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Newspaper
Cedar Rapids Gazette
Location
Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America
Date
Mar 13, 1941
Page
3
A capacity crowd at Coe College Playhouse watched A Milne satirical fantasy The Ivory Door. The second act improved as the cast delivered fine performances led by Frederick Uhlenhopp as King Perivale and Frances Baymer as Princess Lilia with Kent Andrews designing set and costumes.
Mr and Mrs Charles J Voorhies celebrate their fiftieth wedding anniversary with family dinner at their Cedar Rapids home 227 Seventh Street NE and an open house for relatives and friends Sunday. They wed March 14 1891 at the bride's parents home near Olin. They have two sons, three granddaughters and one great granddaughter.
The play features Forsyth Anton Jack Chronic and others including Ruth Rice Dorthe Clark John White Marion Johnson Daniel Sweeney John Bowne Antoinette Vampola Jessica Alice McLaughlin Count Rollo William Green and King Udo Paul Grant Prince Eural James Powers. It will be shown again tonight at 8 15 in the Playhouse and Friday night at the same time for members of the forensic teams competing in the state tournament in Cedar Rapids this weekend.
Guerin R. Cronkhite of 1049 Twelfth Street NE was appointed from the eligibility list to the fire department by Safety Commissioner Wes Benesh, in a unanimous city council vote. He succeeds Carl Misbach, who resigned recently.
Local notices list a postponed pinochle game from Jan Hus lodge No 51 S O O F Ely to be rescheduled. Other items include West Highlands Community club meeting with telephone operation films at Cleveland school 730 p.m. Friday.
Club No 6 plans a Thursday 7 45 p m meeting in the superior court room. Mrs J J McElrath is hospitalized after a kitchen fall leaving her with a broken back. The Rapids Gas Corporation petition to build a 60 by 4 foot platform before the gas fill building at 17 19 Twenty Second avenue SW goes to city departments. Old Cedar Rapids Company D unit of the national guard will meet 7 30 p m at Podzimek drug store to arrange funeral services for Major Walter A Meyer Saturday at 3 p m. Melvin E Couser returns to Great Lakes naval training station Friday after visiting his mother Mrs Mary Couser and relatives in Cedar Rapids and Ida Grove. About 250 CCC enrollees from Idaho Montana Washington will ride a Rock Island train Friday night to Yellow Springs Ohio and Fort Benjamin Harrison Indiana. W O Schultz 2541 B avenue NE leads the Boy Scout Roundup May 1 and 2. The correct name is Walter Schultz, 2914 Soutter avenue SE.
A five foot colonial snow lady in the Burnell residence yard at 1637 B avenue NE draws neighbors and praise from art teachers at Franklin and Polk schools. Sculptors are Muriel Burnell and Betty Vandewalker, granddaughter of the Crawfords at 1644 A avenue NE.
Maurice M. Kellman of Chicago sues Miss Frances Stoltz of Lisbon in federal district court alleging negligence in an automobile accident of November 26, 1940. The suit requests 7500 in damages for injuries and was recorded by deputy clerk Miss Bessie Engle for Clerk Lee McNeeley.
Chicago reports that 1940 saw the highest hospital use on record with general bed occupancy rising from 69.2 to 70.3 percent. It marks the first year staying above seventy percent.
Judge J E Heiserman appoints Mrs Nellie E Clark administrator with will annexed for the Clark estate, third in charge after Charles H Clark and Annie E Clark. Also a $463.74 judgment is awarded to Louise Prenosil and Darrell Daubenmier in a Watfa Berry account action. A partition suit over a Linn county farm, James C Hickey estate, names H M Soper as referee and upholds a $1100 F F Morris lien priority.
Emme Vobejda and Milo J. Kouba were named administrators in a Bever Avenue SE matter with a $2,000 stake noted. The filing names the two as executors pending further probate action.
Earl Henkle aged 28 of 1151 Center Point Road NE faced arraignment Thursday before Judge J E Heiserman on a embezzlement accusation. He was named in a March 5 indictment for diverting funds collected from selling compressed gas containers. Judge John T Moffit granted Guaranty Bank and Trust as executor of Daniel C Hartung estate a promissory note judgment of 113203 against Ray S Hartung and Mabel Hartung dated June 13, 1930.
A sealed jury verdict awarded John A. Limback $132.2 thousand against Eugene Hepker of Alburnett in a 1938 lumber sales case. Judge J E Heiserman received the verdict Thursday. Hepker was given ten days to file exceptions and seek a new trial.
County Clerk Edwin W. Lundquist and County Auditor Robert M. Vesely attended a meeting of the legislative committee of the Iowa County Officers association in Des Moines Wednesday. The group expressed approval of the bill before the state legislature providing four year terms for county officers.
The estate of Frank J. Vobejda of 1610 Eighth Avenue SE, who died March 1, was valued at about $7000 in a petition for administration filed Wednesday by his widow.
Clifford Ferring son of Mr and Mrs W F Ferring of Monticello has joined the army air corps after serving in the navy and army for over eight years. He was sent to Fort Des Moines for final medical checks as part of a new Iowa recruiting district quota which lists 251 air corps positions at Jefferson Barracks St Louis 82 at Fort Douglas Utah and musician posts at Fort Des Moines with vacancies for bass horn bass drum flute piccolo trombone French horn and cornet.
A recent report shows the factory value of motor vehicles bodies and parts produced last year totaled 4 039 930 733 dollars. The figure underscores the scale of the industry and reflects output across major producers.
Rev W A Jacobs of the First Congregational church urged Lions Club members that democracy must shed old rural roots and require mass sacrifice. He warned democracy depends on people accepting responsibility for others and themselves, contrasting it with totalitarian control. The crab note adds a separate fact about crabs replacing limbs.
Mayor Robert P. Galbraith of Rock Island will meet in Washington with William S Knudsen and Major Carl M Markham to discuss expanding the Rock Island arsenal and safeguarding it from sabotage. He urged adding buildings and boosting capacity to employ 15,000 workers year round on army manufacturing.
An advertisement touts Marmola tablets as a safe method for adults with thyroid-related obesity. It claims 30 years on the market and over 20 million boxes sold, notes no cure-all claim, and urges consulting a physician for diagnosis before use.
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