First Presbyterian group wins Players' Cup in junior division
The First Presbyterian Players won the Community Players’ cup for the junior division of the playground commission’s one act play tournament. Cast included Valerie Konecny John Tellier Dorothy Leefers Paul Wagner Sara Lee Hosbacher and George Stone with Ralph Bachman directing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Presbyterian Players
Daisy
Germaine Haney
Community Players
Playground Commission
Fifth Street NE
Lael Abbott
Ralph Bachman
Valerie Konecny
John Tellier
Dorothy Leefers
Paul Wagner
Sara Lee Hosbacher
George Stone
Tull
Irene Navratil
Clara Flagle
Marie Petersmith
Mildred Loukath
Doris Blessing
Clyde Tull
Cornell College
University of Iowa
Home Building and Interior Design Classes by ISU and Cedar Rapids Chamber
A two day program at Cedar Rapids by the Chamber of Commerce and Iowa State College offers sessions on securing funds for home improvement redesigning interiors and updating furnishings. Experts from ISU cover financing planning landscaping and cost reduction with lectures on materials lighting heating and decor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Chamber of Commerce
Cedar Rapids
Iowa State College
L. D. Beckett
Iowa Federal Housing Administration
A. H. Kimball
I.S. C
Joanne M. Hansen
N. A. Morris
Tor
Garfield P.T.A. Card Party Aids Local Milk Fund
Garfield P T A hosts a benefit card party Monday at 8 p m in the I O O F hall 838 First avenue E to raise funds for milk for needy district children. The group has funded meals and aid for three years and will continue without Gazette support, following a survey of needs and lunch programs.
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Garfield P. T. A
First Avenue E
The
Gazette
Gazette Milk Fund
Uhem
Milk Drive Seeks Funds Through Card Party
Seventy children fed by a school city effort will need two more months of milk support as funds run out. A benefit card party sells twenty five cent tickets and offers prizes at each table plus door prizes to cover the child health program.
Collision on First Street Injures Goldstein and Others
E. Goldstein, 78, of 828 A Avenue NE, suffered head cuts after his car collided with a mobile and an oil truck at the First Street and First Avenue NE intersection. He rode with his son Harry. others involved were P. J. Buch and Leo Johnson in one car and LeRoy Keefe driving the oil truck. The wreck left the Goldstein car and the truck badly damaged.
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E. Goldstein
A Avenue
First Street
First Avenue
LeRoy Keefe
Sixth Avenue
First Avenue E
Goldstein
Buch
Post Office Clerks Restore Final Wage Cut By April First
Smiles were broad in the federal building as the last 5 percent of the 15 percent wage cut restoration takes effect April 1. A telegram from Gilbert Hyatt, legislative representative of the postal clerks and editor of the Union Postal Clerk, confirmed the restoration and urged rapid relay to all first and second class post offices in Iowa.
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Gilbert FE. Hyatt
Union Postal Clerk
Hyatt
LeRoy Hallam
Iowa State Federation of Post Office Clerks
Iowa
Mrs Nicholson To Speak At Methodist Conference
Mrs Evelyn Riley Nicholson of Mount Vernon will deliver the main address Thursday at 11 15 a m during the Davenport district Methodist conference at Trinity church. Other sessions include talks by Dr F W Court Rev W O Eckler and Dr H D Henry on pastoral visitation preaching and post high school groups. The day concludes with the sacrament of the Lord s Supper.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
W. Glenn Rowley
Davenport
Trinity Church
C. K. Hudson
Conrad
Evelyn Riley Nicholson
Mount Vernon
F. W. Court
St. John’s Church
W. O. Eckler
Tama
H. D. Henry
First Methodist Church
Iowa City
J. W. Walters
Marion Methodist Church
Arthur A. Brooks
St. Paul's Church
Cedar Rapids
R. C. Jerrill
Tipton
Miss Velma Schmidt Wins Declam at Earlville High
Velma Schmidt took first with Glory for Sale at the Earlville high school declamatory contest. Forrest Diesch placed second with a humorous reading and Lois Van Gerpen finished third. Burton Beyers of ISTC served as critic judge.
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Earlville
Velma Schmidt
Forrest Diesch
Lois van Gerpen
Burton Beyers
Clue Sought On Relatives Of War Veteran Byerly
In California on January 12 a U S Navy veteran George W Byerly died with only an envelope bearing the name George E Hiland Cedar Rapids IA as a possible link Hiland recalls a George Byerly once employed at Cedar Rapids Pump Co and wonders if others in Cedar Rapids knew him.
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George W. Byerly
U. S. Navy
California
George E. Hiland
Ninth Street
Cedar Rapids
Hiland
San Luis Obispo
George Byerly
Byerly
City Briefs And Personals Highlights
Local attorney David G. Bleakley will discuss National Defense at the Lions Club luncheon next Thursday at Hotel Montrose. George Berry of Cedar Rapids filed for bankruptcy with debts totaling 2 088 in federal court. James P. Gorden of Miles City Mont formerly Rock Island yardmaster visits Cedar Rapids. Firemen respond to a fumes fire from a broken hose at A H Gundling’s car causing limited loss. Otto William Code of Marengo seeks more time to pay debts totaling 25 831 with assets 10 885 and 2 340 exemption. Verle Mitchell 19 of Washington pled not guilty in police court to a charge.
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David G. Bleakley
National Defense
Lions Club
Montrose
George Berry
Cedar Rapids
James P. Gorden
Miles City
Mont
Rock Island
Mary McCue
Elizabeth Vause
Thirteenth Street
Gorden
Otto William Code
Marengo
Verle Mitchell
Washington
Iowa
Debunker: chess and mathematics differ in skill
The piece notes Sir Arthur Schuster arguing mathematics and chess share little in common. He observed great mathematicians can be poor at chess and strong chess players often lack mathematical prowess, despite numerous first four move possibilities.
