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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 22, 1934
Page
2
Madison mayor cites centralization as local life eroded while Iowa leaders debate municipal control. Reports name Childs proposing a comprehensive local governance program and liquor control changes. Nearby notes cover tire wrecks, obituaries, and community events across Kalona, Decorah, and Ottumwa areas.
The University of Iowa will host four apprentice playwrights in residence from September 1933 to June 1934 with grants totaling 7500 dollars to write and produce manuscripts focused on Midwestern life. Names include Ellsworth Conkle Vergil Geddes Fred Kleibacker and Rex Roberts. Plans include premier productions at the university with additional manuscripts from Ruth Suckow James Norman Hall Anthony Veiller Warren Lee Pride Lynn Riggs and Robert Whitehead.
Nearly 2 000 delegates expected as Iowa American Legion auxiliary convenes in Des Moines with 862 registered from the city. Finance and resolutions committees report ahead of Tuesday executive session. speakers include state commander Leo J. Custer and national auxiliary president Mrs. William J. Biester. Gov. Clyde L. Herring to attend allied nations dinner Thursday night.
Pages of Iowa in Brief report funeral services for Harold Edward Anthony in Springville. The notice notes the drowned, pontoon boat incident, and surrounding remarks from family and attorney. Aggiated local details are sparse in the OCR fragment.
Two avowed candidates, Rathke and Gray, run for state Legion commander at the state convention in Sioux City from September 2 to 6. Rathke, completing his second term as state community service director, has held district support since 1952. Gray, a current department vice commander, rose from eighth district commander.
Ames units report a 100 percent enrollment gain in agriculture at Iowa State College and a 36 percent rise overall for the autumn quarter. Dormitory room assignments up 53 percent. federal farmer and student relief funds credited for much of the increase. At Iowa City the university anticipates a 10 percent rise in advance enrollment this fall under President Eugene A. Gilmore’s forecast. Gardner reunion held at Lexington church with 69 attendees. Gardner family prominent in Wellman and Welmanroft areas.
A P Spears of Centerville was elected president of the Iowa Association of Insurance Agents at the opening session of a two day meeting in Council Bluffs. Officers include A C Root of Clinton as vice president H P Pratt of Sioux City as executive committee chairman Sam T Morrison of Iowa City as national councillor and F C Hendricks Council Bluffs Percy Webster Marshalltown and J E Hull Ottumwa as executive committee members.
Mrs W F Spooner 61 widow of Tama businessman died early Monday at a Marshalltown hospital after two years illness. Funeral services set for Wednesday at 2 pm at Harrison funeral home with Dr W C Ceworth of Hampton. Burial in Oak Hill cemetery.
Three gunmen robbed an Osage filling station Monday night forcing two attendants to walk barefoot into the country. About $6 was taken from change belts. one attendant dropped a $20 pocketbook and was shot at but not hit. The bandits used Cerro Gordo county plates. Earlier they had held up Robert Stewart of Clear Lake, took his car, and left him on a road in his underwear. The stolen car was later found near Mason City, slightly damaged.
Des Moines reports nearly 17 million dollars released to prevent mortgage foreclosures in Iowa. HOLC approved 8,434 loans totaling 16.7 million dollars, part of a broader recovery program. To date 27 thousand applications were received, with 25 thousand given preliminary appraisal.
Keystone hosts the Iowa district conference of the Missouri Synod at St. John's Evangelical Lutheran with Rev. A W Brauer as pastor. About 400 pastors teachers and lay delegates arrived for the opening session led by Rev Behnken of Houston Texas. Educational service led by Rev M E Seltz and a combined pastoral and communion service led by Rev E T Hempel and Rev P Braner.
Henry P Gillilan, Springville’s last Civil War veteran and eldest resident, will celebrate his eighty ninth birthday at home with daughter Aurie Jones baking the cake. A West Virginia native, he moved to Iowa in 1849 and later farmed near Viola. He served in 1865 and 1866 and remains active in daily life as a fiddler and walker.
A report notes possession of a valuable violin owned since Civil War days. It lists Mr. Gillan and his three sons Archibald of Chicago William of Minneapolis S D of Melbourne and two daughters Mrs Aurie Jones of Springville and Mrs Nellie Bowdish of Marion.
Officers elected to aid Rev. H A Adix of Monticelo as president of the Iowa district of the American Lutheran church were named at the district convention in Oelwein from August 16 to 21. The list includes S Sandrock Bellevue first vice president and home mission chair, F H Voelker Oelwein second vice president and finance chair, A C Proch Iowa City third vice president and visitation chair, G Gut ezzaff Sheldon fourth vice president and elementary education chair, C Mardorff Sumner secretary, W Groening Denver treasurer, A G Langholz Preston estadistician, and Edwin Engelbrecht Waverly finance committee, Waterloo conference.
The Iowa Liquor Control Commission approved leasing the state’s forty second liquor store to be opened in Maquoketa with a monthly rent of 50 dollars. In Edgewood, the Spencer Greene and Wooldridge families held their third annual reunion at Backbone State Park. Mrs Mary Wooldridge, 99, was the oldest attendee. Earl Wooldridge of Edgewood was elected president with Lyle Wooldridge of Fayette as vice president and Mrs Louie Wooldridge of Greeley as secretary-treasurer.
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