Franklin High Adds Five Superior Ratings in Contest
Franklin High School of Cedar Rapids earned five more superior rankings in the sub district music contest. Results show multiple solo and ensemble entries with superior and excellent marks across baritone to oboe and chamber groups.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Franklin High
Ial
Monticello
Benjamin Franklin High School of
Cedar Rapids
James Ralson
Superior
Fred Gaylor
Bellevue
Channing Ziegler
Anamosa
Wayne Steinbeck
Preston
Robert Wilson
Edgewood
Lucia Thorne
Maquoreta
Helen Levsen
Wyoming
Agnes Knapp
Dubuque
Central City
Marion
Coggan
Mount Vernon
Rae Blodgett
Benjamin Franklin
Springville
Coggon
Solin
Anna Culbertson
Edward Horak
Warsten Studer
Betty Weltertsen
Ruth Bradley
Good
Margaret Victorine
Frankn High
Mary K. French
Evelyn Oakes
Robert Smythe
Franklin_high
Robert Beiber
Lynn Marquart
Manchester
Excellent
Postville sub-district music contest results list
Morning results name performers from Waukon West Union Monona Clermont Elgin Guttenberg Lansing and others with solos for tenor baritone soprano and contralto plus ensembles in woodwinds brass strings and bands. Top ratings include superior and excellent with many towns represented including Postville Fayette Fairbank Decorah Arlington Strawberry Point and West Union.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Postville
Don Kepler
Waukon
Norece Hoover
West Union
Jason Moses
Monona
Robert Spies
Superior
Horace Magnusson
Lansing
Charles Ivory
Strawberry Point
Iver Thorsen
Ben McNeil
May Dawn Smith
Marjorie Olson
Clermont
Marion Lehman
Elgin
Sylvia Pottratt
Ruth Eckart
Guttenberg
Adelle Beyer
Joan Pennington
Maxine Schulte
Garnaville
Ruth Nading
Shirley Furgeson
Genevieve Gribel
Arlene Roe
Robert Forbes
Fayette
Lloyd Luhman
Maxson
Ansing
Adeine Dephing
Anna Barbara Kamm
Post- Ville
Fairbank
Strawpees
Point
Decorah
Arlington
Ae Superior
Results at Vinton music contest reveal multiple simples
Results from the sub district music contest in Vinton list winners in solo and group categories. Participants include Charles Greenwood and Thelma Franklin for cello, Alvin Hurt and Elizabeth Homan for violin, and Audrey Lillis in tuba, all rated superior or excellent across entries from Vinton Traer and surrounding towns.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vinton
Charles Greenwood
School For Blind
Thelma Franklin
Traer
Superior
Alvin Hurt
Wilson High
Cedar Rapids
Elizabeth Homan
McKinley
Virgil Smith
Gordon Hoxie
West Waterloo
Audrey Lillis
Blairstown
Doris Smith
Conrad
Max Anderson
Frank Tomlinson
van Horne
Joe Nemec
Wilson
William Dickens
Toledo
Virgil Freeman
Newhall
Leland Coon
Gladbrook
Reinbeck
Ood
Raer
Beaman
Belle Plaine
Ewhall
Norway
Tama
Dysart
Naomi Hall
June Lusthoff
Exellent
Kathleen Lorenz
Rothy Martin
Boys’ Glee Club
Inton
West Branch Subdistrict Music Contest Results
Saturday morning events at West Branch handed out superior ratings to Douglass Brooks Iowa City and Lila Machaude Lost Nation for French horn and other soloists from Davenport Muscatine DeWitt West Liberty Grand Mound and Marengo. Geraldine Differding Mechanicsville and Dorothy Harrington DeWitt also received high marks.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
West Branch
Douglass Brooks
Iowa City
Superior
Dorothy Zeigler
Muscatine
Laurel Ackmann
Clinton
Wanda Christensen
Lost Nation
Geraldine Differding
Mechanicsville
Bob Milversted
Davenport
Ralph Dunlap
Lila Machaude
Delight Nelson
Boyd Lenig
Phyllistory
Excellent
Millard Mills
Good
Bill Henigbaum
Marjorie Harrington
DeWitt
Dorothy Smith
West Liberty
Ethel Kasper
Eileen Shipton
Marengo
George Miller
Dorothy Mengel
Davenort
Alice Mae Anderson
Grand Ound
Washington Results In Sub district Music Contest
Washington and Sigourney share honors as sub district music contest winners on Friday. Several divisions produce no superior, barring advancement to district. Winners include trumpet solo with multiple towns, French horn, trombone, baritone, tuba solos, and woodwind ensemble with names such as Kalona Wellman Sigourney Fairfield Washington and others.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Sigourney
Fairfield
Kalona
Keota
Delta
West Chester
Estler Nicola
Sigcellent
Superior
Wellman
Auneworr
Paul Campbell
Schiltz
Class and solo music contest results across Iowa towns
Standout performers include Richard Schwenke and Esther Nicola with superior ratings in multiple solos. Enrolled ensembles from Sigourney Ottumwa Fairfield and Wellman earned superior and excellent marks across Classes A B C with several players named.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Richard Schwenke
