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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1934
Page
23
Delivery of the July Cedar Rapids telephone directory started Friday morning with about thirty men, including recruits from the unemployed, and will complete by Saturday noon barring bad weather. A local distribution company holds the contract and Northwestern Bell reports 750 more patrons than the last directory.
About fifty state legislators and political scientists convened a two day conference in Iowa City to discuss issues in the state police and welfare system. The American Political Science Association sponsors the sessions, which were closed to the public and featured numerous legislators and scholars from Iowa and neighboring states.
The Keokuk county old age pension board includes A. L. Humes What Cheer B J Byrne Keota and Margaret Meyer emergency relief worker The board will meet Monday and Tuesday at the courthouse to receive pension applications and will receive suppositions each Tuesday thereafter.
Will Rogers mocks Senator Borah as a self styled statesman who won’t be tied to any party bills. He notes Borah’s winter with the Democrats and hints Borah may return to the Republicans or stay independent.
The school board sold $100,000 of refunding bonds to Merchants National Bank on Thursday afternoon to lock in savings amid a strong market. President E R Moore said paying about $500 extra interest is worth it to secure current rates. the issue retires eight years later, with $108,000 due this fall from a prior Wilson bond issue.
North English notices honor Mrs. Lillie Thomas 72 who died after a long illness leaving five children and surviving relatives including three daughters and two sisters. Funeral services were in the Christian church led by Rev. L. R. Hudson. Whittier hosts a community shower for newlyweds Mildred Rockwell Hoge and Arnold Hoge as they begin life in the Clarence DeWees house.
Two badgers captured days earlier by John A. Carson of Troy Mills were turned over to Bever Park zoo in Cedar Rapids. Carson spotted them digging in a corn field, captured both with a strap tether, and delivered them to local officials before their transfer to the Cedar Rapids facility.
The play What Shall It Profit will be produced at the union meeting of west side churches at United Presbyterian church Sunday at 7 30 pm. Presented by the Church of the Brethren players it has been shown in Cedar Rapids and nearby areas. Ruth Stoner acts as production manager with cast changes including Mrs Galen T Lehman and Mrs O S Long. Special quartet music will precede the performance.
Examinations for old age pension investigators will be held at Grant high school on July 10 11 12 and 13 replacing the previously announced dates. The week of July 8 was the intended period but exact dates shifted. Funeral services for Mrs Hugh Jones 47 a lifelong resident of Columbus Junction were held at Salem Welsh church with burial at Cambrian cemetery. She was born August 7 1886 and married Hugh Jones December 25 1915. She is survived by her husband five sons several sisters and seven ward relatives.
Telegram to Mrs. William Sebeck reports the death of her father D R Morton 82 at the home of another daughter Mrs. Roy Williamson in Seattle. Funeral held Thursday in Seattle. A long-time Vinton resident, he had moved west years ago. He is survived by daughters Mrs. Williamson Mrs. Miles and the deceased’s identity confirmed.
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