Marion Chamber of Commerce accepts Pazour resignation
Announcement by Marion Chamber of Commerce officers confirms John H Pazour resigns as executive secretary due to other duties. Pazour helped organize the chamber and led the highway committee pushing the Marion to Cedar Rapids paving project. A committee of Hugh E Gordon Lewis Papes Kenneth Murdoch and Dr A B Lake will search for his successor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion Chamber of Commerce
John H.pazour
Pazour
Chamber of Commerce
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Hugh E. Gordon
Lewis Papes
Kenneth Murdoch
A.B. Lake
Fellowship Supper at St Pauls Church Held Friday
The spring fellowship picnic supper at St Pauls Evangelical Lutheran church in Memorial hall drew 125 members and friends. Rev Carl E Krog hosted with an address of welcome by Alfred Rinderknecht and introductions of new members, plus community singing and multiple musical numbers by church members.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Memorial Hall
Carl E Krog
Alfred Rinderknecht
Marvin Rathje
Harry Fox, Jr
Marion Society Hosts Tea For Miss Bertha Robers Bride‑to‑Be
Mrs E R Michel and Mrs C G Schultz of Marion and Mrs Clarence H James of Iowa City honor Miss Bertha Robers with a tea and linen shower at 855 Central Avenue from 3 to 5 PM. Thirty guests attend as Mrs Schultz and Mrs Josephine Whitacre serve a floral tea table. Also noted is a rental ad for a bungalow and Mrs Balster taking Marion high school band to Waterloo for the state music contest.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bertha Robers
George Schrimper
Marion
E. R. Michel
C. G. Schultz
Clarence H. James
Iowa City
Michel
Central Avenue
Schultz
Josephine Whitacre
W. H. Balster
Marion High School
Waterloo
Legion District Meeting to Hear George Paradise
Sioux City attorney and Iowa American Legion commander George M. Paradise will address the second district spring conference of the American Legion and Auxiliary at the Legion building next Thursday. Marion Post 298 and the local Auxiliary host. 500 delegates expected from Jones Clinton Dubuque Scott Jackson and Linn counties. Paradise, a Greek-born Morningside and Minnesota graduate, served in the motor transport service in World War I. Auxiliary registration begins 10:30 a.m., luncheon at St. Joseph's Church, Legion registrations 1 to 3 p.m., banquet at 6:30 p.m. Des Moines’ W. B. Nugent speaks. Earl Fulton tenor solos and Marion Choral Club performances. May baskets offered by Boston store.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
George M. Paradise
Sioux City
Iowa
United States
Morningside College
University of Minnesota
Motor Transport Service
Legion Auditorium
St. Joseph’s Catholic Church
American Legion
W. B. Nugent
Des Moines
Legion
Earl Fulton
Auxiliary
Marion Choral Club
Grace Meloney
Central City High School Choir and Band to Give Sunday Concert
The 76 voice Central City High School choir under R M Sawyer and the high school band will perform Sunday at 7 30 p m in Marion Presbyterian Church. Public invited. Program includes organ preludes solos and choral pieces with Mrs Gerald Thomas and Mrs Thomas contributing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Central City High School
R. M Sawyer
Marion Presbyterian Church
Gerald Thomas
de Berrot
Darlene Dunn
The
Pilgrim’s Chorus
Wagner
Mildred Finson
Harrison
Leslie
Barnaby
Mechanicsville couple marks 50th wedding anniversary
Mr. and Mrs. F Wilson celebrate fifty years of marriage anniversary today in Mechanicsville. The couple has run a Belleville area business since 1897 and will host an open house at their newly remodeled home. Their son Clement P. Wilson lives in God Rapids and granddaughter Mrs. Duane Blackwell resides in St. Louis.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mechanicsville
L. Wilversary
Wilson
Flora V. Borsumne
Belleville
Clement P. Wilson
God Rapids
Duane Blackwell
St. Louis
Delegates set for Linn county and Marion townships caucus
The Marion area caucus schedules twelve Linn county delegates for the May 4 county convention with ward allocations and governor vote basis from 1938. Marion township to send two delegates. city wards allocate 2 2 3 3. Linn county totals66 delegates for Des Moines state convention May 11. Community notices follow with social and club events.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Marion Public Library
