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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 28, 1935
Page
23
Rains pushed Iowa rivers into flood stage across central and southern regions. The Des Moines and Iowa rivers neared record crests, forcing evacuations and driving levee reinforcements with sandbags along West Amana and Roosevelt Park areas.
The Wisconsin river at McGregor is rising rapidly, six feet above the level two weeks prior, backing up the Mississippi downstream. The flood threatens areas along the river and impacting local crossings.
Des Moines AP Lew Wallace, head of the state motor vehicle department, said the deadline for 1935 36 driver's license applications has moved from July 1 to July 10 due to a shortage of blank forms. He reported about 500,000 applications received, excluding fifty sacks of mail, and estimated more than a million applications will be received.
Iowa City report states Don Conklin, 66, of West Liberty, shot himself in the garage of his Atalissa home after illness and paralysis, leaving a family obituary noting his birth in 1871 and marriage in 1933. other items mention hog theft near Johnson County.
The Iowa Boards of Supervisors association urged the highway commission to allocate 60 percent of the state's new federal highway funds to secondary roads not farm to market routes. About 150 delegates at Des Moines called for each county to submit road project lists and formed a committee to work with federal and state officials. The proposed share equals 6.3 million dollars, exceeding Governor Herring's plan for equal primary and secondary division.
Marriages in Manchester and Brandon with attendants listed. Confirmation ceremony in Prairieburg for 102 with multiple priests. Durant bank sale details in Tipton. Grundy Center alumni event drew 325. speakers named. Decorah couples married. local bank dividend announced in Cresco. Garrison funeral for Elizabeth Wenner details surviving relatives listed.
Mr and Mrs Helken report their 17 year old daughter Reva vanished Saturday. She reportedly told relatives she was in Chicago where she had found work. Police appeal for information and ask anyone with sightings to contact authorities.
Drake University graduates faced a dangerous incident when a member substituted poison ivy for the usual plant during the ivy chain ritual on campus in Des Moines. The executive officers and Dr Alfred J. Pearson, dean of the college of liberal arts, were exposed as they received the sprigs.
Two Winneshiek county couples observe milestone anniversaries at local churches. Halvord Forde marks his 50th with Mrs. Forde at Big Canoe Lutheran Church, while Martin and Helen Kirkeby, married in Hakadalen Norway, celebrate their 60th at Glenwood Lutheran Church with twelve children listed among relatives in Decorah and nearby towns.
Special to The Gazette Elkader hosts its first major Fourth of July fete in years with Cedar Rapids Musketeers junior drum corps leading an exhibition. Dubuque Waukon Independence and Lemon corps join in including harness and running races bicycle and pony events nine platform acts three ball games three band concerts and an elaborate fireworks display.
Wyman Lenhart of Littleport is charged with illegal possession illegal transportation with intent to sell and using counterfeit labels after deputies found two gallons of whisky and alcohol in half pint bottles in his car. He requested a preliminary hearing and was released on $500 bond provided by Jack O Day.
ANAMOSA The new liquor store will open Monday July 1 in the former McNamara shoe building. The property is owned by Mrs F C Snyder. Albert Clark and William H Hellberg will manage the store.
Exa Claire Koch Ethel Mae Guenther Mildred Hamdorf Hazel Flaine Fox Maxine Hamdorf Doris Selhaver Jeanette Holdorf Lola Andreson Phylis Wilmarth Betty Malhsteadt and Ruth Bicknese of Toronto admitted to troop after passing tenderfoot tests in Wheatland.
The Iowa City council rejected two proposals from Iowa City Light and Power. It refused to buy the entire plant for 1 125 000 as it would exceed authorized expenditure and kept pursuing a price for the distribution system. The council also rejected a proposed rate cut of 25 percent for residents and 21 percent for commercial accounts as a compromise to abandon municipal plant plans.
The council will meet Friday night to issue beer permits. Twenty seven applications have been filed for twenty three permits. Permits will be restricted to the business district.
Chief Earl Morgan ordered personnel changes in Sioux City police. Patrolman Nelson Dagle was released after three years on the force and Patrolman Francis Schmidt was suspended five days for reporting for duty intoxicated. Inspector Joe Young noted Dagle had not taken the proper exam for promotion.
Iowa Daily Press raises plan to expand the one man liquor store concept after Bernard Manley, chairman of the Iowa liquor control commission, cites Garner store results. Garner earned a 21.67 percent profit in May with a net $413.17 on $2,367.50 in sales, with expenses totaling $251.11 including central office and warehouse overhead.
The commission plans to reduce many store classifications by August 4. Some three man groups will be reduced to two and Wevenman locations to one. Adjustments are needed as results show smaller forces can handle the business.
Prof Grant Wood of Cedar Rapids will lecture on Regional Painting in the exhibition lounge of the new University of Iowa fine arts building at 8 p m Thursday. Admission is by ticket only with a limited number of free tickets available from the Iowa Memorial Union.
Elgin David Roberts of Floyd has been elected superintendent of schools to succeed L. B. Carter.
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