
w. C. Stephenson, general salesman
for Marshall Field & Co., wholesale
dry goods of Chicago, will on March
ls he married to Miss Elsie Conrad,
of Des Moines, and will move to Mar
shalltown about April 1st, having rent
ed the rooms formerly occupied by Ed
Kinnan at the Smelling residence on
West Main street. We will gladly well
come Mr. and Mrs Stephenson to our
city.
THE many friends of Ed j.. Kinnan,
salesman for Let's, fletcher Company,
of our city, will be pleased to hear
that Mrs. Kinnan is much improved.
ID. w. Wheaton, with the Springfield
Milling Company, and I. S. Rist, with
Wells, Abbott, Nieman Company, of
ing the towns in western Iowa last
week.
Fred II. Taylor, of Oskaloosa, who
travelled for Hubbard. Spencer Bartlett
Company, of Chicago, resigned his po-
sition to go with the Luthe Hardware
Company of Des Moines. He will cover
the territory which has been looked af-
ter by AL Kirchbaum, who left the
firm to go in the manufacturing bus
mess at Burlington.
w. J. Eden, who has represented
Brown, Hurley Company, of Des
,Moines, wholesale hardware, resigned
to go with the Norvell, Shapleigh
Hardware Company, of ST. Louis. w.
j., has many friends in Marshalltown,
who wish him success with his new
firm.
H. C. Schlichling, of Cedar Rapids,
one of Iowa's oldest travelling men,
returned last week from three
months pleasure trip in California.
Henry is much improved in health, and
will now be able to start out as fresh
as ever.