Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-21
THE GRINNELL news.
Farm Near Town Sells for $500 Per
Acre-kendaI CHANCES Date.

Farm Near Town Sells for $500 Pc,
Acre-kendaII Changes Date.
Special to Times Republican.
GrinnclI. Feb. 2l.lt is reported on
reliable authority that William Nugt
has bought the Emil Kitzman farm
east of the fair ground at 500 an acre
and that kitzman is already moving to
Grundy county TO make another home.
r. NJ. Wiltamuth is said to have
bought the residence property of G. l..
Cole at 1O3 Washington avenue and
will have possession on the first of
March
Hon. n. T.. Kendall was to have been
the guest of the Windsor club of this
! city at q date about the middle of this
month but other pressing calls upon his
time prevented his acceptance of that
date. 1t is however, now announced
that he will be the guest of the club
at a special smoker in his honor
| Thursday evening. March 5th AS he
is u prominent candidate for the nom
inaton by the republicans of the Sixth
| district for congress in addition to be-
| ing a man of strong personality and an
excellent speaker much general interest
/
pected that many citizens outside the
/ membership OF the club may have d
chance to see and hear him.
| On Wednesday last Professor l.. F.
| Parker performed the ceremony at Il
double wedding at the home of a. X.
Stepster near IIwart. uniting Cornelius
Hiekema and Susan p Stepster and
John T. Whitcomb and Lillian May
Stepster. Both of the new made fam
/ lilies go to homes on their farms one on
the south of this city the other to the
north
| A general home missionary rally of
the women of all the churches inter-
ested in the home mission work took
place in the parlors of the Congre-
gatonal church this afternoon at 3
o'clock.
NJ Chafee, who has been for many
years almost as constant as the sun
in his daily visits to his office on
Commercial street and who is now
nearly 81 years of age. has been con-
fined to the house some days by ILL
ness, which his many friends sincerely
hope may not be serious or prolonged
The S. u. |. and the Iowa College
basket ball teams meet at the mems
gymnasium here tomorrow night to
settle the championship. AS the teams
are We'll matched it is confidently pre-
dicted that the game will be equal in
interest to the recent game with Min
neSota.
Mr.. and Mrs. Alex Rose of 327 West
street announce the arrival at their
home of hearty ten pound son.
X has inc
creditable inspection at the hands of
Major Il. w. Sibley of the End U. S.
cavalry and Captain Whipple of Vim
ton. 1t is announced as a service in
spection rather than one for fancy evo-
lutions. Company X will celebrate the
event by their semi-annual ball in the
new armory tomorrow night having
McHanna's orchestra of Iowa City to
furnish the enlivening music for the
occasion.
Eugene Jenkins. who recently re-
turned from Monteer Mo-, brought
word of the death at that place last
week of a former citizen of this city,
l.. McGregor. leaving a wife and one
son. Mr.. McGregor still owns the home
in which he lived when here and, as
there is a lot and a monument to the
McGregor name in the cemetery here,
his old friends thought for some days
that his body would certainly be
brought here for burial, but at the |
present writing there is no such indi-
cation.
The series Of evangelistic meetings
that have been in progress for nearly !
three weeks at the Baptist and Meth /
odist churches under the leadership of |
Evangelist A. f. Green, will come to a |
close on Sunday evening next, unless
some unforeseen and unexpected de-
relopment of intense general interest !
is meantime experienced. The meet |
ings have been Of undoubted benefit in
awakening church members to Il keen
er sense of their duty in their church |
relationship, and have added somewhat !
to the membership of the church, but
have hardly realized the hope of the
membership in the conversion of d |
large number of those who are usually ,
not regular participants in religious |
observances.
Harvey Ingham. editor of the Des /
Moines Register and Leader, is sched- |
uled for the regular Friday morning
chapel talk tomorrow. which will be
Of the Washington birthday celebra
ton.
Stephen Morse. aged about eighty,
whose home has been at SIG First av-
enue. died very suddenly yesterday af-
tcrnGon. He has been in usual health
for some time past. in fact showing
more than usual physical activity for
the past few days. but with some aber-
ration of mind so that an attendant
had been provided for him. but his fin
al going was without outward pre-
monition The time of the funeral has
not been definitely fixed as some rela-
tives from a distance are expected. He
leaves wife at the home here.