Marion
Marion Township
First Ward
Second Ward
Third Ward
Fourth Ward
Des Moines
Shower Honoring Gwen Newlin Planned in Iowa City
Mrs. Clarence H. James of Iowa City will host a miscellaneous shower and breakfast this morning at 855 Central Avenue in honor of Miss Gwen Newlin who will wed Oscar Wente of Waterloo in June. Mrs. Floyd Emmons and Mrs. Robert Hess are set as joint hostesses and devotions chair, with other duties assigned to Mrs. Harold Halstead. Fourteen guests, classmates of the bride and Mrs James, were seated at a long table adorned with spring bouquets.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Floyd Emmons
Robert Hess
Harold Halstead
Gwen Newlin
Clarence H. James
Iowa City
E. R. Michel
Central Avenue
Oscar Wente
Waterloo
To Begin Revival at Marion Free Methodist Church
The Marion Free Methodist church starts a three week evangelistic service Tuesday led by Rev. L. O. Florence of Wilmore Kentucky. Services run nightly at 7 30 except Mondays with morning and evening talks Sunday. The meetings end May 19 with a youth session 6 45. Rev. Herbert Livingston will oversee the child meetings.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Marion
Marion Softball Association elects officers and lists eight teams
H E Vander Linden named president and Stanley Kellams vice president with E A Lagerquist as secretary treasurer for the Marion Softball association. Eight teams enter including Coast to Coast store Hallwood cafe Rapids School of Welding Gordon Hatchery Linn County Produce Balster Furniture Milwaukee Service club and the Farmers Elevator. Games at night under floodlights with diamond prep underway near the high school grounds and bleachers to be erected.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
H. E. Vander Linden
Marion Softball Association
Stanley Kellams
E. A. Lagerquist
Coast To Coast Store
Hallwood Cafe
Rapids School of Welding
Gordon Hatchery
Linn County Produce
Balster Furniture
Milwaukee Service Club
Farmers Elevator
High School
Presbyterian Ladies to Host Weekly May Meetings
Mrs Hugh Hutton Mrs Sarah Hutton and Mrs Harley McCalley will be joint hostesses for the Ladies Spiritual Life group of the Presbyterian church. They will meet each Wednesday in May at L A Klumphs home 937 Eighth street beginning at 10 a.m.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Spiritual Life Group
The
Presbyterian Church
L A. Klumph
Eighth Street
Methodist Ladies Aid society division meetings scheduled
The Comforter division meets at 2 30 at Mrs Henry Arp 309 Seventh Street. Endeavor at 12 30 for picnic at Mrs Frank Straley 780 Central Avenue. Gleaners at 2 30 at Mrs O E Smith 958 Seventh Avenue. Keystone not meeting in May. Loyal division at 2 30 with Mrs Glenn Schultz and Miss Lillian Bleakley 740 Seventh Avenue. Rainbow division at 2 30 at Miss Louise Schweitzer 1700 Tenth Avenue. Sun shine division at 2 30 at Mrs W A Sherman east of Marion. True Blue division at 2 30 at Mrs E A Barnes 977 Twenty second Street. Hostesses listed.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Methodist Ladies Aid Society
Comforter
Henry Arp
Seventh Street
Endeavor
Frank Straley
Central Avenue
Gleaners
O .E. Smith
Seventh Avenue
Joseph
Keystone
Loyal
Glenn Schultz
Lillian Bleakley
Clarence Gauch
Rainbow Division
Louise Schweitzer
Tenth Avenue
Harvey Gipp
Robert S. Oxley
Ina Dye Minor
Cecil Page
Sunshine Division
W. A. Sherman
Marion
Elmer Barnhart
Gladys Collier
True Blue Division
E. A. Barnes
Twenty-second Street
E RR Hatville
E. T. Hiams
Anamosa Highs Safe Driving Course Gets Off The Ground
Anamosa High School launches a driver safety program directed by Supt G B Kinser and coach Walter Schwank after a safety course at Iowa State College. Eighty enrolled, twenty four qualified, with Cedar Rapids Motor Club supplying dual controls and local dealers offering used cars. Tuition is fifty cents for the A A A Sportsmanlike Driving Series, and students must pass the state written test to receive an instructional permit toward a licensed operator’s card.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Anamosa High School
