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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jan 09, 1938
Page
28
Linn county relief and WPA figures for December 1937 show a ten percent drop from December 1936, with 1 172 total relief cases and 934 jobless aid cases including 105 WPA supplements. Medical aid reached 627 cases, while 18 new old age pensions were issued.
Friday night meetings of Ambar Grotto and its auxiliary elected new officers. Ambar Grotto slate includes Monarch Earl L. Davis and other posts such as Otto F. Slapnicka chief justice and L. J. Vondracek secretary. Auxiliary leaders named President Mrs. Frank J. Danberg and Mrs. Scott Hammond as vice president. Joint installation followed with officers from both groups taking oaths amid music by Mrs. L. W. Herdlicka and Mrs. William Lana.
Saron Lutheran Church held its annual congregational meeting. Victor Sundberg and Edwin W. Lundquist were elected deacons for three years, Gilbert Fjellman for two years, and G. A. Johnson for 1938. Trustees reduced from nine to six, deacons increased from four to six.
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