Massive Riverside Fire Destroys Half Block on Main Street
Fire destroyed half a block on Riverside Main Street in the early hours. Damage estimated at 10 000 to 15 000 with most losses in buildings. much merchandise intact or spared by insurance. Local and neighboring departments from Town City Washington Ia and Kalona aided, bringing the blaze under control after 3 am.
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Riverside
Main Street
Town City
Washington
Kalona
R. H. Heitzman
Missouri
William Griffin
State Highway Commission
Mary Heitzman
Stoge
Heltzman
Ceitzman
Ivan McCreidy
Stee’l
Liverside
William Beardsley
J. L. Siemen Estate
Clayton Pension Board Organized For Action
Clayton county's old age assistance board organized in lay by electing C B Moser of Strawberry Point chairman and Agnes Carroll of Monona secretary, John White of Garber third member. The board divided the county into three districts for personal supervision, listing townships in each district.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Spertal
Toe
Gazette
Eleader
Clayton County
Oldate Assistance Board
Finlay
C. B. Moser
Strawberry Point
Agnes Carroll
Monona
John White
Garber
Nizing
Moser
Boardman
Cass
Cox Creek
Highland
Godomille
Read and Sperry
White, Buena Vista
Elk
Garnaville
Jefferson
Mallory
Millville
Volga
Carroll
Clayton
Farmersburg
Giard
Grand Meadow
Marion, Meadow
Wagner
Poole to Speak at Mt Vernon Kolach Day
Chicago livestock marketing authority Jim Poole will be the principal speaker at Mt Vernon Kolach Day on Labor Day. He is scheduled to talk at 4 p.m. according to Luther Plattenberger of the program committee.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Poole
Mt. Vernon
Spectal
Groette
Mount Vernon
Jim Poole
Livestock Marketing Authority
Chicago
Hahn-Howard Post and
Auxiliary
The
American Legion
Luther Plattenberger
Vinton Bank Opens Garrison Branch Aug First
The State Bank of Vinton plans to open a Garrison branch on August 1 aiding local business men and farmers after the Garrison Savings Bank closed two years ago. Harold Bryant will manage the new branch with daily bookkeeping at Vinton. Deposits loans and a local clearing facility will operate in Garrison from 9:30 am to 3 pm in the former Peoples Savings Bank quarters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Sprcini
Vinton
State Bank of Vinton
Garrison
Garrison Savings Bank
Harold Bryant
a_ true bank
Peoples Savings Bank of
Readings by Chamberlin in Fairfax Sunday Night
Mount Vernon Gordon Chamberlin of Arlington a Cornell junior and Fairfax church pastor will present readings at the Fairfax church Sunday at 8 p m for a Sun day school benefit He will read Negro poems from Gods Trombone by James Weldon Johnson. Marengo preview of a play at What Cheer convention to be seen Sunday 7 30 p m in the Fairfax church Entitled The Seeing Heart it is directed by Jane DeSpain cast includes Virginia Kell Alice Smoley Norman Zahrt Grace Hohensee LeRoy Hadenfelt.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Bocoint
Gazette
Mount Vernon
Gordon Chamberlin
Arlington
Cornell College
Methodist Church
Fairfax
Suneday
Chamberlin
Cornell Speech Department
God
James Weldon Johnson
Marengo
Epworth
Methodist Episcopal Church
Jane DeSpain
Virginia Kell
Mary
Alice Smoley
Martha
Norman Zahrt
Lazarus Grace Hohensee
Rachel
LeRoy Hadenfelt
Aaron
Woman at Rural Iowa Bank Foils Bandits
Aliee Erickson daughter of a local bank president at Roland Iowa frightened off two robbers when she entered the rear door during a cashier being ordered to surrender cash. She slammed the door ran to the phone office next door and alerted Sheriff John R. Hattery at Nevada. The bandits fled without taking any loot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa Daily Press
Aliee Erickson
Roland
John R. Hattery
Nevada
Settlement Reached In Tama County Will Case
Judge Carl B. Stiger admitted to probate the will of B. F. Hines Jr of Buckingham under a stipulation of settlement. Executor K. P. Moore named. The $10,000 estate funds specific bequests to B. F. Hines Jr and G. D. Hines with the remainder divided 12 percent to Salvation Army Waterloo and 12 percent to Western Old Peoples Home Cedar Falls, heirs share 75 percent. The estate of B. F. Hines Sr also gains one third value of Nellie Hines estate realty.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Carl B. Stiger
B. F. Hines, Jr
