Municipal Salaries Debate Shapes Cedar Rapids Budget
Finance Commissioner L. D. Burgus spoke on taxation and our mortgaged future at a High Twelve luncheon. An open forum followed with members opposing city control over municipal salaries and questioning the need for more bonds and higher taxes to fund pensions and a proposed Iowa law setting police and firemen wages at 175 dollars monthly.
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L. D. Burgus
High Twelve
Burgos
Iowa
Cedar Rapids
United States
Tommy Corcoran Undergoes Appendectomy at Johns Hopkins
Thomas Corcoran special counsel to the reconstruction finance corporation rested comfortably at Johns Hopkins hospital in Baltimore after a successful appendectomy.
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Baltimore
Thomas Corcoran
Reconstruction Finance Corporation
Johns Hopkins Hospital
If all went well and blossoms stayed in spring
A compact verse contemplates perpetual spring and perpetual calm. It warns that without fear sorrow or effort life would dull, urging courage and faith amid hardship and death. The poem closes with a prayer for aid and grace.
J B White Former Cedar Rapids Resident Dies in California
John Burleigh White a former Cedar Rapids resident died January 19 at his San Pedro California home after a lingering illness. Born 1855 in Dorsetshire England he lived in Cedar Rapids from 1872 and worked in water service for BCR and N and later Rock Island North Western. He is survived by his wife Ada two daughters eight grandchildren and three great grandchildren a son preceded him in death and he leaves a sister a brother and many nieces and nephews Burial was in Ingleside cemetery.
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John Burleigh White
Cedar Rapids
San Pedro
Calif
Dorsetshire
England
Canada
Water Service Department
Rock Island
North Western
Boone
White
Ada
John Campbell
San Diego
Earle Robins
Redlands
Calf
Arthur B
George Sheibley
Huntington Park
Alfred H
Masonic
Eastern Star
Baptist Church
Ingleside Cemetery
Man Signed Another’s Name To Cash $4 Check
John Votroubek 44 of Swisher is accused of signing the name of farmer John Vostral to a $4 check and cashing it at Fritz food market. He told Constable Bill Fleming the other man owed him $4. Votroubek is jailed awaiting a hearing before Justice H Churchill.
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John Votroubek
Swisher
Votroubek
Bill Fleming
John Vostral
Fritz
Fleming Vostral
Justice H. Churchill
Two Suffer Injuries In Falls On Icy Walks
Safety officials warned citizens to watch footing as icy conditions caused two injuries. C R Hedberg, secretary to the board of education, fractured his left leg in a fall at Sev enteenth street and Seventh avenue SE at 5 30 p m and was taken to St Luke's hospital by the Ambulance Service. Mrs K H Kaemmerle, 431 remained unnamed here.
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Twenty-sixth Street
St. Luke's
W. C. Benesh
C. R. Hedberg
Eighth Avenue SE
Board of Education
Seventeenth Street
Seventh Avenue SE
St. Luke’s Hospital
K. H. Kaemmerle
Holub suit tests ownership of horses in conversion case
Court proceedings in a $1,000 conversion suit before Judge H. C. Ring heard testimony from multiple Holub family witnesses and John D. Holub. The plaintiff alleges Charles Litts bought horses from Joseph D. Holub, then sold them, while Litts contends Joseph had possession and implied ownership through pasturing arrangements.
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H. C. Ring
John M. Holub
Prairieburg
Charles Litts
Mount Vernon
Albert M. Holub
Antone L. Holub
Sylvester Holub
John A. Robertson
John D. Holub
Overs Litts
Joseph D. Holub
Littl
Lindeken and Carpenter Move to Modify Dairy Injunctions
Elmer F Lindeken and Carl Carpenter filed motions to modify temporary injunctions obtained January 17 by their former employer Searles Dairy. The petitions seek to bar milk and dairy business solicitation through their former employment associations.
