Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-05-14
Gr;nss!! ard Vicinity.
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Grnnell. May 1.-THE many friends
OF j l.. McIlrath welcome him back
again into his home circle after thrae
weeks spent in the hospital at Iowa
City. where he underwent serious
operation from which he seems to have
promise Of complete recovery in time,
Rev. F. W. Cross was warmly well
coined by very large congregation
yesterday morning on his first appear
ance in the Congregational pulpit af-
ter an absence of several weeks under
treatment in Minneapolis. Following
his usual 'junior sermon a little lad
and lassie mounted the platform and
presented him with basket Of pan
sizes and a little speech of gladness
Of the children that he Is able to be
here again.
Lieutenant Ralph s. Geiger OF the
Second Iowa infantry, National Guard,
has been detailed for the daily drilling
Of Grinnell College students who will
be divided into three companies drill
Ing on alternate days. All college men
are expected 70 enroll In one Of these
companies and take the regular drill.
Lieutenant Geiaer is an experienced
drill master and will give his entire
time to this work until the end of the
college year.
Vice Chairman Fred E. Spaulding
has been notified to send no more can
didates for Fort Smelling to Des
Moines for preliminary examination
Heretofore the committee for Powe-
shiek county has been urged to greater
efforts in gaining recruits but the in
ducements offered have choked the line
for the present.
William Wood, who is a senior in a
Chicago college preparatory school,
has come to Chester to work on the
farm for Dana Mcmillan. with the as
surance Of full scholarship credit for
fhis farm work.
Because Of the extraordinary pur-
chases OF lumber by the government
for barracks and other war purposes
the Grinnell lumber dealers complain
that it Is very difficult for them to
get their orders filled, and the car
shortage prevents their getting the
lumber transported even when the or
ders have been filled.
Miss Gretta Smith, holding position
in the state library at Des Moines,
spent the week end with her parents,
Mr.. and Mrs J. II. Smith, 1905 High
street.
Sonora church In northeast Chester
township has already sent out its list
Of prizes to be given out at the an
nual fair held there each fall This
is strongly educational In its nature
including arithmeticaI problems about
the farm best garden and field pro-
ducts, best kitchen products by the
girls, fancy work, and compositions. 1t
Il, a purely community affair and the
church is made the community CEN
ter.
Good progress Is being made in the
laying OF the new water mains, more
than half OF the work now under con-
tract being already done. The J. w.
Turner Improvement Company, that
recently finished the sewer outlet and
the septic tanks and filter beds has
the contract.
Mrs. Alice Vyse from Guernsey, who
underwent an operation at the Grim
nell city hospital last week, is reported
as making a good recovery.
Deacon C. F. Childs, who has been
in an apparently hopeless condition at
the family home, 92s High street, most
of the winter, has so far recovered as
to be able to be out in q carriage.
The Congregational church parlor Is
to have the portraits Of two moro Of
its pastors hung on the walls, those of
Percefval F. Marston and Of G. N.
Dascomb.
S. r. Robinson. Of 1925 Fourth ave-
nue., who sold some years ago the res
idence next west of his own to Mrs.
wyatt. mas just bought from the Mrs.
Wyatt estate the same property
Rehearsals are on under Prof. John
P. Ryan. Of the college here for the
production OF The Professors Love
story" chosen as the class play Of the
high school graduating class In early
June. The large class is to be gradu-
ated on the 9Th Of June