Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-12-18
DOUBLE WEDDING CELEBRATED.
At w. C. Dimit Home, Near Grinneil-
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Grinnell, Dec. 1S.-A very pretty
double wedding took place on Wednes-
day evening last at o'clock att the
home of Mr. and Mrs. w. c. Dimit, Of
Sheridan township, when George Dimit
and Miss Jessie Doolittle, and Ralph
Montgomery and Miss Catherine Dimit
were made husbands and wives, Rev.
A. w. McBlain officiating, assisted by
Rev. c. HI. Montgomery, the father OF
the second groom named. Miss Doo-
little was formerly, with her mother,
a resident of Brooklyn, but both later
l',oved to Dakota. Last fall she was
the teacher in district No. 2. Chester
,lu,.n-A..s Mr.. and Mrs. Dimit, the
younger, will live at the Dimit home
this winter, and will probably have en-
tire charge of the farm in the spring,
when the elder Dimits plan to move TO
Grinnell, as there are several younger
children to educate. MI. and Mrs.
Montgomery, the younger, will live on
the d. f. Hays farm, which father and
son rented last year for term of
years, in partnership. Rev. C. II. Mont
gomery is a supernumerary preacher
of the Methodist Episcopal denomina-
ton.
Having received word that his
mother was in poor health, Professor
G. p Wycloff has gone to spend his
holiday vacation with her at Redlands,
Calf
Miss Jessie Stewart, of New Sharon,
a graduate of Iowa College, class of
'OS, who has been teaching at Dysart,
has been elected to a position in the
grades at Waterloo. and will begin her
work there after the holidays.
E. w. Shear has sold his pictures,
mouldings and other art goods to Will
liam G.. .Hamm, and will give his at
tention to the upholstering, and cor
respondence school lines.
Miss Alta Nav Crews of Jasper
county, and Sylvester. Leroy Martin Of
Washington township. Poweshiek
county, were united in marriage on
Wednesday afternoon at the Metho-
dist parsonage in this city, by Rev.
Elias Handy The parents of thu
young couple are prominent farmers
and near neighbors. The couple will
make their home in Washington town
ship. where they returned Immediately
after the marriage ceremony. They
were accompanied by w. c. Boyle and
the Misses Agnes E. Martin and Alice
Crews.
G. w. Cowden, of the Grinnell Reg
lister, accompanied by Mrs. Cowden,
has just returned from Adair. where
they went to attend the wedding of a
niece.
Today is Grinnell's Tag Day." and
tomorrow probably will be, Also Col
lege girls are on every street and cor
ner with punches of bright red tags"
which say on one side Endowment or
Bust and on the reverse side, Il have
subscribed have you?" Each passerby
is at liberty to buy one or more Of
these badges of honor, paying for it
what he thinks ne can afford, but it is
commonly reported that he need not
expect any change back. The students
seem to be as full of enthusiasm in the
endowment matter as the business and
the professional men and women.
Mrs. A. o. Price left last evening
over the Iowa Central for Austin, Tex,
where she will spend a couple of weeks
or more with her daughter, Miss Ellen
A. Price, who is teaching for the third
year in Tillottson College.
Mrs. w. S. Hendrickson is spending
some weeks at the home of her father
in Linnaeus, Mo-, where she plans to
remain thru the holidays.
Mr. Rodney Clark, of this city, is
having the pleasure of a visit from his
sister, Mrs. F. NJ Wilmer and her
RI from CtI1art
The arrangement between the Bus
mess Mems association of this city, and
the G. C. Janney company, has been
completed, and the addition to the city
of Grinnell on the north of Merrlls'
addition, is now being plated and will
be. put on the market as speedily as
possible The lots seem likely to sell
well at the auction sale that will be
made as early as possible in order to
have the benefit Of receipts from the
highest priced lot go to swell the en-
dowment fund, which is one feature of
the agreement just reached by the citi-
zens The Janney company will move
its equipment here just as soon as a
suitable building can be procured. If
one already built and suitably located
can be had, the factory will probably
be running here within four months.
If the building has to be made from the
fo,1ndation six months or more will be