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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1934
Page
15
Church notices list multiple congregations with service times and speakers. The Churches on First and Fifth avenues SE and nearby streets feature sermons by ministers Judson Austin and Hruby, with Bible studies, BYP events, and prayer meetings. Immaculate Conception and St. Ludmila list Mass times and confessions, along with parish details and resident clergy. A Tuesday evening Bible study titled Saved and a Jonah meditation theme are also noted.
A digest lists worship times for First Church of Christ Scientist, First United Presbyterian, Church of the Brethren, Church of Christ, Nazarene, Church of God, Congregational, Episcopal, Evangelical, and Christian Endeavor groups. Services include morning worship, sermons, Sunday schools, midweek prayers, and open air or special programs, with ministers named and locations given for venues in SE and NW districts.
The notice lists multiple services at different churches. The Sackett pastors conduct Sunday school at 9 45 a m and morning worship, with crusader and evening evangelistic services. Other events include midweek study, men's and class meetings, children's church, and a tabernacle gathering six miles north of Cedar Rapids with speaker Cordelia Peterson.
A. J. Stokes, pastor, conducts morning worship on Fifth Avenue at Third Street SW with an 11 sermon Is There Justice in This Life. Sunday school at 2 pm and evening worship at 7 30. An old fashioned Methodist prayer and testimony meeting is planned Thursday at 7 30 p.m.
A dense listing shows Latter Day Saints and Reorganized Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints on Fifth Street SE with pastor Levi Pennington, plus Trinity Missouri Synod Lutheran on First Avenue and Fourteenth Street SW with Pastor Bornhoeft. Other churches include First United Church of Christ, Saron, St Paul, Kenwood Park, Westminster, and more, detailing service times, Sunday school, picnics, league meetings, and midweek events across locations like Iowa River area and various avenues and streets.
The Rev. Frank Hel mich pastor at avenue SW announces Sunday school at 9 a.m. Morning service at 10 a.m. Sermon topic The Blessed Man. No evening services.
Ensign and Mrs. H M Uptegrove oversee services at 1030 Seventh Street SE. Sunday includes Holiness service at 11 a.m. Sunday school at 2 30 p.m. and evening service at 8 p.m. Young people's legion meets at 6 30 p.m. Other events include Tuesday 8 p.m. public service Thursday 7 30 p.m. Young people's Bible class Friday 7 30 p.m. and Saturday 8 p.m. public service.
The Rev Francis K Ward founder and The Rev Frank H Ward superintendent lead a church program at 121 123 Second Street NE with Sunday school at 3 pm Bible classes for children Tuesday 4 pm women’s class Thursday 1 30 pm and other Bible study meetings through the week including evangelistic services 8 pm evenings and a Monday cottage prayer meeting at 2 pm.
Sabbath school at 9 45 a.m. with lesson on Asa Belief on God. Morning worship at 11 a.m. sermon by H W Ward of Coe college. Y P at 5 and C E at 6 30 p.m. First Fourth Avenue at Seventh Street SE.
First Third avenue at Second Street SW hosts Rev W Greer Mc Cory pastor with Bible school at 9 45 a m morning worship at 11 a m sermon God and Our Daily Life Y P G U at 6 30 p m and union service at 7 30 p m with pageant What Doth It Profit The Sacrament of the Lord's supper at 11 a m. Grande Avenue Grande avenue at Sixteenth street SE led by Rev Samuel M Morrow with Sabbath school at 9 45 a m public worship at 11 a m sermon The Parable of the Eagle Prayer meeting Wednesday 7 30 p m.
Anne Adams pattern 1799 offers navy blue voile options with surplice front revers and pleated net frills in sizes 34 through 46. The ad notes fabric yardage for size 36 and includes illustrated sewing instructions and a summer pattern book for 15 cents, book and pattern together 25 cents, Cedar Rapids Gazette pattern dept New York City.
The Unity Center at 728 Fourth Avenue SE lists Rev. Goldie C. Richardson leading Sunday school at 9 30 a.m and morning worship at 11 with an Evening Lecture at 8 on The Use of Limitlessness. Weekly talks include Wednesday and Thursday Lessons in Truth at 8 p.m and 2 30 p.m with a Friday prosperity lecture at 8 p.m. The reading room opens daily from 9 a.m. offering metaphysical literature access.
