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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 04, 1934
Page
9
The building department reports $828 277 in permits for March, the strongest month in five years. Five new dwellings started valued at $36 600, plus $78 018 in school work, drive the total near records. Electrical permits numbered 109, plumbing 48, and 61 miscellaneous permits issued. department receipts totaled $510 50.
State director S W Edgecombe reports Prof L. Lantz will arrive in Linn County on April 20 to aid the subsistence garden program. He is loaned by Iowa State College Extension Service to the state emergency relief committee and a meeting is to be held with representatives from various organizations to discuss garden problems.
A mixed puzzle page lists a Christmas carol themed word search with numerous clues across horizontal and vertical entries. The piece notes an upcoming discussion inviting diverse organizations and officials including the board of supervisors, emergency relief, garden clubs, city councils, churches, women’s clubs, civic groups, labor councils, Parent-Teacher associations, Red Cross, and school authorities to participate.
Acting city chemist A. R. Menary told the city council that the March average British thermal unit content of the new natural gas was 1 04387 per cubic foot Consumers' bills depend on therms used, calculated from the cable feet burned and the gas's average content.
A. R. Menary reports all milk distributed in Cedar Rapids during March met city standards for butter fat and bacterial counts. Tests show cream at 16 percent butter fat minimum and official plate counts under 50 000 per cubic centimeter, with many entries labeled very low bacterial counts for various dairies and products.
The board accepted Mayor W J Neill's resignation from the board of education on Monday night. Neill, who became mayor at noon that day, cites possible incompatibility between city council and school offices. He served eleven years and thanked colleagues. The resignation is dated March 31 with no action taken on a successor.
Letters discuss neglect of self in marriage, seeking affection, and wartime experiences. Readers share stories of difficult relationships, urging self-improvement, patient pursuit, and casual dating to avoid possessiveness while awaiting lasting romance.
The narrator contemplates luck and skill as he faces a hand of cards. He questions whether fortune can be predicted and concludes that the real test lies in how one chooses to play the hand. The poem reflects on fate versus effort and personal agency.
The county will cultivate a forty acre tract on Rockford road SW to grow vegetables for reef use. Supervisors Stirm and Busby arranged the plan with E S Smith, relief garden director. County aid workers will tend the plots. crops include cabbage tomatoes beans corn carrots and beets.
Ruth M Van Vleck named administratrix of Mary A Newell's Linn County Iowa estate on March 26 1934. Creditors must settle debts and claimants file authenticated claims with Linn County District Court clerk through the appointed attorney Dshms.
The public library receives a Lucerne Switzerland grandfather clock from the late Mrs. W A Pratt. The hand carved timepiece features brass weights and pendulum. It chimes every quarter hour increasing to sixteen at the hour with an hour strike.
The annual stockholders meeting of Iowa Electric Light and Power Company will be held at the Security Building Cedar Rapids Iowa on Tuesday May 1 1934 at 10 o clock in the forenoon. Directors will be elected and other business may be conducted. By order of the president S Woodward Secretary.
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