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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 22, 1938
Page
5
The VFW department of Iowa staged its annual two mile parade in Cedar Rapids with Headquaters company and 133rd infantry leading. A crowd estimated at over 10 600 applauded as drums and bugles played and a Davenport artillery unit accompanied the last floats.
Linn county supervisors buy four Chevrolet cabs from Louis Eye of Palo for 2873.20 dollars, delivery by July 1, to be fitted with dump bodies already owned, for WPA road work. Other bids ranged up to 3383.84 by multiple vendors across Cedar Rapids Central City Lisbon and Coggo n.
Richard E. Kahler and Alice B. Heath of Palo and Charles William Baldridge of Cedar Rapids with Evelyn Clysta Maurer of Fayette listed for marriage licenses.
The item explains a pleasant daily game: count the letters in your first name, adjust to a key number, and read the letters under checked figures in a rectangle to reveal a message. It outlines the method and purpose of the fortune puzzle in simple steps.
The union occurred in Joliet Illinois on August 1 1935 and the plaintiff seeks restoration to Velma Exruse. Jessie R Wood of Cedar Rapids died June 10 and his will probated in district court Wednesday naming Ross Stratton as beneficiary and C Earl Hodgin as executor. The will bears the date May 29 1936.
District Judge H C Ring sustained Mrs H S Smith’s motion to dismiss a motion to set aside verdict and for a new trial in a divorce case with Adelbert A Clevenger. The June 1937 divorce granted Mrs Smith custody except summer when the boy stayed with his father. A June 27 hearing sets Mrs Smith’s full custody request.
D W Bates receiver for American Trust and Savings bank of Cedar Rapids asks court authority to settle litigated realty and charter mortgage claims against Larimer and Shaffer Inc now in receivership. District Judge C J Haas set June 27 hearing. Claims total 37000 exclusive of interest. Bank seeks to participate with other claimants in the Larimer and Shaffer settlement under state banking department authority.
Fragmentary text notes that about one-third of the net proceeds from the sale of the assets were involved. No further context or entities are provided to identify the assets, parties, or settlement terms.
In the action by Fred Schnare against G Novak and E F Young, a $2 judgment against Young and a $13 judgment against Novak were entered after the close of testimony. Each defendant pays half of the case costs. The suit claimed furnace parts stored at 341 Fifth Avenue SW were sold to Novak by Young. The court also ruled a defense motion abandoned. A separate note says Iowa Supreme Court affirmed a $200 award in a different case.
Linn county supervisors granted Class B beer sale renewal permits for the year starting July 1 to Fred Woondra at Konigsmark and Floyd E. Mitchell at Waubeek. Mitchell also received a renewal permit for cigarette sales. Applications were accompanied by necessary fees and bonds. Velma O Connor of Cedar Rapids lists Claude O Connor as a defendant in a district court divorce suit on cruel and inhuman treatment.
The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Missouri United States and Canada approved a new southeastern district. The area includes North and South Carolina, Augusta Georgia, north to Harrisburg Pennsylvania via Shenandoah Valley, Cumberland Maryland, east to Trenton New Jersey, and south along the Delaware River to Camden New Jersey.
State encampment causes postponement of the Ladies auxiliary to V F W post 788 meeting. DC L club event postponed. Cedar Rapids Navy club to meet at Montrose hotel with E R Cronk discussing the Dog Watch reunion. Daughters of Union Veterans offer transport to Central City. Frank L Miller Jr files bankruptcy with 21369 in liabilities, 100 exemptions. Dairy Dale Picnic at 6 30 pm precedes Thursday meeting at the community hall. residents invited.
Chester S Johnson leaves on a week long trip for Quaker Oats with stops in Depew N Tecumseh Mich and Chicago. Mary Martin to host Women s Relief corps No 11 Thursday at 2 pm in the Memorial building with assistants Florence Sherman Alice Flint Alice Shepherd and Helen Lowe. William S Catlow and John Beck attend state county officers convention in Sioux City to invite meetings in Cedar Rapids in 1939. Mrs C B Reed seeks aid locating Dorothy Barker stepdaughter of Jay B Barker former Cedar Rapids resident.
In Linn county a fine of five dollars plus costs was imposed on WE Wilbur of Marion in Justice H R Churchill's court for driving with four persons in the front seat in violation of section 388 of the Iowa motor vehicle laws. The ruling alerts motorists to the three in front rule.
The Rev. Nelson C Dreier returned Wednesday from Beloit Wisconsin where he served as a delegate representing Town Congregational Christian churches at the biennial general council meeting.
The Rev Mr Dieter was elected to the Commission on Interchurch Relations and Christian Unity during the sessions. The Sinclair Memorial Picnic will be held Friday from 1 to 8 pm at Bever Park. Transportation will be provided from the church and families are asked to bring sandwiches or a covered dish.
Cedar Rapids will host a Chamber of Commerce dinner at 615 p.m with the young men's bureau. A later trip to Hill Park follows and a section of seats will be reserved for bureau members.
A ten percent increase in railway and truck rates became effective Wednesday morning in Iowa. Grain livestock and lumber rates rise five percent. The hike follows the Interstate Commerce Commission decision of March 28 after industry petitions.
Twenty six residents of the northern district of Iowa filed naturalization papers with deputy clerk Bessie G Engel. About ten Cedar Rapids area residents were to be examined by James M McWhorter in Chicago. Citizenship will be granted at the September term of the U S district court. The Bowery street name traces to Peter Stuyvesant from the Great Bouvette farm.
Bennie Skaarberg, 24, of Spring Valley, was killed when the plane he piloted crashed from about 4000 feet near Cherry Grove Minnesota Tuesday night. The accident remains under investigation by local authorities.
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