Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1919-08-09
GrinnolI and Vicinity,

staged. In the speed department $3.50
purses have been hung UP for each of
the three active days of the fair; We'd
nesday Thursday and Friday. On We'd
ncsday for the 2:22 trot and the 2:li
pace; on Thursday for the 1880 trot
and the 2:25 pace, and on Friday for
the 2:l6 trot and the 2:19 pace. Among
other attractions for many people
large dancing floor is being laid with
protecting canopy top and will be for
use days and evenings.
On Wednesday evening, In spite OF
the worst storm of the season for that
vicinity. the inyited guests managed to
get to the home of Mr. and Mrs 7. A,
Armstrong In Chester to witness the
marriage of their daughter, Miss Mary
Upton Armstrong, to Gilmore Peter
son, son of Mr.. and Mrs Charles Pet
erson. Rev. w. l.. Wisslcr, former
pastor of the Chester Congregational
| church now of Gilbert, officiated. The
mother of the bride played the Wed
ding march. Miss Lorraine Ewing was
maid of honor and Miss Mabel Wesco
and Miss Dolora Schwab were brides
maids, and the bridal party was led py
! Mary Elizabeth and William Sanders,
children of MFR. and Mrs. william San
ders. About one hundred invitations
| were issued. From Presumption, ILL.,
came the following: Mr.. and Mrs
| John Upton and family, c. C. Clarke
and three daughters, j. l.. Clarke and
Mr.. and MIS-. Foster Armstrong. The
! young married couple went to Chicago
on a wedding trip. on their reurrn
I thay will nnoir N arrinI life I
A. Flock farm four miles north of this
city.
| Mr. and Mrs. C. f. Decatur starred
yesterday for a two weeks outing in
Colorado, planning to visit part of the
time at the Denver home Of Mr.. and
Mrs. j.. w. Harpster, formerly of this
city. They We're accompanied by Miss
! Grace Hays, whose stay is to be in
definite.
Mr.. and Mrs. Fred Kingdom and Mr..
and Mrs. I. NJ. Harrington were in
Guthrie Center on Wednesday as we'd
ding guests at the home of the Ham
| monds where Miss Hazel Hammond
became the bride Of Floyd Kingdom, of
Grinneu. Iowa. Both bride and groom
are graduates of Iowa College at
GrinnelI. in the class Of 1916. since
which time the groom has seen army
service.
The pulpit of the Methodist church
of this city, in the absence of Pastor
J. NJ Brown on his vacation in Colo
RADIO, will be filled by Rev. DR.. w H.
Hoppe, of Newton, tomorrow. Mrs.
Homer c. Rivers will sing.
DR.. G. B. McGuin has just celebrated
htct lot n opta
eminent service as clerk in the Grin
nell postoffice. A part of his cele-,
bration was in the form of mild treat
to his fellow laborers.
By orders of the closing committee
of-The commercial club and the ready
acauiescence of all the merchants the
| stores will be closed from II o'clock,
| noon, for the rest of the day and even
ing, on Wednesday and Thursday next
week.
Morning concerts are to be given
every day of the Grinnell fair, in the
city park, and the streets are to be
enlivened by comedy.
Near the last OF next week the Grin
hell Canning Company will start the
! machinery on preliminary run and be
ready for regular and heavy work on
the following week. Mr.. Harrison, in
charge of the government inspection
of canning for Iowa, with his assist
ants, has been in Grinnell and ar
ranged for the inspection of the pro-
ducts and process of this factory.
Miss Marguerite Lamb has gone to,
Sedalia, Mo-, the home of her grand
mother. She was accompanied by her
father, C. A. Lamb, of Belle PLANE.
Mr.. and Mrs. Charles Bechly have
come from Canas, Wash. by auto and
are visiting relatives at Searsooro. Yes
terday they spent in Grinnell visiting
Mrs. Bechlys aunt, Mrs. f. NJ. Cooper.
| Mr.. Bechiy is looking for q good place
to locate on a farm this side Of the
Rockies
Mrs w. E. Penfield, who has been
visiting her mother here, Mrs. Laura
Vanderveer, and her sister, Mrs. ]. c.:
Card, has gone back to her home in
Detroit, Mich.
Capt. e. E. Bump, who has been in
command of Battery F of the Eighty
third field artillery, stationed at Camp
Knox, KY has been granted a fifteen
day leave of absence at the end of
"IiSll llC ID W lSPOlI ciC .SdIlp bOuSC
for final discharge. He plans then to
resume his former employment as LEI
ter carrier from the Grlnnell postoftice.
|sR Mrs. Ehza Burning died at the age
Of 81 years at the home of her ne
phew, w. A. Evans, OF this city, on
Thursday evening. Funeral services
were held Friday evening and the body
was taken this morning to Davenport
for interment.
Arrangements have been made be-
tween the Grinnell College and the
community hospital authorities by
which one-hour course in nurses
training shall be open to college stu
dents desiring it.. Also that any stu
Gent who is taken i'll or Is injured may
have hospital care without liability
for hospital charges.
Announcement is made Of the mar
riage of Miss Ollie Conger to Dennis
Grovenburg. both Of Grinnell. at Mon
tezuma. Mrs. N. IN. Conger, mother Of
the bride, witnessed the ceremony
Rev. w w. WOODBURY., pastor Of the
United Presbyterian church of Grin
nell, and his family have started for
their summer home on the shore or
Lake Michigan going by the way OF
Rock Island, where two Of the family
have been visiting relatives
Miss Mabel McKarahan leaves home
tonight for visit to her brother and
his wife and little daughter in Chicago.
Miss Margaret futile, formerly Of
this city but later Of Kingfisher, Okla.
is visiting friends here.
Lieut.. Clyde G. Boyce has just come