Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-01-02
Tho Grinnen ews

Speclal TO lmeS-RepuDlcan.
Grinnell. Jan. AT the hall OF Grim
nell Lodge No. $50. l. o. o. F., on next
Wednesday evening, January Sth, Dis
trict Deputy Grand Master c. G.
Adams, of Montezuma, will install the
following officers: Noble grand. George
Cashier; vice grand. c. X. Rich: re-
cording secretary, Samuel Nelson;
financial secretary, c. H. Kingdom;
treasurer, F. P. Marvin. The lodge has
/ had very prosperous year and starts
out on the 1908 trip with good pros
poets.
Today is the Annual Church Day.
of the Baptists of this city. AT 2
o'clock in the afternoon there will be
the annual roll call and the election
Of the officers of the church for the
ensuing year After the supper pre-
pared by the ladies of the church has
been disposed of, the evening will be
spent in hearing the reports from the
different organizations and in outlin-
ing plans for the coming year OF
church work.
Is. ]. Carney is planning to take
a much needed rest from the bust
ness cares that have engrossed his at
tention for so many years, ard to re-
cuperate his health by extensive trav-
ell. 1t is understood that he will go
thru the south and to Cuba before
returning home, taking along his ED
est son for travelling companion and
for the education the young man will
gain from travel.
The readers of the T.-R. have been
greatly pleased for many months with
the regularity with which the paper
has reached them in the early even
ing. The train service as rule has
been all that could be asked, hut for
the past two evenings the trains have
been way Off in arrival and 1t has been
difficult to get the papers to the sub
scribers in time for their evening read
ing. One of the juvenile carriers was
fortunate enough to have an obliging
father with horse and buggy who
took him late at night to all the houses
he had to serve.
The new organ for the Herrick
chapel is said to be larger than the
$4,000 one recently placed in the Con-
| gregational church and of a quality
unexceptionable. The opportunity to
! get such rare bargain in an instru-
ment so badly needed has aroused the
enthusiasm of the Women's clubs OF
the. city, as we'll as that of some other
people, and they feel confident that
the means will he soon Forthcoming to
make the required payment.
A statement in these columns re-
Gently that Mrs. Verbeck, who has
passed her 9th birthday, was the old
est inhabitant would better be modl-
fed, probably by saying Oldest White
person in the city. Mumford Holland,
generally known simply as "Mumford,
seems quite certain to be more than a
hundred years old from the events
that he can remember and recite. he
| is still active and may be seen almost
any day upon the streets here with MS
horse and wagon, gathering garbage
| for the swine that he raises for the
market. He seems to have all his FAC
ulties and talks about "possum" with
as much JUNCTION as the king of the
| possum cookers who gives his annual
| possum feast to the state officials at
Des Moines He was slave in the
south before the war, body servant
to one of the officers in the war, and
seems to have lived in this vicinity ev-
er since.
| The funeral of Mrs. Martha Brown,
| aged 76, took place yesterday from
| the Congregational church here. She
was one of the early settlers, had
lived for a long time about q mile and
half northeast of the city, and had
many friends in the city as well as in
the imme taeidcmfWy Wehn the man
the immediate vicinity of her residence.
Her five sons helped to bear the casket
with the body to it's final earthly rest
| ing place in Hazelwood cemetery.