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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jul 23, 1944
Page
2
The Servicemen's Wives club will meet Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. in rooms over the Light Company to work on projects for Schick hospital. Articles needed include old belt buckles cold cream jars and plain color cotton material yard square for block prints.
Effective Wednesday August 2, Bailey's Dairy resumes its retail milk delivery service. The notice promotes the restart of home delivery for customers and mentions the dairy's advertisement.
Patricia Peck, employed in Washington DC, will arrive this week to spend a vacation with Mr. and Mrs. H. B.
The H. P. Hansens have been notified that their son, Pvt. My ron Hanson, who underwent an operation recently at the Camp Crowder base hospital in Missouri, is making a satisfactory recovery.
Advertisement announces an immediate vacancy for a door man at the Marion theater seeking a quick hire.
The Marion Red Cross rooms will be open Tuesday and Thursday from 8 30 to 11 30 a m for the making of surgical dressings and all day Wednesday for sewing.
Mr and Mrs Harold B Peck will entertain this evening at dinner in honor of the birthday of Mrs A E Granger. The event features a small gathering with friends and family in a cordial celebration of the guest of honor.
Lois Leidign traveled to Denver for a week long vacation. Mr. and Mrs. Lewis Weis hosted Friday’s Ex celsior A. and L. club meeting. County agent D. D. Ost ringe spoke, with Mrs. C. L. ae Warren Kamp and Mrs. Oscar Martin acting as hostesses.
The West Marion Garden club will meet Wednesday at 2 PM with Mrs. Carl Carver of Old Marion road. Mrs. George Mc Bride will present the program Garden Insects.
A notice for renting a modern home in Marion targets adults. It lists Lawrence Stotts of route 2 Cedar Rapids as the contact. The ad presents a straightforward rental offer without further specifics.
Velman Luse and Bob Mathew son, who trained with the state guard at Camp Dodge, came back home on Saturday, marking end of a training period and return to civilian life.
Mrs Byron Busenbark has been returned to her home near Whittier from a Cedar Rapids hospital where she underwent an operation.
Charles Dee Miersen leaves Cedar Rapids hospital today and will return to his home at 1289 Fourteenth Street after undergoing a tonsillectomy.
Grove City Rebekah Lodge will convene Monday at 8 p.m. in LG.OF. members are invited to attend and discuss upcoming community service plans.
Mrs. Ben C Cummins was informed her husband is now serving in France as a private first class. Cpl and Mrs Ralph R Repstien of San Antonio Texas were dinner guests Friday of Mrs Cummins. Mrs Repstien is the former Leora Armstrong of Marion.
Pvt. Claire Ankeny stationed at North Camp Hood Texas is guest of his wife at her parents Mr. and Mrs Harry Wickham. He is also visiting his parents the Grover Ankneys at Springville.
Ad notes T and T root beer concentrate yields 40 pints from 3 fluid ounces and lists a price of 19 cents at Owen's Cut Rate Drug Store.
Mrs. Mary Levasseur received notice of the graduation of her grandson Avi ation Cadet Norman B. Levasseur from the Carlsbad New Mexico army air force bombardier school. He is the son of Mr and Mrs Ernest Levasseur formerly of Marion.
Save at Storm's during our annual nine cent sale now on. Advertisement.
The Marion City council will meet Monday at 7 30 p m to discuss municipal matters and public agenda items.
Mrs Mable Gilchrist of Iroquois South Dakota visits her brother in law and sister Mr and Mrs Edward Manson. She was called here by the critical illness of her brother Jesse Atkins of Cedar Rapids.
Furnished apartment rental for adults available August 1. Contact phone 333J for details and eligibility.
The Presbyterian Cornerstones gather Thursday at 2 30 P M with hostesses Mrs Blanche Savidge and her daughter Mrs Howard B Levnbaugh at 915 Tenth Street Assisting hostesses are Mrs Fred Nelson and Mrs John L Gritzner
Pvt. Eugene D. Clatterbuck is on furlough from Camp Roberts California and visiting his parents Mr. and Mrs. George Clatterbuck at their home ahead of his transfer to Fort Meade Maryland.
Mrs Edward Singer of Minneapolis will come to Marion Monday to care for her mother Mrs John McLane who will be returned Tuesday to her home 1254 Fifth Avenue from a Cedar Rapids hospital.
