Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-08-13
GrinneII and Vicinity.
Special to Times Republican.

Grinnell. Aug. 13-Mr. Irving j.
Buck. OF St. Louis, where he has held
a business position for the past twelve
years. is in this city for weeks Va
cation visiting at the home of his pa
rents, Professor and Mrs. S. ]. Buck.
and at the home of his brother, Or. S.
c. Buck.
Eugene Henely, superintendent. Of
the Grinnell schools has returned from
Camp Roosevelt in Yellowstone Park.
where he and Mrs. Henely had just
taken charge of the camp for the rest
of the summer called by the necessity
Of supplying some unexpected vacan-
designations for matrimo ny and other
reasons. He will probably 60 back u
the camp in a few days.
Mrs. Eleanor Van Evera returned
yesterday from her visi, with Ter sons
in Kansas City. She and her niece.
Miss Pearl Cessna, are to leave their
homes here on Saturday night for New
York, where they board the steamer
Carpathia on the 18th and start for
Naples.
The county board of supervisors met
at the auditors office in MonteZuma
to open the bids and let the contracts
for the building of six needed concrete
bridges. Only two bidders appeared.
r. L. Mortland, of Montezuma, and l..
s. Carpenter, of Des Moines, who al
ready mas the contract for all the st+ei
bridges built in the county this year.
The Mortland bid cover ri but three
of the structures required and the con-
tract was not let. The three members
of the board went 10 Council Bluffs
yesterday TO attend the stare eonVen-
ton of supervisors, before which body
Supervisor ]. J. Corrough Is TO read a
paper on the care of county roads,
Another large building enterprise
projected and soon to become reality
is that of two factory buildings for u.
A. Laros & Sons Buggy Company on
Fourth avenue. Three additions nave
already been made to the original FAC
f! tory and each one much larger than
| the original building. Those now in
| contemplation are to be OF cement
| blocks One will be two stories high
with basement. and 40xS0 feet on the
ground The other will be three stor-
| les and 70x40 feet. The smaller enc
| will face Fourth avenue, the larger
! facing the alley to the east Of the fac
| tory. They are to be ready Tor use by
Dec. I.
| E. s. waring goes tonight. to Daven-
| port, where he is on the program to re-
| ply to the address of welcome to the
members of the convention OF the Iowa
| Association for the Advancement OF
| the Deaf. He is also a trustee cf the
| benefit fund, and he expects to take
| 3et he
raising funds for home for the az &c
| and infirm deaf. 1t is proposed u
! raise fund of $4,000 for that pur-
pose and he favors the proposition.
| There was q lively time in the 1odr'
| of Justice of the Peace Frank r. War
vim yesterday morning when the rights
| Of property in the automobile brought
| Here last week by L. A. Woodward, OF
| Chicago, were tried. An attachment nae
| been put upon the machine by /. }
| Bray to secure his claim for 500 OF
l.. A. Woodward. The plaintiff lost his
case and took an oral appeal. He tner
! asked to be permitted to file an amend
ed petition and that case came up Ia
| the same court in the afternoon. Plain
tiff also lost in the second case ane
again gave oral notice of appeal.
Many friends here who knew wei
Mr.. Percy McCord while he was serv'
ing twelve years as deputy postmaste
at Newton will be saddened TO learr
that news Of his death has just peer
received from his recent home at Bu!
yea, Sask., Canada. Blood poisoning il
given as the cause of death.
While unloading steel from one o
the cars on the NJ. & st. L. piec'
slipped and struck Reuben Fernandez
a Mexican laborer, on the jaw. break
ing the bone.
Miss Fanny Buchanan Is taking
vacation trip by going to Denver an
there joining party for trip thr'
Estes Park
Mr.. John A. Flook is again at HON
after few weeks spent in southern