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Newspaper

Cedar Rapids Gazette

Location

Cedar Rapids, Iowa, United States of America

Date

Mar 21, 1937

Page

2

Collector's Pitcher Craze Fills Cedar Falls Home

Mrs. B F Hazen of Cedar Falls keeps 940 diverse pitchers collected over six years. The display spans a basement room and includes lustreware china glass and silver pieces from Spain Germany Italy Mexico and the United States. A dozen items are 100 years old or more and 75 gifts form a friendship circle.

B. F. Hazen Twenty-second Street Hiram Livingston Cedar Falls Bennington Spain Germany Italy United States Thompson Livingston

Eastern Iowa Sub-District High School Music Results

Saturday results from sub-district contests in Maquoketa Oelwein Tipton Postville Portions show numerous solos and groups earning Superior Excellent or Good ratings across voice orchestral and chamber categories with multiple towns named including Cedar Rapids Monticello Anamosa Oelwein and West Union among others. The report lists winners by voice type instrument and ensemble with several schools advancing to the next contest.

Iowa Maquoreta Richard Little Marion Royal Rodman Monticello Jack Glen Preston James Ralston Franklin Cedar Rapis Dorothy Kemp Franklin of Cedar Rapids Dorothy Gassen Anamosa Hopkinton Elizabeth Marshall Wyvening Gond Velen Te Oelwein Cornet—Supenor Verna Clan Dundee Rex Olson Adar Falls Excellent Gerb 14 Rientz Sherrock Max Northray Farbank Harald Smith West Waterloo Robert Heege Independence Alice Radenberg Hazleton Kenneth Bennett William Jacobsen Cedar Falls Collette Thomas George Hidinger Russell Castor Fairbank Leola Lehman George Rummelhart Harold Sanders Waverly Cleon Woods Euphonium Hazel Morton Eleanor Kwasnicka Lawrence Murphy Sumner Lorraine Baker Frank Brownell Stanley Clifton Gibbs Kenneth Finch Fern Betz Maynard John Graham Lois Barriga Tyre Cett Oclwein Oreert Woas Manbob Yreert Lorraine Anderson Dike Grundy Center Superior Toledo School For the Vinton Traer Roosevelt East Waterloo Wilson Dysart Conrad Blairstown Tracy Robert Stastny Dick Nelson Keith Hilm Marshall Wyckoff Urbana Keith Upton Kathleen Check Virgil Smith Iowa School For Blind Norma Brown Frank Vrba Eugene Goss Paul Lenk Naomi Hall Charlotte Lillie Alburnett George Schultz Walford Kenneth Crittenden Otto Rinderknecht Atkins Betty Schoen Dick Remner Ruth Franzenburg Byron Gordon Lyle Gunderson Norway Robert Opfer Robert Williams Jack Parrish Loraine Jacobsen John McGranahan Newhall Melba Peterson van Horne Joe Atkins Dorothy Wilson LaVon Hamneuster John McCoy Goldene Kluge Quentin Johnson Glenn Peterson Paul Vanderwaal Vinton Dorris Smith Conrad Arnold Yuza Margaret Leeman Robert Willoughby Mildred Fry Wilma Rinderknecht Jamnita Almstead Esther Booth Adella Ullerich Edwin Webb Mar-jorie Bickel Vinton Grundy Center Traer Atkins Gazette Postville John Combs Elkader Paul Westcol Guttenberg Cathryn Harrington Adel Beyer Genevieve Griebel Waukon James Fitzpatrick Robert Carmichael Hawkeye Robert Spies West Union Jason Moses Monona Gwendolyn Prestemen Virginia Robbins Marjorie Deering Dorothy Holmberg Decorah Fayette Ossian Monona Ossian Hawkeye Superior Lansing

Two Gunmen Kill and Wound In Web ster Ave House

In Pittsburgh two gunmen entered a Webster avenue house and shot two men. Salvatore Saldutti 27 was critically wounded and Albert Melargne was killed. Detective Captain Forner said Saldutti whispered a name linking to a quarrel over a moonshine deal.

Pittsburgh API Webster Avenue Salvatore Saldutti Albert Melargne Howard Forner Salduttr Saldutti

Farm-To-Market Road Measure Probed by Gov Kraschel

Des Moines Gov. Nelson Kraschel discussed the remodeled farm-to-market road bill but dodged whether he would sign or veto it. He backed the bill’s passage but opposed a House–Senate amendment diverting four percent of the primary road fund to farm-to-market roads. He urged careful consideration amid other state concerns including a state building program and asylum patient care reforms.

