Waukon sees building boom with 120000 in improvements
Special to The Gazette reports Waukon shows strong growth in building improvements with farms, churches, shops, and residences totaling 120000. Projects include Farmers Co Op Creamery 20000 City Service station 10000 St Patrick's church 5000 and many residences. The coming year plans add a new public school theater and park lake project with potential federal aid.
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Waukon
Armers Co-Op
R. C. Bakkum
Cities
E. A. Leschensky
L. C. Harden
E. H. Thiele
Farley Brothers
Steele
O. J. Moe
St. Patrick’s Church
E. F. Kroack
Don Klinkel
Lydia Schuker
Emmett Sullivan
B. O. Swebakken
Carl Berg
William Haines
Mid-Continent Oil Company
S. and D. Cafe
Hale and Sons
Grand Hotel
Presbyterian Church
Pioneer Fire Company
J. B. McCullough
D. F. Duggan
City of
Jake Davis
Iowa Briefs Highlight county road rock crusher purchase
Independence settlers note Buchanan county supervisors bought a 100 to 200 cubic yard daily rock crusher from Diamond Iron Works for 5075 dollars to surface 3500 yards of secondary roads with WPA labor. Colesburg and Rowley report church and funeral notices plus local officer elections. Maquoketa and Manchester cover G A R and Rainbow activities, while Wheatland marks a 56th wedding anniversary and postmaster history.
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Independence
Buchanan County Board of Supervisors
Diamond Iron Works
Minneapolis
WPA
Colesburg
Methodist Sunday School
H. H Barnhart
Harley Hansel
Verda Evers
Lillian Staiger
E.E. Clements
Leland Grimes
Robert Wessel
E. M Moser
Herald Welsh
Watson Gull
Emil Irmscher
Rowley
Floyd Kline
R. S Phillips
Cedar Rapids
Charles C. Mershan
Rosemend
Prentice Freeman
Maynard
C. Rabenberg
Presbyterian Church
H. E. Worman
Fred Hillman
I. A Morey
L. T. Swartzel
E. R. Vargason
W. P. Millhouse
Michael
Grace Rosecrans
Mabel Wells
Martin
Reeves
Johnson
Elgin Couple to Celebrate Their 58th Anniversary
ELGIN Mr and Mrs Franc DeSart will observe their fully eighth wedding anniversary Monday at their home in Elgin. The couple were married in Elgin and have lived there most of their married life. They have four children and twelve grandchildren. Mrs DeSart is active in local Ladies Aid and cemetery work.
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Elgin
Franc DeSart
California
DeSart
Ida Pringle
George
Jane Limburner Pringle
Akron
Ed Pringle
Oakland
Calif
Frank
Clayton
Clermont
Mr DeSart
John
Phoebe Conner DeSart
Clayton County
Math
West Union
DeSarts
Roy F. DeSart
Ralph
Florence Brubeck
Yuba City
Calf
Ray
Ladies Aid Society
Elgin Cemetery Association
Reverend Henry Scherer Early Scout Leader and Advocate
The Rev. Henry Scherer of Cedar Rapids First Lutheran emerged as a devoted Boy Scout pioneer. His decades of troop formation, merit badge work, and district service culminated in a twenty year veteran award while his early efforts spurred troops from Tekamah Nebraska to Fort Calhoun and Greenleaf Kansas. He earned numerous badges, endured long studies, and balanced parish duties with Scout leadership.
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Henry Scherer
Cedar Rapids First Lutheran Church
Midas
Mr. Scherer
Boy Scout Movement
Tekamah
Neb
Cedar Rapids
Herman
Fort Calhoun
Hildreth
Greenleaf
Kan
Teka
Mah
Scout Scherer
Midland College
Western Theological Seminary
Fremont
Omaha
Fremont Area
Kountze Memorial Lutheran Church of
First Lutheran
Sedalia
Scherer
New Books At Public Library
Public Library shelves welcome a mix of new titles by West Quinn Chesterton and Needham. Notable entries include Modern Book Collecting for the Impecunious Amateur and Pamela's Daughters, among others by Utter, Brasel, Maxim and Eastman.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Public
H. F. West
Pamela
Robert Palfrey Utter
Gwendolyn B. Needham
Richardson
A. H. Quinn
Quinn
William D. Howells
Wier Mitchell
George W. Cable
Francis Hopkinson Smith
Dorothy Canfield Fisher
Zona Gale
B. L. Brasel
Pushkin
Gogol
Dostoievsky
G. K. Chesterton
James Jeans
Ol’ Man River
Billy Bryant
Ohio
Mississippi
Obituary: Clinton B Hughes of Bloomington Ill
Funeral services for Clinton B Hughes were held at the Congregational church in Strawberry Point with burial in the local cemetery. Born July 16 1876 he practiced law in Strawberry Point Arlington and West Union, held mayoral posts, and served as Fayette County attorney and assistant to the attorney general. He was married twice and survived by eight children and his mother. The note adds a wartime speaking record and a closing industry fact.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Strawberry Point
Clinton B. Hughes
Bloomington
Ill
Carrie V. Lucas
Mr. Hughes
University of Iowa
Arlington
West Union
Magdalena Opperman
Harry Heylin
Launemen
Donald M. Hughes
Michigan
Harold Hughes
Sterling
Irving Fineman
Shaftsbury
Theodore
Paul
Dorothy Jane
Clinton
Ida Hughes
Marion Area Community Event Listings and Local Notices
Local ministers invite families to a Cedar Rapids Y M C A conference at 3 p m and a mass meeting at Coe chapel at 8 p m with Dr Albert Buckner Coe and Paul H Douglas as speakers. Various clubs meetings and social events are noted including picnics, installations, and church gatherings across Marion Cedar Rapids and nearby areas. The Wilson high school team visits Marion for a basketball game with a 7 00 p m curtain raiser and 8 00 p m main event.
