Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-08-16

WAS mo trace OF mad ana n6s trace VI
| damaging rain on the oiled portion OF
the track while the damage of the
downpour was plainly evident on the
sides beyond the oiling.
The Swift & Co.. poultry and egg
buyers of this city utter sharp warn
ing to farmers and others who raise
hens for egg production against care
lessnes's' in gathering the eggs when
freshly laid, keeping them in cool
place, and marketing them very fre-
quently in the extremely hot weather
we have been having for the past SIX
weeks. When the eggs are not carefully
candled they say the percentage of alb
solute loss from spelling is alarming.
In putting in the new pumps at the
water works here yesterday Clyde w.
Rose got his left hand caught under
heavy rod and the thumb and fore
finger badly mashed. He is an uncie
of c. w. Rose, of this city, and his
home is in Council Bluffs.
A big booster trip is in contempla =
ton by the business men Of Grinnel!,
led by the directors Of the commercial
club. and preparations are in the max
ing for taking 1t on the 18th Of Sep
tember
D. w. Brainerd, Grinnelrs weather
observer. reports 1.2O inches Of rain
here on Saturday last, the first to
amount to, anything since July 4. On
Monday there was another fall Of go
of an inch. There was drop of the
mercury of fifty degrees, the lowest
reached being ST.
Mr.. and, Mrs. Alfred Burroughs and
family have gone by auto to Fairmont,
Mimi, to visit for a week at the nom"
Of Mr.. and Mrs. Lamb.
Miss Esther Mungovan and Miss
velma Carnigan have gone for sight
seeing trip thru Colorado and the yell
lowstone Park.
Prof G. P. Wyckoff started yester.
day morning for Langdon. \. D.. where
he will spend a couple Of weeks look
ing after his farming interests. Mrs
Wyckoff will spend that time in Gilman
visiting with her parents
Francis Webster. son of Rev. ana
Mrs Frank II. Webster, of this city,
after graduating last June from Des
Moines College, has been taking sum-
mer school training and Will go soon
to Deloit, Iowa, where he has been en-
gagged as principal Of schools for the
next year.
The Misses Bertha and Geneva King
formerly lived in Grinnell but more re-
Gently in Montezuma. They have now
gone to Colorado Springs, where Miss
Bertha will attend school. They stopped
in Grinnell to visit friends.
Mr.. and Mrs. w. 7. Moyle and MI.
and Mrs. S J. Poeiey have gone by the
aufn rrIItp TO Ores co. r|-..
Mrs. Joel Stewart and Miss Jo-
sephine Patrick have gone to Chicago
for ten days visit.
Mr.. and Mrs. c. L. Palmer and their
two daughters have removed their resi-
dence from Grinnell to Flint, Mich.
Fred Little and 3. j. Carney are
back again in their old places in Grin
nell after five weeks trial of military
life in the camp at Plattsburg, y. T.
and say they are well pleased with
their experience. -a nj g.
Joseph Welcha graduate of Iowa Col
lege, class of 1914, Is spending som"
time visiting Grinnell friends before
returning to Harvard where he has al
ready spent two years.
Miss. Flora Smith, OF Center schoo'
here. has obtained leave of absence for
a year and, in company with her
mother, Mrs. F. NJ. Smith. gone to
spend the year in California.