Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-09-17
The erinneIl Letter.

special 10 Times republican.
Grinnell, Sept. 1.-THE funeral serv-
ices over the body of Mr.. A. j. Scar
brough were held yesterday morning
and the body was taken to Monroe for
interment More extended services
were to be held there among old friends
this afternoon. Mr.. Scarborough was
the father of Mrs. F. NJ Cooper, of this
city, and had made his home at the
DR. Cooper residence for the past two
years He was so years of age.
There will be a general meeting Of
/ all the local committees appointed to
prepare for the Ostrom evangelstic
meetings. at the Congregational church
at 2:3O o'clock next Sunday afternoon.
Interest in this series of meetings is
already becoming aroused, and the
| home workers are looking after the
preliminaries.
AS indicative of the present price and
the rising tendency of farms in this
vicinity. even at a considerable dis
lance from towns of any size, comes
the announcement of the recent sale of
23S acres, five miles southeast of Grin
nell. by G. A. Bonewell to Elwood
Johnson. of Searsboro, for S16S an acre.
Mr.. Bonewell then bought a farm in
the same vicinity of John Smith for
s145 an acre.
Mr.. and Mrs j. F. Porter of this
city. went to Newton Wednesday to be
present at the marriage of their son
E. F. Porter, and Miss Nine Knox OF
that place. The newly married pair
will go at once to their new home in
Boulder, Colo, where Mr. Porter has
employment in the postoffice.
The addresses at the Colonial theatel
!, this week by Rev. j. F. Nugent of Des
& Moines, have been very interesting to
both those of his faith and others. His
talks are informal but very plain an(
earnest. and have been attended by {
con siderable congregation. That o
Wednesday evening was on '"The Rea
y Presence" and that of last evening OF
''The Confessional" He is in this cit,
for the purpose of conducting a mission
in the Catholic church here.
J. r. Cravath, with wife and daugh
ter, are visiting briefly at the parenta
home of DR.. and Mrs. Cravath, on thei
way to Fort Collins, Col, for coupl,
of weeks of vacation
: H. f. Lanphere has completed hi
new residence on North Main street
's and is now taking possession and NOV
;, ing his household goods.
. Arrangements are all made for tn
Rehabilitation of the Methodist churc
Y at Malcolm on Sunday next, as the ex
tensive repairs of the building ar
"a now completed DR.. Edmund H. Shell
of Iowa Wesleyan University, and Su
Y perintendent c.. l.. Stafford, fror
a Grinnell are scheduled to take prom
n inent parts in this ceremony.
Mrs. D. w. Norris, of this city, ha
90 given up her residence here tempora
D7 rily to the care of Mrs. Cutler, who wi
. fill the house with college student
m Mrs. Norris will stay in Marshalltow
~ for time and plans to spend the wiz
81 ter either there or in California.
= Rev. Elias Handy has been quiz
o. prominent in the recent Methodi:
80 conference at Winfield, in pushing IL
~ idea of commission from all the cor
. ferences of the state to look after ma
ters that are of statewide interest an
not under the special jurisdiction
any particular conference. The ide
seems to have taken a strong hold W
on the Iowa conference, and Mr.. HAND
was appointed as one member of
:. committee from that conference to Wis
- the other conferences and present tt
~ plan. Yesterday he went to Ames
meet with the Des Moines conferent
for this purpose.
Captain Cogswell and some of IL
other crack shots of Company X,
this city, are spending considerab
time just at present ON the rifle RAM
south of the city, in a practice that BIZ
fair to put some of them in the lea
ing ranks Of the state rifle range CO..
fA9t to take nlaoe som