Des Moines Nelson G. Kraschel Senate House Kraschel Statehouse Iowa New London Texas America Mount Pleasant County Insane Board

Deaths Mrs Margaret Lefebure 65 Fairfax Resident

Mrs Margaret Lefebure 65 lifelong Fairfax resident died at Mercy hospital Cedar Rapids at 9 p m Saturday widow of Henry Lefebure once a noted Belgian horse importer and breeder She is survived by seven sons Theodel Armand Regis Emil Charles Richard Henry and a daughter Mary Margaret three sisters and several siblings Funeral arrangements have not been made

Margaret M Lefebure Fairfax Mercy Hospital Cedar Rapids Henry Lefebure Lefebvre Theodel Armand Regis New York City Emil Charles Richard Chicago Henry Washington, D. C Mary Margaret Nellie Ferreter Charlie Welty Monmouth Ill J. Miller Alberta Canada Catholic Church

Frank Jennison 74 Dies in Central City

Central City Iowa Frank Jennison 74 died at home Saturday after strokes. Born June 18 1862 in Marion he spent most of life in Iowa farming before health issues. He married Laura E Butters in 1885. Survived by widow Hallie Belva daughter of Central City a son Russell O Iran Texas and a grandson. Another son Hugh preceded him in death. Burial arrangements pending.

the Gazette Central City Frank Jennison Mr. Jennison Marion Iowa Laura E. Butters Hallie Belva Russell O Iran Tex Hugh Hatch Funeral Home

City Briefs and Personals Highlights Local Events

City briefs note a bungalow cooking class set for Monday to Wednesday and a preschool start at Childcraft. A police report cites Mrs. Cray’s purse theft from a car on Sixteenth Avenue. Lieut Miller and Lieut Robbins, officers from CCC camp and 349th Infantry, visited regimental HQ in the federal building.

E. J. Cray Nineteenth Avenue SW Sixteenth Avenue C Street Richard S. Miller CCC Devil's Backbone Park Lewis F. Robbins Chicago 349Th Infantry Federal Building

Iowa Coach Ira Tubbs to address Rotary luncheon

Ira Ira Tubbs the University of Iowa football coach will speak at the Rotary Club luncheon Monday at noon in the Roosevelt hotel. Members of other service clubs in the city will be welcome.

Ira Ira Tubbs University of Iowa Rotary Club Roosevelt Hotel

Lone Tree Carpenter Ends Life With Poison

LeRoy Zigler a 45 year old Lone Tree carpenter and brother of ex Cedar Rapids Raiders pitcher John Zigler took poison at his home at 5 30 PM Saturday after buying rat poison earlier the Johnson county coroner reported no inquest will be held Zigler had been in failing health since a fall last fall and used crutches his sister Mrs Grace Thompson was present and called a physician Zigler died before an antidote could be given He was a World War veteran and lived all his life in the area He is survived by two sisters Mrs Grace Thompson and Mrs James H Goodhue and by John Zigler The body rests at Warner and Adams mortuary

the Gazette Lone Tree LeRoy Zigler Carpenter John Zigler Cedar Rapids Raiders Zigler Johnson County Grace Thompson

Remarriage and the haunting memory of broken homes

A columnist reflects on remarriage after divorce in the 1937 piece, noting happiness is rare and memories linger. Some women act as mothers to troubled ex-spouses, and others find no fault yet feel the shadow of past life. The piece compares to a German tale of betrayed love and warns against glib judgments.

John D. H. Lawrence

Biskup Ordained as Priest in Rome to Return Home

George J. Biskup was ordained a Catholic priest in Rome by Cardinal Marchetti Selvagiani on March 19. A Cedar Rapids native, he studied at St. Wenceslaus, earned a Columbia College BA in 1933, and has been at the North American College in Rome. He plans to return in August and celebrate his first mass at St. Wenceslaus before serving in the Dubuque diocese.

Julia Biskup Twenty- Second Avenue George J. Biskup Rome Italy Francesco Cardinal Marchetti Selvagiani Father Biskup Cedar Rapids St. Wenceslaus School Columbia College North American College St. Wenceslaus Church Dubuque

Iowa City Driver Fined At Atlantic

Henry Cole of Iowa City, 40, a salesman, was fined 300 dollars and had his state auto driver s license suspended for one year after pleading guilty to driving while intoxicated following a collision with a bridge in Atlantic Iowa.

Atlantic INS Henry Cole Iowa City

London’s Only Woman Tea Taster Samples Teas Daily

London oversees a unique tea tasting scene where a sole woman tester evaluates two to three hundred cups daily. None are swallowed. each sample is sipped to assess flavor, aroma, and quality.

London

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