Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-01-18
GrinneIl and Vicinity.

| Grnnell, Jan. Is. Mr.. and Mrs.
George Sampson have. just returned to
| their home here after visit of several
weeks at the home of their daughter in
| Oklahoma. where the weather has
been like our June and they have been
setting out garden plants and shrubs.
l.. q. c. Peirce, who has been anu
still is enjoying himself with his. chill
dren, grandchildren and great grand
children in different parts of Texas,
sends word that he wants to be back
again in the old home and will start
| next week.
| Charles Porter who has been con-
fined to his home on Spring street for
the past three weeks by illness, is now
reported as gaining slowly.
The large. new plant of the Grinnell
Electric Light and Heating Company
on Broad street has it's walls up to the
top of the second story and the steel
posts and girders for the third story
standing up prominently in the air.
Work is being pushed as rapidly as
possible considering weather condi-
lions.
The new alumni recitation hall OF
the college is almost completed and ac-
tual recitation work will begin there on
| Monday next. Several of the profess
sors have already taken possession OF
| their recitation rooms. The large lee
| ture room that occupies both the first
| and second floors on the CAST sfde reIr-
| ter of the building has some finishing
work vet to be done, Citizens are taxi
| ing advantage of this opportunity TO
get a good look at the interior arrange
ment Of the building and its equipment
before the students occupy 1t.
The blue prints for the new Masonic
temple to be erected in the spring on
Main street are in the hands Of local
contractors who are figuring to retain
this contract for the artisans of Grin
nell The building. as shown by the
blue prints, will be probably the finest
and most costly of any one on Main
street. :
Prof Charles Noble has been nearly
blinded all this week as the result or
an explosion of gas in his furnace on
Sunday evening. burning his face and
filling his eyes with ashes and grit.
Only quick work on the part of the at
tending physician saved his sight and
he is still unable to use his eyes very
much.
Yesterday morning early Mike" An
gustine received word OF the sudden
death OF his father and left on the first
train for his home. He does not eX-
pect to come back to college.
John Peterson is back at his home
in Grinnell after undergoing success
| full operation in the hospital at Iowa
City.
Mrs. Peter Baustian, Of Montezums,
and her sister, Mrs. Theodore Schultz,
of Malcolm, left Grinnell on Monday
night for Saltwater, Mimi. where they
go to visit their brother J. C. Schultz.
Charles Manly has gone for several
days on a business trip to Minneap-
oils.
I.athrop Harris, the little son OF
Cashier and Mrs. Harry NJ Harris,
who has been in quarantine for some
time with mild case Of scarlet fever.
is reported as making good recovery
and no fears are entertained OF a
spread Of the disease.
w. H. Stuart has had pleasant vis-
it from his brother A. H. Stuart, who
comes from his home in Prosser Neb..
and has gone to Kellogg for a visit
with relatives and friends.
The L. P. Spooner quarter ctipn In
Sheridan township. that has been car
ed for by Jack Carroll, has been sold
to Vestal Dimit, who takes possession
on March 1, 1918. Mr.. Carroll will op-
crate the farm meanwhile.