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Arthur Schuster
British Association
Public Ledger, Inc
Valentine apron dance set by Ceske Vlastenky lodge
An orderly conduct charge leads to a Thursday trial for Mitchell arrested in a car with a 17 year old girl turned over to juvenile authorities. The Ceske Vlastenky lodge plans a Valentine apron dance Thursday afternoon February 14 at the C B P S hall with door prizes, cards, dancing, and refreshments. Free Theater Tickets are being awarded daily this month to readers named in Want Ads.
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Mitchell
Ceske Vlastenky Lodge
Swem duo to move to Chicago for editorial post
Edward R. Swem of 1611 First Avenue E leaves for Chicago to join the editorial staff of The National Provisioner. Mrs Swem will join him in Chicago around the first of March.
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Edward R. Swem
First Avenue E
Chicago
National Provisioner
Rebeck Appeals Dis orderly Conduct Guilty Found
Joe Rebeck was found guilty of dis orderly conduct in police court and fined $25 plus costs. An appeal bond was posted and his attorney said the case would be taken to a higher court.
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Joe Rebeck
Rebeck
District Court Fines For Disturbing The Peace And Intoxication
Cherry Leeper, 21, of 1516 K Street SW, cited for disturbing the peace and fined 25 dollars plus costs. John Blaine fined 10 dollars plus costs for intoxication. Alex Fidler and eighty five Gazette newsboys were guests of Manager John N. Krier at the State theater to see College Rhythm and Bachelor of Arts.
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District Court
Cherry Leeper
K_ street
John Blaine
Alex Fidler
Gazette
John N. Krier
Knights of Columbus Council No 909 to Meet Thursday
A special meeting of officers and members of Knights of Columbus council No 909 will be held Thursday at 8 p.m. at the K of C club. All members are urged to attend due to important discussion topics.
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Knights of Columbus Council No. 909
K. of C. Club
Duluth Little Theater to Present The Distaff Side in March
John Wray Young, production director and former Cedar Rapids resident, prepares The Distaff Side by John Van Druten for Duluth with a Broadway run planned simultaneously. He recently completed staging The Wind and the Rain by Merton Hodge.
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Duluth
Krenn attends First Avenue Holding meeting in Cedar Rapids
Edwin Krenn of Chicago and member of Krenn and Dato travels to Cedar Rapids for the annual meeting of the First Avenue Holding company at 2 p.m. Wednesday at the Hotel Roosevelt. Krenn sits on the board and holds substantial common stock in the holding company that owns the Hotel Roosevelt.
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Edwin Krenn
Chicago
Krenn
Display club hears Ellis on future gas discharge lighting
Arthur R. Ellis, designing engineer for Neon Industries, spoke Tuesday to the Crandie Display club at Hotel Montrose. He demonstrated future lighting effects of gas discharge tubes for display advertising. The Cedar Rapids and Iowa City group meets again March 12.
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Arthur R. Ellis
Neon Industries
Crandie Display Club
Montrose
Cedar Rapids
Iowa City
Ellis
Scout Committee Meeting Plans National Jamboree Delegation
W. J. Brown chairman calls Cedar Rapids area Boy Scouts National Jamboree committee to meet at 5 p m Wednesday at local Scout headquarters to plan sending a delegation to the national jamboree in Washington D C in August marking Scouting’s 25th anniversary
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W. J. Brown
Cedar Rapids
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First Presbyterian Group
Players’ Cup
Rhoda van Meter
Wallace Bixby
Paul B. Gard
Weare Holbrook
Flora van Buren
Kenneth Sawyer
Ben Hecht
Cedar Rapids Woman’s Club
Robert E. Campbell
Elizabeth Gale
Cedar Rapids Friendly Club
Edna Hopson
Cedar Rapids Woman's Club
Richt
Dorothy Dainty
America
Hermione
Barbara Barefax
Sheldon Fillenworth
Agatha Armstrong
Mildred Good
Wilheming
Ecessesesaes
Evelyn Kvatch Pal
Florence Scott
Max Bloom
Charles Gunn Lewis Mendelsohn
Theodore Munger
Sol Garfinkle
Alan Edwards
Yetta Labousky
Joseph Sinako Badle
Charles Gunn
M. QO
Ulang
Albert Bell
George A. Wetzel
Bell
O. H. Lundquist Philip Flick
Donald Burgess
Sylvia Bell
Mary Pratt
Hazel Henderson
Dorothy Felger
Nurito
Joanne M. Hanson
Applied Arts
I. S.C
L. J. Murphy
Engineering Extension Service
Garfield
P.T.A
Carl Walser and
Ethelyn Conyett
Dubuque
Memorial Coliseum
Posal
FHA
Hatch & Brookman Lumber Company
8Th Ave
Hawkeye Lumber & Coal Company
F Avenue NW
Home Lumber Company
6Th St
Limback Lumber Company
3Rd St. NE
Nagle-Eaton Lumber Company
7Th St. NE
Ogden Lumber Company
32Nd St. Dr. SE
Wisconsin Lumber Company
3Rd Ave
Williams & Hunting Company
Ist St. SW
Evelyn Nicholson
Central Park Church
Pamplet
Robert Downing
Fifth Avenue
Eighth Street
A. H. Gundling
Twenty-second Street
John Harvey Furbay
Ph.d
Trade Magazine
Newsies
K. C’s
First Ave. Co
Scout Committee
Cedar Rapids Gas Co
Third Street
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