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power to get three out of the four as a

power to get three out of the four as a
Voc Boehiing or Harry Harper is ex-
mound n, nd t sanSIiSH and tackle the
ter condition than he Is now. while
Harper showed the last time out what
he could do, even when fearful of a
torn muscle In his back.
er's fears about that torn muscle.
Grin says that It is simply a stitch
In his shoulder blade. a frequent oc-
currence for a pitcher with the loose
motion Harper has
pitching" is Griff's ready explanation.
Harper is worrying about It. but
there's nothing about which to worry.
He'll pitch II out some fine day. and
will forget he ever had any trouble.
He'll work In turn"
Tho Griffmen should arrive in Detroit
today. shortly after the lunch hour, and
all the nlnyerH nre counting on taking
In tho bail gamo between the Tigers
and the White SoK. This is one of the
strange things about major leaguers.
No sooner do they get an of day than
they rush off to the nearest ball park
to see game. The lure Of the game Ia
too much for them.
Walter Johnson is certain to oppose
the Tigers In one game. probably the
closing contest of the series. This will
be the ideal arrangement for Clark Grif-
nth. The Old Fox prefers to have his
star twirler appear In the last game
OF each series.
BY pitching the last game in Detroit
on Friday. the big fellow will then be
able to repeat in the final games In
Boston.
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4nalostan Oarsmen
Take Up Daily Work

The oarsmen Of the Analostan Boat
Club reported yesterday morning and
had their first workout for the coming
Middle State regatta to be held here on
September I. A four and and about f,vs
singles were On the river. The oarsmen
covered four-mile paddle UP and then
down the river.
hand. from which q fast senior crew
will be picked. An intermediate four
will also. II possible. be entered In the
regatta. and II time permits a Junior
eight, selected from the men who have
been training OF and on all spring.
From now on Coach Edmontson will
whip his men into shape by difficult
workouts every afternoon at s o'clock.
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johnson Is Iron Man
Of All 4. L. Pitchers
Works in More Innings Than Any Other Hurler in
Observation-Disclosures of Boxmen Shown by
Figures-Other Pertinent Dope on Players

Walter johnson. Stanley coveleskie.
Of the Indians. and Harry Covelcskie.
Of the Detroit Tigers. are the iron men
Of the game this season. Our own
Walter has participated in twenty-nine
games and has gone 20 innings. Harry
Coveleskis was pitched lS innings, ana
nings for his boss. Lee Fohl.
Tex Russell. Of the White sox, has
been the real relief twirler OF the year.
as he has been in thirty-four contests
so far. The renl iron man 10 Walter
johnson. for he has gone through
twentv.six full contests and enough
innings to make up twenty-nine games.
1ne average fan Ia usually figuring
the value Of pitcher on his wins and
losses during the season. Few are able
to dope out the effectiveness OF hurlcr
and this means the number OF runs
tina; ne 8pppsttion has averaged per
The figures which follow tell Just how
many wins and losses each pitcher has
and just how many earned runs have
been scored on the average rer game In
which he has pitched.
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Honolulu Swimmers
. Make New Records

HONOLULU. H, l.. July A.-Honolulu
swimmers today have three new world Q
records to their credit, according to Of
fcials who timed an exhibition meet In
the Young Mems Christian Association
tank here last night.
Duke Kahanamoku made the i00-yard-
dash IN 1-yard tank In y 2-e seconds.
h0-relay event a team composed OF Ka-
hanamoku. George Cunha, c. Lane. H.
Kruger and J. Kell. covered the dis
lance In 4:D as The first four-named
made the 40O-yard relay in 3:A 3-5.
Both the relay records broken were
held by the Illinois Athletic Club. whose
teams made the marks OF soc 3-6 in the
6oo-yard event and ass IS In the short
or distance,
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American Soccerites
Sail for Invasion

