Le Grand Reporter (Newspaper) - March 11, 1938, Le Grand, Iowa x OUR COMMUNITY IS WHAT WE VOL XXIX LE GRAND MARSHALL COUNTY IOWA FRIDAY MARCH 1938 NO 20 LeGrand Friends Church DEATH AND BURIAL OF CUTLER Well Known Resident of Community Passes Away Friday March 4 Funeral and Burial Monday Local News and Personals Obliging In the parlor they were three She the table lamp and he Two is company without a doubt So the table lamp went out Pageant an Sarden The death of Willis L Cutler widely known Spanish-American war veteran of LeGrand and er county old age pension gator occurred at p m day March 4 at the Deaconess hospital Mr Cutler had been a patient there for three weeks fering from heart disease and complications He had been in failing health for three years He was bora April at Waverly a son of Daniel B and Elizabeth Peters Cutler Willis Cutler served in the American war with Company D Twelfth Minnesota Volunteer in- fantry After the war he went to Peoria 111 where he married Miss Bartra Mud in 1900 She died in Peoria Dec and on June 22 1914 he married Mrs Frances Peterson at LeGrand He was connected with the Brown Bros real estate firm in Peoria until 1923 and then moved to LeGrand to become foreman for the Capital City Bridge ing Company Later he was em- ployed by the Union Hay Com- pany for two years and from Mrs C R Durland spent a a few days last week in Kansas City with her husband who is employed there Mr and Mrs Mahlon Gaunt of Tama and Archie Smaha of Green Mountain were Sunday visitors at the W M Gaunt home Brady Long returned home Saturday from Lynnville where he has been employed by Given Johnson during the winter There will be a change of bus time March 15 For further in- formation inquire at the tele- phone Transit Lines Mr and Mrs M T Tostenson returned home the fore part of last week after spending about two months in Tuscon Arizona and California Mr and Mrs John Nolte and daughter Barbara Jane of kins Sunday guests at the home of Mr and Mrs John Rhodes and family Medium clover Alfalfa per bushel also many other lots Postal card us for catalogue and samples before ordering 1984 to 1936 was county gator for the old age pension commission Mr Cutler was an inventor of no mean calibre having invented a mold for forming concrete silo molds collapsible brick molds and several improvements in block molds Besides his widow he is survived by seven sons Kenneth Floyd and Lloyd Cutler of LeGrand Raymond of Osage Wilbert 01 I Here in this old world garden time stands No city din can pierce this tranquil sphere A quiet Eden where I- drink my fill Of June the darling of the The yews are foil for bright-hued flowers Whose breath intoxicates the enamored breeze That lingers long about inviting bowers Whose roses might the high gods please On every side a wall of brick is seen More beautiful in age than in its The weathered red relieved by green And clinging to its summit climb Its column hidden by a leafy screen An old sundial the time II A great stone mansion guards this spacious spot Erected when the elder Charles was Romantic sight that art and time have wrought Whose poise and charm a thrill to all must This is a place for sweet repose and dreaming For books and tea throughout the summer days Nor fit for modern verve with unrest teeming As this is sacred to the old-time ways My native land so far across the ocean Seems farther as I sense the beauty here That whelms with an unspeakable emotion One nurtured in the new world's atmosphere Directing my enraptured devotion To ancient days and ways now grown more dear Albert Lindley Beane in Sonnet Sequences Rev Floyd L Hinshaw Pastor Sunday School 0 W Johnson Supt Morning Worship They Went Unto Him Christian Endeavor Evening Worship My Praying We thank you for your throughout the meetings by your faithful attendance Christian Church Sarah M Piper Minister 10 a m Church School Services Sunday morning at 11 o'clock Rev B 0 Duncan will bring the message A welcome to all here Quarry Chapel Rev L T 10 a m Sunday School Mrs Jerome Lunde Supt 11 a m Services 7 p m Christian Endeavor p m Evening Services The regular church business meeting is held the last Tuesday evening of every month where Hall Son ville Iowa Mr and Mrs Vernon Thompson are moving into the property on south Franklin street occupied for a long time by Van Shope It is Norton we understand It surely reminds a person of old times to see Raymond Beane back of the counter once more at the Holland store He doesn't walk quite as briskly as of yore but he is gaining and will soon Waterloo Vern oi Peoria get back to the standard pace he set and Dan Cutler of Russell 111 sjx ago or prior to his long one daughter Miss Iva Cutler 011 sick spell Peoria six stepchildren Mrs H R Olson and Clarence T son or Marshalltown Fred G Peterson 01 LeGrand Mrs Weitzell of Dunbar Mrs J W Gregg oi Elgin Okla and Mrs F D Moore of Buffalo three brothers Orvie Cutler oi Waverly Archie of Princeton Minn anu