Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-02-20
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TWENTY
FIVE YEARS AGO IN MARSHALLTOWN

pany in Denver which manufactured a
storage battery guaranteed to light a
car from Denver to Chicago and return
with but one change of battery.
Thursday, Feb. q, 1890.
The changeable weather is causing
considerable sickness"
The March lion will be tame as
compared with this February tiger"
Another fall of snow and tight
ening of the grip of winter last night
banished all evidences of spring.
oh! it was delightful tramping
around in the snow today in Des
Moines to see a democratic governor
'eggnogerated.'
The street cars were on deck this
morning, and made their runs without
any delay, but it has been hard work
for the motors all day. The fall of
snow last night interfered somewha
with the railroad traffic. rearly all
passenger trains being from fifteen
minutes to an hour late"
Mr. George l.. Andrews is at home
sick"
Mrs. H. B. Stoddart entertained
about thirty of her ooarders at her
home by an old fashioned candy pull.
Formalities We're dispensed with for
| the evening and everybody went In for
good time. Some new uses were
devised for candy. such as hopping
carpets, making hair nets. and the like.
Samples preserved, however, would in :
dictate that a master OF the art was
there"
Laurel correspondence: "Theo II.
Maytag and wife are rejoicing over
the advent of their first born. daugh-
ter, which came 10 gladden. their lives
a few days since. Thee has increa sed
full six inches in stature since the
event"
Marietta spondence: The most
enjoyable feature Of the Washington
ian program given by the literary So
ciety Saturday evening was a stump
speech by VIII Wickersham, in which
he proved quite logically that his
honor had relatives in this burg. An
original tableau was given by Roy Cat
low Of the cutting of the famous cherry
tree
Ferguson correspondence: Married,
Willard Hilsabeck, aged 81, to Lizzie
Allen, aged 10. The ceremony was
solemnized by Elder Cul5ertson at .
. o'clock Wednesday evening. at the
| home of the brides parents, one half
mile southwest of town"
Vienna correspondence: "One of the
teachers in the eastern part of Vienna
township is teaching her pupils how TO
dance during interuission, and don't
call her school until o'clock. Per
haps this is all right. but i seems that
booh-learning would be better"
Capron correspondence: Our liter
airy came 10 very sudden termina ton
one night last week by the teacher
locking the house and mailing down
the windows without giving timely
notice, and when the crowd began TO
gather they wanted in the house The
ianitor being there, some of them
thought he had the key and ought to
unlock the door. and he. fearing trou-
BILE, started home. When about twelve
or fifteen rods from the school ilou se
some Of the roughs called for him to
stop or they would shoot him, and
commenced firing at him, one ball
striking him In the thick heshy part OF
the thigh. and going almost thru to the
front Of the leg, about five or six
inches above the knee joint, and re-
manned there unit, F'riday, when DR.
Woodward was able to remove It
There has been good deal of careless
shooting with revoIvers in his vicinity
of late, but this is the first serious af-
fray, and should be warning to all
boys carrying revolvers. NJ E
Andrews is boring a well on his fine
farm. He says he has done without a
water supply long enough