Le Grand Pignig Held at Whittier Picnic Meeting
The seventeenth annual LeGrand Pignig reunion and picnic occurred in Central Park Whittier on May 20 with many southern California members participating. The gathering featured a First M E church social room program with Swiss Yodelers entertainment and readings including Joe Plimmer’s autobio from Mrs Wilma LeLand.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
LeGrand
Corwin O'Neal
Central Park
Whittier
California
M. E
Mary Burk
Scott Keen
Edwin McGrew
Rob White
Frank Hammond
Fremont
Neb
John R. White
Switzerland
Joe:Plimmer
Wilma Leland
Minneapolis
Pasadena
Germany
Atlantic
J. W. Plommer
Reporter family buys Westinghouse refrigerator
The Reporter family announces their purchase of a Westinghouse refrigerator and urges subscribers to renew ahead one year to help cover the bill. They hint at enjoying cold drinks this summer and remind readers to watch mailed notices.
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Westinghouse
Appreciation for kindness after accident and hospital stay
Hartman Coffin expresses heartfelt thanks for calls, deeds, sympathy and flowers received while recovering from a recent accident in the hospital.
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Hartman Coffin
Local Guests and Visits Span Tama Area Social
Local residents and relatives visitings span Tama and nearby towns. Notables include Mr and Mrs Chris Emery hosting at Glen Stafford home and Ellery Kyle visiting Miss Edith Gaunt in LeGrand. Frances and church group plans meet June 18 with Elizabeth Hoover.
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Chris Emery
Tama
Glen Stafford
Norman Finton
Bruce Baumgardner
Clear Lake
Friends Missionary Union
Elizabeth Hoover
Ellery Kyle
Fairfield
Edith Gaunt
LeGrand
Fred Phipps
Baxter
Dick Butler
Dream of an English Landscape From a Haystack
A childhood recollection on a farm recalls haystacks as gateways to distant realms. The speaker envisions an English landscape with a crumbling monastery wall a slate roofed cottage and a feudal castle as a silver bugle call echoes from the castle gate. Albert Lindley Beane LeGrand fa.
Community Movies Open Summer Series in LeGrand
Opening night in LeGrand drew about 125 attendees for the summer film series hosted by local firms. Manager J D Peck organized the events with delays from neighboring towns. Friday night weather dimmed spirits but patrons enjoyed the program and look forward to a successful season.
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LeGrand
Caliderstegt
Tommy Naig
Peck
Tama Explosion Kills Three Injured Score Aftermath
The Tama gas tank explosion last Saturday noon killed three and injured many, drawing crowds to Tama over the weekend. Clifford Hill, a Tama High School graduate and nephew of Rebecca Graham, is paralyzed from the hips and in a plaster cast after being injured in the Gamble store blast. A bakery and a dry cleaning establishment were wrecked. A daughter, June Rose, was born to Mr. and Mrs. Sherman Christofferson on June 3.
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John Rylander
Grand Lodge
A.F
A. M
Davenport
C. M. van de Venter
Vincent
George Duffus
Montezuma
Lewis Schoales
Leta Duffus
van de Venter
Gilman
Oden Erickson
Sturgis
S. D
Fred Phipps
Colfax
Ronald Ades
Wilton Junction
Erickson
Oden Gunderson
Dunbar
Tama
Rebecca Graham
Clifford Hill
Grace Ray
Tama High School
Gamble
LeGrand Students Honored In State Teachers College Sheet
The LeGrand contingent receives honorable mention at the annual athletic assembly. Kenneth Perry and Norman Manship key figures in varsity baseball and basketball, with Smaha and Sanders earning numeral awards. Girls Ruth Adair Maxine Hoover Audrey Hall praised for their academic and athletic efforts.
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State Teachers College
Cedar Falls
LeGrand
Kenneth Perry
Norman Manship
Glenn Smaha
Stephen Sanders
Smaha
Sanders
Ruth Adair
Maxine Hoover
Audrey Hall
Sermon at Friends Church Explores The Changed Life
A Friends minister Cassie Commons delivers a message at the 10 Bible School and Christian Endeavor gathering with the topic The Changed Life. The sermon notes praise varied beauty in heaven mirroring diverse earthly splendor and the idea that God desires varied worship.
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O. W.john, Son
Cassie Commons
Christian Endeavor
Christian Church Morning Services and Sunday School
The Christian Church announces morning worship on the first and third Sundays at 10 a.m. Church School is led by Superintendent Mary Higinbotham. There is no evening service. A welcome is extended to all.
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Mary Higinbotham
Reunion visitors Elam and Riley Hadley greet old friends
Elam and Riley Hadley both former Friends Academy students from Washington, D C and Grinnell visited LeGrand last Thursday to reconnect with classmates including Albert Beane for a forty five year graduation anniversary. The rainy season boosted the local strawberry crop and shortcake demand remains high. Wilma Gaunt returned from Cedar Rapids after two years at Coe College and will teach music next year in Conroy. Charles Specht Jr. came home from Centerville Junior College after a year, earning praise for basketball and baseball and strong literary work.
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Elam
Riley Hadley
Washington, D. C
Grinnell
Friends Academy
LeGrand
Albert Beane
Wilma Gaunt
Cedar Rapids
Coe College
Conroy
Wilma
Charles Specht, Jr
Centerville Junior College
Nantucket Island A Storied Atlantic Outpost And World Link
Nantucket, thirty miles from the mainland, boasts Sankaty lighthouse as a famed landmark. The island’s history covers whaling wealth, Quaker ancestry, and notable natives like Maria Mitchell and Lydia Pinkham. Summer visitors rise to two to eight thousand, amid a climate said to aid malaria and hayfever.
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Nantucket
Atlantic Ocean
Boston
Sankaty
Europe
America
Antarctic
North Pole
New England
George Fox
Starbucks
Coffins
Macys
Tristams
Husseys
Mitchells
Gardners
Pickhams
West
Lucretia Moit
Coffin
Maria Mitchell
Lydia Pinkham
Walter Folger
Benjamin Franklin
Folger
Franklin
Gosnold
Lief Ericson
New World
Cabot
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Calif
Ethel Rhodes
Luther
Wiletta Hilsabeck
Albion
W. W. Arney
Clyle Turbitt
Omar Seim
Lamoille
Gilbert Swenson
Iver Wick
Henrietta
Sioux City
Melvin Rasmus
Billa Smith
Retta McCord
Marshalltown
Ainsworth
J. M. Gaunt
Juanita Cary
Art Cary
Tressie Pheaster
Sigourney
Ray Duncan
Rosa Beechout
Iowa City
Harold Duncan
General Hospital
Ralph Strand
Jesup
Albert Lindley Beane, LeGrand
Sherman Christofferson
June Rose
Horace Carter
Ruth Piper
A. A. Piper
Los Angeles
Russell Rubenbauer
Friends Church
Taylor Guthrie
Christ
Saint Paul
Earth
St. John
Heavenly City
Christian Church
Sarah Jr. Piper
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