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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Jun 30, 1939
Page
15
Lost reel and fishing equipment east of Kiag with reward offered. Also a gray cat with rope and collar missing. notify Humane Shelter if seen. Extensive local ads include jewelry deals, beauty services, and classified requests for homes, transportation, and sales. Gazette features various notices and service offers from local businesses.
Albert Edward Wiggam presents a Q and A on science guiding morals. He argues science upholds societal rights over individuals and questions the notion of moral compensation in nature. He discusses marriage, training for spouses, and the harm of endless resolutions, offering his booklet The Habits You Desire as a reader service.
Stanley Kolsto faces multiple bad check charges after over ten bounced checks to local merchants in the past six months. He was arrested in Cedar Rapids for intoxication and arraigned in two early courts where more checks and county attorney actions surfaced. hearings were scheduled, and he remained jailed with possible dismissal of intoxication charges as the case advances.
The Board of Adjustment split over porch enclosure at 801 Fruitland Blvd SW, denying M. Paulson’s plea while George Farmer and Vernon White voted in favor and Leland Mahaffa and Lumer Lorenc opposed it. Ernest Gundling abstained. The board granted George Ird a 41 foot building setback at 2115 Linen Dr SE and allowed Leo Lacek a 14 by 6 sign at 232 Sixteenth Ave. Also approved were a rear yard 25 foot measure for I. R. Brooks at 2111 Blake Blvd and denials for D. Mercer, Loven Imes, and Mrs. Ethel Blake on porch and room alterations.
A proposal to build a three apartment dwelling at 1401 Fifth Avenue SE was withdrawn. No further details on the applicant or reasons are provided in the accessible text.
Rex De La Hunt, 17, of 703 Fifth street SE, suffered a bruised right knee when the bicycle he rode was struck by a car driven by C. W. Falcon, 66, of Marion, at 3:50 pm Thursday. Falcon said he could not see the rider because a car ahead blocked the view as he was turning into Tenth Street from Third Avenue SE. He settled with De La Hunt for bicycle damage and a driving with faulty brakes charge was dismissed.
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