Seaman first class Arthur Nieland, after two years in the Hawaiian islands, will arrive from the west coast this week to spend a leave with his parents, Mr and Mrs Walter Nieland.
Mrs K E Cornell of St Peters burg Florida and her daughter Sydney, former Marion residents, are visiting Dr and Mrs H G Stitzel and Marion friends. Her husband, a Red Cross field director, is in England and their son, Pvt Kenneth E Cornell Jr, is in foreign service.
The Methodist Laura Bailey auxiliary will meet Wednesday at 7 30 p m with Mrs Frank New comb 758 Ninth Street Mrs Carrie Reichert will conduct the devotions and Lula Toms will present the lesson.
Mr and Mrs Carl L Wiley traveled to Waterloo on Saturday and were joined by their guest granddaughter Nancy Jo Pfeiffer who accompanied them on the trip.
Mrs R P Howell of Iowa City arrived Saturday to visit her great-niece Mrs T McCarthy of Scarsdale and to see her nephew Jesse B Howell.
Market notes list corn, wheat, hay, straw, poultry, eggs, and wholesale produce prices in Cedar Rapids. Corn and wheat shown by grade with varying cents per bushel, hay and straw prices per bale, poultry and egg receipts, Florida celery and citrus prices, lettuce and onions per box, and hides by grade with price ranges.
City market report shows total receipts for week at 809 for eggs and cattle with most bead increased about a quarter and higher. Cattle steady to higher amid strong stock. sheep and lambs mixed with prices mostly lower for weekly totals. hogs receipts 1,000 with barrows and gilts steady to higher and sows up.
A terse market note lists cash quotes in Chicago for oats and barley. Oats No 2 mixed heavy and No 2 Barley show varied pricing with cash values around 1.15 to 1.22 per sac, while feed rates hover near 1.00 to 1.22.
New York traders faced a continued stock market selloff amid a rough week with major industrials and rails leading losses. Analysts warned the decline could ease if the German revolt accelerates an end to the European conflict, though overall sentiment remained cautious as stop-loss orders ran their course. Sliders included American Gas Electric Bond and Share Cities Service St Regis Paper Carrier and Creole Petroleum.
Eastern Iowa markets show price ranges from recent trades, with quotations not to be read as firm bids or offers. The report highlights unsettled ranges across securities and notes variability in valuations. Investors are advised to monitor further price movements as markets respond to local economic factors.
The New York bond market showed uneven declines Saturday with renewed liquidation weighing on rails and some higher rated issues. Losses reached over one percent in the final hour, led by American Telephone 3s, Western Union 4s, and International Great Northern 3s.
The acting Cedar Rapids rent director, T. J. Wilkinson, announced new authority under section 5a to adjust maximum rents in cases of peculiar circumstances After March 1 1942 dates housing and hotel rents may be altered when conditions around the rental agreement were unusual and affected the bargain. The changes do not abandon the freeze but add grounds for relief in cases where normal transactions yielded rents well below or above area levels.
A pessimistic forecast argues the British will dominate passenger liners after World War II, with American ships lagging in quality and quantity. Observers note loss of many U S liners and slow postwar conversion of remaining transatlantic vessels, while formidable British and other European liners remain in service and air travel looms as a new threat.
Des Moines market bulletin shows combined receipts at 19 concentration yards and 11 packing plants in interior Iowa and southern Minnesota for the 24 hours ending Saturday totaling 21 200. Compared with 26 000 a week ago and 36 500 a year ago. Very active but uneven with 270 lb weights down to 25 cents higher and heavier weights up to 70 cents higher. Sows at 504 75c higher. loadings lighter than previous week. Prices listed for various weight ranges with multiple per pound figures.
Conveyances and mortgages recorded in Linn county from July 14 through July 20 show 47 conveyances and 20 mortgages, totaling 44 900 dollars. Compared with last year’s week there were 84 conveyances and 36 mortgages totaling 107 350 dollars.
Cedar Rapids bank clearings for the week ended July 22 totaled 2,002,212.29 dollars, a slight decline from the prior week’s 2,133,325.29 dollars. The week ending July 24, 1943 recorded 1,844,079.79 dollars.
Forest D. Siefkin was announced as vice president in charge of industrial relations for International Harvester. He will continue as general attorney, a role he has held for several years.
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