Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-20
KNIGHTS Of TIE GRIP
MILWAUKEE ROADS LOCAL Ac.
coMMoDArIoNs TAKE DE-
>.,., clDED SLUMP.
BUT ONE LOCAL TRAIN
EVERY TwENrY-EouR HOURS
Travellers Say They Will Have to Re-
sort to Flying misunderstanding
town Man Assumes Control of Rein
beck HoteI-News Concerning tho
Travellers.

Not In the history Of the existence of
the c., M. & ST. p has the passenger
service been as poor for local travel
as at the present time. There is but one
passenger train each way in twenty
four hours that stops at al stations.
There is way freight that makes a
trip. perhaps once day if the day is
long enough, otherwise they tie UP as
they did at Tama one day last week
Knowing the superintendent as we'll as
we do, we feel that as soon as they
realize the trouble of the public who
have to travel the road they will sure
ly make a change. We happened to
be with number of people who We're
returning from the west, when a lady
and gentleman returning from Wyo-
ming for Maxwell, were put off of No.
6, their fast train, at Madrid to wait
until next day. In the party was a
young lady with a ticket from Dakota
to Maxwell, who was put off the same
train at Madrid. Fortunately for her
she had friends who could loan her
money to pay for lodging and board.
Have the people no rights whatever?
1t does seem as if the road should take
care of its trade. The commercial men
who made the towns on the Milwaukee
road last week or rather tried to-, were
put to great Inconvenience and will
wait with impatience for the day when
a change will take place.
Bob Linden, proprietor of the Colum-
bia Hotel at Grundy Center. never
tires in his effort to make his house
one of the most comfortable in Iowa,
which is appreciated by the host of
travellers who make that city.
l.. L. lMackaman, of MarshalNown,
has purchased the Pilgrim Hotel at
Reinbeck of j. E. Fredick, and took
possession last Wednesday. L. L. will
keep up the good name of the house.
II. L. Miller, general salesman for
ReQua Bros, commission merchants of
Chicago, spent Sunday at home with
his parents, Mr. and Mrs. w. A. Mil
Ter.
Will Toff, salesman for the Clinton
saddlery Company tried hard to make
sAlO 'soW1kS OIL l1e ". M. q 81. r. last
week. Will says that the roads were
! so bad, it was impossible to drive. He
thinks the best thing the boys can do
is to order flying machine when ii
is necessary to make the towns on the
Milwaukee between Marion and Perry
Harry Conparet, salesman for the
Luthe Hardware Company Of Des
Moines, was accompanied over his
territory by E. E. Aube, Jr, looking af-
ter the interest of the wyandotte
cleaner. They seemed to be doing a
| fine business.
E. I. Mason, who took the position
made vacant by the resignation of A
G. Snyder with Mclaughlin & Co.. cot
| fee roasters of Chicago, spent las
| Wednesday with trade in Marshall.
town.
One of the evening papers spoke o
the people the autos brought to Gu,
| city every week. That is true, but die
you ever stop and consider what 6
crowd we might have every day if az
interurban road was running from
Waterloo to Marshalltown by way OF
Grundy Center? We are losing val
liable time quarreling over lit in thi:
generation.