A B Eubanks, student secretary of William Jewell College at Liberty Missouri, will speak at the 1045 service Sunday at the First Baptist church. He will address a federation meeting in Shellsburg and visit pastors in the Mid-Eastern Iowa Baptist association July 8 to 15. He speaks to a Muscatine youth group Wednesday evening Boone Friday evening and Marshalltown Sunday forenoon July 15, then attends the Iowa Baptist state assembly July 15 to 27.
Four tugmen were drowned and four rescued when the Monarch of Nicholson Transit overturned in the St. Clair river near Port Huron Michigan. The dead were Capt Richard Mc Dougall Manuel Larin 2nd engineer Duane Precious and another fireman named Bernaird.
A dense grid of radio schedule items lists stations CBS NBC and ABC networks with time slots and performers. It features orchestras like Lombarda and Johnson, soloists, choirs, and bands across CBS WCCO WMT WEAF WJZ and more, spanning morning to late evening with varied genres.
Washington reports Secretary of the Navy Claude Swanson will order removal of torpedoes and gear from eight 10,000 ton heavy cruisers at Newport News this month. Admirals favored discarding the weapon as impractical and dangerous, noting misfires and enemy hits risk lives. Destroyers and light cruisers will retain torpedoes.
President Roosevelt issued an executive order delaying restoration of the final 5 per cent of the 15 per cent federal pay cut for six months. The action followed a cost of living survey showing current costs about 20.2 per cent below the 1928 peak. The last year’s 15 per cent cut had begun with 5 per cent restored February 1, and another 5 per cent on July 1.
After Tama county sheriff visited Ogden Utah resident Jack Sheafer at a local hospital on Friday night authorities ruled he was not among the Toledo jailbreakers from July 32. Sheafer died of meningitis and his body was sent to Turner's mortuary. Utah authorities later identified him as Nick Marks son of James Marks. no other facts available. Two men accompanied him to the hospital Wednesday then disappeared and remain unidentified.
Relatives of Ida Hansen a 50 year old Columbus milliner have started a search after her year long disappearance. Letters from Hansen say she married and planned to travel to South America with an unnamed husband. A business deal involving C D Neal tied to the case and a $10 000 bond purchase is being reviewed. Passport checks show she had not left the country.
Notice is hereby given that on the 6th day of 1934 the pinder signed has been appointed and qualified Executor of the estate of Jacob Kocher, deceased, Linn County Iowa. All persons indebted to said estate urged to pay promptly. Claims must be filed in the Linn County District Court office. Carl McArthur, Executor. Donnelly Lynch Anderson Lynch, Attorneys.
A short verse in dialect portrays a son's wife visiting a doctor while the mother suggests she seeks material gifts rather than illness. The poem captures rural family dynamics and financial pressures through a humorous lens.
The Arthur M. Gelden company of Chicago won the Cedar Rapids federal building painting contract for 4473 dollars with a 2250 dollar bond. Bids were opened in Washington June 1. a protest by Cedar Rapids Master Painters cited the low bid as impractical and questioned local impact under the NRA. Broulck Brothers bid 6689 dollars. Commercial Painting Service of Chicago bid 4690 dollars.
Berlin fAP report notes former Kaiser Wilhelm II aged 75 has a great grandchild. The birth of a daughter to Prince Wilhelm of Prussia, son of the former crown prince, follows his controversial June 1933 marriage to Dorothea von Salviati. The note stirs talk of Hohenzollern succession amid disputed house laws and lingering claims.
About 100 local residents plan to attend the Town State Grotto annual meeting and picnic at Spencer park in Burlington Sunday. Delegates from Ambar Grotto Cedar Rapids, plus attendees from Dubuque Davenport Des Moines Ottumwa Council Bluffs and other cities, total over 1500. Miles S Gregory supreme monarch of Los Angeles will be welcomed by Claude Sparks state president. The program includes an 11 am meeting, officer election, a hand concert and athletic events led by Chris Miller, with the Ambar Grotto band directed by Wes Mokress.
Frank and Fred Eyerly of Sodtown were jailed in Cedar Rapids on charges of assault with intent to commit great bodily injury after a Central City fight. Bond set at 1500, not posted. Belligerents accused in a quarrel over a woman. Bremer beaten, hospitalized. Sheriff Petrus held the pair for the grand jury.
All city council members except Dan Kruidemier visited the Sinclair packing plant Saturday morning to study sewage disposal experiments aimed at pretreating packing house wastes before they join the main sewer system.
