The Mt. Adams Sun, Bingen, WA., August 15, 1957, page 1
Includes portrait

TROUT LAKE TO HONOR CENTENARIAN C.M. CUTTING SUNDAY, AUGUST 18
Mrs. Merle Johnson

     Trout Lake (special) C.M. Cutting of Trout Lake will be 100 years old next Tuesday, Aug. 20, and friends who have known him for many years say that his appearance has changed very little.
     He is a familiar figure each day on the road between Keith's Sandwich Shop and his home at the George Pearson residence. He attends church regularly, enjoying the sermons and taking part in the singing - for he is still able to carry a tune with the old familiar hymns.
     When the Cuttings first came to Trout Lake in 1910, their home was often the gathering place of friends for an oyster supper and an evening of singing.

PROOF OF BIRTH

     If anyone has the slightest doubt that Mr. Cutting is really 100 years old, statistics on record in Princeton, Mass. were recently verified by the town clerk of that city, as follows: "Cheney Marshall Cutting born in Princeton, Massachusetts, August 20, 1857, to Joseph and Elizabeth Cutting; informant, Mrs. Stephen Cutting: Registar, on Feb. 16, 1858."
     Mr. Cutting's father was a Methodist minister in Worcester, Mass.. He fought in the Civil War on the Union side and died when Mr. Cutting was quite young, but his mother lived to be over 90 and once visited him in Trout Lake.

GOLD HEADED CANE

     Mr. Cutting was married when he was about 21 years old. Between 1890 and 1900 they lived in Lake Forest, Ill. where Mr. Cutting operated a coal, cement and tile business.
     He was quite active there in the Order of the Royal Arcanum; and also the Lake Forest Council, serving as chairman of the committee on roads and bridges for some time.
     When he left Lake Forest, the council presented him with a gold headed cane as "a token of their appreciation", a cane which he still carries and prizes as one of his dearest possessions.
     The Cuttings came west in 1901 and lived on a cattle ranch at Okanogan for about a year; then moved to Seattle where they operated a hotel for several years.

TROUT LAKE

     The Cuttings traded some Seattle property to Dr. Belsheim for the Trout Lake farm in which is still known as the C.M. Cutting corner and farm.
     Their niece, Miss Ada Alford, lived with them and was post mistress at Trout Lake for some time. At her death, Mr. Cutting was deputy postmaster for a while.
     Mrs. Cutting died in 1934 and was buried in the Trout Lake cemetery. Mr. Cutting has made his home with the George Pearson family since 1935.
     He loves to travel and has been in many parts of the U.S. In 1939 he enjoyed a trip to the World Fair at San Francisco. He has a good vocabulary and in earlier days wrote many long editorials to the county papers on politics and social problems. He has also written a number of poems.
     He is a member of the White Salmon Masonic lodge, also an honorary member of the Trout Lake Grange No. 210. And it is the Grange who is sponsoring an open house at the Grange Hall on Sunday afternoon, August 18, in honor of his 100th birthday.
     All friends are invited to come and say "hello" to C.M. Cutting and have a piece of his birthday cake between the hours of 3 and 5 p.m.

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