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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Dec 18, 1938
Page
31
The article reports Iowa's 1937 marriage total at 25 888, up from 21 780 in 1936 and 20 968 in 1935, with a low of 8 014 in 1932. It discusses possible legislation on license examinations and cites a council of state governments brief on out of state marriages and health testing debates.
68 year old farmer Charles Heiden in Clayton County spent a decade atop a hill creating a private park from thousands of rocks. The site features a rock home, rock furniture, Indian dinner table, stairway, and gadgets. opened to the public it attracts family picnics and offers distant views toward Arlington and Strawberry Point. Heiden, a cattle buyer turned farmer, lives near Elkader with his sister and seven siblings.
The Christmas cantata The Holy Infant by Frederic Field Bullard will be performed tonight at 8 by Marion's pooled choirs at the Methodist church under Roy M. Sawyer with Ruth Engstrom and Mildred Newman Edison assisting. Soloists include Lynn Miller Dorothy Klumph Robison Richard Phelps William Breed and Eunice Straks De Jong and Zora Sawyer Adams with Rev. E T Gough delivering a scripture reading before a multi-episode program of carols and biblical scenes.
The Reading circle held a Friday dinner at Mrs. H O Young home to mark its forty fifth anniversary and honor charter members Mrs Rachel Ives and Mrs Ida Marble Ives. The event featured a birthday cake for Mrs Rachel Ives and gifts for the two charter members. Officers and past members attended as the group reflected on forty five years of studies and regional explorations.
Center Point observes fifty years of marriage for Mr. and Mrs. Frank Condon with open house on Christmas day from 2 to 5 at their Center Point home. Dec. 23 1888 marriage at Green's Grove by Rev. Tom Evans. The Condons ran a newspaper business, grocery store, and raised seven children with many now active in the family enterprise and celebrations.
Doris Gene Haines, 19, daughter of E. C. and Mrs. Haines of Cog gon, won the beauty parade at the Coggon theater from 35 entrants representing Coggan Central City Walker Troy Mills and Prairieburg. Mable Moore of Central City and Bernice Shaffer of Troy Mills finished second and third.
Generous individuals and groups donate gifts to the Children’s Hospital while cash gifts fund unusual patient wishes. On Christmas Eve, patients hang stockings and meet Santa Mrs Claus and reindeer as wards decorate for the season.
Anamosa jurist Judge Fred O Ellison, 85, bids farewell after 32 years on the district bench as he retires January 1 194? His career spans roles from lawyer to mayor county attorney state legislator and judge born July 4 1853 in New York City Ellison a Roosevelt elector in 1904 reflects on changes in Iowa law and practice while recalling landmark cases including the Council Bluffs water dispute and evolving court methods.
In Littleport, custodian Fred Winch repairs students shoes in the school basement during spare moments. The makeshift shop has proven profitable for Winch and convenient for pupils.
Dean George F. Kay will be honored by geologists from the United States at the Geological Society of America convention in New York City on December 29. Kay led Iowa's geology department for 23 years and will give a speech and a national radio address over Mutual Broadcasting at 4 45 p m.
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