Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-03-09
The arinneli News.

of the officers of the GrinneH Fair AS
Tsociation Saturday the following per
: sons were chosen as superintendent 0
departments and divisions:
! Speed-A. F. Swaney; horses, E. ]
sHadley; cattle, Ralph Sherman; hogs
lJ. A. Bangham; sheep, o. C. Holden
poultry, NJ. S. Smith; grains, Edwart
Lincoln; pantry, Mrs. Ethel Stewart
fruits, NJ. b. Fleener; art Mrs. Edn;
19hilpott; household, Mrs. l.. NJ. Smitl
sLnd Mrs. J. F. Porter; house plants ant
flowers. Mr.. and Mrs. John Evans; i'm.
PIGMENTS, Johnson Porter; children!
department, Mrs. H. r. Dean.
Tomorrow evening, in the college H.
brary. at o'clock, Prof. Charles No
society year before the Humboldt So
ciety, on the topic, The Ethics of the
Divine Comedy of Dante
| At the annual meeting of the direct
ors of the Newburg Elevator Com
pany the report of the officers and
manager showed that the capital has
doubled in three years, being now
$4,000. The following named are the
officers elected for the ensuing year:
President, w. L. Newton; vice pres
5dent, A. c. Newcomer; secretary,
Charles Devore; treasurer, P. Y. Full
ler; directors. E. W. Fisher N. Muck
Ter, W. A. Craig, n. NJ. Breeder and
o. e. Perry. Charles Hesson was again
elected manager and his salary in
creased to 800 month.
At the city school election held here
yesterday afternoon, DR.. S. c. Buck
and Mr.. j. T. Cessna were reelected
as directors for a three-year term.
there being no other candidates for the
positions. A 5-mill tax was voted for
school house purposes, to assist in pay
ing Off the remaining $4,000 of indebt-
edness on the recently erected high
school building.
city, contributed the sum of $11.91
largely in penny gifts to the fund be-
Ing raised for monument to the late
Senator Allison. 81
Invitations have been issued to the
wedding of Miss Louise Belle Park to
Mr.. Joseph Lyman Carpenter, to take
place at the home of the brides par
ents, Mr.. and Mrs. Oliver Park, about
two miles north of this city, at noon
on March II.
At the annual meeting of the Read
and Reflect Club, held at the home of
Miss Subway, the following were
elected officers for the next year:
President, Mrs. II. B. Clifford; vice
Mrs. A. B. Gage; secretary,
and treasurer, Mrs. B. +. Hostetter
At the school election at Westfeld, |
there was a full vote. aud
Emery Schmidt was elected director
'or the coming year.
After closing up the business. con-
1e,cted with the sale of all personal I
on his large farm. near West
Held, which was scheduled for today !
Mr.. Charles Paden with his family
viii go to the Pacific coast for a
engthy visit, and ,possibly, for a per-
nanent home. T. B. kirkpatrick has
.enred the Paden farm.
AT the meeting of the executive COM
nittee of the Farmers Institute, held Z
n this city Saturday, report was made
hat about fifty names had already !
,een secured to guarantee the fund for
securing the short course here next
rear, and plans We're perfected for the
of that work.
Mr. and Mrs. Thomas Hunter. OF
N,esitfield, We're recently called to
Mo, by the news of the
leath of Mr.. Hunters brother George,
Who had been brought from Colorado
'ut a short time ago. He had gone
here in July last. in search Of health.
Ross V. Coutts son of Mr.. and Mrs.
B. G. Coutts, of this city, recently sur
,rised his relatives and friends here
" his marriage to Miss Rose StobbaTt,
whose home was formerly in Center
lille but who went to Ames as stem
grapher to Dean Curtis of the state
ollege, where Mr. Coutts made her
and whore he graduated
n '07. Coutts is now in the EMPLOY
# the Union Pacific railroad, in charge
f the air brake department at Kan
as City. where the young couple will
make their home. The surprise in the
came to the parents thru its
aktng place on the third Of March.
While they had not expected it until
une.