Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1912-03-09
GRUNDY NEWS GRiST
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Special TO Times Republican.
Grundy Center. March 9.-The con-
tract for the erection OF new church
building al Iveste- has been let hy the
trustees Of The Dunkard church TO
Gier & 8elz Of Conrad. The structure
is 10 cost 10000. and is to be equipped
with all modern conveniences. This
church is located among a lot of the
most prosperous farmers in GrundE
county and they can well afford TO have
the best that the land affords.
The matter Of street paving was pre-
scented 10 the council Monday evening
by soma Of the business men of the
town and a petition signed by large
number Of the property owners OF the
business section was filed. The coun-
Gil appeared favorable to the PROPOSE
ton to pave Main and Depot streets
and a committee of three was appoint
ed TO investigate the matter and report
at the next meeting. 1t is likely that
some paving will be done this summer,
but not likely that the amount will be
! large.
| At the regular council meeting this
week it was decided to extend the
! present sewer system so as to accom-
modate more of the property owners IN
| the east part of town. The preliminary
steps have been taken and the Work
will likely be done early ii the SUI? :
| mer
! Six hundred thousand dollars worth
of real estate transferred on the frst
two days OF March is the record shown
on the books of the county recorder
this year. IF anyone doubts the value
7 of Grundy county land. glance at the
recorders books at this time of year
! will convince him Of the value placed
/ on Grundy county soil by It's own citi-
zens.
! The Cirundy Center Produce Com
pany has decided 20 make ice cream in
( wholesale quantities this summer and
for that purpose has Installed the
/ proper machinery The local demand
during the summer is enormous and
/ all purchases have heretofore been
made out of town.
| The wedding Of William D. Miller.
principal of the schools at Plainfeld,
to Miss Ethel PLACER. youngest daugh-
ter of Henry c. PLACER, was celebrated
this week at the PLACER home in this
city They will make their home at
Plainfeld.
i This town is basketball crazy, or one
would judge so by the amount of bas-
ketball talk that one can here just at
this time in our midst. About week
ago the Jefferson team came here TO
play, with record Of twenty-five
straight victories. and they had adver-
tised that they we're going to go home
/ with their twenty-third straight VIC
tory, but after a we'll played game
refereed by Fort Dodge referee. Grun-
! dy walked off with the game by score
of IL TO "a. The Jefferson boys We're
! game and admitted having been royalty
treated here. but said they would win
on their home floor when the return
game was played. Our boys played
them a return game on their floor last
week and beat them by score Of 2s
to "a Then our boys were invited to
| Evanston to take part in the central
states basketball tournament. They
went to Chicago Tuesday and played
their first game there yesterday. beat
| ing the Evanston team on their own
floor by a score of 40 to II. 1t looks as
tho the basketball bugs" had some
thing to crow over this year.