Sailing on the Frederick VIII. OF the
Scandinavian american line. Wednes-
day. the American soccer team selected
by the United States Football Associa-
ton will undertake the FIRST soccer inva-
sion OF Europe. II win engage in nve In
ternational matches. arranged in Nor
nasac and Sporting Association. from
August Is to August Is
Immediately upon arrival at Christi
ania the Americans will repair to Stock
holm. where three of the Ave matches In
the official schedule will be contested. in
Guiding one game against an all-Swedish
team. Sweden will get q fourth match,
to be played at Gothenburg, while Nor
way must be content with only one
game. TO be PLAYED at Christiania.
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The American League is playing Its
seventeenth season as IN organization
and its fifteenth season as recog-
mixed major league body. Or the hnrl.
ers who made up the pitching stan OF
included In the circuit q ?00-l90l) Just
three are In harness today, and only
one is doing duty, in tho American
League at this writing.
of that grand old squad Of huriers. the
last of the Mohicans the one lone
of moundsmen who were In the
American League during its infantile
In a recent interview Plank affirm
ed that he was good for five years
yet 1t may be that Eddie wants to
go after that long distance mark set
by old Cy Young.
The Athletics are a finishing school
| for the Yankees. Coming from Phila-
delphia in recent years to the higher
realm of New York are RUDE Oldring.
Bob shawhsy, Ssrroi III srgTT Un. Pst e
Baker. And the Giants have had such
former Phiilies as Charley Doom.
Mike Doolan and George Browne.
nearly 100 for perfect attendance. In
the last four years the only games
George has missed ere two or three
in 1913. when he laid of after the Giants
had cinched the pennant.
As AN outnelder spesher- is fully as
| useful with the work he does on hits
as with the work he does In preventing
them. He 10 as valuable on the drives
| he can't catch aP IN the ones he can.
IT'S this WY: His speed. his quick
starts. his intuitivs Judgment aAd adm
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ANOTHER HITCH IN
WELSH-WHITE SCRAP
Conflict Of Dates Is Discovered by
Promoter Eddie Pitts.

CHICAGO. July a.-Another hitch to
the proposcrd welsh-White fight in
Colorado bobbed UP here today.
After Promoter Eddie Pitts. OF the
Colorado Springs A. c.. had given into
Whites demands that he be given A.0oO
instead Of s.. 500 as his end OF the purse.
II was discovered that White was sched-
uled to meet Benny Leonard at Brook
Ign. August TO- Harry Pollok. manager
OF Welsh and one of the promoters
staging the White-Leonard go. would
not call the bout OF. and there you are.
Pitts has wired the Colorado Club for
permission to 90 ahead and sign Welsh,
and White REGARDLESS of the Leonard
date. Welsh has already consented to
sign
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GOtch Quits Game.

KENOSHA, Wis. July 2-Frank
Gotch has scored his last fall. The
worlds wrestling champion Ia through
with the mat game.
Il am done for good" declared Gotcn
today as he lay on a cot In a local hos
pital. recovering from a broken leg sus-
tanned In an exhibition contest here
last Tuesday
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Record Breaking Field
In Grand Circuit Races

DETROIT. Mich. July "A record
breaking held Of horses have been en-
tered In the Grand CiN,uit race meet
ing, which 10 to open At the Detroit
fair grounds tomorrow afternoon. Many
OF the old fayorites E'e to again battle
ing from 8. 900 to $4,000.
The card for Monday II composed Of
races named in honor Of Detroit clubs.
The 2:io trot and 2:ls trot are .'Coun-
try Club events. while the Alt pace
has been christened the Detroit Ath-
letic Club Purse"
The classic M. and NJ. purse for 20s
Srotters viii De run on Wsdnesdey Inc
Of commerce stake Of 5000 10 on Tues
days program.
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Tigers Hammered,

DETROIT. Mich. July A.--The Tigers
were defeated by the White Sox here
yesterday by a score OF II tos. The
contest was one OF the widest. wierd-
time. The White Sox made twenty hits
and used five pitchers, while the Ty-
gers used four hurlers and got fifteen
clouts.
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Cubs Down Giants.

