Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1915-12-09
GrinneiI and Vicinity.
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Grinnell Dec. 9.-The College Ram
bier of Illinois College at Jacksonville.
ILL.,, gives notice of the recent gift to
that college Of an oil portrait OF
! Father Turner" pioneer Congrega-
tionalist preacher Of Illinois and Iowa
and one OF the founders of that col
fege The portrait Is by celebrated
painter of Des Moines and the presen-
tation was made to the college by Asa
Turner, of Farrar, Iowa.
/. The feature of the vesper service at
the college chapel Sunday next will be
the rendering Of selections from the
Messiah" by the Grinnell Oratorio
Society and the Grinnell College or
chestra. under the direction Of Prof.
George L. Pierce. The chorus will in
clude some 200 voices and FOUR of the
choruses will be presented. The solo
parts will be taken by Gladys Down
/ ing. soprano; Miss Mary Coleman.
contralto; Adolph H. Engstrom, tenor.
and Paul Bartlett, bass. Admission
will be by free tickets so long as they
last and the doors will not be opened
after 4: As
Notice was taken In these columns
some time ago of the accident to Will
liam Richardson while opening a small
can OF molasses by which his right
eye was severely injured. 1t was
thought by the surgeons at the time
| that the sight could be saved but the
eye has not responded TO treatment as
was expected and 1t seems now that
the sight Is forever gone.
Lawrence Decatur met with a dis
tressing accident the other day In the
corn field. The singletree got fast iE
the wheel and. in an attemptto loosen
Il from the wheel, his thumb was
caught and badly crushed and the end
taken com pletelv OF He lives a mile
! or two west Of Grinnell.
J. F. Eisele. who has been attending
| the farm markets and credit congress
| in Chicago. reports a very interesting
meeting with an attendance Of some
! 800 delegates. He was appointed by
Governor Clarke.
Robert Coutts has just had the great
| pleasure Of visit from two Of his
| brothers from a distance. Mr.. and
Mrs. J. NJ. Coutts came from Sioux
! City and A. G. Coutts came from Salt
Lake City. All three Of the visitors
| have gone to Chicago together, where
A g. Coutts will remain for medical
| treatment while the other two will go
on to northern Michigan to make a
new home on q farm recently bought
there.
The college holiday vacation will be-
| gin on Friday, Dec. II and continue
until Tuesday Jan. 4. Four weeks at
ter the opening comes the close Of the
| first semester. The spring vacation win
be eleven days long beginning Mar.
a.
The girls who have won their "hon-
] or G's" have organized a club and
elected the following officers: Presi-
dent, Florence Stahl; vice president,
Julia Schafer: treasurer, Lucy Norton;
chairman Of social committee, Maribel
| Kratochval. There is great activity
! among the other girls who take up
athletics in the attempt to win their
! "Gs"
Mrs. D. Cook, who came from her
home in Santa Ana, Cal, some time
ago for a visit at the home Of her
| daughter. Mrs. W. H. Hart, on South
Main street, was SO unfortunate re-
| Gently as to break her thigh bone by a
{; fall down stairs. She Is reported as
making recovery, tho necessarily a
slow one
DR.. and Mrs J. p Sprague have the
sympathy Of the community in the suf-
fering endured by their little daugh-
ter Grace. who has twice undergone
serious operations recently in the hos
/ pital at Iowa City. The first was a
mastoid operation; the second an abb
1 dominal She is now reported as i'm
| proving
Mrs. w.-P. Turner and Mrs. c. H.
4 Lauder. both Of whom have quite re-
Gently had operations at the city hos
1 pital here. are reported to be recover
ing hopefully.
/ Mrs. Louise Stewart, for many years
a well known resident OF this city but
for the past two or three years resid-
ing at Independence. Mo-. has been Wis
Lifting her sister. Mrs. Ethel Stewart, in
this city and is going to Boone to live
with her son Carl. who is in the en-
/ ploy OF the Fort Dodge, Des Moines &
Southern railway, with headquarters
at Boone.