Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-05-29
Friday. May 30. 1890.

| Memorial day was observed III tne
| city by patriotic societies and citizens.
| A program was held at the Odeon, with
music and addresses by j. M. Parker
and A. +. Haradon, and Gen. b. A. Bee
son. Misses Bessie and Edna Parker
and Mrs. ]. r. Hill and Mrs. G. w.
! Weeks sang, as did also quartet COM
posed ot/Mesdames Weeks and Hill
and G. w. Weeks and w. w. Waldo,
with Mrs Waldo as accompanist. AT
the soldiers home Rev. T. w. Woodrow
delivered the address, and at Riverside
/; cemetery the addresses were given by
Rev. Gilman Smith, of Green Mountain,
and Rev. T. w. Woodrow.
/ Howard, the 9-year- old son OF Mr..
/ and Mrs. C. w. Wells, three miles west
of Laurel, died of spinal meningitis.
Saturday, May 81, 1890.
| "The street car company is well sat-
isfied with the results of the days bus
mess yesterday. The new line to the
! home was well patroniZed.
Among the many crowds which lett
the city yesterday for good time, none
| enjoyed themselves more than did the
! one that picnicked at Nicholson'S ford
yesterday afternoon. An elegant sup
per was spread and partaken of, and
royal good time enjoyed. Those who
! attended were Misses Anna Abbott,
! Etha Cooper, May Osman, Addie FAR
ker, Eta and Sally Treadwell, Nora
Tuffree, Sadie Arndt, Ida Dugan, ana
Messrs. Archie Cox, Jr,G Chan Ehle,
Roy Woods, Fred S. Williams. Harry
Gerhart, Ed Beeson, Harry Ackert, ana
! Gid Auringer."
Yesterday afternoon lawn tennis
/ tournament was held between the
members of the North Fourth street
! court at DR.. Roberts, and the North
! Center street court at Mrs. Lorees. The
! games were played at the latter court,
/ and commenced at p. m. The first
set was played by Guy Fulmer and >.
| A. Perrine, representing the Loree
court, and DR.. c. c. Cottle and Z. Z.
| Urine, for the North Fourth street
court, which resulted to in favor OF
| the latter. The next set was between
+! Miss Lulu Loree and c. w. Price, Tor
the Loree court, and Miss Thomas and
| DR. Kellogg, for the North Fourth
street court and resulted I to for the
1 latter. Elegant refreshments we've then
! served by the North Center street court
! to the victors and the vanquished.
/ After this event very pleasant even
! ing was passed in the parlors in social
and music. Arrangements will be made
I for return game at an early date
I Mr. and Mrs. A. E. Wilbur enter
tanned small company at croquet
yesterday
! c. Ruchwald, aged 80, and a promi-
nent German of the city, died at his
home log North First street, from the
effects of saber wound received while
/ in charge of a militia company in Ger
many.
Sunday, June I, 1890.
! Seventy three people were received
! into the Methodist church.
The Baptist church closed its first
year under the pastorate of Rev. S. A.
Perrine.
Monday, June 2, 1890.
| Mrs. J. NJ. Reynolds has been very
sick for a few days with inflammatory
rheumatism but is better"
With Fair Luna at the full, the air
| balmy and bracing, and everything
conducive to pleasure and romantic
J ideas a better evening for moonlight
+; stroll was never afforded than last
night. Young people and many older
ones were out until late hour enjoy
ing the glorious night, and the songs
of serenaders floated on the humid air.
lit made even a family man feel young
again
4 Tuesday, June 8, 1890.
Iowa crops are booming right along
now. With an abundance of sunshine
and a deluge of rain, everything
moves
1T is rumored that Obed Caswell
will return to Marshalltown again To
make it his home having had genteel
sufficiency of the Golden state, where
the ubiquitous land shark and the fes-
tive gopher are so plentiful
The severe local storm predicted
by the weather bureau was fulfilled tc
the letter in this city. The rainfall OF
last night and this morning was the
heaviest known for years. Il came II
torrents in the early morning storm
from the west. dashing against window
panes with great force. The street;
and gullies were soon converted int
rivulents Of threatening proportions
Very little damage was reported anf
great good will result to growing crops
Mother Earth had a clean and brish
face this morning.
"a C. Abbott has been continuousl.
in one business for a longer periot
than any man in central Iowa withou
doubt, having been engaged in tn
hardware business in this city for thir
ty consecutive years. When Mr.. Alb
bolt came to Marshalltown in 1860 i
was a village Of 700, and the bushes
/ houses were in the block where tn
Commercial State Bank now stands. r
: Willigrod erected a store near tn
present site of Cooper & Speers, an
: people wondered why he went so ia
! out in the country. Mr.. Abbott Neil
0 many interesting stories Of pionee
I days in Marshalltown.'
NJ o. Doolittle, aged 81 father Of W
;, w. Doolittle, died at his home Of con
gestion Of the. brain. He was pho
neer of the city, having come here Il
1851. He left wife and four chill
dren.
; Thomas Cottamas, (Cottoms) age
4s, a welI-known colored veteran, die
Of quick consumption following re
:. peated attacks Of grip. He was born.
(, slave and came north with the Thir
r teenth Iowa infantry, and returne
Y from Monroe county with that regi
n rnent to the south, remaining with 1t
3 wear when he was transferred to
Y colored regiment, serving in all thre
e years and half. He was noted 10
o cally for his great strength. He lei
a widow and seven children Altho h
y was not member Of the G. A. r. pos