Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1911-05-27
orinnsII and Vicinity.
Special to Times Republican.


Grinnell, May 27.-Mr. and Mrs. VIII
liam Hankey started for their home
in Beltrami, Mimi, yesterday morning
of Mrs. Hankey's cousin, DR.. g. b.
McGuin, Of this city and at Brooklyn
where they lived for about twenty
five years before moving to Minnesota
Mrs Clara Dallingcr, who has been
in Grinnell for the past week visiting
,, her friend, Mrs. Jessie Hartman
Schuyler, started her return to her
home In Atlantic yesterday.
The outgoing editor Glenn Danforth
and the business manager Paul Mac
Eachron, of the Iowa College Scarlet
and Black. gave q banquet to the stan
at which the following toasts and re-
sponses were given: 1.-THE Dope Sheet
Kreigh Carney; "Pie." lone Hutchin-
son; 1.-THE College Paper" "A. C. NC
Gill: Devils" Paul. Appleby: Hunk
o. Print" H. F. Strong. Harold Strong
was elected editor for next year and
Harry Hopkins. business manager. The
following new members were added to
the staff: Robert Kerr. Robert wallace.
William Wilkinson, Louis Davis, and
Evelyn Miller.
There has been for long time a
considerable approach to unanimity
among those not directly interested in
the sale Of the necessary real estate
as to the best locations for the new
postofflce for Grinnell which there is
good reason to expect the government
will build when all the preliminaries
are settled satisfactorily. One Of these
is at the corner Of Fifth avenue and
Main street. now occupied by the J. H.
skeels blacksmith shop and other small
buildings. The other is a block east
at the corner Of Fifth avenue and
Broad street and occupied by the Nor
ris livery stable and feed sheds In
either case the previous bar has been
the price at which the owners held
the property. It is now reported that
Norris will sell the land for $21, 900,
he retaining the privilege Of removing
or selling the buildings. The public
Improvement committee Of the Com
nlercial Club has recently appointed a
consisting Of Judge ].
P. Lyman. D. S. Morrison. and F. l..
Abel to make q. canvass of the public
spirited citizens able to contribute with
the view Of raising $4,000 in addition
to the $4,000 already appropriated by
congress-.
Rev. Mr.. Mcbride, OF the Sonora
Methodist church, will preach the
memorial sermon tomorrow morning
at the Congregational church at Ches-
ter Center, and Rev. Mr.. Wissler, OF the
Chester Center Congregational church.
will give the Memorial Day address at
the cemetery II the day is fair, II not
in the church.
Authoritative announcement has been
made that Rev. J. P. Card, Iowa Col
lege. '94. will give the address at COM
mencement vespers this year. He is
pastor of the Plymouth Congregational
church in Omaha: also that the adj
dress before the christian associations
on the evening of baccalaureate Sun
Gay, being June IL, will be given by
DR.. r. r. Tucker, Of China.
President and Mrs. J. H. T. Main, of
this city. announce, their intention Of
spending the summer abroad. visiting
points Of greatest interest on the Euro
pean continent and in England. They
plan to leave New York on the steam
err Princess Irene on the LIST Of July
and be away two months.
Lyman Sanders was considerably
bruised and received some cuts of the
skin Of one leg when his horse slipped
and fell upon the pavement here and
pinned the boys leg under him yester-
day morning. FnrtuEately no bones
were broken 8 is-m young son of
Mr.. and Mrs. w. S. Sanders, living on
q farm north OF the city.
Mrs. w. C.. Dirnit mas been called to
Larned, Kan, by the, news OF the seri-
Gus illness Of q sister.
The annual feculty-senior baseball
game has been played and the faculty
won. the score being 10 to 9. with the
statement by spectators that It might
easily have been much larger, only that
the faculty team got too tired to run
bases AS a sample of scientific ball
playing the game is said not to have
been the equal Of some of the league
games but as a 1lome-sport proposition