Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-11-30
INDIVIDUAL DECORATIONS TO BE
URGED AMONG MERCHANTS
OF CITY.
SOUTH THIRD AVENUE TO
HAVE FEsTooNs OF LIGHTS
s. w. Rubee Chairman Of Decorating
Committee - Street intersections to
Be Heavily Decorated - Eldora and
GrinneIl Follow Marshalltown Plan
Other Committeeman Named.

Another Christmas festival. with
more emphasis to be laid on individual
decorating by merchants. was assured
this morning when definite plans for
dressing the city in holiday garb We're
made at meeting of merchants and
others interested. held at the MARSHALL
town Club at $3.50. Slight changes
We're made in the plan of decorating
the streets and the merchants are to
be urged to enter into the spirit Of
decorating more as individuals.
S. w. Rubee was elected chairman of
the decorating committee, George
Gregory chairman of the finance com
mittee. E. r. Lay chairman Of the en-
tertainment committee, and A. G.
Johnson, as president of the club, will
be general chairman, and will take
charge of the idea of individual deco
ration.
Decorate Street Intersections.
Street intersections from Third ave-
nue. to Second street will be heavily
trees on each corner. making eight
will be fastened to the four electrolier
poles at the corners, and will be as
high. if not higher, than the poles.
Smaller trees will be placed around
the base. to give a more compact ap-
pearance The trees will be strung
with small colored electric lights, and
the top light of the electroliers will
be replaced; with red globe. Festoons
will probably be strung along between
the other electroliers on the street,
with a red light in the top globe OF
each one. Thus general holiday
effect will he obtained without deco
rating each electroler separately.
Third Avenue to Be Lighted.
Another new feature Will be the
lighting of South Third avenue. from
Main street IL the depots, with the
festoons of colored electric lights which
We're ssrung across East Main street
during county fair week. Manager
Charles Munson. of the Iowa Railway
and Light Company. said at the meet
ing this morning that he would have
these chains of lights put UP in order
that both Third avenue and Main street
might be decorated.
Two mammoth yuletide Trees, forty
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be placed in the court house square,
and covered with a myriad of colored
lights, as there will be no trouble about
obtaining current here. The Christ
mas Star given last year by the Sun
day schools, which presented such
striking appearance. will again be
suspended by invisible wires in front
Of the court house.
AS general chairman. A. G. Johnson
will endeavor to interest the merchants
in the individual decorating idea, and
will appoint a committee of two mer-
chants in each block to solicit the
merchants in that block. asking them
to do as much as possible in the way
of festooning their store fronts and
windows. S. w. Rubee chairman Of
the decoration committee, will go to
Chicago in few days to purchase the
decorations.
Other Towns Want Decorations.
Grinnell and Eldora have both mani
tested a desire to have Christmas
festival this year. and have written
Secretary johnson with a view to hav-
ing Mr.. Rubee purchase their decora-
tons while he is in Chicago. Mr.
Rubee will also purchase individual
decoratio if merchants notify him
in time. E. r. Lay. chairman of the
entertainment committee. has not as
yet adopted any definite plans for
several under consideration.