Children at Home Grow Gardens Teach Work and Savings
Youthful agriculturists ages 7 to 12 till soil at the Children’s home under Mrs L J Smith and the city playground commission. They raise peas onions lettuce potatoes tomatoes and flowers, sell to the home buy seeds, save for college clothes and a sick mother, with Rotary help and kitchen purchases totaling about $8. The program mirrors eight other city gardens giving kids land to grow produce and learn money value.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
City Playground Commission
Rotary Club
L. J. Smith
LaVere Smith
the Playground Commission
Industrial Picnic Set for August 3 at Ellis Park
The Allied Industrial league picnic will be at Ellis park on August 3 with a golf tournament at 10 30 am and events including tennis, ball games, a trampoline show, novelty races, a canoe war, drum corps, a community sing, horse shoe tournament and riverfront show. Reuben Smith of Iowa Light and Power is committee chairman with a large list of local business participants and a Friday 7 pm committee meeting at the M C A.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Allied Industrial League
Ellis Park
Reuben Smith
Iowa Light and Power Company
League Board of Control
Smith
Karl Koffron
Clifford Riley
William Grafton
Ray Hamilton
Gerald Byran
LeRoy Faunt
la Plant-Choate
Ralph MacNamara
Ed Shramek
William Chadima
Hilda Hendrickson
Shirley Huston
Joe Jager
Penick and Ford
Ellsworth Fife
Harley Hollenbeck
Lee Nest
Wilson and Company
Art Snider
Wilma Shoup
the Gazette
H. L. Bean
Louis Dunek
Welch-Cook-Beals
Roy Decker
Louise Secor
Dean Haworth
Witwer Grocer Company
Sidney E. Peterson
City Waterworks
John and Paul
Federal Judge Munger Retires After 34 Years Service
President Roosevelt accepted the retirement of Thomas C. Munger United States district judge for the District of Nebraska at age 80. Munger served since 1907 the longest active service among supreme court United States courts of appeal and district judges.
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Washington
Roosevelt
Thomas C. Munger
United States
District of
Nebraska
Munger
Supreme Court
United States Courts of Appeal
District Courts
Sokol Picnic and Czech Events Highlight South Side News
The Sokol picnic at the Cedar river camp near Center Point draws large attendance as boys end camp and girls begin a week. Softball rivals Z C B J and C S A clash at Ellis park under lights Monday at 8 p.m. Other items include Catholic Sokols gatherings on Highway No 11 and Miller park, a Czech bazaar November 17 22, and the Czech Reading society meeting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sokols
Cedar River
Center Point
C.S. A
Ellis Park
Convention Planned for Iowa Insurance Agents
The thirty-fifth annual Iowa Association of Insurance Agents convention will be at the Montrose hotel in Cedar Rapids from Sept. 8 to 10. H. C. Burleson leads the convention committee, and George H. Cockburn Jr. is president of the local host association. Payne Midgette of Tallahassee, Fla., Na tional Association of Insurance Agents president, will speak Sept. 9. Topics include business interruption aviation inland marine casualty and health. State officer elections are set for Sept. 10.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Association of Insurance Agents
Montrose Hotel
Cedar Rapids
H. C. Burleson
George H. Cockburn, Jr
Payne Midgette
Tallahassee
Fla
National Association of Insurance Agents
United States
Mooseheart Specialist to Speak in Cedar Rapids
Dr. Martin L. Reymert head of Mooseheart child research speaks at Cedar Rapids events July 27 to 29. He will address the public at Moose club rooms and Rotary luncheon, with a new member initiation and Canopus club luncheon, highlighting juvenile crime prevention and parenting guidance.
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Martin L. Reymert
Mooseheart
Order of Moose
Cedar Rapids
Moose Club
Rotary Club
Roosevelt Hotel
Moose Hall
Reymert
United States
Europe
University of Iowa
Wittenberg College
Springfield
Illinois State Advisory Council
Illinois
Rainproof Lotion Sabs For Silk Hose
A London beauty bar opened Saturday offering legs sprayed with rainproof sun tan lotion at three pence per leg. The lotion substitutes for silk stockings and helps save clothing coupons for women.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
London
Knox to Speak at Legion of Valor Meeting
Secretary of the Navy Frank Knox will address the Legion of Valor annual meeting at Fort Sheridan near Chicago on July 28 and his speech will be broadcast.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Secretary of Navy
Frank Knox
The
Legion of Valor
Fort Sheridan
Chicago
Mrs Soboda Heads Red Cross Surgical Committee in Linn County
Mrs Edward M Soboda Jr of 535 Knollwood Drive SE is named chairman of the Linn County Red Cross surgical dressing committee. The program will meet at 308 Third Street SE on Mondays Wednesdays and Fridays 9 AM to 12 noon with volunteers required to wear white uniforms or house dresses and kerchiefs. Dressings are for U S draftees and Army personnel, with a past program for England and this year for domestic use.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Edward M. Soboda
Knollwood Drive
Linn County
The
Red Cross
Wells C. Peck
Third Street SE
War Department
Also Mentioned on This Page
Gazette
South Side News
Joseph Zeman
St. Wenceslaus
Czech National Council
Mason City
Clutter
Iowa City
Swisher
Protovin
T. B. Hlubacek
Karla Masaryk Lodge C. S. A
Miller Park
Prokop Velky Lodge
C.S.P.S
T. B. Hlubucek
Joseph Jan
Gustav Subik
Z.C.B.J
Z.c.bj. Park
Z.C.B.J. Park
Reseda Club
Zc.bj. Park
Z.C.B.J. Board of Trustees
Czech Reading Society
Namitton Seed & Coal Co
Fulton Lewis, Jr
WMT
Mooseheart Child Specialist
Knox
Doctor
Scott McIntyre and Company
Scott McIntyre & Company
Iowa
Merchants National Bank
Ambulance Service Company
Cedar Rapids and
Midwest University
Dial
Eleventh Street
Mrs. Soboda
Red Cross Surgical Committee
Star Jewelry CO
Second St. SE
Castile
Ogilvie Sisters
Frances Denney Powder
Kathleen Mary Quinlan
Arden
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