Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-05-02
eRINNELL NEWS LETTER.
Dates Of College Commencement June
5 to 1o-Other Items.

Grinnell, May "A sudden ana Sc
we're change in the weather yesterda.
afternoon sent the mercury down Il
% last night, with severe frost ina
nothing but very hardy fruit is like
ly to withstand.
The annual commencement exercise:
place on Friday, June 3. cmfWy mn"
place from Friday June to Wed
| nesday, June 10, inclusive. The bac'
calaureate address will be given b,
| President Main, and the commence
! ment address by Mr.. Robert Watch
orn, commissioner of immigration OF
| the United States. Tuesday is Sc,
, apart as alumni day, with the Ph
! Beta Kappa address scheduled for the
evening. and this is planned to be
permanent arrangement. The senior
dramatics will occupy the evening OF
Monday, at the Colonial theater. where
1.-THE Professors Love Story will be
presented. The annual address before
the Y. NJ. and Y. w. c. A. societies
will be delivered on Sunday evening
in Herrick chapel. by Rev. E. O. Tade
of the class of 1858. Alumni day VIII
also be marked by an alumni base ball
game at 3 in the afternoon, on Ward
Field.
1t is announced that Professors
Smiley and Thompson plan to spend
the coming year in Europe for special
study, leaving here Immediately after
commencement in June. Professor
THOMPSON plans to spend the entire
year in the University of Leipsig IN
the study of German, while Professor
Smiley expects to spend five months
in Berlin, and the rest of the year IN
other European cities Both are ex-
pected to resume their work In Iowa
College in the fall of 1909.
The continued illness of Mrs. N.
O. Pilgrim has reached so serious a
point that her sisters from distant
points are either here or on their way
to her side; Mrs. S. D. Dunlap, with
her husband, from Fort Collins. Col.;
Mrs Frank Hough from Salt Lake
City: Mrs. Mart Hanson from Eli. New.
and Mrs. G. A. Christianson from San
Francisco.
H. w. Spaulding and w. S. San
ders are experimenting in progress
sive way with electricity as force for
running light machinery on their
farms north Of this city. They are
putting up poles for the line them
selves and the Grinnell Electric and
Heating Company will furnish the
power from the plant here.
Some fifty of the cid time students
under Professor Parker, while at the
State University where he vas pro-
lessor of Greek history and pathology.
have conceived the idea of having his
portrait painted to adorn the walls OF
the university and are having the idea
put into practical operation by j..
Laurie Wallace, a portrait painter
from Omaha, Neb., who is here at
present at work upon the likeness.
At the annual meeting of the Ladies
Cemetery association, the following
were elected as the official board for
the ensuing year: President. Mrs A. b.
Mack: first vice president, Mrs. G. W..
Cowden; second vice president, Mrs.
j. C. Goodrich; secretary, Miss May
Miles; assistant secretary, Mrs. r. %.
Spaulding: treasurer, Miss Mary
Chamberlain; superintendent of GEM
etery, George Martindale. A move
ment is on foot by which the Ladies
Cemetery association may become
owner of the west part of the GEM
etery grounds, laid out and now owned
by the Odd Fellows lodge of this city
1t is deemed best, by all parties in
terested, that the cemetery interests
should all be under one management
and, as the older cemetery is now
almost completely filled. new ground
must be bought somewhere. and there
is none adjoining the present grounds,
that are so we'll located for conven-
fence of citizens and so well drained
as this. it is thought to be favorable
for the association and for
the public. It is said to have been
offered by the Odd Fellows at a very
reasonable rate.