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Elmer F. Lindeken
Carl Carpenter
Searles Dairy
Searles Route Men Challenge Broadness of Injunction
Lindeken and Carpenter argue the injunctions are too broad and bar acts within their rights. They claim the orders ban activities allowed by their prior dairy employment agreement, restricting solicitation or distribution in Searles territory for six years after leaving.
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Searles Concern
Lindeken
Carpenter
Searles
Pbcra
Arm strong Clothing Co Seeks Dismissal In Nolan Suit
In a $1,517.25 oral contract action filed by Charles D. Nolan well driller on Sept 8, Armstrong Clothing company asks for dismissal of Nolan's petition and a set-off and counterclaim judgment of $1,240.82. The defendant claims Nolan failed to supply water at 56 degrees or cooler for an air conditioning system and the counterclaimant says the water temperature was covered by the agreement and funds were spent to obtain proper depth and conditions. Nolan alleged total contract cost of $3,017.25 with $1,500 already paid.
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Charles D. Nolan
Armstrong Clothing Company
Nolan
Hearing set on Benton county farm sale by Bates receiver
Judge John T. Moffitt schedules February 10 at 10 a.m. for an application by D W Bates receiver of Cedar Rapids Savings Bank to sell a Benton county farm property with an $8150 offer from M A Hall. Judge H C Ring fixes February 9 at 9 a.m. for Bates receiver of Iowa State Savings Bank Cedar Rapids to compromise a $6792.17 note claim against Kad.
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D. W. Bates
Cedar Rapids Savings Bank and Trust Company
Benton County
John T. Moffit
M. A. Hall
H. C. Ring
Bates
Iowa State Savings Bank of
Cedar Rapids
Kad
Grant Township Vagrancy Case Sentenced by Judge Haas
Herbert Hadley alias James Grant, 24, picked up by police on vagrancy charges. Judge H C Ring sentenced him to six months in county jail on Thursday, suspended with Hadley ordered to stay out of the county. Lee Brothers co partnership of John Kadlee Jr and Joe Kadlee registered at $2 250. Grant township by Judge C J Haas Thursday.
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Lee
Herbert Hadley
James Grant
Negi
Janne Oy
H.C. Ring
Hadley
Divorces Sought By Steinke And Pisel Couples
Elsie Steinke seeks divorce from Arthur Steinke on cruel and inhuman grounds. They married at Nashua on November 10, 1935. In a separate partition filing, Mrs. Steinke seeks a homestead between herself and her husband. Lorna Ellen Pisel files for divorce from John William Pisel on cruel and inhuman grounds. They married October 26, 1938, and she asks to restore her name as Lorna Ellen Jones.
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Elsie Steinke
Arthur Steinke
Nashua
Marietta Winsor Receives $5200 Claim in Estate
In the estate of Charles A. Winsor a claim was allowed for Marietta Winsor and sister for board, room, and nursing care from April 1, 1913 to April 1, 1938 totaling $5,200. The ruling confirms their entitlement as executors or beneficiaries under the will.
Man Charged With Embezzlement Released On Bond
D McNeil 41 of Cedar Rapids, called Negro, is freed on a 600 bond after being charged with embezzling a mortgaged car without mortgagee consent. Receiver D W Bates of Commercial Savings Bank Marion waved a $980.50 note suit filed Sept 3, 1936 against R Guy Martin and Fannie Lorene Martin.
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D. McNeil
Cedar Rapids
McNeil
D. W. Bates
Commercial Savings Bank of
Marion
R. Guy Martin
Fannie Lorene Martin
Backbone Of Hunger Strike Is Broken At San Quentin
San Quentin California INS reports the hunger strike by 2700 of 5266 inmates was ended as 133 holdouts stayed in cells and received half a loaf after rejecting Warden Court Smith’s offer. Morning meals and work assignments resumed with most cons joining the mess hall.
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San Quentin Prison
Calif
INS
Court Smith
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