Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-03-05
GrinneIl and Vicinity.

Special to Times Republican.
Grinnen March 5.-After compare
lively short but very severe illness
Mrs. Charles Bookneau passed away
at the family home. zoe Sixth avenue,
at $50 yesterday morning, at the age
of nearly So years she leaves a nus
band and four children. Funeral serv-
ices will be held at 2: 90 Tuesday after
noon, conducted by Rev. f. ". Cross,
pastor Of the Congre gational church OF
which she was member. 1ntermeni
will be in Hardwood cemetery The
Bookneau family has lived in this city
for the past fourteen years and before
that was among the early settlers IN
Chester township
The Grinnell Art Society has engas-
ed DR.. Gunsaulus. OF Chicago, 70 del!v-
er another lecture here ON the 18th OF
this month His subject Is The Mes
sage Of the Pottery Of the Near East.
On the same day Mrs. E. H. Hodges. Of
the Chicago Art Institute, will deliver
lecture here on the subject. The
China Closet Of Our Grardmothers."
Mr. and Mrs. A. 5. Coop have had as
Y.sit1rs Mr. and Mrs. Reuben Coop,
from Kansas. All the parties went 20
MarshalltOwn the last OF he week 10
v-s!t relatives
The city has just received nearly
s45 900 from Schanke & Co, Of Mason
City for per cent special assessor nt
bonds for paving.
Nh and Mrs. O. W. Black have had
a ten days' visit from their daughter,
Mrs J. p. Dale, who returned TO her
. Worth county home the last Of last
week
Miss Alice Quire s entertaining her
friend, Miss Ruth Harvested, who
comes from her home in Albert Lea for
a visit here. wpere the family lived for
several years.
Mrs. D. r. Collins has gone back 20
her home in Forest City after pleas
ant visit az the home Of Mrs. 2. Nc
DonoUgh.
| T, C. Blackwell. who has mao charge
! OF the making Of the sewer here for
/ Iowa Engineering Company. has com
pIeted his work here and gone 70 7in-
! ION 20 take place in the company's
/ 0e.ce
Mrs. Isabella Brande passed her Goth
| birthday yesterday in good health and
/ fine optimistic spirits She and her
| husband came 10 Iowa from Wisconsin
! n 1853 and spent a year in Des Moines.
/ They then came 10 Grin1ell and Mrs..
/ Brande has been mere ever since. Mr.
! Brande was the first pastor Of the Bap-
list church of this city. Previously he
had been a pastor in Kenosha and in
| Milwaukee, Wis.
! Mrs. Homer Rivers, Of Blue Point, Is
| having the pleasure Of v:sit from her
| mother. Mrs Z. P Conkling, whose
home is IN Rock Island.
win and Ed Jones, whose especial
| business It is to be on hand al the fire
| hall and get the fire truck into instan-
taneous action, have been using some
II their idle hours and their inventive
genius in the Construction of a replica
| Of the original mnnoplane built here By
! the lamented BILLY Robinson, which
they have placed on the peak Of the
new flag pole on the roof OF the fire
hall. 1t Is a neat piece of workman
snip and serves as an excellent wealth
er vane and stirs up the memory OF
citizens Of the time when Grinneil was
really or the romantic map.
II The Grinnell Commercial Club. back
ed by the county supervisors. is plan.
city oiled as early az possible this
spr.Sg for az iea.s. sc:- Q: arc nile:
from the city limits. The experiment
last year Of oiiing the main rlver-to.
river road from GrinnelI to Brooklyn
has been 50 successful that all who arr
. interested In good roads and have dry.
en- over this oiled section are anxious
| to see the test made with otte. sIlt
perhaps worse pieces.
| 3. J. Carney. who has spent som.
time in the training camp at PIatts
burg. will address mass meeting O.
the college men at the auditorium o
the alumni recitation hall ON the sui,
tect of voluntary military training fo
college men.
To Prevent the Grip.