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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Apr 28, 1935
Page
20
The Marion public library logged 30 962 circulations last year up 243 from the year before. Adult fiction accounted for 67 percent of 20 720 total adult circulations while children's use reached 10 242.
Marion high school will send Robert Munsen and Robert Kennedy to the state music festival in Iowa City this week. Munsen competes in bass soloing Thursday at 9 am while Kennedy enters saxophone solo Thursday evening. The mixed chorus performs Thursday with 36 voices unaccompanied, and a girls sextet faces 22 rivals Friday.
Marion high school seniors stage Heathers at Home a three act comedy by Alden Kimball May 9 and 10 in the Lincoln school under Miss Margaret Wood. Cast includes Bessie Heather Arminta Davidson Mamma Heather Mack Heather and other townspeople and students.
The American Legion Junior baseball club begins its season Monday at 4 p.m. facing the Roosevelt hotel team of the Cedar Rapids Junior League at the American Legion park near the swimming pool. Coach A. J. Schueler of Alburnett leads players from Marion, Springville, and Alburnett high schools. Eight teams total in the Junior league, seven from Cedar Rapids and one from Marion. About half the games will be played at home. No admission for Monday's game.
Jewell Bothwell Tull presents Hyacinth Gardens a fantasy in three acts at the union services tonight at 7 30. Oxford club of the Methodist church directs with Miss Margaret Oldfather and Miss Helen Crane leading. Cast includes Norma Biddick Marian Van Fossen Hilda Barbara Sloss John Billy Creglow and others. Public invited.
Elwain, Mr. and Mrs. John H. Pazour, Mr. and Mrs. A. J. Schueler, Dr. and Mrs. H. N. Strader, Mrs. Della Senninger, Mrs. Richard Clark, Mrs. Celan Rollins and Mrs. T. Murray appear in the society notes.
The Milwaukee Railroad Women's club began a membership drive on Thursday. A May breakfast at New Hallwood at 9 30 a m will climax the drive with membership cards serving as admission. The committee includes Mrs A J Elder Marion chairman and several listed members. In charge of the breakfast are Mrs John C Smith and Mrs W J Hotchkiss.
Local groups announce meetings and events across Marion including Tennyson club hosts, May 6 benefit card party at the Masonic Temple, Rural Garden club and U. S. Circle gatherings, and a May breakfast planned by the Mother's club. Numerous hostesses, speakers, and venues listed with dates in May through mid month.
A playlet titled The Ideal was performed by Mrs A L Van Fos sele Mrs A E Blinks Mrs Ed ward Hiams Mrs Adella Hobart and Miss Minnie Whitcomb at the Congregational Church program led by the pastor.
The two act operetta Polly Make Believe will be repeated Monday at 7 30 p m in the Lincoln school auditorium by popular request. Five hundred children participate and no seats are reserved with a small admission fee. Martha Anne Young stars with Miss Rose Wilcox directing the music program and teachers from Emerson Irving and Lincoln buildings assisting.
Funeral services for Leander W. Miles in Linn county are planned at Yocom chapel with Rev. Myers officiating and burial in Oak Shade cemetery. The page lists multiple club meetings, hostesses, and events including Ameigo luncheon, wildflower roll call, and Lions Club play in May. It also notes Marion high school relay team results and a Boy Scout Court of Honor with several honors listed.
The Clyonian Literary Society at Lenox College elects officers led by President Paul Ferguson and Vice President James Bixby. Other posts go to Donald Gearhart Recording Secretary Helene Smith and more including Helen Dighton Sergeant-at-Arms Kenneth Dunlap Pianist Vera Pierce and Darlene Moler Treasurer.
Mothers of the high school junior class met with home economics teacher Miss Ruth Niehaus to prepare for the annual banquet to be held in the Presbyterian church dining room. Mrs. J Henry Meyer was appointed chairman on May 6. Committees include program food and members Ma rie Stuck Eleanor Jones James Cook Harold Petershagen Verna Davis Martyn Meyer Norma Kamprath Marjorie Smith.
Lucie Westen, prima donna of the Chicago Civic Opera, will sing Marguerite in Faust at the Shrine auditorium on May 8 under the Coe music department and Chicago Festival Opera. Paired with John Pane-Gasser, the tenor from Venice who rose to fame in Palermo and Verona, the production features leading Metropolitan and Civic Opera stars and 150 Cedar Rapids and Coe College voices in minor roles. The four act English Gounod opera runs over two hours.
Touring impresario Pane-Gasser staged Il Trovatore drawing 3600 patrons. In 1933 34 he ranked among Chicago Grand Opera top stars, successor to the Civic Opera. Cast includes Rein ald Werrenrath Kath ryn Browne and James Wolfe as Mephistopheles.
Bertram township Farm Bureau sponsored a Friday program at the Bertram Methodist church. Mrs. Leone Wyckoff of Cedar Rapids led the event with Riverside school music and a large roster of performers including Dorothy Sparks Jean Davidson Alice Lnenicka Margaret Novak Mary Sparks Irma Lnenicka Doris Kitchen and many others. The Ladies Aid Division 4 chaired by Mrs. C C Berry and Tillie Kramer organized the event.
Waukon reports outstanding debt down to 67 200 dollars as of April 1 1935 from 75 200 a year earlier. The tax levy rose from 14.9 to 17.07 mills due to higher fire department expenditures. Taxable property valuation declined from 1 788 257 in January 1933 to 1 780 613 in January 1934.
Funeral services were conducted at Wesleyan Methodist church in Dundee for Mrs John Letts 28 who died at her home seven miles northwest of Manchester after a brief illness. Rev J Frank Moore led the service and burial followed in the Dundee cemetery. Ada Boardman daughter of Lemset and Ada Boardman of Earlville was born April 22 1906. Surviving are her husband four children and her parents.
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