Bernadeen Harras
Esther Nicola
James Seibel
Delta
Kalona
Keota
Wellman
Good
Bill Cox
Washington
Superior
Sigourney
Bertha Reinert
Mary Westphal
Mary Atchison
Kathryn Bacha
Ottumwa
Excellent
Fairfield
John A. Schiltz
West Chester
John Richard Schwenke
Brighton
Gene Tucker
Averge
Obera Parke
Average
Esther Masson
Judgment in Twig Throop estate case for 1350 dollars
Judge A B Clark awarded 1350 dollars to Donald P Barnes as administrator of the Charles B Throop estate. The case involved 600 dollars in savings deposits started in 1906 at Security Savings bank of Cedar Rapids later merged and absorbed by Merchants National of Cedar Rapids in 1931. Throop died April 28 1906 in Boone county Illinois and the estate closed there December 7 1908. The Cedar Rapids bank liability was assumed after the merger.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Clark
Donald P. Barnes
Charles B. Throop
Throop
Merchants National Bank of
Cedar Rapids
Security Savings Bank of
Security Bank
Cedar Rapids National Bank
Cedar Rapids National
Merchants National
Boone County
Ill
Springville Savings Bank Declares Dividend in Receivership
Judge A B Clark in district court Saturday authorized a fifteen percent dividend on depositors' claims in the receivership of Springville Savings Bank. Previous dividends have totaled twenty percent.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Clark
Springville Savings Bank
Defense Seeks Directed Verdict in Burkholder Case
In district court Judge A B Clark heard a defense motion for directed verdict at the close of plaintiff Fannie G. Burkholder's testimony in an $18 500 damage suit brought by Burkholder estate against Paul Cavros and Sanit ary Construction and Supply. The claim stems from Homer S Burkholder allegedly slipping into an excavation on Cavros leased property near a skating rink on July 12 1934. Witnesses included Harry Bell Dr A R Zuercher Mrs Fannie G Burkholder and Detective Tom Condon. Burkholder died July 22 1935 and Burkholder executrix remains plaintiff.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
A. B. Clark
Fannie G. Burkholder
Homer S. Burkholder
Paul Cavros
Sanitary Construction and Supply Company
Cavros
Harry Bell
A. R. Zuercher
Tom Condon
Burkholder
Sealed verdict in $25,000 death claim case
A district court jury deliberated ten hours before returning a sealed verdict in the death claim filed by T. L. Thomas as administrator of Raymond Lloyd Thomas estate against T. E. Charter of Cedar Rapids. Judge Ellison will open the verdict on Monday. the crash occurred July 16 at the Louisa viaduct on highway 11.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
T. L. Thomas
Raymond Lloy Thomas
T. E. Charter
Cedar Rapids
F. O. Ellison
Anamosa
Raymond Thomas
Charter
Louisa Viaduct
Highway No. 11
Youths Sentenced in Marion Larceny Case
Hilden Lacock and Ray Lawrence, both of Marion, pled guilty to larceny of domestic fowls. Judge H C Ring ordered Lacock returned to Eldora state training school until 21 and Lawrence to a one year county jail with parole on good behavior. They were arrested by Deputy Larry Condon for taking thirteen chickens from W S Hobbs farm March 13.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hilden Lacock
Ray Lawrence
Marion
H. C. Ring
Lacock
Eldora
Lawrence
Larry Condon
W. S. Hobbs
Receiver’s sale of Kanealy and Beezley drug stock tops bids
Milo A. Chehak offered 2710 dollars, the highest bid, as bids were taken before Judge H C Ring in district court Saturday for the receiver’s sale of stock, fixtures and equipment of the Kanealy and Beezley drug store. The court authorized the receiver to prepare a sale report for approval. The receivership opened on October 28.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Milo A. Chehak
H. C. Ring
Kanealy and Beezley
John Kegler Found Guilty on Alcohol Charge in District Court
John Kegler, 59, charged with illegal possession of alcohol, was fined 300 dollars and costs and sentenced to three months in county jail by Judge A B Clark. The jail term was suspended on good behavior after a February 25 police seizure of a small amount of alleged liquor.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
John Kegler
A. B. Clark
Funeral services set for Edward O. Iverson 73
Decorah obituary notes Edward O. Iverson born near Decorah August 24 1862 died after a year long illness. He married Ella Peterson March 30 1898. Survived by wife two daughters Mrs William Hein Cresco and Mrs Theodore Scott Orleans township two sons Marvin and Clarence three brothers Anton Iverson Minneapolis Carl Iverson Rugby ND Ben Iverson Cresco and a sister Mrs Hans Hanson.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Decorah
