Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-04-22
Friday April 81 1893.

"Mr. and Mrs. Fred Hopkins are re-
iocing In the advent Of little girl at
their home and so the population In
creases." GEdna Hopkins, who died at
the age OF months.)
compliant didn't do much good
| yesterday. The weather even got be-
yond Uncle Sans control. and he
wasn't able to get any deal fixed ''p
for today until the last minute. And
even then nc didn't hit 1t right, for
never an inch Of clear sky was visible
Hast night or this morning. Show con-
tinued to flutter down nearly all day
yesterday and in small quantities even
last night and today. A good deal has
already thawed. and the streets are
muddier than the law allows. The
Thermometer only fell to 20 degrees
last night, but the chilly wind and the
| flying snow no late in the season made
prudent people very inucn averse 10
sauntering abroad. Trains north and
! west Of Marshalltow1 have been badly
delayed. East and south OF us there
has not been much trouble
Spring Hints
Lettuce hope that the early onion
will survive.
"Moses Stern wishes all his friends
a Merry Christmas.
"Plowing goes right on despite the
storm. It is confined to the railroads.
however.
"The advantage Of having another
| winter lies largely in the fact that you
| will have another spring"
wv. w. Adams, an employe OF the
Marshall Building Company, met with
a very unfortunate accident at about
| 1 o'clock this afternoon, catching his
left hand in the machinery and man
Cling It so badly that three fingers had
to be amputated."
Before a good sized audience at the
Baptist church the Baptist Young
| Peoples Union entertained at a social.
| Besides elegant refreshments there
| was also a very delightful literary and
| musical program. Miss Libbie Hall
! sang a solo, Misses Margaret Gal
| braith and Nellie Hudson a duet and
Misses Gailbraith and Hudson and
Messrs. Rodney C. Wells and Howard
| Kellogg a quartet. DR.. L. F. Kellogg
| played a delightful flute solo. There
| were Rotations by Misses Lizzie
Winery, Winnie Cousins Pearl
Harris, and Margaret Johnston and
| Master Howard Wilbur. Misses May
| WATSON and Cora Wilbur played piano
| accomplishments for the vocal music.
The members Of the B. Y. P. U. are to
! be congratulated or their several s,Tc-
cessful socials."
James Ross, an inmate in the county
| Jail, 50 years Of age, who had been In
| $Hy
at the Jail following an operation per-
| formed to raise depression in the
skull, caused by being struck over the
head with hammer.
Saturday, April %, 1893.
In an article looking into the future,
and seeing much in store for future
generations Mrs. Mary E. Lease, OF
Kansas, then becoming well known
as Farmers Alliance advocate
quoted Victor Hugo, the celebrated
French poet and writer, as follows:
I'm the twentieth century war will be
| dead! Royalty will be dead! Famine
| will be dead, but the people will live:
| For all humanity there will be but one
| country, that country the whole earth;
for all the people one hope, that hope
all heayen!"
! Mrs. A. e. Hanes. aged 81, died at
her home on South Twelfth street,
leaving family consisting of her hus-
band and seven children. Burial was
| in Timber Creek township.
Sunday April %, 1898.
Miss Lulu Lynch, aged q, a lieuten-
| ant in the Salvation Army, died as a
result of having been badly burned on
April 5, when her clothing caught fire
while she was working over gasolene
stove. The body was sent to Pueblo,
| Colo, for burial.
| Monday, April "a 1893.
! A small sized tornado passed over
tha south end of the city at o'clock
in the morning, doing considerable
damage a mile south of the court
house on Center street. One barn and
a small house were destroyed.
| The champion hunters are Messrs.
W. B. Kibbey and H. P. Densel. Fri
day night and Saturday, along the
river and ponds northeast of this city
they shot 1875 snipe and one lonesome
duck. The snipe record Is certainly
| broken by this wonderful shooting
| his ISL d SpllIiS uuuIillS d. II
either. It's the gospel truth"
Commercial pilgrims column:
frank Thayer, the gentlemanly rep
resentative Of the Marshall Printing
| Company, made the Illinois Central
from Ackley west with his usual good
success. He is looking more hand
some than usual this spring, and if he
does not do q wonderfully increased
| business 1t will not be because he
hasn't very pleasant way of going
about it"
AS an evidence Of how times have
changed: James A. Reilly, America
sweetest singer and German dialect
| comedian" appeared at the Ode6n in
his new play, "A German Soldier
Among Mr.. Reilly's song hits were 7
Love Mein Federland" and "Remem-
/ Der You Vas Cherman Soldier"
| Tuesday, April IS. 1893.
Marshalltown people awoke to dis
cover that, at an early hour. q gang
| Of workmen had commenced tearing
unsightly holes in the new pavement
on the west side Of South First ave-
nue., In which were being placed
cheap looking, unsightly posts at in
tervals Of four to six feet. the row es-