Le Grand Reporter (Newspaper) - January 24, 1941, Le Grand, Iowa OUR COMMUNITY IS WHAT WE MAKE IT VOL XXXII LE GRAND MARSHALL COUNTY IOWA FRIDAY JANUARY 24 1941 NO 14 DEATH AND BURIAL OF EDWARD H SHARP Well Known Former LeGrand lient Passes Away near Albion Local News and Personals Edward H Sharp younger son of and Rebecca Milligan Sharp was born Dec 4 1869 at Cardington Morrow county Ohio and passed away at his home three miles northeast of Albion at 6 p.m Jan 20 1941 Though in failing health for nearly two years he was bedfast only three days death resulting from high blood pressure and kidney com- At the age of two years he came to Iowa with his parents settling near LeGrand where he attended the public schools and later the Friends Academy Aside from about two years when he lived near Latham Kan his entire life was spent near LeGrand and other parts 01 Marshall county He was united in marriage to Miss Mary Almyra Rice Jan 11 1893 near New Sharon la Three born to this union one son Lawrence B ter Mrs Helen H Latham along with a brother and two sisters preceded him to home Left to mourn his passing are the widow a son W E Sharp of Green Mountain his stepmother Mrs Flora Sharp a stepbrother and stepsister Guy and Gertrude Fin ton of LeGrand eight grand- children and a number of nephews and nieces He was s birthright memo er o active in the affairs of the church and community until his failed The funeral services were held Thursday afternoon at 2 o'clock at die Friends church in charge of Rev Guy W Haivey of Liberty assisted by Rev L E Wines Burial was in Friends cemetery Pallbearers were Herbert Stover 0 W Johnson Melvin Stover C E Hoover Win E Hoove and Clifford Moler The flower were in charge of Berth Devig Mrs Bert Lane Mrs Don aid Fisher Mrs Herbert Stover Mrs Earl Bai d and C Hoover A quartet composed of Mr anc Mrs Roy Gi imes Mrs L E John son ana Glenn E Mills with Mrs L E Wines as accompanist furnished the music Ernest Beane of Des Moines spent Saturday night at the home of his parents in LeGrand Mr and Mrs Willis Miller of Marshalltown were LeGrand callers last Thursday evening Mr and Mrs Jesse Tow left for Merced Calif on Thursday ol last week to spend the balance of the winter Mrs Ida Kempkes of visited here a couple of days last at the home of cousin Mrs John Haynes Mr and Mrs W M Gaunt were guests Tuesday evening at dinner at the home of Mr and Mrs L K Dunham in Montour Mr and Mrs C B Adair were Sunday guests at the home of their son-in-law and daughter Mr and Mrs in Mr and Mrs Donavon Hines By John fi Stouer Tis hard to think with snow about That summer's warmth will come That where are now bare limbs of trees The seeking bees will hum How lifeless is the ice-locked world For winter now is The skies are gray and rising winds Foretell a storm is near Today I saw a man walk past In winter garb Fur cap fur mittens coat of Fur boots upon his feet Also today a whisper came From my small tulip bed Don't worry 1 We are safe down We wait but are not dead of East are parents of a daughte born at day night Jan 16 at the coness hospital in Marshalltown The Missionary Society of the Christian church has postponed their meeting from Jan 24th to Friday Jan It will be held at the home of Mrs Rebecca Graham Charles O'Neal returned from Illinois Monday He left day morning for being ailed there to work on the er Gazette while one of their is ill Sac City Letter Sac City Iowa Jan 14 1941 Mr Corwin O'Neal Dear old Enclosed find our for to pay two subscriptions for the for Re- porter for paper you another year J M Hockett E The Reporter job department ast week turned out the annual report of the Evangelical church jit This piece of job printing we have executed for the last six or eight years in succession and those letting the work expressed themselves as well satisfied with the quality of the work Victor A Beane of Nampa Ida came last Thursday for a brief visit at the his brother Charles Beane He was on his way home from Detroit where he had purchased a new car Chas Beane accompanied him Friday as far as Mason City where they visited until Sunday at the home of a sister ana myself started about 32 years ago when we organized the LeGrand Publishing Co If my memory serves me correctly I had the honor or pleasure of suggesting the name LeGrand Reporter We all remember the paper owned and edited by Dr Charles Reiterman many years ago was called the LeGrand and I think you gained your first LeGrand Friends Church Leonard E Wines Pastor A FRIENDLY CHURCH WITH A FRIENDLY WELCOME Sunday Morning Services Sunday School at 10 a m 0 W Johnson Supt Morning Worship at 11 Sunday Evening Services Christian Endeavor at Bible Message at Bible Hour Monday evening Cottage Prayer Mtg Thursday Choir practice Wednesday ing at the Parsonage Christian Church Sarah HI Piper Minister 10 a m Church School 11 a m Preaching Service A welcome to all here Quarry Chapel a residence on the corner di north at the old M E church in LeGrand now by Mrs John Rasmus bought re cently by