Edward O. Iverson
Orleans
Lutheran Church
H. M. Norman
Cresco
Iverson
Ella Peterson
William Hein
Theodore Scott
Orleans Township
Marvin
Clarence
Anton Iverson
Minneapolis
Carl Iverson
Rugby
N. D
Ben Iverson
Hans Hanson
Rains Create New Menace of Floods Across New England
Floods from heavy rains disrupt industry and displace thousands across New England. In Hartford roofs and hangars flooded, Colt’s factory surrounded, and Rumford isolated by the Androscoggin. Boston avoids milk shortage as trucks move in from New York. Authorities warn of worsening conditions and plan pumping station restart. Rehabilitation pushes forward in Johnstown and Williamsport as cities seek federal aid.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
New England
Connecticut
Merrimack
Maine
Rumford
Androscoggin
Hartford
Robert MacGregor
Brainard Field
Colt’s
Ellis Island
New York Harbor
Connecticut Floods Ravage Hartford and New England Region
Heavy rainfall caused the Connecticut River to reach a record high and flood Hartford near isolation with districts under ten feet of water. Over 100,000 homeless and 22 dead across six states as 2,000 refugees sheltered in schoolhouses and National Guard units aided civil authorities.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Hartford
Connecticut
Connecticut River
Middletown
New England
Merrimack River
Lowell
Lawrence
Haverhill
Mass
Springfield
National Guard
Maine
Rumford
Flood Crest Pushes Through Ohio Valley Cities
The Ohio River flood swept through communities from Marietta to Huntington and Portsmouth. A three mile river wall and sandbags protected Portsmouth as 58 foot peak neared. Powhatan saw an unidentified man drown. Kentucky guards moved into Augusta while Wheeling reported 10 000 people in emergency quarters. Food centers opened and utilities resumed with restraint on gas use on the island center.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Ohio
Marietta
Proctorville
Coast Guard
Huntington
W. Va
Powhatan
Upper Valley
Portsmouth
Kentucky National Guard
Augusta
Wheeling
Pennsylvanias flood crisis worsens amid shortages and epidemics
In Pennsylvania flood zones 80,000 residents face growing hardship as epidemics threaten public health and relief teams race to distribute food water and medical aid amid shortages and mounting anxiety.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Pittsburgh
Trio In Danger Of Falling Into River Detoured To Jail
At 7 am Saturday a man Harold Hilton 19 of 204 Fourth Avenue NW and two women Nan Nelson 27 of River Forest Illinois and Evelyn Bader 23 were escorted to the city jail after witnesses feared they might fall into the river on their way home along the Fourth Avenue bridge. All were charged with intoxication and released on bonds.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Fourth Avenue
Harold Hilton
Fourth Avenue NW
Nan Nelson
River Forest
Solon Fire Destroys Farm House. Luenburger Hurt
Fire destroyed the Paul Kohl farm house near Solon. Dell Luenburger was burned on face and arms while attempting to extinguish the blaze. Neighbors saved most furniture. rebuilding planned soon.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Solon
Paul Kohl
Dell Luenburger
Luenburger
Ban On U S Writers Would Be Boomerang
Hollywood gossip and industry notes discuss the potential English ban on American writers. Experts warn it would hurt British cinema by limiting access to top American screen talent and material. The column also updates on marriages, contracts, and travels of stars like Douglas Fairbanks Jr and John Payne, with brief society and production mentions.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Los Angeles
England
John Emerson
Screenwriters Guild
Hollywood
H. G. Wells
Hugh Walpole
W. P. Lipscomb
Coningsby Dawson
Roland Leigh
Tom Mix Circus Clown Opens in Santa Barbara
Glenda Farrell hosts a surprise luncheon for Edward Everett Horton on his birthday as Tom Mix's circus arrives in Santa Barbara with many friends of Leo and Tom expected to attend.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Tom Mix
Santa Barbara
Leo
Tom
Glenda Farrell
Edward Everett Horton
Farm benefits may average $10 an acre
The plan taxes soil-depleting crops including corn cotton tobacco and potatoes. Payments are shared between landlords and tenants with 37 1 percentage to landowners 24 per cent to those supplying work stock and equipment and 50 per cent split by the principal crop.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
AAA
Townsend club sponsors dance at I O O F hall
