Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1902-12-26
THE GRINNELL NEWS.
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| Special to Times Republican.
Grinneil, Dec 26.--The bar of Powe-
shiek county held a meeting at the Ho-
tel Monroe Wednesday afternoon for
the purpose of adopting resolutions In
memory of Hon. r. M. Haines. Hon.
w. r. Lewis, of Montezuma, was Sc
lected as chairman of the meeting and
7. j. Bray, of this city, secretary. The
COMMITTEE, composed of Hon. w. r.
Lewis, Captain J. w. Carr and Paul g.
Norris, was selected to draw up resolu-
tons to be presented at the January
/ term of the district court, also for the
supreme court.
| Hon. r.. NJ. HaineS' funeral was large
| ly attended. President Dan +. Brad
Hey made the opening address, followed
| by singing from quartet composed of
Professor Olds, Miss Catherine Bray,
Mrs. Heidel and Professor Smith. Pro-
! fessor Parker next gave a very impress
siye sketch of Mr.. Haines' life. Rev.
| Yittum made the closing address and
prayer Five double-seated rigs were
provided to carry the pail bearers and
relatives to the cemetery, where the re-
mains were laid to rest. On account of
the severe cold weather the funeral
procession was small.
The Brooklyn Gas Lighting Plant will
be completed in the course of a couple
of weeks, and it will be quite an inn
proyement over the old system of light
| ing by lamp post.
Judge Ryan, of Des Moines. and At
torney Swisher, of Iowa City, were
present at the funeral of Mr.. Haines.
The patrons of the heating plant
suffered the most severe cold that they
have had yet on account of the boilers
being in such bad condition that they
had to be mended before any steam
could be sent thru the mains. The new
boiler was to arrive sure over two
weeks ago, but as yet it hasn't shown
up, and it will be some time before it
will come, as the company who have
it in charge say 1t will not be done for
two or more weeks yet, and if this
weather continues, which 1T probably
will, there will be a number of stoves
put in around town in the next few
days. and already there have been some
put in. The telephone system is some
thing on the same order, as some
phones are out of order most of the
time, and one phone was out of order
for whole week before 1t was fixed.
The Congregational, Methodist and
Baptist churches had Christmas trees
on Christmas eve.
Services We're held in the Catholic
church at 80 o'clock and 8 o'clock on
Christmas morning. Notwithstanding
the early hour and cold weather the
services We're well attended.
DIR. Ora Parish, of Chicago, arrived
Wednesday evening to spend the holi-
days with his parents. Mr.. Parish has
not yet decided where he will locate, but
he thinks it will be somewhere near
MarshalltoWn.
Mr.. Frank Fitzgerald and family, of
Omaha, arrived Wednesday evening to
spend Christmas with his parents, Mr..
and Mrs. John Fitzgerald.
Master Herman Celle was severely
injured last night while holding up the
tongue of a wagon which was being
hauled into q she'd He had his hand
over the end of the tongue, and when
the tongue struck the opposite side of
the shed 1t came with such force that
a board was broken out his hand being
caught and severely mashed.
The j. e. Nelly, A. j. Nicely, e. M.
Nicely, III. g. Wire families and George
Lackey partook of bountiful Christ
mas dinner at the T. c. Wire home.
There were four generations represent
ed, and Mrs. Wire, who is a great