Buckingham
Tama County
K. P. Moore
Hines
C. R. Hines
L. C. Hines
M C. Hines
Ben Hines
Ada Rozeboom
Dewey Hines
Don Hines
Nellie Kauffman
Dan Scranton
Paul Scranton
Marle Pennell
Ray Pennell
G. D. Hines
Salvation Army
Waterloo
Western Old Peoples Home
Evangelical Church of
Cedar Falls
B. F. Hines, Sr
Nellie Hines
Two Die and 372 Hurt in June Industrial Mishaps
Des Moines AP report by labor commissioner Frank Wenig details June industrial accidents in the town. Two workers died one in a derrick mishap and one in a railroad collision. Most injuries affected eyes feet ankles hands and wrists from falls falling objects and being caught between machinery.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Frank Wenig
Dobry Appeals to U S Supreme Court
D A Dobry, former Davenport securities dealer, appeals to the U S Supreme Court after a conviction and five year sentence plus a $3000 fine for Iowa securities fraud. He challenged jury instructions on false statements and claimed absence of the judge during trial and lack of injury from the statement. He cited net earnings figures for 1929 and 1930 in the filing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Dobry
Jacobsen Plans Iowa Cadet Nomination for West Point
Rep. B. M. Jacobsen of Clinton says West Point will open to a second district candidate next July. The appointee must be a district resident, 17-22 years old, at least 5 ft 4 in tall, with March exams and July 1 entry, replacing Herbert Caran Gee who graduates in June 1935. First and second alternates named as well.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
U.S. Military Academy
West Point
Iowa
War Department
B. M. Jacobsen
Clinton
Herbert Caran Gee
Anamosa
Gee
Herbert H. Gee
Fifth Congressional District
Jacobsen
Wheatland
Boy Scouts
Alfred Rowold
Rowold
Wapsie
Harry Balhorn
Paul Baumgart
Chicago
Stanwood Fall Festival Date Set For Sept 27 1934
Stanwood official notice announces the 1934 Stanwood fall festival and horse show will be held on September 27. Last year the event drew about 8 000 attendees. Committees named include Secretary John Grant Treasurer Art Ropa and program head Roland Spear with several others coordinating horse events sports and management.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Stanwood
Spreinl
John Grant
Art Ropa
Ralph Wilson
Don Smith
E. B. Dodson
Ford Gallemeyer
Roland Spear
A. F. Halsemeyer
Paul Ostergaard
Lee Crist
Merle Tilden
H. F. Hapgood
Heart Attack Fatal To Prairieburg Man
Special to The Gazette John Bohren of Prairieburg died of a heart attack at 6 p.m. Friday on the Voelker farm two and a half miles east of here. He recently moved to the area. Survived by two sons and a daughter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
The
Ryan
John Bohren
Voelker Farm
Here
Bohren
Prairieburg
Deceptive declarer outplays opponents in bridge lesson
A bridge excerpt shows South using a make‑believe play to mislead East and steal nine tricks. West leads clubs, dummy ducks, South cashes diamonds then heart queen, using a concealed entry to access his hand. A free booklet on bridge rules is offered by The Cedar Rapids Gazette.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West
North
East
King of Diamonds
South
Dummy
The
Gazette
Josephine Culbertson
Culbertson
Cedar Rapids Gazette
First annual northeastern News Federation picnic set for Earlville
Earlville hosts the first annual northeastern News Federation of Luther Leagues picnic on school grounds Sunday with services at 10 30 a m William Beck of Dubuque leads games and entertainment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Earlville
Northeastern News Federation of Luther Leagues
William Beck
Dubuque
New York Shops Offer Homemaker Ideas Stylish Dressing Tables
Lottle recalls a New York visit with Florence La Ganke noting a chic chintz glazed dressing table design. The piece features three French pleats creating fullness, interspersed by narrow plain glazed chintz bands, offering a bold color contrast and drapery like effect.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lottle
New York
Chicago
Summer Cottage Draperies in White Celanese and Organdy
A description of light summer decor features drawn from textile displays. White organdy curtains reach the sill with a chintz trim and simple headings. Rooms use slip covered chairs in white chintz and soft celanese fabrics for a fresh airy look.
