Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1916-11-16
Grinnell and Vicinity.

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GERS have been elected for the Outing
Club, recently reorganized for the care
and development Of Arbor lake, as fol-
log: J. Z. Nicely, president; A. {. keis :.
ter, vice president. and Harry l. Yea
ger, secretary and treasurer. Commit
tees have been appointed and a well
developed plan is on schedule for the
beautifWng the shores Of the little
lake and the stocking of It's waters
with fish and with marine plants that
will furnish food for the birds and =
retreat for the wild ducks, with the
hope that the GROUNDS will soon be In
habited by the feathered and the tinny
tribes. There are at present over lou
members and efforts are making to IN
crease the number largely, member
ship being open to the entire public.
DR.. Il. J. Schmitz, who has been
practicing dentistry with DR.. Gallagher,
of this city, for some time, was mar
ried in Washington, Iowa, recently to
Miss Rose Rathmel. The young couple
plan to make their home in Brooklyn
The bride is graduate of the teachers
college at Cedar Fails and has been
teaching near Washington.
Mrs. d. r. Warburton left this morn
ing for Philadelphia, Pa, for an ex-
tended visit.
County Superintendent Estelle Coon
announces the third of the series o.
study centers will be held in Grinneli
on Saturday of this week. at the high
school building, with S. A. Lynch
teacher Of grammar, j. c. McGlade OIL
didactics, and Ida Roberts of domestic
science.
There are many sales now making
and announced of farm stock and pro-
ducts and all sales made have been at
good and sometimes even phenomenal
prices. At the recent A. c. Jones sale
112 cattle, ten horses and mules ana
seventy-two sheep were sold, the sum
receiving totaling s6,75S. Sheep
brought as high az s15.25 and one lot
of twenty eight averaged $l2.6l. Cattle
brought from $40 to 500. A team OF .
YEAR old mules went at $440. Unbroken
colts went at $S4 for 2-year-old ana
s155 and $166. ,
Red McClarep a strong member OF
last years football. team in the col
lege here and, with Arson Smalley'
also of last years team, now on the
regimentai team on. the Mexican Dor
der. writes that his time will be out
in January and that he Will be VITA
his class here then even If he can not
get released sooner, which he is trying
hard to do.
The inter society debates at the col
lege will begin Dec. . and close ON the
18TH, the losers having a final debate
years discussion in class work anu
also In the varsity debates is: Ike
solved, That Permanent Arbitratioh
Board With Compulsory Powers Should
Be Established to Settle Disputes Be
tween Steam Railway Companies Do
ing Interstate Business and thell EN-
ployes, Constitutionality Granted.
Men of the Institute Society are eligl-
Bile to the w. G. Ray cash prizes
given this year for the second time.
The fall Of damp snow and
the subsequent freezing have made the
work OF corn picking doubly hard at
the best and, in the case of corn blown
flat earlier in the season, almost i'm
possible. The loss of marketable corn
by This burial in snow will be consid-
cradle and the extra labor involved in
the gathering of the down corn VIII
greatly increase the cost of cribbiiis
the corn. The yield is reported quite
generally as considerably less than was
anticipated before any cribbing was
done. Fifty bushels is said to be an
excellent yield
Reynier Van Evera, on mis- way back
from a business visit to Chicago to his
home in Kansas City, stopped in Grin :
nell to visit his mother, Mrs. Eleanor
Van Evera, and his sister, Mrs. Harry
Viets. Mrs Van Evera and Mr.. ana
Mrs. Viets and their two children are
planning to start about Dec. 1 to spend
the rest of the winter in southern Cali
fornia.