Sumner Gazette (Newspaper) - September 7, 1922, Sumner, Iowa Sumner 3 1 SUMMER GAZETTE 6th VOLUME BEEMER SEPTEMBER WEEK NUMBER L CLOSED SUNDAY SUMNER WINS FINAL GAME FROM TRIPOLI WHILE OTHER TEAMS PLAY RAGGED GAMES FINAL STANDING W L BUMNER 13 a 313 10 6 10 t 626 7 il 438 Denver 3 11 313 Tripoli a 13 1ST SUNDAYS RESULTS Sumner 13 Tripoli Waverly 8 Denver 13 The curtain was rung down on the Breiner County League when three ragged games were played to finish the Sundays were those that had been postponed a previous rainy and inasmuch as hinged on the re no serious effort was made by any of the clubs Sumner closed the season at Tri poli by a 13 to G win over the Schwerin was in the box for and aside from u wild a good was on the mound for Tripoli and was nicked reely for base The game was marked by a num ber of errors Sumner doing its best to kick away the game and tho working equally as hard to lose The season just closed in the Brem er County League has been a suc one for practically Every team was composed of home and some of the games were of a sort that are seldom seen when semiprofessionals are mixed up in It has done to develop a spirit of sportsmanship in the small er towns and it has offered the op for boys to participate In clean sport who have been denied It What will be done another remains to be but it is safe to say that the experiment this year has been successful that another at tempt will be Ulg Celebration was hostess to a large of people last Thursday the American Legion of that place held a Field and Gala Tho ceremonies started in the fore noon with a ball game between West Union and the former be ing the winner by an 8 to 0 Following the noon hour the beau tiul pageant was presented by some of the people of In mid with appropriate songs and music this part of the pro gram proved to be very interesting as well as Following this tho ball game be tween Sunnier and the winners of tho forenoon game took place and West Union was again victor by a 1 to U These two win ners of the pennant in their respect ive are apparently evenly matched and the ganve was one of the beat witnessed on the Westgate diamond for Following the ball game the street sports provided amusement for the crowds and in thu evening free mov ing pictures and a dance wound up the days Tho Westgate Legion worked hard and faithfully to make the day a success and it is to be hoped that it brought financial profit to this siplen did Auxiliary to Meet A meeting of the American Legion Auxiliary will be held in the Legion tall on Monday September This is a regular meeting and all members are urged to be More Torrid Weather September has not brought an end ito summer tho last few days being numbered among the hot test of the year with the mercury climbing high and the discomfort from the heat But ma uncomfortable las it has been for die weather is mat uring the corn in great shape and there is little of it left that is not in to withstand a Silo cutting started in some the first of the week and that will be the big occupation for the next few Iowa and especially this will produce one of ibig crops of corn thia Services to bo Hold Sunday The local Lutheran Pauls will celebrate Its annual mission festival next Sunday Tho service will be conducted by Bert rani of In the afternoon Maas of will preach in the German and of Spring Fountain in the English The todies of the congre gation will serve noon luncheon to Jill guests The hour of wor ship is 10 to Ev erybody is invited to attend these Frederick null Sumner Clash and Sumner ball the Burg Freder was the in the County and is much rivalry between the two On Sunday they will clash again on the Sunnier diamond and no mutter what the outcome of yesterdays game the battle will be a hotly contested Looted The garage of Hewitt and eons at Westgate was broken into last Wednesday night and cash and re 16 the amount of several hund red dollars wore Tho window leading into the office was ready access for the The perpetrators of the deed not A Carload of Dairy Cattle has been at the twin cities the past few days and in addition to attending the Minnesota State he brought back with him a carload of dairy cattle purchased in the market there for the Oak Stock Farm north of Church Notes A meeting will be belt Friday September 8th at the church Member sroin all three points are re Quested to be Services at of pre siding Special Ladies will serve lunch at the church basement Friday evening beginning at Here From Minnesota Breiner and William South have been visiting for the past two weeks with relatives and friends in Sumner auc This is Mr Bremers first visit here in ten years and of course it iis a pleasant This was formerly located in some years ago moved to Minnesota where they have prospered finely ant are apparently well contented though they do like to come back to the old town Prize Winners nt Fair The Gazette has waited or an an of the prize winners at the Breiner County Fair to appear in the county seat there has been no announcement of then through these A be ing prepared now and will appeal next and people who won e at the fair will confer a favor upon the by notifying the D R D Married In Seattle one of SumnerS well known business men Miss Gertrude were married on Thursday August according to an received here yesterday The Gazette will publish a complete announcement of the marriage in the next issue Picnic Chapter with their families held u picnic the city park in honor of and Nelson Mc Picnic tables were bounteous ly spread and the evening was