Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-01-26
Special to Times-Republican.


Grinnell, Jan. 26.-The lecture last
evening al the Colonial by DR.. E. A.
Steiner, i'll connection With the evening
entertainments of the short course now
on in full blast here was very inter-
esting display upon the screen of over
100 pictures, accompanied by a running
fire OF descriptive commentary upon
the people and places shown. The pic
lures We're taken by DR.. Steiner and his
student companions during their trip
last year, mostly by bicycle. thru the
several countries OF southern Europe.
and portrayed mostly the working
classes and the conditions under which
they labor. The final one thrown upon
the screen was that OF the five young
men who were his companions and stu
dents, with an account of each one and
the work he is now doing as a result,
very largely. of that trip for the study
OF these races at first hand. The
Colonial was we'll filed with an in
tensely interested audience.
Up to last evening there had been
$50 tickets TO the short course sold and
more We're expected today. The at
tendance and the enthusiasm aroused
by the work before the students and by
the association are beyond expectation
even and are cause for much congrat-
ulation offered to the prom who
have labored long and hard to bring
about this result. Horses were studied
ana judged yesterday and cattle today,
while sheep and hogs will come in
later. The evening entertainment to-
night will be a concert by the mems
glee club, the women's glee club and
other musicians of the college and
city
The many friends in Chester and this
city of Joseph W. Hays. son of Mr. and
Mrs D. F. Hays, of this city, will be
pleased to know of his success as an
inventor. an expert on combustion and
a consulting engineer. Over 100 of the
Carbox machines, invented by him,
have recently been put into use on the
government war vessels of the North
Atlantic squadron and Mr. Hays has
gone to New York to go with the yes
sells on a trip to the West Indies, to
give instructions as to the use of his
invention.
The Brande apartment building on
Fourth avenue is practically completed
and ready for occupants. and some of
the suites are already occupied. Archi-
! tect Harry Rawson has been here to
inspect the work of the contractor be-
fore the acceptance from his hands of
the building as being complete. The
work has fingered long time owing
10 many unavoidable circumstances,
but is something for both the owner
and the city 70 be proud Of in its fin
iShed condition.
II is reported by an expert on
wolves and other wild animals that
there are more gray wolves in Powe-
shiek county today than there were
forty years ago and the severity of
the winter has made them exceedingly
bold in the raiding of the farmers
chicken roosts and any other places
where they have been able to find any
thing 70 eat.
Grinnell athletes and their friends
are rejoicing in the showing made by
the Iowa College basketball team in
their struggle with the Missouri Tigers
on their own battle ground at Colum-
bia, Mo In the first game Grinnell
Won by "a 70 80 and in the second by
80 TO S.
Mr. and Mrs. F. NJ. Hummell, South
Park street. this city, announce the
Uriah Vanderveer has recently sold
the residence property just north Of the
Main street Hatch Row to Miss Alice
Conaghey, who has been living there
for some time past.
A marriage license has been issued
to Ray Lockhart and Ethel NJ. Houga-
ton. of this city.
Miss Fannie Phelps, instructor ir
Grinnel Academy, who has been fol
several months past in Europe, spend.
ing most of the time in study in the
American College at Rome, started or
her homeward journey the 18th of thi:
month and expects soon to be back II
her old position in the academy here
. County politics is coming to The
front and candidates for the variou!
officers are already being selected o,
are having their names placed in thu
lime light Of public notice. The peopl,
Of the county seem in general to b.
) well satisfied with the service that ha
D been rendered by the present incum
2 loents and disposed to keep them wher.
they now are In the case of the sheriff
, however, the office having been in tina
\ family for some ten or twelve years
and the statement, as the basis of tn
. last election, having been made public
" that they would not ask for it again
A new crop of candidates will be cul
tivated.
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