Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1909-05-18
The erinnelI News.

Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, May 1S.-County superin.
tendent Estelle Coon has announced
that the county normal will begin it:
sessions on June s, at Brooklyn ant
will be continued for two weeks from
that date
Mr.. and Mrs. Paul F. Myers of thi:
city, are entertaining DR.. A. w. Alvord
of Battle Creek, Mich, the father o.
Mrs. Myers
Mr.. j. L. McIlrath, of Hartwick
plans to move to Grinnell sometime
during the present year, having traded
his Hartwick property to William Dix
on, for his farm.
Grlnnell, having secured a competent
engineer, is now looking for competent
contractors to lay the miles of btu
Nthlc paving for which the city coun-
Gil has already been petitioned. The
owners of the patent on the bitulithie
material and composition have filed
with the city clerk their assignment
of the right to use it and are ready
to furnish all that is needed, all ready
TO be laid, to the contractor. The or
dinance has been passed and public no.
elce mas been given to property holders
10 make the required change of iron
to lead pipes for all connections with
the water mains at once, that the work
of bringing the streets to grade NAV
not be hindered.
After careful examination of the
present Methodist parsonage, and con-
sultation of the church authorities, the
decision has been reached that the
present parsonage is too good a build.
ing to be disposed of at the price il
would bring, if removed from It's pres
ent location, and it is to be remodeled
and modernized at an estimated COS,
of some $4,000, instead of building the
| new one that was contemplated
Brooklyn announces that the Sixth
district representative in congress
Hon. n. E. Kendall, will deliver the
Grafton upon the occasion of its coming
Fourth of July celebration.
Montezuma people are congratulating
themselves upon the strange and sud-
den finding of an ineNhaustible supply
of pure water from a spring Just north
of the town, in the sand bed A pump
attached to the source of the supply is
said to have thrown over $4,000 gall
Ions in seven hours, without at all
diminishing the supply
1t is a matter of history, and also
with many elderly people, one of ex-
perience, that the old-fashioned SPELL
ing school aroused enthusiasm in the
community and made good spoilers but
it seems to have been left to the wife
of the Methodist pastor in Sonora,
Chester township, to apply the same
methods and secure the same results
in the study of the bible. The same
choosing of sides, careful study, pro-
pounding of questions on the portion
under study, taking written answers
which are carefully examined and re-
suits tabulated, and the awarding of
some prize at the end of a six months
period, is said to have stimulated bible
research and quickened the memory in
way that community has never be-
fore seen.
Work on the contemplated changes
In Athletic park will begin as soon as
practicable after the close of the pres
ent college year. The Old grandstand
is to be replaced by new reinforced
concrete one, and the entire athletic
arena is to be pushed over to the east
ern limit, that Park street may be
opened and the ground between Park
and Broad streets, belonging to the
college, may be placed on sale for res
idence property.