CHICA~O. July 2+.-The Giants lost
the final game OF the series here yea
terday to the Cubs by a score of s to3.
the Cub team while Brown held the
Giants down, allowing them to bunch
their hits In but two innings.
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Indians Slipping.

CLEVELAND. July AIN game
feated the Indians yesterday ) to 2
Shotten singled. Austin sacrificed and
Miller singled scoring Shotten with
what proved to be the winning run.
Groom and wefiman were effective
for st. Louis. "
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Braves Win Last.

ST. LOUIS. July A.--The Braves
grabbed the last game Of the series with
getting the better Of Steele, who weak
ened In the eighth.
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Welsh Starts Work.

NEW YORK. July A.-Freddie Welsh,
the worlds lightweight champion. who
will box Bonnie Leonard at Washington
Park. Brooklyn. next Friday night. will
train at Douglaston. L. I. Welsh arri-
we'd In town last night and went direct
to Douglaston Inn.
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Smith RESIGNS.

WHEELING, W. Va, July 24-Harry
Smith has resigned as manager of the
Wheeling Central Club. II became
known here today. 1t Is said he will
Join the Columbus American Associa-
ton team
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Joe Wood Ready.

BOSTON. July Aloe Wood. the
former mainstay Of the Red Sox. whose
pitching arm has kept him out Of the
game all season. will Join the team soon,
according 10 a letter received by Presi-
dent Lannin.
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Gnen Believe They Will Have Chance the Worlds
MINCE PIE
LITTLE OF EVERYTHING"
BY BUGS" BAER.
RU1M'

"Outside Of cost
ing the same price
IS Marty O'Toole,
there is no other
reason why Short
stop w ort m . n
shouldn't m q Ike
good"
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Only way to beat Willard is to get
him tired, and the best way to do
that is to get him to listen to Fred
Jorlson's manager.
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OF course the first thing Matty will do a.
manager OF the Reds Is TO fire bS,7s2 other
managers.
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only sl.UOVc.v0 stands between JACK
Rockefeller and a back-door handout.
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Here Is what some OF our friends are

doing:
Larry Chappeiie, OF Columbus. II TAR
in front OF the other American Associa-
ton batters. with .37i. Jim inorpe, Mil
waukee. leads the basestealers. with ds;
Holland. Minneapolis. and bradley. Co.
lumbus. the sacrifice hitters. with 70
each: Gilbert, hanhas CITY. In homo
runs, with 8; Demmit. Columbus, in to-
tai bases. with lsi; Gardner. roiedo. IN
runs scored. with -. ana Kansas city
in team batting. with 100.
The leading batters are: chappelIe.
So; r.. smith. St. Paul, .so: seois
Seeker. Kansas city. SO: beaii. Mil
waukee., .Sl7: Bert Daniels. Louisville.
.Sue: Deal. Kansas City. $50; Leiiveit
kansas city. .x1; HaEdgrave. Kansas
City. .ly7 Evans. Toledo, ~. "a
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Funniest thing in st. Looey is manager
to 60 out and warm I'D.
Just take another lamp at that Rockefeller
81. 900, 100000 Looks like Walter johnson waS
pitching.
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Baltimore Is stili suing organized baseball
for 100000. When your gun IL empty you
might as we'll aim II at an elephant as a
sparrow.
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deploring gambling, and publishes three
best bets right beneath It. Been awfully
warm, amt IL?
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Speaking Of seeing sharks this far
Worth, don't dtve into a baseball pool
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A year ago today IN the great ioor, st.
Looey had three teams in the second d.
pision Instead of tUo.
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Eddie Collins is in a fearful batting
slump. Eddie is hitting as II he lived in
Chicago all his life.
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minnesota man has whiskers seven feet
long. Measuring with one of his whiskers
you could claim Athletics were only last by .
The Washington times., 1916-07-24

