Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-05-27
HAPPENINGS OF INTEREST TWENTY.
FIVE YEARS AGO IN MARSHALLTOWN
Friday, May rs, 1894.

Friday. May rs, 1894.
Tony Psenicka viii leave this week
for Chicago 10 take Instruction in the
latest atyles OF cutting. and will then
purchaVb line OF goods and return 20
Marshnlltown and open a shop for
himself"
Miss Nellie Cook. aged TO- died at
her home at Green Mountain OF con-
sumption.
Graduating exercises of the Albion
high school were held AT the seminary
chapel. the program being given be-
fore n large audience. Miss Pearl
Lamb was the valedictorian and gave
also the class history and prophecy
and a plano solo. The saiutatory was
by Clara Keller, The other members
of the class were Jennie Splinder,
Maude Jacobs. Music Richoy, Flossie
ell. :.
Saturday, May 2e, issE.
Dave Lacey came mp town yesterday
Juggling three catfish that weighed
twelve or more pounds each. all caught
in the river above the dam with hook
and line"
Cards received In the city announced
the marriage at Rockford. H.. on May
"a, of Miss Nellie Bartlett to Junius
Henderson. The cards were issued 10y
Dr. G. w. Carter % this city, uncle OF
the bride. The at home cards read
1927 Spruce street, Boulder, Colo
At the republican primary election
l.. $. Kilborn was nominated for coun-
ty auditors I. :. Willard. clerk of the
district court; II. w. Mundhenk, re-
corder; b. +. Cummings, county at
torney: and J. y. Rolston, member Of
the board of supervisors.
Sunday, May 81, 1894.
w. w. Waldo, deputy county treasur-
er, and formerly in the book and sta
tionery business, died at his home. $40
East Main street, of cancer of the
throat. Mr.. Waldo was~s5 years old
and lived in this city since 1879, when
he came here 10 enter the employ of
$. ID. Palmer, then in the book and sta
tionery business. Mr. Waldo and w.
w. Shannon bought the business later
of A. Fl. Sloan, and after conducting II
three years sold to John S. Black. Mr..
Waldo was survived by his widow
George G.. Yetley, aged IS. died at
his home. near Green Mountain, of
cancer of the stomach.
Monday, May 20, 1894.
Announcement was made by a COM
mittee composed Of Mrs. Lille Norton.
Ed Powell and A. F.. Wilbur that n
granite slab had been erected to mark
the grave Of Miss Abby Clifford, sc-
many years principal Of the local high
school, and later county superintend-
ent of schools. 1t came to the atten-
ton Of Miss Gifford's former pupils
that her grave in Riverside was I'M
marked, and committee was appoint
ed to raise the necessary funds from
among the. pupils to provide the mark
er.
Tuesday May 90, 1894
BEFORE an audience that completely
filled the Odeon the class of 1894 Of
the Marshalltown high school was
graduated at the nineteenth annual
commencement of the school. The
class numbered thirty-two, twenty six
of whom were girls. Conspicuous ov-
er the stage was the class motto THE
Marble Lieth Waiting" The program
was styled AN Evening in the Realm
of Poetry" Part l opened with a pi-
ano solo "Marche des Tambours,'' by
Miss May WATSON, which was fault
lessly rendered. Rev. James Ed
mondson gave the invocation. ''ln-
stead Of the time honored salutatory
an Introductory paper was rendered
by Miss Nettie NJ. Crawford on How
and Why to Study Literature 1t
was clearly delivered and well re-
ceived by those in attendance. who
We're noticeably impartial in their APP
plause of all the selections Super
iority Of Poetry to the Other Arts"
was the subject presented by Agnes
Sears. "Unryhmed Poetry" by Miss
Idella Whinery,was fittIngly illustrated
by a defamation, "A Vision of the
Past by William Il. Bennett, and an
admirable paper on The Undertones
of Nature by Mary Garwood. At
this juncture the audience was favored
with an except ionally fine piano selec-