Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1900-05-21
The GRlNNELL NEWS.
President g ates Called to a Pastornt,
Z nj DcnYcr-Ni elnorinI DnY PROGRAM

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Mt Dcnvcr-Ni emorial Day Program.
Special to es-Republican.
Grinnell. May 21.--1he Rocky Noun
tain News is authority for the state
ment that the Presbyterian church of
Denver has extended a call 10 President
Gates to become the pastor. He preach
ed trial sermon for the church and
suited them so well that he was ems
gagged.
Miss Ella Allen. stenosrapher for the
spaulding Manufacturing Company, left
this morning for Chicago. where she
will spend two weeks vacation among
friends in Chicago and Milwaukee.
Coutts' men >ave been putting in
foundations for house and barn in
Gilman for Bethel Crandor.
Mrs c.. a. Baker left for Des Moines
today to attend the mothers congress.
She will be gone until Friday. William
Wishart, her father. accompanied her.
and will spend the week visiting friends
and relatives.
The program for DECORATION day, May
80, has been drawn up, but not yet
printed 1t is sas5 follows: Gordon Gran
ger Post, No. "a. G. a. II. post meeting
at $50 a. M: reading of special orders
ments. j. p Lymans. president of the
day; III. q. Davis. marshal. Procession
formed by II. @. Davis, marshal, at 1880
p. M, move at @ Post formed by B. v.
Ruff. commander, escorted by Company
X. i. n. G.. capt. Walker. Order of for
nation: Right resting on Fourth ave-
nue.: Gordon Granger Post No. Ga; SOL
diers and sailors not members of the G..
Ill; II, I,c ,it-1,
school children: Women's Relief Corps;
Ladies of the q. a. r.: quartet; mayor
and city council: Salvation army: So
cieties: orator Of the day, Rev. 1. N.
Busby; citizens on foot and in carriag-
es. Line of march: West on Fourth
avenue to the cemetery. Exercises at the
cemetery Decorating graves by the
post; dirges by the band. Assemble at
monument in double file: prayer by the
chaplain. w. w. Sargent: singing by
quartet: decorating monument: calling
roll of honor by Adj. p. ID. Burton. as
sisted by Quartermaster Sergeant j. NJ.
Dawson; firing salute by Company Il.
II. n. c.: singing by quartet: reading
poem by Mrs. L. II. Barnes: reading of
Lincoln's Gettysburg address and ora
ition by Rev. i. y. Rusby, orator OF the
4 Gay. music US stness pdilu. reform anu
return to the post room. Sixty-four
soldiers of the war of the rebellion are
hurried in Hazeiwood cemetery and the
Hist grows larger with each Decoration
day.
Rev. Mr.. Van Haaften. native Hin.
doc delivered an address in the Congre.
A gational church last evening on the con
EDITIONS existing in India. He drew {
1 pitiful picture of the starvation. thu
deaths from cholera and the bubonlt
plague. women selling their children e
wealthy Mahonledans and Hindoos II
procure bread fer few days. Ten t,
4 10 cents are paid for boys and from I,
10 cents Cor girls.
Later developments in the II. r. Allel
case shows that the debt for which tn
store was closed was one contracte,
u ten years ago in Shelby. Mr.. Allen pal
. the none: to his lawyer, a leading pol
u litician. who. instead OF paying the debt
. as Mr. Allen believed, put it in his owl
nocka. The ::ao..: Is si.Ge3, ;s!i.c!
not the ss4,52-is the cause OF tn
!. closing Of the store.