Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-21
Grinnell And Vicinity.

| Special to Times Republican
| Grinnell. May 21--Born at the Grin
nell city hospital. on Saturday evening
! May 49, to Mr., and Mrs. jay circuit
of Searsboro. daughter, Doris Marie
| granddaughter of Mr.. and Mrs. A. Hill
man, OF this city.
Among other changes and additions
necessitated by the expansion of Grin
| nell College it will be necessary this
summer to enlarge the present heat
ing plant. plans contemplating an eNten-
sion OF some seventyfive feet to the
north
The lonian Society of the college has
chosen the following members as the
contestants in the Merrill political de-
bate taking place next fall: Harold Van
Dorm. captain, Ben Ellsworth and Ho-
mer Noel. with Floyd Van Dorm and
Joseph Miller for alternates.
Walter Bennett, editor-i in chief OF
the Scarlet and Blaok, who has been
away from his editorial post for
couple of weeks helping to get the
spring work on the farm done. is back
again in his college place and two of
the other very active members of the
force. Ralph Patterson and William
Greenwald, have gone from the college
to the farm.
Following is the graduating program
Of the high school class, scheduled for
June s. at o'clock. at the Congrega-
tional church. over sixty members be-
ing in the class: Music, orchestra; in
vocation, Rev. J. NJ. Brown; music, I'm
Heather Time" AT Twilight" Girls
Glee Club: salutatory, Esther Harris;
Grafton. Our National Waste" Herbert
Palmer: music. Come Where the Lilies
Bloom" mixed double quartet: Grafton.
The Russian Revolt Gladys Hays
trio. Eat the Brook" ''serenade,
Harvey Waugh, Milton Dietrich and
Frank Amy: Grafton, THE Work OF
the Red Cross" Adelaide Sibley;
mantle grafton, Virgil Packer; response,
Joe Kelly; music. class song, Margaret
Lowrey. class of 1917; presentation Of
diplomas.
Grinnell grocers are receiving advices
from the millers of flour that the scare
ity OF wheat is not so great as has been
repeatedly announced and that it will
he well not to get to much excited over
the current stories Of probable destitu-
ton or Of prohibitive prices.
Herb Peters tried the speed Of his
car up as high as thirty miles amour.
The police machine was plugging right
along after him and, when he slowed
down, overhauled him and charged him
with speed limit violation. He admitted
and paid the fine and costs amounting
to s13.
The high school 7. NJ. G. A. has call
ed a meeting at the high school assem-
bly, room for next Friday evening, for
which they have outlined patriotic
program State Secretary Kennedy Will
speak B. J. Carney will tell Of his last
summers experience in the Plattsburg
camp. Good music and singing will also
enl,ven the occasion. 1t Is purely pat
riotc meeting, an innovation. but Is
planned to be an annual affair here
after.
The Grinnell College girls. some $50
in number held a rousing patriotic
meeting in the auditorium OF alumni
hall few evenings ago. State Score
tary Helmar. OF the Y w. C. A. was a
leading spirit. and Professor Bailey OF
the College faculty. Miss Lucia Read.
Miss Ruth Wilson. and Miss EDITH
Wentworth were the other speakers.
At the regular sem! monthly meeting
of the woman's Relief Corps OF this
city on Saturday afternoon last 1t was
decided. in accordance with the ruling
of the national organization forbiddlng
the decorating Of the graves Of sisters
Of the order on Memorial Day. TO hold
the corps memorial on flag day, the l4th
of June This national action was TAX
en- that there might be nothing to in
any way to interfere with the Keeping
Of the regular Memorial Day as sacred
to the memory Of the soldier dead Of the
civil war.