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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Jun 30, 1940

Page

24

Couple Mix Color Chart For Harmony In Home Redecorating

Naomi Doebel details Lloyd W. George and wife 219 Johnson Avenue NW transforming their house with a seven color scheme. They document a planned all house palette, mixing rose beige lime jade and plum, repainting walls ceilings and woodwork to achieve restful harmony. The project spans living room dining room sun parlor study upstairs gray bedroom and planned kitchens and baths with ongoing landscaping and furniture updates.

Lloyd W. George Johnson Avenue NW Mr. George Russell Wright Jily Pool George Johnson Avenue Cedar Rapids

Huge Elevator Rising at Honeymead in Seven Days

Concrete work on a massive grain elevator at Honeymead Products is to be finished in seven days after the first pour. Eighty workers on day and night shifts build at about 16 feet daily to a height of 109 feet with 12 inch thick walls and a 67 foot diameter. It will store 300,000 bushels of soybeans, far exceeding the 60,000 bushels in an average elevator. The project uses a ton of steel per foot of height. Honeymead’s complex also includes 204,000 bushels in old elevators and a 100,000 bushel wooden area.

Honeymead Products Company Honeymead

Better Homes Directory Listing of Cedar Rapids Suppliers

A local directory lists firms serving the Cedar Rapids area including King’s Crown Plaster Co Maresh Sheet Metal Was Cedar Rapids Fuel Co Builders Material Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Cedar Rapids Gas Economy Lumber Block City Fuel Sanfords W G Block J T Thomas Limback Lumber Wisconsin Lumber Broulck Bros Hatch Brookman Kriz Tent Awning Nagle Eaton Hawkeye Lumber among others.

King’s Crown Plaster Co Maresh Sheet Metal Cedar Rapids Fuel Co Builders Material, Inc Inter-Ocean Reinsurance Co Cedar Rapids Gas Co Economy Lumber Co Cedar Rapids Block Co City Fuel Co Sanfords W. G. Block Co J. T. Thomas Limback Lumber Co Wisconsin Lumber Broulck Bros Hatch & Brookman Lumber Co Kriz Tent & Awning Co Nagle Eaton Lumber Co Hawkeye Lumber Co

Porter buys 1929 B avenue NE and more properties

Wed Porter of 1000 Ninth Street NW purchases the house at 1929 B Avenue NE from William Benson for investment and plans extensive remodeling. The Hedges company also sells 1237 Fifth Street NW to Pliny Nichols and 627 Seventeenth Street NE to C M Pflughaupt, plus two lots on Linden Drive SE to Dr Harold A Lockhart and Keith Dunn.

Wed Porter Ninth Street B Avenue William Benson Hedges Company Fifth Street Pliny Nichols Seventeenth Street C. M. Pflughaupt C Avenue The Harold A. Lockhart Meadowbrook Drive Keith Dunn Elmhurst Drive Auditor's Linden Drive

Misses Heald Sell Homes to V. L. Flint and Others

Misses Martha A. and Ruth Heald sell 929 Center Point road NE to V. L. Flint of 129 Sixteenth street NE. Bruce A. West, realtor, arranges new home for the Healds at 1968 B avenue NE. West also handles sale of 3330 C avenue NE to Marion L. Wood of 885 Twelfth street NE and a lot on Twenty-ninth street SE near Soutter avenue SE bought by Leo E. Biskup of 1037 Nineteenth street SE who plans to build there.

V. L. Flint Sixteenth Street Martha A Ruth Heald Center Point Road Bruce A. West Misses Heald B Avenue Mr. West C Avenue Chris Skaar Marion L. Wood Twelfth Street Twenty-ninth Street Soutter Avenue Leo E. Biskup Nineteenth Street

Building Activity and Real Estate Moves in East Iowa Towns

Mount Vernon residents Mr. and Mrs. E. C. Bergmann hired McKay Brothers of Cedar Rapids to build a Cape Cod bungalow on a South Fourth avenue lot. The plan includes living room with fireplace dining room kitchen bath two first floor bedrooms attached garage and a basement recreation room. Postville contractor Otto C. Sander started a six room home for John Falk jr on a Post street lot recently purchased from Mr and Mrs W C Thoma. Makengo real estate firm expands with L A Weise purchasing half interest and joining Mr Hartz in ownership and brokerage.

Mount Vernon Postville Otto C. Sander John Falk Post Street Falk W. C. Thoma Makengo — L. A. Weise Mr. Hartz

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