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Cedar, Rapids Y, M. C. A
Coe Chapel
Albert Buckner Coe
First Congregational Church
Oak Park, Ill
Paul H. Douglas
Chicago University
Wilson High School
Cedar Rapids
Marion
AtalisSsa O E S and Masonic Lodge Install Officers
Joint installation of officers conducted Friday night by the O E S and Masonic lodge. Installed were Worthy Matron Jennie Bjork Worthy Patron Bert Kline Associate Matron Elizabeth Turner Associate Patron Frank Depping Secretary Clella Kline Treasurer Pearl Chapman Conductress Luella Federlein Associate Conductress Gladys Lindle Chaplain Emma Worrall Marshal Addie Collison Organist Marjorie Kline Adah Nita Miller Ruth Edith Schnier Esther Irmas Smith Martha Florence Gregg Electa
Mt Moriah chapter Eastern Star to install 1937 officers
Anamosa Lydia Humpal will serve as installing matron and Zola Fegan as installing marshal for Mt Moriah chapter Eastern Star 1937 officers. Installing officers include Dorothy Corwin as worthy matron Lloyd Lowry as worthy patron Maude Lowry as associate matron and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Anamosa
Lydia Humpal
Zola Fegan
Mt. Moriah
Eastern Star
Dorothy Corwin
Lloyd Lowry
Maude Lowry
Tom Loder
Bertha Wilson
Roland Manuel
Frances Westfall
Beulah Walton
Ollie Hopkins
Roberta Livingston
Madge Lachappelle
Adah
Beatrice Lawrence
Ruth
Phyllis
Pendergraft
Esther
Elizabeth Sigworth
Martha
Verlye Purcell
Electa
Elsie Deyo
Warder
Virginia van Kirk
Sentinel
Alfred Walton
Sigourney Rebekah Lodge Installs New Officers
SIGOURNEY Miss Edythe Robinson 22 daughter of Mrs Clara Robinson was installed as noble grand of the local Rebekah lodge Friday evening. Other officers installed include Lucy Smith as right supporter Mary Kleinschmidt as left supporter Helen Heilman as vice grand Marie Webb as left supporter Kate Goeldner as right supporter Gertrude Dunker as warden Mrs Everett Schimmelpfennig as conductress Alice Jacobson as chaplain Bernice Kuhn as inside guard Adah Coon as outside guard. The Sigourney lodge was organized in 1895. Mrs John Cassens is the outgoing noble grand.
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Sigourney
Edythe Robinson
Clara Robinson
Rebekah Lodge
Lucy Smith
Mary Kleinschmidt
Helen Heilman
Marie Webb
Kate Goeldner
Gertrude Dunker
Everett Schimmelpfennig
Alice Jacobson
Bernice Kuhn
Adah Coon
Sigourney Lodge
John Cassens
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Iowa News
Dice
Mrs Wells
Manchester
Ray E Glew
Milo Township
Harry D Crippen
Crippen
Court House
R. F. Hockaday
Farmers and Merchants Savings
Farmers Savings Bank
Delhi Savings Bank
Community Savings Bank
Edgewood
Citizens’ State Bank
Hopkinton
State Bank of
Earlville
Maquoketa
Beth Harrington
Order of Rainbow
Margaret Joiner
Lola Wirth
Verna Mae Brady
Marion Sayers
Charity
Geraldine Easton
Faith
Jean Turnquist
É Hope
Margaret McCarthy
Wheatland
Frank W. Buxton
Gazette
Minnesota
Wheatland Gazette
Buxton
Babcork
Perry
Geln Thompson
Wheatand
Toledo
Tama County
George H. Struble
Ernestine Struble
George H. Stru
Mrs. Franc DeSart
Lle, Jr
Jean Struble
C. R. Hempy
Montour
Bernice Hempy
Doris
Helen
Darlene Hempy
Robert Hempy
Joseph Wacha
Enry Y
Noins
Fred C. Henson
Hiram Percy Maxim
Clarence Day
Hiram Stevens Maxim
Max Eastman
Eastman
Charlie Chaplin
Will Rogers
Groucho Marx
W. C. Fields
James Thurber
Marion News
Electa Circle of the
King’s Daughters
Glenn Kinser
Youth Temperance Council
Concord Agriculture and Literary Club
C. C. Scott
Miss Milda Culver
Jolly Dozen
The
Railway Mail Association of
Cedar Rapids and
Star of Maine
First Avenue
Robert Mitchell Woman's Relief Corps No. 126
Memorial Hall
U. S
H. B. Hammond
Clifford Burns
A. J. Taube
Cc. L. Wiley
Irving Drake
Carl Falcon
Harley Erwin
D. I. Hoskins
Russell Singleton
M. Cleland
Hotel Roosevelt
William Fowler
A. E. Granger
Franklin
Ind
Congregational Church
Oscar Martin
Excelsior Agriculture and Literary Club
Clude
Harry Dunn
Carl L. Wiley
St. Paul's Evangelical Lutheran Church
Linn
Order of DeMolay
Masonic Temple
Rural Garden Club
Fred McShane
Pollard
Lincoln School
Eugene Alleman
la Grange, Ill
la Grange
Michigan Press Association
East Lansing
Mich
Alleman
Rowena Brown
E. E. Parsons
525
Eleventh Street
Elizabeth Baker
Watcher
Zola Oepping
Charles Turener
Masons
Nels Bjork
Ww. M
Grant Smith
S. W
George Chapman
Frank Oepping
Charles Turner
Little Pelton
Smulekoff
Simmons
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