Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-02-06
NEWS OF GRlNNELL.
Official Call for Sixth District Dele
GATE Convention-Other Items.

Cirinncll, Feb. City Clerk WINS
Davis has been confined to his home
for the past few days by Illness prob
ably caused by overworlt and compli-
cations. He has been running down
physically for some time past, but ms
friends are all hoping that he Will
shortly be himself again after the
needed rest.
An official call has been issued by
the chairman of the congressional
committee of the Sixth district, for a
delegate convention to meet at Oska-
/ loosa on the 18th day of March, for the
4 purpose of selecting two delegates and
two alternates to represent the Sixth
district at the national republican
convention at Chicago in June. The
congressional committee at its recent
meeting in Oskaloosa. named the fol-
lowing as the officers of the conven-
ton: Chairman. Judge Is. +. Will
cockson of Sigourney: secretary, Har-
old l.. Boyer of Grnnell assistant
secretary. Roy Robinson. of Oskaloo
sa: reading clerk, L. z. Johnston, of
| Buxton A movement is on foot here
to have Professor Jesse Macy selected
as one Of the delegates to the nation
al convention.
Bids have been called for the erec-
/ ton of school building two miles
| south of No. >. in Chester township.
The material for such building will be
delivered on the ground, and all eN-
/ cavations made. Bids will be re-
ceved up to noon of February p, by
! Secretary A. Armstrong of the school
board of Chester township. Plans and
specifications may be seen at the Of
/ flee Of Will c. Rayburn in this city.
The board of supervisors of Powe-
shek county will receive bids for the
furnishing Of all material and the con-
structon of wooden bridges for the
county for the year 1908. Bids will
also be received for the building of
cement and concrete bridges and Gull
verts
A movement is on foot by the city
council and the mayor to improve the
quarters and add to the security Of
those who find themselves compelled
to stay temporarily in the city's place
of detention for those accused of evil
doing. BY taking out partition and
introducing some steel cages, greater
convenience can be obtained and a
larger number Of inmates properly Sc
cured and cared for.
Word has been received here OF the
death of Miss Minnie Harris in Colo
RADIO Springs. on Sunday last. The
body vii! be brought to Montezuma
for burial. The deceased was half
sister to ~ NJ Harris of this city.
Bert Hobbs Won first place in the
preliminaries to choose representa-
tive of Grinnell high school to COM
pete for honors at the meeting of the
Southern Iowa Oratorical Association
at Des Mones. on the 9th of March.
Mr.. and Mrs. Rinefort who have
lived here for so many years. and are
so we'll known in this community. will
soon go to Oklahoma City to visit
their daughter. who is teaching there,
and then to LaWton. Oklahoma. where
they plan to make their future home.
The last meeting of the Dramatic
club is freely commented upon for its
special value in the reading and dis
cussion of Hamlet by Professor Ryan.
who has given much time and study to
this play. His Interpretation of some
of the minor characters is pronounced
unique but the whole reading was full
OF interest and profit to the Shake
spearean student as well as to the gem
eral reader of English.
The most sporty basket ball game of
the season so far is expected at the
mems gymnasium tomorrow evening at
$50 o'clock when the fast Minnesota
team meets the Scarlet and Black
The working parts of the new organ
have all been put in place in the new |
chapel and the instrument is now COM
plete with the exception of some of the |
front ornamental pipes which have not
yet arrived. The organ will be for
maly installed in the giving of a con-
cert on the 10Th of February after
which time it will be in daily use for
chapel exercises.
February IA and Is have been Sc
lected as the time for the convention
meeting here of the Student Volunteer
Union Of Iowa, to which delegates will
be sent from all the forty colleges of
the state The meeting was planned
for some weeks ago but was postponed
from necessity. The addresses on
that occasion will be of interest and
value not alone to the student body
but to many citizens as we'll.
LII. T. W. SletIh Is IcpOflcu DIS SLOWLY !
improving since taking up his resi-
dence in Los Angeles, Cal. He had a
temporary backset some little time ago
but is recovering nicely from that.
L. d. Forehand lost a fine horse the .
other day thru the injury inflicted upon
it by a freight car that was backing |
in on the switch near where the horse /
was standing
A. o. Price, the government weather
man for this city, reports the mean
temperature for January to be 26 de-
grees above zero, the highest for that
month since 1900 when the mean for
the month was 1852.
The fire whistle aroused the people T
of the city about 10 o'clock last night,
but fortunately for the fire boys as
we'll as the property owner, it proved
to be a false alarm. The fierce west
wind would have made fire fighting al
most impossible and the total loss Of
almost certain.
The school house one mile north of
Shows corner" this city, burned last
night about 1880. The cause of fire is
not known. 1t is said the township
carries no insurance.
A IGugh Game.