Roy oi Alhambra Calif two ters Mrs M H Rindall of hambra Calif and Mrs G chinson of Saskatchewan ada and three grandchildren One sister and one brother pre- ceded him in death He was a member of the LeGrand Friends I of Los We have passed the paper over to Mrs Mattie Pemberton of the local WT C T U to do as she sees fit with it B H Beane handed us a Miscellaneous Shower Mrs Clifford Huffaker who was married Feb 16 was entertained Tuesday night at a Shower at the her mother Mrs Chas Lamb with about thirty guests present The recent bride received many lovely gifts and it seems that all must have been as the gifts all matched perfectly in a beautiful color scheme The evening was spent socially and by playing Bingo various Strand Lutheran Church Dunbar Iowa Rev E A Pastor 10 a m 11 a m Rev Floyd Hinshaw went to Oskaloosa Tuesday to enroll at the Pastor's Short Course which is in session the most of the week Dr Willard 0 blood is one of the principal ers at the meetings L T Hibbs expects to be present at the Short Course a part of the time The writer acknowledges the of a copy of the January issue of Southern California White Ribbon containing a well itten article by Dr Elmina church Funeral services were held at Estel funeral home in Monday at 2 p m conducted by Rev Taylor rie of West Branch a former tor at LeGrand Burial was in Pleasant Hill cemetery north of LeGrand Pallbearers were L T Hibbs paper illustration carrying a rather familiar likeness It is none other than that of Eugene R Bowen of New York City at his desk as secretary Tenus Olson Walter Aiden Ben of the Cooperative League The Baumgardner Burnice Beane and president Dr Jas P Warbasse Eric Erickson Attending from a distance were Mr and Mrs Wilbert Cutler of Waterloo Mr and Mrs Dan Cutler of Russell 111 Mr and Mrs Orvie Cutler and children of Waverly Mrs Cornelia Cutler and four daughters of Waterloo Mr arid Mrs Orvie Hutchinson of New Hampton Mr and Mrs Ralph Cutler of Floyd Mr and Mrs George Cutler and Mrs Max Cutler of Preston Minn Mr and Mrs Medd and family of loo Mr and Mrs Fran Moore of Buffalo Mrs Fred Shroeder of Montpelier and many from Grand Quarry Dunbar Dillon and Garwin is also shown but the arresting picture is that of Eleanor velt wife of the president who seems quite intent on discussing something of importance with the two officials This office is in receipt of a neat little booster booklet with this title San Diego extolling the many things of interest in and around that famed southern California city We were very much inter- ested in it and have wondered why we hadn't made mention of the gift prior to this time Mrs Sarah Imel whose name is on an inside front page better have a care or she will get body hung up for letter postage prizes being given A midnight lunch was served by the hostesses Mrs Doren Huffaker of town and Mrs Hollis Eash by Mrs Mrs Kenneth Mrs mond Weitzell all of town Guests from away were the bride Mrs Russell Reel and baby daughter of Ferguson Mrs neth Tompkins Mrs Ed Bond Mrs J L Peak Mrs Raymond Weitzell Mrs Dwight Eash and baby daughter Mrs C W Eash Mrs Omar DeFrance and Mrs Doren Huffaker all of town While the ladies played Bingo with Krughel the life of the party as usual the who drove cars gathered at the home of Cleo Lamb brother of the bride and spent the evening playing five hundred Near midnight Cleo Lamb and mond Weitzell donned aprons and served lunch Guests included Russell Reel and Clifford Huffaker of son Kenneth Tompkins Dwight Eash Ed Bond Raymond zell and Doren Huffaker all of And March Marches On Sumner Gazette Though it's just another month in the year March probably has more superstitions behind any of the ing 11 months Since Julius Caesar's time the ides of March have been mous in song and story few people realizing that every month had an ides in the old Roman endar The fact that Caesar was murdered on the ides of March made that particular day more significant To the Romans March was the first month of the year a dar custom that persisted out Europe for centuries land did not adopt the present calendar until 1752 previously dating its legal year from March 25 Literally March is the month of Mars based on Grecian legend Certainly its warlike tendencies are borne out by the furious winds usually accompanying the month If March comes in like a lion it will go out like a lamb or vice versa Sunday School Morning Worship Everybody welcome Card of Thanks We thank you for your age.in-the Come in and sea us about your account It be SCHOOL ITEMS OF HIGH SCHOOL The Indian children from the Tama Reservation school will pre- sent a program in the local school auditorium Friday afternoon of this week beginning at 1 o'clock Lf you would like to see and hear the Indians you are cordially in- to attend Two weeks ago the grade pupils went down to their school and witnessed a very interesting program LeGrand held its A ing Tuesday night The program was a movie presented by our county