Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-11-24
The GrinneIl News.

special III IlineS- RepubllCdn.
Grinnell, Nov. 24.-Newton sent over
some fifty lovers of foot ball Satur-
day, to witness the Cornell Grinnell
game among them being an oldtime
Grinnell star, r. B. Fisk.
w. j. Suckow, who has worked in
defatigably In the raising of the en-
dowment fund for Iowa college, has
just had the satisfaction of receiving
a check for $1,000 from a friend in
Rock Rapids, bringing his total well
up to the $4,000 mark.
The Walter Adams residence was re-
Gently sold to Mr.. and Mrs, J. e. Pat
terson, of Washington, who are to oc-
cupy it Immediately.
of this city are congratulating him
upon his recent election at Des Moines
to the presidency of the Mutual Fire
Insurance Association of Iowa, Of
which he was secretary last year,
Mrs. E. G. Paine has just had the
pleasure Of a visit from her uncle.
Mr.. w. Bowdish, who has gone to
Wichita, Kas., to SPEND the winter.
The working force of the Leader
store has been augmented by the COM
ing of Mr.. o. S. Meyers, from Sibley,
where he has had extensive exper-
fence in this line of business, but
comes here for better advantages in
musical culture.
Lawrence, Decatur met with a SER
ious accident while working around
a grubbing machine on the farm Of
Samuel Decatur, west of this city,
u,ao hxyf Io III NJ or eli nf q
large cable, he received a broken thigh.
He is reported as getting along reas-
onably well with hopes Of ultimate re-
covery.
The prelilninaries for the selection
of a debating team for the Grinnell
high school, to come into the COMPETE
ton for the championship of the state.
took place last Friday, and resulted
in the choice of Judson Blakely, Guy
Steel and Lisle Bray, with Edwin
Spire for fourth or alternate choice.
A ripple of excitement has just
passed over thd college students and
the freshman class especially, at the
news that one of their number, Miss
Honolulu Scheib had been married
about the middle of September to Mr.
f. L. Meyerhoffer, Of Des Moines. As
now reported, Miss Scheib left he1
College, where she was expected tc
enroll and work for the ensuing -four
years. BY previous appointment, how
ever, she met her lover in Davenport
and they were married and she came
on to Grinnell, while he went back tc
his work as an artist in the capita
city. AS freshman, Miss Scheib made
quite hit in college and won the ad-
miration and friendship of her asso-
ciates and the respect of her instruc-
tors, and no one suspected the new
relation into which she had entered I'M
til she announced it last week and lef
the college to make her home with hel
huband in Des Moines.
Mr. and Mrs. G. A. Green have re.
turned to Grinnell, after a year in the
dry farming region of Colorado, ant
plan to move to their farm in the vi.
cinity of Newburg, in the spring.
Principal c. C. Ball, of the Grinnel
high school. visited in Des Moines last
Saturday and Sunday, and was field
judge at the foot ball contest between
Ida Grove and West High.
The heavy rain of last night has beer
very acceptable to this region, even tho
It does interfere a little with the corr
| husking in few cases Of belated farm
ers. Farmers report quite general,
that the corn is practically all in thu
crib. and that the yield has been un
expectedly good. No phenomenal husk
ing stunts have been reported, thu
good huskers claiming only from sew
entv to ninety bushels a day.