Page Two } Monroe Hotel (Cont’ti (mm Page 1) thirties. He wrote that he had noticed that the staff of girls always seemed to increase in the weekends, but that he just assumed they came to handle the Increased number of traV< eling men who came in over the weekend. The girls were indeed employed to handle the extra travelling men, but not only in the dining room. As one of Hall’s fellow students told him, “We are waiting tables in a bawdy house." At that lime, the hotel had a widespread reputation (ex- cept, ironically, in the town and at the college), and trav- elling men would make a paint to be In GIlnnell [or the Week- end. Mrs. Capron had these girls do everything including waiting on tables and scrub- bing floors in addition to their nighttime duties, reportedly she paid them no salary at all. Slingy on Food From 1898 to I912, the year of her death, Mrs. Capron was the Hotel. A very shrewd per- son, Mrs. Capron would close ly calculate the amount or food that she would need for the dining room each day. .Often, the dining room would run out of food, and in these cases, the remnants of loud lelt on the dishes oi other cus- tomers would be served again. 'A point was made or giving the reserved mod to traveling men rather than to college and townspeople. Undoubted- ly, it must have been some- thing to see Mrs. copron eve- nings at the Hotel, covered with diamond jewelry, smiling, in Hall’s Words, “as she turned the crank of the cash Iegisler." Alter Mrs. Capron's death in 1912, her daughter and sons in—iaw took over the manage ment or the hotel. The daugh- ter’s husband, Mr. Gillord, was quite a flamboyant char acter and was well known as a gambler. He had previously owned and operated a saloon at Marshalltown, and was tu- mored to have killed a man out Westr After the Giffords died in the lflle 1920’: or early 1930’s, the College bought the hotel and operated it until the 1940’s. During most of the time oi the College’s owner- ship, the hotel was operated by Mrr George l-llser, h sun~ ln»law DI the Giilords, and now the husband of Associate Protessor Mrs. Velma Hisel‘. In the 1940‘s the College sold the hotel to Mr, Hlser, and he owned it until 1959. Josiah E. Grinnell, when he iounded the town in the 1850’s, made a stipulation on every piece or property in town; that it liquor were ever sold on a piece of property, that property would revert back to Grinneil college, or his estate. When the college bought the hotel, they had that stipula- tion removed from the hotel, and thus irom all other land in Grinnell. 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