Marion Nwes Rural Garden Club Elects President
Mrs Clifton Hawk is elected president of the Rural Garden club at a meeting hosted by Mrs Clyde Kearns. Other officers named include Mrs C L Fernow as vice president and Mrs G A Storck as secretary treasurer. Several members attended and committees were formed for flowers and programs.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Rural Garden Club
Clifton Hawk
Clyde Kearns
C L Fernow
Madeice
G A Storck
Lesie Dunn
Hawk
Otto Lange
C O Secrist
Jackson County Petition Seeks More Supervisors
A Jackson County petition circulates to place a question on the June ballot to restore five supervisors. The county reduced from five to three in 1942 after a 2 547 to 1 458 vote. five had existed 1861 to 1870 and 1874 to 1934. Proponents cite supervision needs. opponents warn higher costs without proportional gains.
Environment key to child development asserts Dr Wellman
Dr Beth Wellman of the University of Town insists environment greatly shapes mental development. Speaking to Kelvin science society at Coe College she counters psychologist critics and cites IQ studies of preschool and orphan children showing environment can alter intelligence measures and even override birth status.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Beth Wellman
University of Town
Kelvin Science Society
Coe College
Wellman
Wellmans
Past Nats President Speaks to Cedar Rapids Teachers
Mrs Myrtle Hooper Dahl of Minneapolis, past president of the National Education Association's classroom department, addressed Cedar Rapids groups this week. She spoke at Franklin High School to about 60 east side teachers and at Roosevelt High School to about 80 west side teachers, urging professional unity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Myrtle Hooper Dahl
Minneapolis
National
National Education Association
Cedar Rapids
East Side
Teachers Association
Franklin High School
Dahl
Roosevelt High School
West Side
N. E.A
Union Of Democracies More Idealistic Than Realistic
Dr Sherwood Eddy told 300 in Old Capitol that a United Nations style system could grow from a federation of democracies. He argued justice at home and for the have not nations abroad is needed before peace, while warning unity is idealistic rather than realistically achievable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
Chamberlain
Europe
United States
Sherwood Eddy
Old Capitol
Eddy
Mrs. Gerald Nollen Dies in Des Moines
Mrs. Gerald S. Nollen wife of Bankers Life Insurance president died Wednesday in Des Moines. She belonged to a pioneer Des Moines family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Gerald Nollen
Des Moines
Llp
Gerald S. Nollen
Bankers Life Insurance Company
Missionary Rally at First Christian Church Cedar Rapids
Dr C M Yccum of United Christian Missionary Society and Virgil E Havens along with Thomas E Pletcher will lead a northeast Iowa Disciples of Christ missionary rally at the First Christian Church in Cedar Rapids on Thursday March 7. The event runs 10 am to 5 pm and features about 90 churches with talks discussions and motion pictures by leaders from around the world. State secretaries Miss Marble Epp and J A Dillinger will also attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. M Yccum
United Christian Missionary Society
Indianapolis
Ind
Virgil E Havens
Africa
Thomas E. Pletcher
Pennsylvania
Cedar Rapids
First Christian Church
Iowa
Disciples of Christ
City Briefs list local events and notices
Several items fill the page including meetings of Townsend auxiliary at the Glow room of the Gas company Thursday at 2 pm. Ardekan temple No 234 D K Ko holds a regular meeting Wednesday in Castle hall. A four reel movie on navy activities will be shown. Elizabeth James returned from Oklahoma City. Mrs FE N Werner is confined to Mercy hospital with bronchial pneumonia. Dr B L Knight will speak at Lions club luncheon Thursday noon. J J Runner of Iowa City is a patient after appendectomy. George Schamberger, 11, recovering after appendectomy. Cedar Rapids Life Underwriters previewed American Portrait at Montrose hotel. Life Insurance Institute notes sales progress. Carpenters and trades sought in Want Ad. Clover Farm grocers travel to Omaha for flour mills contest. Al Hofferber, Charles Cizek, Forest Martin among group.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ardekan Temple
Castle Hall
Navy
Cedar Rapids Life
Montrose Hotel
The
Institute of Life Insurance
Clover Farm
Clover Farm Flour Mills
Omaha
al Hofferber
Cedar Rapids Food Market
Charles Cizek
Clutter
Forest Martin
Millers
Waltonian Luncheon Club Set for Thursday Meeting
Henry Mickelsen of Ryan and David Sharpe of Tama are named in a brief social note. The Waltonian Luncheon club will meet Thursday noon at the Lafayette clubroom with short talks by business men and a report on the annual meeting and Ladies night scheduled for March 15.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Waltonian
Lafayette
Farm implement dealers discuss national trade group plan