Easy money to be picked up tcith cir
cnses makes US long for the good old
ddys Of All BAHIA and his forty t0ht pro-
motors.
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Of hand enable him TO hold doubles to
singles. triples to doubles and homo
runs to triples.
Tfis ability to get in front Of or UP
to hits and take them on the hrst bound
Ia made all the more valuable been use
of his lightnine-lik whirl into a posi-
ton to throw. On safe hits he 10 the
greatest outhelder the American League
over had.
Leading batters OF the Southern Asso.
citation are as follows:
kumler. Little kock, .3&l: Moran. At
ianta. .3z6: Harris. Chattanooga. .Sio;
lhrasher. Atlanta. .SlS: schmidt. Mo-
die. .siz; ELAN. Nashville. .S,7; coomos.
Birmingham. 81: faulette. Memphis.
St; Manning. Little Rock. ~.
Wares. Little kock, leads In stolen
bases. with "a: knAupp. New orleans. In
sacrthce hits. with "a; Kumier in home
runs. with 3; and Harris. Chattanooga.
In total bases, with lb2, and in runs
In club batting. with go.
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It's impossible to tell how many en-
emies imp Rigler has in Chicago. as tho
town has grown since the last census
was printed.
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Columbia has decided to stick to their
creW. What they cant to do u try to
stick to the other cretcs.
Copyright. 1915. by the Press Publishing Coz
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Answers to Queries.

simp-we said skill, not skull. Take that
cotton out OF your car and pad your dome
with II.
Junk-cheering in the Smithsonian Institute
IL very poor form
Gun-He's just as popular as an empty
bottle Broadway.
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RUDE odring Ia the fastest outneider in tho
Industry. RUDE covered the entire American
League in one jump.
The Washington times., 1916-07-24

The $4,000 Dorfh Of Connie Mdck's old
Mathematician fnfeld has hts ribs brokca.
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81, 600. 600. 900.
That Rockefeller score needs analyzing.
IL looks like an extra inning fortune.
John scored in the first inning.
But they shut him out In the next nine
innings.
We should be shut out like that.
Game amt over yet, either.
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League Standings.
AMERICAN LEAGUE

Where They Play.
TODAY. TOMORROW.
Chicago At Detroit. y. Y. at Chicago.
Others not scheduled. Boston at Cleveland.
Phila. at 81. Louis.
Wash. at Detroit.
l. Yesterdays Results,
Chi. II; Detroit. 0. St. Louis, s; Gle. l.
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Tomorrow the Griffs open a four
game series IN Detroit with Jennings
Jungaleers. They will be contented
with an even break, but memories of
those three straight defeats in June
still rankle in the hearts of the
oft9s, and they viii DO all In thsif
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NATIONAL LEAGUE.
Where They Play

|" Where They Play.
TODAY. TOMORROW.
Phiiiies At Pittsburgh. Cincinnati at N. Y.
Others not scheduled. St. L. at Brooklyn.
Chicago At Boston.
Pittsburgh at Phiia-
Yesterdays Results.
Philiiss,. 9; Cinct, 1. Boston. .; 81. l., L
Chicago, 8; N. T., ..
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How the Big Leaguers
Won Diamond Battles
American League.

