Le Grand Reporter (Newspaper) - May 2, 1930, Le Grand, Iowa A WEEKLY NEWSPAPER DEVOTED TO THE INTERESTS GRAND AND VICINITY VOL XXI LE GRAND MARSHALL COUNTY IOWA FRIDAY MAY 2 1930 NO 26 ELMER HALYERSON BADLY INJURED Suffers Skull Fracture as Result of Blow on Flying Rock Recover Elmer Quarry an employee of LeGrand stone Company received a bad skull fracture about 2 o'clock last Saturday morning while at work in the north quarry He was working on the night shift and failed to hear the warning whistle preceding the setting off of a blast He was struck oh the head by a fly ing rock which cut a bad gash in his scalp and knocked him senseless He was taken to St Thomas hospital in Marshalltown where an X-ray taken which revealed a fracture of the skull above the ear about four inches It is a dangerous wound but not necessarily fatal inasmuch as there was no blood clot At last reports from the hospital he was getting along his recovery is pre- Republican Caucus For the of nominating township officers and delegates to the county convention a lican caucus for Precinct No 1 LeGrand township will be held at LeGrand at 8 p.m Monday May 5 B H Beane Committeeman Rosa Richards Committee woman Local News and Personals Mr and Mrs P A Sanders and son Stephen visited ville relatives Sunday For black raspberry ones Price per A Sanders The W C T U will meet Tuesday May 2 p m with Mrs Alice All ladies in- Mrs and son of Marshalltown called Sunday afternoon at the I M has returned from Texas where lie spent the winter Robert Bros contractors Miss Helen Haynes is working at the Charles Specht Specht and three daughters being ill with measles Mr and Mrs Ben Baumgartner were the guests of Mr W E Roberts for supper at the Tallcorn Sunday evening Max Radloff was on the cago market a car of cattle He made the return trip on the Interstate bus Mr Vernal Hall and School n t The banket will be held May 2 at Hotel Tallcorn May 8 there be a general musical entertainment at the town hall be under the tion of Prof Jones Willis Guthrie is the only in the seventh and eighth grade room We expect him to be with us soon Monday afternoon April 28 Prof had a day party Games were played and refreshments were served LeGrand will play its first game of the County Tournament at Lamoille against Rhodes day afternoon April 17 toQ There are eighteen pupils back in the first and second grade room Friends Church Notice and club will meet Wednesday May 7 with Mrs R L Pemberton in Toledo This is an all-day ing and also the final one the club year and it is desired that as many as possible attend Each member is requested to bring a covered dish Buns and coffee provided Will all who can take cars notify the president Meet down town at 10 o'clock Ways will be provided for all ANNOUNCEMENTS of visited day at the home of her parents Mr and Mrs John Ladies Aid of the Christian church will hold a bake sale at their rooms Saturday morrow afternoon beginning at 2 o'clock Come stock up Sunday Committee C I T wedt of Marshalltown was a brief caller at the Reporter office Monday evening having recently son where he spent several glad that Junior Ruth Simms are They are all Dunham and better The Musical Contest was held in day April 25 to forced vacation pur orchestra and glee clubs could not go as they had ex- four contestants from LeGrand were entered and they gil Horn with his trombone solo Ernest Beane with a violin solo and a trio consisting of Ernest Beane violin Lois Beane cello and pianist We wish to congratulate musicians and their instructor Mr Jones This was the first time LeGrand has appeared in a contest of this Pupils haying averages of ninety or above for the last six 1st Peterson Jack Gaunt Johnson 2nd Johnson 3rd Humphrey Betty Holland Irene Rosedale Glenn Olson 4th Rhodes Arlene Clarice Iverson Hazel Mahle George Perry 5th Dunham Wayne Guthrie Wilma Peak Neil Perry 6th giad Keen Donald Dunham Floyd Cutler Verlyn Twedt 7th Johnson etta Harem Hilda Rylander Maxine Rasmussen 8th Gaunt Maxine Hoover Beryl Keen Esther Mahle Rev Taylor Pastor 10 Bible School son Supt 11 Junior C E Edna son Supt 11 God's C E Service Ralph Horn Bres Worship period A Scientist's Shattered Creed Wednesday Meeting of Ministry and Oversight A cordial welcome CANDIDATES BEFORE THE JUNE PRIMARY Like a leaf from an old diary we I have been young and now am yet have I not seen the righteous forsaken bread Again he compares a righteous man to a tree planted by the rivers of water It seems to quote the poet Joyce T think I shaSI never see A poem lovely as a tree A tree whose hungry mouth is pressed Against the sweet flowing breast that looks at God all day And lifts her leafy arms to pray A tree that may In summer wear A nest of robins in her hair Upon whose bosom snow hat Who intimately lives with rain Poems are made by like me But only God can make a tree Christian Church