C H Chase secretary of the Iowa Implement Dealers association spoke at a dinner meeting for 25 retail implement dealers from Johnson Linn and Cedar counties at the Montrose hotel. The event is one of 25 meetings Chase is conducting across Iowa to organize a national trade association for farm equipment dealers.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
C. H Chase
Ames
Iowa Implement Dealers Association
Montrose Hotel
Johnson, Linn
Cedar Counties
Mr Chase
Iowa
Red Cross Home Hygiene Course Holds Second Meeting
The second session of an 18 week home hygiene course for mothers was held Tuesday night at St. Luke's hospital nurses home. About 20 mothers are enrolled. the course runs two hours weekly, led by Mrs Leona Gatzke and Miss Lillian Chivington.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Red Cross
St. Luke's Hospital Nurses Home
Leona Gatzke
St. Luke's
Lillian Chivington
Peter From Self-Trust in Midweek Lenten Service at First Lutheran
Midweek Lenten services at First Lutheran on Third Avenue and Tenth Street SE feature Pastor Henry Scherer preaching on Who Crucified Christ with the theme Peter From Self-Trust. A girls quartet led by Marie Schamberger will sing, with Jean Engelman Helen Johnson and Eileen Koehler as vocalists. Dean Van Valkenberg, 11, suffered minor injuries after being struck on First Avenue between Twenty eighth and Twenty ninth streets. Clyde Taylor, 43, of Marion, claimed the boy darted into the street and drove him to St Luke's for treatment.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
First Lutheran Church
Third Avenue
Tenth Street
Henry Scherer
Christ
Peter
Marie Schamberger
Jean Engelman
Helen Johnson
Eileen Koehler
Dean van Valkenberg
Idaho Drive
First Avenue
Twenty-ninth
Clyde Taylor
Marion
Taylor
St. Luke's Hospital
Woman Sprains Ankle After Dance In Cedar Rapids Area
Josephine Weber, 22, of Twenty ninth avenue SW, was taken to Mercy hospital with a sprained left ankle after collapsing while walking on highway No. 30 east of Cedar Rapids. She rode to Wee Blue inn to await an ambulance and told Sheriff Jim Smith she injured her ankle while dancing with friends at a nearby inn before starting home on foot.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Josephine Weber
Twenty Ninth Avenue SW
Mercy Hospital
Cedar Rapids
Wee Blue Inn
Jim Smith
Dinners Denied as Political in Farm Program Support
State Senator Earl Dean defended March 8 county dinners marking the seventh anniversary of the national farm program. He said tickets were sold to show farmers support for the program, not to influence politics, following Iowa Farm Bureau guidance warnings against partisan activity.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
IDPA
National Farm Program
Earl Dean
Mason City
Dean
AAA
Farm Bureau
Iowa Farm Bureau
Snow Flurries Sweep Western Iowa to Des Moines
Snow flurries moved across western and central Iowa with Audubon reporting a half inch. In Des Moines snow began at noon but melted on contact. Temps stay above 30 Thursday. Tuesday highs reached 5 in Sioux City and 27 in Dubuque, Des Moines 31 to 36. Keokuk only spot with precipitation Tuesday.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Iowa
Audubon
Weather Bureau
Mercury
Sioux City
Dubuque
Keokuk
Six Iowa Brothers To Serve On One Ship
Secretary Edison commends Clarence F Patton of Odebolt Iowa as his six sons will soon be on duty together aboard the USS Nevada highlighting practical patriotism of the highest order and national service guidance from the Edison letter.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington (Ap
Edison
Clarence F Patton
Odebolt
Nevada
Petit jurors hear first cases in February term at Iowa City
Iowa City jurors report Monday at 10 a.m. to hear the first cases in the February district court term. Judge James P Gaffney lists several civil actions including damages against Hochefeller Scheetz against Kuebrich Burke against Harris Tennyson against the Great Northern Life Insurance Co Hignett et al against Rock Island Motor Transit Co. The Town City Music auxiliary plans to send high school musicians to national contests. Mrs N F Sorg named Johnson county division captain of the American Cancer Society advisory board with 34 county volunteers assisting cancer control work.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa City
James P Gaffney
Hochefeller
Scheetz
Kuebrich
Burke
Harris
Tennyson
Great Northern Life Insurance Company
Law
Hignett, Et al
Rock Island Motor Transit Co
W. W. Bales
N. F. Sorg
Johnson County
Women’s Field Army of the American Society For the Control of Cancer
I. R. Pollock
Death deemed unavoidable in mine fall near Ivy
A coroner's jury in Des Moines ruled the death of 36 year old Gomer Jones caused by a state mine fall near Ivy on February 24 was unavoidable.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
Gomer Jones
Ivy
Jas
Des Moines Woman Weds Same-Day Divorce Plaintiff