Van Rob Whit and family occupied this in when White and Flin operated a hardware grocery and post office in the room now pied by the Holland store It seems strange that many of us can remember things that many years ago much better than those that happened only a few years ago I guess it is be- cause we are living in a faster age and have been going at a much faster gait as the old ing Time waits for no Rev L T Hibbs Pastor 10 a m 11 a m Sunday School Services p m Evening Services Wednesday evening prayer meeting Strand Lutheran Dunbar Rev E A Bersagel Pastor CREAM OF THE NEWS FROM THERE Sidney Drake boy of Exline is seriously ill the effect of swallowing some coins Preston Howell of Fairfield and Tommy Howell of Lockridge caught a badger last week New Sharon school students had a few days vacation recently when the school heating plant broke down Seven head of cattle belonging to Joe G Gingerich and son of Kalona died last week the result of eating some paint which had been left uncovered The Decorah city council is ing its bit to rid the town of rats They recently purchased cubes oj rat poison which are be- ing placed at strategic places When the hitch between a car and a tractor came loose the tractor started coasting too fast and turned over twice C S Fisher of Jolley the driver was injured The first couple to obtain a cense to marry in Clayton county in 1941 Robert Olson and Bessie Corcoran of Madison Wis paid Wedding Miss Doris May Hempy ter of tht late C R Hempy oj Montour and Walter Eugene Hoover son oi Mr and Mrs ter Hoover 01 near LeGrand were married Saturday Jan 11 at 8 p m in a ceremony at the Friends parsonage in LeGrano Rev Leonard Wines pastor oj the church read the single ring ceremony in the presence of tht immediate families Preceding the service Mrs Wines sang 1 Love You Truly The bride's cousin Miss thy Judge of Gar win attended her and best man was Neil er brother oi the bridegroom The bride was attired in a dress of powder blue silk crepe with a corsage of red and white roses and Miss Judge wore a rose crepe dress with yellow roses Mrs Hoover was graduated from the Montour high school in 1934 and has been recently em- ployed at St Thomas Mercy pital Mr Hoover was graduated in 1933 from the LeGrand high school and is employed by the Marshall Implement company The couple will live at the home ol the parents near Community Club Meeting Despite the handicap of icy roads a fair audience assembled at the high school Wednesday ning oJ last week and enjoyed a really fine program The business session consisted of reading of the minutes of last meeting a song God Bless invocation by Rev Wines a vocal selection by a trio composed of Mrs Wines Miss Outland and Miss Sweet The preliminaries over Mrs L C Davis ot Tama was introduced who showed some splendid tures on Soil gether with a running talk on the topic As a sequel to that the Tama county Farm Bureau Agent Mr Burns By ram took charge and showed a movie film on Seed and Its Dispersal The pictures were well presented and proved quite interesting The novelty of the program was what appealed to everybody as well as its tional value The program Rev and Mrs Wines Mr and Mrs T I Thompson Mr and Mrs Clyle Turbett Mr and Mrs John experience Jin rolling out the old Record on a press patented manufactured and sold by Thomas Early Mann the old time editor of the Northern at Gladbrook Mr Mann's Jingle poetry in your last issue was good and appropriate for a man of 85 No doubt Mr and Mrs Mann knew our father and mother when were young people of the LeGrand vicinity way back in 1870 to 1880 Our mother Mrs W K Arnold is a little older than Mr Mann as she will be 87 years old in March You and can remember when Mr Mann Morning worship at 11 with on a eft LeGrand and when we get occasionally we do not meet many people we know as many oj our old friends and customers have passed on to the great be- yond ana the little tots that came to our store with their parents are now married men and women with families of their own I think Corwin you should be patted on the back for staying by old LeGrand and by the same old grind of getting out the paper for so many years With best wishes and best re- gards I am Yours truly A W Arnold LeGrand High School Reporter for the license with nickels saved Sunday school at 10 for the occasion Dow City residents were en- when a team of horses ran away The horses were not stopped until they became en- tangled in the clothes line at the A C Rigsby home Mrs Joe DeFord of Fairbanks Alaska dressed in coat with parka hood and fur moccasins arrived in Rockwell City last week to see what she could do about establishing her birthplace On February 22 1939 before was imposed on mail leaving Germany Mrs Albert Grossman's Elkader brother mailed a letter to her However it did not arrive until January 6 1941 A small pebble kicked up by the wheels ot a train going through Red Oak was the cause 01 partial loss oi Laurel Eggers sight in cue eye The pebble is able to be home from the