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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 19, 1939
Page
12
In the Kat household a kitten named Fluff longs for adventures. She hides in a yarn ball mailed to Aunt Susan by mistake and ends up visiting by mail. Old Percival the mail carrier returns her home where she announces her long awaited adventure. The tale ends with a promise of more.
In Linn County Iowa a petition for absolute divorce and restoration of maiden name is filed by Lona Anties against Colonel Anties in the September 1939 term. The grounds claim desertion for more than two years without reasonable cause. A default may be entered if the defendant fails to appear before noon on the second day of the term beginning September 18, 1939 at the Cedar Rapids court house.
Helen Wilson returns from Berkeley after two months visiting her brother Edward Edith Bowlus heads east for a city and Canada trip Mr and Mrs P E Drew back from two months on the western coast and Canada M E Guyer travels to Niagara Falls and eastern points J M Dinwiddie to Billings Mont to see daughter and join Dinwiddies James A Blake vacationing in Albany N Y and Williamsport Pa to visit Mervyn Sinclair L R Thomas and son Donald head to Denver and Colorado Springs Rev Frank H Ward family westward for an extended stay J M Knox leaves for New York City to visit hospitals Thomas Crofter back from the northwest camp established by S S and G C Keyes J L Mattson G W Stofler families at Prairie creek camp Mrs F Nugent and her mother return from two months in Seattle.
Elizabeth Spencer, 17, of Iowa City will be the Johnson county girls' health representative at the Iowa State fair. The announcement came Friday night in Iowa City.
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