Supt
G. B. Kinser
Walter C. Schwank
Iowa State College
Schwank
Supt. Kinser
J. R. Wright
Cedar Rapids Motor Club
A.A.A
Highway Patrol
Doris Anderson
Shirley Brickley
Eileen Burke
George Casters
Galen Cook
Marvin Doe
Berniese Freese
Alma Hurt
Nelda Newhard
Leona Dirks
Lena Free
Lamont Pupils Get Low Cost Hot Lunches
The Lamont consolidated school ran a very economical hot lunch program aided by the Red Cross and federal surplus commodities. During Feb 19 week 868 servings were served with 25 percent more students than in six years. The program used farm commodities and cash, cost per serving 3 cents, season tickets $2, and a season profit of 1477 dollars.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Buchanan County Red Cross
Federal Surplus Commodities Corporation
Lamont Consolidated School
Iowa
Ilies
WPA
C R. Cronk
Dorothy Crawford
Red Cross
Illness Delays Klumphs Return from Garden Show
Klumphs delay their return home as sister Mrs Blanche Warner remains ill. Mary Martin and Allan Jones are in The Great Victor Herbert at the Garden, with the production advertised.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Victor Herbert
Allan Jones
Mary Martin
Klumph
Blanche Warner
Great Victor Herbert
Mr and Mrs Carewell Host His and Her Shower
Mr and Mrs Kenneth E Carewell entertain this evening with a His and Her shower and buffet supper at their home. Honoring Miss Lois Stitzel of Marion and Lewis Alcorn of Cedar Rapids, who will wed May 18. Thirty two guests attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Carroll Roberts
Marion
Mr. Roberts
Bertha Roberts
Kenneth E Carewell
Lois Stitzel
Lewis Alcorn
Cedar Rapids
Knights Templar meet. seven candidates to be knighted
Patmos Commandery No 27, Knights Templar, will meet Tuesday at 7 p.m. in the Masonic temple with seven candidates to be knighted. Refreshments will be served. Also Christian Church Service class meets Thursday at 2 p.m. at Mrs. Elmer Cherry’s home on Blairs Ferry road with co-hostesses Mrs. Reynolds, Mrs. Widger, and Mrs. Emmons. Presbyterian Ladies Aid May breakfast is Wednesday at 9:30 a.m. at Mrs. Storck’s home. Mr. and Mrs. Halamka and son James move to Marion from Cedar Rapids, residing at 715 Sixth Avenue. Mr. Halamka is a traveling salesman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ladies Aid Society
St. Paul’s Evangelical
Patmos
Knights Templar
Masonic Temple
The
Christian Church
Elmer Cherry
Blairs’ Ferry Road
John Reynolds
Mae Widger
J. B. Emmons
Henry J. Halamka
James
Marion
Cedar Rapids
Sixth Avenue
Mr. Halamka
Passenger pigeons extinct, 1871 migration cited in Wisconsin
McGregor Times files reveal in May 1871 that hundreds of thousands of passenger pigeons were trapped and shipped from southwestern Wisconsin to eastern markets. The spring flights darkened skies, with daily exports to Milwaukee Chicago St Louis Cincinnati Philadelphia New York and Boston. By the mid 1870s only small flocks remained and by the 1880s the species largely vanished from the Upper Mississippi region. A mounted specimen owned by W H C Elwell of McGregor memorializes the tragedy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
the Gazette
McGregor
Wisconsin
McGregor, In
Times
Mississippi
Towa
Minnesota
McGregor Times
Kilbourne
Coopers
Milwaukee
Chicago
St. Louis
Cincinnati
Philadelphia
New York
Boston
Iowa
Upper
W. H. C. Elwell
Mississippi Mear McGregor
Last Pigeon Sightings Near Elwell’s Curio Shop
A fragment recalls a pigeon species seen over 450 years ago near Mr Elwell's curio shop where a stuffed bird rests in a glass case. It notes farmers in the 1860s selling wagon loads at the Mc Gregor market square after netting birds in wheat fields.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elwell
McGregor Market Square
Opening Concert by Josef Hofmann in Cornell May Music Festival
Mount Vernon The Gazette notes pianist Josef Hofmann will open the Cornell May Music Festival on Thursday May 9. The article recalls Hofmann’s public debut in America at the Metropolitan Opera House in 1887 as a boy of ten and his golden jubilee concert there in 1937. It adds Hofmann is an expert mechanic with about 60 patents and that he designs his own folding piano chair. He reportedly travels with two monkeys, considered lucky charms though he dismisses belief in luck.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spreial
