Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-10
DEATH OF WILLIS DAVIS.
Prominent GrinneII Man and Mason
Succumbs to Pncum onia.

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Succumbs to Pncum mia.
Special to Times-Republican.
Grinnell, Feb. 1O.-A sad death oc-
Cured at o'clock this morning
when Willis Davis succumbrd to pneu-
monia. Deceased was 6S years old ant
for some time had been a sufferer OF
diabetes and heart trouble, n only
last Friday pneumonia set in. MI. Da-
Wis was city clerk, q prominent Ma
son and a member of the G. A. r., and
was one of the old residents of Grin
nell. He leaves a wife and seven child
rem to mourn his loss. The funeral will
be held Wednesday morning at 10
o'clock.
Geo. u. McIlrath, who Was captain
Of Iowa college basket bal team, has
gone to Chicago. He has completed his
work in Iowa college and will enter
| Chicago University to take up the
study of law. After the basket ball
game between Grinnell and University
of Minnesota, which showed the scar
let and black great ability, the seniors
of Iowa college held a reception in the
Y. M. and Y. w. rooms, in honor of
him. Mr.. McIlrath, better now as
uOplt, VIII pS SiCulIS hiiSSSu ~ - ~
as he was a very prominent member in
all athletic work.
The account of the basket ball game
between Minnesota and Grinnell last
Friday evening as printed In another
column of this paper on Saturday last
was very misleading. There was no
terrific encounter MOI was the
work of the visitors extremely rough
taken as a whole. There vas one man
on the Minnesota team who might very
properly have been put out of the
game for rough conduct. Aside from
this the game was as clean and sports
manlike on both sides is one often
sees. 1t was a game of fast and skillful
play and pronounced by good judges of
the game to have been as clean a game
as they had ever seen on that floor.
In fact many games of far less impor-
tance have been very much more CEN
surable for roughness. That there was
no i'll feeling on the part of the visitors
was plainly shown when hey gathered
on the fioor after their defeat and gave
the Grinnell yell with a heartiness that
was at the same time an acknowledge
ment of their own dcfea: and a com
pliment to the skill Of their oppon-
ents.
The Oddfellows have just completed
the r%enovating and decorating of the
business room in their building on
Main street under their hall and have
one of the incest rooms in II of he
older buildings of the city. The growth
of the order in the recent years since
they bought and fitted UP this building
has already cramped them for room
in the hall above and a continued
growth in the same ratio will cause
them to make some arrangement for
larger quarters.
The railroad question in this COM
munity has just assumed a new phase.
BY the most recent Investigations of
the committee appointed by the city
it appears that many of the farmers
We're unwilling to vote for the four
per cent tax recently, because they
thought that their burden in that case
would be disproportiorate to that of
the city with the same per cent. The
proposition O seems to be taking the
form that, if the city or private citi-
zens in both city and country will
\ tp kAlS ~ ASAh>N
for. the township will call an election
for the purpose of voting a three per
cent tax. This, they seem to think,
will equalize payments between city
and township. In order to test the
sentiment of both city II township, a
public meeting for the city was called
this morning at the city hall and a
meeting of those interested in the
township for 2 o'clock his afternoon.
BY this means it is hoped the differ
ences may be adjusted in favor of the
railroad. Rumors are persistent upon
the street that Kellogg: and MARSHALL
town are anxious for the new road and
willing to treat the proposition hand
somely.
The sermon of Rev. Dascom at the
Congregational church last evening is
receiving very strong c~ommendation.
His subject was Modern Sin and Our
White House Prophet and the SER
mon was an appeal for not only in
dividual morality but for a wider, gen.
eral, social morality that makes each
man his brothers keeper. Abiding to
the recent message of the president, he
said 1T was not a message to congress
merely. Il it had been simply to a
few legislators at Washington it would
never have been written. 1t was an
earnest appeal to the conscience of the
American people,"