Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-04-13
Improved Train Service OH the
Milwaukee Affords Accom-
modations to Travellers
LANDS 4 BIG CONTRACT
MarshaIItown Furnace Salesman Beats
Out mpetitors-charIes Miller OFF
Duty With an Injured Hand-W. 3.
Elliott to Travel in Three States
Other Items Of Interest.

A new time card took effect on the
c., Nd. & ST. p. yesterday with the fol-
lowing changes on the Council Bluffs
division. No. east bound day train,
will leave Council bluffs ten minutes
mouth and Panama, arriving in Chi
cage at same time. No. II, west bound,
the afternoon passenger, will leave
Marion ten minutes later, and will stop
on signal at Newhall, Van Horn, Key
stone, Elberon, Dawson, Bagley and
Bayard, in addition to stops this train
already makes. No. 2, east bound,
night passenger, will leave Perry ten
minutes earlier, and will stop on signal
at Woodward, Collins, Rhodes, Mel
bourne, Elberon, keystone, Van Horn
and Newhall in addition to present
stops. The stopping Of No. will give
the above stations an additional Chi
cago train.
The new superintendent, w. B. Fos-
ter, intends to do everything IN ms
power towards the accommodatlon OF
the patrons of the road.
j. w. Zuch, sales manager for the
Lennox Furnace Company, of our city,
spent the day last Thursday at Rein
beck. when he closed the contract for
Installing the heating plant for the new
high school of that city. The contract
calls for one of the largest jobs ever
put out by the company. This surely
speaks we'll for one of MarshalltoWn's
Industries, and without doubt Mr. Zuch
is one of the best furnace statesmen in
Iowa. The competition on this job was
strong and sharp and it was up to the
one who could show the best plans.
sss
r. N. Wilt, salesman for the Oliver
Typewriter Company, of Chicago, spent
Sunday in Marshalltown, a guest OF
his friend, A. j. Weadley. The boys
had not met for over ten years, and to
say they had good visit does not halt
express it, as they were chums in
their boyhood days.
BOD DeleSSeT, Sdle'SIIletlI lO1 N.
French Spice Company, covered the c.,
NJ. & ST. P. territory last week with
J. F. Whitaker, in the interest of Let's,
Fletcher Company. of our city.
W.5B. Elliott, of our city, has Sc
cured the position as special agent for
the Buffalo German Insurance Com
pany and Buffalo Commercial Insur-
ance Company Of Buffalo, N. Y, for
Iowa, Nebraska and Minnesota, with
headquarters in our, city. Mr.. Elliott
can manage to be at home at least two
Sundays each month.
A. o. Peterson, of Des Moines, sales
man for the Iowa Drug Company, has
severed his connection with the firm,
and will after May 1. or as soon as
some one can be secured to take his
place, cover his same territory for the
American Druggist Syndicate, of Chi
cage.
H. N. White, representing the Sim
mons Hardware Company of st. Louis.
made the towns west on the c., M. &
st. p. last week. II. N. reports trade
as picking up very fast this month,
much better than was expected
Tom P. Calvert started out last week
for the Eagle Lye Works of Milwau-
kee, and will cover Iowa and Minneso-
ia territory under the management OF
Harry Hartjens, of our city.
H. L. Hawkins, the northern Iowa
Of the German Aneri-
can Coffee Company, spent the day
Thursday in Grundy Center with good
results Brother Hawkins is said to
be the finest looking coffee salesman
in Iowa.
A. Janney, of our city, spent part
Of last week in the towns on the Bur-
lington in the interest of the firm in
which he is partner at Whitehall,
Mich.
Charles Miller with the German AM
erican Coffee Company. with territory
in Minnesota, is at home for three
weeks stay, owing to an accident
which he met with last week. Charles
undertook to throw his grip on the
steps of freight caboose, and in do
ng so struck the back of his hand