pital and hope she will be us again soon 1st 2nd GRADES Second grade is working of community life and is First grade has been working on a home unit We have learned about the kinds of houses ent live in We drew tures and wrote stones about homes and families our Probate Notice In the District Court of the State of Iowa in and for Marshall In the matter of the estate of Ellen Vinje deceased In probate notice of appointment of Administrator with the will annexed To Whom It May Krughel Mr and Mrs Harry Kaisand At the close of the program tempting i ef were served by the following Mr and Mrs John Knudson Mr and Mrs Clyde Hoover Mr and Mrs Earl Jacobsen Mr and Mrs Harry Gibson Mr and Mrs Clarence Hartwell Mr and Mrs John Rhodes Sr Mr and Mrs Bernard Russell HIGH SCHOOL NEWS The high school listened to the inauguration ceremonies for ident Roosevelt and vice president Henry Wallace on Monday The one-act play to be entered in the Play Festival at Iowa City in March has been selected The Blue Teapot has been cast and rehearsals will be held regularly There are four in the cast The music in the grades has been progressing quite favorably In the upper grades we have been studying music theory rhythmic expression and Menu Jan Mon Vegetable Tues Cocoa Wed Vegetable beef stew Thurs Scalloped potatoes Fri Italian noodles BASKETBALL In the games played at Gilman Friday night we lost one and won one Score for girls For State Center boys and girls teams will play here on Tuesday Jan 28 7th Some excellent book reports have been handed in Our plants are resplendent in gold covers trimmed in red and to us by Mrs Paul of man Two of them are water colors and the third is an oil painting of Chief Young ast of the chieftains of Tama The paintings were hung in the Art Salon at Des Moines Much interest was shown in the inaugural activities Monday and we appreciate the ity to listen to the events over the radio We wrote our reaction to the inauguration and enjoyed discussing the importance of a democracy like ours We are blue bands 1 We are enjoying three pictures proud of America and hope to be leaders in retaining the racy 6th GRADES Six books have been added to our library Subtraction of fractions is the work of fifth arithmetic Sixth science class is the new unit on fire interesting We listened to the inauguration of Pres Roosevelt Monday a m The boys are enjoying ball under the coaching of Mr Den Ouden They go to tour to play Wednesday night 3rd and 4th GRADES We read a story in our weekly readers about the President's in- auguration The fourth grade history class has been studying about the ple who lived in caves We are glad that Mildred Reed Notice is hereby given that the undersigned has been appointed and has qualified as tor with the will annexed of the estate of Ellen Vin je late of shall county Iowa deceased All persons in any manner indebted to said deceased or her estate will make payment to the undersigned and those having claims against said deceased or her estate will present them in manner and form as by law required for ance and payment Dated this day of January 1941 B L WICK Administrator with the wil annexed of said estate Rockhill Holmes Attorneys for Examination The regular January teachers examination will be held in the office of the county superintendent in Marshalltown Iowa on January 29 30 and 31 1941 beginning at S oclock a m R C Ringold County Superintendent Let's Try Something Else Rain began falling again to remain right ways it was as day night and freezing as it fell repeated the performance of last week when denizens of this sphere were pestered side up Some bad as before because the ice was firmer and more treacherous Frankly we don't enjoy present conditions A light skill of snow relieved things a little but not so that anyone could notice it broke his glasses and pieces he glass entered his eyeball Baer of Cresco caught a number 01 turtles last summer ana kept them frozen until this winter Recently Mr and Mrs Baer entertained a group of their friends at a dinner using turtle meat as a feature oi the menu An alumnus of Cornell college at Mount Vernon la visiting his Aima Mater got a big kick out oi a Christmas dance in tha college gym It was the same activity that almost caused him to be kicked out when he attended the college back in 1917 Horse thieves will not be safe for another year in Strawberry Point The Point Horse Thief Detective Association last week re-elected all ers ano decided to continue their for another year Last year they decided to include theft oi automobiles or their con- tents as pa t ui their tions Twelve years ago Lloyd en ana John Murphy oi Grinnell became concerned over the ishing number 01 hairs on their heads Each thought the other would become bald first and to prove his point bet that after 12 years he would have more hairs on his head than the other Now that time has passed they are still unable to fully settle the question and are submitting the problem for popular judgment of the people 01 Grinnell
