Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-10-01
Tho erinnelI News.
Special to Times Republican.

Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, Oct. AT the home of the
brides father Andrew K. Stepster.
near Turner, at high noon Yesterday
weM pronounced the words that united
Sadie Stepster and Grover c. Whitcomb
in marriage, Rev. ELIAS Handy of this
city performing the ceremony. There
were about sixty-f1ve relatives and in
vited guests present. The groom has
a brother, j. T.. Wihitcomb, living south
of Grinnell, while other relatives live
at Carlisle, where the newly welded
pair will make their home.
The retiring weather man of Grin
nell makes his final report of Septem-
Der weather for al1is city before turn
ing over his outfit to D. w. Brainard,
who will hereafter assume the respon-
|sibiiities that A. o. Price has carried
for the past twelve years. Highest
temperature. SO on two days, the 18th
and Goth; lowest &c on the 2Sth; mean
maximum, 80, the highest recorded for
September for the past twelve years;
mean average for the month, IS, the
highest since 1897 when it was 20;
rainfall, 1876; average for past twelve
years, 2.57.
a. G.. Adams, who has been under
the care of a physician, and confined
to his home with threatened typhoid
fever, was able to be at the store Tues
day afternoon, tho looking very pale,
and not yet completely out of danger.
The representatives of twenty-eight
/ of the business houses of the city We're
present at the city hall Tuesday even
,,a ~ II o1n
act, and on the final vote made the
action unanimous in favor of closing at
that hour every night in the week eS-
cept Saturday, when the stores will
remain open as long as each proprietor
may think best. 1t was pointed out in
the discussion of the question. that the
factory hands are now on a permanent
eight hour basis of work, and so had
no need that the merchants should
keep open house on pay day evenings
to cash their checks, and that the
clerks and merchants needed shorter
DAYS of labor as well as the mechan-
| les.
F. j. Connolly has Just returned from
a. trip OF several weeks in Idaho, Mon
tana and other western territory, where
he visited his brothers and looked
around for better business openings
| than are afforded him here. While he
enjoyed the trip Immensely and saw
many fine appearing chances, he still
thinks Iowa looks good enough for a
place to live In.
Mrs. Albert Void, Of sRock Rapids
who, with her little son, has been Wis
iting for some time at the G.. M. Chris
| tian home in this city, has gone, In
| comp any with Miss Alma Christian, foI
a visit at the home of State Senator
| Jaanison, ait Osceola- At the close of
their visit there, Miss Christian Will
| return to her home here, and Mrs
Void to Rock Rapids, from which place
| she ana Mr. Void plan to start soon
for a. engthened visit to the Pacific
| coast.
| According to the report OF Secretary
| C. A. Smith, of the Grinnell Brick and
| Tile company, the year has been
prosperous one for the company and
the future is full of promise. A good
| salesman on the road for a short time
| this summer, cleared out all the sur
plus stock from thd yards, and kept
the plant running at full capacity
Some difficulties that were AT first en-
| countered withethe clay, have been en-
tirely overcome, and the brick at pres
erlt produced are pronounced entirely
satisfactory. The company has four
kilns, of a capacity OF 10000 bricks
each, More drying room is needed for
| even the present burning capacity, and
both will be enlarged as the necessity
demands,
The Grinnell Manufacturing company
are just installing In their plant the
large hydraulic elevator. that the ne
| eessities OF the Washing Machine
company demand aa1el which, WAS a
factor guaranteed i'm the lease of the
buildings to that company.