Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-09-13
G-innelI and Vicinity.
- T:nneS-EanNh1iCan.

Special TO Times Republican.
| Gr;nnell Sept. 13.-The Consresa-
tional Brotherhood went out OF eNis-
| ,ence at the first meeting OF this year
| Tuesday evening and the Community
Brotherhood" took its place The Of
dcers are the same as those elected
Hast Nav for the old organization.
There was a limited attendance out II
represented. by pastors, the main De.
nominations Of the city The object OF
the change was the reaching OF larger
| class of men not affiliated with any
! church as we'll as those from all the
churches. The regular meetings are
| to be on the second Tuesday evening
| Of each month.
Some twenty members Of the Wom-
| ans Relief Corps and the G.. A X
post Of this city went TO Marshal!toWn
Yesterday and held picnic dinner IN
the kitchen Of me soldiers home, as
celebration Of the birthdays OF three
of the men. II. Clay Smith. P. D. Bur
ton and William Harrison. It was
Learned in the afternoon that It was
also the wedding anniversary Of Mr..
| and Mrs. Burton. On account OF Ill
ness Mr.. Smith was not present In the
afternoon the women attended the reg
ular meeting of the W. r. c. at the
home chapel and then visited the city
and did some shopping.
Miss Mamie Sanders, who has been
spending the summer with her sister
| Miss Hester Sanders, and other reia-
tives, starts tomorrow for her home
| in Alhambra Cal.
Miss Anna ". Field. who has been
visiting her father and her two sisters
| for the past two months. started to-
| day on her return to work as teacher
| in the State Normal Training School
at Yps:lanti, Mich. She goes by way
of Burlington and spends the weekend
at the home there of Miss jeanette
| Jamison.
The Grant township Sunday school
convention next Sunday will De held
at Maple Grove with morning and eve
ming sessions and basket dinner be
tween. Superintendents Jesse Lord.
viii Steinhoek and W. A Palmer. Mrs.
Jesse Lord. J. r. Rivers, Susie +.
Smith, Georgiana Holloway. and E. Z
Mcbride will be leaders in the exer-
cises.
Jerry Mulcahey has left off serving
| in the Poweshiek cafe and taken in
surance business as part OF the
Lanphera & Cessna force.
Charles Moander OF Keokuk SO, is at
the city hospital with serious injuries
caused by his fall from a telephone
pole and striking on his back.
Charles Schwab sustained a severe
scalp wound and conclusion when
brick fell from the second story win
dow Of the mems dorm!tory and struck
him.
The Furber farm a mile north of
Shows corner on the east boundary OF
Grinnell. consisting Of quarter sec
ton, has been bought by President
Main and E. ]. Jacqua Of Grinnell Col
lege at d cost OF s5n100.
While Mrs G. H. Dunning and her
family were at the Grinnel! fair work
ing in the booth that was earning
money for the expenses of the Chris
tan church some sneak thief entered
her home on East street and stole the
money in the church envelopes, cutting
the screen of the window to get in
while the front door was unlocked.
There are 1872 persons reported en-
rolled among the Grinnell women Red
Cross workers and the following f1n-
ished articles have been turned in to
the committee: sleeveless jackets,
% mufflers and II pairs of wristlets.
The new Red Cross headquarters are
in the rooms over the office OF c. A
Smith. where work will be in PROGRESS
afternoons from 1870 until 5 p. m.
Prof and Mrs. Anon Dorsey Cain,
who have spent the summer in Mil
waukee, have returned to Grinnell.
In accordance with action OF the Con-
gregational church on Sunday, the fol-
lowing named were appointed a COM
mittee to arrange for the pulpit sup
ply during the leave of absence granted
Pastor E. W. Cross; Rev. p. A. john
son, D. s. Morrison, Miss Mary Cham
berlain, A. NJ. Burton, Miss Stella Bart
lett. Negotiations have been opened
with Rev. Edmund NJ. Vittum now Of
Milledgeville, Ga, but for thirteen
years. beginning with 1892, pastor of
this church It is the hope Of many Of
his former Pensioners that he may be
able to fill the vacancy.