Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1906-08-23
GEORGE LENTNER
PASSES SO. YEARS
IN GOOD HEALTH AND LOOKS
FORWARD TO THE CENTURY !.
MARK A YEAR HENCE
Blessed With Good Memory and Fair
Sight and Hearing-TelIs of the War
OF ta12-Remember Details of the
gagements-Visits Lewistown.

sight and Hearing-lei els OF the war
OF ta12-Remembers Details of the :
Engagements-visits Lewistown. !
Highland Center. Aug. 22.-(SpeciaD
Take your dusty volumes of history
from their shelves, turn to the nara.
tive of the thrilling incidents OF the
war of 1912, follow your country
through it's various vicissitudes to the
present time, and you will be in posi-
ton to realize something of the things
that George M. Lentner knows. Mr..
| Lentner, at his humble little home in
Highland Center, is today quietly cele-
brating the ninety-ninth anniversary of
his birth and several of his descend
ants are here to do appropriate honor
to the event. Ninety-nine years have
rolled their cycles by since the birth
of George M. Lentner Nations have
been created and wrecked. Men whose
names are emblazoned on the pages OF
history have sprung into prominence,
shone while, and disappeared in the
obscurity of forgetfulness or death.
Much can transpire in ninety-nine
years and a man who lives to see It'll
all, be part of it all, to know it all
and remember 1t all, is more than for
tunate. When one talks to Mr.. Lent
ner, hears him tell Of the scenes hea
witnessed wher. boy, time loses Dsl
majesty, and the listener lives, for the
moment, in the dim past, for he is in
the presence of the past
George NJ Lentner was born in
Lewistown, Del, August o. 1907. In
> the family Bible, now in the posses
sion Of members of the family living
t at Bolen's Mills. Ohio, the date is CIV
Ell as 1906, but in the Lentner home
e in Highland there is Bible in which
y the date is recorded as 1907 and Mr.
:. Lentner declares this is correct. The
n discrepancy Is explained by the fact
that the family, always devout Pres
S byterians, used the old style of record
It ing the years, "the year of accept
a ance"
Time has been kind TO George M.
: Lentner and there is good reason to
y believe that one year from today he
will still be alive and happy. and able
k to celebrate with his children's chill
dren the one hundredth anniversary of
j. his birth Happy? There is no haas
y pier man in Iowa than he. His kind
~ old eyes have lost their keenness, his
;, ears are dulled to the softer sounds
III his limbs are not as sturdy as they
were in years gone by but his brain
,g is as active, his memory as true, his
or interest in men and affairs as great as
er when, in the prime of life he came
west, ito grow up with the country,
Of and to make home for himself ant
t. for his family in the wilds of the new
Iowa.
~ A Race Of Warriors.
George NJ Lentner Is sprung from {
- race of warriors. His grandfather
ay Conrad Lentner many years ago, came
to America with La Fayette. He livet
near the Franco-German boundar.
with his young wife and when the mar
quis made his appeal, In the name o
liberty and right. Conrad Lentner wa
ae among those who followed him t
Is Is, America to fight the British. He &C
~ quilted himself honorably in the strue
gle and died at ripe old age in tn
I'd country he had helped to save. HI
rs son, Jacob, married and made his HON
about mile from Lewistown, Del
T and it was there that George NJ Len
]. ner was born. Jacob Lentner was
sra warrior like his father When the ca
..f to arms came for the war of:1812 he I!
sponded, and he Served through tn
MP conflict as an officer in the. America
NJ forces. His son, mere slip Of bo
low was the pet Of the regiment, and h
had no prouder moments than whe
ms his father allowed him to visit tn
camp at LeWistown and march fro
are one camp fire to another, beating h
III little drum and listening to the cheer
olo and praise Of the soldiers.
" The War Of 1912.
on 1t is those early days that Mr.. Len
ne ner likes most to talk, and few da,
'h ago he told a representative of tt
- Courier about the British attack upc
IN Lewistown in 1914, just before Il
ter close of the war. Il was at our HON
just outside Of town." he said, "and v
lay could hear the bombardment from Il
an ships in the bay all day. The Britt:
ing were not good shots, though, and Il
wy engagement could hardly be called
-, battle. Our men killed fourteen of Il
ono enemy and sustained no loss. The DE
nal pie made fun of the British and
Nc most before they had left the harb
,wn men, women and children were sir
r OF ing little doggerel that some one HI
composed:
yrs ". THE commodore and all his men
ine Crippled COW and killed hem
,The The commodore and all his crew
ify- Cut IN old dead dog in two"
lsed When he was years old Mr. Lei
The ner's parents removed to Ohio TIL
Mr.: settled in Athens county, near S
.iful Element that surrounded grist m
lo on owned by man named Bolen. I'll
), 'a ~ little cross roads community has sin
or,. -. grown into town and Is called Bolel
The Mills Here Mr.. Lentner grew
an young manhood. In 1929 he <marri
ler- Miss Sarah Ann McGonagle who liv
ICES, only about one year thereafter lie;
re- ing daughter. In 1881 Mr. Lentr
,om- Voc .o,in marriad his sacond ",