Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1910-03-31
eRlNNELL AND VICINITY.
Cowden Retires as Publisher Of Regis
ter-Municio pal I'm proven entS.


] Special 10 Times Republican.
( Grinneli, March 3l.-An important
! business change takes place in this city
4 tomorrow. in which G. W. Cowden re-
/ signs all right, title and interest in the
/ Grinnsi4 Register into the hands Of
/ The Grinnell Register Company" of
which Mr. @ A Miller. OF the present
firm Of Cowden & Miller, will be the
head and front. This step has become
/ necessary on the part OF Mr.. Cowden
on account OF i'll health and the decis-
ion Of specialists in medicine that his
only hope of recovery is in the reIei
from pressing business cares that an
out OF door life may bring him. MI
CowdAn mas not Yet fully decided on
his course for the coming summer but
is planning some for summer in Cali
fornia in company with his family. G.
w. Cowden has been a resident Of
GrinnelI for more than twenty years
past. coming here as a college student
and later filling the positions of high
school principal. city superintendent Of
schools, partner in the Grinnen Herald
firm and editor and proprietor Of the
Grinneu Register. The present arrange
men- was made last January but, for
various reasons, not contaminated un-
Ill now
The Commercial Club held meeting
last evening in the superior court room
at which there was much lively discus
sion and some important action taken.
The committee on the hirchrack ques-
ton reported that the club would pay
for the material for hitch racks on the
south side of Fourth avenue by the
Jenkins lumber yard if the city coun-
ell would assume the cost Of the neces-
sarv labor a contract was read and
accepted from a. v. Swaney for the
lease OF the back part Of the lots on
Main street for hitching purposes.
Racks are also 10 go in south of the
/ Citizens National bank on Fourth av-
/ enue. It is thought that this viii give
ample hitching room for the present
and end the contention which has for
some time taken the form Of deadlock
in the city council. The report of the
committee on the matter of handling
! the various city advertising schemes
( coming from either without or within
the city was approved by the club and
! hereafter all such schemes must show
the approval of a committee Of three
selected by the club or be passed up
/ by the business men. President H. l.
Beyer. Of the Interior Telephone Com
pany. made a statement of the wishes
Of rhe company and of its necessities
and renewed the request for new
twenty or twenty-five year franchise,
promising better equipment and service
( in case the franchise is granted, but
1 stating that such was impossible under
the present unfavorable condition. the
report was referred to the legislative
committee of the club. Propositions
were read from both the Peoples Light
1 Company and the Grinnell Electric and
Heating Company for putting in some
/ fifty extra lights in the business dis
/ trict but no final action was taken.
/ The debate last evening in the
3Chrestomathian Society of the college
/ on the question. Resolved, That wom-
/ en- should have equal suffrage with
men," was won by the affirmative sus-
tanned by Bruce Goss, Vernon Black
and Judson Blakely, as against Carl
! Compton, Otto Remission and Clyde
Younglove on the negative.
4 Mr.. and Mrs. Neil Mitchell, living on
/ the Moses Robbins farm in Rock Creek
/ township, announce the birth Of a son.
/ E. E Utley has recently sold his
farm near Brookings. S. D., and is Wis
iting old friends in Grinnen, where for
many years he formerly had his home.
The senior class Of Iowa College
present as their commencement play
this year Shakespeare's Twelfth
| Night" and Professor Ryan is hard
at work selecting the cast.
The many friends both here and
elsewhere of Prof Allen Johnson. who
left the chair of history here to go to
Bowdoin College III Maine, will be
pleased TO know that he has been
! called to the chair of history at Yale.