very pleasantly is ti former member of the local mid in a manner thanked tho ladies of the organization for their splendid tribute to them in the shape of the HOW THE rOWS WED TO ABOUr VOUR 60LDQN NOW IS THERE A WINDOW OPEN I FEEL ON OF MV HEAP IS IN L PICNIC DISTRICT GATHERING WAS HELD MOMMY AT DENVER WITH A VERY GOOD GATHERING The second annual picnic of the and Dairymen of Dist rict 8 was held at Denver on September Labor Day offered an opportunity for many to and Denver greeted a very large crowd on the and dairymen and those interested in this industry ered from all parts of the district for the of horseshoe and the af fair was no tonly interesting but it beneficial for all who The ball game in the afternoon be tween Denver and Readlyn was one of the interesting of the pro It cannot be too often said that the Dairy Industry has been the backbone of this section in recent and such gatherings as was the Monday one help the cause and add to the prosperity of the patrons served by these good Many of the creameries from Sumner weee represented as was our own splendid institution within the city And from the of the crowd at Denver Monday they all enjoying glad that they were Labor Day Labor Day does not come in for in rural commun The only business place to town to observe tho holiday was tho Font and the rural mall car flora were a days Sumner Drops a Fast Game Breiner County League pennant and West Fayette County League win played a 1 to 0 game at West last Thursday with West Union scoring the lone run of the Carroll pitched for Sunnier and uell was on the mound for West Un ion and both men were in first class Sumner was allowed but one Olds getting a two bagger in the ninth West Union was fortunate in securing three or four safe The game was featured by fast fieding and the good pitch ing of both and it is to be hoped that these teams may be brought to gether again Honor McCooks Mr and Mrs Elmer enter a small party at their home Saturday evening at a dinner as a courtesy to and Nel son Employees of tho First National with their were tho and the occasion was a very pleasant one Club Enjoys The Ladies of tho Sunnier Culture with their enjoyed a delightful moonlight at the city park Tuesday evening of this was the usual loaded picnic and with these good people congregated the evening was u moat pleasant Attend Stale Fall and James left Saturday morning for for a visit there with From thero they expected to go to Paul to attend the Minnesota State Fair which is now in has been a faithful stayat homo this year and this outing will be a pleasant one for both lie and the good Public Schools Opened Monday Sumner Public Schools opened on Monday with the usual large enroll But few new faces appear in the teaching corps which is compos ed as follows High Arben EHa Hatch Olive James Beth Olive Neva Nellie Ama Maud Grace Flossie Amanda Are Doing Some Great Work Sumner is due to have good road outlet both east and Fayette county is doing a very fine piece of road work on the road straight east from Sumner for about aij miles thence a mile north and then into The road is being brought up to a wide and will be well drained with a deep ditch at each side of It is understood hat next year gravel will be applied and com ing as it does right to the city lim we will have nothing further to complain of at our eastern outlet the work on Primary 93 is progressing A fill is be ing made on Main Street within the city limits and a couple of miles stretch beyond town has been com The work on the road straightening project near Plum Creek has as is also the case on the road turning southward into Some massive new bridges are being placed across the north of Once this road is graded and grav it will be one of the best in the The engineers In are making their headquarters in Sum are a fine crowd of young men and apparently very capable and alive to heir EM Jf ES PICNIC WAS LABOR IN THK DELIGHTFUL GROVE NEAR The postal employees of Chickasaw and Floyd coun mindful or the fact that it was a holiday for held their annual picnic at a grove near last with au attendance approx close to three Sumner was well represented there with every mail carrier and his fam ily also the assistant at the Sumner Post At noon a really bounteous picnic dinner was spread under the trees and everybody ate their Follow ing dinner came the group and the program consisting of readings and addresses was by no means a small of the Every number on the program was interesting and entertaining and as a result of some of the things it may be depended upon that already good mail service will be A ball game between the postal employees of and resulted in a 10 to 9 score with lots of fun and excite In the evening a concert was given in Plainfield by the band and the businessmen of that city put on a picture show for the Telephone Meeting A meeting was held Saturday af at the city hall for the pur pose of discussing the telephone sit at the various points touched by the Hurmence Telephone Who was responsible for the call for the meeting is not but there were representatives present fiom practically every Talk was rife of a new line or the purchase of the Hurmence interests a reduction in or the discon of phone To Dows to Teach Miss daughter tat and left last week for where she has been engaged as a teacher In the Public Schools at that place tMa Miss Linn graduated last June from Upper Iowa Will Teach In Pittsburgh Miss Mildred Dawson daughter of and Henry depart ed last night for Pittsburgh where she will teach For the past two