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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Aug 25, 1936
Page
6
Des Moines and much of Iowa faced record highs as temperatures hit 105 to 110 degrees in parts of the state. The Weather Bureau predicted scattered showers and cooler weather by Tuesday night into Wednesday as a mass of stagnant air over northwest Iowa broke up moving eastward.
Oxford hosts the Hrdlicka reunion with attendees from Williamsburg Cedar Rapids Iowa City and other towns. DeWitt buys United Presbyterian church building for conversion to an apartment house. Several towns report birthdays marriages school openings and reunions with numerous local families noted.
West Union Howard Stephens Hawkeye youth is in a local hospital with a fractured back. Howard Kohler age 10 has cuts and bruises. Ralph Blockhus has a sprained back. The Blockhus car was struck from the rear by the Ed Kohler milk car. Kohler suffered two broken ribs and Misses Helen and Odney Blockus bruises. Both cars were wrecked and Kohler night milk supply destroyed. Kohler did not see the Blockus car which was without a tail light.
Shellsburg firemen host a two day ox roast with a Friday morning musical program and an address by William DeFoe. The event features sandwiches at noon in the city park, music by the Little German Band and Shellsburg band, horseshoe tournaments, street sports, acrobatic dancing by Edna K Dieman studio pupils, boxing, and dances each evening with speakers W C Pyle and A C Wilford. Fire Chief Clarence Spurgeon leads the event.
Mrs Winifred Van Etten insists her prize novel I Am The Fox is not autobiographical. She spoke at a Bookshop tea in Iowa City on publication day, noting heroine Selma Temple is not based on herself and reflecting on the Iowa connection. She also said hot weather slowed her work on Billa Bong and that she is developing short stories and other projects for steady writing.
John P. Hertert, 51, attorney and Shelby County Democratic chairman, died Tuesday of heart disease at his home in Harlan. He is survived by his widow and four daughters.
Iowa’s State fair aims for record scale with premium list at 104 430 dollars and livestock valued at 1 000 000 dollars. Grounds improvements total 300 000 dollars, including 100 000 for swine pavilion, as President Roosevelt and Governor Landon visit. events include 4-H judging, Miss Iowa, beauty contest, racing, fiddlers, sculpture, rodeo, and batman flights.
Iowa farmers have collected 112,731,489 dollars in AAA rental and benefit payments since 1934. Texas leads in total payments, with Iowa ranking second, driven mainly by corn-hog benefits totaling 111,134,160 dollars. County figures show Pottawattamie tops county totals at 2,608,292 dollars and northeast counties report varying sums through June.
Robert Young Bear, a Mesquakie Indian living on the Tama reservation, was turned over to federal officers by Sheriff E. O. Harris on a charge of passing counterfeit money at the pow wow. His wife is implicated. he passed four half dollar pieces for small purchases and returned the change after admitting the act.
Fayette county Republicans plan an organization meeting at the court house in West Union at 8 p.m. Monday. R. P. Strauch of Elgin, county chairman, announced the event and former State Senator M. D. Pitt of Logan will speak.
Sam Patterson aged 63 Negro suffered a wrenched back when his wagon was struck by a car driven by Roscoe Neighbors of La Porte City on South Riverside drive. The wagon was demolished and Neighbors said he had momentarily fallen asleep at the wheel.
Monticello voters approve a twenty-year franchise for the Iowa Electric Company of Cedar Rapids by an eight to one margin. A total of 784 ballots were in favor and 98 against on the proposal. The previous franchise expired in June.
Mrs. Alex Miller secretary of state said deaths on Iowa highways fell by twenty nine in the first seven months of the year compared with 1935. July deaths totaled fifty two, one more than July last year, while seven month total reached 257 versus 286 in 1925. Pedestrian fatalities and injuries rose in July with a peak on Saturdays and between 6 and 7 p m.
Des Moines AP reports the Democratic State Central Committee will not accept donations from liquor manufacturers doing business with the Iowa Liquor Control Commission. Drennen and Manley say a proposal to fund an advertising handbook through a party agency was rejected. A campaign fund from state employees is now in effect, despite past party disputes over such solicitations.
Five men from Elma including Ludwig Semrad Wallace Reiley Ed Remrodt Arnold Remrodt and John Gardner pled guilty to dynamiting fish before Justice N A Blackburn. Fines total 375 dollars plus 511 35 in costs. ten dollar fines for fishing without licenses. Officers Hodgson and Pederson apprehended the defendants. fifteen days to pay.
Gov. Clyde L. Herring voiced full accord with American Legion aims at the state convention. He praised the universal draft, war disabled and orphans relief, foreign neutrality stance, national defense, child welfare work, and the highway patrol bill as examples of Legion-leaning policy. He called the Legion a steadying force in a troubled world and noted signing bills at its request.
Iowa City. Robert Darling seven remained in critical condition after a weekend auto crash that killed Ezra L. Darling thirty one and Orville Seydel twenty one. The accident occurred on a gravel road south west of town. Funeral services for Robert Darling were set for Wednesday at 1 30 p.m. at Hohenschuh mortuary with burial in Millersburg cemetery.
A man identifying himself as Carl Nelson pled not guilty to driving while intoxicated before Justice T M Fairchild in Iowa City. Patrolman S J Shaffer charged the offense, bond set at 500 dollars. Frank Kopecky, farmer near Swisher, fined 50 dollars and costs for reckless driving after allegedly striking a Cedar Rapids man on Highway 161 near Shueyville. victim unnamed.
Strawberry Point boy Richard Peick 11 was hit by a car driven by Noble Pugh after running from behind a truck. He suffered a head cut requiring six stitches at Mercy hospital in Oelwein. He is the son of Mr and Mrs W L Peick and was helping H V Steward deliver milk.
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