Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-03-09
Grinnell and Vicinity.

| Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell. March 9.-Funeral services
over the body of John Tibbetts, who
died suddenly on Monday morning.
will be held from the Adventist church
on Friday morning at 10 o'clock. Mr..
Tibbetts was a veteran of the civil
war. He was known by nearly every
body in the city as he has been mar
ket gardening here for years, on his
farm just east of the city limits.
Several members of Gordon Granger
post of this city We're at Montezuma
yesterday and visited Comrade John
Adams, who has been critically i'll for
several weeks. He Is reported as some
what better but with no prospect of
recovery.
The first inter collegiate chess tour
nament is scheduled for Saturday
morning in the Y. NJ c. 4. rooms.
Cobb. Hazard Matthews and Taylor
will try TO uphold the banner of Grin
nell while an equal number of Ames
PLAYERS will contend for the honor of
the State College The visitors are to
be entertained by the college Y. NJ. c.
A. The play begins at 80
Prof. Thomas ~ Carver has finished
his course OF lectures in the college
as the Harvard exchange professor, the
last lecture being on Rural Econom-
les He, spoke at chapel on Tuesday
morning urging self sacrlfce by the
higher classes in society that the
standard of living among the lower
classes may be raised.
The Grinnell debating teams OF the
college will enter into the inter-
collegiate debate on Friday evening, the
affirmative team meeting the Cornell
negative here and Grinnelrs negative
going to Cedar Rapids to meet Coe.
The question is the one used in COM
mon by Iowa colleges and high schools
this Year, relative to the minimum wage
law. Clark Graham, Maurice Fried
lund. and Walter Bennett will take the
affirmative against Cornell. Little. Van
Dorm, and Lee will take the negative
against Coe.
Stripped of all attempts to make
big showing and taking in largely the
payments that were stimulated at this
time by the slogan of ''pay-up week
and not even including some back ac-
club secretary announces that over
S25, 500 changed hands in the paying
of accounts that week.
The teachers and pupils of the high
school here mad the pleasure and the
benefit of listening TO a practical adj
dress from w H Stillwell of Des
NJ Dimes, district safety supervisor for
the Rock Island Railway Company, on
the topic of Safety First especially in
connection with railroads. His state
ment made it plain that three fourths
of the railway accidents are avoidable
and that the railroads can not by them
selves prevent the fearful harvest Of
crippled and dead humanity but that
the general public and each individual
must Cooperate with them by using
all possible care in places Of danger
The grade teachers and pupils listened
to his talks in the afternoon.
Entang H. Hou. a native Of Pang
Chuans, Shantung, China, is a MEM
ber of the graduating class in Iowa
College for the year 1915. The recent
amount Of talk about China and the
prospe, of some Of the students be-
ing there located in future years has
started an interest in the study of the
Chinese language and q class has been
formed Of which Mr. Hou is the teacher
1t Is said that the Chinese pronuncia-
ton Is not difficult for the average
American scholar and Mr.. Hou states
that a fair student ought to be able
to read simple Chinese after few
months Of study Of the language.
The Freshmen recently elected Will
liam Sestak as track captain and train
ing is to begin at once and be vigorous
ly prosecuted for the Freshman -Sopho-
more meet of April Sth and the home
meet of April 18th. Sestak. in high
school, was the star at Beatrice, Neb.