Wellman Farmer John Adams Adams Dies by Own Action
John Adams 41 a Wellman breeder of Hereford cattle and Farm Bureau member committed suicide in his basement at 7 a.m. today four miles northwest of Wellman. Coroner said no inquest was needed. He left no note and is believed to have acted during a nervous breakdown. Surviving are his widow an adopted daughter his mother Mrs Annie Adams and two sisters.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinton
Charles Pence
B. Tankersley
Eldora
Victor Vitquain
Young Pence
Manchester
Tom McAndrews
Mackie and Mackie
Leland Mackie
Jay Carns
Mackie Establishment
A. M. Thompson
Iowa
Dallas
Guthrie
Osceola
Strawberry Point
Kenneth Esch
Irene Burke
J. J. Matthews
H. Paul Sweany
Gene Goodman
Harold Huebsch
George Scofield
Harriet Huntley
Wanda Fuehr
Tipton
Bryan Marker
E. C. Gillam
Marker
W. W. Christian
T. Bruce Evans
Tipton Masonic Cemetery
Evans
Chicago
Oak Park
George W. Evans
Maynard
Ida Hill
Delsing Chapel
Virgil C. Welch
E. H. Stewart
Mabel Stiles
Oscar Sykes
Co. H. Paul
Carl Barnes
Ed Kappmeyer
Eugene Creamer
Lowell Gray
Ida May Eley
Samuel and
Rebecca Eley
Mt. Carroll
Ill
William Hill
Lanark
Colorado
Sam Eley
Lloyd
Jacksonville
Fla
Atlanta Ga
Wellman
John Adams
Farm Bureau
W. S. Kyle
Washington
Adams
Annie Adams
Surveys Planned For Two New Iowa Police Radio Stations
State engineers will finish surveys to locate two new Iowa police radio stations. Northwest Iowa will get a station at Spencer Cherokee and Storm Lake, while Decorah and New Hampton seek a northeast site. The stations were authorized in last winter's special legislative session.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Edward L. O'Connor
Spencer
Cherokee
Storm Lake
Iowa
Decorah
New Hampton
Cedar Rapids Liquor Store Sells About 1400 Permits
The Iowa state liquor commission reports 19 486 individuals hold permits to buy liquor from state stores. Stores in Mason City Council Bluffs Des Moines Sioux City Fort Dodge Waterloo and Cedar Rapids each issued over 1000 permits with Cedar Rapids at about 1400. Competition from Illinois liquor kept sales modest in river cities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
State Liquor Commission
Mason City
Council Bluffs
Sioux City
Fort, Dodge
Waterloo
Cedar Rapids
Commission
Mississippi River
Dismiss Charges Against Toson in Embezzlement Case
Two embezzlement charges against Harold E. Toson, president of H. E. Toson and Company, were dismissed in a Des Moines, Iowa justice court on Friday at the request of Fony Matalone and Riccardo Marferdini who signed the informations. They stated Toson had repaid 30 percent of the embezzlements totaling an amount not specified.