Serious Accident on Highway Will Dougherty of Quarry met with ah accident on the paving west of LeGrand Tuesday ing about 7 o'clock from the months with whose D N Ferguson is not the best To the Republican voters of Marshall -I wish to an- my candidacy for ation as the primaries of June 2 J F Rylander TREASURER Ed Please announce that I am a candidate for the nomination for county treasurer subject to the decision of the re- publican voters election June 2 at the primary SUPERVISOR Please announce my candidacy for the office of county supervisor for the term beginning Jan 1 1931 subject to the wishes of the republican voters at the primary in June Elwood E Robinson The trip south did him good A new timecard went into effect on the Northwestern Sunday Some of the fast trains are speeded up the only changes t affecting LeGrand being in the arrival of local trains Nos 29 and 30 both about fif teen minutes later No 29 westbound is due at while the eastbound train No 30 is due at Marvin who has taught in the West Liberty high school for several years has been elected to the superintendency of the Stratford school and will be- gin his new duties in September He is now interested in rounding up a corp of teachers to his ing Congratulations Marvin Given Johnson sustained quite a heavy loss last week from his cattle getting what is known as bloat His stock got into the alfalfa and overfed with the re- suit they bloated and eight of the animals died Five of them were feeding steers and three milking cows It is a loss to a young farmer It got his best cow too F H Luthe of Des Moines at hoine re- turning Ash home with a wagonload of corn when near the Harvey place a lady driving a new Ford car ran into the rear of his wagon and threw him violently to the ment He managed to pick self up caught the team preventing a runaway but later fainted and had to be taken home A doctor was called who said there were no bones broken but that it would take several days to determine the outcome The driver of the car is unknown to the writer High Ball exhibition of the national pastime was played here Tuesday Gilmah and Liberty high school teams It has on county high school baseball tournament to held in Marshalltown this week The Liberty boys brought with them a left handed twirler who did what he pleased with the Gilman batters bat weakened in the seventh inning and almost threw away The final score was 13 to 11 in favor of Liberty LeGrand won from Rhodes at Lamoille day 17 to 0 The losers in these preliminary skirmishes do not en- ter the county Rev F D Hobson Pastor Church School Gaunt Supt Morning Worship 11 o'clock Sarah M Piper will bring BERtHA M SPRATT Miss Bertha M Spratt of announces in this issue of the Reporter her candidacy for nomination on the republican ticket for the office of county recorder Miss Spratt has been a resident of Marshall county since hood and is a graduate of the Marshalltown high school and Central Iowa business college For eleven years she was em- ployed by the Hawkeye cial Men's Association and has been with the Marshalltown ings and Loan Association for the last eight years and the message both morning and evening p m Leader Herbert p m Evening Service Prayer Circle ing at followed by regular church business at 8 All are welcome to worship her e We have had a forced vacation let's comeback with a tion to put more of ourselves into the work Read the Condon another page Gilman sale ad on 0 J Quarry L T Hibbs Pastor assistant to the secretary Her experience in typing clerical work and in dealing with the general public qualifies her to handle efficiently of the office Miss Spratt owns her own home which maintains for herself and mother and is a believes in the economical use of the If elected to position she seeks she promises prompt and courteous service to the patrons of the office and to conserve the Ed You may an- that at the earnest of many friends throughout the county I will be a candidate before the June primary for the nomination for supervisor for the term beginning January I 1931 0 C Stangeland RECORDER To the Republican voters of Marshall This will serve to announce that I am a candidate for the office of county recorder before the coming June primaries Rose Rook senior member of the wholesale hardware firm of Luthe Bros gether with his two nephews was in LeGrand for a few hours last Saturday He has retired from active business and is now inter- ested in things geological and came expressly to look over the To the Republican voters of Marshall I hereby an- as a candidate for the office of county recorder at the June primary for the term ning Jan i Bertha M Spratt Beane collection of crinoids and to see the quarries He's coming back soon Mrs Effie Adamson who has spent the past year with relatives in Pomona Calif arrived day evening for a at the home of her brother Dr E M Mills