Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-11-05
Grinnell and Vicinity.

Special 10 IlIneS-RepupllCan.
Grinnell. Nov. 5.--Field Prof. Paul
+. Peck. who has been for some
months near the gulf coast, Is now IN
Washington. ID. c., and Is expecting
| to be sent very soon to Paris to take
administrative work. He has been In
the civilian relief department. He
hopes for brief furiough to visit his
! family and friends here before he
takes steamer for France.
School opened here yesterday morn
ing and. at the meeting OF the city
council last evening, the quarantine
! was lifted from the entire city.
j. Nj. Lynch, who offered his SER
vices to the government free of charge
several months ago, has just received
his orders to report in New York on
the 18th inst, and haS also been told
that he has been assigned to Red
Cross duty in France. He has been
i'll from the vaccination given by gov
crnrnent orders but bids fair to be on
! hand for duty.
Pastor j. NJ Brown, of the Metho-
dist church was in Oskaloosa yester-
day at a meeting of the ministers OF
five counties to plan for best results
to be attained by their profession in
the campaign for united war work.
IA. +. Lanphere is given two weeks
in which to settle up his private af-
| fairs and report at one of the army
camps in the south to take UP the
duties of field director of the Amer
lean Red Cross.
Grinnen is to be honored from the
eth to the 10th this month by the pres
| ence of sorye distinguished foreigners,
as Mayor White has been notified by
| Governor Harding, who received the
notice from Secretary of State Robert
! Lansing. NJ Yen Hsiu and Yuan Lien
| Fan. former Chinese ministers of edu-
| cation, +. T. Sun, president of the col
! lege of Fisheries at Tien Tsin, China,
and Polling Chang. president of Nankai
college at Tien Tsin, are on their way
| from New York TO San Francisco.
where they plan to take steamer for
| China, and will visit this city. They
| have been for several months studying
| the educational systems and methods
| of the United States.
Mr.. and Mrs. J. j. Henzie are WIS.,
| iting in Mason City with their daugh-
| ter. Mrs. A. NJ. Wall. and, on their
way homeward, will stop in Marsall-
| town to visit Mr.. Henzies daughter,
Mrs. Charles Herter.
Edmund Rivers died on Sunday af-
| ternoon at his home after a somewhat
| heightened illness Funeral services
We're held at the home today and the
| body taken to Blue Point for inter-
ment. He was well known here and
| highly respected. He leaves a wife
! and two sons, DR.. c. f. Rivers, of Ma
son City. and Homer Rivers, who lives
in the country near this CITY,
The Levart Club has collected and
shipped 2S5 pounds of treasures and
! trinkets and have in sight enough to
| warrant them in planning a second
shipment in the near future.
After a three months visit with rel
atives and friends in this city Mrs. J.
3. Hays started last night on her re-
| turn trip to her home in Olathe. Kan
| Miss Inez Lee, nurse at the city
| hospital has found the recent weeks
so strenuous that she has gone to her
| home at Corwith for a few weeks of
rest. 1tC
| j. l.. Herman. who went to Des
Moines on Sunday to visit his wife.
| who underwent an operation at the
| Methodist hospital last week. reports
| her as making good recovery.
Miss Agnes Naylor has gone back
| to her work in the office of the quar-
! termaster general at Washington. D.
| c.. after ten days furlough spent
| mostly at her home here.
The Grinnell Motor Company lost a
! fifty dollar check and the Grinnell
Overland Company lost 1915 in cash
by the daylight tapping of their cash
registers by some person unknown to
| them. ..
Miss Olga Harris is reported as ser
iously i'll at the n. Mayo Harris home,
, on West street. ....
In apportioning the war work
among the colleges of the state. Grin
| nells share has been fixed at $3.50,
which has been accepted and the drive
will be made to secure it,
Mrs. c. f. Marshall. formerly Miss
Margaret McCosh. is reported, as re-
covering well from an operation in
the city hospital here last week, for
relief from appendicitis.
Corporal Dawson Brande has been
spending five days furlough from
Camp Dodge with his wife and grand
| mother here. He goes back to Camp
today.