Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-08-19
The GrinneII News.
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Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, Aug. 19.-Miss Fanny Fish
er started yesterday morning for Du-
luth, where she plans to spend some
weeks before the opening of college
here, in the pursuit of both health and
pleasure.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. NJ. Hays plan to
go in a few days to Little York, ILL.,,
for a weeks visit with relatives, after
which Mrs. Hays will go to her old
home in Yonkers, N. Y, while Mr..
Hays will take boat for st. Louis, and
thence so on to Keechi, Texas, to spend
the Writer with his son.
Mr.. and Mrs. William Dodge came in
OH Monday morning from their home
in Pasadena, Cal, to spend an in
definite period in visiting relatives and
friends in that vicinity.
The new Coutts, Boyer and Clark
mercantile building is making very
satisfactory progress, and gives prom
Use of being ready for occupancy be-
fore many weeks. 1t will give a very
commodious and satisfactory room for
the display of furniture, and Kibby and
Adams, who are to occupy it, are now
away selecting stock for that pur-
pose.
Reports have come in, showing dam
age by lightning during the terrible
storm of Friday night last in several
places near by one being the partial
destruction of chimney in the house
Of ex-Mayor Beth Jenkins, and an
other the same damage done to the
home of w. B. Dunn. At the farm of
John Souter, near Ewart, the barn was
struck and burned, with 1000 bushels
of newly threshed oats, 200 bushels of
cor nand considerable quantity of
hay. Stock and machinery were saved.
There was $3.50 of insurance, which
will cover but a small part of the loss.
A call has been issued by C. +. Dick
son, chairman of the republican coun-
ty central committee, for a county
convention of the delegates elected at
the primary of June 2, to be held
at Montezuma on the goth of August
to select thirteen delegates to the state
convention, to be held at Des Moines
on the 9th of September, to put in
nomination candidate for the office
of judge of the supreme court of
Iowa.
AT the latest meeting of the city
council, p. HI. Day presented claim
against the city for damages to his
auto to the extent of $43.50 by an OBJ
struction in the street in the. putting
in of water main The claim was
referred to a special committee for in
vestigation. f. P. Marvin, chairman of
the sewer committee, was appointed
delegate to attend the meeting of the
Septic Process league, i'll Des Moines,
on the Goth of this month. The re-
port of Mr.. Marvin shows that work
is still continuing on the deep we'll No.
.. and hopes are entertained of the
termination of the long and costly ex
pertinent at an early date. Bide on
coal were opened and referred, no
awards being made at this meeting.
Miss Anna Field, who has been Wis
iting relatives, and sightseeing in the
New England states and New York, Tor
the past two months or more, returned
to her home here last evening, for
short visit before the beginning of her
work for the coming year in the high
school at Boone.
The subscriptions for stock in the
proposed company for the manutact-
ure OF the Speed washing machine IN
this city. are coming in such number
and amounts as to render it practically
certain that the measure VIII carry
and the business of manufacturing will
soon begin No project of this nature
in recent years has seemed to appeal
so strongly to the business judgment
of so large number of those who are
able to make moderate investments
Announcement is made of the birth
of a daughter to Mr.. and Mrs. Fletch-
or Meade, of Mason City. Mrs. Meade
is a daughter of Mr.. and Mrs. r, n.
Persons, and Mrs. Persons is now with
her.