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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 06, 1935
Page
20
Des Moines AP report says lower Des Moines River nears 13.8 feet at Ottumwa with two week flood surge. Eighty families evacuated last week. tents house residents in city park colony as health officials cite insanitary conditions. Weather bureau warns another foot rise by Saturday.
Edmund Trambley, famed as a world champion body retriever, has recovered his 70th body from the St. Lawrence river in seven years. He spends years along the Montreal waterfront, fishing through ice in winter and rowing in warm weather, often finding drowned victims while awaiting bites.
Adlai Loudy of Johnson City Tennessee plans a Bible lecture series in the Community theater YMCA building starting Sunday at 3 p.m. The expositor tours the Midwest and will present scriptures only. Lectures at 3 and 7 45 p.m. daily Sunday through Friday with a Tuesday 3 p.m. question meeting. Lectures are free and open to all.
Nancy Page hosts Peter Page Junior’s seventh birthday on July 5 with a treasure hunt using eight piles of fifty pennies for each boy. The party includes ice cream, cake, and a plan to attend a local circus next week. The boys use neighbor yards for clues, leading to a pirate bag treasure.
Mr and Mrs Isaiah Pearson of Springville celebrate their golden wedding anniversary at home on Sunday. Married July 7 1885 at the Corbee homestead they have spent their life in the area. Eight wedding guests will attend a reception with many relatives and friends joining dinner and afternoon and evening gatherings.
Funeral services were held for Zenno Powell 81 at Mount Clark cemetery with burial in Cedar Rapids. Powell born July 4 1853 lived locally except for years in Nebraska his wife Sarah Talbert Bowman survives him. Also listed are siblings and several children and step relatives. In Manchester Miss Elvira Grohs and Roger Barnes to wed in Kenosha Wisconsin with reception in Dundee and plans to reside in Waterloo. A religious meeting series called Friendly Four is organized for Sugar Creek and Rochester area churches with officers and a new pastor for Sugar Creek.
Wallace Ivey, a local newspaperman, offered a farmer a dollar to kill a hen with his automobile. The farmer refused money at first but, hearing Ivey’s remark about being a gentleman, replied that he would instead take the dollar and act as the rascal.
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