years Miss Dawson haa been in the Cedar Falls schools find she is coming rapidly to the front as a successful Her mother will accompany her as far caa Chicago where she will visit Carpenter Bereaved John O lad of passed at his home in Arlington on August land funeral services were lield the following was the father of Carpenter of this city and la well known to a great many Sumner pie having visited at the home of his daughter many times in the Cur neuter has tho sincere sym pathy o all lu her Sketch of the Life of the Late Engel Hawkeye funeral of Peter aged Hawkeye resident who took his own life a week ago occurred at the Fred Eh lert home Friday Wesenberger The bio graphical sketch of Engels life follows Peter Eugel was born August at Mecklenburg He was married to Maria Fink on Two children were born to Fred and Louisa The family came to America in and proceeded to Hawkeye were they took up Mr En gel following this for twenty when the family moved to Hawkeye to Upon the of their Mrs Louisa the grand parents adopted her Dor othy Engel died on and the husband never re covered from the grief of the This and the approach of old age combined to weaken his reason to the extent that he committed suicide by banging himself from the at the home of his granddaughter Fred He was SI years mid three days of age at the time of his Eugel is survived by his Fred of his Fred Ehlert ana two sisters Mary Steuer of Hawkeye and Louisa Warnke of Cases With Bad Smell A bunch of unsavory cases came up the past George Gray of Maynard is In the hospital at Oelwein while Henry Fox of the same town is out on ball after being arrested for assault with intent to commit great bodily who is a mechanic working away from returned to Maynard un expectedly Thursday evening jand found Gray In his whereupon he is said to have turned in and beat en him up in the most complete Grays head and face are a mass of bruises while he Is said to have three libs When Sheriff Wright was summoned to Maynard very ear ly Friday morning he brought back with him both and also brought along as evidence if needed some bed clothing which is literally stained with Fox was re leased no charge being lodg ed against but the sheriff made a trip to Charles City yesterday to serve upon her the notice that her husband has begun for She is in her mothers home at Charles Gray is about forty six years of Fox about ten years and Fox perhaps about She has a son aged by a former Earl Beckner of Oelwein and Severt Juvick whose home is here but who has been working near that were arrested in Oelwein on serious charge on information filed by County Attorney involving a Dover township young Tlie offense is claimed to have been com mitted in a tent at the fair The young woman about thirty years o is mentally and since this occurrence has been taken to the county Beckner and Juvick were brought here from wein yesterday afternoon after hav ing had a hearing before Judge Jay Cook and being bound over in the hums of and respect Beckner is a middle aged man with a wife and a large family of A bunch of men and women who were doing improper dancing at fair ground floor Friday night ware scattered by the and next day Mayor Morrison imposed a fine of and Five armed guards employed around the railroad shops were in a booze party that was stopped Saturday night in a room in Oelwein by County At torney Cooney and the marshal of that They paid fines of each before Judge and were dis charged by the Union Game tobe Played Over A meeting of the board of directors of the Bremer County League was held Tuesday at Tripoli for the pur pose of hearing the evidence in the mutter of the recont lyn game which was forfeited to the county seaters by a 1 to I score and then lator was by By a vote of the board it was decided that tho game must be over within the near future and that the Waverly scores of this forfeited gamo would not count on tho Lindblom cup This leaves and Sunnier tied for high score in tho with or ahead the of scores they make over or under nine in their coming contest with Unsolicited Praise for Power Company Elgin 24 With all the talk about public utilities shutting down for lack of coal we have not heard one whimper from the Northeastern Iowa Light Power This company may have had its trou bles In securing coal but they have also made provisions for the coalless and a great deal of the juice that runs over their lines is now by water During all the time of coal shortage the company has kept right on furnishing their light power and heating service to the patrons in the various towns where they serve the The Northeastern Iowa Light Power was in the fore rank to secure ater and their service attests to their There may come a time when the water fails them and they cannot get sufficient but they have been doing for some time what other big concerns are now securing water power to generate electricity for use for power and During the trying times of the past months the Mil lers have kept their service up to nor mal at all and we consider this fact worthy of Was At Denver and were at Denver Monday to mingle with the district who in session Charley is on speaking terms with more butter tankers than any other man in this and he is continually on the lookout or the best interests of dairy A gathering such as the Denver without would have been more or loss of a plans to repeat his per of last year when he in in a number of tho creamery from this and Sumner will probably have the opportunity of seeing u large number of these fel lows some time next
