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Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Dec 15, 1938

Page

5

Officers Discuss A Bounty Problem At Sixth District Meet

Nine of fourteen counties represented at the Sixth District Officers association session at Hotel Montrose. They urged funds for bounties which in some counties have reached 1800 in a year for starlings.

Sixth District Officers Association Hotel Montrose Linn County Robert Vesely General Assembly Board of Supervisors Vesely Edwin Lundquist John Tank Walcott Roy Westerlen Manchester R. F. Hockaday Naimncly

Deaths Mrs Hattie Peck 79 Cedar Rapids Resident

Mrs Hattie D Peck widow of Chester D Peck died at home 1815 First Avenue E Cedar Rapids Thursday at 1 15 PM She was born March 11 1859 near Fairview Iowa She was twin sister to Hallie Peet The sisters married twin brothers Chester D and Charles L Peck and the two couples shared a farm near Mechanicsville for seventeen years Survivors include granddaughter Betty Jane Peck of ???

Hattie D. Peck Chester D Peck Cedar Rapids First Avenue E Peck Fairview Hallie Peet Chester D Charles L. Peck Mechanicsville Betty Jane Peck

Former Muscatine Mayor Joseph B. Miller Dies After Long Illness

Joseph B. Miller, former Muscatine mayor and longtime Heinz farms manager, died in Muscatine Wednesday night after a seven year tuberculosis illness. Born 1868, he served four terms on the city council and one as mayor. Survived by wife Julia Novak, four daughters Alma Rode C J Richardson Ralph Alt haus and Homer Melton, and son Edwin L. Miller of Cedar Rapids. Masonic funeral at 2.30 pm Friday at Ralph Wittick Funeral Home, burial in Muscatine.

Joseph WN. Stepanek Swisher Katherine Emma Sylvia Jerry Joseph J Cedar Rapids Edward William Emil Dillie Turewhek Chadron Albert Zeman Joseph Zeman Niobrara Neb Theodore Blubuceck Plain Cemetery Brush Chapel Joseph B. Miller Muscatine Ed L. Miller Murray Drive Heinz Farms Julia Novak Alma Rode

Ruling Overrules Linn County Right of Redemption on Highway Land

Judge John T. Moffit overruled Linn county's right of redemption in real estate near Springville. The 1.93 acre purchase by Linn County in 1925 for Highway No. 151 routing had mortgages. Scharfenberg sued, won a sheriff's deed in 1938. State asserts adverse possession since 1926. county holds administrator's deed.

Linn County Springville John T. Moffit Scharfenberg State Highway Commission

U S Delivers Third Note to Germany on Jewish Rights

Acting Secretary Sumner Welles disclosed that the United States sent a new note to Germany seeking immediate assurances that American Jews would not face discrimination. The note, delivered to the German foreign ministry by Prentiss Gilbert, expresses disappointment over Germany’s failure to provide the requested assurances.

Washington Sumner Welles United States Germany Reich Berlin Foreign Ministry Prentiss Gilbert Hugh Wilson State Department

Remer Wins Personal Injury Suit Against Takin Brothers

After a five and a half hour deliberation a jury awarded Ross T. Remer 7291.95 in his 15833.95 suit against Takin Brothers Freight Lines Inc and Leo Williams. The verdict was opened by Judge H C Ring. Remer claimed a Takin truck driven by Williams struck a lighter truck and threw it at him on a Center Point road on December 26 1937. The case included a motion to strike an intervention petition by the state of Iowa in Scharfenberg's quiet title action.

Bert Stoneking Joseph Bartosh Ring Stoneking Bartosh Ross T. Remer Center Point Takin Brothers Freight Lines, Inc Leo Williams H.C. Ring Remer Williams Center Point Road Robert Scharfenberg

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