Civil War Vet Edward Dillon Observes Eighty Fourth Birthday
Manchester veteran Edward Dillon, one of the last Civil War survivors in Manchester and Delaware County, marks his eighty fourth birthday. Dillon served in Company B of the Fourth Town Cavalry, fought at Vicksburg Memphis Little Rock and Kansas City, was wounded twice, and later settled in Prairie township after moving from Clearfield County.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Manchester
Edward Dillon
Delaware County
Dillon
Clearfield County
Illinois
Silver Creek
Prairie Township
John Peters
Fourth Town Cavalry
Davenport
Delhi
Vicksburg
Memphis
Little Rock
Kansas City
Kan
Mr. Dillion
South English Rural Church Gathering at Lancaster
The Keo kuk county rural church event will be at Lancaster church on Sunday with almost all county churches participating. Opening talks by Leo Powers and Harold Lisk, plus Bernice Rowe and Roy Wright on country and city Sunday schools. Basket lunch at noon, afternoon program features Virgil Coffman, Mrs. Kurtz, Mrs. White, and ministers Blosser and Grove.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mennonite Church of Soth English
Virgil Coffman
The
Brethren Church of South English
Homer Kurtz
Howard White
Scotland Church
A. P. Blosser
William Grove
South English
Shellsburg Couple Host Lawn Party For 150 Children
Dr. and Mrs. Harry Morell hosted a large afternoon event for 150 attendees on Grand avenue. An outdoor vaudeville show featured a Cedar Rapids orchestra, monitors, and a variety of acts while cousins, out-of-town guests, and entertainers enjoyed cookies, ice cream, flags, and a private park setting.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Shellsburg
Harry Morell
United States
Philippines
Red Cross
Canada
Morell
Grand Avenue
Bessie Hite
Chadbourne
Vinton
R. J. Campbell
S. W. Wilder
Cedar Rapids
Harry Jacobs
Center Point
Grace Peck
Blairstown
Frederick Hite
Viriton
Paul
Dora Joan Hayes
National City
Calif
Richard Hughes
Mount Ayr
Joan
Donald Gilchrist
Jacksonville
Dr. Morell
G. R. Rife
Kirk Bixby
Carl Penny
Billy Husted
Everett Irish
Billy Vores
R. L. Moehlmann
Jack Heskett
Charles Berdeckney
June Beauchamp
Little Charles Dougherty
Charlie Meyers
Floyd A. Knight
Mount Vernon CCC camp appoints relief staff
The Palisades Kepler Park drought relief camp announces its officer personnel led by Superintendent A M Van Drake. Foremen include W R French engineering Fred B Tammen construction and Walter Ruppel erosion with clerk Donald Thomas and erosion foreman Daniel T Close.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
CCC
Palisades-Kepler Park
A. M. van Drake
W. R. French
Fred B. Tammen
Walter Ruppel
Daniel T. Close
Donald Thomas
Mindful schooling and success at Mount Kisco program
An author notes science guides moral choices and cites a ten year Mount Kisco program directed by Dr. David Mitchell and the Westchester County Children's association where no child fails due to tasks aligned with their abilities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Kisco
New York
David Mitchell
Westchester County Children’s Association
Marriage booklet by Ur Albert Edward Wiscam
Remarkable little booklet written from a scientific viewpoint on marriage and heredity. It explains how heredity is transmitted and how to obtain the booklet. Send request with self addressed stamped envelope and extra stamp to cover printing to Dr Albert Edward Wigenam care The Game. Ask for Marriage Booklet.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Albert Edward Wiscam
Albert Edward Wigenam
Cooperation Drives Modern Scientific Breakthroughs
An excerpt from 1934 discusses how all children progress evenly in schooling and questions single-genius scientific breakthroughs. It cites Burnham and Bonser on planning, and notes Dr. Lee Travis’s Iowa lab shows that hearing research requires combined methods across electricity, math, chemistry, biology, psychology, and anatomy, beyond one person.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Lee Travis
Iowa University
Farm debt official attacks land bank in Des Moines
M. L. Bowman executive chairman of the Town farm debt advisory council denounces the Federal Land bank of Omaha for hindering debt settlements. He endorses a state democratic convention resolution criticizing republican appraisals and condemns forcing farmers to use the Frazier-Lemke moratorium due to bank noncooperation.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
M. L. Bowman
Town Farm Debt Advisory Council
Federal Land Bank of Omaha
Bowman
