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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 06, 1933
Page
7
Editor argues the $2,400 gopher bounty and high county levies burden taxpayers. Criticizes 7 mill relief levy, 2.5 mills for bonds, and lavish officials by comparing salaries, expenses, and a costly courthouse. Calls for trims, accountability, and action by Linn county legislators at Des Moines.
EF. E. Sisley of Palo, Ia praises Robert Quillen for gems of thought in The Gazette. He urges parents to train children in honesty virtue righteousness and kindness through the Golden Rule to shape America's future citizens.
The notices list Daniel Thompson 87 of Cedar Rapids died at home after a long illness. Other deaths include Miss Marie Waskow 21 of Cedar Rapids, Edward Burke who died in Arizona, Beverly Elaine Alexander, and a note on Tennessee per capita lumber consumption in 1930. Funeral details given for several, with cemeteries and churches named.
In Washington President Coolidge meets with engineers and a Chamber of Commerce committee to review agricultural reform items. He listens without notes, revisits seventeen points, and disposes of them in exact order, showing thorough mastery of the subject. Everett Sanders and Huntington observe the session.
Albert F. Holland, 36, war veteran and poet, who claimed he and actress Bebe Daniels had married in Mexico, was committed to a state hospital after Daniels and her husband Ben Lyon testified against him in court.
The Rev John O Grady of the Catholic university in Washington and the Rev R P Duggan director of Catholic charities for the Dubuque archdiocese met Thursday with Charles D Manson executive secretary of the Unemployment Relief committee to study Cedar Rapids unemployment relief plans. Father O Grady heads the National Conference of Catholic Charities and directs the national Child Welfare conference. The pair are touring the archdiocese to compare varied relief methods.
Court actions include a note suit settled in district court before Judge Ring. Mildred Lewis Hardin is granted a divorce from Ralph L. Hardin and reverts to her maiden name. Everett Robinson, 22, received a withheld one year sentence for motor vehicle without owner's consent, paroled to Rev. B H Lucas. George E Fuller will probated. executor George A Fuller appointed. bulk of estate to Mary Dedo or other relatives. will dated Sept 28 1932.
Wendell M. Delzell 17, son of Mr. and Mrs. Earl Delzell of 1830 Bever Ave, was designated by the war department as second alternate candidate from the Fifth Iowa district for West Point in July. Exams are March 7. Delzell, a Washington high school graduate and current University of Iowa freshman, competes with district alternates Robert Shepard and William Snouffer and the first alternate.
Announcements list items lost including black Buffels license coins purses and rings with contact numbers. Also ads for furnaces cleaned installed and repaired, chimney and general hauling, laundering and dry cleaning services with dialed phone numbers.
Local catalog lists 36 bicycles and various wheeled goods including motorcycles tricycles wagons roller skates sleds sidewalk bikes toy autos and planes sold by Morgan Bros at 810 Standard Avenue.
An ad offers half‑price taxes and insurance on wrecking and building projects. It promotes wood frame and brick construction, sale of bathroom fixtures, heating plants, doors, windows, cabinets, radiators, and lumber. Heather and House moving crews advertise wrecking and contracting with clearance on storm sash from Shaler Lumber Co.
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