Open house at the Y W C A from 3 to 6 p m Sunday honors Mrs Violet Starr McLeod with Kenneth and Martha McLeod of Los Angeles as guests of honor. McLeod formerly Fillmore school principal. Hostesses include Mrs Jessie Baird Jennie Post and Jane Houghton.
Dr and Mrs Robert Little and daughter Dorothy came back Friday from Wabash Indiana where they visited at their former home over the Fourth of July holiday. The family lives at 2166 Blake boulevard SE.
Miss Jane Fagan, guest of Miss Betty Venhorst, left for Chicago to spend the summer. A dancing party at Cedar View Golf club and a bridge event hosted by Miss Delores Fagan plus a dinner by Miss Venhorst marked the week of entertainments in her honor.
Miss Leone Sedlak hosted a lawn party and shower for Grace Sedlak at 1554 Eighth avenue SE. Guests and family, including Grace Sedlak and Everette Bowen, attended games, gifts were exchanged, and a mock wedding was staged as part of the evening.
Mr. and Mrs. Chris J. Miller of 1217 A avenue NW and R. J. Hurka of 287 Fourteenth avenue SE returned from an eastern trip. They attended the Ambar Grotto convention in Atlantic City and visited Washington D C and New York.
The Rev. Dr. C. F. Checizzli, Ethiopian church priest visiting Mount Zion Baptist Church, will give four talks Sunday at Calvary and Mount Zion on topics about Christ, race and morality. He follows an Oxford education and addressed issues of prejudice and progress.
Max Baer announces a California benefit bout in a few months for Frankie Campbell's widow. The heavyweight champ will surrender gate earnings to Mrs Campbell, while manager Ancle Hoffman searches for an opponent during Baer’s ten week coast tour. He calls Campbell’s death after a bout with him the freakest tragedy of his life and praises the widow as brave and great hearted.
Mr and Mrs Elmer Cejka were guests of honor at a party given by the teachers of the Saron Lutheran Sunday school at the Samuel son home 703 Seventh Street S The group included those who taught with Mrs Cejka the former Miss Lillie Samuelson during her nine years on the Sunday school staff The Rev O Ti Engquist expressed good wishes and presented a gift after which refreshments were served
Guests at the James Dale home over the Fourth included Mr. and Mrs. W. R. Wickham Mr. and Mrs. Mervin L. Myers and their daughter Ruth Dr. C. E. Beeman and Clifford Wells. Another recent guest was Mrs. Minnie Binley of Monticello.
Mr. and Mrs. C. H. Palmer and their children Junior and Richard of Minneapolis have returned after visiting Mrs. Palmer's brother William Shimek at 1324 Nineteenth Avenue SW. They were accompanied by Aretha Shimek who will spend a month in Minneapolis.
Mr and Mrs P D Merveaux and their family of 1731 Higley Avenue BE along with Miss Mary Trzil have just returned from a three weeks fishing trip to Clear Lake.
From Winnipeg Mrs Blors Brockelager and Mr Dudley both of Winnipeg visit in the I Garrison home at 1645 First Avenue East.
Mr and Mrs Kenneth Bartlett of Montevideo Minnesota and their family spent the week with Frances Bartlett at 1815 Sixth avenue SE. They left Friday to visit relatives in Illinois and Wisconsin and to attend A Century of Progress.
Funeral services for Mrs. John Miller will be held at a Paris church Sunday at 2 p.m. Burial will follow in Blodgett Cemetery. She died Friday morning after years of illness born Mary Frebois in Germany on September 16, 1858. She married John Miller and had seven children, five surviving with the husband: Mrs. Oliver Domer Central City Fred Daukert Cedar Rapids Mrs. Harold Matthews Leaf River Illinois Mrs. Clyde Matthews Erie Illinois and Mrs. Joe Miller Sterling Mil.
The Swisher Trust and Savings Bank in Johnson County Iowa presents its year end financials as of June 30 1934. It lists resources total 9277014 48 including cash from banks and securities 2 000 00 and 3 000 00 in furniture assets with liabilities total 277014 48 and capital stock 400 00 surplus 210500 00 and undivided profits 031443 89. The report is sworn by President W J Netolicky M D Vice President Joseph O Coufal Cashier Chas J Ross and Assistant Cashier Jerry Byes and notarized by Adeline A Koss on July 5 1934.
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