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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 16, 1936
Page
4
Cedar Rapids Symphony, under Prof. Joseph Kitchin, delivered a strong second concert. Highlights include Saint-Saens Septet with Flora MacKay Kitchin and Fayette Moore, Beethoven Fifth, Hansel and Gretel, and Gliere Russian Sailor's Dance, encore repeated for audience delight.
Keith Dunn spoke at the Kiwanis club in the Montrose hotel about how new federal laws affect computing income tax returns and corporate reports. A practical joke involved a fake writ of attachment on Lyman Jones in connection with the Kiwanis apple sale fund raiser.
A purse belonging to Mrs Evelyn Brown at 1126 First Avenue East was taken between 6 and 6 30 pm Tuesday. Mrs Brown and her son heard a noise. the son saw a man’s foot at the front room window as an intruder escaped. The thief wore tennis shoes. no other description. Items missing included 75 cents, a fountain pen, silver rimmed glasses, an electric light bill and several identification cards. Detective Marshall investigated. Brandon churches plan Christmas programs December 24 with committees named for the Christian and Methodist churches.
Jack Tormey, longtime Gazette ad man, resigns effective Thursday to join Craemer's Dry Goods Co. as head of the ready-to-wear department. He comes from Des Moines with 15 years in retail wear and earlier roles in Ottumwa Green Bay and Ohio shops. The Tormeys reside at 713 Eighteenth street SE.
A uniform Christmas break will close all Cedar Rapids public and parochial schools, plus Coe College and Mount Mercy Academy, this Friday afternoon and return on Monday morning January 4.
Winford Stone and Harry Fawcett, both youths from near Albion and Princeton, were arrested by Detectives Wilson and Bailey after one tried to sell a car heater to an officer. They allegedly stole auto parts from two oil stations in Marshalltown and a station on highway 88 near Melbourne Tuesday night. Police recovered various auto accessories from their vehicle including anti freeze and tools.
Lauren Power 27 of Mount Vernon was arrested at 10 50 p m Tuesday after a parole revocation ordered by Judge H C Ring on a complaint by Power’s former wife about delinquent support. She faced an indeterminate ten year sentence at the Anamosa reformatory for allegedly taking part in a break in and theft at the Rowley barber shop.
In Prairieburg on December 29, 1932, a revocation order previously issued in July 1935 was set aside and the individual was re parole granted.
Linn county board of supervisors authorized County Attorney G K Thompson to appeal to the state supreme court from Judge H C Ring s Oct 13 finding that a conditional sales contract with Mrs Edith Steele put the property beyond the county s tax lien for 1934 1935. The court ruled Steele repossessed under the contract and gained clear title, with taxes owed totaling 74 51.
Chicago based Creamery Package Manufacturing asks for a $164.83 judgment in a district court car damage action. Defendants Elizabeth R. Perry and her husband T. R. Perry of Central City, were involved in a collision with J. W. Knickerbocker, an employee of the plaintiff, at Highway 13 intersection eight miles south of Central City last June 12.
A district court foreclosure action brought by Peoples Savings Bank against Ben H. Witwer and Jessie E. Witwer on secured notes tied to business real estate at First Street and Fourth Avenue SE was dismissed with prejudice after settlement and judgment satisfied. A defense motion to set aside a default judgment of 20 816.47, entered last June, had been pending.
District court Judge John T. Moffit grants Perpetual Savings and Loan a 1245.19 judgment in a suit on a secured note claimed by W. J. Conway and Ollie Conway. Other defendants include Jessie E Woods Jessie Grace Woods Robert L Yeager and Anna N Yeager who allegedly assumed the obligation via deed conveyances.
L. L. Quigley asks the district court for a $1,647.75 judgment in an oral contract action against Mrs. B. M. Ferguson. The core claim centers on a disputed agreement involving store fixtures and equipment.
J. W. Whitehair a Bartlesville Oklahoma oil man and former Cedar Rapids resident died Tuesday. He lived in the city about twenty years ago and was a thirty second degree Mason. He is survived by his wife a son and a daughter.
Funeral services for A W Taege will be at Trinity Lutheran church at 2 30 p m Thursday conducted by Rev P L Bornhoeft. Burial in Linwood cemetery. Relatives meet at Rohn chapel at 2 p m pallbearers named and honorary pallbearers listed. Friends may call at Rohn chapel Wednesday evening.
Evelyn Fidela Teeple aged 18 daughter of Mr and Mrs E E Teeple of 606 Sixth Avenue San Francisco died at Sunny Crest sanitarium Dubuque at 7 a m Wednesday after a short illness of pneumonia born in
Cedar Rapids on January 21 1918 obituary notes a Mount Rose academy graduate who taught at the Dubuque institution. She leaves parents four sisters June Viola Wanda and Alice Mae and brother Robert. Funeral in Beatty chapel Saturday at 10 a.m. with Rev R B Hyten. Burial in Oak Shade Cemetery Marion. Friends may visit Thursday and Friday 7 to 9 p.m.
Funeral services for Mrs Kathrine Pesava will be conducted at 2 p.m. Thursday in the Polansky chapel by Theodore B Hlubucek. Burial is in Bohemian National cemetery. Friends may call at 1103 Eighth street NW from 7 to 9 p.m. Wednesday.
Registration numbers under the social security act had been issued to 9 500 Cedar Rapids residents up to Wednesday noon. About 6 000 applications for numbers awaited recording in the post office headquarters and additional applications were being received in each mail. Numismatists trace the first coins issued by state authority to Croesus of Lydia in the eighth century BC.
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