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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 05, 1934
Page
12
A seven year old boy in New York is rated with a mental age of 16 and 10 months after IQ testing. He invented an alphabet of figures and a musical notation system, reads and writes perfectly, and grasps advanced math with ease while remaining socially and physically on par with peers.
Robert O. Bickel will present his summer canoe expedition films from northeastern Iowa rivers at the Young Men’s Bureau meeting of the Chamber of Commerce. The event at 6 p.m. December 6 in the Chamber building will feature guest Tex Lloyd, a Cedar Rapids newcomer and Harold Lloyd cousin, who will help with the program. Lloyd has a vaudeville background.
The article explains the Saw tooth pattern using triangles and squares from early quilts. It discusses its historic charm and modernist potential, notes varied color choices, scrap-book provenance, and how to obtain the cutting pattern by mail.
Grant Wood’s Arbor Day, an oil depicting children planting a tree in a country schoolyard, is shown at the Whitney Museum in New York during the second biennial exhibition. The show includes 153 American artists and runs until January 10, with a $20,000 fund set aside for permanent acquisitions. Mosquitoes cannot pass a 16 mesh wire screen.
Superintendent Arthur C Deamer told the board he is studying bedside instruction for permanently disabled children unable to attend school. He expects a concrete proposal in two weeks covering 20 to 22 local students.
Columbus Junction reports the thirteenth annual Older Boys and Girls conference of Louisa county took place in Grandview on Friday. The event featured youth participation and activities wrapping up with remarks on community involvement.
112 residents enrolled for the 1935 gathering as Bonnie Buster of Grandview became president Harlan Weiderrecht of Wapello vice president Margaret Mac Hanft of Columbus Junction secretary and treasurer Ruth Weber of Columbus Junction served as banquet toastmaster A birthday dinner for C E Bottomstone who turned 67 drew four generations to his home in Wyoming with a 67 candle cake and guests from Salina Kan Center Junction Onslow and nearby towns.
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