Townsend club number 2 will sponsor a dance at the I O O F hall Saturday at 9 p.m. Firemen responded at 7 50 a m Saturday for a small roof fire on the home of William McCauley 422 Second Street SW. Scout executives West and Dill of the Cedar Rapids area council have returned from a national training conference at French Lick Springs Ind. Seaman William C Sleight on seventeen day leave from San Diego training station with his parents at 1419 Fifth Avenue SE. He expects transfer to the U S S Richmond upon return.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
William McCauley
Second Street
N. Harold West
Robert L. Dill
Cedar Rapids Area
French Lick Springs
Ind
William C. Sleight
United States Navy
San Diego
Calif
Colson T. Sleight
Fifth Avenue SE
U. S. S. Richmond
Children Enjoy Wheeler and Woolsey Film Silly Billies
Review notes the Iowa audience finds Wheeler and Woolsey funny in Silly Billies playing through the weekend. Describes their antics as they portray dentist westerns with Indians and horresco gag lines, praising outdoor scenery and criticizing dialogue and the leading actress Steffi Dunn.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Iowa
Wheeler
Woolsey
Dorothy Lee
Wheeler and
Steffi Dunn
Major Bowes
Wheeler and Woolsey
Stanton Morin family anniversary notices blend two celebrations
Mr and Mrs Wess Stanton marked their twenty fourth wedding anniversary Friday at the home of Mr and Mrs Frank Morin who observed their twenty third anniversary. Mrs Morin and Mrs Stanton are sisters. The Stantons have two daughters Mrs Carl Werden Baldwin and Florence at home. The Morins have Elza Morin Muscatine Mrs Marcel Clark Walcott Camilla and Gertrude at home.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Baldwin
Wess Stanton
Frank Morin
Notice of Probate of Will In Iowa Linn County
State of Iowa Linn County district court to all concerned that on March 31 1936 at 9 oclock A M an instrument purporting to be the Last Will of Fred A Hefty deceased will come for proof and admission to probate before the district court Cedar Rapids Iowa March 19 Carl F W Lundquist Clerk Jordan Attorney
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
State of Iowa
Linn County
District Court
Fred A. Hefty
Said County
Cedar Rapids
Iowa
Children Reunited After Police Locate Parents
Police reunite two lost children with their parents, Mr. and Mrs. Vincent Young of 1524 Thirteenth Avenue SE, after the pair were found wandering Friday afternoon and sustained by department staff while authorities traced their family.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Vincent Young
Thirteenth Avenue SE
Notice of Appointment Executrix 1936 Linn County
Notice is hereby given that on March 20, 1936, the undersigned was appointed and qualified as Executrix of the estate of Edward F. P. Winslow, deceased of Linn County Iowa. All debtors to the estate should make immediate payment. Claims must be filed with the Clerk of the Linn County District Court.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Linn County
Edward FP. Winslow
Iowa
Car In Crash Was Stolen Police Say
Police learned the car abandoned after crashing into the wig wag signal at F avenue NW near North Western tracks was stolen. Owner George Wagner reported it taken around 9 30 p m Thursday from a parking spot on F avenue near Sixth street NW. The accident occurred early Friday and the car was returned to Wagner.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
F Avenue NW
North Western
George Wagner
F Avenue
Sixth Street NW
Wagner
Atterback Attacks Air Safety Conditions Hearing
Three former officials from the commerce department bureau of air commerce testified to Congress, criticizing safety rules and radio beams as inadequate. Representative Utterback warned he might avoid air travel, recalling Mount's earlier resignation and a May investigation. The exchange followed the death of Senator Cutting in an air crash.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Washington
Commerce Department
Bureau of Air Commerce
Senate
Utterback
J. A. Mount
Mount
Iowa
Bureau
Cutting
Bronson Cutting
New Mexico
Clark
The Theater Listings for Paramount Palace Rialto and Olympic
The page lists current film lineups and stage productions across venues. Paramount features The Trail of the Lonesome Pine with Sylvia Sidney and Fred MacMurray, plus The Last Outpost and Sylvia Scarlett. Palace showcases The Last Outpost and Sylvia Scarlett with Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn. Rialto presents Song of the Trail and Guard That Girl. Olympic shows Hell in the Heavens and The People’s Enemy.
