Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1917-12-26
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Grinnell, Dec. 26.-The large Con-
srcgational church was crowded on
Sunday evening by those Interested IN
| the program Of community song. Inc
| volume Of harmonious sound was I'M
mense and the spirit Of religious pa
| triotism spread turnout the entire
audience. The closing songs were the
| Battle Hymn of the Republic anu
! hHoly Night" and the crowd Went
| home were satisfied with the improve
| ment over the best of out door con-
| certs in winter weather.
Grinnell high school students put on
a program at Newburg with some help
from the Newburg people that was
| pronounced decided success.
Speeches, declarations, dialog, music
and the selling of cake for S52 made
up a varied program. The price OF the
cake and the collection taken helped
| the Red Cross materially. Gould
Lowery, Joe Kelly, Mabel Brooke
! Helen Whitney, Gretchen Buck Donna
| Harris, Frank Amy, Mabel Wesco,
| Stanley Talbot. Doris Virden ana
Harriet Wadsworth made up the Grin
| nell team.
The stockholders Of the Grinnell Fair
| Association, having 745 out or l4's
| shares at their latest meeting. put new
| life into the organization by deciding
| to increase the capital stock to Soo,-
900 and to raise the par value from 70
a share to $40. A canvass of the terri
tory contributing to this fair Is to De
| made in the spring to increase the
membership to the limit and then 1t IS
proposed to put up new buildings anu
| in other ways create a permanent plant
| of a higher order than has been here
before.
County Superintendent Estelle Coon
announces that on account OF the
shortage Of teachers, she Will mold
special examination at Brooklyn on
Jan. and 4.
DR.. S. S. Buck, who has been serving
in the medical corps at Camp Grant,
near Rockford, Ill.,. reached nome on
his Christmas furlough on SUNDAY
morning in the best Of health ana
spirits. He will await orders, when
may take him to a different point early
in the new year.
Prof. Edith Buck is at the parental
home of Prof and Mrs. Samuel j..
Buck for her vacation from the WORK
at teachers college, Cedar Falls.
c. Z. Prichard, who has been agent
for the Chicago & Northwestern ROAD
at Cedar Rapids, has come to Grinnell
to take a position with the NJ. q 81
L., and has moved his family,consistlns
| of a wife and one daughter.
| A renuest has come from the fuel
conservation department to Mayor d.
| F.. White and the manager OF the elec-
| trio light plant of this city to observe
| the order that has been issued regard
| ing lightless nights. The request is
made that wilful violator of orders
I concerning conservation Of coal be re-
| ported to the federal authorities.
Pro-Germanism has become so dis
tasteful in this community that an as
ISOLATION Of citizens has been formed
| with the sanction and cooperation OF
| the mayor to act as a vigilance COM
| mittee to warn outspoken oHenders
against patriotism and bring obstinate
ones to the notice Of such authorities as
there may seem to be need.
City Clerk and Mrs. A. Hartman
| with their daughter, Mrs. Jessie Schuy-
| Ter, and her son Clare, have gone 70
Des Molnes to spend part OF the hoh-
day period at the home Of their daugh-
ter and her husband. Mr.. and Mrs.
George Earhart.
Mr. Smith, who has been Tor the
past three years in southern Arizona
for his health, has como to Grinnell TO
spend the holidays at the home OF ms
wife's parents, Esquire and Mrs. T. j.
Noll. Mrs. Smith has also come from
her work in the library at Ames.
Mr.. and Mrs Frederic Morrison
spent Christmas at Belle PLANE with
Mrs. Morrison's uncle and aunt, with
whom she made her home before her
marriage. and who celebrated their
golden wedding on Tuesday.
Leslie Streck, son OF Mr. and Mrs
Philip Streck, Of this city, came from
| his work in New York city to spend
the holidays here.
Miss Genevieve Norris, who has been
visiting for short time at the nome
OF her parents. Prof. and Mrs. n. w.
| Norris, and with her brother Waldo,
who had furlough from the army. has
gone back to her work In Denver.