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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 07, 1936
Page
13
Iowa endures a fifth day of extreme heat with 105 to 110 degree forecasts. The heat causes drownings and prostrations across the state while corn and crops suffer and moisture is urged. Des Moines man Frank M. Breen dies, adding to the heat toll.
Carl Deitel recovers after a 20 foot fall while adjusting a bay track on Will Wendland farm. Helen Mackintosh resigns Grand Rapids grade supervisor post to join University of Miami as education professor. Several obituaries, wills filed in Tama and Louisa counties. various reunions and baptisms noted along with community events and a Palo Savings bank dividend.
Peace officers and guards hunted Tuesday for two inmates who escaped late Monday from the Iowa state penitentiary at Fort Madison. The fugitives are Fred Newman alias Ralph Weeks, 42, and Frank Edwards, 49. Newman had a Davenport burglary sentence and Edwards an Iowa City term. Both had prior prison records. Edwards once escaped Joliet. No weapon details released.
Volunteers from Bayard and fire crews from Coon Rapids Scranton Guthrie Center and Jamada fought a blaze that started in a barn at Paul Stone's home and spread to Stone’s residence saving most property worth about 100000. The fire then spread to the William Moraine place where the barn burned but nearby homes and a lumberyard were saved. Mayor Earl Carrick praised the response noting potential losses were limited with the village water tank available. Bayard with 681 residents lies in Guthrie county about 20 miles southeast of Carroll and 30 miles west of Perry.
Seven hundred fifty Iowa and Missouri youths gather in Des Moines to start a thirty day citizens military training camp at Fort Des Moines. Col. John C. Pogram serves as camp commander under Maj. Gen. Frank C. Bolles supervision. Training includes cavalry and infantry tactics plus citizenship courses with staff drawn from regular army and reserve corps.
The Oelwein city council weighs accepting the original homestead from two sisters in exchange for the city taking a small mortgage. Citizens suggest converting the site into a park with a swimming pool tennis courts and athletic field and restoring a log cabin to its former condition.
A car driven by Gifford McCright of Troy Mills overturned in a ditch two miles north of town on Sunday afternoon while coasting down a slope. Miss Smith suffered facial cuts from flying glass as the vehicle was badly damaged.
The Independence Municipal band will perform next Sunday in the Backbone State Park auditorium at the north end starting at 2 30 PM.
Norbert Peterson aged 30 of DeWitt drowned at about 5 30 p m Monday while bathing in the Wapsipini con river near the bridge on route 61 three miles south of DeWitt. County coroner Dr D O Riggert was called no inquest was held Surviving are his wife Dorothy Quick and two small children. Body at N F McGinnis mortuary.
Charles Stoneking 63 a member of a pioneer Linn county family died Monday evening at his sister Mrs George Berry home from heart trouble aggravated by heat. Born in Bertram township he lived in the area on farms. Survived by two sisters Mrs Ed Barrett and Mrs Effie Schloemeyer and six brothers Bert Clarence Taylor Sherman Scott and Robert. Funeral at Neff chapel Wednesday at 2 p.m. with Rev J B Eyes tone in charge burial Campbell cemetery.
Edward Corporan of Tama asks for a divorce from Georgianna Corporan in Tama county district court on cruel and inhuman treatment. He seeks $1090 temporary alimony and suit money and $25 monthly permanent alimony. They wed at Rockport Missouri on October 14 1924. Both had prior marriages.
A Palo A picnic was held at Ellis Park in Cedar Rapids Sunday in honor of Mrs. Charles McManus of Asheville North Carolina. Attendees included numerous Wrights and Weirs with Grace McManus and Garth Wright among the guests.
Forty mothers and daughters from farms near West Branch Iowa City Albia and Ainsworth traveled by two buses on an educational tour to Canada They camp in tourist parks overnight and plan a round trip through Madison Green Bay the Great Lakes Niagara Falls Quebec and Mount Vernon returning by late July Each rider budgets about 65 dollars for the trip.
A hay-filled barn on the Carl Gnade farm near Maquoketa burned Monday noon as Rex Lane arrived with a load of furniture. Firefighters saved the home hog house chicken house and other small buildings. A cistern provided water and suction hose fought the flames for over two hours. Loss is estimated at least 2000 dollars.
Fred Klotz aged 60 of Independence died at his home after a year long illness. He was for twenty three years a resident and proprietor of the Klotz sales pavilion. Funeral services are set for Wednesday afternoon with burial in Hoover cemetery near Newtonville. Surviving are his wife and daughter Bertha.
Mrs. John E. Keegan 97 longtime resident of Manchester died at home after a lingering illness two months after her husband. Funeral at St Marys Catholic church with Rev F W McKinley in charge. Burial in Catholic cemetery. Maiden name Catherine Ellen Ryan. Survived by a niece in St Paul.
Mrs. Erma Robinson, 33, of Delhi, died at John Mac Donald hospital in Monticello from severe burns suffered Friday when a towel near an oil stove caught fire while she was canning fruit. Neighbors and doctors tried to help, but more than a third of her body was burned and poison caused her death Sunday. She leaves a husband Evion Robinson and three small children.
Donald Motz Bennett, 13, was badly burned Sunday afternoon when a gun loaded with blank cartridges exploded in his hand. He was taken to Tipton for treatment with serum to prevent lockjaw.
The Monticello city council votes to hold a special election on Wednesday July 15 to submit to voters the proposal to construct a municipal swimming pool.
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