agent Mr Harold son Cup cakes and coffee were served for refreshments ACTIVITIES The record of boys basketball games shows 19 played 9 won and 10 lost The girls record shows 24 played 20 won 2 tied and 2 lost The boys will top off their season by play ing a Round Robin tournament among the ligh school classes CLASS NAME CAPTAIN Senior Jack Long Junior Hornets Van Shope U C Rowlison Cyclones 0 Rhodes DECLAMATORY Kathryn Mills ana Ruth Simms represented our school in the de- clamatory contest held at ons Monday evening March 7 The contest was the final county contest and state con- son School Election Next Monday The annual school election will be held at the school building Monday March 14 for the pose of electing two school to succeed S S Iverson who is moving out of the dis- and one other There is but one ticket filed we under- stand Leland Keen to succeed Mr Iverson and M Holland to succeed himself We were printing this item last week about the election simply as news ano with no idea oi taking pay for it and thought test ami therefore in- cluded eleven schools with fifteen contestants five in each group Kathryn placed third in ical and Ruth placed first in morous receiving one of the three medals presented by County Shutt to the winners The judges were Miss Van Law Irs Rosine and Le Mar n successor to Edward Wright 11 of Marshalltown We are proud of our representatives for heir work -in declamation this Tear STATE TOURNEY TRIP Thursday morning at 9 o'clock the LeGrand girls basketball team met at tht schoolhouse to prepare for eventful journey to Des Marshalltown Hollis Eash C has Lamb of LeGrand and Mr and Mrs Dan Brucklacher of the Dillon community were in our burg Tuesday and called at Reporter headquarters The news item in last week's issue about Mr and Mrs Glenn Smaha who had lived in Charles City failed to state they were moving from that city to Des where they are now located Glenn is still in the em- ploy of the Oliver Manufacturing Company who transferred him to j members questioned Japanese Sing Different Tune Foreign Minister Koki Hirota urged world naval reduction by abolition of all capital warships in a renewed bid last Friday for friendship with the United States As long as we fully understand each Hirota told a mentary budget committee lam confident there will be no trouble between Japan and the United States Capital ships have been defined as those other than aircraft riers of more tons with guns larger than Meanwhile the powerful war minister Gen Gen Sugiyama was forced to apologize to a mentary committee for the con- duct of Lieut Col Masaki Sato a member of the bureau of tary affairs Sato appearing before the school ele tions fell on the first Monday in March and town elections on the last Monday School election comes on Monday a ter the first Tuesday in the month G C Ogier was in the trice and he made the mistake we did In our humble opinion the place for those election no tices should be in the paper ano the school board pay for it No newspaper can live on wind Card of Thanks We wish to express our sincer appreciation to our friends and neighbors for their kindness and expressions of sym pathy at the loss of our belovec husband and Cutler and Family W C T U The W C T U met with Mrs Cora Russell Tuesday afternoon in charge of Mrs Kate Sanders were led by Mrs J W Piper The guest speaker of the afternoon was Howard ders of Marshalltown a former LeGrand boy As this was the Hazard meeting Mr Sanders talked on Alcohol as a Menace to Health Happiness and We arrived there at at the Chamberlain hotel where we had our quarters After disposing oj our luggage we to the Shoppe ing where we had a suitable dinner playing a game We then went back to the hotel to unpack and rest before playing After a brief rest iod we drove to the Drake Field House where we were to meet the Hansell team at 2 o'clock The half ended in favor While coach Van Dorn was giving us a pep talk our pictures were snapped off guard by the Register and une photographer Five seconds the game ended the score was tied 21 all then a Hansell forward dropped in a one-handed shot as the gun sounded making the score Georgia Perry was outstanding for LeGrand with 9 points The next morning we attended a breakfast in honor of all state tournament Kirk wood contenders at hotel Following this we studying the general Security Lunch was served spent our time to our own In the afternoon several of the girls attended a Tea Dance at Drake University In the ing everyone attended the Des Moines law which political by the hostess assisted by Mrs I games at the Field House Saturday morning we shopped and some of the girls visited the shouted shut when com- Sanders Mrs Harry Barber Mrs Historical Building and climbed e Capitol steps We had an Continued on another page party leaders have branded as j and Mrs Dr Mills dictatorial and had i Guests were Mr and Mrs Howard right to appear his Warren Barber and Mrs John i Krughel j
