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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 10, 1938
Page
22
Iowa lawmakers report homestead refunds total $11.6 million to 317,498 homeowners. Average credit per filer is $36 with maximum payment $62.50, reflecting 60 percent assessment of market value and distributions after other state uses.
Republican lawyers in Jones county back B E Rhinehart of Anamosa for district court judge as Judge F O Ellison resigns after 32 years on the bench. Ellison will be 85 July 4, completing his term. Rhinehart has 40 years in the Jones county bar.
Five Iowa City schools will install electric buzzer clocks for class changes with a 2200 dollar budget. University professors will summer in Europe, and Pauline Macbride will study at Grenoble. Local groups name new officers and summer recreation staff. The Unitarian church plans its seventh annual Quaker meetinghouse pilgrimage. Iowa's representative for the National Art Exhibition will be Mrs. Louis Pelzer. 4-H and all-state music programs draw dozens of students and instructors to Iowa City.
Ralph R Farquharson of Chicago has been elected executive vice president of Anamosa Citizens Savings Bank. He has six years banking experience and has worked with the Agricultural Credit Corporation in Minnesota and the Reconstruction Finance Corporation in Chicago. He succeeds Arnold Petanik who resigned this week. MAQUOKETA The wedding of Miss Roberta Menneke and Harold Machael occurred at the Methodist church with Alice Wolfe playing music. The ceremony had junior bridesmaids Ann Waters and Phyllis Frank. The bride wore her mother's 1910 wedding gown. A wedding supper followed for thirty guests at the Meineke home.
Funeral services set for Saturday for Herman Otterbeck and Erwin Meyer who drowned Wednesday afternoon north of Guttenberg while in a overloaded rowboat with Milton Otterbeck and Harold Trumblee. Roy Younk rescued the others. Otterbeck’s family includes wife Flory and two daughters. Meyer’s family details follow. private services planned at Harley Howes home with burial in county cemetery.
Tipton's new federal building will be turned over to the government this week and the post office will move in on Sunday. The facility, costing about 67000 dollars, houses the post office on the main floor with a Lynn street lobby and includes a basement with Cedar county Farm Bureau offices and various rooms. The Tipton post office staff includes P. T. Belgard as postmaster and R. M. Tracy as assistant, among others.
In Oelwein the Rainbow Girls installed officers led by Worthy Advisor Ruth Fickle and a full slate of officers including Ethel Morrow as worthy associate advisor and Marilyn Eckhart as immortality. Separate items note the Fayette county O F and Rebekah lodge convention, a Montour marriage, Bel le Plaine children's program, Tipton estate sales, and many local notices from Decorah to Manchester.
Four exonerated Cedar County supervisors request court to strike all mention of the ouster action from the record. Defendants Fred G. Daut John P Jensen G D Goldsmith and Louis Hansen allege the grand jury report was illegal and intended to humiliate them, following dismissal of the case by Judge W W Scott.
Eleven new WPA construction projects were authorized by state administrator George J. Keller to employ 229 workers. The federal $60,000 will fund wages, transferring laborers from existing jobs. Lone Tree gains an athletic field project for 15 workers at 1 748 dollars and Wellman improves an athletic field for 12 workers at 2 206 dollars.
Strawberry Point voters approved a 315 200 pound issue to build an addition housing a gymnasium and auditorium. The measure passed 200 for and 29 against. A PWA grant of $12,465 has already been approved.
More than seventy local business men and their employers gathered at the West Liberty Business Men club meeting held in the Masonic dining room. C C Smith led the group in songs for booster tours on June 22 and 22 for the centennial celebration. The club voted to dissolve the old Community club and transfer its $8308 funds to the centennial celebration committee. Centennials chairmen presented committee reports.
Ole Myers of Central City changed his long standing party loyalty from Republican to Democrat over the past three years and voted Republican in the primary. After polling, officials found he was registered as a Democrat and he remained a Republican candidate for constable, nominated without opposition.
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