Batteries - Williams. Danforth. cicotte
wolfgans. Russell. and schalk; Boland, Gun
bingham. Dubuc. Dauss. and Baker. Mckee
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M reason why Short
kU stop Wortm an
.k~IS shouldn't m Ike
good"
Minnesota man has whiskers seven feet
long Measuring with one Of his whiskers
YOU could claim Athletics were only last by .
Only way to beat Willard is to get
him tired, and the best way to do
that is to get him to listen to Fred
Jorlson's manager.
Only sLooo.voOoO stands between JACK
focketeiier and a back-door handout.
Funniest thing in ST. Looey in manager
frying In the heat and ordering pitcher
| to 60 out and warm up
Just take another lamp at that Rockefeller
81. 900, 100000. Looks like Walter Johnson was
pitching.
OF course the first thing Matty will do a.
manager Of the Reds Is to FIRE 5S.7s2 other
! managers.
Speaking Of seeing sharks this far
North, don't dtve into baseball pool
| Big metropolitan daily prints editorial
deploring gambling, and publishes three
best bets right beneath It. Been awfully
warm. amt 1t?
N,o00 0o0 000
| That Rockefeller score needs analyzinR.
| II looks like an extra inning fortune.
| John scored in the first inning.
| But they shut him out In the next nine
innings.
We should be shut out like that.
| Game amt over yet. either.
| It's impossible to tell how many en-
emies imp Rigler has in Chicago, as tho
town has grown since the last census
was printed.
| RUDE oldring Is the fastest outnelder in tho
Industry. RUDE covered the entire American
League in one jump.
Easy money to be picked up tcith cir
cuses makes us long for the good old
days Of All BAHIA and his forty t0ht pro-
moters.
A year ago today In the great iUor, st.
Looey had three teams in the second d.
piston Instead Of ttco.
| Baltimore Is stili suing organized baseball
for $4,000 When your gun 10 empty you
might as well aim II at an elephant as a
sparrow.
The $4,000 toorth Of Connie Mdck's old
nTlion-dolld fnfeld has hts ribs broken.
| Eddie Collins is in a fearful batting
slump. Eddie is hitting as II he lived in
| Chica 20 all his life
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-28
LOCAL MARKETS.
Prices Paid 20 Farmers by Marshall
town Merchants.

Prices Paid 70 Farmers BY Marshall.
town Merchants.
The following prices are quoted by
Marshalltown dealers for the different
varieties of farmers provisions, grain
and produce:
The Bargain Store quotes the follow
ing prices:
Butter-27.
Eggs-20.
Benedict Flour and Feed Company
will pay the following prices at their
place of business in this city. subject,
however to market changes:
Corn-60.
Oats--34.
Wheat--90.
The following market quotations are
furnished by H. Willard, Son & Co.:
Clear medium native wool-32 @33.
Coarse and low-26@2S.
Light. fine-23@ 26.
Heavy, 1ine-21@2S.
Pelts-25, 90. rs and $3.50.
No. hides--14.
No. ? hides-13.
Horse hides tail on-s5.
Beeswax--26G2S.
Local Live Stock Market.
Britain g. Co today quoted the fol-
lowing prices for hogs in wagon load:
Premium hogs. over 15O-9.20.
Hogs, 125 to 150-S.70.
Good packers-S.70.
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Cherries, In half bushel baskets.
Phone 2s4. McCord grocery.
Cherries are selling for ~ basket
half bushel, and are frie. Reynolds &
Sheldon.
Concordia Nahebund will be enter
| tanned Thursday afternoon by Mrs.
Mary Bowman. 112- East Church street
| The Lilac Crochet Club will NEE.
! Thursday afternoon at the home of
Miss Eloise Talbot, 104 Marion street.
The Marshall County Sportsman AS
! ISOLATION will meet in Carpenters hal
1. Thursday evening at 5 o'clock.-Ad DIVER.
| tisement
Have YOU seen the new summer hats
made UP In the cloth and straw com
bfnation' They are on display now
Painters.
The Social Club of the. Degree oi
Honor will meet Thursday afternoon al
the home OF Mrs. w. r. Louthan, Il:
West Main street.
The Harmony Aid Society will be en-
tertained Thursday afternoon by Mrs.
Daisy Dilley and Mrs. H. w. Mundhenk
at Odd Fellows hall.
Pure, sweet SKINNED milk, fine for
cooking, four quarts for 10 cents. jack
son Dairy Company, 322 East Nevada
! street, near Third avenue.
Mrs. Warren Gilbert, son LETTER and
mother, Mrs. E. g. Leffler, Of Water
loo. arrived in the city Tuesday to visit
at the w. P. Flower home.
Mason's pint fruit Jars, i 90 cents
| dozen; AMason's quart fruit Jars, 81
cents dozen; Mason's two-quart fruit
! jars, So cents dozen. Phone SAT. Kali
lenberg's grocery.
You insure your house; you insure
your. life Why not insure your paint?
We insure Fullerton paint on your
house for five years. My paint propo-
sitlon will interest you and save you
money. John B. Simmons.
Mrs Ida Warcup, Of Shoals, Ind, is
in the city for a short visit at the home
Of her son, c. w. Warcup, master me-
chanic of the Minneapolis & st. Louis
railroad Mrs. Warcup is on her way
home from a visit in Ada, Kan.
Mr. and Mrs. B. L. Hotchkiss and
Mr.. and Mrs. w. A. Wentworth, Of
Tama, the latter a cousin Of Mrs.
Hctchkiss, celebrated their twenty
fifth wedding anniversaries together
with family dinner at the Hotchkiss
home, q South First street. Mr.. and
Mrs. Hotchkiss were married OF, the
27ths and the Wentworths three days
before.
"Matt" i. OLeary. Of Fort Dodge
we'll known here, who has been en-
ployed for the past few months as
salesman for the Mcmahon Automobile
Company here, left this morning for
Fort Dodge, where he will enlist in one
of the companies Of volunteer cavalry
now being organized in that city.
O'Leary went to Fort Dodge Sunday tp
see II he could get in, and having found
that his chances. we're. good, came back
here, resigned his position, and said
goodbye to friends today.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-28
CITY IN BRIEF
Bring your watches in. Hodges,

