Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-26
KNIGHTS Of The GRIP
Il. c. NJ. A. Annual Meeting
Expected to Re-elect
Present Officers
LOCATING IN MARsHALLToWN
City's Colony of Travelling Statesmen on
the Increase and lnducement Held
Out For More to com.-Reception
For Iowa's Oldest Travelling Man
Unaccommodating Conductor.

The annual meeting OF the n.
c. M. A, will be held at Waterloo,
Jan. 9. 1909. Officers to be elected are
president, vice president, secretary and
treasurer. Three directors are to be
elected, one to reside in Marshall
town, and two of whom shall reside
in the state outside of Marshalltown.
The one retiring in the city is j. L..
Jarrett. who is up for reelection. The
other two are William Bollinger, Of
Waterloo, and w. H. Darner, of Des
Moines- Both are up for reelection.
They have all made good members on
the board, and no doubt will be re-
turned AS far as the secretary and
treasurer, Mr.. VanDeveer has filled the
position to the satisfaction of ALL and
there will be no opposition whatever.
A few years ago. travel where you
would, you would hear the oft-repeated
question: What is the matter with
Marshalltown? but the change that
has come in the past three years is
simply wonderful. On every hand they
now say: What a great city you have;
everything there is on the BOOM" I
notice one thing that would give Mar
shalltown a much better appearance
and would make us look as if we took
some interest in the appearance of the
city. The city fathers ought to insist
that all electric light and telephone
poles be painted. Present conditions
remind one Of going into a city where
they do not paint their houses. Wat
erloo gives one a good impression of
the way they do things by the appear
ance of the poles in the streets. Just
take a trip up there and see how far
behind them we are in that respect, or
take a trip to the Marshall Oil mills
They have set a good example.
w. H. Darner, the flour king. with
the Sleepy Eye Milling company, of
Sleepy Eye, Mimi, worked his trade In
cities tributary to Cedar Rapids all
last week. W. H. has liking for
MarshalltoWn, altho he is nicely located
in Des Moines.
we uOu WdHL. lHe travelling HeH
who are contemplating making a
change from one city to another as is
often the case at this time of the year,
to forget that Marshalltown is the best
home for the boys in Iowa. At the
rate they are moving in our midst, by
the fall of 1909 we ought to number
500. We can offer them the same con-
veniences they can get in much
larger city, with the best of railroad
facilities, as one of the boys who had
to move to Des Moines some months
ago said. 'Yor don't realize what
you have in Marshalltown; one can
live so much cheaper in every respect.
There is not a city in Iowa where
can be shown so many improvements.
Over thirty houses have been put UP
in the Second ward this year, and
there are in sight now ten new ones
so far for next year, and l am proud
to say that a great number of them
are put up by travelling men. So don't
forget Marshalltol.a and the Second
ward, when you want to secure a home
in the best part of the finest city in
Iowa.
A reception was given a week ago in
Cedar Rapids, by the travelling men of
that city, in honor of one of their boys,
the Oldest traveller known in the coun-
try, T. c. Eldridge, with the Yankton
Milling company, who has followed
road work continually for over fifty
one years. He is now past 70 years,
but looks and acts much younger. We
To him for me-
to come.
A number of travelling men are very
indignant at the treatment received by
the conductor Of one of the Northwest
ern passenger trains at Abbott Cross
ing. The Iowa Central freight pulled
in just as the passenger train was
ready to pull out. The freight brake
man ran ahead and notified the pas
senger train that they had passengers.
but they would not wait It would
have taken less than five minutes to
accommodate a number of passen-
gers.
Jess Postlewait, one of the oldest
drug statesmen in Iowa, with Hartz,
hansen company, OF ROCK ISlallQ, is
suffering from the rheumatism and is
taking few days off, which he is
spending at Colfax in hopes that the
water may benefit him. His many
friends hope to see a speedy recovery.
W. E. Trexler, salesman for the
Stoffregan Coffee COM
pany, Of st. Louis, accompanied J. w.
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