Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1918-06-14
Grinnell and Vicinity,

| Special TO Times Republican.
Grinnen June 14-Alhert Hoener
! and Miss Agnes Mitchell were united
in marriage Wednesday evening at $50
| by the ninistrations of Rev. W. B.
Wilson at the home OF Mr.. and Mrs.
tCharles Nicholson. The groom is
| employed in the z. E Boren lunch
rooms. The bride was taking a course
! in nursing at Iowa City but was
| obliged to give up the work for lack of
sufficient health to continue il. After
a couple OF weeks Of visiting al Quincy,
Ill. at the home of the grooms parents
! the young couple will make their home
in Grinnell.
| The Grinnell vigilance committee
has placed prominent signs along the
main roads leading into GHnneli that
are calculated TO act as a warning 10
! all persons Of pro-Gernan proclivities.
They are artistically done and attract
attention but the inscription is plain
and significant, "Grinnell Speaks
English Only"
| On Sunday evening, June Is, there is
| to be a community sing on the A. K.
| Murphy lawn in Chester township two
miles east of Newb1IrE. to which the
war committee invites the entire COM
munity.
| In the interest OF plenty Of stock
| feed for the next winter the farm bu-
reau is urging the necessity Of more
silos and is cooperating with the ex-
tension department of Ames in hold
| ing a three days demonstration June
| II, IS, and 10, when Anes experts will
be On hand to help.
| Ed Nelson is under arrest charged
with having robbed the Boren Quick
Lunch on Fourth avenue of some $50
on Thursday morning. He sleeps in
the back part Of the building and be-
tween - and o'clock ran to the
| depot to get help from the night Off
GERS. claiming that he had been beaten
and robbed. The money was found
later under a plank in the alley at the
rear of the building. Nelson claims
that q negro came in and tried to open
the cash register and SO aroused
Nelson from his sleep. He tried to
drive him out but claims to have had
his clothes badly torn and to have been
severely struck and put in danger Of
losing his life. The police officers dis
credit the story.
| L. Friedman claims to be the loser
| from thieves who caTed away lot OF
bulky and heavy stuff from his barn on
Park street south the total value
alleged to be about $500. The plumber
consisted of 300 feed sacks, some
aluminium, and auto materials. Fried
mann thinks he knows who the guilty
one or ones are but no arrests have
| yet been made.
Frank Howard borrowed Tony
Wallace's motorcycle to ride from
Grnnell to Malcom to visit his sister,
Mrs. Clark Olney. While bowling along
at rapid gait something ceased TO
function property and he went head
over heels into barbed wire fence.
! He is reported as seriously injured and
his mother Mrs. Mary Howard, Of this
| city went TO him at Malcolm.
3. J. Kicker, Of the Morrison Kicker
Company started for Fresno, Cal, on
| Wednesday night, called by the tele-
gram telling of the sudden death OF
his brother, George z. Kicker, from
apoplexy. George Kicker was past 80
years of age and formerly lived in this
city.
James Irwin. OF Montezuma, IS under
arrest charged with the forging of the
name of Bert Goreham, Of this city, to
some checks, each check being drawn
for $40.