Federal Land Bank
Land Bank
Farm Debt Council
Purchase 32 Indian Mounds For Park In Northeastern Iowa
West Union with Ellison Orr and I E Beeman of Waukon as a committee for the North Eastern Iowa National Park association secured a deed Friday for three acres of the Fish Brothers farm seven miles north of Lansing. The parcel contains thirty two Indian mounds and will be offered to the federal government as a national monument if the interior department accepts it. otherwise it will be presented to the Iowa board of conservation for a state park.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Union
Ellison Orr
I. E. Beeman
Waukon
Iowa National Park Association
Herbert Adams
Dubuque
Fish Brothers
Lansing
Department of Interior
Iowa Board of Conservation
NBC Employes Free Under Bond Follow Balloon Flight
Two NBC employees George Milne and C. J. Russhon were freed on bond after an assault arrest in Des Moines. They were with NBC’s mobile radio unit following the stratosphere balloon’s flight. NBC engineer E. C. Wilbur was arrested and released.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
DES Moines
National Broadcasting Company
George Milne
C. J. Russhon
New York
Johnston
E. C. Wilbur
NBC
Cool Weather To Continue In Iowa
Des Moines reports Iowa will stay cool today with a forecasted rise of at least five degrees tomorrow. The heat from last week is not expected to return, as the state logged its coolest day in ten days. Estherville hit 96, with readings mostly in the 90s and a trace of rain at Burlington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Weather Bureau
Estherville
Burlington
Bank Barrier Installed At Central State Bank Elkader
Bandit barrier completed in the Central State Bank and Trust offices to deter daylight holdups. The defense features bullet proof steel frames and inch thick glass spanning wall to wall with spikes along the top and a network of high voltage charged wires and protective circuitry.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Elkader
Central State Bank and Trust Company
City approves park lighting for ball diamond
At a recent town council and park commission meeting, a lighting system for the ball diamond was approved. Nine 1,500 candlepower flood lights will cost five dollars and be installed next week.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dysart
Park Commission
Boy Scout Court of Honor Honors Eight From Troop 47
A Boy Scout court of honor for troop 47 awarded eight scouts merit badges including Robert Heege personal health John Willey civics and path finding John Hall first aid Keith Watters poultry keeping and handi craft A G Lake first aid metal work and pioneering Robert Haney salesmanship pathfinding and safety Applications for star rank were approved for Robert Haney and Leroy Wallace Harlan Albert from troop 40 received merit badges in pathfinding handicraft and pioneering.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Robert Heege
John Willey
John Hall
Keith Watters
A. G. Lake
Robert Haney
Leroy Wallace
Harlan Albert
Tama county band picnic and concert set for August 5
The annual Tama county band picnic and concert will be held at Gladbrook on Sunday August 5. It draws large crowds from across the county with bands from Gladbrook Garwin Traer Toledo Dysart Tama and an Indian reservation performing.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dysart
Tama County
Gladbrook
Garwin
Traer
Toledo
Tama
Want Ads Accepting Submissions Tonight for Sunday Gazette
Classified ads are being accepted for the Sunday Gazette until 8 p.m. tonight. Call 2-1121 to place your advertisement with Adtaker.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Dial
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Clayton Pension Board Organized For Action
Vinton Bank
Supreme Court
Josephine
Mrs Culbertson
Iowa News
Will Pape
West Auburn
Pape
Onslow
Joseph Wasson
University Hospital
Iowa City
Mr. Wasson
John Wasson
Scotland
Carry Sawyer
Wyoming
Ella Spear
Jessie Orr
Duncan
Edna Hanna
Wilma Buckner
Mina McGovern
Alvan Hanna
Maquoketa
Fenn
Kenneth Connelle
Delmar
Charles Penn
J. J. Frank
F. H. Proost
Proost
Edgewood
Webster Lumber Company
St. Paul
Oshkosh
Wis
Mildred Burg
Grace Kegley
Mary Ahlers
Lamotte
Marjorie Reynolds
R. W. Wiese
Lincoln Township
Kathryne Wiese
Kathryne Morris
Lincoln
Hollis
Okla
Claude Callan
Daisy
Nancy Page
Florence la Ganke
Wellman Farmer
Toson
Willie Willis
Albert Edward Wiggam
A. C. Burnham
Michigan State
F. G. Bonser
Columbia
Gibson
Prout’s
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