Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-11-04

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The marshal came to Grinnell recon-.
mended by the secretary to the mayor
of Dss Moines and Division Freigh
Agent VI. j. Lawrence of The c.. r.
& P. al Des Moines, Mr. Spaulding haG
also a favorable report upon his charac-
ter from Dunn & Co but his actions in
4 GrinneIl Should have caused his dis
charge long ago had the mayor under
stood the ways of the world. Mrs. Mum
ger, the fugitive marshals wife, is in
Knoxville With relatives and $50 oil
Spauldingss money, the remnant Of an
i OLD debt. went with the man who dis
appeared.
| The episode was the talk of the town.
Men stood around in groups to discuss
/ It, Nearly everyone WAS glad he had
gone. In the Franklin Club rooms
Sunday morning where the business
| ilen come to read their Sunday papers
| The writer heard the merchants and
llawyers ~and doctors talk There was
hut enc opirion; spaulding is making
! himself ridiculous and the disappear
the mayor and his marshal were origi-
mad in their ways. A local papers story
of the marshal in the mayors presence
applying a rope to "a suspect and under
torture, tho mild, extracting confess.
sion. was true. 1t was probably unfer-
tunate for the community that the rope
didn't slip and hang the wretch, but the
methods used have long been discarded
by civilized society. The writer talked
with three ex-mayors of Grinnell and
the three agreed that mistake had
been made.
However Mr.. Spaulding s n very fine
man, valuable citizen to Grinnell. He
and his friends of the Congrega tional
church would reform the city, free 1t
from DRINKS whuch is laudable ambi-
ton only they dout know how to do 1t. |
When the mayor seized the liquor he
attacked nuisance and the citizens |
applauded him in Kidding the city of |
its presence. Mr. Spaulding is sincere, |
honest, enterprising, determined man. |
The writer beheld the beautiful theater
building In process of construction that I
his beneficence made possible. His bus |
mess block is a credit to the city. Under |
his administration Grinnells streets arel
We'll kept, the crossings well built Hisl
money goes freely into every public en-
terpriSe, church, school and college I
Grinnell today with men like Spauiding
is becoming an architectural marvel.
Repeated fires have wiped out the pio-
neer frame buildings and solid brick
blocks have taken their place. The
churches and college buildings are stone
Joel Stewart, a rich and re-
tired farmer. is building a $1,000 publis
library, the Odd Fellows lodge is build
ing marble front store building An
other citizen q carpenter by trade, is
building from his savings magnifl-
cent store building. In fact the stone
and ornamental brick structures nov
building in Grinnell would do credit to
the largest city in Iowa, and it is such
men as Spaulding who set the pace He =
means well. His friends of the Congre-
sational church all mean we'll only they
can not distinguish between man who
gets drunk and the swine that thrive in
the wallow, and under their peculiarI
of government the
trunks are on the increase and Grinneill
g being advertised to the world as a
perfect "hell-hole" of lawlessness and
fice, when, in fact, it has always been
| remarkably pure and wholesome city,
IN ideal college town.
While the fall of the mayors marshal
vas the sensation OF the hour Grinneill
still has another toothsome morsel for
he gossips. The liquor trial is on to-
la3, but the Morse VS.. Morse divorce
iuit is docketed for trial at the term Of
curt to begin this week. Morse anu his
wife did occupy magnificene $4,000
'esidence on High street. Mrs. Morse
md her mother now occupy 1t alone.
She petitioned for divorce on the
grounds of cruel and innuman treat
nent. He counter petitioned for a di-
,orce on the charge OF adultery on di-
,erse occasions with one Berry Ennis, !.
. very wealthy bachelor of Chicago.
The lawyers are as thick as flies at a
,utchering, the evidence promises to be
sensational and IL the case comes to trial .
he aggregation Of witnesses from raj
md wide promises to be an interesting
me. Morse is an old man with money
md younger wife, for whom his jeal-
.uy is intense. They both want to quit
,ne another and probably will. 4,
But Grinnell's blue laws and reform
mayor have failed TO depreas property
ialues. Grinnell real estate is on the
oom. Farm lands seem to have reached
abulous sums. a 200-acre farm of
.ough land northwest of town which
old in 1897 for s35 and last spring for
IA per acre recently changed ownership
Il $50. Last week another farm of 24O
ores southeast of town, with buildings /,
# little or no value, was sold for $7o per
ere. One of the leading real estate own :.
RS said TO the writer that people seemed
o he going crazy after farms and he ex-
PRESSED 1t as his opinion that the fellows /.
sho were buying $50 and $75 land on
mall payments were doomed to some !
ard experience when the price of grain
nd livestock should fall, as it is certain
o do in a very few years.
t
Grinnell is a college town. Everybody :
,nows that but few realize what it :
means until they visit the place during
jolliflcation meeting. On Saturday
srinnell's college foot ball team won !
iorious victory over the State College
L Ames The high school team de- Z
Gated the West Des Mofnes high school
cam on the home grounds and the sec
nd team won at Brooklyn. The occa-
ion was too much for expression. so the
oys, professors, preachers and business
zen all joined in a bonfire celebration on
he campus Everybody, young and old, is