Mount Vernon
Josef Hofmann
Cornell
Hofmann
Solon High School Banquet Set for Reichs Cafe
The Solon junior and senior banquet will be held at Reichs cafe in Iowa City next Wednesday evening with Solon High School students attending.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
SOLON
Solon High School
Reichs Cafe
Iowa City
Iowa Lutherans Of Augustana Synod Convene May 1 5
Des Moines hosts the annual Iowa Lutheran conference of the Augustana Synod May 1 to 5 with about a hundred delegates. Three affiliated groups will meet or present at special sessions. The Men’s Brotherhood opens with Rev Oscar Bohman speaking on creed and dogmas. Banquet May 3. Women’s and Young People’s groups meet May 4 with a keynote by a leading youth worker. Business sessions at Bethany and banquet at Grace. Des Moines leaders preside.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa Lutheran Conference
Ausgustana Synod
First Lutheran Church
Men's Brotherhood
Oscar F Bohman
Spencer
Albert Tineberg
Swedesburg
Conference Brotherhood
Luether League
Everett Hedeen
Essex
Iowa
Women's Missionary Society
Young Women’s Missionary Socciety
Junior Missionary Society
Bethany Lutheran Church
Grace Lutheran Church
E .O Anderson
Theodore Matson
Chicago
Astrid Erling
Abdo Arrested on Fraud Warrant From Hampton
Deputy Herbert Buckingham picked up Lewis Abdo south of Independence on a Hampton broadcast stating a warrant for obtaining money under false pretenses. Franklin County Sheriff Frank Schweiger returned Abdo to Hampton where he faced charges for selling inferior merchandise at inflated prices. William Pohlman, 83, Buchanan County resident for over 50 years, died at the county home after a long tenure there since 1926, with no immediate surviving relatives known.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Independence
Buchanan County
Herbert Buckingham
Lewis Abdo
Hampton
Abdo
Franklin County
Frank Schweiger
William Pohlman
Buchsanan County
Golden Anniversary for Mechanicville Couple Melton
Mr. and Mrs. George J. Melton of Mechanicsville celebrate their golden wedding anniversary today. They will spend the day with Mrs. Art McNeal and Mrs. Emma Stearns in Cedar Rapids. The Meltons were married in Jones county and have long resided near Cedar and Mechanicsville. Their daughter Mrs. Lynn Nightengale and her husband live on the family farm, and the Meltons have retired to town.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F. L. Kelly
Robert
Mary Louise
Dubuque
Mechanicsville
George J. Melton
Art McNeal
Emma Stearns
Also Mentioned on This Page
Lewis L. Smith
St. Paul’s Church
Elmer Williams
Wilma Luedeman
Walther League
Arlene Luedeman
Helen
Lois Lutz
Harry Fox
Dallas Carsner
George Krog
Clayton Pitcher
Arnold Williams
Dewey Carlson
Otho Garrett
Emil Petrusch
Honor Bertha Roberts
Harry Jordan
Legion District
Central City High Choir
Frank L. Wilson
Democratic Caucus
W. G. Koppenhaver
Richard A. Crew
Virginia
John A. Christie
Don B. Christie
Richard Crews
W. H. Applegate
la Verna Crew
Mrs. Verne H. Balster
Entre Nous
E. V
W. K. Lothian
Lee Voorhies
G. V. Mann
G. L. Martin
Clarence Reinhard
Melvin Oldfather
Mr. Oldfather
Book Club
Michel Tea Room
D. Earl Miller
Miller
K. E. Cornell
Companions Missionary Guild of the Christian Church
Joe Walker
Seventeenth Street
Fay Marsh
George Price
C. G. Ellinger
Eighth Avenue
Richard Wagor
Jeanne
Central City
Mrs Wagor
Mrs. O. M. Carson
Hutchinson
Owens’ Drug Store
Noble Grands Association
August W. Beyer
Fifth Avenue
Jack
Michael Gallo
St. Joseph's Catholic Church
T. J McElliott
Will Redmond
Hugh Churchill
J D. Kearn
St. Matthews Church
Mount Calvary Cemetery
Michael Cira
Joseph Cira
Vincent Hatt
Gus Pu
Ameigo Club
W. B. Sebern
C. Merle Robison
Marion Band
6Th Avenue
Bert Klumph
Helen Wescott
Bruce
Hollywood
Calif
Luella Soper
Walter Schwank
Aim
Lamont
Commandery
Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society
G A Storck
Thirteenth Street
Iowa Lutherans of Augustana Synod
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