Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-07
Grinnell and Vicinity.

Grtnnel, June 1.-THE place vacated
by the entering Of Prof. r. H. Perring
into government service has been filled
by the election Of Rev. w. B. Wilson,
who will be acting chairman of the
Poweshiek county chapter of the Red
Cross.
Next Sunday has been selected as the
joint memorial day for the Odd Fellows.
the Modern Woodmen, the Knights Of
Pythias and the Yeomen, and they will
unite in the march to the cemetery
and hold a union service at the soldiers
monument. Rev. A. c. Stowe, pastor Of
the Christian church, giving the ad-
dress and a male quartet from the COL
lege conducting the singing. The ritual
service of the various orders will be
used in the different halls before start
ing for Hazelwood. The procession will
form on Main street at 2 o'clock in the
afternoon.
Claud Simmons, who has been in
service for some time and stationed at
Camp Wilson, near Topeka, Kan, was
united in marriage recently, at the
camp, with Miss Hazel Garrett, of this
county daughter of Mr. and Mrs. Frank
Garrett. The groom had lived in this
vicinity before hts enlistment. The
bride has come back to the home of
her parents since the marriage.
w. H. Alley is having a visit from
Mr.. and Mrs. Thomas Barnes and two
children, whose home Is in Davenport.
Michael Kerwin, who was stationed
at Camp Dodge and was taken Ill with
pneumonia, thence to Rochester, Mimi.
died there. He was a nephew of J. T.
Mccain, of this vicinity, and Mr.. and
MRS. McCaHn rent 70 Carroll this week
to attend the funeral. Another nephew
of Mr.. Mccain, Edward Kerwin, Of
Iowa City, died in the service few
weeks ago at Fort Oglethorpe.
A novel way of soliciting and collect
ing for the Red Cross Is being tried
out in this city. The stone pyramid
at the intersection Of Main street and
Fourth avenue has been doubled in
height by the addition of post and
the red crosses on all sides ask for
contribution Of old auto tires. BY the
middle Of the afternoon there was a
pile five feet high. The value Of that
pile was said to be $40 and there had
been SIT worth taken off before. Red
Cross workers gather the tires and at
| LenQ TO the selling.
| Funeral services were held this after
noon at the home Of Mr.. and Mrs. John
Mincer on Main street over the body OF
Mrs. Frances May Watson who died
there early yesterday morning, at the
age Of 40 years, from cancer. Rev. J.
NJ. Brown, Of the Methodist church,
conducted the funeral services and in
terment was in Hardwood.
Funeral services were held yesterday
afternoon over the body of John Wesley
Olds at the family home. 511 Broad
street, conducted by Rev. e. M. Vittum,
Of the Congregational church. Mr.. Odds
was almost IS years old and had lived
in Iowa about seventy-eight years The
family moved from near Davenport to
Grinnell ten or more years ago. Mrs.
Odds was buried here on the 18th of
April last. Three daughters survive
the parents, Mrs. George H. Brown and
Miss Genevieve Olds, both Of this city.
and daughter in the west. Interment
was in Hazelwood.
| Grinne1l College Is called to mourn
the loss on the battle front in France
of one of her students, Lloyd w. Gettys,
brother of Joseph Gettys now in COL
lege here. The family home is at Stuart
and Joe went at once to his mother
when the news was brought to him.
County Supervisor Otto Schultz has
completed the work of overseeing the
oiiing OF four miles Of road running
north from Shows corners on the east
line of the city. The county, the city
of Grinnel1 and the farmers along the
oiled portion Of the road divide the ex-
pense. The eight miles oiled two or
three years ago, TO t:a cast Of the
River to River road, has seemed salts
factory to all cSocerned.