Mrs. George B Cochrane married James Homer Johnston’s divorce judge in Polk County on Wednesday after obtaining a divorce Tuesday from Johnston. The rapid remarriage followed the court action and occurred across the hall in the same building.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Des Moines
INS
George B Cochrane
Polk County District Court
James Homer Johnston
Cochrane
Lawrence
Kan
Biologist Dr Paul Popenoe to Speak at Cornell Campus
Special to The Gazette Mount Vernon Dr Paul Popenoe director of the Institute of Family Relations in Los Angeles will speak on Marriage and Human Nature at the Cornell lecture and artist course Thursday at 8 pm in the chapel He is a biology lecturer at the University of Southern California and a former editor of the Journal of Heredity He has long promoted education for marriage and family life in schools and colleges Two hundred Iowa churchmen were invited to the Thursday lecture and Iowa colleges were asked to send representatives for a Friday conference.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Mount Vernon
Paul Popenoe
Institute of Family Relations
Los Angeles
Calif
Cornell
Popenoe
University of Southern California
Journal of Heredity
American Social Hygiene Association
New York
California
Human Betterment Foundation
Pasadena
Iowa
Toledo Attorney Elected Tama County Bar President
Vernon F. Kepford of Toledo was elected president of the Tama County Bar association on Tuesday. J. S. Bauch of Gladbrook was named vice president, Dean P Thomas of Traer secretary, and Walter Willett of Tama treasurer, succeeding retiring president Willard F Russell of Toledo.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Toledo
Vernon F. Kepford
Tama County Bar Association
J. S. Bauch
Gladbrook
Dean P Thomas
Traer
Walter Willett
Tama
Willard F Russell
Retiring Commander Mathew Tinley Honored in Council Bluffs
In Council Bluffs 900 people attended a banquet Tuesday night honoring Maj. Gen Mathew A Tinley on his sixty fourth birthday and retirement after 45 years with the national guard. Rainbow division veterans and Iowa guardsmen celebrated with speeches by Barre Blumenthal Brig Gen Charles H Grahl Brig Gen Lloyd D Ross and Gov George A Wilson among others. Des Moines was chosen as the 1941 Rainbow convention site and R C Davidson was elected president.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Council Bluffs
INS
United States Army
Iowa
Tinley
Barre Blumenthal
Chicago
The
Rainbow Veterans
Charles H Grahl
Des Moines
Lloyd D Ross
National Guard
Aryl Berlinger
George A Wilson
Ellard A. Walsh
St. Paul
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Earl Welsher
Knoxville
Mr Welsher
Pearl Metcalf
St. Lukes Hospital
Josephine Kindig
Grace H Starr
Missionary Circle of the Christian Church
Bess Golden
FC Hamm
Kindig
John Reynolds
Golden
Rf, Leigh
Fred Shireman
la Verna Crew
Congregational Church
James Wiggins
Eleventh Street
Cliford
Twentyefifth Street
J B Steck
Harvey Trimble
Battle Creek
Storck
Elizabeth Leonard
Michael Ctra
Nethhe CIA
Silvester Curtis
Long Beach
W Op Kruger
Iona
New Hampton
WE van Fossen
Rockford
George Oxley
BOF
Cubite
Presbyterian Ladies Aid Society
Frank Straley
Michel Tea Room
Ameigo Club
Rachel Ives
Straley
Ed Sigfred
O . P. Club
Mary English
English Review
Powder River
Struthers Burt
S Oa Fontaine
Keith
Margaret Carson Wager
A W. Henke
Reginald Adams
Marian Busby
Baker Booth Guild of the Baptist Church
Eighteenth Street
Catherine Pencil
Anna Neagle
Edith Cavell
Hulda Johnson
Franklin Johnson
Rockford, Tl
Arthur Kropp
Blan's Ferry Road
Owens Drug Store
Moor) Blum
Mel
Frank J Cleveland
Thei
Walter Cleveland
Lester Cleveland
Stephen Klopp
Cleveland
W QO Blake
Cross Apartments
Hyness
Ways and Means Committee
Amercan Legion Auxiliary
Legion Hall
Earl Helbig
Tom Barkwill
Vinton
Leonard Edwards
Gene Burd
Grant Edmunds
Charles Carlson
Harvey Gipp
George Newlin
Roy Michel
Hugh Hutton Marshall Oxley
W. G . Koppenhaver
Gene McConaughs
Howard Mack
Burd
Mrs Edwards
Lions Club
Michel
Frank Flack
Sacred Heart Study Club
Elvic Peterson
James Murray
Rex
Arthur W Henke
Methodist Church
Central City
Jackson County
Dr. Wellman
Nats
Union of Democracies
Merchante National Bank
Middle West
Merchants National Bank
Member
Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation
C. M. Yocum
City Briefs
Townsend
Gas Company
Elizabeth James
Third Avenue SE
Oklahoma City
FE N Werner
Third Avenue SW
B. L. Knight
J J Runner
University Hospital
George Schamberger
Burg
Henry Mickelsen
Ryan
David Sharpe
William Whipple
Durant Commercial Club
Durant
Thomas Combs
Oakland Avenue
Marengo
W . Shedenhelm
Pam
Methodist
Mr. Hunt
Buriel
I. O O F
Pauline Rook
Eighth Street
Marshalltown
Lutheran
al Anamosa
A L. Taylor
Chamber of Commerce
New Anamosa Club
Methodist Church, Anamosa
Bob Roberts
Chamber
Don Goodman
James Remley, Jr
Croquignole
London
2Nd Ave
2Nd St
Renier
Old Luckies
Tama County
Mathew Tinley
Carter
Armstrong's Shoe Repair Department
Buehler Bros
1St ST. SE
RIAL
Desiana
Colecinas
Semford
Hich
Wicetary
Hall
Glidden
Qin Ae
3Rd Ave
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