MENTIONED IN THIS ARTICLE
Paramount
Sylvia_ Sidney
Fred MacMurray
Palace
Cary Grant
Claude Rains
Sylvia Scarlett
Katharine Hepburn
Also Mentioned on This Page
Court House News
C. B. Throop Estate
Boston
New York
Seaboard
Atlantic
Weather Bureau
Nantucket
Eastport
Middle Atlantic
Johnstown
Daniel Shields
Earle
Williamsport
Lock Haven
Sunbury
Harrisburg
Ohio Valley
Pennsylvania
Court Hussey
NBC
Dial
Iowa News
Wendell Edwards
Consolidated School Board
John Helm
H. L. Zimmer
E. E. Wieben
F. H. Schmidt
I. E. Trottnow
R. V. Lee
H. C. Aschenbrenner
Lost Nation Independent School
Edward Ruggeberg
F. H. Burrichter
D. L. Cressey
O. H. Story
Wiley Wolfe
Polly Ludwig
Helen Glen
Helen Deal
Alice Manning
Margaret Moyle
Ruth Mayberry
Brandon
Methodist Church
Methodist Ladies Aid Society
Harry Horak
John McKee
Christian Church
L. J. Halstead
Frank Demaree
R. S. Phillips
George W.wood
Ruby Taylor
John Taylor
Colesburg
George
Susie Toomer
Delhi
Farley
James Oliver Curwood
Kermit Maynard Evelyn Brent
Robert Allen
Florice Thrillert
Buck Jones
Tax
Gene Autry
U.S
Louella O. Parsons
Universal Service
Au Revoir
Douglas Fairbanks, Jr
Berengaria
London
Doug
Dolores del Rio
Griffith Jones
Elizabeth Bergner
Rita Kaufman
Edmund Lowe
Eddie
Southampton
Rita
Hatti Carnegie
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Samuel Goldwyn
John Payne
Sam
Young Payne
Robert Taylor
Columbus
George Chandler
Helen Gahagan
Melvyn Douglas
Parnell
Douglas
Hussy
Joan Crawford
Jack Oakie
Venita Varden
Yuma
Bette Davis
Claudette Colbert
East
Eliza Wilson
Mrs. Colbert
Bernie Hyman
Wilmer Jacoby
Charles Sachs
Myron Selznick
Myron
Marjorie
Little Joan
Europe
Jimmy Stewart
Jeanette MacDonald
Leo Carrillo
Matineeloc
Mutiny ON the Bounty
Clark Gable
Charles Laughton
Prades
Iniontcomn
Wheeler, Woolsey
Carl F
W. Lundquist
Clerk District Court
Jordan
Emily F. Winslow
Executrix
Carl F. Jordan
Stace
Top
Timothy’s
Eleanor Whitney
Tom Keene
Dickie Moore
Ata
RTA
I Conquer the Sea
Steffi Duna
Bowes
Cedar Valley
Hill Billies
Timothy’s Quest
Rialto
Kermit Maynard
Guard That Girl
Florence Rice
Warner Baxter
Conchita Montenegro
Preston Foster
Lila Lee
Kentucky
Hills
TNT
Ata el HA
The
Lonesome Pine
Fred Stone
Bren
Sunday Gazette
This is just the beginning! Our collection holds over 300 years of history, including rare newspapers, obituaries, marriage records, birth records, and so much more—most of which you won’t find anywhere else!