Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1908-07-08
Grinnell News Letter.

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/ Grinnell. July S.-Superintendents
] Eugene Heneley. of Grnnell. and T. M.
Clevenger. of Brooklyn, started yester-
day morning for trip to South Da-
kota. for week of outing and looking
| over land prospects.
The sixteen members of the Grinnell
| fire department who accepted the invi-
| tation of the people of Victor to spend
the Fourth there, speak in high terms
of the hospitality of their hosts, altho
the plans for the days sport were
somewhat broken up by the rain OF the
night preceding.
Mrs j. W. Fowler, with her children,
| is spending some time in visiting at
Colorado Springs, and Flagler, Col.
| At the latest meeting of the city
council, the petition of C. III. Horn and
| others for lights and 4-inch water
main to the north extremity of Park
street, was referred The ]. p. Miller
company who have been working so
long on the cleaning out of we'll No. 2.
presented a bill for $1,000 and asked
for longer time to complete the work;
the special committee to report on the
request of John Mincer to have his IL
cense on billiard and pool tables re-
ducad, favored slight reduction and
the report was duly accepted; the fire
department was granted $500 to pay
the expenses of the company to the
state firemen's tournament at Clinton,
July %; and ordinance No. 231, estab-
fishing a sidewalk grade on Spring
street, south of First avenue, was
passed and a number of ordinary bills
were allowed.
The many friends of Rev. ]. T. Mar
vim, who went to Rochester, Mimi,
some time ago to undergo a surgical
operation, are greatly relieved and
pleased to learn that he passed safely
thru the operation, and is making an
excellent recovery.
Miss Helen Stone is making a ten
DAYS visit to friends in Omaha.
MIR. and Mrs. c.. +. Chase and their
son, Frank Morrison Chase, spent
Sunday at the parental home of D. S.
Morrison, and Mrs. Chase and son re-
main here while Mr.. Chase is moving
their household goods from their pre-
vious home at Waterloo to Des
Moines. where Mr.. Chase goes into the
advertising business.
a. P. Haines, of the Grinnell Her
aid, brings back a pitiful story of the
scenes he witnessed in southern and
central Minnesota last week, or his
return trip from a visit to his BROTH
er at Saltwater, MINI. Many miles Of
rich farming land were wholly under
water, with houses, barns, outhouses,
and tools either floating or standing
III the water, and several towns half
covered with water and muddy slime
and stores with water standing OH the
lower floors and goods ruined. He sees
nothing but distress for many of these
farmers, as 1t will be impossible for
them to replant and raise any crops to
speak of.
w. S. Kearney, a lumberman of Cas-
cade has been in Grinnell and has
bought two lots of D. r. Warburton,
at the corner Of Tenth avenue and Elm
street, with view to coming here to
live next year.
An article in the latest Grinnell Her
aid from the pen Of Mayor q. B. Wiley,
should set at rest all fears that some
people seem to have had that there is
any possibility of contamination Of the
drinking water used by the city from
the ingress Of any living object into
the tank holding the water supply from
the pumps. He states that every open
ing in the tank is very carefully
screened, so that it is Impossible for
any animal to gain an entrance to the
tank. He speaks further of the sub
ject of milk inspection as a preventive
measure for the spread of tuberculosis,
and states that the city council has
probably given more time and more
active thought and discussion to this
subject than have any other eight men
in the city, and that mayor and coun-
Gil will most gladly accept helpful sug-
gestions from any citizen who has them
] to offer.