Bring your watches in. Hodges.
The Ladies' Auxiliary Of the Y. NJ. G.
A. Will meet Thursday afternoon In the
parlors Of the building.
The Carworkers' Auxiliary will meet
with Mrs. Ira McCool, 607 West Me-
vada street, Thursday afternoon.
The Danish Ladies Aid will meet
Thursday afternoon at the home Of
Mrs. Andrew Olson. 406 North Second
avenue.
The Marshall County Sportsman As
ISOLATION will meet in Carpenters hall
Thursday evening at o'clock.-Adver-
J tisement.
I st. Elizabeth's Society OF St. Mary's
| church will hold an all-day meeting
Thursday in the basement of the
church.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Evans, Of Turlock,
! Cal, who are visiting relatives and
friends in the city spent Tuesday at
\ the Bert Price home.
Come to the market sale Saturday.
july, /, fifty head good coming 2-year-
old steers, seventy-f1ve head cows and
Advertisement
S. t3tiE# .--A44--4->-S->------ # ees8s
For Sale--Ati market sale Saturday,
July 1, horses and hogs and fifty head
coming 2lyear- old steers, weight 700
to 500. Also seventy five head good
cows and 2-year- old heifers. Come
and buy. If You want to ship we will
load them. Plumb Bros, Mason and
Shoemaker.
Mr.. and Mrs. James Brown enter
tanned 100 members of the Friends
church at a social on the lawn of their
! home, south of town, Tuesday evening.
Lanterns, and lights thrown from the
automobile headlights, made the lawn
SO light that the evening was pleasant
~ spent with games. A male quartet,
composed of JIG. Carter, A. P. Davis,
Floyd Whaley, and Max Kendall, sang,
as did also the choir. Refreshments
were served during the evening.
Mrs. o. D. Roger and daughter,
\ Amelia, Of Minneapolis, are guests Of
the formers mother, Mrs. Amelia Hall,
south Of town. Little Miss Amelia,
who is I, has gained quite a reputation
in her home city thru her work on the
piano, and is considered by her teacher
and critics who have heard her play as
a wonderful pianist for her age. She
can read anything that is reasonably
/ FOR dictation anything that Is played
for her with the rhythm, pitch, and
notes correct.
Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-06-28

The business office Of the Marshall
Telephone Company will be open until
q D. m, Friday, June 30, the last
day on which rentals for curren, month
may be paid to secure the rebate.
Marshall Telephone Company.