Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-08-11
GrinnelI and Vicinity.

GrinnelI and Vicinity.
| Special to Times Republican.
Grinnell, Aug. 11.-Dr. and Mrs. u.
&. McGuin are spending the last days
vacation in listing their daughters at
| Montezuma While on their Minnesota
| trip Mrs. McGuin had fall that
! wrenched and bruised her quite badly
bu, fortunately broke no bones.
d. w. Brainard is congratulating
himself today on the fact that he has
managed to stay in this world for
eighty years and Is still in pretty falr
condition. He considers it the great
est achievement of his career. He and
his wife have passed their golden we'd
ding by some years. They came to Iowa
and settled on forty acres OF lano
bought at $50 per acre, south OF me
Rock Island road between Grinnell ana
Malcolm, and this has been their nome
ever since
Rev. and Mrs j. NJ. Brown, who
went into northern Minnesota and as
far as Winnipeg in Canada by auto
for their vacation. are again at home
and Mr.. Brown will preach as usual at
the Methodist church tomorrow morn
ing. Union services will be held in
that church in the evening with music
by the orchestra of the Christian
church and the sermon by Rev. A. Z.
Stowe, pastor of that church.
Rev. W. E. Gordon, pastor OF the
Presbyterian church at EWart, will
preach at the United Presbyterian
church In Grinnell tomorrow morning.
Manager George R. Kelly, Of Grin
nell Canning Company, announces that
the government has Communicated IL
per cent Of the products Of this can
ming factory in common with others in
all parts Of the country. Also that the
factory will begin about the last week
in August to pack the product OF some
900 acres of sweet corn, for which ad-
ditional machinery has been intro
| duced. II the crop is as large as now
indicated the output of tl1eyfactory In
| corn alone viii be beyond that Of pre-
vious years. It Is also planned to can
California baby lima beans and pork
| and beans.
There is a difference Of opinion be-
tween the Grinnell school board and
| the Interior Telephone Company as to
the price the company may charge for
| business phones. A higher scale or
prices has within few mosths been
| adopted py the company and the
school board, having put many phones
into the school buildings, cites the old
charter under which it claims the tele-
phone company is still working and
which provides that 50 shall be the
maximum price for business phones
and asks Judge Robson, of the SUI
perior court, to decide. The case is to
| be argued on it's merits on the 18th
instant, the judge having overruled
demurrer from the company.
Prof. c. e. Payne, who has been
spending his vacation at his home IN
Terre Haute, Ind, is recovering from
serious sprain Of the hip which has
kept him belfast for some weeks.
The Iowa Light, Heat asd Power
Company has just connected up by
transmission line with NeWburg and
will be ready very soon to turn on the
current for all the electrical needs OF
that village. Some thirty houses have
been made ready to use the current.
Orville Haynes. a Grinnell boy, son
Of Mrs N NJ. Haynes, Is ranked as
| sergeant in the Thirty-sevent aero
squadron and has been stationed
at Fort Kelly, San Antonio, Tex. but
left there a few days since for the
front in France.
The matter of bringing the cavalry
squadron Of Iowa together for drill be-
| fore they go south has been left to
authorities at Des Noises and Grinnell
sent the following committee there to
nrasent the claims of GrfnNell as q
place OF rendezvous. M. w. Swisher,
Lieutenant Carney, F. L. Needham, 4
s. Bailey.
Frank Edge, wife and daughter,
started by auto yesterday for Keokuk
and visit to Morning Sun.
The sympathy Of the community
goes out to Mr.. and Mrs. Leander
Steaks in the loss by death Of their
little son, Paul Wylie, who was about
| az years old. Funeral services were
held this afternoon with interment in
Hardwood.
T. c.. Cessna has sold to H. Hink
fifty head of feeders averaging LOO
pounds. at $3.50 per hundred, and
ninety four head of extra feeders av-
eraging 1900 pounds, at $1,000 per hun
dred, to L. p. Mintle
George Bailey has given UP his po-
sition in Des Moines and, after brief
visit IN Gr!nnell, will go tomorrow to
Chicago to the naval training school.
Mr.. and Mrs. G. F. Hyde, who have
had long visit in California, have
come back to settle down here as sapn
as they find the right location.