She is en route to her home in Streator 111 and has made several stops on the way having ridden every mile of the long journey from Pomona to ship who has been coach at the Lamoille school for several years has signed up for the same ition with the Gilman school and is also to be principal Misses Helen Test and Florence Dunkle will teach English and first grade respectively The partial eclipse of the sun Monday was viewed by many although just at its best a heavy bank of clouds totally obscured the sun Smoked glass was scarcely necessary for a haze of clouds made that precaution less The eclipse was tenths total and daylight was cut down quite noticeably We had failed to scan our family almanac and knew nothing of the eclipse until Sunday so did not give advance notice All of the sick folks are ering nicely and most people are beginning to breathe freer Little Mrs Dena and soil made an auto trip to Rochelle 111 last visit relatives living in that locality Rosa Beebout and Jessie Hanson and Mr and Mrs Ray Duncan were Sunday guests at the home of Mrs Blanch West in Marshalltown Miss Genevieve Gossman of Decorah is visiting here at the home of her sister Mrs Leon Oakes and helping care for the twins who have the measles Arden Pacific tion a visitor at the home of her sister Mrs Harry Kempe was taken to the Deaconess hospital for treatment infected hand She is improving Mrs Mary Weaver of the county seat was in LeGrand a couple of days over ing care for her brother John Rasmus while Mrs Rasmus made her brief trip to Harvey 111 W M Gaunt began working Monday night at the north ry being employed in the place Sunday School at 10 a m ence Hartwell Supt Church Service at 11 o'clock Tuesday evening p A cordial welcome to all m Trinity Lutheran Church Dillon Rev Theo E Hinck Pastor payers interest Miss Mabel Gaunt went to Ferguson Tuesday and will visit until Friday with her sister Miss Edith Gaunt v Never boil new peas let them simmer Salt the water lightly Some cooks add salt when cooking is half done Do not cover while cooking Junior Dunham who had such a tough siege taking the measles on the heels of an attack of scarlet fever then to suffer a relapse and have pneumonia is well on the road to recovery Miss Addie Adair a trained nurse has been Mrs Bernard William caring for him Russell and son are LeGrand on buses she enjoyed it And she says convalescent following a long quarantine and illness of scarlet fever Mrs Chas Dunham has been caring for her sister Mrs Russell recently vacated by Elmer verson who sustained a fracture of the skull in a blasting accident The fact that hard work and success go together is further substantiated by Amos n Andy radio who spend a few minutes but who actually work 15 hours preparing their dialogical scripts and attending to their says Editor Lieb of the Record at Jeffersonville New York Sunday 10 a m Church Service at a m The Gall of God's Fatherhood Matt On Sunday we shall begin a series of sermons on the Lord's prayer Perhaps no other prayer is abused as much as the Lord's prayer We pray it thoughtlessly and carelessly and thus our ing is nothing less than mockery How very necessary then that we give the greatest of all prayers a very careful study Every word in the Lord's prayer is of the utmost importance Our Father which art in embraces the three heavenly graces of faith hope and charity In the word Father we plant our feet firmly upon the ing Rock of Ages In the word our we stretch out our hands right and left to every human being to help them stand upon the same firm foundation of the saints of the Lord In the words which art in heaven we fully raise our eyes to heaven to the hills from whence cometh our help Mr and Mrs Earl Gaunt of Marshalltown were Sunday ers at the home of their uncle W M Gaunt Here There and Everywhere So many all the time about Russia and the conditions there make it difficult for one to get anything like a clear conception of things in that big country We may know more about it as time goes on more in a direct and definite way because the Soviet group is making a bid for American tourist travel this year They have cut out the visa fee and they are to get our people to come over and see them Of course the or more which they think our sightseers will spend with them this year is not lost sight of The census is on all over the country One enumerator in Iowa had a tough problem on his hands for determination when he came up against a home which was ex- on county line The farmer's head rested in one county when he slept and his feet in the other What should the poor man do who was responsible for the Which county should he put this farmer Then he resorted to his rule book and there he found that heads should be counted in their usual place of abode and the county with the feet lost out After all life is the strangest thing there is in Me
