Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1901-09-21

Special to s-Republican.
GrinneIl, Sept 21.-The total enroll
ment of the college in all departments is
400. The freshman class enrolls more
new students than ever before. Accord
ling to new arrangement In regard To
classification the actual number regis
tered as freshmen is Ill, as opposed to
over 100 of last year, there being about
twenty registered as freshmen who had
slight conditions which were later
made up. The registration of the. school
of music is about the same as last year
but In the academy there is consldera-
BILE shortage. this reducing the total en-
| rollment of the college below the expec-
tation for the year. AT present there are
ninety-eight in the sophomore class
! twenty-six in the junior and forty in the
senior classes.
| In response to petition from the stu
dents for chair of public speaking the
| trustees have elected Miss Glenna Smith
as Instructor in that department.. Miss
Smith has been for a year connected
with the Columbia School of Acting in
| Chicago and is well known in this city.
| having formerly been enrolled as stu
| dent in the college. Miss Smith was in
charge of the presentation Of Sheridan's
Rivals" the senior class-day play, last
commencement. In addition to her reg
l5ular class work Miss Smith is organic
| ing private classes for work In express
sion and interpretation.
Charles Phillippi, first postmaster of
Grinnell. now over 10 years of age, was
| in the city Thursday. Mr.. Phillip was
the mail carrier, serving between Grin
rell and Montezuma before a postoffice
was established here, nearly forty-five
gears ago.
Miss Mary Judkins, formerly one Of
the teachers in the Grinnell public
schools, left early in the week for a
months visit with Kansas friends.
Messrs Urdangen & Greenburg are
planning to open a department store in
Abba.
Mr.. and Mrs. John Francis Whalen, of
Sheridan, who have been spending few
days in the city, returned to Sheridan
yesterday.
Professor L. F. Parker will address
the Iowa branch of the w. b. M. l. on
the occasion of its quarto-centennial
celebration to be held ct Marion on Oct.
lG. Mrs. Parker whose death occurred
last year, was state secretary of the So
c;ety for twenty-four consecutive years
from the time of its organization, and
until last year never failed to attend the
annual convention of the society except
ing one session, when Professor and
Mrs. Parker were abroad.
Last evening the young peoples socie-
ties of the three churches-Baptist
Methodist and Congregational-united
ir. a social in honor of the college stu
dents. The social was he'd in the lee
ture room and parlor of the Congrega-
tional church and fair attendance is
reported.
Mr.. and Mrs. Wharton, formerly of
Grinnell spent yesterday in this city on
their way from their home in Newton
to visit friends in Ewart.
The many Grinnell friends of II. S.
Raley, a graduate of Iowa College, will
be interested to learn that he is at pres
emit enrolled In the science department
of the Harvard Graduate School. Mr..
Raley was employed by the Cambridge
Gas Light Company during the summer
months.
w. e. Bayer, foremerly proprietor OF
The New Orleans restaurant, at present
n resident of Oskaloosa, stopped in Grin
nell between trains yesterday. Mr..
Bayer is at present on the road,
Hiram d. Brown, travelling salesman
for the Spaulding Manufacturing Conf
pany, has gone to Minneapolis feNa few
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