Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-03-08
erinneIl and Vicinity.

Grinnell, March S.-Grnnell presents
the enviable record of ten games won
in basketball this season against four
lost and 379 winning points against a
combined total 302 of dill her oppo-
nents. Tomorrow evening at $3.50 the
annual honor G banque. will be held
in Rand gymnasium and the captain
OF the basketball team for the coming
year will be elected.
The state student missionary con-
ference, which began on Friday even
ing, closed yesterday evening. In spite
Of the heavy storms that have ragged
over the entire state ana blocked the
trains so generally and effectively. the
attendance was large, being between
$50 and 200. The meeting has been
pronounced by those who have at
tended, a decided success and the Wis
itors go away with sense of broad.
er outlook and greater incentive to
lives of real service than they have
ever had before.
The Hanley, Scho!ield and Fischer
evangelstic meetings that have been
in progress here for the past three
weeks. may come 20 close at the end
of this week. In spite of the COM
bined attractions Of other eN ents talk
ing place here during these meetings
the attendance has baen very large,
several times greatly exceeding the
church capacity. in which case overflow
meetings were arranged or people We're
obliged to go home disappointed. The
meeting for men only" on yesterday
afternoon, when Mr.. Hanley spoke on
the enigmatic topic Of White Black
BIRDS found the church packed with
men of all ages. A meeting immedi-
ately following that, for unmarried
women only. was also we'll attended.
It is very justly expected that the en-
tire christian community will put
shoulder to the wheel and roll the Cos
pei chariot on successfully this week
and evangelists and ministers are
strongly urging such action.
The following officers have been
elected in the local lodge Of Elks in
this city: Exalted Ruler. II. F. Lam
phere; esteemed leading knight, Q. II:
Gallagher; esteemed loyal knight, L..
w. S. Dodge; secretary, H. B. West
lake; treasurer, H. NJ. Harris; tiler, G.
w. Sears; trustee, J. II. McMurray, Jr.
The lodge voted to accept the invita-
ton Of Evangelist Hanley and go in a
body to the evening service at the Con-
SENSATIONAL church tomorrow evening,
March 9.
The death In Chicago of business
associate, David r. Stevenson, of the
Mahan Advertising Company, caused
B. ]. Kicker, Of this city, to go to Chi
cago to attend the funeral.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. A. Blair have gone
for a short visit to their old home town
of Cherokee.
Mr.. and Mrs. Jerome B. Atwood are
at their farm home a mile or two east
of the Grinnell fair grounds. Until very
recently they We're known to all their
friends in this vicinity os Jerome B.
Atwood and Miss Minnie s. Pagel, but
announcements Just sent out show that
they have been husband and wife since
Nov. % last, when the marriage took
place in Des Moines.
Mrs. Mary Sickle, who has lived for
many years in Grinnell or vicinity, has
broken up housekeeping and, after a
visit Of month or more among her
married children here, she plans to
move to Sheridan, Mo-, to make her
future home.
Mrs. S. S. Murdoch, Of Nicely, Idaho.
has been visiting at the horne OF her
mother, Mrs. Emma Nelson, OF this
city, for the winter. At the city hospi-
tai the latter part Of the week she
and her husband we're made glad by
the arrival of a little daughter
Three cases of smallpox, scattered
well over the city, have beer reported.
Superintendent w. A. Hendry, Of the
city water works. with his home at 1917
Stewart avenue: John Wilkie, at the
home of his parents, Mr.. and Mrs. T. X.
wilke, on Sixth avenue. and Ray
Heishman, at 1922 East street. the home
Of John Heishman, are the victims.
Thursday, Friday and Saturday,
March II, IL and 13, are the dates for
the interscholastic~ oratorical contest
and the Iowa basketball tournament
to be held here. More than hundred
high school students will be here for
the contest and the tournament. The
oratorical contest will be held on
Thursday evening.
Sioux Rapids News Notes.