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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1938
Page
25
Construction to add a 28 foot wide stage at Walker High School includes full rewiring and new lighting. Work started in December with a six month completion target.
Marion voters face a school election to choose two directors from seven candidates including retiring J J Wallace and newcomer contenders Irvin L Ford C Merle Robison K E Cornell W E Failor and Dr C F Gowans with Grace Cross Ross as the sole woman candidate. An uncontested treasurer candidate E A Lagerquist also appears. Two measures ask to sell Prescott school building and to levy a playground tax of up to one half mill. Polls open noon to seven at the public library auditorium.
Marion Camp Fire groups mark the 26th anniversary with a picnic at First Presbyterian Cedar Rapids. Go to Church Sunday includes union services at the Methodist church with campers singing and repeating the credo. A junior assembly at Lincoln auditorium features a Camp Fire program, songs, Wohelo history, honors, knot tying, birthday tributes, and a talk by Nadia Thorpe.
Irene Schultz of 610 Tenth Street recounts a perilous Los Angeles to Marion journey during the flood. A landslide blocked the Glendale run, a washed bridge halted the Daylight train, passengers stayed aboard with a sleeper car, 700 workers cleared the slide, and a long detour via Oakland caused day delays before arrival in Cedar Rapids.
Marion high school will stage two concerts in the Lincoln auditorium at 7:30 p.m. Thursday and Friday. Miss Rose Wilcox directs the vocal group and G. L. Lyman leads the instrumental selections, featuring a wide program of solo and ensemble numbers by both bands and choirs.
The Oxford league of Trinity Methodist church Cedar Rapids presents the play Why Should I by Jewell Bothwell Tull tonight at 7 30 at the union services in the Methodist church. Cast includes Charles Youtzy Mae Wells Edwin Youtzy Regina Drake Woodrow Bont rager Dean Lockwood Lucille Steyne.
Six Marion ministers Saturday endorsed a small tax levy to support a supervised playground program. The proposition will be voted on at the school election Monday. Community youth benefits include health, constructive leisure, and low cost for high value. The Whit tier youth groups and area clubs share upcoming events and meetings.
Fayett e Iowa Four hundred music students took part in the inaugural critic music festival at Upper Iowa University. Bands and glee clubs from twelve towns attended with each group receiving a thirty minute critique from directors. Alvin Edgar of Iowa State acted as instrumental critic and Harold Stark of Iowa directed the mass chorus and shared vocal duties.
Ralph Howell, 24, of Lansing, pleaded guilty in district court here to operating a motor vehicle without the owner's consent. Judge H. E. Taylor fined him 100 dollars and 27 dollars costs.
Nearly a hundred Iowa artists filed entries for the Cornell college exhibit in Armstrong hall as part of the new art department opening. An out of state jury will select the nucleus for the All States exhibit in New York City June 14 to July 20. Receptions, lectures, and an artist course featuring Thomas Hart Benton highlight the two day event.
Special to The Gazette. E. E. Neal, 81, a Keota photographer since age 31, moved from a frame shop to Neal's studio on Broadway and Fulton. With brother Charles, he ran the gallery from 1886, later sole proprietor. His wife retouches and colors photos while Neal pursues gardening and writing.
The Buchan an county Red Cross chapter sponsors a standard first aid training course taught by Victor M. Roth in Independence Rowley. The program ends with graduates Vera Buchanan Marilyn Eicke Hazel N Heckle Zenita B McLaury Norman Mickelson Oweeus Porter La Verne Mae Titus Rowlye John Corcoran Edna Greenley Russell Greenley Victor Greenley Leroy Toomey and Independence residents.
Decorah Iowa reports the Loren Singing Society the oldest of its kind in America will mark its seventieth anniversary on March 17 with a banquet at the Hotel Winneshiek and a concert at Luther College C K Preus gymnasium. The event features guests from Grieg Mandskor Fort Dodge Norden Des Moines and others. Dr Carlo Sperati will direct with guest conductors A J Moe and Alex Lindblom.
An assembly of Rainbow Girls was instituted in Monticello at the Masonic temple with officers installed. Mrs. Ethel A. Ballard chaired, assisted by Miss Cath erine Spooner and Miss Bernice Stelzmiller. A dinner followed for Eastern Stars and Masons, Monticello and Manchester girls, then the advisory board was installed. Officers include Esther Cass as worthy advisor and Lavonne Landis as worthy assistant. other names cover charity, love, faith, recorder Ruth Adams, treasurer Ruth Roberts, and many more. A note on two years of service and local civil war veteran Regnier’s long residence concludes the report.
A Civil War veteran, now bedfast, follows news from the American Legion and his children’s letters with interest focused on their well being and employment. He recalls a Legion home purchase and G A R flag transfer, while two cats, including a big black cat named Hobce, keep him company.
The University of Iowa speech clinic, a pioneer in America, leads in stuttering research with more than 25 studies under way and about 200 publications since inception. Last semester the clinic handled 274 cases, including 95 stutterers and 116 with articulatory disorders, reflecting widespread work in a top national program.
A replevin suit over fifteen ewes and three lambs, valued at 144 dollars, was resolved by an Allamakee county jury after eight hours of deliberation. The court found the Fuller herd owner entitled to eighteen sheep found on a neighboring farm after a pasture dispute between Ace Fuller and Milton Moose Lloyd Bruce. A sheep was paraded before the jury to show earmarks, an innovation by Fuller’s lawyers Hart and Hart. Charles E. Miller of Albia appeared for Bruce.
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