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Local history notes from the Gazette March 7 1929
Engine wiper Santiago Cervantez fatally crushed at Rock Island round house when the locomotive cab pressed against an engine stall door. Cedar Rapids Woman's club grants life memberships to Mrs. H E Witwer and Mrs. Charles A Clark on its 33rd anniversary. Land purchase by organization for a sixty acre tract on Marion boulevard. lawn type cemetery planned with markers flush to sod. Pioneer railroad builder John S Wolf dies near his hundredth birthday in Omaha. Various relocations and travels of local residents including Proctors to Milwaukee and Hanna accepting a call in Marion. A birthday celebration followed by a theater party for Mr Reed attended by families and friends. Harrison Dill travels to Stanley Minnesota for health. W E Twogood family relocates to Cedar Rapids. W G Haskell to St Louis and beyond. Earl Byron Byers and assistant Ditch depart for New York and eastern points.